Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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UNDER THE DOME 30 Years Ago: Sept. 8, 1984 In the newly built Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis, No. 8-ranked Notre Dame suffers a stunning 23-21 loss to Purdue — a team it had crushed 52-6 a year earlier in West Lafayette. The game was originally supposed to be in Notre Dame Stadium, but the Irish made it an "off-site home game" — similar to this year's meeting with Purdue in Indianapolis — with 6,000 Notre Dame students filling a 145-bus convoy to the site. On the opening kickoff of the new season, Notre Dame freshman receiver/return man Tim Brown loses a fumble at his 13-yard line to set up Purdue's first score. ("Who is that Brown kid? He won't amount to much!") Notre Dame loses five turnovers to only one by the Boilermakers, whose new quarterback, Jim Ever- ett, completes 20 of 28 passes for 255 yards with two scores. 20 Years Ago: Sept. 3, 1994 Heralded as possibly the most anticipated athlete to make a college debut since UCLA basketball player Lew Alcindor (who later changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) in 1966, Notre Dame sophomore quarterback Ron Powlus doesn't disappoint during No. 3 Notre Dame's 42-15 rout of Northwestern at Chicago's Soldier Field. Medically redshirted as a 1993 freshman, Powlus completes 18 of 24 passes for 291 yards, highlighted by nine- and 36-yard scoring passes to Derrick Mayes, 46 yards to Michael Miller and two yards to fullback Ray Zellars. Anniversaries In Notre Dame Athletics History: Sept. 2-8 Quarterback Ron Powlus made his highly anticipated Notre Dame debut and connected on 18 of 24 throws for 291 yards with four touchdowns in a 42-15 Irish romp over Northwestern in 1994. PHOTO BY HANS SCOTT