WHERE HAVE YOU GONE?
Former consensus
All-American is still living
the dream 50 years later
BY LOU SOMOGYI
A
t every Notre Dame postseason
football banquet from 1986-96,
head coach Lou Holtz would state
his admiration of the team's walk-on
players with one sentence: I wish I
could own at least one percent of each
of their futures.
The qualities of initiative, ambition,
courage, sacrifice, perseverance and
dedication of a walk-on, whether they
become starters or stay in the back-
ground, has a tendency to carry on
through life, with Nick Rassas one of
Nick Rassas, 1963-65
Safety/Return Man
Rassas earned consensus All-America honors in 1965 while setting Notre Dame records that still stand in
punt return and interception return yards.
PHOTO COURTERSY NOTRE DAME MEDIA RELATIONS
