WHERE HAVE YOU GONE?
Medical sales fit his
high-energy personality
BY LOU SOMOGYI
O
n his official visit to Notre Dame's
campus during the record-setting
frigid winter of 1982, Chicago line-
backer and national top-100 prospect
Tony Furjanic was administered a
pop quiz by graduating two-time con-
sensus All-American linebacker Bob
Crable.
Furjanic's host actually was another
linebacker, freshman Joe Bars (father of
current Irish freshman offensive tackle
Alex Bars), but the graduating senior
Tony Furjanic,
1982‑85 Linebacker
Furjanic still possesses the two highest single‑season tackle totals by an Irish player in the last 33 years,
posting 147 as a senior in 1985 and 142 as a sophomore in 1983.
PHOTO COURTESY NOTRE DAME MEDIA RELATIONS
