Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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UNDER THE DOME 45 Years Ago: June 4, 1970 Notre Dame head coach Jake Kline's baseball team, which briefly had quarterback Joe Theismann playing for it during the spring, is invited to the 26-team NCAA Tournament for the first time in seven years. Kline's teams made it six times in the eight years from 1956-63, highlighted by the College World Series in 1957. After starting 1-10, the team wins 15 of its last 17 games. In the tournament it defeats Minnesota, but loses twice to Southern Illinois to get eliminated in the district round held at Columbus, Ohio. It would take 19 years before the Fighting Irish are invited again. 20 Years: June, 1995 Notre Dame's 25-man and No. 1-rated recruiting class takes a huge hit in the third week of June, the start of summer school, when the nation's top receiver, Randy Moss, is denied admission. He is rejected after the evaluation of his application, which was received four months after signing his letter of intent. Meanwhile, Moss also is involved in a legal battle because of a fight he was involved in from a racial incident at his West Virginia high school (DuPont), but Notre Dame officials claim Moss' application form is "not acceptable." "Were we aware of what happened in West Virginia? Certainly," said Pat Leonardo, Notre Dame's as- Anniversaries In Notre Dame Athletics History: June/July