Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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College to an 11-0 re- cord in 1940, capped with a 19-13 Sugar Bowl win versus 10-0 Ten- nessee and its Hall of Fame head coach, R.R. Neyland. Try going un- beaten at BC. No one has done it since then. • Because of unrivaled or by the UPI in 1973, they're still counted as national title seasons. • Leahy led Boston his health, he stepped down from coaching at age 45, an age where most in his profession have not even reached their peak. Prior to becoming painstaking focus on the fundamentals. intensity toward the game that deteriorated a head coach at Bos- ton Col lege, Leahy was the line coach for Fordham's legendary "Seven Blocks of Gran- ite," which included Vince Lombardi — who would later embrace and impart Leahy's 1. John Wooden, college basketball 2. Vince Lombardi, NFL 3. Bear Bryant, college football 4. Phil Jackson, NBA 5. Don Shula, NFL 6. Red Auerbach, NBA 7. Scotty Bowman, NHL 8. Dean Smith, college basketball 9. Casey Stengel, MLB 10. Knute Rockne, college football 11. Pat Summitt, women's college basketball 12. Paul Brown, NFL 13. Joe Paterno, college football 14. George Halas, NFL 15. Chuck Noll, NFL 16. Bob Knight, college basketball 17. Joe Gibbs, NFL 18. Tom Landry, NFL 19. Mike Krzyzewski, college basketball 20. Bill Belichick, NFL 21. Adolph Rupp, college basketball 22. Joe McCarthy, MLB 23. Eddie Robinson, college football 24. Bobby Bowden, college football 25. John McGraw, MLB edly omitted and over- shadowed? During a CBS count- Why is Leahy repeat- WHY? down at the turn of the 21st century of col- lege football's 10 great- est coaches of all time, Leahy wasn't even men- tioned. In 2006, when Notre Dame students unveiled SPORTING NEWS' 50 GREATEST COACHES 26. Bill Walsh, NFL 27. Woody Hayes, college football 28. Connie Mack, MLB 29. Bud Wilkinson, college football 30. Pat Riley, NBA 31. Pete Newell, college basketball 32. Joe Torre, MLB 33. Bill Parcells, NFL 34. Tom Osborne, college football 35. Walter Alston, MLB 36. Bo Schembechler, college football 37. Toe Blake, NHL 38. Sparky Anderson, MLB 39. Al Arbour, NHL 40. Amos Alonzo Stagg, college football 41. Tony La Russa, MLB 42. Geno Auriemma, women's college basketball 43. Dick Irvin, NHL 44. Ara Parseghian, college football 45. Chuck Daly, NBA 46. Bobby Cox, MLB 47. Hank Iba, college basketball 48. Tommy Lasorda, MLB 49. Gregg Popovich, NBA 50. Herb Brooks, NHL