Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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FIGHTING WORDS WES MORGAN Junior quarterback Tommy Rees has shown guts, an eye for recognizing what opposing defenses are try- ing to do and a team-first attitude, while coming off the bench to help lead the Irish to three of their six victories. vice record) that Notre Dame junior quarterback Tommy Rees will never appear on the cover of Sports Illus- trated like senior linebacker Manti Te'o did recently — an enlarged version of which already hangs on the wall in the press box of Notre Dame Stadium. Te'o — who registered a game-high I 'd be willing to wager my 2006 Hyundai Sonata (well maintained, 110,000 miles, new tires and full ser- An Incredible Young Man 11 tackles in a 20-13 Irish overtime victory over Stanford, helping the team improve to 6-0 — has been Notre PHOTO BY LON HORWEDEL Dame's sideline-to-sideline sledge- hammer for more than three years. His place on the program's long list of legends was reserved some time ago. Now, at 24 games with at least 10 tackles to his credit, Te'o continues his ascent among the Notre Dame's most heroic figures. Rees has also had his fair share of headlines over the last six months, beginning with his arrest in May for underage drinking and resisting ar- rest, and followed by losing the start- ing job to rookie Everett Golson. Then there were the boos by Fighting Irish fans in the second week of the season when head coach Brian Kelly turned to Rees on a game-winning drive against Purdue and a relief appear-