Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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WHERE HAVE YOU GONE? lades that any man can ever achieve in the wonderful world of sports, the highest is the respect of his fellow team- mates," Green said. "I'm a 45-year-old man now, and it still carries me, and I still have that captain tag. It comes from people who know you well, and know you will sacrifice and do just about any- thing required to help the team." All three had to make sacrifices that year. Heck moved to offensive tackle so incoming National Player of the Year Derek Brown could start at tight end. Second-team All-American Bolcar had to defer his starting job in the rotation to Michael Stonebreaker, who was in- eligible to compete the previous year. Green moved to flanker temporarily to replace the gradated Brown, until Holtz decided that his leadership was needed in the backfield. Ricky Watters was instead moved victory over West Virginia (34-21), re- ceived his degree in American studies and was a fifth-round draft pick of the Chicago Bears, where he played four years, made several starts and scored six touchdowns. ceived his MBA from Notre Dame, was in corporate sales for Ameritech, went into executive recruiting, specialized in diversity management and is now the national director of business develop- ment at Aramark Corp., a $15 billion food service and facility management company headquartered in Philadel- phia, with Green's office in Chicago. However, his greatest pride and joy Over the past 20 years, Green re- THE NEXT GENERATION — "I'm the luckiest guy in the world" — are daughter Haley and son Cam- eron. High school senior Haley, a 4.0 stu- to flanker in the final week of spring, while Green would alternate with Tony Brooks. His favorite memory from that cham- pionship campaign was the regular- season finale when No. 1 Notre Dame faced No. 2 USC. Holtz had sent home leading receiver Watters and leading rusher Brooks for repeated tardiness. The team never flinched and became more galvanized while defeating the Trojans 27-10 with Green scoring twice. "Beating USC the fourth consecutive time in my old backyard in Los Angeles for the opportunity to get into the na- tional championship game, that was so huge," Green said. Green capped his career with 61 yards rushing and a 35-yard reception in the almost anti-climactic national title dent who also plays soccer and basket- ball, was in town with her father for the Stanford game to begin the applica- tion process at Notre Dame. Son Cam- eron is a 6-2, 175-pound sophomore rising football star at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Ill. He started as a freshman at the highest classi- fication level in the state and scored 11 touchdowns, including punts and kickoffs. It goes without saying that he, too, will be strongly considering Notre Dame. "I think that's his primary choice," said his father, who annually comes to Notre Dame for at least two games a year, plus a road trip to an away game. "He's been a Domer ever since he was 2 years old — he had no choice." Just like Green didn't once his mother met Faust. ✦