Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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that included seven pros who were anywhere from 25 to 28 years old. The oldest Notre Dame starter was 22, with Lujack a pup at 18. Notre Dame rallied from 7-0 and 13-7 defi- cits to win 14-13. Miller scored the winning TD from six yards out, and Fred Early, who had just turned 18 a month earlier, kicked the PAT (Pre-Flight missed a PAT earlier). • In the finale at Great into the season, to begin advanced Marine training for World War II. PHOTO COURTESY NOTRE DAME MEDIA RELATIONS Senior quarterback Angelo Bertelli (saluting) still won the 1943 Heisman Trophy even though he had to leave Nov. 1, just six games Stadium for a show- down against the new No. 3, Army. 3. Journeyed to No. the year. • Against Army the 8 Northwestern, led by quarterback icon Otto Graham. 4. Hosted semi-pro and No. 2-ranked Iowa Pre- Flight. 5. Visited powerful versus Navy, he com- pleted 5 of 9 passes for 115 yards with three touchdowns. The Irish also outrushed Navy, 323 to minus-7 yards. It was Navy's lone loss of Great Lakes, another semi-pro outfit. • In Bertelli's finale, following week, Bertel- li's replacement, sopho- more John Lujack, was 8-of-15 passing for 182 yards in a 26-0 rout of the Black Knights, who would go unbeaten the next three seasons. • At Northwestern, Notre Dame rushed for 302 yards (151 by Miller) and limited Graham to 3-of-9 passing, plus nine yards on 10 carries, in a 25-6 victory. • In their second Nos. 1-2 showdown of the year, the Irish faced an Iowa Pre-Flight team Lakes' Ross Field, the 22,000 seats were filled by uniformed sailors. A late TD by Miller capped a 20-play drive (all runs) and gave Notre Dame a 14-12 edge. Notre Dame is the one school that should never lose on a "Hail Mary" pass, but that's what oc- curred on a 54-yard TD from Steve Lach to Paul Anderson with 33 sec- onds left. The game ended when Sitko intercepted a Lu- jack pass on the ensuing series. After the game, Leahy sought out Sitko and Steve Juzwik, who had been on Notre Dame rosters prior to the war, in the Great Lakes locker room.