Art Huber is just six months shy of his 100th birthday. Yet, when he closes his eyes and remembers, he can still clearly see himself as a 7 or 8-year-old, in the early 1920s, playing in the parks and backyards of his hometown, little Fort Atkinson, Iowa, choosing sides for ballgames. “My team was always Read Full Post
Irish Players Honor History in Singing of Alma Mater, Win or Lose
August 26, 2014 by
Hats off to Corey Robinson and the Notre Dame football team for understanding that much of what makes Notre Dame football special is its history and tradition. Today the football team voted to sing the “Alma Mater” after every game — win or lose. “It’s bigger than us and it’s bigger than football,” said Robinson, Read Full Post
The Way It’s Supposed To Be
October 10, 2011 by
Occasionally, we’re asked when Notre Dame’s Homecoming game is. Folks are often surprised to learn that ND doesn’t celebrate Homecoming as such. The reason, of course, is that every home game — indeed, every game — is a chance for many thousand members of the Notre Dame family to return, gather and celebrate. Whether it’s Read Full Post
Sun Bowl Trip Special for Seniors in Band
December 28, 2010 by
On the Notre Dame campus, it’s not only the football players who start camp in August, putting in grueling days under the hot, humid Indiana summer before other students arrive. These students toil relentlessly Monday through Friday every week during football season, and “game day” for them is being on their feet sun-up til sundown. Read Full Post
The Battle in The Bronx
November 21, 2010 by
Notre Dame 27, Army 3 Saturday, November 20, 2010 New Yankee Stadium The ND-Army rivalry at its height, during the 1940s in classic matchups — ND led by Coach Frank Leahy, and featuring Heisman Trophy winners Angelo Bertelli, Leon Hart and Johnny Lujack, against Army and its Heisman winners Don Blanchard and Glenn Davis, in Read Full Post
From Across the Miles (And Years), The ND Alumni Band Gathers Again
September 23, 2010 by
Fans attending the Notre Dame-Stanford game no doubt saw them about campus. Some of them were carrying dented trumpets or weathered clarinets. Some were battling creaky knees when they executed the trademark “hike step.” They were, of course, the approximately 800 members of the Notre Dame Alumni Band that gathered for Alumni Band Weekend. Started in Read Full Post
From 1,000 Possibilities, He’s Made His Life Sing
May 14, 2009 by
Peter Schivarelli ’71, former Irish walk-on, has never forgotten the value of his Notre Dame degree As members of the Notre Dame class of 2009 head out into an uncertain world, buoyed by their experiences of the past four years, it may be helpful to look at how another ND grad, from nearly four decades Read Full Post
Band of the Fighting Irish A Hit in LA
November 30, 2008 by
It had been in the planning for literally years. The entire University of Notre Dame Marching Band would, for the first time, be making a historic trip to Los Angeles for the Nov. 29 game with Southern Cal. It’s a trip requiring considerable expense and logistics – flying nearly 400 band members and staff to Read Full Post
