Stagg Had A Prominent Role In The Rise of ND Football

“The game which I have taught….was brought to Notre Dame by Jesse Harper, one of Alonzo Stagg’s best quarterbacks at Chicago.  Stagg brought his game from Yale.  Ergo…Notre Dame football goes back to Stagg and to Yale.”   –Knute Rockne By Jim Lefebvre, Editor, Forever Irish (www.NDFootballHistory.com) To nobody’s surprise, the Big 10 announced Monday that   Read Full Post

Arizona Travel Part of ND’s First Bowl Team

When Notre Dame kicks off against Miami in the December 31 Sun Bowl, it will have completed the circuit of having played in all the truly “historic” bowl games – Rose, Orange, Sugar, Cotton and Sun, all of which began in the 1930s or earlier (Rose, 1902). But it won’t be the first time a   Read Full Post