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unusual facts about Notre Dame–Stanford football rivalry


Notre Dame–Stanford football rivalry

The series began on January 1, 1925 (the end of the 1924 season) when Notre Dame's Four Horsemen and head coach Knute Rockne faced Stanford's Ernie Nevers and head coach Pop Warner at the 1925 Rose Bowl.


1968 Pittsburgh Steelers season

No major player transactions happened in the offseason, although the team would draft Notre Dame running back Rocky Bleier with their last pick (16th round) in the 1968 draft.

1973 college football season

Alabama and Notre Dame had never met in a college football game before their encounter in the Sugar Bowl, which was played on December 31, 1973.

2010–13 Big Ten Conference realignment

Media attention focused on comments that were interpreted as slurs against Catholics and Notre Dame, plus digs at former Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema, the Southeastern Conference, the University of Cincinnati, and Kentucky's two major state universities of Kentucky and Louisville.

2010–13 NCAA conference realignment

Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick stated in an interview with Pat Forde, then of ESPN.com, that at most schools, realignment was being driven primarily by university administrators who saw an opportunity to improve the academic image of their schools—not by athletic directors.

AJ McCarron

Following the 2013 BCS National Championship Game against Notre Dame, McCarron became the first quarterback to win back-to-back consensus national championships in the BCS era.

Alfred Bergman

His brother Arthur (known as "Little Dutch") would also attend Notre Dame but would go on to achieve more fame as the head coach of the Washington Redskins.

Ambroise-Marie Carré

He preached the Lenten sermons many times at Notre Dame de Paris, and in 1964, Paul VI called him to present spiritual exercises at the Vatican.

Andrean High School

Luke Harangody, former college basketball player for Notre Dame and current professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Barbados Premier Division

5.Notre Dame 18 9 3 6 33-26 30 (Bayland, St. Michael)

Ben Habern

Habern was heavily recruited starting early in his junior year across the country receiving scholarships from Oklahoma, Arizona, Florida State, Miami (FL), Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech).

Burleigh Cruikshank

Sportswriter Walter S. Trumbull of the The New York Sun suggested that the Michigan Aggies, Washington & Jefferson, Chicago University, and Notre Dame were the new "Big 4 of College Football" instead of the traditional grouping of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Penn.

Carl Yastrzemski

"Yaz" attended Notre Dame on a basketball scholarship (his career Long Island high school scoring mark at Bridgehampton broke one previously held by Jim Brown) briefly before embarking on his baseball career.

Charles R. Meyer

In 1935 against Notre Dame before a capacity crowd of 78,114 in Yankee Stadium, it was Meyer's 41-yard first-quarter TD pass and stellar performance in a 6-6 tie that brought him into the limelight.

Clarence Munn

In 1947, Munn and the Michigan State administration, led by university president John A. Hannah, approached Notre Dame president Father Cavanaugh to have his Fighting Irish play the Spartans for the first time since 1921.

Cornell Club of New York

Membership in the Cornell Club is restricted to alumni, faculty, and students of the Ivy League institution Cornell University, as well as alumni of a short list of affiliated schools, such as Brown, Colgate, Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stanford, Tulane, and Wake Forest.

Creighton Bluejays men's basketball

The team responded to the change by winning three straight games against Des Moines, Notre Dame, and Colgate.

Crown of Napoleon

In the coronation itself, which took place not in the traditional location of French royal coronations, the Cathedral in Reims, but in Notre Dame in Paris, he actually used two crowns.

Crystal Dunn

Dunn had four NCAA Tournament goals, a game-winner against Jackson State, a goal against Notre Dame, and two goals in a 3–1 win over James Madison in NCAA second round; shot 30 percent to lead the team with 60 percent on goal rate.

David M. Nelson

Others who used the Wing-T with success included Paul Dietzel with LSU, Frank Broyles with Arkansas, Ara Parseghian with Notre Dame, Jim Owens with Washington, and Eddie Robinson of Grambling State.

Deadspin

In 2013, Deadspin broke the news that the reported September 2012 death of the girlfriend of Notre Dame All-American linebacker Manti Te'o, which Te'o had said inspired him during the 2012 season, was apparently a hoax.

Delores Brumfield

At 15, Brumfield entered the league in 1947 with the South Bend Blue Sox, a squad managed by Chet Grant, a former Notre Dame football player and the sports editor for the South Bend Tribune.

Felipe Osterling

In 1966 he attended as a visiting professor at the Universities of Notre Dame, Harvard, Georgetown, Columbia and New York.

Fokker F.VII

However, the popularity of the Fokker quickly came to an end after the 1931 death of Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne in the crash of TWA Flight 599, a Fokker F.10.

Greg Meredith

A finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship, Meredith attended Notre Dame, where he set the Notre Dame all-time goals record, with 104.

Greg Schorp

The following year, Schorp had 24 receptions for 280 yards, becoming the first tight end to lead the Aggies in receptions since Rod Bernstine in 1986, almost helping the Aggies complete a perfect year, as they remained undefeated until the last game of the season, losing to #5 Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl Classic.

J. R. Russell

He was re-signed to the Bucs' practice squad on November 30, 2005, and was competing for a spot on the opening day roster, along with former Arizona Cardinals Pro Bowler David Boston and rookie Maurice Stovall from Notre Dame.

James Cook University School of Medicine and Dentistry

It was the first of a wave of new medical schools that were accredited under the Howard Government that include the University of Western Sydney, Notre Dame, and Griffith University.

Jim Seymour

Seymour played high school football at Shrine of the Little Flower High School, Royal Oak, Michigan, and college football at Notre Dame, where he was a two-time First-team All-American (1967, 1968) while also being a Second-team All-America selection in 1966.

Keiland Williams

At the 2007 Sugar Bowl versus Notre Dame Williams rushed for 107 yards on 14 attempts, scoring 2 touchdowns.

Kerri Hanks

Hanks' first year playing for the Irish was in 2005; she held off enrolling at Notre Dame in order to participate in the 2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship in Thailand.

Lindley Bothwell

The spirit with which he led the student section of OAC reached many people, including Notre Dame's head football coach Knute Rockne.

Marquis Flowers

Flowers attracted interest from several colleges, notably Notre Dame, USC, UCLA, as well as both Arizona State University and the University of Arizona, where he was recruited by Tim Kish.

Michael Haywood

Haywood served as an assistant at several college football programs, most notably under Nick Saban at LSU, under Mack Brown at Texas and under Charlie Weis at his alma mater Notre Dame.

NDIC

Notre Dame-Immaculate Conception School, a private, Catholic elementary school located in Easthampton, Massachusetts

Niele Ivey

Muffet McGraw of Notre Dame became interested in Ivey, and traveled to St. Louis a number of times to watch Ivey play pick-up game at the YMCA in St. Louis.

Nina Quartero

Quartero once tried a publicity stunt by claiming that she was betrothed to Notre Dame All-American Quarterback Frank Carideo.

Providence Holy Cross Medical Center

Holy Cross Medical Center was founded in 1961 by the Sisters of the Holy Cross from Notre Dame, Indiana.

Randy Edsall

In 2009, Edsall was mentioned in Notre Dame's search for a new head football coach following the firing of Charlie Weis.

Regent master

The degree meant simply the right to teach, the Licentia docendi, a right which could be granted, in the University of Paris, only by the Chancellor of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, or the Chancellor of St. Geneviève.

Regulating Lines

Regulating Lines have been used in early buildings like Notre Dame and Michaelangelo’s Capitiol etc.

Renvoi

Kermit Roosevelt III, "Resolving Renvoi: the Bewitchment of Our Intelligence by Means of Language", Notre Dame Law Review (2005).

Rich Glover

The 1972 team team was a pre-season #1 but lost their road opener and finished 9-2-1, rising to fourth in the final AP poll, buoyed by a third consecutive Orange Bowl victory, 40-6 over Notre Dame.

Rumble in the Rockies

The second game since the realignment was the first Black Friday college football game to be telecast by the Fox Broadcasting Company, which holds the exclusive over-the-air television rights to Pacific-12 Conference football (with the exceptions of games against the Southeastern Conference and Notre Dame).

Stanford Stadium

Construction began minutes after the Cardinal's last home game of the 2005 football season, a 38-31 loss to Notre Dame on November 26.

Theodore Cyrus Karp

Besides trouvère monophony, Karp has written articles on the polyphony of the schools of Saint Martial's, Santiago de Compostela, and Notre Dame.

Third Coast Percussion

Third Coast Percussion assumed the position of Ensemble-in-Residence at Notre Dame in 2013.

XEWW-AM

The occasion was the official USC Trojans' broadcast of their football game against Notre Dame.


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