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'Ever' is a very long time.... I submit in the pre-Internet days: *Mike McCoy Erie Pa Cathedral('66 ND Frosh recruit) 2 time HS AA *Steve Niehaus Cincinnati Moeller ('72 ND Frosh recruit) The top HS DT in the Country Ara even went to visit Niehaus as his house -which Ara never did I thought...

Rocket played HS football at Meyers high in Wilkes-Barre for former ND football player Mickey Gorham('56 Frosh recruit for Terry Brennan). Despite any 'listed' HS 40 times, ND knew how fast Ismail was : (Per the ND Media Guide bio on Rocket, he was named the 'male athlete of the year as a HS...

The Dan Novakov who is the HS HC at Parish Episcopal was a walk on QB at ND & ND grad...I am not sure that he ever played in a game during his ND days. However His Dad, also named Dan Novakov is a slightly more famous former ND football player. His Mom was a St Mary's grad. The father played...

That's why Seymour (and Hanratty) ended up on the Cover of Time Magazine

Not sure why this is so hard....maybe I'm just OLD Jackson Coleman = Jim Seymour When Seymour was on the Cover of Time Magazine with classmate Hanratty, the article stated that Seymour ran the 100 yd dash in 9.7 If the linked video below of Seymour (and Hanratty's) first ever game at ND (vs...

'Ever' is a very long time....though I agree Moore likely is/will be the best ND CB ever....and, I agree with the poster who notes that It's a different game now I think Morrison may have been ranked up there IF he hadn't gotten hurt. And, agree that Todd Lyght belongs in the conversation at CB...

Well. you'll need to scroll to page 42 of the 1960 ND Scholastic Football Review article on the '60 ND Frosh squad (linked below) for proof - the only QB from Utah to Notre Dame was Jay Gamble from Salt Lake City Utah Gamble transferred from ND & finished at Utah...

An very OLD one: Charlton Heston stars as aging (40 yr old) New Orleans Saint QB Ron Catlan -who was a past his prime star QB from Notre Dame in the movie "Number One" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064743/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_t_76

Not many football scholarship players from Chicago St Patrick to ND through the years maybe Coach Zbikowski will change that The last St Pat's player at ND was Dan Santucci -Frosh in 2002....played with Zibby at ND & is now 'President' of St Pat's Before Santucci were a couple of St Patrick's...

Actually, Houston Griffith (2018 recruiting class) was the last who had attended Mt Carmel...but Griffith transferred & finished at IMG before coming to ND. So yes, Steve Filer (2008 ckass) was the most recent Mt Carmel grad The best ever ND recruit from Mt Carmel ? = Zigmont Czarobski in...

Another early African American who tried out for the ND Basketball team (circa 1954) was 6'6 Jerome 'Gary' Cooper from Mobile, Alabama....his remarkable story is linked below....but his ND BB tryout was short lived....Cooper was invited to try out for the BB squad due to his size & leaping...

1950 ND basketball recruits Entee Shine 6'2 1/2 (South Bend Central) & Joe Bertrand 6'3 (Chicago St Elizabeth) were the 1st two scholarship African American basketball players in ND history. The two were pictured on the cover of Ebony Magazine after arriving at ND. BOTH went out for football...

Forgot to mention that Bert Metzger G (Chicago Loyola) for Rockne's '30 undefeated National Champs was also a 1st team All American

Last Century from Chicago Loyola: Nick Rassas All American Safety Elmer Layden Jr HB '48 ND recruiting class- son of....promising player....got hurt '65 Loyola team won the City Championship -star Loyola QB Tim Foley was told by Purdue during recruiting that IF he went to ND that Ara would...

Dave Pivec was a TE & DE on the '62 & '63 Irish varsity (in the finals days of single platoon football rules). Pivec did not play on the great 1964 Irish squad. Dave had been booted off the team by new Coach Ara Parseghian (he would have been entering his senior season in '64 had he played_...