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'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_...

The only ND football transfer to the State of Maine was '57 ND Frosh recruit QB Ted Gardner (Springvale, Maine) to Bowdoin College. Gardner was a Senior Scholastic HS All American (one of the few in Maine history)....and one of the few State of Maine prep players to be recruited by ND(by Irish...

'Ever' is a very long time: 6'7 guard = Bill Hanzlik (Beloit, Wis) was a Frosh recruit in 1976-77...same recruiting class as Rich Branning 6'3 (Huntington Beach Cal)...Hanzlik played guard his entire 4 years at ND-as did Branning

Jagusah is # 56...same # as NT Howard Cross....he's getting credit for some of Cross' tackles

So if Austin Alexander is Shaun Alexander's nephew....then it's possible that Austin's father is a Domer. Shaun Alexander's older brother Darrin(sp?) was a drummer for the Notre Dame Marching Band.....Shaun 'almost' followed his brother to ND (see link) but in the end picked Alabama over the Irish

Notre Dame's starting QB in 1933, Bud Bonar, was a transfer from West Virginia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Bonar

In the late 1970s ND lost two recruits to Harvard -both had signed LOIs with ND...but Harvard didn't have to honor Div 1 LOI: 1977 DE Dave Otto from Seattle Prep in Wash signed an ND LOI but went to Harvard assume his admission letter from Harvard came sometime AFTER he signed with ND Otto was...

ND great End Jack Zilly was the Head Football Coach at Rhode Island U from 1963 through 1969... Zilly was a starting end at ND on both the 1943 and 1946 Irish National Champs....playing for the LA Rams after graduation, Zilly also performed in 5 Hollywood movies during his playing days in LA...

The last ND scholarship football player from Wyoming was Steve Dover HB Kemmerer, Wyoming in the '75 ND Frosh recruiting class. Dover was twice named the Wyoming HS Player of the Year Dover set the following Wyoming HS State records: most yards single game: 403 yds most yards season: 2,124...

Best ever Notre Dame football player from Arkansas was John 'Tree' Adams tackle 6'7 220 from Charleston, Ark Subiaco Academy Adams was in Frank Leahy's first ND recruiting class -1941 played varsity football in '42, '43(ND National Champs) and starting T '44 3rd Rd NFL draft choice- played 6...

1982-83: Jim Dolan (6.3 ppg) & Tim Kempton (10.6ppg) started as Frosh...Frosh Ken Barlow & Joe Price were top reserves Chris Thomas was a Frosh in 2001-02) & Torin Francis came a year later (2002-03) 'Ever' is a long time.....Vince Boryla Frosh was the leading scorer for the Irish as a Frosh...