Notre Dame Scholastic, Vol. 122, No. 05 -- 1981 February 1980/1

Sports Review Editor Tom O'Toole Ready for Editor SCHOLASTIC Chuck Wood Vol. 122, No.5, Sports Review, 1980-'81 Assistant to the Editor Notre Dame,. IN Mt. St. Helens, Anthony Walton Managing Editor/Business Manager Hurricane Allen, Jim Sommers Production Manager SPORTS FEATURES Love Canal. We've come a long way. Clay Malaker Layout Editor Red Cross: Ready for a new century. Tina Terlaak 2 First Word Tom O'Toole Art Director Michael Gazzerro 4 Two for the Bowl Peg Boeheim Photography Editor Eileen O'Meara 6 "Sugar" and Vice and . .. Tom O'Toole Copy Editors Daniel Moore 10 Faust and Notre Dame's Football Future Kelly Sullivan Donna Teevan News Editor Andrew Zwerneman 12 A Gimmick for Gerry Cathy Chopp A Public Service of This Newspaper & The Advertising Council ~ Fiction Editor Mark Traverso 13 Saturday'S Fallen Heroes: Culture Editor Who Remembers Mark Czaja? Tom O'Toole Ken Scarbrough Our nursing and health services have covered a lot of ground since we St. Mary's Editor 16 Photo Essay on CarolShukis Christine McCrory starled 100 years ago. We began by caring for the wounded on the balileficid. Laler. we called on the ill al home. Then. as we trained and Mary Pigott recruited more nurses, we began 10 develop programs 10 leach people how to help themselves and their families. Today. we give instruction in home nursing. disease prevention. Distribution Manager 18 Can We Count on Corrigan? Michael Ortman p:lfcnling. child care. nutrilion. manasing stress, preparation for Joe Pheifer disaster. health maintenance-all of Ihis in addition 10 providing ser vices to the community on an as-needed basis. BUI wc're nOI saying Ihis to paloursch'cson the back. Wcjust want 20 Women's Athletics Grows Up Denise Woznicki you 10 know that iryou nccd help. wc'rc rcady. 1'81 Red Cross: Ready for a new century. Staff 21 John Paxson: A Poirit of Great Return Beth Huffman Cathy Chopp, Denise Grether, lois Ken nedy, Bill Kolb, Teresa Reichert, Mike Zusi, 24 In Defense of Notre Dame Hockey. Mark Sullivan, John Davenport, Dan Kevsal, Mary link, Shelly Hendrickson, A Talk with Jack Brownschidle Mike McManns lizann Welk, Jeny Kucenic, Shea Watkins, Susan de Carvalho, Barbara Bridges, Anne 26 A Soccer Commentary Frank LaGrotta Change Rears Its Barsanti, Ed Kelly, Peg Boeheim. 27 Baseball's Jamieson: The Captain and Team's Feeling Craig Chval Ineluctable Head Illustrations: p. 2, 3, Maureen O'Toole. Photographs: REGULARS p. 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 16, 17, 20, 28, 29, 30, ;.- Scholastic needs an .,.. . Christine Anne McCrory; p. 6, 10, 11, 13, 22 Gallery Carmen Samora 19, Sue Thornton; p. 21, Chris Barlock; p. 27, Giselle Batacan; p. 22, 23, 32, Eileen (photos, Eileen O'Meara) Anne O'Meara. Editor for the '$1-'82 year 31 Poetry Katie Willson Cover: E. O'Meara If interested in applying for 32 Last Word Chuck Wood Advisory Board Elizabeth Christman, Mario Pedi, James this esteeIlled position, . Robinson, Doug Kinsey The opinions expressed in Scholastic are those of the authors and editors of Scholastic and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the entire staff and editorial board of contact Chuck Wood. Scholastic or the University of Notre Dame, its administration, faculty, or the student b9dy. Leave a note in the The magazine is represented for national advertising by National Educational Advertising Services and CASS Student Advertising, Inc. Published monthly during the school year exceptduring vacatio'n and examination periods, Scholastic is printed at Ave Maria Press, Student Activities Office or Notre Dame, Ind. 46556. Thesubscriptiori rate is $7.00 a year and back issues are available from Scholastic. Please address all manuscripts to Scholastic, Notre Dame, Ind. 46556. All unsolicited material becomes the property of Scholastic. copyright © 1981 Scholastic / all rights reserved I none of the contents may be repro Call 8421 by February 23 duced without permission. SPORTS REVIEW, 1981 Sports Review Editor Tom O'Toole Ready for Editor SCHOLASTIC Chuck Wood Vol. 122, No.5, Sports Review, 1980-'81 Assistant to the Editor Notre Dame,. IN Mt. St. Helens, Anthony Walton Managing Editor/Business Manager Hurricane Allen, Jim Sommers Production Manager SPORTS FEATURES Love Canal. We've come a long way. Clay Malaker Layout Editor Red Cross: Ready for a new century. Tina Terlaak 2 First Word Tom O'Toole Art Director Michael Gazzerro 4 Two for the Bowl Peg Boeheim Photography Editor Eileen O'Meara 6 "Sugar" and Vice and . .. Tom O'Toole Copy Editors Daniel Moore 10 Faust and Notre Dame's Football Future Kelly Sullivan Donna Teevan News Editor Andrew Zwerneman 12 A Gimmick for Gerry Cathy Chopp A Public Service of This Newspaper & The Advertising Council ~ Fiction Editor Mark Traverso 13 Saturday'S Fallen Heroes: Culture Editor Who Remembers Mark Czaja? Tom O'Toole Ken Scarbrough Our nursing and health services have covered a lot of ground since we St. Mary's Editor 16 Photo Essay on CarolShukis Christine McCrory starled 100 years ago. We began by caring for the wounded on the balileficid. Laler. we called on the ill al home. Then. as we trained and Mary Pigott recruited more nurses, we began 10 develop programs 10 leach people how to help themselves and their families. Today. we give instruction in home nursing. disease prevention. Distribution Manager 18 Can We Count on Corrigan? Michael Ortman p:lfcnling. child care. nutrilion. manasing stress, preparation for Joe Pheifer disaster. health maintenance-all of Ihis in addition 10 providing ser vices to the community on an as-needed basis. BUI wc're nOI saying Ihis to paloursch'cson the back. Wcjust want 20 Women's Athletics Grows Up Denise Woznicki you 10 know that iryou nccd help. wc'rc rcady. 1'81 Red Cross: Ready for a new century. Staff 21 John Paxson: A Poirit of Great Return Beth Huffman Cathy Chopp, Denise Grether, lois Ken nedy, Bill Kolb, Teresa Reichert, Mike Zusi, 24 In Defense of Notre Dame Hockey. Mark Sullivan, John Davenport, Dan Kevsal, Mary link, Shelly Hendrickson, A Talk with Jack Brownschidle Mike McManns lizann Welk, Jeny Kucenic, Shea Watkins, Susan de Carvalho, Barbara Bridges, Anne 26 A Soccer Commentary Frank LaGrotta Change Rears Its Barsanti, Ed Kelly, Peg Boeheim. 27 Baseball's Jamieson: The Captain and Team's Feeling Craig Chval Ineluctable Head Illustrations: p. 2, 3, Maureen O'Toole. Photographs: REGULARS p. 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 16, 17, 20, 28, 29, 30, ;.- Scholastic needs an .,.. . Christine Anne McCrory; p. 6, 10, 11, 13, 22 Gallery Carmen Samora 19, Sue Thornton; p. 21, Chris Barlock; p. 27, Giselle Batacan; p. 22, 23, 32, Eileen (photos, Eileen O'Meara) Anne O'Meara. Editor for the '$1-'82 year 31 Poetry Katie Willson Cover: E. O'Meara If interested in applying for 32 Last Word Chuck Wood Advisory Board Elizabeth Christman, Mario Pedi, James this esteeIlled position, . Robinson, Doug Kinsey The opinions expressed in Scholastic are those of the authors and editors of Scholastic and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the entire staff and editorial board of contact Chuck Wood. Scholastic or the University of Notre Dame, its administration, faculty, or the student b9dy. Leave a note in the The magazine is represented for national advertising by National Educational Advertising Services and CASS Student Advertising, Inc. Published monthly during the school year exceptduring vacatio'n and examination periods, Scholastic is printed at Ave Maria Press, Student Activities Office or Notre Dame, Ind. 46556. Thesubscriptiori rate is $7.00 a year and back issues are available from Scholastic. Please address all manuscripts to Scholastic, Notre Dame, Ind. 46556. All unsolicited material becomes the property of Scholastic. copyright © 1981 Scholastic / all rights reserved I none of the contents may be repro Call 8421 by February 23 duced without permission. SPORTS REVIEW, 1981 • TheGood This mountain of cold cuts, lettuce, tomatoes, and spreads, could Gastronome Best be described, at very least, as a: "Double Dagwood" If that wasn't enough he then brought out the dessert; by Tom O'Toole A completely frozen quart of strawberry sherbet That had me searching for an icebox in his spacious shirt

But my curiosity soon cooled, and I commenced stuffing my face I was running and I ran and I sure had run And when I came up for breath, Malcom was gone Began before breakfast, not til dinner was I done without a trace "Vhen I finally got my shirt caught on a fencepost rung So I ran out to try to catch him; to express my thanks, Where my body doubled over, and like a wet rag hung or at least say Dripping quite profusely, waiting to be wrung "Goodbye," but my mouth was too full of food, and he too far away The first person to pass and perceive my toppled trunk So I silently waved my "mini deli," to await another day Was the nearsighted town preacher who thought I was Thomas O'Toole a drunk Back when I had begun running, I did it to strengthen Until he crept closer, and smelled the way I stunk my heart And instantly he knew it wasn't from alcohol I reeked Though I know it helped, Malcom showed me it's not As he quickly backed off and scoffed, "just another fit- But all of a sudden, I felt the earth had started shakin' ness freak!" Though what I guessed to be an earthquake, I had the place to start actually mistaken It helped me physically, but for others, it didn't do I think that I can comprehend why I incurred this guy's The stomping footsteps made by the monstrous Malcolm nuttin' wrath; McMutton For when both our bodies die, whose soul will be He only saved the souls of those who had first had a A mammoth of a man, a gregarious half-ton glutton struttin' bath Who could barely see past his stomach, let alone begin A worn-out lonely-hearted runner's, or the compas to run sionate McMutton's? D But I didn't get too downhearted, cause the next dude For as he caught a glimpse of my features slim and pale down the path So I sulked, as the chance this hUlk'd save me seemed He exclaimed, "Is that you, Thomas, pretending to be a Was another jogger! Surely he will intercede rail? As a brother runner, he'll have to heed my need slim and none "He'll laugh at my skinny body, then to have a little fun Or perhaps you simply got the wind knocked from your sail" Yet though I dangled there like a soaked old sweat and sarcastically sob, using me to dry his eyes He would never sympathize with someone of my size" And he lifted me to his face, squeezing me in his hands, sock, he which Sped by me even faster, maybe crazy or just cocky But he disproved my prejudice, and showed me other- wise Made me feel I was some kind of giant submarine sand Lifti~g up his arms, as if convinced that he was Rocky wich As hIS feet flew past I felt increasingly forsaken Having now been left back twice, little hope could I While he declared, "The reason your body hasn't flour have taken ished, is because you have never been properly nourished Still, I would not worry, or even get discourished I know I'm not a doctor, but in cases of this description I believe I'm just the man who can fill out your pre- scription"

Then he carried me home, and despite the tremors his steps would make Balanced me as cautiously as he would his own wedding cake And I sank in his supportive arms like a soggy cornflake Til he brought me in my house, and laid me on the floor And prepared for me a meal as I had never seen before

"First, we'll querich your thirst," and no sooner had he spoke Reproduced from his pocket a somehow cold Coke While this seemed' rather strange, I really could not conceive . Row he managed to pull out from somewhere up his . sleeve . A "sandwich" of proportions you would never have believed

2 SCHOLASTIC SPORTS REVIEW, 1981 3 • TheGood This mountain of cold cuts, lettuce, tomatoes, and spreads, could Gastronome Best be described, at very least, as a: "Double Dagwood" If that wasn't enough he then brought out the dessert; by Tom O'Toole A completely frozen quart of strawberry sherbet That had me searching for an icebox in his spacious shirt

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were so jubilant. The Notre Dame fans sunk in their padded theater seats, and shook their heads in a bit of disbelief. As I sat in the stands Two For The Bowl 0 o 0 and looked around, the student body just stared at the red-covered field and no one spoke a word to his Peg Boeheim by neighbor. Disappointed and sad, we slowly and quietly filed out of the The "Super Bowl" for two Notre And when we arrived in New Or man stepped from the red crowd Superdome. Dame students, one a fan and the leans there was plenty of sun. The with his fist raised high and a life Spielmaker was upset when it was other a football player, was January weatherman could not have ordered size ceramic bulldog tucked under all over. "The seniors were sad be 1,1981, when the Notre Dame Fight better weather. It was perfect his other arm, while his fellow Geor cause this was their last chance, and ing Irish met the Georgia Bulldogs weather for touring the French gians barked profusely and taunted I felt bad for them. I never really in New Orleans' Superdome. Daane Quarter and snapping pictures of St. the opposing side. The green ma realized how much they meant to me Spielmaker and I may have attended Louis Cathedral, Jackson Square, chine responded by breaking into a and all the freshmen. Later, I knew rival Grand Rapids high schools. But the artists, and the street perform chorus of "Cheer, Cheer for old there was nothing I could do. And on New Year's Day, Daane and I ers. There was so much activity that Notre Dame. Wake up the echoes after the sadness, I was anxious to were cheering for the same team. I, no matter what direction I looked, cheering her name." get home to Grand Rapids because a West Catholic graduate and senior there was a different sight. Standing Down the street a little further in six months I had only been home at Notre Dame, traveled to New Or on a street corner, I could see a pack was Pat O'Brien's. Pat O'Brien's, a for one day and a night." leans to cheer for the Irish. Spiel of Georgians attired in red, yelling, well-known bar on St. Peter's Street, So ends the story of Sugar Bowl maker, a Catholic Central graduate, "How 'bout them Dawgs?" To the was bursting with people, and the Notre Dame cheerleaders look on Week in New Orleans, Louisiana. just completed his first season on left, a tourist with his foot atop a beer and liquor flowed freely. (Inci After the dust had settled, Spiel Notre Dame's varsity squad. This is wooden box was receiving a 25-cent dentally, if you are ever in New leans' Mardi Gras. The crowds were stands, I really thought the Irish maker and I agreed, we were for our Sugar Bowl story. shoeshine. As a bar door swung Orleans, be sure to stop at Pat as large and crazy as those that were going to pull it out. I asked tunate to have the opportunity to experience the excitement of the It was January 1, 1981, and there open to the right, I caught a glimpse O'Brien's and order a Hurricane, an celebrate the annual French "Fat Spielmaker his thoughts. He also were more than 77,000 fans milling of a scantily dressed girlie dancer interesting mixture of rum and fruit Tuesday," the last day before Lent. felt the Irish were going to win. French Quarter, with its quaint res about the New Orleans Superdome, swinging her hips. Turning around, punch.) It was two days before the New Year's Day arrived, the day "We played well enough to win, but taurants, crazy bars, and action all waiting for the opening kickoff. I saw two black youths tap-dancing game and fans, young and old, were one team would leave the Superdome there were those stupid mistakes packed streets. Being in the. Super As the final minutes ticked off the to the sound of a jazz trumpet. Their relaxing and enjoying themselves. the winner of the Sugar Bowl. As (two early ND fumbles in their own dome, an enormous architectural clock and the Notre Dame Fighting cap was willingly accepting gratui Fellow students bumped into each the final hours passed before the territory-first, on the one-yard line feat, and experiencing the intense Irish and Georgia Bulldogs rushed ties. other and squealed excitedly as they game, fans became much quieter. It and second, on the twenty-yard line). competition and emotion of a college onto the field, anticipation climbed A bit further ahead there seemed wished each other belated Merry was like the quiet before the storm. Georgia got all the breaks. We didn't bowl game were also memorable to a peak. Previously, opposing sup to be a clearing in tlie street. There Christmases. In another corner of The competitive spirit was still get any. We beat them in every experiences. Most college students porters had exchanged shouts and were no cars, people, or performers. the bar, two alumni who had not there, only it seemed to be hidden category except the scoreboard," don't have the chance to experience taunts about the game in the bars Why? Notre Dame fans were lined seen each other in years embraced behind the active reflection going on Spielmaker said. what we did, and for that we are and on the streets of the French on one side of the street and Georgia warmly and reminisced about old in the minds of all the fans. Will we But when it comes right down to thankful. 0 Quarter. For myself, the four days supporters arrayed themselves on times. But besides meeting old win? Of course, we will! What if we it, the scoreboard tells the story. in New Orleans was an experience the other. One pack yells "Go Irish!" friends, everyone conversed with un don't? Boy, I hope we win! When it was all over, the scoreboard that I will not forget. Like many of The other screams "How about them familiar faces, both ally and foe. Of Dan Devine, in his last game as read Georgia, 17, Notre Dame, 10. Peg Boheim is a Senior in Amer my Notre Dame classmates, I looked Dawgs?" A reply booms-"Youmean course, the conversations were sports Notre Dame's football coach, was A mass of red ran onto the field, all ican Studies. forward to the New Orleans trip, those puppy dogs?" The opposite side talk, but each friendly chat had a also hoping for a win. In the locker and during the final days of exams, shouts-"No, the Georgia Bulldogs!" common denominator~veryone was room before the game, Devine told the excursion was the sun behind The exchange was unbelievable, confident his teain would emerge his players he wanted them to beat the clouds. and the ultimate sight came when a victorious. Georgia so they would always re Victory was on the minds of all member him with a win, and leave the fans and New Year's Eve was no the season with a good feeling. exception. In fact, it seemed that the Daane Spielmaker was in the fans grew even more vocal. No cars locker room and heard the words of were allowed to pass through the Coach Devine, as the Irish were pre street of the French Quarter, so the paring to take the field. Spielmaker streets were packed with people. admitted to some pregame jitters. Georgians were dressed in red and "I was nervous. 1 didn't know that cowboy hats, and the Fighting Irish much about Georgia. I knew that fans wore Notre Dame jackets and Herschel Walker was a great player buttons. Hardly two people passed and could gain a lot of yards," Spiel that did not exchange words. The maker said. emotion was high, and the rivalry When halftime came and the Irish became. very apparent. were down by 17-3, it was obvious At midnight the French Quarter something had to change. And when was the center of noise and excite the Irish took the field the second i; ment. The people in the street were half they looked like a different body-to-body and when 1981 arrived, team. "We knew what we had to do. people sang "Auld Lang Syne," We had to do it. We couldn't make hugged and kissed friends, danced in any more mistakes. But we just the streets, drank another beer, and couldn't get the ball in the end zone," set off firecrackers. News reports said the 6'1/1, 195-pound football stated that 1981's New Year's Eve player. Sugar Bowl Action bash was very much like New Or- As I watched the game from the Dismayed Darners 4 SCHOLASTIC SPORTS REVIEW, 1981 / 5 . ·..

to get in on the act, and much to our something similar to what Alice felt my classmates, many of them seniors dismay, she committed one of the when she first fell into Wonderland, just like/ me, and yet from day one I mortal sins a child can commit while or Dorothy did when she first en have never felt quite comfortable talking to her mother long distance. tered Oz. among this lot. A glimpse of a few "Sugar" and Vice and Everything's Not Nice She shivered over the phone. The Downtown Hilton was a nou of their uplifted eyebrows and un When we called the dozing Kath veau riche mansion of Gatsby-like bearable stares at my grimy jeans to come talk at the unenclosed pay splendor, almost overendowed with and sweaty T-shirt may be enough phone, she sleepily forgot her coat in lush lounges, cozy carpeting, glossy to suggest why, but to me it always The Louisiana the car, and the cold night breeze glass elevators, and baby palm trees seemed to go deeper than that. They soon produced the expected result. sprinkled about the hotel for that were here because they could afford The sound of her chattering teeth decisive tropical touch. But the man to be here, and because of it, their Lo"Wdo"Wn was unmistakable, and although made oasis could only momentarily talk suggested it was just another Kathy was quickly rushed away relieve my fatigue, for when I re day in their lives. The trip for them from the receiver and I tried to membered my mission and saw that was a given in more ways than one. by Tom O'Toole cover with "she was only chewing the 300-plus line of students that For as I heard their bored discus gum" and Jim with "it must have loomed before me could be none sions of their folks' condo parties last New Year's Eve in New Orleans "Go forth in my car into the land of all-important comic relief. We (my been the bad connection," our spur other than the ticket line, I felt as night, I feared many would never .. who could ask for more? Well, music-making and Hurricanes and brothers and I) p ______ed on the side of-the-moment excuses did little to one who had waited faithfully in the have the experience of driving eigh an Irish win that next day would preach the Gospel of 'Rock' and the of a barn in Dix, Illinois, to show our alleviate my mother's well-founded Dining Hall line for half an hour teen hours straight in a cramped h~ve been nice---and yet, it proved Gipper to all those who will listen. displeasure after the town's lone gas fears, and back at the car Larry was only to be betrayed by a dinner of little car, going for each .other's somewhat unnecessary. "What we You shall take your brothers James station attendant at the town's only making our now-roused little sister bizzo burgers. Meanwhile, Larry was throats for silly, fatigue-induced mis- had, we gave," the opening line on a and Lawrence and sister Kathleen to gas station refused to let us use the meticulously aware of that fact. plaque the team's seniors dedicated aid you on your journey, for I say public washroom without buying gas "What do you mean by shivering to Coach Devine in commemoration unto you, despite all your hardships, at his singularly outrageous pump over the phone like that?" of his service to them, still accu you shall have a good time." price of $1.50 a gallon. We coffeed "I didn't know ..." rately deScribes the heart with And so, with my father's blessing (my brothers and I; my sister still "You DON'T know!" which Notre Dame played this Sugar and my own life's savings of $103.27, sticks to hot chocolate) at an all "I DIDN'T know I would shiv-" Bowl game, as does a famous maxim I set out the next day with prodigal night diner in Jackson, Mississippi, 'You go out in 30-degree weather by an unknown philosopher: "Every son (prodigal in the fact that he was where a waitress named Trish without a coat and you don't KNOW Dog has his day," accurately sums the only of the four college-age wished me luck on our check, and I, you're going to shiver? Don't give up Georgia's success on that Dog O'Toole's to decide to attend a school never missing an opportunity, wrote me that!" day afternoon. OTHER than Notre Dame), older her a napkin back. "But I was sleeping-" For when our true Domers found brother Jim, my younger brother And in between, we called home "Okay, sleeping, we'll let you drive themselves trapped under the neon and guard on Grace's interhall foot from a pay phone in Memphis, Ten the rest of the way and see if THAT skies of the man-made monster, the ball team Larry, and soon-to-be nessee, to tell our parents that we wakes you up!" Superdome, they knew they could not seventeen (her birthday fittingly were stopping here for the night as So Kathleen, who just turned shake down the thunder, and their falls on New Year's Eve) sister and they had requested. Of course, we seventeen half an hour ago with her comeback bid was as hopeless as a future Domer Kath, and we began were really driving straight through, head half asleep on my shoulder in Christian's in the Colosseum. Minus the drive to our Dixieland destina but a collect call loomed as the least the back seat, officially began her those forlorn four hours though, Irish tion. we could do to ease their worried birthday behind the wheel of our Ingenuity easily won over Georgian Although all told we rolled for minds, so we dialed to give them a silver Citation with the optional sun Gregariousness, and the Domers over sixteen hours, a few brief stops quick, but necessary reassurance. roof, which would not be of any were enough to provide us with proved to be more gracious in defeat But this time we also allowed Kath practical value for at least eight waiting in front of the hotel, double takes, and arriving at their destina than the "Dogs" did in victory. hours more. parked and with the motor running. tion in utter exhaustion only to be Despite serious doubts that I But one must remeIl!ber he is only a forced to find an out-of-town cut would never pull the perilous pil It was me that almost "zzzed" out freshman. rate hotel and stand in still another grimage off, I finally did make it to after relieving Kath for the last leg of our torrid trip, but we made it Though waiting in a Sugar Bowl line as . a nearsighted clerk slow New Orleans, though my survival of ticket line is really no less excruci poked his way while locating our the trek, like the Bulldog's survival into New Orleans with no further scars, stopping at a Denny's where ating than waiting in any of the tickets. of the awesome Irish defense, was by other countless lines that the life of It was at this moment, in the anything but a comfortable margin. we huddled to determine the next step of our game plan. It was de a student seems to encompass, the midst of my buffeting by those af While it was true I had purchased a fact that its members seemed a bit fluent eyelashes, when I knew that student pass, one ticket doth not a cided that Kath and Jim would stay at the restaurant and try to secure a more privileged than most gave me somehow it was through this para Sugar Bowl trip make, and as of ample thought for this time of re doxical pain, that I would be the one December the 29th, I had not sought hotel room within our modest means, flection. This takes nothing away who really ENJOYED the ~rip. The out one soul to go with me, nor while Larry, by far our best stick shifter, would drive me .downtown to from the fact that the line should two-dollar bar drinks they sipped had I obtained transportation, or a pick up my student ticket and press have never been needed in the first were surely quite good, and their place to stay, not to mention money place; and if I did not voice the stu $80.00 rooms undoubtedly convenient to secure the latter two. pass, which were being held for me at two different hotels. Both of these dents' displeasure at having to wait and comfortable, but there was noth But on that very night, a friend of seemingly trifling tasks proved eas in line twice for the same ticket ing like complete fatigue to make my father called and offered him two ier said than done though, for by (once to pay for it and once to ob sleep sweet, and the day memorable. tickets, and suddenly the wheels the time we had conquered all of the tain it), I feel I would be seriously I was beginning to see what my dad were in motion. To my dad, an ever curious Causeways, sketchy direc shirking my Scholastic duties. Yet meant. devoted Notre Dame alumnus if ever tions, narrow one-way §treets, and the line was therE;!, and I felt uncom As we were waiting in line, the there was one, it was an obvious sign tenacious ticket lines, we were gone fortable in it in more ways than one._ players were walking through us, from on high that I should go, and for well over three hours, and were For after looking around the sea on display in their green and gold his right hand was swift and sure. seriously wondering if it was all of classy cashmeres, sensuously sweatsuits. As they passed, a kid Calling my name, he handed to me worth it. And yet, for the brief sec slinky slacks, tailor-cut jackets, and near me called out the name of his Citation (actually, he only ond that I stepped into those two pensive polos, I felt as though I Harry Oliver, and as the man with HANDED me the keys) and said, How 'bout them Dogs~ tremendous hotels, I experienced should sink out of sight. These were the golden toe acknowledged and 6 SCHOLASTIC SPORTS REVIEW, 1981 7 I I -Jh 3

tended not to drain and the toilets their territory (for running is still, Every available street-side shop didn't always feel like flushing, the for the most part, a rich man's window had been converted into a Southern hospitality of its young sport) I doubt I'll ever know. Dog-Domer trinket display, and it doing-her-best innkeeper more than But it was a side of life that the had not been done all that discreetly made up for these minor details. Hiltonites never see, and as I fin at that. Side by side one would see When we asked her for extra towels, ished my run through the warm sun two manikins, identically dressed she gave us enough towels, wash light, which in itself was a welcome from their outrageously oversized cloths, and soap to last a small army relief from Chicago's "teen-y" tem cowboy hats and pennants to their (which by this time we probably peratures, I knew it had been the brightly dyed boots, with the excep smelled like) for a week, and when kind of opportunity that one cannot tion that one was dressed all in red Kathy asked her what time it was, but help thanking God for on the and bore a "Go to Hell, Notre Dame" she gave us her personal alarm clock spot, and I know I did my best. And button, and the other was adorned to use in our room. Of course, by I guess He knew I did too, for as I in kelly green and bore a "Go to this time we were all beat to the sprinted back to our motel, I noticed Hell Georgia" one. But neither side max, and everyone settled down to a little button that I hadn't seen be seedted to notice the incongruity of a long winter's nap, while I changed fore. I turned it over. "I am Loved," such side-by-side support, both buy into my shorts for a quick six-mile it said. I pinned it on my sweaty. ing the memorabilia in great num run. T-shirt. I was not about to argue. bers and it was my neutral brother Jim offered the only rational ex Now all of you non-runners are After my long-awaited, short but ~ho probably saying that anyone who sweet sleep, I was rolled out of bed, planation. "Green and Red ?They're informed that we were going out to Christmas colors," he said. goes out to run on no sleep in the Another phenomenon of the last thirty-six hours has got to be eat, then into town, or to town, as crazy, and right now all I can say is most people on New Year's Eve tend French Quarter was a Chinese take that you probably are right. But to do. Commencing a quick munch out establishment, called, appropri out on Church's Fried Chicken, we ately enough, "Takee Outee." Ad then I was still too full of caffeine vertising "30-second service" on to sleep soundly, and it would have were soon on the road to Bourbon been a sporadic rest at best had it Street, looking for action. Which, on their 20-oz., $1.00 beers, these res Players' on Parade: A Hard Day for Harry not been for the run. Most runners Bourbon Street, wasn't hard to find. taurants (with three sites in the know that there is nothing better For in the French Quarter, they French Quarter alone) did a fine business serving fried any food you came our way, I noticed a change in overwhelmed by one of tremendous people in the cars behind us who than a brisk jaunt at the end of the have a habit of partying out in' the his demeanor from the first time I gratitude. To be hobnobbing here day to free one's mind from its frus middle of the street anyway, which wanted, as long as it could be sold on were beeping at us in our predica a stick. I myself skipped met him. As the fellow introduced with these real life sportswriters trations and anxieties, and this run makes it easy to find someone, as the food, ment), we got back on the highway but their prompt beer dispersal Harry to his friend, "the little kicker was like a dream come true ... and until we sighted the REAL Denny's was much better than most. For long as you're not driving a car. that could" flashed a superstar smile yet, the incredible thing was that after an anxious turn past the snake Actually, street partying was the claims . (which incidentally, were next to the RIGHT Holiday Inn, and served in huge coke cups due to a that he did not possess but three with the help of God and a letter turned off again. farm and a brisk trot past a mob of only feasible way to accommodate months before. Though this slick and from Fr. Hesburgh whichcompli mobile homes, I got a good look at the overflow of fans from both sides, local ordinance) were usually pretty We were quite sure this was the accurate, if you remembered to hold confident demeanor 'surely helped mented me on my other work, I saw right one, for as soon as we rolled some of the ordinary life-styles of and though I know I speak for all Harry get through, the" constant that I had really EARNED a spot.in lower Louisiana" not to mention the Domers when I say I got a little up fingers for the Chinese kids to into the parking lot our disturbed count if you wished for more than badgering one in his position gets, it the "box,'" and no cynically question brother and sister, who had long ago country's beauty. tired of the Georgia faithful's tire still could not cover up for me the ing glare could take that away from given up on the idea that we had less "How 'bout them Dawgs!" call, one. Breaking out of a bunch of trees, I'd have to call it a draw as to which There were three things that stick humble inner side of this'Mary-made me. With all the self-confidence in been mugged and were now firmly I found myself running past a man. For while he was outwardly the world, I strode up to the table side had the best time. The only out in my mind from that memo convinced we had flat out deserted branch of the great river, where men table eve, and serve to give an over promising his friends he would get and barked out my name, patiently them, greeted us by hurling rocks CLEAR winner were the New Or were at. work operating a steam leans natives, who exploited the new all flavor' of the event. The first oc them two tickets, he was probably waited for her to get over the as and sticks and stray tennis balls hoist, excavating some unknown praying silently to Our Mother that tonishment and finger for· my pass. (there were courts across the way) comers to the hilt on booze and curred early on, when we stopped sUbstance from the riverbank, as souvenirs. into a corner bar on the way to the someone would grace his presence As she was still pulling out the ,and anything else they could lay barges floated by. in the distance. with two tickets pretty darn quick. (continued on page 28) proper envelope I snatched.it from their hands on at us. When their am Chugging it up a hill, I .found ~az From the Hilton it was off to the her startled hand, thanked her, munition was finally exhausted, we ing horses, while down. below the Fairmont for the 01' Scholastic press turned, and, with as much cockiness stepped out of the car, explaining pass. Again, I was smitten with awe trail were backyards where kids as a slight, shaggy-haired, sloppy that we did the best we could, under were playing in broken-down sand as soon as I entered. If the Hilton jeaned, half-asleep kid could muster, the circumstances, and asked them boxes; and swinging on old, tire was new~waveritzy, the' Fairmont exited the room and stepped into the if . they had found a place for us. swings hung, from tired oak trees, was traditional ritz at its finest. just-opening elevator in perfect "Not just A place, but THE place!", With its red silk, glittery gold trim, and a forest with millions of paths stride, pushing the floor button be my brother, retorted, and when his leading into them, all of which were crystal chandeliers and tons of flat fore the startled elevator boy could sarcastic giggle subsided, we found hatted bellhops bopping about, it worth exploring if 1 had the time to stop me. out that the hotel was located in the live a Huck Finn existence in their was a world that I thought only Our ticket trek accomplished, we town of "La Plaza," fifteen miles existed in 1930's musicals now sud midst someday. On the way back, a headed back to the outskirts, and outside the cityl No sooner than he few of the horses got into the act denly come to life. Of course part of after spotting "the Denny's next to had spoken, we hopped back in the the charm of such a place is that and showed me I wasn't that fast the Holiday Inn," we took the next car, and away we went. At this after all, but· it was all in good fun. most of the display is just for show, exit, and circled back to the res point, any "plaza" was as good as as I found out by having to ask at taurant-only to find it was a DIF And when I·got back to the river, any other. a few young black workers who were least five official-looking persons be FERENT Denny's next to AN Our destination was a little dive fore I got one who knew where the OTHER Holiday Inn. Following a sitting around eating lunch whistled called the Troxie Motel. It was lo at me as I went by. Whether they, passes were. short silence of utter disbelief, we cated across the street from a snake It was a suite up on the twelfth finally loosed our tongues, and, after like the horses, were sigrialing that farm, which, judging from the many my hoofing wasn't such hot stuff, or floor, via way of a mirrored elevator sufficient cursing of New Orleans signs, was probably the town's chief with a real elevator boy. Strolling Causeway exits, Denny's', Holiday they were calling attention to stumpy tourist trap. But despite its deficien legs (after all, who wears .shorts in into the suite of stogie-toting men Inns, and the street designer who cies, the Troxie had a' homey touch and business-suited women, the ini kept building the two establishments December ?), or just at the sight of that the higher-priced resorts just a skinny white running through ,Green and Red tial out-of-place feeling was soon side by side (not to mention all the COUldn't capture. 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that field, I guarantee it, but I also ing voice naturally commands re man roster, a coaching staff of 15 promise you they'll be quality young spect, and the students freely give assistants, 17 student managers, 7 men off that field." it. He is their Rock of Gibraltar. He team doctors, and a wide open of It is this aspect of his coaching senses their craving for a forceful, fense that runs from at least eight Faust and philosophy that caught Fr. Joyce's aggressive, and charismatic field different formations. Moeller is defi eye. Faust produces winners in the general. He has come to fill a void nitely not your ordinary high school true sense of the word, the real mark that has existed for some time. football program. of a good football program. Joyce Faust's only drawback is his in But in the midst of coverage by Notre Dame's himself admitted that the Moeller experience at the college level. In ABC, NBC, The New York Times, players whom Faust has sent to spite of all his winning streaks and and Life magazine, Faust kept doing Notre Dame were his best letters of championships, he has yet to square what he does best, namely winning. recommendation. "We were very off against a John Robinson - or And he maintains the same humble, much attracted by the quality-type Bear Bryant-coached squad. He is sincere profile that has earned him Football individuals who played for Gerry," well aware of the comparisons some the admiration of countless fans. noted the University's executive make between himself and Terry "He's still the same down-to-earth vice-president. Six Moeller grads are Brennan, the only other Irish coach man he was at Moeller," admits one currently listed on the Irish roster called straight from the prep ranks, of his former players now at Notre Future -receivers Dave Candeni and Tony who struggled through five seasons Dame. "He hasn't changed a bit. Hunter, quarterback Tim Koegel, before being dismissed with a 32-18 He'll still do anything for anyone." by Kelly Sullivan placekicker Harry Oliver, and line mark. "I'm going to be myself,'" insists backers Rich Naylor and Bob Crable. "Age was a big factor with Terry Faust. "If it doesn't work, I'll quit, All are anxiously awaiting the re Brennan," explains Faust. "He was but I owe .the kids sincerity." union with Faust. only 25-I'm 45. The years of ex The football offices have been re "His enthusiasm and love for the perience make a big difference. I'm decorated. There's talk of the team athletes have made him such a suc sure if Terry would have taken the going back to the traditional blue cess," offers Naylor. "Next year's job at 45, he'd have been coach for jerseys next· season. But beyond team will see a lot more enthusiasm as long as he wanted to be." that, there's little else Faust wants and hustle than they're used to. While no new Notre Dame coach to change at Notre Dame. Coach will run out on the field and may ever be fully prepared for the "There's so much great tradition jump up and down just like one of pressure cooker that awaits him in here that I just want to add to it, the players." South Bend, Faust has been in the not take anything away." There's no hiding the rah-rah in limelight as much as any high school Though rarely at a loss for words, Faust's personality. He is as dif coach in America the past several Faust is a bit tongue-tied on describ ferent from his predecessor as two years. ing just how he feels about his new Coach Gerry Faust coaches can be. His knack for ex "You have to understand, Moel home. tracting exuberance from ms au(ti ler's not your typical high school," "This is just one phenomenal He has won their hearts already. Dame seldom makes the same mis legiate and professional as well as ence is extraordinary. He draws a offers Crable, a standout for both place-I don't know how to express He has infected the skeptical. masses take twice. More than twenty years the prep ranks. And if you put your standing ovation from the crowd the Crusaders and the Irish. "People myself as to what it means to be a with his dynamic zest. Though his later the powers beneath the dome faith in statistics, Faust's numbers at Pangborn, who are deliriously don't realize the national exposure part of Notre Dame. I just can't ex new team has yet to win their first tapped Gerry Faust to fill the cleats stand alone. excited amidst Faust's promises, it's gotten, and the program there is plain it." game, he is being overwhelmingly of Rockne, Leahy, Parseghian. In his eighteen years at Moeller, "You'll see a lot of passing next comparable to a small college." Give him time. 0 approved of by his most demanding "When Fr. Joyce called and of Faust 'compiled a 174-17-2 mark, year!" His perpetually hoarse, boom- Maybe superior. Consider its 210- critics, the student body. He is fered me. the job, I said yes right losing only orie game in the last six Gerry Faust, and when he takes his away, and hung up before he could years. His Crusaders have nabbed first jaunt into Notre Dame Stadium change his mind," he laughs. three national championships, five next September for. his coaching How Faust ascended to the pin state titles in the last six years, and debut, he will undoubtedly be met nacle of gridiron greatness without 12 Greater Cincinnati League cham with the same enthusiasm and ex climbing the steps of collegiate ex pionships in the last sixteen years. citement he is receiving right now perience beforehand is a mystery Moeller has also ventured beyond in dormitories across campus. to many. How he beat out a field state competition, throwing its "You people are what makes Notre that included major university head weight around other parts of the Dame special," he shouts to a coaches is a question some non nation as well. Over the past several packed crowd in the basement of believers have been asking since years, the men from Moeller have Pangborn, captivated, almost mes November 24, theda:y Fr. Joyce con thrashed Monsignor Farrell (New merized by their newest leader. "The firmed what a lot of people had York state champs) .30-0; Dallas past ten weeks have been the great suspected for some time. Jesuit (Texas state champs), 37-7; est in my life because of you people "Why do I think I, as a high Brother Rice . (Michigan state -we're one big family now." school coach, could be successful at champs), 33-13; Penn Hills (Penn II It's been a long time coming for a' major university such as Notre sylvania state champs), 30-13; and II:! Gerry Faust, formerly the most suc Dame? The same reason a governor DeMatha (the top team from the I: District of Columbia area) ,34-0. ,III'! cessful high school coach in Amer can be president 6f the United i;i\ ica. He has waited, he has prayed, States," Faust once explained. The But the impeccable success Faust i'I' he has dreamt of belonging to the rationale that his philosophy of . has achieved over the years extends iiil ;'I:' I Notre Dame mystiquEl for literally a coaching would succeed for him at beyond just rolling up big scores on I'Jil: lifetime. During his youth,. he idol . other levels is supported by many. the football field. He has acquired ized Johnny Lujack and Leon Hart. No one could really argue against the reputation for developing indi I,'I'! As a quarterback at Chaminade in the fact that fundamentals-detail, viduals of the finest caliber. I:! ~ ,I Dayton, he had aspirations of play discipline, organization, efficiency "I'll guarantee you one thing-we'll :11 ing football for the Irish. They didn't that have worked for Faust at Cin have excellence on and off the field. I, want him in the 1950s. But Notre cinnati Moeller hold true in the col- The players will give 120 per cent on ii 10 SCHOLASTIC SPORTS REVIEW, 1981 11 . ...

Saturday'S Fallen Heroes A Gimmick Who Remembers Mark Czaja?

For Gerry by Tom O'Toole by Cathy Chopp

team to "win one for the Gipper." As About a month ago, I somehow Notre Dame awaits the 1981-82 foot managed to severely strain a muscle ball season to experience the style of in my leg. No big thing, at least for Gerry Faust, may I offer you a sug most people. But in this case at gestion for a gimmick? least, I was not most people. For Picture this: the students form a out of perseverance; more than any human tunnel on the playing field thing else, I had made myself into a for the team to go through at the runner, and for the last three years opening home game. The sky is a I have been in the habit of steppin' brilliant blue and the American flag out from work and studies to the flutters in the autumn breeze. Touch tune of anywhere from four to Dear Mr. Gerry Faust, down Jesus looms in the background. twelve· miles of roadwork a day. Congratulations upon your new Excitement ripples through the But with this nagging injury plagu head coaching position here at the crowd as they catch sight of the ing me, my favorite respite from University of Notre Dame. You are familiar gold helmets and green writing was taken away, and when now faced with the task of maintain jerseys.. But what's this? Who is . alize the other team, comparable to I did manage to hobble out of habit, ing the fine tradition of Notre Dame that new player who stands about seeing Joe Montana appear as quar running was no longer a "flying" football, and I wish you much suc 5'3/1? He seems to be a midget in terback late in the game. How about high, but a plodding pain. "It will go cess. I would like to offer you a hint comparison to the other gigantic reinstating the center sneak? I could away in a week," urged a friend who for the next season. We all know of players. The crowd hushes as the play center and just run through the had had a similar injury, but time your great coaching career at Cin tiny player runs to center field and opponents' legs. (I played center on proved him wrong. The weeks and cinnati Moeller High School and of whips off his helmet. Why it's Notre flag football.) This could be a ter my wobbly legs dragged on, offer your incredible coaching ability; Dame's first female varsity football rific morale booster and possibly ing little improvement in either de however, to succeed at Notre Dame, player!! The crowd goes wild and change our current streak of bad partment, and I began to despair of you cannot break tradition. You've begins to chant your name Gerry luck (Le., the USC and Sugar Bowl my walk with life. "I have as strong got to get a gimmick. Everyone's got Faust, after being overwhelmed by games). Please consider this sugges legs as anyone, I Istretch them a gimmick. Devine had his kelly the cleverness of your gimmick. tion. Face it Ger-you need me! every day, and yet I'm the one who green jerseys and Rockne urged the Now you're probably wondering. Sincerely yours, gets hit with this bum strain," I Mark Czaja Where do I find this girl? Well, I Cathy Chopp· pettily argued. "Why me?" I pitied volunteer myself. I am quite willing P.S. What's this about blue and gold myself. "Why me?" And I continued by thousands, the story behind his he had grown to love. The men who to help the team "shake down the . jerseys? The school colors are green my petty pitying, until Iremem grid "mark" is a tale that is usually used to stare in wonder at his prom thunder." But I'm not just a gim and gold. Just ask the seniors.... 0 bered Mark Czaja. told in hushed tones behind closed ise can promise him little anymore, mick! I am also qualified to play Although in his playing days doors, if it is told at all. But living and it is Mark who is left to wonder, after gaining invaluable experience Mark bore a cast that was known on his floor in Flanner the past two not whether he'll PLAY, but whether on my hall's intramural flag foot-· years, and being his suitemate dur he'll walk, not WHAT went wrong, ball team. (If you have seen the ing the last, I learned a little more but why. Why me? ferocity of play at these games, you about this story, which in itself was . know what I mean.) ND's been coed Mark was always a strong kid de so tragic, I didn't even want to guess spite his long and lanky build, and for nine years now, so when is var about the rest. For Mark's was more sity football going coed too? enjoyed dominating games of sand than a' story of a natural athlete lot football (as well as baseball, bas Not only will this new addition fire with a sad twist. Mark came to up the fans and team, but also it ketball, and hockey) from an early Notre Dame with a body and soul age. And yet, unlike most dads with will psych out the opponent. Of that were made for football, only to course, I don't expect to play the promising lads, Mr. Czaja played have them systematically and inex little part in his son's early prog whole game. I merely want to be a plicably destroyed by the game· that surprise element that would demor- ress. He discouraged Mark from seemed to court him, the game that playing organized football then, for he felt his son was stili at an age where broken bones and Vince Lom bardi-type coaches could cause a kid .', :.' : permanent physical or psychological damage. Mr. Czaja also rarely ven tured out to teach his son the sport, but this was not because he feared his son had no potential. It was because he feared Mark DID. Walt Czaja was no stranger to football, or its hazards. The elder .. 1 Czaja was also an end for the Irish,

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Saturday'S Fallen Heroes A Gimmick Who Remembers Mark Czaja?

For Gerry by Tom O'Toole by Cathy Chopp team to "win one for the Gipper." As About a month ago, I somehow Notre Dame awaits the 1981-82 foot managed to severely strain a muscle ball season to experience the style of in my leg. No big thing, at least for Gerry Faust, may I offer you a sug most people. But in this case at gestion for a gimmick? least, I was not most people. For Picture this: the students form a out of perseverance; more than any human tunnel on the playing field thing else, I had made myself into a for the team to go through at the runner, and for the last three years opening home game. The sky is a I have been in the habit of steppin' brilliant blue and the American flag out from work and studies to the flutters in the autumn breeze. Touch tune of anywhere from four to Dear Mr. Gerry Faust, down Jesus looms in the background. twelve· miles of roadwork a day. Congratulations upon your new Excitement ripples through the But with this nagging injury plagu head coaching position here at the crowd as they catch sight of the ing me, my favorite respite from University of Notre Dame. You are familiar gold helmets and green writing was taken away, and when now faced with the task of maintain jerseys.. But what's this? Who is . alize the other team, comparable to I did manage to hobble out of habit, ing the fine tradition of Notre Dame that new player who stands about seeing Joe Montana appear as quar running was no longer a "flying" football, and I wish you much suc 5'3/1? He seems to be a midget in terback late in the game. How about high, but a plodding pain. "It will go cess. I would like to offer you a hint comparison to the other gigantic reinstating the center sneak? I could away in a week," urged a friend who for the next season. We all know of players. The crowd hushes as the play center and just run through the had had a similar injury, but time your great coaching career at Cin tiny player runs to center field and opponents' legs. (I played center on proved him wrong. The weeks and cinnati Moeller High School and of whips off his helmet. Why it's Notre flag football.) This could be a ter my wobbly legs dragged on, offer your incredible coaching ability; Dame's first female varsity football rific morale booster and possibly ing little improvement in either de however, to succeed at Notre Dame, player!! The crowd goes wild and change our current streak of bad partment, and I began to despair of you cannot break tradition. You've begins to chant your name Gerry luck (Le., the USC and Sugar Bowl my walk with life. "I have as strong got to get a gimmick. Everyone's got Faust, after being overwhelmed by games). Please consider this sugges legs as anyone, I Istretch them a gimmick. Devine had his kelly the cleverness of your gimmick. tion. Face it Ger-you need me! every day, and yet I'm the one who green jerseys and Rockne urged the Now you're probably wondering. Sincerely yours, gets hit with this bum strain," I Mark Czaja Where do I find this girl? Well, I Cathy Chopp· pettily argued. "Why me?" I pitied volunteer myself. I am quite willing P.S. What's this about blue and gold myself. "Why me?" And I continued by thousands, the story behind his he had grown to love. The men who to help the team "shake down the . jerseys? The school colors are green my petty pitying, until Iremem grid "mark" is a tale that is usually used to stare in wonder at his prom thunder." But I'm not just a gim and gold. Just ask the seniors.... 0 bered Mark Czaja. told in hushed tones behind closed ise can promise him little anymore, mick! I am also qualified to play Although in his playing days doors, if it is told at all. But living and it is Mark who is left to wonder, after gaining invaluable experience Mark bore a cast that was known on his floor in Flanner the past two not whether he'll PLAY, but whether on my hall's intramural flag foot-· years, and being his suitemate dur he'll walk, not WHAT went wrong, ball team. (If you have seen the ing the last, I learned a little more but why. Why me? ferocity of play at these games, you about this story, which in itself was . know what I mean.) ND's been coed Mark was always a strong kid de so tragic, I didn't even want to guess spite his long and lanky build, and for nine years now, so when is var about the rest. For Mark's was more sity football going coed too? enjoyed dominating games of sand than a' story of a natural athlete lot football (as well as baseball, bas Not only will this new addition fire with a sad twist. Mark came to up the fans and team, but also it ketball, and hockey) from an early Notre Dame with a body and soul age. And yet, unlike most dads with will psych out the opponent. Of that were made for football, only to course, I don't expect to play the promising lads, Mr. Czaja played have them systematically and inex little part in his son's early prog whole game. I merely want to be a plicably destroyed by the game· that surprise element that would demor- ress. He discouraged Mark from seemed to court him, the game that playing organized football then, for he felt his son was stili at an age where broken bones and Vince Lom bardi-type coaches could cause a kid .', :.' : permanent physical or psychological damage. Mr. Czaja also rarely ven tured out to teach his son the sport, but this was not because he feared his son had no potential. It was because he feared Mark DID. Walt Czaja was no stranger to football, or its hazards. The elder .. 1 Czaja was also an end for the Irish,

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having played two years here during even his albatross did not dampen know that the receiving corps would disastrous season, but the end of Mark's steady companion, ready to soon as I graduate." And as soon Leahy'sreign. That is, ALMOST two his enthusiasm. He still yearned to be hit by the loss of Czaja also. Mark's career. take the edge of Mark's edginess. as his knee heals. years. Midway through his sopho playas badly as ever, so when the For after that season when Mark's "We needed to, playa perfect game And then there was "Robo." Robo, Though the knee is supposed to more year, Walt, who played in an coaches gave him the option of play injury was examined again, it was with a lot of emotion," emphasized for those who don't know, was the be ready to walk on by January, era when face masks had not come ing with the bulky cast or sitting determined that if Mark were ever to Devine after the game. "We played nickname of Mark's redheaded and Mark knows that because of the into "style," suffered a severe head out to let it heal, it was really no have the use of his hand again, he with emotion but we had a few half-deaf roommate Tom Wroblew radical newness of this type of sur injury, and although the coaching choice at all. Despite his setback, would have to sit out until it had a breakdowns." Though unbeknown to ski. Also a football player that never gery, there is the chance that his staff assured him it would be all Mark made the traveling squad and chance to heal completely. So he Coach or anyone else at the time, quite "made it" Robo was an easy knee will be worse off than before. right by next season, Walt forsook saw action in six games his fresh underwent his second bone graft the biggest "breakdown" took place going person who was always there While his last injury certainly cost their advice and his scholarship, and man year, and his prospects for '77, operation, and after that, rehabilita inside the knee and heart of Mark to share in the time of Mark's frus him a shot at pro football (where finished up his career at St. Bona when he would have no injuries to tion and periodical checkups. The Czaja. While covering a roll-out in trations. Although Mark admittedly Mark admits that, "most of the venture. It was not until Mark en hold him back, were exceedingly hand healed steadily, if slowly. the second quarter, Mark was took advantage of his best friend players don't last five years, and tered high school that his father told bright. But after aggravating his VERY slowly. "It was like waiting blocked off balance by the Cal full sometimes by yelling strange things half of them are bald") or allow him the reason for his transfer, but hand all year, he knew he would in a doctor's reception room," Mark back. Mark's right foot planted itself into Robo's deaf ear, the two were him to run as I do to release my by then it was too late. Mark's ath have to undergo the knife before he said. "You are told he will see you in the ground, as he fell over his practically inseparable. And Mark's mind, Mark anxiously looks forward letic body had already been "made," would again go out on the field. shortly, and you believe them. Fif knee. For forty seconds, Mark ex father, who perhaps foresaw Mark's to the day he will be able to ride his and his mind was already made up. His first bone graft operation was teen minutes later, you are told the perienced a pain such as he had never fate and could have pitied him eas bike again. "I started riding seri Mark was a football player, and he successful, and although it forced same thing. You accept that, but felt before, and which indeed is ex ier than anyone, instead persuaded ously ever since I had problems with WOULD play football. him to miss spring practice (which fifteen more minutes pass and then perienced by few outside the realm his son to persevere, telling Mark my knee," he says. "It's great fun When the time came where he he would end up missing every sea they say it will be another fifteen, of the gridiron. As they carried the there is always someone worse off and great exercise. I'm not sure could no longer hold Mark back, Mr. son), by April 30 his strong left and finally you get discouraged. I body from the field, I shielded my than himself. And despite Mark's what bicycle racing entails, but Czaja encouraged his son to follow hand was again his own. He spent all was able to accept my injury, but I eyes as I stood in the stands ex constant setbacks, he did not have maybe I could even get into that in in his own football footsteps. As that summer working it back into never got used to it. All I ever claiming, "That's NOT Czaja again!" much trouble finding that "some the future ...." soon as Mark began playing high shape, and two weeks before the wanted ~hen was a clean qill of But my roommate, perhaps the only one," in the person of Pat Boggs. So even though his new life seems school ball at Lewiston Porter (lo opening game against Pitt, Mark health." one in the crowd who realized I was For though Boggs showed just as well provided for, the natural Ii cated north of Buffalo) Walt started won the job of second tight end in Mark had to wait a whole year for sober, began to slowly nod his head, much potential as Czaja did when he dreams of a natural athlete never il and I was silenced. I' taking his son on his pilgrimages to the two-tight-end formation. In the that, redshirting his junior year, came here, a broken hand, and then really end. Like Job, Mark appears d South Bend, so the upstart could ex first two games, Mark managed to while hitting only his books and Monday morning, Mark underwent torn ligaments in first his right and to have twice as many friends and perience the mania of Irish football catch only one pass for four yards building up his legs. After the year a five-hour operation for torn carti then his left knee prevented Pat twice as much of a future than be weekends for himself. Mr. Czaja was in the shadow of the great Ken of running and studying, Mark :was lage in his knee. It was termed suc from seeing action in even oile var fore his injuries. But unlike his Bib a personal friend of Coach Kelly, MacAfee, but as modest an accom in perhaps his best shape both phys cessful, and the doctors told him he sity game. While they 'suffered lical counterpart, Mark was also and Mark would love it when they plishment as it was, it was the only ically and academically. Yet by the could begin the long road to re through four years of similar in robbed of his youth, and that, espe would kid him about starting here in pass he would ever get a chance to time his cast finally came off prior habilitation in nine weeks. But six juries, the two never gave up even cially when it was a prized youth, is four years. And yet, by Mark's ju catch. For in the third game against to his senior season, a kid named months later, the knee had still not when there was but a slim glimmer a thing that sometimes can never nior year at Porter, such talk was no Purdue, he injured his hand again. Masztak had already shown himself responded, and Mark was reexam of hope, convinced that they would be replaced. In this light, I asked longer a joke. Mark had already Although he returned the very next to be quite aHcatch" and Mark's still ined. What was found, in laymen's someday beat this rap, if the rap Mark if his trials have brought him begun to get scholarship offers week with a facsimile of his old cast, delicate hand left him no hope of terms, was that the knee had col could be beaten. So in this way, closer to God. which eventually would come in a cast he would abandon for but snatching the tight end job away lapsed. The joint had worn out the Mark was able to accept his injuries, "For me, our relationship was not from every major football college in three months in his first three sea from the established "Dean." So lining of his knee, and the knee had and at the same time fight to never greater after than before," he ex the country. But Mark waited, and sons, his pass-catching days were Mark was suddenly switched to de become so loose that it could no get used to them. plained. "During the seasons, when I waited, until the ride he was waiting over. Mark recalls how when the ball fensive end. Though such a drastic longer support Mark's weight, even Accepting injuries is one thing. was alone, I'd talk things over with i for came through. He would play used to hit his "plaster blaster," it change would faze most players, it though he had lost thirty pounds PROFITING by them is quite an myself, although I guess you could i the game at Notre Dame, or he used to ricochet twenty or thirty couldn't stop Mark. Especially now, since the time of the operation. He other. Did Mark ever come to see say I was really talking to Him. would not play it at all. feet in the air, which, although per when he not only had his determina was told that not only would he his injuries as a blessing in dis Basically, though, all I ever wanted !i Actually, the football tragedy of haps perfect for volleyball, was not tion, but his health. For health was never play again, but that a new guise? "No," chuckled Mark, "but was to get healthy. If I ever asked ,I: Mark Czaja began before he left the kind of action one wanted on the all Mark ever needed. kind of reconstructive knee surgery my mom did. And in some ways for anything, it was to be able to iii home for the Dome, while on the football field. So Mark became a de His desire was certainly not lost was perhaps the only hope that he she's right. When I used to walk start every game of a season ii! court of another sport. During the coy, a kind of "third tackle," but on Coach Yonto, who spent many would ever walk. Czaja accepted hIS around campus, my cast became my healthy.... " fate, and this past May he under II!II summer before his first year here, accepted his new role well. He made long hard hours with Mark after signature, and many came to know The interview is over, but the Mark was playing tennis and chas key blocks all season, including the practice accustoming Czaja to his went the knife again. The results or remember me because of it. I now story surely continues. Now that we ill' Cotton Bowl, where three of the are still in doubt. :i ing down a shot near the net when new position. Though used spar I have a beautiful wife, who at present have finally heard his account, per he suddenly collided with the pole, Irish's six touchdowns were sweeps ingly in the first two games against i' "All I ever wanted was to get is supporting me while I complete haps it is time to pray that Mark Ii shattering his wrist. The broken around his side. After that cham Michigan and Purdue, his natural through a full season healthy," my education. And through her I will accept his ten children and thou bone was bad enough, but the worst pionship season, the forecasters had talent soon came through, and he sighed Czaja, again recalling the have a father-in-law (Jack Mc :1 sands of cattle (or some modest and i, part of it was that the injury was high hopes for Mark's junior year. quickly became a regular. Going into dream that would never be. "But Carthy), who has become one of my modern equivalent of Job's reward) il originally misdiagnosed as a sprain, As Ray O'Brien said in the Scho the Southern Cal game, both Mark everyone has personal hardships. It's very good friends. We have a rela in the future as compensation for his II and Mark went around for a month Zastic, "The receiving corps will be and the team had been playing well, easy to give yourself self-pity." Es tionship that I 'wish everyone could lost youth. Or perhaps we, like him, 'I before the mistake was realized, and hard hit with the loss of the de still, with a 4-1 record, they knew pecially when one is alone. Fortu i have. As it turns out, when my foot should also cling to the miraculous his hand and lower arm were en pendable MacAfee. While filling the they must win here to make any nately, Mark was not alone, or never ball career was ended, he offered me I hopes that Mark will find his lost i closed in his famous bent-arm cast. shoes of this All-American is im kind of run for the National Cham so very often. a great job in the sales division of youth yet. This I do not know. All So Mark came to school already possible, the top candidate for the pionship. Instead, the game was not First, there was Kathy,. Now Cox Broadcasting in Pittsburgh. So I know is' that my leg no longer ! equipped with his signature, but job is Mark Czaja." Little did they only to mark the beginning of our Mark's wife, for four years she was now we're anxious to move there, as hurts me. 0

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Everyone knew that his Corrigan was but a twinkle in his span, the men's program has grown ball and basketball, although he retirement was nearing, but the father's eye. His Notre Dame back from thirteen to twenty-three sports. realizes that few athletic programs athletic director at the most famous field memories focus on the late In contrast, Notre Dame, a school of could survive without their revenue. athletic institution in the world was 1930's-Steve Sitko (QB), Bob Sag roughly half the enrollment of Vir He loves all sports equally. almost irreplaceable. After all, the gua (LH), Lou Zontini (RH), and ginia, offers thirteen varsity sports "I think a total program is really man has been involved with Fighting Milt Piepul (FB) - a generation for men and five for women. important," he says, with a record Irish athletics since Herbert Hoover . Gene Corrigan after the Four Horsemen; a group Also during Corrigan's tenure, the to prove he means it. "I believe in was in the White House and Knute coached by one of them, Elmer school has added a new baseball athletics, at whatever level-it really great, we're not going to hav.e it.' school on. Rockne was Notre Dame's football Layden. doesn't make any difference-and I "But I guess that the greatest coach. stadium, a tartan-surfaced track, ex "As long as the interest IS there Corrigan did not venture west panded tennis facilities and a new think intercollegiate athletics are -as long as it's a viable team-as thing that happened to me (to give The question was answered in ward for college. Instead he went Intramural/Recreation complex great. If it's tennis, if it's soccer long as there's interest in people me an impression of Notre Dame) early October 1980, when a rash of south to Duke University where he much like Notre Dame's Rockne it doesn't make any difference what being part of that team-the worst was the trip out there (for the news leaks and an ensuing statement earned a liberal arts degree in 1952. Memorial. The most impressive it is. It's a great experience. thing you can do is drop it." . Purdue football game) and the told the world that fifty-two-year-old From there, Corrigan made his first physical change was the most recent "I think it's a 'we' activity in a To try to put aU of this into per chance to talk to some people about Eugene F. Corrigan would be leav stop at Virginia serving as the uni one-a multimillion-dollar expan surrounding where there aren't a spective, Notre Dame's football and Notre Dame's feeling for athletics. ing the beautiful Shenandoah Valley versity's soccer, lacrosse, and bas whole lot of 'we' activities. I just basketball teams obviously make It's just a proper one. That's what in Virginia and heading for the sion and renovation of Scott Sta ketball coach at one time or another, dium-which made it perhaps the think it's very important to do that. more than enough money to support sold me completely-more than any frozen tundra of South Bend. And as well as the sports information finest stadium in the conference and "The other thing is that the in themselves. In the past, they have thing, because I really believe that frozen it would be. "I got here on director. After that nine-year stint increased capacity by 12,000 to stitution has to want to do it. If the produced enough revenue to take the worst thing you can do to an January 3," he said, "and it snowed at Yooveeay (that's U.Va.), Corri 42,073. institution wants to do it - they care of the rest of the scllOol's ath athlete is pamper him. for the next nine days. Then I went gan became the Assistant Commis want to have a reasonably broad "You have to keep athletics in Many people feel that one of letic programs. Yet in the last year to the Rockne dinner in Chicago for sioner of the Atlantic Coast Con program-then they've just got to or so the University, like many focus, and who keeps it in focus a couple of days, and when we got ference in Greensboro, N.C., before Corrigan's major responsibilities at find a way to fund it." Notre Dame will be athletic fund other~, has been confronted with better than Notre Dame? Really no back, it· was snowing again-ten becoming athletic director at Wash Ah hah - funding! Sports like considerable economic pressures. body-nobody does-and that's a straight days for me." ington & Lee, a private university in rasing, something the University an nounced last spring it would venture tennis, swimming, lacrosse, and vol Last· spring, a moratorium was great thing." Corrigan has lived along the east northern Virginia. leyball just aren't going to pay for placed on future scholarships to non Corrigan will be working at Notre ern seaboard all his life, and never Finally he returned to Charlottes into for the first time, and some thing Corrigan has done quite well themselves, and football and basket profit sports, which included some Dame during a very dynamic and has had any direct ties to Notre Ville in 1971 to fill the post he held ball can't be counted on to support forty scholarships in six men's transitional time in the school's his Dame. Yet he's wanted to be at until coming to Notre Dame in early at Virginia. After all, those facilities didn't pay for themselves. them forever. That is what many sports. tory. There has just been a change Notre Dame since he was an altar January. During his nine years as suspect drew Notre Dame to Gene When the smoke had cleared, in the head coaching position and boy in Baltimore, Maryland. Grow athletic director, Corrigan took a "When I came here, the Student Corrigan-his ability to raise money hockey had been reduced from the athletic directorship. The Presi Aid Fou'ndation (a major fund-rais ing up in a (very) Irish Catholic struggling athletic department and for athletics without cutting into an twenty to eighteen grants-in-aid, the dent, Fr. Hesburgh, and his Execu family, Corrigan remembers listen made it one of the finest in the ing organization crucial to athletic institution's academic excellence. other twenty remained, and Notre tive Vice President, Fr. Joyce, will expansion) was about $300,000 in ing to'Notre Dame football with his nation. Where funds are focused for the Dame began to comply with Title IX, be retiring in the not-too-distant mother. "She was a big Notre Dame "Always respected for its aca debt to the University, was only nonrevenue sports can be a major offering its first scholarships in future. Somehow, this man who fan,". Corrigan recalls. raising about $180,000 a year, and demic excellence," reads the Cava factor, especially when the money is women's basketball. Yet there is never has had any direct affiliation spending maybe $280,000 a year. "We didn't have television, you liers' football media guide, "the Uni limited. It seems that Corrigan really no permanent solution to the with the University before must fit So the first thing I had to do· was to know. We listened to the radio. You versity of Virginia now boasts ath would rather spend the money on problems which arose last spring, into the picture. go to these people and say, 'Hey, listened to Bill Stern," he .says, re letic excellence as well. Progressive the essentials of having a team and many hope that Corrigan will "I hope I'm fitting in in order to membering that around his house, thinking, expansion, and financial that's not enough money; that's not the coaching, facilities, equipment, be able to do for Notre Dame what sustain what's there, particularly that was the thing to do on fall Sat com:nitment have been important, even close. Not only that, we have etc.-than the essentials of having a he did at Virginia-help the athletic the perspe'ctive on athletics because urday afternoons. "I don't remem but It has been the people that have to pay all that money back.' " great team - namely scholarships. department grow in the face of I think that's important at Notre if Which they did in about three and ber it was Mutual or what it was, made the program successful. Gene Yet if you can afford excellence, spiraling costs. Dame. I sensed that that's impor put they did Notre Dame football Corrigan has surrounded himself a half years, and it was only then then why not have it? A consideration of Corrigan's ath tant to the student body and the 'every Saturday. that the athletic program began its . with the outstanding dedicated peo "We were at the point at Virginia, letic philosophy wouldn't be com alumni. Because of the great tradi - "I can remember a backfield of ple who share his philosophy of ath climb to respectability and excel plete without discussing the way. a tion, they can continue to be good. Sitko, Saggua, Zontini, and Piepul. letics." lence. along with some other schools in our conference, where we're going to school like Notre Dame, or even VIr - "The other thing is sustaining a See, I remember that as a kid. Why A school's press material always Janet Sketchley, Corrigan's secre ginia for that matter, integrates program during a time when costs would I remember that?" have to start pulling back on the tries to paint a pretty picture of its tary at Virginia for the last five scholarships part," Corrigan says. academic and athletic excellence. are just . . . , well you know what Perhaps Corrigan was just made administrators, but everything the years, cried when she learned of her "I really didn't have a great per it's like driving a car and everything for Notre Dame, or vice versa. None': "That gets so expensive that you guide says is very true. Corrigan boss'. move. "I could write a book start saying, 'Well, I'm going to drop ception of Notre Dame at all," he else. It's just real tough. Coming up theless, his recollections of Notre guided the Virginia athletic program about the man," she says. "I could recalls of the days before he had any with ways to do that without inter Dame football are in stark contrast sports.' Now wait a minute-before onward and upward during the '70s, lose him on the way to the parking you drop sports, drop .scholarships. affiliation with the school. "In .fact, fering with Notre Dame itself-aca to those echoed by his predecessor, while most other schools were strug lot. Four people would stop him and I had almost none. I got mad be demically or any other way; those or by the so-called "old-timers." Don't take away the opportunity to gling with economic pressures. he'd have time for everyone of compete. To me, that makes a whole cause they were on television all the are the things we'll be talking about Their memories are of the Four Since 1971, there has been growth them." time ... and won." But he added and addressing during my first few Horsemen - Jim Crowley, Elmer lot more sense than trying to sus in all phases of the program. When And as the office calls from well- tain an attitude of, 'If we can't be with a grin, "I wanted to get my months in the job." 0 18 SCHOLASTIC SPORTS REVIEW, 1981 19 wishers increased in frequency, her standard response to them became Can We Count on Corrigan more and more sincere. "Our loss is Notre Dame's gain." There is no doubt that Gene Cor Now that Moose is Loose? rigan was made for intercollegiate athletics. Or perhaps in God's mas by Michael Ortman ter plan, He made intercollegiate ath letics for Gene Corrigan. The two One big question floating around Layden, Don Miller, and Harry Corrigan arrived, the school was just go together like Aunt Jemima's pan Notre Dame's athletic department Stuhldreher. beginning to admit women. There cakes and her syrup. for the past few years has been, When those four were winning are now ten varsity programs for Corrigan doesn't overemphasize "Who could (ever) replace Moose games for Rockne in 1923 and '24, the Cavalier ladies. During the same the moneymaking sports like foot Krause?" Everyone knew that his Corrigan was but a twinkle in his span, the men's program has grown ball and basketball, although he retirement was nearing, but the father's eye. His Notre Dame back from thirteen to twenty-three sports. realizes that few athletic programs athletic director at the most famous field memories focus on the late In contrast, Notre Dame, a school of could survive without their revenue. athletic institution in the world was 1930's-Steve Sitko (QB), Bob Sag roughly half the enrollment of Vir He loves all sports equally. almost irreplaceable. After all, the gua (LH), Lou Zontini (RH), and ginia, offers thirteen varsity sports "I think a total program is really man has been involved with Fighting Milt Piepul (FB) - a generation for men and five for women. important," he says, with a record Irish athletics since Herbert Hoover . Gene Corrigan after the Four Horsemen; a group Also during Corrigan's tenure, the to prove he means it. "I believe in was in the White House and Knute coached by one of them, Elmer school has added a new baseball athletics, at whatever level-it really great, we're not going to hav.e it.' school on. Rockne was Notre Dame's football Layden. doesn't make any difference-and I "But I guess that the greatest coach. stadium, a tartan-surfaced track, ex "As long as the interest IS there Corrigan did not venture west panded tennis facilities and a new think intercollegiate athletics are -as long as it's a viable team-as thing that happened to me (to give The question was answered in ward for college. Instead he went Intramural/Recreation complex great. If it's tennis, if it's soccer long as there's interest in people me an impression of Notre Dame) early October 1980, when a rash of south to Duke University where he much like Notre Dame's Rockne it doesn't make any difference what being part of that team-the worst was the trip out there (for the news leaks and an ensuing statement earned a liberal arts degree in 1952. Memorial. The most impressive it is. It's a great experience. thing you can do is drop it." . Purdue football game) and the told the world that fifty-two-year-old From there, Corrigan made his first physical change was the most recent "I think it's a 'we' activity in a To try to put aU of this into per chance to talk to some people about Eugene F. Corrigan would be leav stop at Virginia serving as the uni one-a multimillion-dollar expan surrounding where there aren't a spective, Notre Dame's football and Notre Dame's feeling for athletics. ing the beautiful Shenandoah Valley versity's soccer, lacrosse, and bas whole lot of 'we' activities. I just basketball teams obviously make It's just a proper one. That's what in Virginia and heading for the sion and renovation of Scott Sta ketball coach at one time or another, dium-which made it perhaps the think it's very important to do that. more than enough money to support sold me completely-more than any frozen tundra of South Bend. And as well as the sports information finest stadium in the conference and "The other thing is that the in themselves. In the past, they have thing, because I really believe that frozen it would be. "I got here on director. After that nine-year stint increased capacity by 12,000 to stitution has to want to do it. If the produced enough revenue to take the worst thing you can do to an January 3," he said, "and it snowed at Yooveeay (that's U.Va.), Corri 42,073. institution wants to do it - they care of the rest of the scllOol's ath athlete is pamper him. for the next nine days. Then I went gan became the Assistant Commis want to have a reasonably broad "You have to keep athletics in Many people feel that one of letic programs. Yet in the last year to the Rockne dinner in Chicago for sioner of the Atlantic Coast Con program-then they've just got to or so the University, like many focus, and who keeps it in focus a couple of days, and when we got ference in Greensboro, N.C., before Corrigan's major responsibilities at find a way to fund it." Notre Dame will be athletic fund other~, has been confronted with better than Notre Dame? Really no back, it· was snowing again-ten becoming athletic director at Wash Ah hah - funding! Sports like considerable economic pressures. body-nobody does-and that's a straight days for me." ington & Lee, a private university in rasing, something the University an nounced last spring it would venture tennis, swimming, lacrosse, and vol Last· spring, a moratorium was great thing." Corrigan has lived along the east northern Virginia. leyball just aren't going to pay for placed on future scholarships to non Corrigan will be working at Notre ern seaboard all his life, and never Finally he returned to Charlottes into for the first time, and some thing Corrigan has done quite well themselves, and football and basket profit sports, which included some Dame during a very dynamic and has had any direct ties to Notre Ville in 1971 to fill the post he held ball can't be counted on to support forty scholarships in six men's transitional time in the school's his Dame. Yet he's wanted to be at until coming to Notre Dame in early at Virginia. After all, those facilities didn't pay for themselves. them forever. That is what many sports. tory. There has just been a change Notre Dame since he was an altar January. During his nine years as suspect drew Notre Dame to Gene When the smoke had cleared, in the head coaching position and boy in Baltimore, Maryland. Grow athletic director, Corrigan took a "When I came here, the Student Corrigan-his ability to raise money hockey had been reduced from the athletic directorship. The Presi Aid Fou'ndation (a major fund-rais ing up in a (very) Irish Catholic struggling athletic department and for athletics without cutting into an twenty to eighteen grants-in-aid, the dent, Fr. Hesburgh, and his Execu family, Corrigan remembers listen made it one of the finest in the ing organization crucial to athletic institution's academic excellence. other twenty remained, and Notre tive Vice President, Fr. Joyce, will expansion) was about $300,000 in ing to'Notre Dame football with his nation. Where funds are focused for the Dame began to comply with Title IX, be retiring in the not-too-distant mother. "She was a big Notre Dame "Always respected for its aca debt to the University, was only nonrevenue sports can be a major offering its first scholarships in future. Somehow, this man who fan,". Corrigan recalls. raising about $180,000 a year, and demic excellence," reads the Cava factor, especially when the money is women's basketball. Yet there is never has had any direct affiliation spending maybe $280,000 a year. "We didn't have television, you liers' football media guide, "the Uni limited. It seems that Corrigan really no permanent solution to the with the University before must fit So the first thing I had to do· was to know. We listened to the radio. You versity of Virginia now boasts ath would rather spend the money on problems which arose last spring, into the picture. go to these people and say, 'Hey, listened to Bill Stern," he .says, re letic excellence as well. Progressive the essentials of having a team and many hope that Corrigan will "I hope I'm fitting in in order to membering that around his house, thinking, expansion, and financial that's not enough money; that's not the coaching, facilities, equipment, be able to do for Notre Dame what sustain what's there, particularly that was the thing to do on fall Sat com:nitment have been important, even close. Not only that, we have etc.-than the essentials of having a he did at Virginia-help the athletic the perspe'ctive on athletics because urday afternoons. "I don't remem but It has been the people that have to pay all that money back.' " great team - namely scholarships. department grow in the face of I think that's important at Notre if Which they did in about three and ber it was Mutual or what it was, made the program successful. Gene Yet if you can afford excellence, spiraling costs. Dame. I sensed that that's impor put they did Notre Dame football Corrigan has surrounded himself a half years, and it was only then then why not have it? A consideration of Corrigan's ath tant to the student body and the 'every Saturday. that the athletic program began its . with the outstanding dedicated peo "We were at the point at Virginia, letic philosophy wouldn't be com alumni. Because of the great tradi - "I can remember a backfield of ple who share his philosophy of ath climb to respectability and excel plete without discussing the way. a tion, they can continue to be good. Sitko, Saggua, Zontini, and Piepul. letics." lence. along with some other schools in our conference, where we're going to school like Notre Dame, or even VIr - "The other thing is sustaining a See, I remember that as a kid. Why A school's press material always Janet Sketchley, Corrigan's secre ginia for that matter, integrates program during a time when costs would I remember that?" have to start pulling back on the tries to paint a pretty picture of its tary at Virginia for the last five scholarships part," Corrigan says. academic and athletic excellence. are just . . . , well you know what Perhaps Corrigan was just made administrators, but everything the years, cried when she learned of her "I really didn't have a great per it's like driving a car and everything for Notre Dame, or vice versa. None': "That gets so expensive that you guide says is very true. Corrigan boss'. move. "I could write a book start saying, 'Well, I'm going to drop ception of Notre Dame at all," he else. It's just real tough. Coming up theless, his recollections of Notre guided the Virginia athletic program about the man," she says. "I could recalls of the days before he had any with ways to do that without inter Dame football are in stark contrast sports.' Now wait a minute-before onward and upward during the '70s, lose him on the way to the parking you drop sports, drop .scholarships. affiliation with the school. "In .fact, fering with Notre Dame itself-aca to those echoed by his predecessor, while most other schools were strug lot. Four people would stop him and I had almost none. I got mad be demically or any other way; those or by the so-called "old-timers." Don't take away the opportunity to gling with economic pressures. he'd have time for everyone of compete. To me, that makes a whole cause they were on television all the are the things we'll be talking about Their memories are of the Four Since 1971, there has been growth them." time ... and won." But he added and addressing during my first few Horsemen - Jim Crowley, Elmer lot more sense than trying to sus in all phases of the program. When And as the office calls from well- tain an attitude of, 'If we can't be with a grin, "I wanted to get my months in the job." 0 18 SCHOLASTIC SPORTS REVIEW, 1981 19 j ,

Bobby Knight's team 68-64. The Pangborn Hall resident logged W omen)) ~ AtFraUcettic~ thirty-nine minutes against the Hoo UJ] siers, contributing eighteen points JJoh Palxson: and two assists while fighting Thomas one-on-one during the ma G1fc{)w~ Up A HPO~lrtlit'9 of jority of the contest. "John Paxson showed tonight that by Denise Woznicki he can play basketball with any Great [Return guard in the country," said Phelps after the Paxson-Thomas show. "If Women athletes were non-entities the basketball team secure the you were out there as a spectator at the University of Notre Dame championship of the same name in by Beth Huffman tonight you saw two very good bas until the fall of 1972 when the the 1979-80 season. ketball players. That's what college women were finally allowed to join Mary DiStanislao, the new wom basketball is all about." the ranks of the Fighting Irish. In en's basketball coach, came to Notre John Paxson has always had big So impressive was Paxson's per the beginning, the only sporting Dame with a reputation as one of Denise Woznicki shoes to fill. ' formance against Indiana that it led event open to female competitors the nation's most successful coaches As a player for Archbishop Alter Marquette assistant coach Rich was fencing. But since that time, in her five seasons at Northwestern. courts in the ACC. The women's High School, he followed a tough act Majerus to say in Sports Illustrated, four additional women's sports have Her previous 89-27 career record in basketball team practices in the Pit, -Big Brother Jim, a two-time All "If Isiah Thomas is the number-one been born at the University-basket cluded two Big Ten championships, but is allowed on the ACC's main American for the Dayton Flyers and guard in the nation, then John Pax ball, volleyball, field hockey, and a pair of AlAW Division I regional court to play its home games. 1979 first-round draft choice of the son is certainly number-two." - tennis. The first step out of their titles, and quarterfinal berths in the And speaking of the women bas NBA Portland Trailblazers. "I'm pretty pleased with the way infancy has been the granting of last two AIAW Division I national ketball players ... they have even John more than adequately stepped I've been playing, but a win makes varsity status to each of these teams tournaments. grown up enough to play with the in, leading the Alter Knights to the it especially nice," said Paxson, re by the University. Although a newcomer to Notre boys! (Well, sort of!) Not only do Ohio AA state ,.title in his junior ferring to his stellar performance The women's tennis team became Dame and college coaching, women's they use the same court, but their season. The 6'2", 180-pound point against UCLA's Rod Foster (twen varsity in 1976, basketball in 1977, field hockey coach Jan Galen schedule includes some games played guard finished prep playas a con ty-one ,points) and his desire to and field hockey in 1978. Volleyball brought with her both playing ex immediately before or after a men's census All-American and set career ' revenge Notre Dame's recent loss· to' is the youngest of the foursome; it perience and enthusiasm. She served game, creatirig a doubleheader bilL record totals of 1,081 points with a the Bruins on the coast. has only had its varsity "walking as co-captain of the field hockey As a matter of fact, the women 15.4 average for the Kettering-based What worries Paxson is what he shoes" since the beginning of this team at Ursinus College, has offi have even been known to travel with school. calls his "inconsistent". play, what past season. When women's basket ciated field hockey matches, and has the men' when their games take "Never!" emphasizes John when does not worry Phelps is that "in ball became ,8. varsity sport, Athletic coached at various sports camps. them' to the same destination. asked if he resents comparison to his consistent" play. The twenty-year Director Moose Krause said, "Ele Sandy Vanslager's first term as The Fighting Irish females have older brother. "Being compared to old who wears number twenty-three Jim is kind ,of neat, he's, been as vating women's basketball to the volleyball coach coincided with the only just begun to make their pres~ for the Irish is bothered by his abil~ varsity level is in keeping with our team's first year in varsity. status. ence known on the playing-field, aI).d much an idol to me as anyone." ity to score in double figures one desire to build a great athletic pro The native "Bender" 's coaching ex Shunning hometown University. women's athletics at Notre Dame ts game and relatively few points in complaint about the' heavy duty he gram for our female students." perience centers around her three still growing and developing. But Dayton, alma rna ter for not only the next. Another indication that a women's years at. ~tanley· Clark School as Jim, but both his parents, John se- . "John is creative' with or without has seen. . someday, the women's team will "I really don't get too tired and if team is growing up is that it finally girls' athletic director and. coach of stand equal to the men's, and the lected to play for Digger Phelps. the ball," says Phelps who has noth receives an allowance. It is on schol several squads. During a successful rookie cam ing but praise for the second-year I do I'll say something to· a coach. slow and sometimes painful growing and I'll sit out for a minute'or two," arship money, or lack, thereof, that As women's athletics mature, the' process will be forgotten. Womenis paign at Notre Dame he served as man who not only led the Irish in ' the Association for Intercollegiate women are, allowed bigger and better Athletic Director ',Astrid Hotvedt Phelps' supersub, logging more ,scoring against perennial powers says Paxson. playing time than any other reserVe, A minute or two. Not too much Athle~ics for Women bases its divi playgrounds. All of the femaleath said, "Our athletic heritage "is one UCLA and Indiana, but also ~nished. sion placement. Division I teams letes are allowed to work out in the and finishing second behind Rich second behind All-American Kelly to ask from th'e Irish playmaker. of pride, and full of challenges. Our John Paxson's success has taken' must employ up to 100 per cent of weight room in the Athletic and coaches and players compete against Branning with sixty-two assists. But, Tripucka with fourteen points in the AIAW : maximum permissible aid, Convocation Genter. The volleyball top-caliber teams to seek out our ,Paxson is'most remembered for losing effort against the Warriors of hard work and is what he considers: "just another step in' what. I want Division II calls for up to 50' per team practices and conducts its best efforts. Athletics is athletics his ice~mari performance last year Marquette. cent of the allowable aid,· and Divi home matches in the ACC Pit. Field against "Larry Brown's UCLA, '. Paxson's flashy passes, and alley to accomplish." " , . , whether the, players are women or But what is it that Paxson wants sion III is up to 10 per cent. Tennis, hockey practices on both the grass men." 0 when as a freshman he stepped, to oop lobs to O:r:lando .Woolridge have volleyball, and field hockey are all and Astroturf, but home games are' the line and calmly sarik four free excited crowds and aroused ertthusi to accomplish?· All-American sta Division II teams at Notre Dame, usually played on the Astroturf of throws "in the closing seconds to asm, but the 'young Ohio native's tus? Not ultimately. A, pro con while the women's basketball team Cartier Field. The women netters Use ,Denise Woznicki, a senior Amer topple the Bruins 77-74: ' , talents are not only limited to scor ,tract? Not ultimately. A reputation is· ,now enjoying,· yet being chal As a sophomore, he succeeded as another Irish great? Not ulti- the twenty-four available. Courtney ican Studies, major; works for Sports .ing, and shovelirig the ball where it's mately.· ' lenged by; its first year in the Divi Courts and the three indoor tennis Information. ' '. ., Braiming as the quarterback for the needed. ' Irish basketball team-and no one "I hope by the time I get out of shin I competition. "I relay to the other guys on the With the coming of age, the wom can dispute his -contributions thus here we'll win a national champion far. Averaging more playing time court what the coaches have to say," ship," says Paxson. And for the en's teams have been getting more says the mediator Paxson. "I also qualified teachers. The only real than any other Irish player, business 'sake of this year's seniors John major Paxson continually makes his 'relate to,the coaches what I see and hopes the title comes in 1981. Notre Dame veteran is Sharon Petro what offenses I feel are working. -- who is in her fourth year as an Irish presence known on the court. ,"We're really close this year," , women's coach. Petro was the wom "He's proven he .can play against "I also try to control the game continues Paxson, "there's not a guy en's basketball coach for the pre guards like (Rod) Foster and tempo," adds Paxson, who admits on this team that's not a friend of vious thre~ seasons, and this year (Isiah) Thomas," praises Phelps. "In Notre Dame's lack of speed gets the mine." she returned to her duties as tennis order for us to do well in the, play~ Irish intq trouble sometimes. 'Despite his 'unselfish attitude, coach after a year's absence. In offs, he's got to be a leader on the Phelps has not been hesitant to John Paxson has already made his 1978, Petro led the women's tennis floor in key situations." , shun his liberal substitution policy mark as an individual basketball squad to the Indiana AlAW Division , Paxson certainly shone in particu when it comes to the point position. star at Notre Dame-and he has III Championship, and she helped lar against Indiana's All-Ameri-' Paxson has been constantly on the already begun to mold big shoes to can Thomas as the Irish clubbed floor for the Irish and has little leave behind: .0 20 SCHOLASTIC' SPORTS REVIEW, 1981 21

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The only tribute to Jack Brown fession, because he earns his money Michigan Tech, and Minnesota were schidle that can be found around playing defense for the St. Louis interested in me." In the end, how him 44 points which led the Blues' campus is an average-sized picture performance, which represented the named a first-team All-American. To Blues of the National Hockey ever, he opted for Notre Dame. "I defensemen in scoring. Defensively, League. sixth best total on the team and es be named an All-American in hockey that resides in the North dome of had visited Notre Dame as a sopho Jack was very impressive, turning in the Athletic & Convocation Center. tablished himself as one of the is a tremendous achievement because Many domers will no doubt recog more and I really liked the place. a steady, smart performance night It is tucked back by the concession nize Jack Brownschidle's last name Minnesota and Michigan Tech were league's best defensemen. He was so only six players in the country are impressive as a sophomore, in fact, chosen for the honor as opposed to after night that greatly helped the stands in the Northwest wall of the because younger brother Jeff is a too far away and the Eastern schools Blues become the most improved facility and provides a brief sum standout defenseman with the cur based grant-in-aids on the basis of that the St. Louis Blues of the Na football, for example, where twenty mary of Jack's major accomplish tional Hockey League and the Cleve t,,·o . lavers make first-team All team in the NHL. rent Irish hockey team. Since Jack need. My parents also liked the This season, the Blues have set a ments while here at Notre Dame. It land Crusaders of the old World American. graduated four years ago, though, image of Notre Dame." sizzling pace from the start and the almost seems to be an afterthought Hockey Association both drafted For his senior season, Jack was he may represent a bit of a mystery So Notre Dame it was and Jack emergence of several high scorers on rather than a tribute to someone and few probably know how out- made his presence felt immediately, him in their respective spring drafts accorded the additional honor of of that year. He therefore became serving as one of Notre Dame's two the team has allowed Brownschidle the property of the two clubs but team captains. He had another great the luxury of concentrating on his retained the option of finishing year and the Irish enjoyed the best defensive abilities and puck-carry school. "I didn't .consider signing season in recent Notre Dame hockey ing. "My main objective is to pre then, because I wanted my degree. history, sporting a gaudy 22-13-3 vent goals and get the puck moving Getting a degree is an important record. Brownschidle was named All the other way," he contends. He has thing among the hockey players at American for a second straight time, become a very smooth player, one In Defense Notre Dame." A wise decision, con a rare feat that no other Notre who quietly carries out his assign sidering all the players who spend Dame hockey player has accom ments successfully. He is an all years kicking around small towns plished. His career statistics provide around player who mans the point and minor league franchises in the a clue as to how valuable he had on St. Louis power plays, kills time hopes of getting a shot at the big been to the Irish over four years; when the Blues are shorthanded and of Notre Dame- time. 31 goals, 78 assists for a total of takes his regular shift on defense. Jack also was selected to play 109 points~ He held records for both When carrying the puck, he seems with the United States National assists and points in a season and to glide up ice, eluding enemy fore team in the Spring of his sophomore career by a blueliner. An impressive checkers and the impression an on HockeYt1QO year. The US team played eighteen portfolio, to be sure. looker receives is of fluid motion and games against the best teams of After graduating, Brownschidle no wasted energy. Europe, including the Russians and decided to pursue a professional ca The excellent play of the Blues Jack played so well that he was reer with the St. Louis Blues. He at thus far has propelled them to a named the defensive MVP of the tended the Blues 1977 training camp comfortable first-place lead in their ATalk team. That national team was con and surprised uninformed observers division and second place in the sidered a stepping-stone to the U.S. by winning a spot with the Blue. overall standings behind the defend Olympic team for the 1976 Olympics Not too many players are able to go ing Stanley Cup champion New York and as it's defensive MVP, Jack directly from college hockey to the Islanders. Crowds of 19,000 and Brownschidle was one coveted item. NHL, so Jack was stepping into deep more have become the norm for With So Jack went on to fame and glory water. Blues scout Leo Boivan re Blues games and Jack Brownschidle, as an Olympian, right? Wrong. Jack called, "I scouted him two years for one, is really enjoying playing decided to RSVP his invitation to earlier and could he ever skate, but before the big crowds. "At Notre join the U.S. team in Austria and his defensive. play was weak. I Dame everyone went to the football Jack stay in South Bend to finish his col couldn't believe how much he had games. With hockey, the people lege career. Jack wanted to finish his improved when I saw him at train came out when we were winning but education with his class instead of ing camp." Of his early NHL days, when we lost, they didn't stay with taking a whole year off to play in Brownschidle recalls, "The first us much because they didn't really Browflschidle the Olympics. In addition the 1976 couple of exhibition games I was have the background in hockey to ~ Olympic.team was not quite as good nervous .. I didn't want to handle the just enjoy the sport." by Mike McManns as its 1980 counterpart. "I vividly puck. Now I enjoy handling it, mov The future looks bright for Jack recall how good the Russians were ing it ahead to our wingers." Brownschidle, he's playing good '- hockey for a good team and their and they' proved it by what they did His first two. seasons were mainly against the NHL teams this past a learning experience, as he found fans are really behind them. Come ~.~ winter.. Against that type of com that some things he got away with April, Jack and his teammates may petition I couldn't see the U.S. in college wouldn't get him very far have the rest of the NHL singing Jack Brovvnschidle Olympic team finishing higher than in the pros. "Everything here hap the Blues. [J - fourth," he said at the time. pens so much quicker. In college I who has excelled like no one else in standing a player he really was and playing regularly in every game his After all the success Brownschidle did a lot of poke-checking, just us his field from Notre Dame. is. A little background on Jack freshman year and impressing both met with in his sophomore year, it ing my stick to check a forward as Jack Brownschidle, you see, is not Brownschidle would seem to be in friend and foe with both his of might seem that whatever he did in he came into our zone. If you do that your average Notre Dame alumnus. order. . fensive and defensive abilities. Jack his junior and senior years must up here, he'll go right ar:ound you:" He's not an accountant, or a lawyer, Jack came to Notre Dame as a accounted for twenty-five points that have been anticlimactic. Not so, for Jack must have learned his les or even a professional football freshman in the fall of 1973 as one year, which is a pretty decent amount he enjoyed. another banner year in sons well, though, because last sea player. In fact, Jack has never worn of the most highly touted hockey considering all the problems a fresh his junior season. His point produc son he blossomed into an excellent a three-piece suit to work and he players in the country. He had en man defenseman faces on a team tion increased and he was named defenseman, both offensively and de definitely doesn't own a pair of joyed an outstanding high school that produces 14-20-2 record. the, team's MVP. Most -impressive, fensively. He fourid the net 12 times those bright green pants that career and the bidding for his col . The next year proved to be a very though, was the fact that Jack was and assi$ted on 32 more goals giving so many alumni enjoy. parading . lege services was highly competitive. eventful one for Jack Brownschidle. around in on a football weekend. You "While I was being recruited I was Although the team posted only a might say that, at the tender age of playing junior hockey in Canada," 13-22-3 mark, Jack really came into twenty-five, Jack Brownschidle has the-East Amherst native recalls. his own as a college defenseman. He risen to the top of his chosen pro- "Schools like Brown, Clarkson, repeated his previous year's scoring

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Baseball's famieson- A Soccer Commentary

by Frank LaGrotta The Captain and Team's Feelings

Statistically speaking, twenty wins many scholarships. than they ever thought they could and seven losses is not a bad way to Indiana . . . big name . . . big be. by Craig Chval wind up a season. Hey, that's 75 per talent ... 1980 national runners-up And Bob Ritger, Bill Hickey and cent--equivalent to a pro baseball . . . lots of money . . . lots of scholar Bob Van Hoomissen, three back-up team with 122 victories or a 12-4 ships. goalies who did whatever they were record in the NFL. And a 20-7 rec Enough said ... asked to do and offered the benefits ord is more than enough to get you But we'll say more about it later. of age to younger players who per an NCAA playoff invitation (if your Because the most important thing haps had more talent but much less This, I suppose, is a sportswriter's first name is Digger and your last that can be said about this 1980 experience. dream. In the David Israel Age of name is Phelps). Notre Dame soccer team is that they And Bill Murphy and Mike Mai journalistic muckraking, style has Yet, for Rich Hunter and the 1980 tried. Back in August when most who played as hard as they could, become so very much more impor Notre Dame soccer team, 20-7 was Notre Dame students were soaking but were constant reminders that tant than substance. a bit of a disappointment. Not so up the final days of a summer break "we're playing a game here fellas, It's not a question of who won much because of fan disenchant that almost broke under the most and c'mon, it won't hurt to crack a yesterday's tennis match, but whom ment, threats of a budget cut or intense heat wave felt by the mid smile." he escorted the previous night. even that missed trip to the NCAA west in years, the Notre Dame And Pat Mather, their manager. We're no longer as concerned with finals in Florida. Hunter's concern soccer players were practicing three The kid didn't know what he was how many jump shots a player was of deeper failings. times a day in South Bend. getting into but he wound up loving makes as we are with how many "We let ourselves down," he said Three-a-days ... 80 degrees at every minute of it. pills he takes before the game. We frankly after his team defeated Val ten in the morning and it's gonna So here we are . . . 20-7 with a may not remember that Pete Rose paraiso, 4-2, in the season finale. get hotter, you can bet your life.... team full of players who can't help hit safely in 44 consecutive games, "That's the bitterest pill to swallow. Three-a-days . . . but run a few wondering what the hell they can do but we all know that he hit safely in We came into this season with such miles around the lake before you eat that they haven't already done to forty-four consecutive cities. final season as Notre Dame's all-time were real rah-rahs and tried to be high hopes but we fell short on breakfast and after you eat dinner improve those numbers. It's nice to Because the public wants to know leading hitter with a .357 average. another coach," Gallo says. "Mike many occasions." and don't go to sleep until you say talk in lofty phrases but those "Hey these things, journalists feel com It wouldn't be accurate to say that doesn't think he's any different from Still, the tone of his voice. was not your prayers and wait, what's that? guys, we'll get 'em next year" or pelled to write about things that Jamieson was boring, or that he anybody else because he's the cap one of criticism but one of genuine Dick Addis says it's gonna be hotter "We're almost there, just a little don't have the slightest connection didn't enjoy a good time. But it's tain. The kids have tremendous re remorse. tomorrow but, aw, forget it. Dick more work," catch phrases don't to the game. safe to say that if he ever makes a spect for him, and I think that's a "I don't think you can blame any Addis is never right. fool the realists So what if Steve Garvey hit .300, Lite beer commercial, it won't be big reason why." one because I know that we gave Three-a-days ... and guess what? Rich Hunter has taken this the public wants to know why he of the Paul Hornung variety. For Although Jamieson tends to let his everything we had ..." he sighed. Dick Addis was right! team as far as it can go, maybe can't get along with Cindy. Who tunately, there are some people who ba t do his talking he is far from "It's just unreasonable for us to ex This was the last year for many farther than it should have ever cares if Bruce Jenner won the de still think that on-the-field accom negligent in his, duties as captain. pect to defeat teams like St. Louis players who were here for the first gone, .without increased financial cathlon, why can't he say as many plishments of Jamieson's magnitude "He may not say much, but he or Indiana, teams with a roster full year of Notre Dame's soccer's var support from the University of good things about his ex-wife as he are worth talking about. knows what to do when," Gallo of All-Americans, because talent sity exploits. Steve Miller, who Notre Dame. They have defeated does about Wheaties? One of them is his coach, Larry praises. "Mike's not constantly harp wise, we just don't match up." mixed soccer with law school and teams with big budgets and full With all this in mind, I sit here Gallo, whom many players gave a ing at the kids, always telling them In four short years, the soccer still found time to be an R.A. and scholarships with their own minis thinking that I have before me the lion's share of the credit for turning they're doing something wrong, and program at Notre Dame. has fash you know, Steve Miller never missed cule budget and not one scholarship. greatest journalistic opportunity of Notre Dame's baseball fortunes I think they appreciate that. But if ioned an impressive record of a game. Hell, he hardly ever missed Not a player on the 1980 Notre my life. Because for nearly two around as a first-year assistant last somebody is screwing up, he'll tell seventy-eight wins, twenty-one losses a practice. Dame soccer team received a cent years now, I have roomed with one spring. When Dr. Thomas Kelly him. and three ties. The year 1980 saw And Dan McCurrie who returned of financial help from the University of the greatest hitters in Notre stepped down as skipper, Gallo was "Mike's a very common-sense kind the Irish kickers compile their thir:d to Notre Dame for a fifth year be through the soccer program. Dame baseball history. That's tanta an overwhelmingly popular choice of guy. He'll get a lot of suggestions consecutive twenty-win campaign. cause he had a year of eligibility re Not one player. mount to Bob Woodward sharing an for the job. and ideas from the kids, but he There were big wins and exciting maining and he wanted to play In light of that fact alone, ~t is apartment with Deep Throat. "I remember going down the ros realizes that there's an entire team moments ... victories against West soccer at Notre Dame. almost ludicrous to expect victories Instead of using lifeless quotes ter, trying to figure out who might involved, and we can't always please ern Michigan, Bowling Green and And Steve Burgoon, who didn't over Indiana or St. Louis. It would from boring coaches, I finally have be a good choice for captain," says everybody. He's very good at know Loyola of Chicago highlighted the get much playing time but wanted be comparable, and this is no exag the chance to write what the people Gallo, "and despite all of his accom ing what to discuss with the coach season because these were teams to contribute. So Hunter appointed geration, to the Mishawaka High want to read. I can tell all-how he plishments. here, Mike's name never ing staff and what' to handle by that had defeated Notre Dame in the him coach of the freshmen players School Cavemen attempting to play drinks until all hours the night be even occurred to me. But after the himself. kids had voted, the first thing that past. It marked a sign of progress, and contribute he did. Notre Dame on the football field. fore a game, how other people do "Being in my first year as head of improvement, of promise for the And Kevin Lovejoy, discovered by But then there's the contention his class assignments for him and came into my' mind was that they couldn't have made a better choice." coach, I feel very fortunate to have future. Hunter in an interhall game. He that Notre Dame shouldn't even how girls line up outside our door, Mike as our captain." However, like a car running with just waiting to proposition him. Jamieson hardly fits the stereo agreed to play varsity soccer and schedule these powerhouses. So much for the sensational inside out a full tank of gas, there was did nothing but lead the team in But then there's· the response, There's just one problem-I'm a type of a captain, especially in base sportswriter, not novelist. ball, where "bench jockeys" are a story. But if things keep going in only so far the team could go before scoring all three years. voiced by Father Hesburgh, I be a. this direction, it won't be long be it stalled. And captains, Joe Ciuni and Oliver lieve, that the University of Notre You see, Mike Jamieson doesn't dime a dozen. Gallo is the first to do those things, he just minds his agree but he sees it as a positive fore people like Mike Jamieson are St. Louis . . . perennial soccer Franklin, who worked and worked Dame doesn't want to be second the exception rather than the rule. power . . . national champions on and made themselves the best play place in anything. . . . D own business, which is hitting a factor. many occasions . . . big budget . . . ers they could be. Better, perhaps, baseball. As a result, he enters his "I've seen so many captains who Then I'll really have a story.... D

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bird's-eye view of the revelers be "But she asked me REAL NICE." 1981 Sugar Bowl low. He wasn't getting through. the performance of Blair Kiel. For if there was one thing I agreed upon (continued from page 9 J, He was already looking out on the "Tom, she's a DOG!" ledge when a lady, none too shabby "She wasn't THAT ugly-" all season with Keith Jackson about French Quarter to pick up a six but none too sober either, leaned "A DAWG, you dummy! A BULL was that Courey was the better pack. As we entered, we were imme over from her balcony table and DOG!" he repeated, letting it sink quarterback. Though neither of them diately overwhelmed by stale cigar hypnotically demanded I buy her a in, and while I was still reluctant, I had the accuracy (or protection) on smoke-not just OLD cigar smoke, drink. Whether it was her luring finally followed him, realizing the long passes to really utilize the but AGED cigar smoke, which one look or my happy-go-lucky state of chances of a drunk Dawg and a speed of the team's most versatile assumed had, like its collection of mind at the time that made me say Duped Domer having a nice casual athlete Tony Hunter as Lisch did the stagnant occupants, not been cleared "okay" is incidental, the fact was conversation at this time were very year before, Mike was a capable out in years. The patrons themselves that because of my infrequent pres slim indeed. And yet, though he short thrower, and perhaps one of seemed to have been borne out of ence in bars since I turned legal, probably saved me from a punching the best runningQB's in the busi another era, only to have slowly it was the first bona fide "Buy me a out by her boyfriend, I could not ness. Yet it was a question that was decayed into the present one. Like drink" request I had ever gotten, help thinking, like "The Little made academic in the Sugar Bowl a scene out of The Iceman Oometh and I was intrigued as heck to see Prince," that one never knows. when Courey hurt his hand, and they sat, on the edge of despair what would happen. The third was the dawn of the once again it was up to the pres and their chairs, waiting for some But as I waited in line in the new day (and year) itself. I, like sured freshman to lead us back. savior who would tell them their crowded hotel bar (the Takee Outee everyone else in the parish, was And he couldn't. tomorrows will come true. The bar down the street would have been again down on Bourbon Street, For the success that Blair has en maid didn't appear to be in much quicker) my older brother who had which was packed worse than the joyed this season was really symbol better shape, and when I asked her not only seen the present scene but proverbial can of sardines. And ized by only two plays. The first was for a six-pack of "Jax," a big beer numerous similes on countless pre though the only other time I was his incredible lame duck "alley-oops" there judging from the billboards, vious occasions, urged that we exit so mob-mushed I was fearing for my pass late in the Michigan game that she said she had never heard of it. the hotel down the back steps. life in a stampede through the gate Hunter somehow got a pass inter Changing my request to "Dixie," an "But I have to buy a drink for this for a combined Journey, REO Speed ference call out of, and which got us old house favorite, I tried to m~ke lady," I informed him. wagon, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ted Nu in position for the kick that was conversation with her. I told her I "Forget it," he said, pushing on. gent super-concert back in my way heard round the college football was from Notre Dame. "You don't understand! This ward youth, the feeling was totally world. This one play alone assured "Notre Dame? ... ," she looked LADY asked ME specifically-" different. For this group was not him a starting role, and his next puzzled, so I tried to help her out. "Because you look like the type going anywhere, at least nowhere in great feat, his eighty-yard gallop on "It's in Indiana," I offered. who would DO it. Come on." particular, but simply going where a fake fourth-down punt that de "I'm FROM Indiana! You mean No need for a replay . .. moralized the Sun Devils, seemed to you're a Hoosier too?" she grew many significant enough to assure him the role for the next four years. excited. . the ·flow of bodies and beers leads formidable fifty~yarder. I chuckled . "No .... you see, Notre Dame's them. through my chicken to all the Dog These plays immediately became just a school ..." For that brief moment everyone fans around me, but it was to be my big in Coach Devine's cap as well, "Notre Dame ..." she weighed the was in the same boat, as Dogs and last laugh. A few seconds later I for they bore out his theory that you name again in her mind. "Yeah, I Domers and Townies rejoiced in one choked, and the. team soon followed don't have to throw picture-perfect heard about them from some voice. But the best thing about it suit. passes to be a great quarterback, wheres ..." was that for those sacred five min Though the reasons for our failure and this kid Kiel "has so many ways "We're here for the GAME," I .utes or so, I don't remember hearing are many, the average fan must al he can beat you." One must admit cut in. one "How 'bout them Dawgs," and ways have a scapegoat, and in this that Blair did fit perfectly into De I remember thinking that even if I respect I am often no better than the vine's patented conservative offense, "Oh, the GAME," she said, while were crushed by the crowd, I would rest. The armchair quarterback for with Blair in he no longer had eyeing me intently. "Who won ?" have died happy. most commonly picks on his on-the to run a draw play every third she questioned, withholding the beer But the game itself was perhaps field counterpart, and.I too feel the and long situation, but he could go until I answered. the biggest· "dog" of all, and the urge, however unfair, to start in on into the shotgun and feign pass as This, finally, was something that . thing that impressed me most was they could illlrelate to, for at the the stadium it was played in. From mere suggestion of it the rivalries al the outside, the superdome re ready began forming in their eyes, sembled the buildings one used to and they seemed ready to strike out see on the old "Jetsons" cartoons at each other or me, depend or like one of those flying saucers ing upon what team had triumphed. that always land in the middle of a Fortunately, I had the easy answer. 50's Sci-Fi Flick, and I kept half "The game's tomorrow,"I stated, expecting the place to take off into and with the mention of their favor outer space. But inside, it was more ite word I once again pushed the complex than any spac~ship could threatening present into the always have been, and after weaving my idyllic future, and we left, their pipe way through its five levels and locat dreams still undisturbed. ing my seat in its 500~:plus press Well into the evening there was a box, I knew from the sound of the time where I again had to stop to crowd that I had already'missed the relieve myself, and my older brother opening kickoff. Having not eaten all suggested a john he had scouted out day, I quickly rushed intothe-press in one of the street-side hotels. I lunch room and pulled out with a followed him up to the second· floor, plate of this chicken-beans and rice and afterwards he suggested we go something-or-other in time to see out onto the hotel's balcony to get a Will it take off? our opening drive stall and Harry characteristically salvage it with- a ... the scoreboard tells all 28 SCHOLASTIC SPORTS REVIEW, 1981 29

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-~ Kiel quick-kicked it past the opposi in his Mother's arms. And yet, when today wasn't much. Whereas an en tion. Yet one cannot quick-kick a another man, presumably Harry's ergetic youth in only a T-shirt sang, team to victory very often, and father, came up and put his arm strummed, and shivered for the Blair, along with myself, was a little around his son's shoulder, Harry crowd for dollar bills and more yes Poetry unsure if he could lead us through straightened once again with the terday, a suit-coated guitarist was a whole season. I was hard put to strength one has when he knows he having trouble getting enough dis by Katie Willson believe that a kid, who had com no longer is forsaken. And I knew carded beers to get drunk on to pleted less than half of his passes in then that if his kick that never night, and the Dogs were REALLY high school, could direct a major should have made it had added to his making the overweight tap dancer Pond of ducks The poppies passing power like Notre Dame, and faith, then the two that should have dance, throwing nickIes and dimes A Toast cloven white billow honesty his final .387 completion percentage made it that day would bring him under his feet instead of in the box on a wire fence a mist for the regular season suggests the all the more closer to the Lord. For provided. Later, when sitting on the Let us not story has remained the same. when one has such forgiving arms to steps in front of Jackson Park, a and say yes The heavy wind An opium haze And while I had admired Blair for fall back on, there's an "extra point" nearsighted and stuffy-nosed drunk we did has wound let us say his honesty when he said after a to coming back. asked us for a toke on our joint its way we did game that his passing performance New Year's night inside the French when all we were really passing Breaking had stunk, I also admit I had to Quarter proved much more subdued, around was a bag of Doritos. As we like splintered The silent and go away agree with him. For without a pass and maybe even sort of back to were leaving I was at a loss when a pieces with blue ing quarterback, it is nearly im normal. Judging from the numbers, man came up to us and asked, "Can left cat eyes possible for a team to come back the Irish fans didn't exactly go into any of you boys spare a quarter for Another Day when fate and fumbles put them in mourning though few of them an old man?" For although judging To the unlucky one On Sunday the hole, and no matter how strong smaller in. stature than brother from his rags he needed it as much a toast green Some ways the rest of the Irish squad is, with Larry now wore any outward sign of as any other, I knew by his still un we drink it lay have been considered our ever-demanding schedules, our their affiliation. Even the Georgia wrinkled face he was not much older less perilous team will always remain, as Bob fans were pretty quiet, for by now than me. On high seas The copper the pinks and violets Verdi of the Chicago Tribune as most of them were so drunk on vic Yet, despite the loss of a game sailing washed away still melt sessed us before the start of this tory and the frozen daiquiris that and perhaps a little innocence, the on high notes a mine together every evening season, one year and one player were sold in the Superdome that Irish fans can surely not go away a mint lovers of other colors away from glory. they were having pretty much trou feeling too distressed. The truly dis A tone racing for the shore This is not to say Blair might not ble holding their heads up, let alone tressed people should be the Uni less of time Of fresh Sunday green for the fishing boats develop into a strong passer: Vince holding them high. In any event, the versity of Georgia's administrators, a golden dark in the deep violet Evans of the Chicago Bears is a waiting lines for Pat O'Brien's pub and the state of Georgia itself. Not It takes so long shade classic case of a strong but an er were still quite long, but I decided to only were they' lacking in any Chain of forbidden nights ratic thrower for most of his college brave them anyway, not so much for amount of originality, running that a glitter When we find it nights grown morning career who has blossomed into a the pleasure of being blown away by dreaded phrase, "How 'bout them a dime store let us say today is to die very dependable passer in the pro the "Hurricane," the native fruit Dawgs" into the ground until all one piece yes we did under a striped awning ranks. But we cannot say that Blair "punch" that the locals bragged could do was raise his arms and cry fearlessly the painter III is there now. But many things bloom out, "HUSH, puppies !", their physi I about so much, but for the "kick" A shivered glass And leave washes pinks in spring, even in Notre Dame's cold one Patricia O'Brien I knew back cal imitation of their favorite animal in mint in the morning and violets I,I "first season" practices, and here's home might get when she received became pretty gross indeed. Granted, green no trace a sunset scene I hoping one of our bumper crop of the souvenir glass bearing her name. it was the school's first National no scent and tapes it to the window. young quarterbacks grows a sea ,I Though it claims to be the bar Championship, and thus a little fool Sunday soned throwing arm so we can ishness should be expected, but "i' that does the greatest volume of one day The kisses II harvest a National Championship 'I business in the world, and has been (continued on page 31) we were green stain ! despite the tough fall that lies the site of numerous cinematic Katie Willson, a senior majoring in ahead. scenes, including one in Private Ben And fell Bloody red English Literature at Saint Mary's, "Wasn't your kicker supposed to jamin, in one respect Pat O'Brien's like stones like war is from South Bend. be good or something?" the innocent was no different than any other bar in a silent our lips writer beside me inquired. I have ever been in. For despite the "Oh, he only led the nation in field massive crowds that kept pouring in goal percentage before this game," I and Louisiana's drinking age of eigh (continued from page 30) ished long in football, this success professional football player), seems answered sarcastically. teen, I was not allowed to enter until when, as Bob Verdi reported, upon has been a boom to its academic to think that everyone had more After the game, waiting outside I produced several ill's. My seven their return to Georgia there were rating, and I would be inclined to say to gain by seeing what happens the stadium, I saw Harry Oliver ap teen-year-old sister had gotten in hundreds of "Bulldog freaks cavort its spiritual growth as well. Now when a school like Georgia wins the pear in the runway. The brief con undetected, but justice was served ing along main streets, barking and there are those who maintain that National Championship than to see versation that occurred after his when an observant bartender served biting each other," one has to won God made Notre Dame, like the Notre Dame squeak by to a victory third missed field goal.came crash her a "Mint Julep" that was too der about the mentality of such ancient Israelites, #1. I myself am with no title at stake for them. For ing back to mind, and I felt similar strong to drink, and was forced to creatures. For although even Notre not exactly in that camp, but I do if Georgia maintains its attitude as to Peter after the cock crowed. For relinquish the whiskey to Larry, Dame fans' perspectives may stray a tend to think that God HAS made the Babylon of college football, we if there was anyone player who who was presently engaged in con little in their effort to honor the al Notre Dame #1 only when they all know they'll sink back into ob epitomized the team's deep devotion versation with one of the opposi mighty touchdown, they rarely get have returned' the favor. In any scurity before very long. Every dog to Our Lady it was he, and I now tion. The Dog was asking Larry if downright idolatrous about it. Dr. event, we pray and win more Na MAY have his day here on earth, felt my crack in the press box was ." Catholics smoked dope. Remember Bernard F. Sigler, president Qf Flor tionalChampionships than any other but the reason ole Notre Dame will somewhat close to blasphemy. :e'or ing the "Sarduchi" connection, Larry ida State University, perhaps puts major college, so I'm pretty satisfied win over all is because it knows that the man who stood before me was stared him in the eye and said this dilemma in perspectiye best on those accounts. a DOG is NOT man's. best friend. not "Harry the Hero" I had glimpsed SOME of us do, and moved on. when he said, "For a college to win But why the Georgia win? As far Just turn the wor.d around Georgia, at the Hilton, but a beaten prophet Out in the streets, the city's too long or too often can be '-detri as that goes, my dad, who knows a and see for yourself. who had been thrown into a den· of would-be artists and ever-present mental." It is all true; but the key lot about God and Notre Dame, if His uplifted arms aren't raised dogs and now longed to be back in bums' were still plying the out-of word to me is ,jcan." not so much about the sport itself over Notre Dame Stadium for noth the holy hollow of the Grotto, safely towners for what they could, which Though Notre Dame HAS flour- . (he told me someday I would be a ing. 0

30 SOHOLASTIO SPORTS REVIEW, 1981 31 Kiel quick-kicked it past the opposi in his Mother's arms. And yet, when today wasn't much. Whereas an en tion. Yet one cannot quick-kick a another man, presumably Harry's ergetic youth in only a T-shirt sang, team to victory very often, and father, came up and put his arm strummed, and shivered for the Blair, along with myself, was a little around his son's shoulder, Harry crowd for dollar bills and more yes Poetry unsure if he could lead us through straightened once again with the terday, a suit-coated guitarist was a whole season. I was hard put to strength one has when he knows he having trouble getting enough dis by Katie Willson believe that a kid, who had com no longer is forsaken. And I knew carded beers to get drunk on to pleted less than half of his passes in then that if his kick that never night, and the Dogs were REALLY high school, could direct a major should have made it had added to his making the overweight tap dancer Pond of ducks The poppies passing power like Notre Dame, and faith, then the two that should have dance, throwing nickIes and dimes A Toast cloven white billow honesty his final .387 completion percentage made it that day would bring him under his feet instead of in the box on a wire fence a mist for the regular season suggests the all the more closer to the Lord. For provided. Later, when sitting on the Let us not story has remained the same. when one has such forgiving arms to steps in front of Jackson Park, a and say yes The heavy wind An opium haze And while I had admired Blair for fall back on, there's an "extra point" nearsighted and stuffy-nosed drunk we did has wound let us say his honesty when he said after a to coming back. asked us for a toke on our joint its way we did game that his passing performance New Year's night inside the French when all we were really passing Breaking had stunk, I also admit I had to Quarter proved much more subdued, around was a bag of Doritos. As we like splintered The silent and go away agree with him. For without a pass and maybe even sort of back to were leaving I was at a loss when a pieces with blue ing quarterback, it is nearly im normal. Judging from the numbers, man came up to us and asked, "Can left cat eyes possible for a team to come back the Irish fans didn't exactly go into any of you boys spare a quarter for Another Day when fate and fumbles put them in mourning though few of them an old man?" For although judging To the unlucky one On Sunday the hole, and no matter how strong smaller in. stature than brother from his rags he needed it as much a toast green Some ways the rest of the Irish squad is, with Larry now wore any outward sign of as any other, I knew by his still un we drink it lay have been considered our ever-demanding schedules, our their affiliation. Even the Georgia wrinkled face he was not much older less perilous team will always remain, as Bob fans were pretty quiet, for by now than me. On high seas The copper the pinks and violets Verdi of the Chicago Tribune as most of them were so drunk on vic Yet, despite the loss of a game sailing washed away still melt sessed us before the start of this tory and the frozen daiquiris that and perhaps a little innocence, the on high notes a mine together every evening season, one year and one player were sold in the Superdome that Irish fans can surely not go away a mint lovers of other colors away from glory. they were having pretty much trou feeling too distressed. The truly dis A tone racing for the shore This is not to say Blair might not ble holding their heads up, let alone tressed people should be the Uni less of time Of fresh Sunday green for the fishing boats develop into a strong passer: Vince holding them high. In any event, the versity of Georgia's administrators, a golden dark in the deep violet Evans of the Chicago Bears is a waiting lines for Pat O'Brien's pub and the state of Georgia itself. Not It takes so long shade classic case of a strong but an er were still quite long, but I decided to only were they' lacking in any Chain of forbidden nights ratic thrower for most of his college brave them anyway, not so much for amount of originality, running that a glitter When we find it nights grown morning career who has blossomed into a the pleasure of being blown away by dreaded phrase, "How 'bout them a dime store let us say today is to die very dependable passer in the pro the "Hurricane," the native fruit Dawgs" into the ground until all one piece yes we did under a striped awning ranks. But we cannot say that Blair "punch" that the locals bragged could do was raise his arms and cry fearlessly the painter III is there now. But many things bloom out, "HUSH, puppies !", their physi I about so much, but for the "kick" A shivered glass And leave washes pinks in spring, even in Notre Dame's cold one Patricia O'Brien I knew back cal imitation of their favorite animal in mint in the morning and violets I,I "first season" practices, and here's home might get when she received became pretty gross indeed. Granted, green no trace a sunset scene I hoping one of our bumper crop of the souvenir glass bearing her name. it was the school's first National no scent and tapes it to the window. young quarterbacks grows a sea ,I Though it claims to be the bar Championship, and thus a little fool Sunday soned throwing arm so we can ishness should be expected, but "i' that does the greatest volume of one day The kisses II harvest a National Championship 'I business in the world, and has been (continued on page 31) we were green stain ! despite the tough fall that lies the site of numerous cinematic Katie Willson, a senior majoring in ahead. scenes, including one in Private Ben And fell Bloody red English Literature at Saint Mary's, "Wasn't your kicker supposed to jamin, in one respect Pat O'Brien's like stones like war is from South Bend. be good or something?" the innocent was no different than any other bar in a silent our lips writer beside me inquired. I have ever been in. For despite the "Oh, he only led the nation in field massive crowds that kept pouring in goal percentage before this game," I and Louisiana's drinking age of eigh (continued from page 30) ished long in football, this success professional football player), seems answered sarcastically. teen, I was not allowed to enter until when, as Bob Verdi reported, upon has been a boom to its academic to think that everyone had more After the game, waiting outside I produced several ill's. My seven their return to Georgia there were rating, and I would be inclined to say to gain by seeing what happens the stadium, I saw Harry Oliver ap teen-year-old sister had gotten in hundreds of "Bulldog freaks cavort its spiritual growth as well. Now when a school like Georgia wins the pear in the runway. The brief con undetected, but justice was served ing along main streets, barking and there are those who maintain that National Championship than to see versation that occurred after his when an observant bartender served biting each other," one has to won God made Notre Dame, like the Notre Dame squeak by to a victory third missed field goal.came crash her a "Mint Julep" that was too der about the mentality of such ancient Israelites, #1. I myself am with no title at stake for them. For ing back to mind, and I felt similar strong to drink, and was forced to creatures. For although even Notre not exactly in that camp, but I do if Georgia maintains its attitude as to Peter after the cock crowed. For relinquish the whiskey to Larry, Dame fans' perspectives may stray a tend to think that God HAS made the Babylon of college football, we if there was anyone player who who was presently engaged in con little in their effort to honor the al Notre Dame #1 only when they all know they'll sink back into ob epitomized the team's deep devotion versation with one of the opposi mighty touchdown, they rarely get have returned' the favor. In any scurity before very long. Every dog to Our Lady it was he, and I now tion. The Dog was asking Larry if downright idolatrous about it. Dr. event, we pray and win more Na MAY have his day here on earth, felt my crack in the press box was ." Catholics smoked dope. Remember Bernard F. Sigler, president Qf Flor tionalChampionships than any other but the reason ole Notre Dame will somewhat close to blasphemy. :e'or ing the "Sarduchi" connection, Larry ida State University, perhaps puts major college, so I'm pretty satisfied win over all is because it knows that the man who stood before me was stared him in the eye and said this dilemma in perspectiye best on those accounts. a DOG is NOT man's. best friend. not "Harry the Hero" I had glimpsed SOME of us do, and moved on. when he said, "For a college to win But why the Georgia win? As far Just turn the wor.d around Georgia, at the Hilton, but a beaten prophet Out in the streets, the city's too long or too often can be '-detri as that goes, my dad, who knows a and see for yourself. who had been thrown into a den· of would-be artists and ever-present mental." It is all true; but the key lot about God and Notre Dame, if His uplifted arms aren't raised dogs and now longed to be back in bums' were still plying the out-of word to me is ,jcan." not so much about the sport itself over Notre Dame Stadium for noth the holy hollow of the Grotto, safely towners for what they could, which Though Notre Dame HAS flour- . (he told me someday I would be a ing. 0

30 SOHOLASTIO SPORTS REVIEW, 1981 31 The Last Word by Chuck Wood

I have an open invitation for anyone reading this I magazine. It is fitting for me to make this invitation in I the Sports Review since it combines teamwork and I competition. Your job, should your choose to accept it, I is to drag out the athlete in me. In return, I would try to call forth more of the intellectual in you. That doesn't sound.too hard, but I should warn you that two friends in Pangborn have tried on separate occasions to take up the challenge, with various degrees of nonsuccess. But here's the job description for those who may be interested. First, the teamwork: our goal is CAREERS to be well-rounded young men with that lean and artsy look. Second, the competition: the challenge is to see IN who can be quicker in developing which characteristics in whom. NGINEERING Because Pangborn is so close to the Rock and. the lakes, and the campus culture centers are on the other WITH side of the Quad, you would think my friends had a clear advantage. But mere physical proximity was not enough to overcome one fundamental aspect of my psyche; I have a low tolerance for pain. It's not that I NIC~r... ~." can't withstand a little discomfort. It's simply that pain annoys me easily. So, for instance, I don't mind a run around the lakes as long as I don't run into the legendary wall of pain. basket, the coach, and my dad. But I heard all the shouting directed at me. I took the shot. The buzzer blasted. The crowd cried out. And the ball glided to the floor, exorbitantly short of the basket. Ever since then, the athlete in me has shifted between avoiding situations that might end as that one did, and craving another chance to make that shot. So, I want to get involved in good workouts, but I usually have to find a friend who will make me do it. Or the idiary Activities incentive of being in a race to get the other person a little more interested in the arts could be enough to nd gas exploration combat my inertia. ract Drilling Notre Dame sure is a good place for the athletic life. e Transportation And it's supposed to be a training camp for the life of Production the mind, as well. These two lives are not mutually . Distribution exclusive, and anyone who takes up the invitation I have made will contribute to the pursuit of the most Now I do not want to discourage anyone from taking noble, ideal synthesis of the athletic and intellectual up the invitation. There is an athlete within me ... personae: the Philosopher-Jock. Interested? Meet me in somewhere. His history goes back to fourth grade and the Snite or at the Rock. D CYO Basketball. The CYO philosophy was great since no one who tried out for a team could be cut. This gave a certain comfort to those who were always the "Last to Be Picked." It would have been terrible to be the "Not Picked at All." I remember how the coach pushed II us and churned us through drills and patterns and exercises. It was all valuable preparation for me ... and II the total of eight or nine minutes that I played during 'i' two seasons. You think that's a little ridiculous? Well, O.K., maybe it was.fifteen minutes. Anyway, no matter how few minutes it was, there was one moment among them that I won't forget. Our team was losing, and it was just before the half. For some strange reason, the coach put me in as a sub. We were scrambling toward our basket, somebody. called my name, and suq.denly there was this round, orange thing sitting in my hands. Here was a setup for sports-drama if there ever was one; The seconds passed. No time. to pass .the ball to The Editor would like to express sincere thanks to Mr. anyone else .. If I made the shot, we would be tied at the Michael Ohiasson, who served as Athletic Oonsultant for half. All that I saw in that gym were the ball, the the Photo/weight lifting sessiOn.

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