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Offer expires December 20, 1969 USE YOUR CAMPUS SHOP ACCOUNT PAY NEXT SUMMER Pay one-third in June, one-third in July, one-third in .August with no interest or carr^'ing charges. iSUUtSLSUISl UJUi.99 B.ft.g.9 ft\^ILBERr ft I S 1.0-fl.9.g-9-flJ-Q-g.9.ftJL8,fl.0.g.gJ-9.0ff^ ON THE CAMPUS ... NOTRE DAME december 5, 1969 notre dame, Indiana scholastic volume 111, no. 10 football revie>A/ 1969 one dollar "Eleven Adequate Players" 4 "Bonded for a Lifetime" 5 THE SEASON 6 Northwestern 7 Purdue 8 Michigan State 11 Army 14 Southern California 16 Tulane J 21 Navy 22 Pittsburgh .,. 24 Georgia Tech 26 Air Force _ 27 PARSEGHIAN 28 "A True Measurement of the Game" 29 The Lady of the House at 1326 E. Washington 32 THE FIFTH QUARTER 34 1969 Final Statistics ^ 35 The Man's Name Is Townsend 36 1970 Varsity Schedule 37 Concentration, Pursuit, Meanness 38 Football Review Editor I Terry O'Neil The magazine is represented for national advertising by Photography Editor / Gary Gosimini National Educational Advertising Service, 360 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10017. Published weekly Editor-in-Chief / Richard Moran Executive Editor / during the school year, except during vacation and ex­ Philip Kukielski Managing Editor / Michael Hendryx amination periods, the SCHOLASTIC is published at the Special Contributors to Football Review 1969 / Don Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556. The sub­ Kennedy, Tom Pagna, Ara Parseghian, Joe St. Onge, scription rate is $5.00 a year (including all issues and Greg Stidham. Football Review). Please address all manuscripts to the Photographers / David Ross luppa, Jim Hunt, Chuck SCHOLASTIC, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556. All unsolicited Osborne, Patrick Gibbs, Jay Anderson. material becomes the property of the SCHOLASTIC. Associate Editors / John Keys, Raymond Serafin Assist­ ant Editors / Pat Gaffney, Carolyn Gatz, Fran Maier Cover Copy Editor / John Kwiecien Assistant Managing Notre Dame's terrorizing defense pressures Navy. Irish Editor I Greg Stidham Contributing Editor / Steven tackle Mike McCoy (77) sheds Navy center Don Novak Business Manager / Greg Naples Circulation Gunther (52), drawing a bead on the loose ball. At I Michael Malone Public Relations f James Murphy McCoy's left, Mike Kadish (72) Uterally Hfts Middle Faculty Advisor / Frank O'Malley. guard Dean Flatt off the ground as he bores in. Navy The opinions expressed in the SCHOLASTIC are those of quarterback Mike McNallen (15) and halfback Tim the authors and editors of the SCHOLASTIC and do not O'Connell dive for their fumble. necessarily represent the opinions of Notre Dame, its ad­ FOOTBALL REVIEW 1969 acknowledges the special assist­ ministration, faculty or student body. ance of Mr. Roger Valdiserri, Notre Dame sports infor­ Second-class postage paid at Notre Dame, Indiana 46556. mation director, in producing the cover. Dec. 5, 1969 }} ''Eleven Adequate Players • • • (OLLEGK football's Centennial Year. From Slipper)' with the body of a greyhound, or, for that matter, a cer­ Rock to Southern Cal, the anniversary \vas observed simi­ tain British model. He was 6-0, 170 pounds; his wrist larly—an appropriate design limed on the field, "100'' was eight inches, his neck 15 ^4, his chest 40, his bicep decals on each helmet. 13/2, his calf 15J4. Facially, he looked like that litUe But not at Notre Dame. Ara Pareeghian is a funda­ kid third from the left in your church choir. mentalist and his boys always will wear the straight blue "Twigg)'" could not do the job in Golden Ami's and gold. Their Stadium is a perfect saucer, containing style. So Ara threw out most of those pro-sets and went two scoreboards, two goal posts and a playing surface. back to the good old college stuff—quai-terback options, The end zones are marked with diagonal lines. Nothing three-back offense, field-position football. superfluous. In their opener, the Irish coughed and gagged for Notre Dame did have an appropriate response for the' three periods until 5-10, 180-pound Brian Lewallen, an­ Centennial "Year, a response more significant than all the other walk-on, returned a punt for the game-breaking decals, letters from President Nixon and halftime cere­ touchdown. monies combined. Notre Dame, in 1969, regained that At Purdue, however, the wizardry of Mike Phipps tingling quality which has long distinguished college foot­ crushed Notre Dame 28-14. ball from the professional game—romanticism. Parseghian's first five Irish squads all were pre-season The Irish faced a problem, at this point, which is favorites or mid-season contenders for the National Cham­ peculiar in all of college football. Parseghian and staff pionship. Further, each team was dominated by one or made technical adjustments—^most notably, the substitu­ more "name" players. tion of two sophomores for a pair of veteran defenders. "This year it will be a little diflferent," said Ara last But the more pressing diffculty was maintaining desire, September. "They're not mentally tight. They're more what with the National Championship an impossibility relaxed this year. They're having more fun with it. For and, of course, no league title to win. Could the Irish a change, they don't feel that heax^y burden of being come back? Would they want to come back? Could picked No. 1 before the season. They know it's not going Parseghian motivate them to come back? to be the end of the world if they lose a football game. Theismann answers, "That Purdue game was the We've had the same problems with individuals who got so turning point. The whole team came together mentally much publicity that there wasn't room for them to have and physically. I knew we wouldn't lose again. It just a bad game. Same with the team, they just weren't per­ wouldn't have been ris^ht." mitted to have a bad performance. But this year we don't Gatewood echoes, "After Purdue, all I heard was have an established 'star' and the pressure won't be there." 'pride, pride.' We couldn't give up then. We had to come back. We had to do it for our pride. As far as I'm concerned, the season started with Michigan State (third G OLDEN ARM and Silver Paws were gone; in fact, the game) and we went undefeated. We're a team in the tnie entire backfield, both ends and a pair of linemen had sense of the word. We don't have two gi-eat guys and departed. As Notre Dame opened its 1969 season versus nine mediocre guys. We've got 11 adequate playei-s. For Northwestern, Paiseghian turned around to find this much that reason, I think we're the best team Notre Dame playing-time at the ofl''ensive skilled positions: has had in a long time." SE Tom Gatewood 0:00 TE Dewey Poskon 36:34 QB Joe Theismann 115:00 B'OWLS , polls, conference championships, All-America HB Andy Huff 0:00 teams, etc, are pollutants which have diluted college HB Ed Ziegler 51:06 football's purity through the past 100 years. The game, FB Bill Bar/ 2:54 in its essence, is a young team being defeated early in the season, then, v.dthout artificial incentives, battlina: un- A squad so inexperienced naturally inclines toward beaten through the final eight games. the romantic, but this gioup seemed to cultivate the Now that Notre Dame's bowl embarsro has been notion. The sophomore split end had been a runner, broken, Parseghian's duty, in defense of a legacy, is to not a receiver, in high school. The tight end was so thin be sure that post-season play does not become a yearly he spent the summer drinking Nutrament. The offensive goal. He must make certain that Notre Dame continues co-captain was a walk-on. to play, always, for its pride. Fittingly, the team's most romantic figiue was its That is what Princeton and Rutgers had in mind. quarterback. He was Joe "Twigg)'" Theismann, a fellow —Terry O'Neil The Scholastic Coach Ara Parseghian and his quarterback, Joe "Twiggy" Theismann. .. .''Bonded for a Lifetime'^ Following is a letter which coach Tom Pagna distrib­ champion is "relentless." He plays and for as long as the uted to each Notre Dame player on the eve of the season contest or the season never breaks! opener. HE true champion bows his head in prayer—"To do my best" — "For God" — "For Country" — and "Notre H.E looks normal — is so humble he rarely thinks him­ Dame." self good enough. He is dedicated to "try" for all he's In his mind's eye, football and Notre Dame and win­ worth—^with effort—with enthusiasm—with deep emo­ ning are all a part of a thirst in him—that he welcomes, tion! Down deep he has a distinct piece of knowledge that he feels deeply about.
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