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Cover photo by Mari Okuda Scholastic Notre Dame's Student Magazine 1988 Football Review N ationalChampions 2 Fiesta Bowl: West Virginia By Kevin Boughal For the first time since 1977, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame lay Claim to the national championship with a 34-21 win over third-ranked West Virginia. 7 Michigan By JonPaul Potts All: THE FANS SUN DEVil CLUB SUN ANGEl FOUNDATION 11 Michigan State By Kevin Boughal Vol. 130, No. 12 1988 Football Review Issue 15 Purdue By Jim Maggio Disce Quasi Semper Victurus Vive Quasi Crasi Moriturus 18 Stanford By Marty Strasen Founded 1867 Editor in Chief: 22 Pittsburgh By Jim Maggio Kathleen McKernan Managing Editor: Terry Lynch 26 Miami By Terry Lynch Plus: Individual Honors Executive Editor: Page SO Mike Farnan 31 Air Force By Maggie Sieger Scholastic's All-Opponent Team Editorial Staff: Page 52 Sports: Kevin Boughal Follow the tradition. In Memoriam: Bob Satterfield Assistant: Jim Maggio 35 Navy By Bill Stegmeier Page 54 News: Andy Hilger, Mike Wieber Features: Maggie Sieger Final Word By Lou Holtz Assistant: Ian Mitchell Page 55 Departments: Amy Weber 38 Rice ByMikeFarnan Copy: Joe Maloney Production: I ti Systems Manager: Jose Perez I 42 Penn State By Kathleen McKernan Graphic Arts Manager: Vivienne J Padilla Photo Manager: Mari Okuda Ad Design: Ros Winner 46 Southern Cal By Kevin Boughal Business Staff: Please send me Scholastic, Notre Dame's Student Magazine. Manager: Jim Fitzgerald I have enclosed $20 for a year's subscription. Advertising: Dianna Billings Scholastic is published weekly during the school year except during examinations and vacation periods at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556 Name _____________________________ and printed at The Papers, Inc., Milford, IN 46542. The SUbscription nile is $20.00/year and back issues are available at $l.OO/copy, excluding the Football Review Issue. The opinions expressed in Scholastic are those of the authors and editors and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the entire editorial board of Scholastic Address________________________ __ Scholastic or of the University of Notre Dame, its administration, faculty or students. Editorials signed Scholastic represent the opinion of the majority of the executive editorial City____________ _ LaFortune Center board. Manuscripts are welcome. All unsolicited materials become the property of Scholastic. State. ________Zip Code___ _ Notre Dame, IN 46556 Copyright 1989 Scholastic Magazine. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. 1988 Football Review Issue 1 / u~- .' Cover photo by Mari Okuda Scholastic Notre Dame's Student Magazine 1988 Football Review N ationalChampions 2 Fiesta Bowl: West Virginia By Kevin Boughal For the first time since 1977, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame lay Claim to the national championship with a 34-21 win over third-ranked West Virginia. 7 Michigan By JonPaul Potts All: THE FANS SUN DEVil CLUB SUN ANGEl FOUNDATION 11 Michigan State By Kevin Boughal Vol. 130, No. 12 1988 Football Review Issue 15 Purdue By Jim Maggio Disce Quasi Semper Victurus Vive Quasi Crasi Moriturus 18 Stanford By Marty Strasen Founded 1867 Editor in Chief: 22 Pittsburgh By Jim Maggio Kathleen McKernan Managing Editor: Terry Lynch 26 Miami By Terry Lynch Plus: Individual Honors Executive Editor: Page SO Mike Farnan 31 Air Force By Maggie Sieger Scholastic's All-Opponent Team Editorial Staff: Page 52 Sports: Kevin Boughal Follow the tradition. In Memoriam: Bob Satterfield Assistant: Jim Maggio 35 Navy By Bill Stegmeier Page 54 News: Andy Hilger, Mike Wieber Features: Maggie Sieger Final Word By Lou Holtz Assistant: Ian Mitchell Page 55 Departments: Amy Weber 38 Rice ByMikeFarnan Copy: Joe Maloney Production: I ti Systems Manager: Jose Perez I 42 Penn State By Kathleen McKernan Graphic Arts Manager: Vivienne J Padilla Photo Manager: Mari Okuda Ad Design: Ros Winner 46 Southern Cal By Kevin Boughal Business Staff: Please send me Scholastic, Notre Dame's Student Magazine. Manager: Jim Fitzgerald I have enclosed $20 for a year's subscription. Advertising: Dianna Billings Scholastic is published weekly during the school year except during examinations and vacation periods at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556 Name _____________________________ and printed at The Papers, Inc., Milford, IN 46542. The SUbscription nile is $20.00/year and back issues are available at $l.OO/copy, excluding the Football Review Issue. The opinions expressed in Scholastic are those of the authors and editors and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the entire editorial board of Scholastic Address________________________ __ Scholastic or of the University of Notre Dame, its administration, faculty or students. Editorials signed Scholastic represent the opinion of the majority of the executive editorial City____________ _ LaFortune Center board. Manuscripts are welcome. All unsolicited materials become the property of Scholastic. State. ________Zip Code___ _ Notre Dame, IN 46556 Copyright 1989 Scholastic Magazine. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. 1988 Football Review Issue 1 / .. in awe that they were playing a traditional distant horizon, but almost nobody saw it ment. football power like Notre Dame for the happening this year. The schedule was too Typical of big games like the Fiesta National Championship. tough. Only a few of the players were Bowl, the media took great delight in match­ Even though the Mountaineers were 11- experienced at their positions. Hey, this ing up the quarterbacks, Major Harris versus 0, they really had not played against any team didn't even have a rap video. Tony Rice. Mou ntai neers highly ranked teams. The Irish were as Every critic in the country had reasons Throughout the season, Rice had been accustomed to playing in'big, media-hyped why the Irish could no longer be a football criticized because he did not throw the ball games as they were to winningthem during powerhouse. The coach played according very often. If the choice was there to run or the 1988 season. At least three of the games to the rules established by the NCAA, and pass, he would run. Yet somehow, Rice had the Irish played were labeled "the game of to top it off, the school was stupid enough continued to win the games. The wins were the decade" and one was touted as "the game to put academics over football. Some crit­ a team effort, but the games were being won. of the century." ics took that argument even further and Rice had continued to improve his pass­ into But where had this Irish team come proclaimed that Notre Dame was de-em­ ing game throughout the entire season. phasizing football. So much for that argu- Holtz had given him darts to throw in his room to practice getting the touch on the ball. But even with his improvement, many still questioned his ability to throw the football. Improved or not, coming into the Fiesta Bowl, many critics still felt there was only Mole one quarterback on the field, and Notre Dame didn't have him. Listening to the media hype that came out of Tempe, one The Irish defeated the would think that Major Harris could walk on water and then tum it into wine. West Virginia But in the end, the savior from West Virginia could not resurrect his offense. It Mountaineers with a was Tony Rice who walked away with a 34- 21 win, the award for the offensive Most Major defensive Valuable Player of the Fiesta Bowl, a na­ tional championship, and a shot at the Heis­ effort and and a Heck man next year. To top it all off, he had done of a passing attack it through the air, breaking his own passing record and finishing the day with eleven attempts, seven completions for 213 yards, one interception, and two touchdown passes. BY KEVIN BOUGHAL To be fair to Harris, he led the Mountain­ eers, at times singlehandcdly, to their first EMPE, Ariz. - This year's Notre crack ever at a national championship. His T Dame football team was haunted by speed and agility, as well as his ability to images of the past. Last year, the make a broken play into a big play, made him Irish had been expected to walk allover the feared by every opponent that West Virginia hapless Texas A&M Aggies in the 1988 faced this year, including Notre Dame.