1 I ' Great Expectations Make Irish Job Tough i 4 B James the recurd Notre Dame compiled in 1887 its first five sears of football - Iross Writer If In the beginning, there wax Knute I CHuekne The rest were just football ouches at Nutre Dame, where excel-i!lneis expected and good is never '!good enough Since Rockne. none has worked the li'same magic, though Frank Leahy. fi Terry Brennan and Ara Barseghian eame close i Caught up in this tempest of tradi-Ij'twwas Gerry Faust, whose stan-- i ?cfetrds were higher than his accom- and 1892 93 without any head coach at all It wasnt until Rockne, a Norwegian immigrant from Chicago's tough Northwest Side, took the reigns in 1981 that the Irish became college football's standard, the object of an emerging nation's love affair with sports "We heard about Red Grange and Illinois, of course. But the idea of a team with a real national reputation was almost unheard of when I was a young man, recalled Hugh Devore, who served as Irish head coach for two separate seasons 18 years apart (1948 and 1963). "But f 89 e ' J n plishments, whose star paled k alongside those of his predecessors ' Faust resigned last week as the lo- j in Notre Dame history coach singest after five frustrating seasons. His would rppdiocre record of have been acceptable at many I t The Salt Lake Tribune, From 1918 until his death in a plane crash in March 1931 on route to making a football demonstration mosie. Rockne set standards that no coach could emulate. His .897 winning per(incentage on a record of cluding five unbeaten and untied squads) is still the highest in either the collegiate or pro ranks '1 think all of us were intelligent men, Brennan said "I don't think any coach that followed ever thought he would be Rockne reborn, except maybe Frank Leahy." Leahy, who played for Rockne and subsequently coached the Irish for 11 , came and seasons (1941-4closest to emulating his mentor, winning 87 games, losing 11 and tying Roikne (.bunged that because he would go anywhere to play anyone "He put together a schedule that had them onihe East Coast one week, the West Coast the next He played in places like Soldier Field and Yankee Stadium. said Devore, who lues in retirement in Houston "The nation was growing, filling with immigrants, and Notie Dame was kind of a poor man s school back then. The Irish, the Italians, the Poles everybody could find someone of their heritage playing at Notre Dame," he said. "And those people especially liked the idea that Notre Dame would take on anyone, .That. I'm convinced, was the start of the " subway alumni 105-12-- 1 nine His 855 percentage ond behind Rockne Thursday, cm., B19 26, 1985 V "'c" p tanks sec- "1 always felt tbat as long as the coaching staff and I prepared the team fundamentally and every other way - strategic, emotional, conditioning and mentally - we could, things would take care of themselves." Parseghian said But years pioved to be enough. was watching a highlight film recently of my 11 years there, from the time I was 40 until I stepped aside at 52, and that helped me realize 'he toll coaching there had taken on me 11 'iW X f & I s. 1946-53)- 3 December ' s Ara Parseghian Was It Worth It? "You don't see that when it s 1 jlifiools. lAt Notre Dame, the only passing .ftide is an A Enter Lou HolU, the Minnesota oa.ch, who will replace Faust next season. He will soon find out that this hHle private school in South Bend. 1 Ind., is no ordinary school. I r I'Tt was never made explicit, not by I alumni and certainly not by the scjiool, says Brennan, a celebrated Irish running back who spent five f t ; j seasons (1954-58- ) at the Irish helm, but! tradition somehow demands a level of victories that isn't commen-- ! s, urate with what other schools do. " Notre Dame doesn't expect every tearri or coach to win every game every year, Brennan says. But people expect you to be near the top or flirting with it. "That was Notre Dame in Rockne's time. And while his success hasn't made it impossible for anyone to follow, he was the pioneer. We were kind of- - the caretakers." says Brennan, who posted a record, three Top Ten rankings and one Top Twenty during his tenure. record Parseghian posted a in his 11 seasons at Notre Dame from 1964-7He won two national championships, two trips to the Cotton Bowl, two to the Orange and one each to the Sugar and Gator bowls. "The pressure that got to me was pressure from the inside, never from the outside, Parseghian said. I didn't worry so much about predecessors. After all, the most we ever lost in a regular season was two football games." 62 and a television commentator for CBS, and Brennan. 57 and first vice president of the ChiSecago office of Prudential-Bachcurities, have reason to be immodea about their coaching careers. But the numbers, impressive as they might be. would rate Parseghian only ninth and Brennan 19th among Notre Dame's 25 head coaches since J L. Morrison guided the team, to a -- 32-1- 8 The savings are super, this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, at Marks Work Wearhouse! ' , 4 e finish in 1894. Levis Prewashed 501 and 701 Jeans y vf t V u in Popular Fashion Colors Prewashed styles make a personal fit easy Choose from black, grey, mushroom, black chalkstripe, blue chalkstripe and the original blue denim v. 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