Notre Dame Fighting Irish (Football team)

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Negatives and prints of photographs, including aerial photographs, of the 1995-1996 expansion of the stadium, and negatives and prints of aerial photographs of the games in the stadium during the 1996 football season. The donor asks that any publication of these photographs include credit to him as the photographer.

Scope and Contents SERIES ONE comprises files, arranged by sport, for the years 1909-1923. It also contains at least some additional files for each sport through 1929. The division of documents by sport is by no means perfect; likewise, sometimes letters are filed by the name of the correspondent, other times by the name of the school, and other times by subject. The files are quite sparse for the period ca. 1919-1923. SERIES TWO comprises one alphabetic run of files for the period 1924-1929,...

Scope and Content 2008 accession: A scrapbook compiled by Dominic Nigro while a student at Kearney Military Academy and at Notre Dame, ca. 1911-1914, including photographs, newspaper clippings, event programs, and other memorabilia; a binder titled "Rockne - Nigro - Heathman" containing clippings about the 75th anniversary commemoration of the Rockne plane crash and copies of historical clippings about earlier commemorations; newsletters and a plaque from the Rockne Club of America, ca. 1969; a copy...

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Correspondence, clippings, articles, speeches, ephemera, photographs, and personal papers dating chiefly 1965-1977, with a few items dating from the 1920s.

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Digital images from the Dance Company of Notre Dame, 2006-2009; and Notre Dame football game scenes, 2009-2012, representing games against Southern Califormia, Boston College, Navy, the University of Connecticut, Purdue, Michigan, Miami, Stanford, Brigham Young, and Pittsburgh. Also related audio-visual material.

Scope and Content Personal files, 1950s-2000s; sports files, bulk 1970s- 1990s; Ara Parseghian column ghostwriting files, 1960s and 1980s; Notre Dame football files, bulk 1950s-1970s; newspaper clippings of Doyle articles, March-April 1962, April 1967, and August-November 1971; football game play-by-play notes, 1957-1980; reporter's notebooks, ca. 2000s; loose manuscripts, including several book-length manuscripts by other authors; many unfiled papers and some unlabeled folders and envelopes; and photographs...

Scope and Contents The Joe Garagiola Jr. Papers consist of materials related to a 1971 WSND student radio documentary marking the 40th anniversary of the death of Knute Rockne. WSND Sports Director Art Martin and Assistant WSND Sports Director Joe Garagiola Jr. produced the Rockne documentary that aired in March of 1971. The collection contains original correspondence between Martin/Garagiola and players and other people who had known Rockne before his death in 1931. The collection also contains material...

Scope and Contents This collection documents John C. Bermingham's time a student at the University of Notre Dame from 1938-1942. Of particular note are the materials related to Bermingham's job as the Senior Manager of the Notre Dame varsity football team during the 1941 season. The records relate to Bermingham's responsibilities as Manager, including organizing the traveling party for away games, managing sideline passes for home games, and other activities. The collection contains photographs, documents,...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of football grid graphs created by John J. McGrath while listening to radio broadcasts of Notre Dame football games. McGrath took notes during the game and charted the action on the field as described by the announcers. He recorded and described each play of the game on a football-field shaped diagram, using arrows, lines, and descriptive notes.McGrath’s grid graphs typically went through several phases. The grid graphs started from notes and diagrams...

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This artifical collection contains miscellaneous personal papers by and about Knute Rockne. Material in the collection includes original chemistry gradebooks and notebooks, writings and publications by Rockne, posthumous correspondence concerning Rockne family legal matters, as well as photocopies of primary sources like letters and genealogical records.

Scope and Content Research files from his years as a graduate student at Berkeley, concerning Arthur Koestler and the Spanish Civil War, including his dissertation; files concerning his work as a professor at Indiana University, including course files, the dossier assembled in support of his review for promotion to full professor, and course evaluations; files from his time as a sports writer, including printed material, clippings, and manuscripts concerning soccer; files representing his academic...

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Scrapbook with Notre Dame football images dating from 1913.

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3-inch diameter

Scope and Content Files of clippings, statistics, rosters, play-by-plays, and notes for every Notre Dame football game during the 1887-1995 seasons (42 boxes = 52'6"). Notes, compilations, rosters, correspondence, NCAA Bulletins, etc., most dating from the 1960s, regarding Notre Dame football history (2 boxes = 1'3"). Research correspondence with former players regarding the Notre Dame all-time football roster, 1966-1967 (1 box = 3"). Two cardfiles, one with sources used to...