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Johnny Lujack, a Star Quarterback at Notre Dame, Dies at 98

Johnny Lujack, the celebrated Notre Dame quarterback who won the 1947 Heisman Trophy, played on three national championship teams and then starred in the N.F.L. for the Chicago Bears, died on Tuesday in Florida. He was 98.

His death was announced by Notre Dame.

When the 1947 college football season began, Lujack was on the cover of Life magazine, kneeling in his green jersey, gold helmet and pants. He was the most publicized Notre Dame player since the 1920s, when Knute Rockne, the Gipper and the Four Horsemen transformed a small Roman Catholic university in the obscure city of South Bend, Ind.