Here we are ... it’s time for another Throwback Thursday! This is week seven in my series of the “unclaimed” Notre Dame Fighting Irish football national championship seasons, and this week I’m looking at the 1967 season. Below are two excerpts from the December 8, 1967 edition of “The Scholastic:” 1967 Notre Dame Football Review. I hope you enjoy them!
A Season Split in Two
When your “cinch” National Championship is taken away just one month into the season, the impulse is to back down and play out the year. Notre Dame, beaten and embarrassed in a disappointing start, refused to quit; they picked up the pieces of a broken dream and finished 1967 with the pride and tenacity that marks a champion.