Decapitating Lynn Swann was a harbinger of a great career

His 99 yard pick six vs Purdue (75?) wasn’t bad either. *

Said return.

What a beautiful play *

I have the exact same memory, but in a different (better)

dorm. Zahm of course.

OMG- Am I actually as old as Sprack?

Anyway- thanks for the great memory. That was one of the early highlights of my ND football memory. Luther was the best!

I was next door in St. Ed’s at the time

Yes, you’re as old as me. Maybe older!

Sprack is older as he and Knute worked together at

the Chicago Post Office before enrolling.

When Yost cancelled the 1910 game sprack said GFY to him. *

I remember now...

Sprack was 390 years old when he enrolled.

But, Davie

was still a bastard and Michigan still sucked.

Yes, '75. My freshman year, second game of the season

Ingrained in my memory forever was watching that play on my roommate's extremely grainy black and white TV and the cheers throughout the entire dorm.

It was the fourth quarter and we were only leading 3-0 and Purdue would have taken the lead. Things looked very dire until Luther picked off that pass and ran it back.

That week was immortalized by a cover story on SI. A Devine

Week at Notre Dame and featured Rick Slager on the cover. My original copy still hangs on my paneled wall in my bedroom in New Jersey. I got a replacement issue which is framed and hangs on my rec room in our basement.

That was ND's second game in 5 days

I was listening to the game in my bedroom, and either ND turned the ball over or allowed a big Purdue play. In a fit of rage I jumped in the air flailing my arms over my head. My left hand crashed into the light fixture and it shattered, spraying broken glass all over the bedroom floor and opening a nasty gash on the knuckle over my left pinkie finger. I still have the scar.

I remember that, and I was about as angry

Fortunately my roommates - who I had met only a couple weeks earlier - were there and I restrained myself from kicking something. One of them was an international student watching only his second American football game. The other was also from Chicago and almost kicked something too.

I think he and I hugged each other for the first time - and maybe only time - when Luther ran it back.

I remember listening on crackly AM radio

with much trepidation that the Irish could somehow lose to the Spoilermakers (as they did in 1974). The radio signal wasn't great, and occasionally my Dad had to run outside to use the car radio for an update.

Criqui may have been the radio announcer back in 1975. I distinctly remember him from the Navy '74 game, as he made the Navy punts sound more dramatic than Tom Demsey's 63-yard field goal (which he called in 1970)

Don Criqui and Al Wester were the 1975 radio guys. *

Thanks....ahh those early Joe Montana comebacks.

"where has Joe Montana been?" and "as legend after legend has been born at quarterback, one has here today!'

And yet without Fred Arrington, Montana may never have

Become the greatest of all time and the Irish would have started the 1977 season 1-2.

Yes. Way to set the tone! *