Sport: Big One

Midwestern football, a wag once said, is divided into four major leagues: Big Ten, Big Seven, Big Six and Big One. The Big One is Notre Dame. This year the Fighting Irish are no disgrace to the tradition that has made Notre Dame the adopted alma mater of millions of men-in-the-street.

Last week when Elmer Layden's troops (three complete teams) trotted into The Bronx's Yankee Stadium for their 26th annual skirmish with Army, 78,000 spellbound spectators watched them. Most of them had never seen either West Point or South Bend, but this was their...

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