The score was 14-to-12, with 28 seconds to play. Unbeaten in nine games, outplayed in its tenth but ahead anyhow, Notre Dame was about to cinch its national championship. Then Seaman Steve Lach, former Duke and Chicago Cardinal star, heaved a 54-yard pass to Quarterback Paul Anderson, and that was the ball game: Notre Dame 14, Great Lakes Naval Training Station 19.
In a season of few real upsets, this Hollywoody finish to the biggest one of all climaxed the oddest season since William Webb Ellis picked up a football and ran with it...
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