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1985 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football Team
The 1985 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was coached by Gerry Faust and played its home games at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana. Schedule Roster Game summaries At Michigan Michigan State At Purdue At Air Force Army USC *Source:'' Navy Ole Miss At Penn State LSU At Miami (FL) Awards and honors *Allen Pinkett finished 8th in voting for the Heisman Trophy. *Former Fighting Irish players Paul Hornung and Jim Martin were inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame Team players drafted into the NFL References {{Notre Dame Fighting Irish football navbox Notre Dame Notre Dame Fighting Irish football s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Faust
Gerard Anthony Faust (born May 21, 1935) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Notre Dame from 1981 to 1985 and at the University of Akron from 1986 to 1994, compiling a career college football record of 73–79–4. From 1962 to 1980, Faust was the head football coach at Moeller High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he tallied a mark of 178–23–2 and won four mythical High School Football National Championships. Before coaching, Faust enjoyed a successful stint as a quarterback at the University of Dayton, where he played under former Notre Dame coach Hugh Devore. Faust was offered a partial scholarship to Notre Dame, but enrolled at Dayton, where he graduated in 1958. Coaching career Moeller High School Faust had a highly successful run at Moeller High School in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1962 to 1980, where he built the program from scratch. The Crusaders under Faust had a 178–23–2 record and included ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross–Ade Stadium
Ross–Ade Stadium is a stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana, on the campus of Purdue University. It is the home field of Purdue Boilermakers football. The stadium was dedicated on November 22, 1924, and named in honor of Purdue alumni George Ade and David E. Ross. On December 6, 2019, it was announced that the new name for the playing surface is Rohrman Field at Ross–Ade Stadium. History The stadium was built in 1924 to replace Stuart Field, which had been hosting Purdue football since 1892. It is named in honor of Purdue alumni David E. Ross and George Ade, the principal benefactors. In 1922 Ade and Ross bought of land for the site of the new stadium. They also provided additional financial support for construction of the facility. Ross–Ade Stadium opened on November 22, 1924, with a seating capacity of 13,500—roughly corresponding to the lower portion of the current facility's west grandstand---and standing room for an additional 5,000 people. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 Ole Miss Rebels Football Team
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The 1985 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi in the sport of American football during the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season. Schedule References Ole Miss Ole Miss Rebels football seasons Ole Miss Rebels football The Ole Miss Rebels football program represents the University of Mississippi, also known as "Ole Miss". The Rebels compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Western Division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 Navy Midshipmen Football Team
The 1985 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy as an independent during the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season. Schedule Personnel Season summary North Carolina at Delaware at Indiana at Virginia Air Force Lafayette Pittsburgh at Notre Dame Syracuse at South Carolina vs Army With Vice President and former Navy pilot George Bush in attendance, Napoleon McCallum rushed for 217 yards, the second-most rushing yards by a Navy player against Army, and broke the NCAA single-season all-purpose yardage record of Pitt's Tony Dorsett. Awards * Napoleon McCallum – Heisman Trophy voting (7th) References Navy Navy Midshipmen football seasons Navy Midshipmen football The Navy Midshipmen football team represents the United States Naval Academy in NCAA Division I FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) college football. The Naval Academy completed its final season as an FBS independent school (not in a conference) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notre Dame–USC Football Rivalry
The Notre Dame–USC football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team of the University of Notre Dame and USC Trojans football team of the University of Southern California, customarily played on the Saturday following Thanksgiving Day when the game is in Los Angeles or on the second or third Saturday of October when the game is in South Bend, Indiana. The rivalry began in 1926 and is considered one of the fiercest in college football. The rivalry game has been played every year from 1926 to the present, with the exception of 1943–1945 when the game was cancelled during World War II and in 2020 when the Pac-12 Conference cancelled all non-conference games in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic therefore interrupted a streak of 73 consecutive years in which the game had been played. The 2021 matchup marked the first time in series history that two consecutive games between the rivals were played in South Bend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 USC Trojans Football Team
The 1985 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California during the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season. Schedule Personnel Rankings Season summary At No. 11 Illinois Baylor At Arizona State Oregon State Stanford At Notre Dame Washington State At California At Washington UCLA Vs. Oregon *Source:'' Aloha Bowl (vs. Alabama) 1986 NFL Draft The following players were drafted into professional football following the season. References {{USC Trojans football navbox 1985 Pacific-10 Conference football season, USC USC Trojans football seasons 1985 in sports in California, USC Trojans football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WGN-TV
WGN-TV (channel 9) is an Independent station (North America), independent television station in Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, it is sister station, sister to the company's sole radio property, talk radio, news/talk/sports radio, sports station WGN (AM), WGN (720 AM). WGN-TV's studios are located on West Bradley Place in Chicago's North Center, Chicago, North Center community; as such, it is the only major commercial television station in Chicago which bases its main studio outside Chicago Loop, the Loop. Its transmitter is located atop the Willis Tower in the Loop. Like concept progenitor WPCH-TV, WTBS in Atlanta, WGN-TV was a pioneering superstation; on November 8, 1978, it became the second U.S. television station to be made available via communications satellite, satellite transmission to cable and Satellite television, direct-broadcast satellite subscribers nationwide. Later renamed WGN America, the former superstation feed was con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Army–Notre Dame Football Rivalry
The Army–Notre Dame football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Army Black Knights football team of the United States Military Academy and Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team of the University of Notre Dame. The rivalry dates back to 1913, when both teams were among the top college football programs in the United States. Series history left, 150px, Program for the 1928 Army v Notre Dame game at Yankee Stadium The first Army–Notre Dame game in 1913 is generally regarded as the game that established the national reputation of the Fighting Irish. In that game, Notre Dame revolutionized the forward pass in a stunning 35–13 victory. For years it was "The Game" on Notre Dame's schedule, played at Yankee Stadium in New York. During the 1940s, the rivalry with the Army Cadets reached its zenith. This was because both teams were extremely successful and met several times in key games (including one of the Games of the Century, a scoreless tie in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 Army Cadets Football Team
The 1985 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season as an independent. The team was led by head coach Jim Young, in his third year, and played their home games at Michie Stadium in West Point, New York. They finished the season with a record of nine wins and three losses (9–3 overall), and with a victory against Illinois in the Peach Bowl. The Cadets offense scored 396 points, while the defense allowed 232 points. Schedule Personnel Season summary Western Michigan *Clarence Jones 110 rush yards Rutgers at Penn Yale *Most points Army scored since 1958 *Craig Stopa's 53-yard field goal in the second quarter was a school record *Tory Crawford replaced injured Rob Healy (cracked ribs) at Boston College *Tory Crawford (first start) 131 rush yards, three TDs CAC Offensive Player of the Week *Clarence Jones 103 rush yards at Notre Dame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the ABC Entertainment Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, are in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. It is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the American Big Three television networks. The network is sometimes referred to as the Alphabet Network, as its initialism also represents the first three letters of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado Springs is a home rule municipality in, and the county seat of, El Paso County, Colorado, United States. It is the largest city in El Paso County, with a population of 478,961 at the 2020 United States Census, a 15.02% increase since 2010. Colorado Springs is the second-most populous city and the most extensive city in the state of Colorado, and the 40th-most populous city in the United States. It is the principal city of the Colorado Springs metropolitan area and the second-most prominent city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. It is located in east-central Colorado, on Fountain Creek, south of Denver. At the city stands over above sea level. Colorado Springs is near the base of Pikes Peak, which rises above sea level on the eastern edge of the Southern Rocky Mountains. History The Ute, Arapaho and Cheyenne peoples were the first recorded inhabiting the area which would become Colorado Springs. Part of the territory included in the United States' 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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