Notre Dame University – part 2

Recently, I wrote about my experience to the Notre Dame vs. University of Southern California game at Notre Dame.  There’s so much history at each college and sports, but Notre Dame is in the Top 10.  In my previous post, I attempted to share about the game and overall experience.  In this post, I would like to share about the awards, trophies, and memorabilia that is stored and shared for the public to see in the Joyce Center.  Each university has a “trophy room.”  This “trophy room” is one to see.  Located on the second floor of the Joyce Center, where men and women basketball is played along with other activities, there are many awards and trophies from the many sports.  Here, I’ll show some pictures I took of the football awards and trophies.

Rotary Lombardi Award–named for Vince Lombardi, the legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers who first made a name as the smallest but toughest member of Fordham’s “Seven Blocks of Granite.”  This picture is of Notre Dame’s player Chris Zorich, 1990.

Rotary Lombardi Award

Outland Trophy–named for Dr. John H. Outland, an All-America tackle at the University of Pennsylvania in 1897 and the benefactor of the trophy.  This picture is of Notre Dame’s player Bill Fischer, 1948.

Outland Trophy

Walter Camp Award–named for Walter Camp, “The Father of American Football” who played at Yale from 1877-82 and is credited with creating many strategy features which led to the development of the organized game.  This picture is of Notre Dame’s player Tim Brown, 1987.

Walter Camp Award

Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award–established in 1987, the prestigious award bears the name of the man who many refer to as the finest quarterback to ever play the game of football. This picture is of Notre Dame’s player Brady Quinn, 2006.

Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award

Eddie Robinson Coach Of The Year Award–named for Eddie Robinson, who coached for 56 years at Grambling State University and won 408 games.  This picture is of Notre Dame’s coach Charlie Weis, 2005.

Eddie Robinson Award

Heisman Trophy–named for John Heisman, who played football at Brown and Penn before embarking on a 36-year college coaching career. Heisman is widely regarded as one of the game’s greatest coaches and innovators.  This picture is of Notre Dame’s player Tim Brown, 1987.

Heisman Trophy

Heisman Trophy

Rival trophy–Jeweled Shillelagh.  The night before the game, we were walking around the stadium area where the pep rally would take place.  While just walking and looking around, I notice this little vehicle driving into the stadium and I took a couple of pictures of the “Jeweled Shillelagh.”  The winner of the Notre Dame vs. Southern California game gets the Jeweled Shillelagh for the year, and gets their logo ornament attached to it.  For Notre Dame, the logo is a shamrock.  For Southern Cal, the logo is a Trojan head.

Jeweled Shillelagh

Coach Knute Rockne–the famous coach of Notre Dame from 1918-1930.  He won four National Championships with Notre Dame.  He died in Kansas in a plane crash, March 31, 1931.  Pictured is a 1930 little playbook, and a section of memorabilia which includes parts of the plane crash.

Knute Rockne notepad

Knute Rockne notepad