Interesting – Notre Dame All Time Team
While twiddling my thumbs came across a Bleacher Report Notre Dame All Time Team. Found this very interesting and for the most part agree–lot of old timers but they were fantastic players and played both ways. Here’s where I disagree:
1–QuarterBacks–1–Lujack 2– Montana
2–Linebackers–Irons, are you kidding me. I’d replace Stonebreaker and Irons with 1- Bob Golic 2– Bob Crable
3–Teo and Jim Martin–fine except Martin played end for the most part former frogman in WWII and I believe he won the heavyweight Bengal Bouts.
I’d rank Martin before Teo.
Of course their were others including Steve Niehaus–injured a lot though.
Anyhow fun to go thru and think of other greats.
The list from The Bleacher Report is below – to read the write ups for each position go here: Bleacher Report Notre Dame All Time Team
| Position | Starter | Backup |
|---|---|---|
| Coach | Knute Rockne | |
| Quarterback | Angelo Bertelli | Johnny Lujack |
| Halfback | Paul Hornung | Johnny Lattner |
| Offensive Tackle | Bill Fischer | Edgar Miller |
| Offensive Tackle | George Connor | Fred Miller |
| Offensive Guard | Heartley "Hunk" Anderson | Jack Cannon |
| Offensive Guard | Bert Metzger | John "Clipper" Smith |
| Center | Jerry Groom | Tommy Yarr |
| Wide Receiver | Tim Brown | Jeff Samardzija |
| Wide Receiver | Golden Tate | Lake Dawson |
| Wide Receiver | Michael Floyd | Raghib Ismail |
| Tight End | Ken MacAfee | Dave Casper |
| Defensive Tackle | Chris Zorich | Zygmont "Ziggy" Czarobski |
| Defensive Tackle | Mike McCoy | Trevor Laws |
| Defensive End | Ross Browner | Bob Dove |
| Defensive End | Leon Hart | Alan Page |
| Linebacker | Jim Lynch | Rocky Boiman |
| Linebacker | Manti Te'o | Jim Martin |
| Linebacker | Michael Stonebreaker | Grant Irons |
| Cornerback | Luther Bradley | Todd Lyght |
| Cornerback | Jeff Burris | Tom Carter |
| Safety | Tom Zbikowski | Shawn Wooden |
| Safety | Clarence Ellis | Chinedum Ndukwe |
2 thoughts on “Interesting – Notre Dame All Time Team”
Nobody before Alan Page…
ED–probably before your time but Leon Hart was so good he beat out All Americans as well as others returning from the war–ND had actually 4 teams of all american players. Believe he started as a freshman at 17 yrs old against guys 20-25 years old.
Page good but would not have started on those post war teams. But he’s still a good pick as is Ross Browner.
This is actually fun and everyone will come up with a name of a player omitted and right off the bat I have 2 more–Jerome Bettis is one and the other is George Gipp who Rockne said was the greatest player he ever saw.
Thanks for visiting our site as well as your pick.