Tom Clements

RECORD: 11-0 ALL-AMERICAS: MIKE TOWNSEND, FS. WITH A SWEET 24-23 WIN IN THE SUGAR BOWL, NOTRE DAME WRESTED THE TITLE FROM ALABAMA

What is the most dangerous place on a football field? This season it seems to be the line of scrimmage, thanks to one of the most vicious practices in the game: chop blocking.

As someone well versed in the vagaries of college football once said, a cliché is a cliché is a cliché. It was not Ara Raoul Parseghian, a coach who can dish out the hackneyed lines as fearlessly as the next man. But...

Waking the echoes for Notre Dame is Quarterback Tom Clements, whose heroics made the Irish the champions last year. Ray Kennedy looks at the team and its leader.