I separated my shoulder in practice and the three team doctors all agreed that I needed to have surgery. Ara was skeptical, so he sent me to a specialist in Chicago who told me to just leave it alone and the soreness will go away. I took his advice and it never bothered me again.

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Our only loss was in the last game at USC. We were up 17-0 at halftime but they came back and beat us, 20-17. And it cost us, too, because back then Notre Dame didn't go to bowl games.

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He apparently found out I was living here, came over and knocked on my door. When he introduced himself I couldn't believe it. Small world, huh?

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