University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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Legendary Heroes It was the success of Knute Rockne ' s Notre Dame football teams - plus the legendary coach ' s own personal building blueprint - that prompted the addition of the original Notre Dame Stadium to the University ' s athletic plant back in 1930. The Irish first played their games on Carrier Field, then located just north of the current stadium site. But as the University ' s national football rq utation expanded, thanks to the coaching of Rockne, the need for a new home for the Irish was voiced since no more than 30,000 fans could squeeze into the Cartier facility. Though Rockne had a chance to coach in the new facility only in its initial season of use, he took a personal hand in its design. The sod from Cartier Field was transplanted into the new Stadium, but Rockne insisted on its use for football only. He kept the area between the field and the stands small to keep sideline guests, as he called them, to a minimum - and he personally supervised the parking and traffic system that remained much the same until the 21,150-seat addition in 1997. Since that 1930 opening, the Irish have compiled an impressive 284-84-5 (.768) mark in Notre Dame Stadium. During 25 of those seasons the Irish did not lose at home. The spirit that was imbued by the Rockne era - and has been sustained by seven Heisman Trophy winners and dozens more Ail-Americans who have competed on that turf - has changed little in more than seven decades of football at Notre Dame Stadium. For all the legendary players and memorable moments it has hosted on its bluegrass turf over the past 373 games, Notre Dame Stadium has unquestionably developed a lore all its own. Fii-dshirig its 74th year of service to Irish football, the stadium continues to be one of the most recognizable and revered structures in the world of sport. -Taken from Notre Dame vStadium has Legendary History, University of Notre Dame College Sports website 008 A 1921 iH 1995 HB B BSH B ■■- ' W ' ccp H ' r i m 10 1963 Photo amnesy of Samuel Sanchez M OpeniriLg

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Tin af ter Time Historically, the Hesburgh Library is the third building to house the University ' s library collection. Tlie Library was built on the historic Carrier Field on wl-iich Kiiute Rexikne ' s teams played, and opened its doors on September 18,1 963 , as the Memorial Library-, at the start of Notre Dame ' s 122nd acadeniic year. In 1987 it was renamed for President Emeritus Theodore M. Hesburgh, CS.C. Wlien the Hesburgh Library opened, its most distiiictive exterior feature, the ' mural, ' had not yet been installed. Tlie artist Millard Sheets was commissioned to create a work large enough to cover the southern face of the tower, visible from the football stadium. Its theme was to be saints and scholars throughout the ages; tliis was suggested by Father Hesburgh. With its size (210 feet tall), prominent kxiation, and eye-catching Word of Life mural, the Library attracts the attention of even the most casual visitor, and asserts itself as a dramatic symbol of Notre Dame ' s aspirations to academic excellence. Tlie building thus functions witliin a time-honored tradition in which respect for learning is made tangible by the special place accorded to library arcliitecture in the overall context of a campus. -Taken from the University Libraries Vebsite, 2003 Opening

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2003 M Opening Photo by Saraii S:h eider 009