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or hover to order]:: Knute K. Rockne: 1918-30 (105-12-5, .881)
Leprechaun Express: Notre Dame Football Intel Update, modified June 6, 2010
Knute K. Rockne was the winningest football coach of all time, with five unbeaten, untied seasons in 13 years and the highest winning percentage in college or professional football history history (.881) ... Leprechaun Express Fighting Irish Lore ....
:: Term Limits for Notre Dame Head Football Coaches?
Leprechaun Express: Notre Dame Football Intel Update, May 29, 2010
Being Head Coach at Notre Dame is like being President of the United States. You only do it for five or ten years, and you only do it if you're at the top of your game ... essentially the only Notre Dame Head Football Coaches to stay more than five years have been Hall of Famers winning national championships ...
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:: Frank Leahy: Legendary Notre Dame coach also set the bar at Boston College
Leprechaun Express: Notre Dame Football Intel Update, Oct. 23, 2009
Frank
Leahy, also a Notre Dame player at tackle under Knute Rockne from 1929-1931, was Fighting Irish Head Coach from 1941-43 and 1946-53, his coaching tenure interrupted by service in the U.S. Navy during World War II .... Leahy, the second-winningest coach in college football history and third winningest at Notre Dame, compiled a 87-11-9 record at Notre Dame, including at least five national championships and four Heisman trophies.
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:: Terry Brennan: Top-10 finishes bracketed Notre Dame football's 2-8 finish in 1956; Terry Brennan had higher winning percentage than Joe Tiller or Barry Alvarez (update 1)
Leprechaun Express: Notre Dame Football Intel Update, Feb. 13, 2009
... Terry Brennan, hired as Notre Dame Head Football Coach at age 25, had a 2-8 season his third year, but finished in the top-10 three of his five years, and in the top-20 a fourth year, his final one coaching the Irish ... Brennan's overall winning percentage was higher than Tiller or Alvarez, and anywhere else, Brennan would have had a long tenure and been considered a coaching legend
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Notre Dame Football Eras
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:: Jesse Harper (1913-17)
[click
or hover to order]:: Knute Rockne Era (1918-1930)
Knute K. Rockne was the winningest football coach of all time, with five unbeaten, untied seasons in 13 years and the highest winning percentage in college or professional football history history (.881) ...
:: Hunk Anderson Era (1931-33)
:: Elmer Layden Era (1934-40)
:: Frank Leahy Era (1941-43, 1946-53)
Frank
Leahy, also a Notre Dame player at tackle under Knute Rockne from 1929-1931, was Fighting Irish Head Coach from 1941-43 and 1946-53, his coaching tenure interrupted by service in the U.S. Navy during World War II .... Leahy, the second-winningest coach in college football history and third winningest at Notre Dame, compiled a 87-11-9 record at Notre Dame, including at least five national championships and four Heisman trophies.
:: Terry Brennan (1954-1958)
:: Joe Kuharich (1959-62)
:: Hugh Devore (interim, 1963)
:: Ara Parseghian Era (1964-74)
:: Dan Devine (1975-80)
:: Gerry Faust (1981-85)
:: Lou Holtz (1986-96)
:: Bob Davie (1997-2001)
:: Ty Willingham (2002-04)
:: Charlie Weis (2005-09)
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