Stadium Banner Badasses

Lou Holtz: Notre Dame's most recent national championship
coach, piloting the Irish to the
1988 crown.

The five coaches who have produced national championships in football at the University of Notre Dame - Knute Rockne, Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, Dan Devine and Lou Holtz - are now honored as part of the third Notre Dame Stadium gate to feature the history and tradition of the Irish football program.

"Wall relief portraits" and "action montages" of the five Notre Dame national championship coaches this week were placed at Gate D of Notre Dame Stadium, as part of a multi-year plan to theme the five entrance gates to Notre Dame Stadium.

This project is the third of the Notre Dame Stadium gates to be finished, following the Heisman Trophy display at Gate B that opened in 2005 and the All-America display at Gate A that opened in 2006. Funding for all the themed gates has been provided by the Notre Dame Monogram Club.

Notre Dame's 79 consensus All-America football players are honored inside Gate A with panels containing authentic Notre Dame helmets with nameplates. The Notre Dame Heisman Trophy winners were honored with seven individual panels inside Gate B - with one display each for Angelo Bertelli, John Lujack, Leon Hart, John Lattner, Paul Hornung, John Huarte and Tim Brown.

Each display consists of a three-by-eight-foot aluminum panel, powder-coated in Notre Dame blue and serving as a background for holding an oversized, three-foot-tall replica of the Heisman Trophy. The Heisman replicas are finished in bronze, cantilevered off of the blue aluminum panels and sculpted from an original Heisman Trophy.
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