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Notre Dame Football: Ralph Guglielmi Dead at 83

One Foot Down | January 25, 2017

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Ralph Guglielmi, who quarterbacked the 1954 Notre Dame Fighting Irish to a 9-1 season and a No. 4 year-end ranking, died Monday at the age of 83.

Quarterback Ralph Guglielmi hands off to Dick James at the Washington Redskins’ training camp at Occidental College in Los Angeles in 1961. Tom Osborne, who would later become Nebraska’s head football coach, is at left.

Guglielmi (goo-yell-me) started 31 games at quarterback between 1951-1954, including his entire junior and senior seasons. He was a force to be reckoned with through the air (208-for-435, 3,117 yards and 18 touchdowns), on the ground (200 yards, 12 TDs, 5 PATs) and on defense (10 interceptions and one TD).

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