One of the last living legends of the Silver Age, Notre Dame’s Ara Parseghian, passed away today at 94.
Our entire program mourns the loss of one of the pillars of our University, Coach Ara Parseghian. pic.twitter.com/nXS3xyei05
— Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) August 2, 2017
Parseghian was an interesting character. He was not a Notre Dame alum, and he was the first Protestant to coach the Irish since Knute Rockne -- and even Rockne converted. He didn’t have a big-time coaching resume; he had been the skipper at Miami of Ohio winning a few MAC titles, and he had one generally successful year at Northwestern (7-2.