Happy Thursday! Here we are at week five in my series of “unclaimed” Notre Dame Fighting Irish football national championships, and this week I’m looking at the 1953 season, in particular Notre Dame’s game against Penn. The following excerpt is from the 1953 Notre Dame Football Review, and was written by Bill Noonan.
JOHN LATTNER, Notre Dame’s unanimous All-American choice and most-feared ball carrier, again led his teammates. His scintillating touchdown runs on punt returns in the Purdue and Penn contests sparked the Irish to early leads in those games. Again his tremendous tackling, clever pass defense, and adequate punting paced the Irish.