This weekend, Charlie Strong’s Longhorns will try to achieve something a Texas football team has accomplished only once — beat Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. The faint echoes they’ll try to wake up there stretch way back to 1934, in a game that stunned sports fans and thrust Texas football onto a national stage.
That 7-6 triumph for the Longhorns was engineered by a coach who not only was a former Notre Dame player, but also was the Fighting Irish’s celebrated running back who had “won one for the Gipper” by scoring a touchdown against Army in 1928, after Knute Rockne’s legendary halftime speech.