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O DOUBT Photos by Tom Campbell HE DROUGHT IS OVER Boilers Post Worst Beating On Irish In 44 Years Sophomore Jerome Brooks’ (22) 100yard first quarter kickoff return changed the complexion of the game and started the Boilermakers on their first celebration on Irish turf in 30 years. Brooks became the first Purdue player since Jimmy Smith (and the fourth ever) in 1981 to return a kick 100 yards for a score and the 14th player overall to score on a kickoff return. Sophomore strong safety Bernard Pollard looks on as Notre Dame tight end Anthony Fasano stretches out in vain to catch a pass in the end zone. Fasano had a career day for the Irish catching eight passes for 155 yards. Brooks and teammate Brandon Jones (27) sing ‘Hail Purdue’ in the southeast corner of Notre Dame Stadium with several thousand Purdue fans that remained for the celebration. Junior defensive tackle Brent Grover had another solid game in the trenches with two blocked passes, five tackles and a fumble recovery. Purdue limited the Irish to just 76 yards rushing, keeping the ND running game under triple figures against Purdue for the second-straight year. GOLD & BLACK ILLUSTRATED • VOLUME 15, ISSUE 5 • 14 GoldandBlack.com Junior cornerback Brian Hickman gets in a jump-ball situation with Irish receiver Jeff Samardzija. The Irish picked up a Purdue opponent record 460 passing yards, but the Boilermaker defense held the Irish to 16 points, the fewest by a host Notre Dame team against Purdue since a 10-6 ND win in 1978. Actress Susan Saint James and her husband Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports, mirror the mood of the Notre Dame faithful from the sidelines in the second half. Somewhat lost in the shuffle is that the Purdue offensive line had another standout day. Quarterback Kyle Orton was sacked twice, but for much of the game he had all the time needed to carve up the Irish secondary. Also impressive was Purdue’s ground game in the second half, as the line helped the visitors chew up the clock while nursing a comfortable lead. No. 15 Purdue 41, Notre Dame 16 Oct. 2, 2004 Notre Dame Stadium South Bend, Ind. Check us out at our website PurdueGear.com GOLD & BLACK ILLUSTRATED • VOLUME 15, ISSUE 5• 15 GoldandBlack.com
BY TOM CAMPBELL A Boilermaker In Irish Territory Co-Workers Share Notre Dame Experience SOUTH BEND, Ind — The Joyce Center on the Notre Dame campus was rocking Friday night. Ten thousand Irish fans make sure it’s rocking every Friday night before a Notre Dame home football game. In a scene that was equal parts high school homecoming and Hollywood hype, the Irish toast their traditions during a pep session that features goofy skits with cross-dressing students and plenty of versions of that goose-bump raising “Notre Dame Victory March.” In the middle of all those Irish stewing was one, lone Purdue fan. Wearing a Purdue shirt and hat, Dan Annarino stuck out like that mole on Cindy Crawford’s face. “Man, I was getting some serious strange looks,” said Annarino, a graphic artist in Purdue’s department of Agricultural Communication. Annarino was born a Boilermaker. His dad, Tony, took him to Purdue games while Dan was still in diapers. He’s seen his share of Purdue flops in South Bend and missed some, too. It got so bad for Purdue one time that he left an Irish blowout at halftime and spent the remainder of the game across the street at the Snite Museum of Art. But he was back in Notre Dame this past weekend to see if his Boilermakers could break their 30-year losing streak to the Irish. The pep session was the first stop of Annarino’s Irish Experience. His tour guide for the weekend was best friend and coworker, video producer Steve Doyle. “I have to listen to his stories all the time about how great football weekends are at Notre Dame,” Annarino says, “so I thought I would take him up on it and see what all the fuss is about.” Ever since he was in elementary school, Doyle and his dad, Tom, have been regulars at Notre Dame home games, and at the pep session the night before. As a student at South Bend St. Joseph High School, Doyle could look out the window and see Notre Dame’s fabled Golden Dome. Each Friday in the fall, classes would halt for a moment so students and faculty could say a brief prayer for their beloved Irish football team. The pep session is something the Doyle’s take in every chance they get, arriving at the Joyce Center (Notre Dame’s basketball arena) 90 minutes before the gates even open, not to ensure they get good seats, but seats, period. “We got here late one time,” Doyle relates, “and they wouldn’t let us in. It was full.” Doyle’s Irish tour continued at Fiddler’s Hearth, a traditional Irish pub in South Bend. There the air is filled with the smell of corned beef and cabbage, the sight of wall-to-wall Notre Dame fans and the sound of more versions of the Notre Dame Fight Song performed by, you guessed it, an Irish band. Tom Campbell Purdue fan Dan Annarino gets to experience the Friday night Notre Dame pep session in the Joyce Center with his Purdue co-worker and Notre Dame fan Steve Doyle. But everything is just a prelude to the blur of traditions and tribal rites that is game day. The Doyles park downtown to avoid traffic and take a shuttle to campus where they enjoy one Bloody Mary in the Frank Leahy room at the Morris Inn. Then it’s a hike to the famed grotto (everything here is the famed something or other) for a quick prayer for the Irish (Annarino chooses not to participate in this ritual). He thinks 30 years of losing is enough. “I got the whole tour,” Annarino Tom Campbell Nearly 10,000 Notre Dame fans (and one lone Boilermaker) take part in festivities the night before the game. Nearly half of the crowd was students. said. “We went to the famous cabin by the lake, which was the first structure on the Notre Dame campus, then we went to the basilica where the team was having mass. Everybody lines up and the players walk through. It’s pretty intense.” Next stop, the Knights of Columbus building on the quadrangle for one of their famous steak sandwiches. A movie was playing in the K of C lounge, “Rudy,” of course. After watching a concert by the marching band on the steps of Bond Hall, Annarino and the Doyles fell into lock step with the other thousands of fans and marched to the stadium. Finally, game time. “It was an amazing 24-hour period,” said Annarino. “I think I heard just about every Notre Dame tradition and story there is. It was the total college scene, it was great.” But for Annarino, the best came last, when Purdue broke its own tradition of losing at Notre Dame. “I’ll bet I sang ‘Hail Purdue’ at least 10 times during the game. What a great game. What a great weekend.” j Tom Campbell’s weekly photo galleries on GoldandBlack.com. Campbell can be reached at TSC@Purdue.edu. GOLD & BLACK ILLUSTRATED • VOLUME 15, ISSUE 5 • 16 GoldandBlack.com
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