Navy at Notre Dame

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  Evening star, November 8, 1961, page 41

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  1t may be pressing the point to call the Naval Academy a concentration camp, but the point should be made that Wayne Hardin has all his Navy football players in camp concentrating these days. Hardin is a believer in positive thinking and some Of it must be rubbing off. This helps explain the shock waves that came out of Miami a month ago and out of South Bend last week. Concentration, Hardin style, is both mental and physical. What makes Greg Mather, Navy’s place-kicker de luxe. boot field goals from almost any distance-and 20 consecutive conversions without a miss? A good, strong right leg, ma turally. And concentration, - Hardin adds. HE concentrates on a point beyond the crossbar, then just drives the ball there. - Speeds Recovery Will-power, of course, is an other form of concentration and Hardin has this club convinced it can beat anybody. Even when we were behind Pitt, 21–⁠0,” Hardin said, 81 thought we were going to win. “ Somebody. replaying the 13- 10 Notre Dame thriller. men, toned that if the Irish had booted a field goal on a fourth and-19 situation, they would have escaped with a tie. “If they’d have kicked the field goal” Hardin said simply, wed have scored after the kickoff” Even Hardin’5 three-unit system is based on the concentration theory. One unit goes two ways, but the other

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Officially, Notre Dame leads 82–⁠13–⁠1; as played, 84–⁠13–⁠1 in 98 meetings, counting the 63 since this game.