ELEVATOR STORIES

THAT SEVENTIES SHOW

Former basketball coach Digger Phelps and famed one-sack wonder Rudy Ruettiger rode the elevator together at halftime, but that was not as cool as....

THAT EIGHTIES SHOW
...when on the way down to the field at the end of the game former coach Gerry Faust accompanied the school's most notorious (among students) professor emeritus, Emil Hofman. Emil was the Dean of Freshman Year and taught chemistry to all the freshmen here for more than three decades. To use a term anyone who's taken chem lab (as well as those who have not), Emil was the litmus test to determine whether a freshmen should remain in pre-med. He gave a quiz every Friday morning.
Anyway, when Faust (who looks great) stepped in to a pretty full elevator with Hofman, who must be around 80, he announced to no one, "This is one of the greatest professors in the history of Notre Dame."

"He ruined a lot of Thursday nights for me," I said.

Hey! Who do I think I am? Talking smack to Emil? Faust laughed, though, and Emil turned around and said, "At least I saved you the trouble of staying pre-med."

Finally, about an hour after the game there was no one on the field except four young ladies in No. 5 Notre Dame jerseys and one young man in a suit. The dapper dude was Rhema McKnight, who'd worn a 5 jersey all afternoon. He posed for pictures with the lasses. From up here in the press box, it was unclear whether they were friends, family or fans (or all three).