Legendary Notre Dame Coach Ara Paresgihan
NOTRE DAME, Ind. (ND)—Legendary Armenian-American football coach Ara Parseghian, who guided the University of Notre Dame’s 1966 and 1973 national championship football teams and is a member of the National Football Foundation’s College Football Hall of Fame, died at 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 2, at his home, in Granger, Ind., the University’s president, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., announced. Parseghian was 94.
Parseghian on the Nov. 20, 1964 cover of Time magazine (Cover Credit: Boris Chaliapin)
“Notre Dame mourns the loss of a legendary football coach, a beloved member of the Notre Dame family and good man—Ara Parseghian,â€
