{"id":4373,"date":"2017-08-04T16:01:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T20:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archives.nd.edu\/about\/news\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2017-08-04T16:01:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T20:01:56","slug":"ara-parseghian-at-notre-dame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/ara-parseghian-at-notre-dame\/","title":{"rendered":"Ara Parseghian at Notre Dame"},"content":{"rendered":" <\/a>
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Legendary coach Ara Parseghian died on August 2, 2017,\u00a0at the age of 94.\u00a0 He came to Notre Dame in late 1963 from Northwestern University having previously coaching at Miami University in Ohio, where he served first as assistant coach under Woody Hayes and then as head coach.\u00a0 As Notre Dame’s first non-alumnus head coach since Jesse Harper’s last season in 1917, Parseghian inherited a struggling Notre Dame football program that finished the 1963 season with a 2 and 7 record.\u00a0 Parseghian quickly turned the program around, going 9 and 1 in 1964. \u00a0He missed the national championship title by 1:34 in a squeaker defeat against USC,\u00a0the last game of the season.\u00a0 However, Parseghian and the team won other accolades that year: \u00a0Parseghian was named Coach of the Year by multiple organizations and quarterback John Huarte won the coveted Heisman Trophy.<\/p>\n

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Scholastic Magazine issue 01\/17\/1964, page 27: \u00a0Article by Terry Wolkerstorfer about the hiring of new football coach Ara Parseghian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over the course of his 11 years at Notre Dame, Parseghian compiled a record of 95-17-4, winning national championships in 1966 and 1973.\u00a0 As a coach he was known for his intensity and attention to detail. \u00a0\u00a0After leaving Notre Dame he worked as a television commentator covering college football, but he kept close to Notre Dame offering advice, when asked, to later generations of coaches.\u00a0 Among his former players, Parseghian was known for his loyalty and lifelong friendship.<\/p>\n

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Dome yearbook 1974, page 119: Football Coach Ara Parseghian speaking at the “Salute to the 1973 National Championship Football Team” in the Joyce Center (JACC), 1974\/0120.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1994, tragedy struck the Parseghian family when three of Ara’s grandchildren were diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder that causes early death in children – Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC).\u00a0 The family quickly established the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation<\/a> to bring attention to the devastating disease and to try to find a cure.\u00a0 After his coaching career, Parseghian stayed connected with Notre Dame and the South Bend community.\u00a0 In part because of this relationship, Notre Dame added NPC to the other rare and neglected diseases it was researching.\u00a0 A formal partnership between Notre Dame and the Parseghian foundation was established in 2010 and much progress toward a cure has been made since the foundation’s beginnings in 1994.\u00a0 More information about these efforts\u00a0can be found at\u00a0http:\/\/parseghianfund.nd.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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GPHR 24\/08: Football Game Scene – Coach Ara Parseghian and assistant coaches running out of the tunnel, c1960s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ara Parseghian, his spirit, his leadership, and his generosity will be greatly missed at Notre Dame. \u00a0In a fundraising letter written after his resignation from Notre Dame, Parseghian noted, “Wherever I am, I will never leave Notre Dame, not really” [March 1975, PATH\/Parseghian].<\/p>\n

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GRST 2\/36: Football Game Scene – Notre Dame vs. California, 1967\/0923. \u00a0Coach Ara Parseghian and players on the sidelines.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Legendary coach Ara Parseghian died on August 2, 2017,\u00a0at the age of 94.\u00a0 He came to Notre Dame in late 1963 from Northwestern University having previously coaching at Miami University in Ohio, where he served first as assistant coach under Woody Hayes and then as head coach.\u00a0 As Notre Dame’s first non-alumnus head coach since … Continue reading “Ara Parseghian at Notre Dame”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":4370,"featured_media":4376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11,14,37,38,59],"class_list":["post-4373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nd-history","tag-ara-parseghian","tag-athletics","tag-football","tag-football-coach","tag-niemann-pick-type-c"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-12 01:33:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}