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John Farley arrived to Notre Dame in the fall of 1897.\u00a0 He came to study for the priesthood, but also had a penchant for athletics.\u00a0 He won nine varsity monogram letters in football, baseball, and track, and was heralded as one of the great Notre Dame athletes for years to come.\u00a0 For over thirty years after his graduation, Farley became a beloved fixture among Notre Dame students as he served as a rector for three dorms.<\/p>\n

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Letter from John F. Farley to University President Rev. Andrew Morrissey, CSC, requesting information about attending Notre Dame as a student studying for the priesthood, 1897\/0202.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In August of 1899, Farley wrote to University President Rev. Andrew Morrissey, CSC, with a dilemma — return to Notre Dame and continue his studies toward becoming a priest or attend Seton Hall, which was closer to home so he could better care for his mother and family [UPEL 75\/11].\u00a0 Morrissey’s response does not exist in the University Archives, but Farley decided to return and ended up spending most of the rest of his life at Notre Dame.<\/p>\n

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John Farley, Captain of the 1900 Varsity Football Team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ordained into the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1907, Farley spent around thirty years as a rector of three dorms at Notre Dame:\u00a0 Corby Hall, Walsh Hall<\/a>, and Sorin Hall<\/a>, where he reigned as “king.”\u00a0 With his keen athleticism, Farley regularly coached interhall teams to championships.\u00a0 He was gruff, but genial, and in counseling the students, he quickly earned the paternal nickname “Pop.”<\/p>\n

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Corby Hall Interhall Coaches – Al Feeney, “Pop” Farley, and Knute Rockne, c1913<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


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Rev. John “Pop” Farley, CSC, distributing mail on the exterior steps of Walsh Hall, c1915<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1937, Pop Farley suffered a stroke, which resulted in the amputation of one of his legs.\u00a0 He spent the rest of his life in the Holy Cross community infirmary and died in 1939.\u00a0 At Farley’s funeral, Rev. Eugene Burke, CSC, said “For over thirty years, wherever Notre Dame students gathered, Father Farley was in the midst of them, always as a cheerful leader or companion.\u00a0 For all those years this kindly prefect, whose work was with and for the students, loved that work as dearly as a scholar ever loved his books, and through it won the respect and admiration of thousands of students.” [PNDP-02-Zz-01; South Bend Tribune<\/em>, 01\/17\/1939]<\/p>\n

In 1946, Notre Dame honored Pop Farley by naming a new dormitory after him.\u00a0 Farley Hall<\/a> became a women’s dorm in the second year of co-education (1973).\u00a0 In 1976, the University created the Rev. John \u201cPop\u201d Farley, CSC, Award<\/a>, which “is given annually to honor distinguished service [of a faculty member] to student life at the University of Notre Dame.”<\/p>\n

[photoshelter-img i_id=”I0000osVERwYpdNU” buy=”1″ caption=”Farley Hall exterior, c1950s.” width=”576″ height=”481″]<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/em>
\nPNDP 02-Zz-01<\/a>
\nUPEL 61\/18<\/a>; 75\/11<\/a>
\nGSBB 2\/15<\/a>
\nGMIL 2\/10<\/a>
\nGMIL 1\/13<\/a>
\nGPHR 45\/0020<\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/a>

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John Farley arrived to Notre Dame in the fall of 1897.\u00a0 He came to study for the priesthood, but also had a penchant for athletics.\u00a0 He won nine varsity monogram letters in football, baseball, and track, and was heralded as one of the great Notre Dame athletes for years to come.\u00a0 For over thirty years … Continue reading “Rev. John \u201cPop\u201d Farley, CSC”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":4370,"featured_media":507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37,42,71],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nd-history","tag-football","tag-individuals","tag-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-07 18:28:42","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\/506","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=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}