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Article: Tyrone Willingham: Notre Dame's first Black football coach: former Stanford leader inherits mantle of the legendary Leahy and Rockne. (Sports).
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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AS the first Black head coach of Notre Dame, Tyrone Willingham looks over the field of college football's most famous team, the field of Knute Rockne, Frank Leahy and George Gipp, who coined the phrase, "win one for the Gipper," and says he hasn't done anything yet. He hopes he will do something big one day. And when he does, he will probably look up again and say, "I haven't done anything yet."
Don't except grandstanding from the 48-year-old Willingham, even though there's a lot to grandstand about. As Stanford head coach, he became the first Black coach to go to the Rose Bowl when he took the team to Pasadena in 1999. Having coached the past 25 years on both ...