Article: ND's Zorich puts cap on campus yule spirit

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Every year with the approach of Christmas, Notre Dame's own Scrooge of the line of scrimmage trades his battered gold helmet for a red-and-white Santa Claus cap.

In a display of sentiment at odds with the macho images of big-time football, Irish nose tackle Chris Zorich wears the cap to bring a little fun to a campus preoccupied with final exams.

"This hat is my way of bringing on the Christmas spirit," the 6-1, 263-pound All-America nose tackle and winner of the Lombardi Award for best lineman explained a few days before the semester ended last Friday.

Of course, some think Zorich's unabashed love of Christmas totally uncool. Around campus earlier this month, his ...

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