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January 7, 2013

Notre Dame football's rise paralleled Irish-Americans' societal ascent 

Historian Edward T. O'Donnell, an associate professor of history at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., poses in an undated photo. O'Donnell says Notre Dame's emergence as a college football power coincided with the emergence of a Iris h-American middle and upper class.

WASHINGTON - As Notre Dame prepared to play Alabama Jan. 7 in U.S. college football's Bowl Championship Series title game, it seemed like the clash of the titans.

Published in International