1975 South Quad Interhall Football Championship Game against perennial power Dillon Hall.The only touchdown we scored was on a trick play.  We knew we were playing at Cartier and it had Astro Turf.  We had practiced a bounce pass that would look like an incomplete pass but would actually be a lateral and it worked for a touchdown! Dillon scored a TD but we blocked the extra point.

1975 is only time Pangborn ever won a South Quad interhall Football Championship!  That year we wore orange jerseys and our nickname was the Violence  after the Mott the Hoople song.

A great defense; offense was not so good but had a great quarterback in Bill Sahm who later walked on in Basketball.

I never played in High School but played a little linebacker on the Violence.  Great year for Pangborn! 

"My inter hall career ended in 1975 after a severe knee injury requiring repair of my ACL, PCL and medial collateral ligaments.   I had surgery at St. Joseph hospital and my roommate was ND Center Ernie Hughes.   He got a lot of visitors including Dan Devine and several ND players.   I how ever recall getting a signed photo and encouragement from Mike McCoy.  My RA was Jim Kelleher and he passed on my situation to McCoy who was playing for the Packers. 

My last game was on October 18 1975 against Morrissey at Stepan field—under a cold and gray October sky.  2 days later I had surgery. I now have a right knee replacement. When people ask about my scars I tell them I had a knee injury playing football at Notre Dame!!!" 

"I think it’s really cool that you’re documenting the history of interhall football.  It is one of the quirky, unique things about our great university.  Unfortunately, I don’t remember much about the games other than that Dillon was our big rival and it was always good to walk away with a win against them.  So, I’m afraid I can’t help you with the outcomes of the games you mentioned.

One of my big memories of interhall football are how many really good athletes there were playing – guys who had had pretty good success in high school but weren’t big or fast enough to play in college.  So, the quality of the play was pretty good, all things considered.  I also remember that I was lucky because I roomed with three football players – Kevin Hart, a long-time childhood friend, and Rusty Lisch and Dennis Grindinger.  They got me “upgraded” equipment from the discarded varsity equipment.  The regular interhall equipment was pretty old.

You probably know this already, but there was an all-star game at the end of each season that pitted North Quad against South quad.  It was played under the lights on the artificial turf varsity practice field.  Our south quad team was coached by a Chemistry professor, Professor Carbury.  I’m not sure about that spelling.  But he was an alumnus of ND and was friends with Leon Hart, Kevin’s dad.  Professor Carbury would tell us stories of the days when Leon played for Frank Leahy.  Really fun stuff.

I played two years and had a ball.  It is one of many fond memories I have from my years at Notre Dame."