Notre Dame Research Paper

When you hear the words “Fighting Irish”, what comes to mind? Do you imagine a leprechaun fighting to protect his gold or even Conor Mcgregor fighting Floyd Mayweather. What ever comes to mind, the Fighting Irish is the mascot of one of the greatest colleges in the world-Notre Dame. The year was 1842 when the university of Notre Dame was founded on 1,250 acres of land in Indiana by Edward Sorin. Edward Sorin was a very religious man, so when he established Notre Dame he decided to make a catholic school. And ever since the first days of school to now Notre Dame has taken pride in third catholic beliefs. Notre Dame is a well know college because people can remember them for three reasons. First are the strict demands and requirements to be able to get into Notre Dame. Second is because Notre Dame is home to one of the best college football team in the world. Lastly is because of Notre Dame’s beautiful campus. Every year Notre Dame has a huge amount of applicants that want to get to the college, but since the college doesn't have space for all of them they are forced to make the requirements to get into the school very difficult as only the top of the applicants can join. Some of the requirements include having a unweighted GPA higher than 3.4 and that you must have at least 16 units. And that is just to be able to apply,
Notre Dames football team has won 8 national championships, 1943,1946,1947,1949,1966,1973,1977, and the most recent 1988. But the most recallable achievement is that Notre Dame had the most amount of players reactive the greatest college football award out their-the heisman trophy, and Notre Dame had seven of them.the people who were given the Heisman trophy are John Huarte, Paul Hornung,John Lattner,Lean Heart,Johnny Lujack,Angelo Bertelli, and Tim