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How an independent streak helped build Notre Dame into football’s historic
Back in the 1920s, Notre Dame made what might have been its biggest push to join what would become the Big Ten but Michigan AD blocked it. Ever since, the Irish have been an independent.
DANIA BEACH, Fla. — It was some combination of religion, a grudge involving Knute Rockne and maybe the simple notion that some people just don’t like Notre Dame.
Back in the 1920s, the Fighting Irish made what might have been their biggest push to jo... [5810 chars]