European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 20,1987 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary he Burgh altered notre Dame image i dont remember what the football player said id me after the game it was two Yean ago and the topic was the intricacies of defense bul j remember he said it so Well that i left the locker room and returned to the press Box and immediately leafed through the press guide to find out where ibis Guy veal to school the football player is Dave Duerson now a safely for the bears the school is notre Dame. The press Book said he had earned a Bache Lor s degree m economics. To was t the first time that an athlete who could Muster Bis thoughts in reasoned grammatical sentences turned1 out to be a graduate of Noire Dame not just  As stated for some athletes but  and in a major that bears relevance to the actual world around us a1 the end of this month the Rev Theodore Hes Burgh after 34 years retires As president of notre Dame University by most accounts the 69-year-olde Riest has been instrumental in building notre Dame of a school known for football to one increasingly known for academics and some football. He Burgh has overseen a sports program that Many consider a Rondel one will integrity m recruit ing with graduating ils athletes and with producing competitive though not necessarily undefeated learns. Much has changed. Al a news conference attended primarily by sportswriters shortly after he Burgh took Over he was asked to pose entering a football. He was appalled. I m not the football coach he rasped i m the president Al one of the first meetings of College presidents he attended he Burgh sought out Robert Goheen then the president of Princeton. Our schools Are both about the same size we both have All male students but you have a reputation for scholarship and we d like one said he Burgh. How cart we do it Ai the Story goes Goheen told him. First fire the football  Goheen added thai he Burgh should bolster the faculty by making greater de mands on it and he should increase the standards. Ira Berkow for incoming freshmen. I Don t remember that conversation precisely it was a Long Lime ago he Burgh said the other Day by Telephone from South Bend kiel., but ii sounds like Bob  if one was to improve both the image and the substance of notre Dame Hen these three elements seemed necessary. The last two were easy to fix com pared to the first. But about a year after he Burgh took Over the football coach he inherited the legendary Frank Leahy stepped Down. Its a Story that s never been told said Hes Burgh. Some people thought i fired Frank and that notre Dame let him go and hat we turned our Back on him. That s not the Way it was. This is what happened when i was the executive vice president of the University from 1947 to 19.52, one of my jobs was to travel with the football team. I remember How Frank punished himself before games. He got so worked up thai he passed out on the Field in a game against Georgia tech he was hyperventilating and could have died. Before a Navy game he was Laid out on a Bench in the locker room and had to be Given a  during the season Leahy slept on a cot in the firehouse near the football Field and rarely journeyed the 33 Miles to his Home in Long Beach ind., where he lived with his wife Flo and their 10 Chil Dren. He Burgh believed that Leahy s life was out of balance and that the pressure to win and the Over emphasis to maintain the Noire Dame football tradition was so great thai it might have killed  after the 1933 season he Burgh called Leahy into his office. Frank he said this is ridiculous. I think you ought to seriously consider retiring for the Sake of your family and your head in. But it s up Loyous you still have two years la go on your contract and we d pay you the rest of  Leahy unsure what to make of this said he d think it Over. Then in a kind of machiavellian Way i got Woof Frank s friends the former Public relations director at notre Dame and the Chicago Tribune sports columnist Arch Ward to talk to him. And one night at dinner with them he called and raid he thought i was right and he d resign. I sweetened the pot by idling Frank thai if his six boys qualified we d give them All full scholarships to Noire  he Burgh then hired Terry Bonnan a 25-year-old High school football coach from Chicago who had earned a Law degree. This was the balance he Burgh was looking for. But Brennan was t a Strong coach and he left after five years. In n. Few years he Burgh hired am Parseghian and notre Dame football would be outstanding again. After Parseghian left notre Dame football earns have won somewhat More than they be lost. "1 remember a coach Here Many years ago said he Burgh who yelled at his plovers what do you think this is a game get in there and Light it struck me As crazy. Because it is a  he Burgh said that he has wanted Good teams bul Only if kept under  one of the rules revisions he put in Early in his regime was that when Grade averages were Given out the athletes grades would be Given out first. The first time this happened we Learned that three of our lop players would be ineligible the next Day for a basketball game against Kentucky he said. I called our athletic director Moose Krausch in told him. He said you know father if you put the grades into the mail i won t get it until monday and those Guys can play tomorrow i said Moose you got the word now. They can t play and you know we dam near beat Ijen Lucky  voice of cubs returns to the air Chicago a they re set in Chicago eager in Belize ready in Redon do Beach and anxious in the Florida keys. Holy cow Harry Caray i Back Onishe air the voice of the Chicago cubs was to be heard tuesday for the tint Lime since a stroke forced him to the sidelines in Spring training three months ago. You watch what happens when Harry comes Back Caray s broadcast ing partner Steve Stone said "1 Don t know that we will have seen anything like it. The fans will be just crazed but not Harry. To me it s just going to be another Day of going out to he Ballpark said Caray whose return coincided with the Start of die cubs three game series against Cincinnati at Wangley Field where Caray leads the crowd m a stirring rendition Ott be me out to the Ball game during the seventh inn in. I Haven t rehearsed a thing Caray said at a news conference monday except to remember to say this is the Gene Michael show when we do that show before the game before the stroke left him bedridden in a Hospital unable to control his right Side or speak Dray had never missed an inning in a major league broadcasting career Fiat Gocs Back More than.40 years and includes stints As announcer for the St. Louis Cardi nals and the Chicago White son. He has survived one serious Aulo Acci Dent and by his own admission countless hangovers in keeping that string intact while the stroke snapped the consecutive game Mark Caray said he was t about 10 let it drive him from the game. Caray admits to being in his late 60s, and shrug off attempts to refine the num Bers further by saying i always answer thai by saying How Good i feel today "1 fee 35 today he added. The task of finding a replacement for Caray while he underwent rehabilitation in Palm Springs fell to win to sport editor Jack Rosenberg. Given the Width and breadth of car a s run