Notre Dame-Army Should Return to Yankee Stadium

Everyone with even a passing interest in college football (or the life of Ronald Reagan) knows about Knute Rockne's famous "Win one for the Gipper" speech. Less well known is that the speech was delivered in the bowels of Yankee Stadium, a facility that hosted the Notre Dame-Army football game in the 1920s, 30s and 40s and therefore hosted some of the greatest moments in college football history. It's time to revive that tradition.

Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick told the Associated Press Thursday that although he has not had any substantive discussions about it, "I'd be interested as we look forward to scheduling to think about how to sort of echo the history of our program. Obviously there have been some important Notre Dame games at Yankee Stadium so I have a general interest in whether that's possible to do."

That's a great idea. Yes, it's true that neither Army nor Notre Dame is anything close to the kind of college football power it was in the first half of the 20th Century, when they played classics like the "Win one for the Gipper" game of 1928 and the famous scoreless tie of 1946. And yes, it's a different Yankee Stadium now. But bringing the game back to Yankee Stadium would be a great way to celebrate one of the great traditions of college football.