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I recall him picking up an ND fumble and running it back 80+ by mkovac

yards for a TD.

That was the first game of the season in 1966. It was played in ND Stadium. The fumble return for a Purdue TD was an inauspicious beginning to a game ND would win, behind the arm of a young Mr. Terry Hanratty, passing to a lanky handsome Mr. Jim Seymour, who soon after became a destination holiday for girls coming in blind from Chicago. They would arrive, and start asking around the main quad, "Excuse me, can you tell me where Jim Seymour lives?"

"Yes," I would politely say, "He lives in Walsh Hall, the yellow brick building over there," as I pointed to the western side of the main quad. I never asked for a finder's fee. Yeah, As if!

That was also the "Baby Bombers" debut of Hanratty to Seymour, later featured in the Time magazine cover art.

We all gathered around our dorm mate who bought that edition of Time and we all thought we had died and gone to Heaven.

To arrive at a university I had never seen before and be rewarded with a National Championship my Freshman Year was so wonderful.