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Notre Dame de Paris was among the first buildings in the world to use the flying buttress. The building was not originally designed to include the flying buttresses around the choir and nave. After the construction began and the thinner walls (popularized in the Gothic style) grew ever higher, stress fractures began to occur as the walls pushed outward. So, naturally, the cathedral's architects built supports around the outside walls and later additions continued as such.
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Notre Dame football was a huge topic in 2007, for all the wrong reasons. Looking ahead, expect this proud program to take the field in 2008 with renewed purpose as Head Coach Charlie Weis aims to return his team to national prominence.
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Notre Dame finally had an easy win with Jimmy Clausen throwing three touchdown passes with 25-yard plays to David Grimes and Duval Kamara in the second quarter and on a nine-yard pass to John Carlson in the fourth. Robert Hughes ran for 110 yards with 13-yard dash in the third quarter. Duke finally got on the board with a six-yard run from Zach Asack with 1:12 left to play. The Irish held on to the ball for 35:35.
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Notre Dame hasn't beaten Boston College in seven years, and Boston College has the superior record over the past decade. Boston College has actually won a bowl game during that time as well.
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Notre Dame makes its final two-game series road trip of the season on Feb. 15-16 when the Irish travel to Fairbanks, Alaska for a pair of games with the Alaska Nanooks. Both games will begin at 7:05 p.m. (AST)/11:00 p.m. (EST) in South Bend. Friday's contest will be shown on tape-delay on Saturday, Feb. 16 at 7:00 p.m. on WHME-TV Channel 46. Bruce Cech and Erik Drygas will handle the play-by-play duties with Giacamo Accardo rinkside. The Irish have six more games on the regular-season schedule with three at home and three on the road. Notre Dame is 20-10-2 overall and currently fourth in the CCHA with a 13-7-2 record, good for 28 points after a loss (5-3) and a tie (2-2) with Ferris State last weekend.
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Over the years, Notre Dame has occasionally worn green instead of blue as its home jersey, sometimes adopting the jersey for an entire season--or more--at a time. Currently, Notre Dame reserves its green jerseys for "special" occasions. Often on such occasions, the Irish will take the field for warmups dressed in blue, only to switch to green when they go back to the locker room before kickoff. This tradition was started by Dan Devine in 1977 before the USC game. Notre Dame has ... been known to switch jerseys at halftime, as during the 1985 USC game, and in the epic loss to Nile Kinnick-led Iowa in 1939, although this was to help avoid confusion between their navy uniforms and Iowa's black ones. The current design of the jersey is kelly green with gold numbers and white outlining.
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