Johnny Lujack, Notre Dame football legend, dead at 98

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Notre Dame football legend Johnny Lujack, who won a Heisman Trophy and led the team to three national titles, has died, the school said Tuesday. He was 98.

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Notre Dame quarterback Johnny Lujack, left, receives the Heisman Memorial Trophy from Wilbur Jurden, president of the Downtown Athletic Club, in New York Dec. 10, 1947., after a brief illness. Amy Schiller, his granddaughter, said he had recently entered hospice care after having been in good health until a few weeks ago.

Author John Heisler, who has written a dozen books about the football program and is a former associate athletic director, remembered Lujack fondly.

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