University of Dayton Magazine Blog
Document Type
Blog
Publication Date
1-16-2017
Abstract
The excerpt that follows is from the part of Chuck Noll: His Life’s Work that chronicles Noll’s Dayton years; it takes him from being a 17-year-old with his spirit crushed to being a man about to try out for a football team that in every year of its existence had played in its league’s championship game — the Cleveland Browns. While at Dayton, author Michael MacCambridge said, Noll “got a sense of self, a sense of belonging, a sense of confidence.” Chuck Noll ’53 had a childhood dream of playing football for the best college team in the country, Notre Dame. He tried out as a walk-on. An epileptic, he had a seizure. That was the end of his Notre Dame career. “The university,” writes Noll biographer Michael MacCambridge, “thought it best if Chuck went home. Coach [Frank] Leahy didn’t want to take the risk.” The following excerpt from MacCambridge’s 2016 book, Chuck Noll: His Life’s Work (reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press), describes what happened after Noll returned to his home on the east side of Cleveland.
eCommons Citation
MacCambridge, Michael, "Self, belonging, confidence" (2017). University of Dayton Magazine Blog. 254.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/dayton_mag_blog/254
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