'97 Honors and Awards

CB Ivory Covington
   * - NBC Sports/Chevrolet Notre Dame MVP vs. West Virginia (8 tackles,
       1 interception)

DE Melvin Dansby
   * - Football News All-America (honorable mention)
   * - Football News All-Independents team
   * - Notre Dame Lineman of the Year by Moose Krause Chapter of
       National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame
   * - Nick Pietrosante Award (by vote of teammates to player who best
       personifies characteristics of late Irish All-America fullback)

TB Autry Denson
   * - Notre Dame National Monogram Club MVP Award (by vote of
       teammates)
   * - Football News All-America (honorable mention)
   * - Football News All-Independents team
   * - Nominee for Doak Walker Award as top running back in the nation
   * - NBC Sports/Chevrolet Notre Dame MVP vs. Georgia Tech (24 for 71,
       2 TDs; 2 catches for 58)
   * - ABC Sports/Chevrolet Notre Dame MVP vs. Purdue (22 for 104, 1 TD;
       7 catches for 54, 1 TD)
   * - ABC Sports/Chevrolet Notre Dame MVP vs. Stanford (21 for 116; 2
       catches for 15)
   * - NBC Sports/Chevrolet Notre Dame MVP vs. USC (30 for season-high
       133, 1 TD; 6 catches for 3)
   * - NBC Sports/Chevrolet Notre Dame MVP vs. Navy (19 for 125, 2 TDs)

OT Mike Doughty
   * - Selected to play in Hula Bowl postseason all-star game

ILB Bobbie Howard
   * Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Knute Rockne Student-Athlete
     Award (3.015 grade-point average in College of Business
	 Administration)
   * Poulan/Weed Eater Independence Bowl Scholarship Award

SE Malcolm Johnson
   * - One of 31 preliminary candidates for 1997 Biletnikoff Award
       presented to top receiver in the country

OLB Kory Minor
   * - Football News All-America (honorable mention)
   * - Football News All-Independents
   * - One of 65 preliminary candidates for the 1997 Butkus Award
       presented to the top college linebacker in the country
   * - NBC Sports/Chevrolet Notre Dame MVP vs. Michigan State (late
       first-half interception set up only Irish TD)

QB Ron Powlus
   * - Selected to play in Hula Bowl postseason all-star game
   * - ABC Sports/Chevrolet Notre Dame MVP vs. Michigan (completed 20 of
       27 for 205, 1 TD, 1 int.)

TE Tim Ridder
   * - State Farm/Mutual Radio Student-Athlete of the Year 

OG Mike Rosenthal
   * - Football News All-America (honorable mention)
   * - Football News All-Independents

CB Allen Rossum
   * - Football News All-Independents
   * - Finalist for inaugural Mosi Tatupu Special Teams Award
   * - Selected to play in Senior Bowl postseason all-star game
   * - NBC Sports/Chevrolet Notre Dame MVP vs. Boston College (80-yard
       kickoff for TD that tied NCAA mark for career returns for TDs)

P Hunter Smith
   * - Football News All-Independents