The brigade’s beloved chaplain, Rev. William Corby, C.S.C, later became the third president of Notre Dame. Therein lies the tie. Plus, the university is predominantly Catholic. As is the vast ...

As noted by Notre Dame, the university "has a valid claim to the nickname because the brigade’s beloved chaplain was Rev. William Corby, C.S.C., who later became the third president of Notre Dame." ...

On July 2nd, 1863, Notre Dame was 20 years old, and on a Gettysburg battlefield known as The Wheatfield, Army Chaplin William Corby, a Notre Dame professor and future President of the University ...