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ARA (AIR-uh)
1.
Ara Parseghian: Head coach of the Notre Dame football team from
1964-1974
2.
A constellation in the southern hemisphere
Common
clues: Coach
Parseghian; Notre Dame's Parseghian; Celestial altar; Palindromic
constellation; Neighbor of Scorpius; Rudy's coach in “Rudy”;
Southern constellation
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Sugar Bowl: Ara Parseghian speech
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at Notre Dame – Ara Parseghian
Ara
Parseghian (born March 10, 1923 in Akron, Ohio, USA) He was of
Armenian descent. Parseghian was head coach for the University of
Notre Dame football team from 1964-1974. During his 11 seasons as
head coach (known popularly as "the Era of Ara"), he
compiled a 95-17-4 record, for a .836 winning percentage, making
him the most successful Notre Dame coach of the modern era.
Parseghian
originally graduated from Miami University (Ohio) and had a short
professional football career with the Cleveland Browns from
1947-1949. In 1950, he returned to Miami to coach under Woody
Hayes, and when Hayes left at the end of the season, Parseghian
became head coach. He coached at Miami from 1951-1955. He left
for Northwestern University and coached there from 1956-1963.
Finally,
in 1964 he received the head coaching job at Notre Dame, and
quickly turned the program around, improving their record from
2-7 the previous year to a record of 9-1. Besides his overall
winning record, he won two National Championships (1966 and 1973)
and three bowl games. He was inducted into the College Football
Hall of Fame in 1980.
Ara
Parseghian is currently the National Spokesman for the Ara
Parseghian Medical Research Foundation, a non-profit organization
dedicated to helping find a cure for Niemann-Pick disease.
Ara
(Latin for Altar) is a faint southerly constellation between the
constellations Centaurus and Lupus.
Ara's
brightest star, Arae, has an apparent magnitude of 2,9. Arae is
believed to have at least three planets orbiting it, one of which
is thought to be rocky in nature.
The
altar, usually depicted upside down, but sometimes upright with
the smoke drifting into the Milky Way, was identified as that of
the centaur Chiron; its original Latin name was Ara Centauri. It
was also occasionally called the altar of Dionysus. Since,
however, the constellation was identified, and introduced, in the
18th Century, connection to the this mythology is likely to have
been by design of the constellation's creator, and unconnected to
the actual beliefs of the ancient Greeks about this area of sky.
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ARA
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Tu+ >1 09 Coach Parseghian
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Tu- >1 07 Southern constellation
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Tu >1 09 Altar constellation
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We+ >1 03 Altar in the sky
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Th- >1 05 Mr. Parseghian
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Th- >1 06 Ex-coach Parseghian
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We- >1 09 Palindromic constellation
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Th >1 09 Constellation near Scorpius
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We- >1 03 Football's Parseghian
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Fr- >1 08 Neighbor of Scorpius
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We+ >1 08 Notre Dame's Parseghian
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We- >1 01 Celestial altar
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We+ >1 08 Constellation near Norma
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We >1 05 Heavenly altar
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We >1 04 Altar on high
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Th+ >1 05 First name in Notre Dame football
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We- >1 01 Football coach Parseghian
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Th- >1 07 Former coach Parseghian
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We >1 06 One of Knute's successors
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We+ >1 07 Parseghian of Notre Dame
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We- >1 05 Astronomical altar
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Th NYT 87 Constellation
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Tu >1 87 Parseghian
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Fr >1 08 Scorpius neighbor
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