Notre Dame football: 10 greatest Fighting Irish quarterback-receiver duos
Notre Dame football Football QB/REC Duo No. 1: John Huarte and Jack Snow
- John Huarte: 1962 – 1964 (2,343 career yards passing, 17 touchdowns)
- Jack Snow: 1962 – 1964 (1,242 career yards receiving, 10 touchdowns)
As Saturday Blitz’ Nicholas Valdez wrote back in 2016, Notre Dame’s reputation was fundamentally by the quarterback play of John Huarte, and Jack Snow as his top flanker was a major reason why.
“The clean-cut slinger, wearing number seven on his jersey entered into the glorious ’64 season with a new game plan: throw the football,” Valdez prefaced before saying, “As soon as Huarte started throwing, the nation’s eyes were on Notre Dame. Huarte and his tremendous target, Jack Snow, were showing the state of Indiana that passing the ball could be as much a part of the Irish tradition as running it had been.”
Valdez had ranked the Huarte/Snow duo as one of the all-time duos in college football, and though no claimed championships were won during their time in South Bend, they sit atop the perch as the greatest considering the changes to the sport that’d come in the wake of Huarte’s gunslinging ways.
