Bell Ringer

The Bellcows were bell ringers in Week 2

MASSEY HILL - Contrary to popular belief, the Hunchback of Notre Dame was not one of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame. Knute Rockne's famous backfield on the 1924 Irish football team included Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley and Elmer Layden. New York Herald Tribune sportswriter Grantland Rice gave the foursome their nickname and with it, football immortality after Notre Dame's 13–7 upset vict'ry over a strong Army team on October 18, 1924. Way before then, The Hunchback of Notre Dame was a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo which was published in 1831 and it focused on the unfortunate story of Quasimodo, the Roma street dancer Esmeralda and Quasimodo's guardian, the Archdeacon Claude Frollo, in 15th-century Paris. All of its elements - the Renaissance setting, impossible love affairs, and marginalized characters - make the work a model of the literary themes of Romanticism. The novel is considered a classic of French literature and has been adapted repeatedly for film, stage, television and animation. Quasimodo was a proverbial "hunchback" with physical deformities, the novel's titular character and the quintessential bell ringer of The Catherdal Notre Dame. A "bell ringer" is also a term sometimes used to describe a minor, temporary change in neurological function that can occur after a concussion. A "bell ringer" is also used to reference someone who has been successful, or achieved a goal, similar to hitting the "bull's eye", "knocking it out of the park" and/or "hitting your mark". In American football, there also have been some true "bell ringers" who played the game with relentless recklessness. Dick Butkus, Lee Roy Jordan, Jack Tatum, Lawrence Taylor, Cornelius Bennett, Ronnie Lott, John Lynch and Rodney Harrison come to mind first as true football "bell ringers" and I know there are plenty more out there. Reuben Foster was considered a "bell ringer" during his playing days at Alabama. In Week 2 of the BDFL's 31st season, the Fieldstown Bellcows ventured up Massey Hill to host the near by Mineral Springs Grenadiers at Cluster Springs. The Bellcows rang the G-Men's bell (40-34) and then they got to ring the vict'ry bell like they've always wanted to.

Desolation Row by Bob Dylan (1965)

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