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travel became the collegiate norm. Later, Notre Dame was known unofficially as the "Terriers" after the Irish breed of the dog, and for some years, an Irish Terrier would be found on the ND football sidelines. Other popular names were "the Gold and Blue", "Nomads," "the Blue Comets", and "the Horrible Hibernians". According to historian Murray Sperber, during the 1910s and 1920s, anti-Catholic and anti-Irish stereotypes and ethnic slurs were openly expressed against

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