Former Southern Door, Notre Dame, and NFL football player Jim Flanigan will be among those honored as part of the festivities surrounding the Wisconsin-Notre Dame game at Lambeau Field in September.
The 2016 Southern Door Alumni Hall of Fame member will receive the Determination Award for his perseverance on and off the football field as part of the Knute Rockne Memorial Society Spirit of Sports Awards in Green Bay on Sept. 5.
Before earning honorable mention All-American honors at Notre Dame and beginning a 10-year NFL career that included one season with the Green Bay Packers, Flanigan starred for the Eagles. He led the team with 215 rushing yards and had a hand in all three touchdowns in a 17-7 state championship victory over Westby in 1989.
Knute Rockne Memorial Society Executive Director and Notre Dame football historian Jim Lefebvre says Flanigan's experience served him well in South Bend.
The Knute Rockne Memorial Society Spirit of Sports Awards are part of a larger weekend celebrating Notre Dame football in Green Bay, including a history night on Sept. 3 in Green Bay and a golf event in Menasha on Sept. 4. Door County Baseball League scribe Herb Gould will be one of the three authors featured at the history night on Sept. 3. He will be discussing his book "Lambeau: The Epic Life of Earl
Louis "Curly" Lambeau, the Man Who Invented the Green Bay Packers." Lambeau
played one season under Knute Rockne at Notre Dame and took that experience with him to Green Bay when he founded the Packers. You can find information about all three events at this link.
