🏈 Vintage Autographed/Signed Rudy Ruettiger Notre Dame White/Green College Football Jersey JSA COA – Hand-Signed by Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger Whose Journey From the Steel-Town Streets of Joliet, Illinois to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football Roster Became One of the Most Celebrated Stories in the History of College Sports and the Subject of the 1993 Film That Has Moved Audiences for Decades, Confirmed Authentic by JSA

🏈 The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football jersey is one of the most recognizable garments in the history of college sports – the Gold Dome, the echoes in the stadium, the tradition that the program carries from its founding through every season played in South Bend have made the Notre Dame uniform a symbol that extends well beyond the results of any individual game. Rudy Ruettiger's signature on a Notre Dame football jersey is the specific combination of an iconic symbol and a story so human and so persistent that it has outlasted the decade in which it happened, outlasted the film that brought it to a generation of audiences who had never heard of it, and continues to outlast every cynical reading of sports sentiment that the modern era produces. It is the kind of story the game produces rarely. Condition: NOS.

🏈 Daniel Ruettiger grew up in Joliet, Illinois, the son of a steel mill worker, in a large family that included a brother who had played college football and a household where Notre Dame was the team whose radio broadcasts and newspaper results were followed with the specific devotion that a family assigns to the team that represents something beyond its wins and losses. He was told repeatedly – by people who believed they were telling him the truth – that his size was too small, his grades were too low, and his circumstances were too limited to put him on the Notre Dame roster. He attended Holy Cross College across the street from Notre Dame's campus, worked at the stadium groundskeeping crew to stay close to the program he had dreamed about since childhood, and waited two academic years before a transfer acceptance finally placed him on Notre Dame's campus as a student. Condition: NOS.

🏈 The Notre Dame football scout team is where walk-on players earn their position in the program – practicing against the starters, absorbing contact, providing the look that the coaching staff needs to prepare the first-team offense and defense for the upcoming opponent, with nothing in the way of scholarship or guaranteed playing time to compensate the effort. Rudy Ruettiger spent his seasons on the scout team in that role, and over time the upperclassmen and starters who practiced against him built enough respect for his presence and preparation that in 1975, ahead of the final home game of the season against Georgia Tech, they laid their jerseys on the head coach's desk – one by one, a petition in the language of the locker room – requesting that Rudy dress for the game. He dressed. With seconds remaining in the fourth quarter of a game already decided, he stepped onto the field. He sacked the Georgia Tech quarterback. His teammates carried him off the field on their shoulders – the only player in Notre Dame history to have been carried off the field in that manner on two occasions. Condition: NOS.

✍️ This Notre Dame college football jersey carries Rudy Ruettiger's personal signature, confirmed authentic by JSA with COA. Condition: NOS.

🏈 Rudy Ruettiger. Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Walk-On. 1975. The Sack. Carried Off the Field. Joliet, Illinois. The Film “Rudy” (1993). Notre Dame White/Green College Football Jersey. JSA COA. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.