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Seeing cornerback Cam Hart voted one of four captains by his Notre Dame football teammates “brought great joy” to his position coach, Mike Mickens.
“It made me really proud,” Mickens said Wednesday after practice. “I know what he has done in our room as far as leadership. For the whole team to recognize how much of a leader he is was great. He’s a leader on the field, off the field, by action, by vocal (means). He does everything for us that we need.”
A string of safeties served as Notre Dame captains over the years, but Hart, a converted wide receiver from Baltimore who has overcome three shoulder surgeries, is the first pure cornerback to receive the honor since Vontez Duff in 2003.
Allen Rossum (1997) and former assistant coach Todd Lyght (1990) are the only other Irish captains listed exclusively as cornerbacks in modern team history.
From Mike Townsend on the 1973 national champions to Baltimore Ravens standout Kyle Hamilton in 2021, at least part-time safeties have been accorded the honor 19 times over the past half-century.
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