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Tony Roberts Dies: Notre Dame Football’s Longtime Radio Voice Was 94

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Tony Roberts, who spent 26 years calling games for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, died Aug. 25 in Gainesville, Virginia.

He was 94 and no cause was given by his son, Lance, who said his father began hospice care the day before he died. Born in Chicago, Roberts graduated from Columbia College with a degree in journalism.

He did local radio in Iowa and Indiana at the start of his career, then moved to Washington, D.C. for his big break, broadcasting games for baseball’s Washington Senators and the NBA’s Washington Bullets.

In 1980, Roberts began calling Notre Dame football games. His signature call was “Touchdown, Irish!” a phrase that the successful team prompted many times.

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