Notre Dame athletic teams are known as the Fighting Irish (though students are called “Domers”). Previously, and especially during the Knute Rockne football era, Notre Dame had several unofficial nicknames—among them the “Rovers” and the “Ramblers,” because of those teams’ propensity to travel the nation to play its football contests, such as at the University of Southern California, long before such national travel became the collegiate norm. Later, Notre Dame was also, again unofficially, known 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.

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The next question should be,why are they called fighting Irish,when the real Notre Dame is in France?also the school was founded by French monks,not Irish

Why don’t you help your eighth grader by showing him how to do a google search to find the web site for the university and then read/research it for yourself? Nothing quite like learning by doing.

All teams, its the schools mascot so all teams will be that or a derivative of that

All teams.