Teresa Godwin Phelps was a noted and respected law professor for several decades, at Notre Dame and American University
But to the public at large, she was better known as the wife of legendary Notre Dame basketball coach Digger Phelps.
She called her 1994 memoir The Coach’s Wife, a rumination on the joys and the frustrations of being in the shadow of such a public figure. And trying to navigate the sometimes-murky waters of college athletics.
Ironically, it was 50 years ago today, January 19, 1974 that Digger Phelps’s Notre Dame team recorded perhaps its greatest victory. That was the day that the Fighting Irish upset John Wooden’s UCLA, ending the Bruins’ 88-game winning streak.
So here now, from 1994 Teresa Godwin Phelps.
In 2019 Professor Phelps retired from Washington College of Law and is currently Professor Emerita.
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