Digger Phelps Leads a New Team // News // The Daily Domer // University of Notre Dame

Phelps' new team battling violence

By DAVID HAUGH Chicago Tribune

5:50 a.m. EDT, September 4, 2012

SOUTH BEND -- Desperation brought Digger Phelps to the Adams High School auditorium one night last April. Inspiration made him rise.

"There are about 200 people there and I get up and ask, 'OK, how can we put a team together of community assets to resolve this issue of youth violence, with education being the foundation?'" Phelps recalled.