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1962–PRESENT · BOUNDARY: THE STUDENT CORRIDOR AT FULL SIZE; THIS GROUND'S ROOMS TESTED
The landmark lounge, and the war: the student corridor that serves Notre Dame runs along South Bend Avenue and Eddy Street south of the line, and its landmark lounge is documented to the year and the loan: the Linebacker Lounge at 1631 South Bend Avenue, founded in 1962 by Notre Dame linebacker Myron "Mo" Pottios, who borrowed 5,000 dollars against his future NFL salary from Art "The Chief" Rooney to take over the building that had been Eve's Drive-In; Elwanda Delinski assumed the ownership in 1984 and passed the room in 2022 to two former Notre Dame football teammates; the house bills itself, in its own words, "The Backer: Across from Notre Dame." The licensing war the checklist asks for stands in the same corridor and is documented whole in the student paper: the Observer of 24 November 1980, under the headline "The Corby's Saga; a tradition of conflict," records the local board of the Alcoholic Beverage Commission recommending that the state commission deny renewal of Corby's Tavern's liquor licence — the legal ground a bartender's 1979 conviction for serving minors, after three underage Notre Dame students were arrested inside the room on 31 August 1979, and the City of South Bend and the Northeast Neighborhood Council remonstrating against the room for minors, noise, garbage and disruption. The original Corby's went out of business in the 1980s; the Corby's Irish Pub of today is a different room that inherited the name — Rosario "Ross" Mittiga bought the Cap and Cork lounge in 1988, and the filming of Rudy there in November 1992 made it Corby's ever after. One name, two rooms, a war between them in time: the corridor's record, printed whole. This ground's own corridor — the State Road 23 and Grape Road rooms — was tested against the same record: its rooms are restaurant-bars under the state's restaurant permits (Bar Louie at GrandView, opened 10 August 2020, the type specimen), and no licensing war, no contested renewal and no local-board fight attaches to any Granger room in the record reached; the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission's permit record is the named shelf where such a fight would stand. The ground's one documented licensing-side episode stands where Crime & Public Safety put it — the 2021 Heritage Square case, where State Excise Police worked the liquor side of a Granger-dateline venue whose permits answered to Mishawaka — and is carried there, at pointer size here.
From the Linebacker Lounge's own published history (the 1962 founding, the Rooney loan, Eve's Drive-In, the 1984 and 2022 successions); the Observer, Notre Dame's student newspaper, 24 November 1980 ("The Corby's Saga"); Visit South Bend Mishawaka, "Around the Bend: Corby's Irish Pub" (the 1988 Cap and Cork purchase, the 1992 Rudy filming); the Indiana ATC's published permit-type record (restaurant permits, incorporated and unincorporated).