The 2011 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame in the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
 The team was coached by Brian Kelly and played its home games at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana.
 They compete as an independent.
 They finished the season 8–5.
 They were invited to the Champs Sports Bowl where they were defeated by Florida State 18-14.
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team is the intercollegiate football team representing the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana.
 The team is currently coached by Brian Kelly and plays its home games at the campus's Notre Dame Stadium, which has a capacity of 80,795 fans.
 Notre Dame is one of four schools that competes as an Independent at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Football Bowl Subdivision level; however, they play five games a year against opponents from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), which Notre Dame is a member of in all other sports except ice hockey.
Eric C. Hansen is an American sportswriter with the "South Bend Tribune".
 The University of Notre Dame football beat writer and an assistant sports editor for the newspaper, Hansen has also written two books on Notre Dame football.
 "Stadium Stories: Notre Dame Fighting Irish: Colorful Tales of the Blue and Gold" (2004) won a first-place prize for non-fiction books from the Indiana chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
 The book recounted many tales of Notre Dame's football history.
 In 2005 Hansen published "Notre Dame Fighting Irish: Where Have You Gone?"
, a collection of stories and interviews about former Notre Dame football players.
 Hansen has won a number of national writing awards from the Football Writers Association of America, and was a member of the FWAA committee that chose the 2006 college All-American team.
The 2010 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
 The team was coached by Brian Kelly and played its home games at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana.
 This was Kelly's first season as Notre Dame's head coach, after leading the Cincinnati Bearcats to a 12–0 regular season and BCS bowl berth.
 In 2010, Notre Dame's regular season schedule was ranked the most difficult schedule in the nation with a Team Opposition Record Percentage of .6529 (the poll published by the NCAA only includes wins against Division 1 teams).
 They finished the season 8–5 and were invited to the Sun Bowl where they defeated the Miami Hurricanes, 33–17.
The 2012 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame in the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
 The team was coached by Brian Kelly and played its home games at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana.
 They competed as an independent.
The Navy–Notre Dame football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Navy Midshipmen football team of the United States Naval Academy and Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team of the University of Notre Dame.
 It has been played annually since 1927, making it the longest uninterrupted intersectional rivalry in college football, and the second-longest never-interrupted college football rivalry overall, after only Kansas St. vs. Iowa St. (uninterrupted since 1917).
 Notre Dame leads the series 76–13–1.
 Before Navy won a 46–44 triple-overtime contest in 2007, Notre Dame had a 43-game winning streak that was the longest series win streak between two annual opponents in the history of Division I FBS football.
 Navy's previous win came in 1963, 35–14 with future Heisman Trophy winner and NFL QB Roger Staubach at the helm.
 Navy had come close to winning on numerous occasions before 2007.
 The Midshipmen subsequently won again in 2009, 2010 and 2016.
Charles Joseph Weis (born March 30, 1956) is an American football coach who most recently was the head coach for the Kansas Jayhawks.
 For five years, from 2005 through 2009, Weis was the head football coach for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
 He has also served as an offensive coordinator in the National Football League, for the New York Jets, New England Patriots, and Kansas City Chiefs.
The 2016 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
 The team was coached by Brian Kelly and played its home games at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana.
 They competed as an independent.
 They finished the season 4-8, Notre Dame's worst record since 2007.
 Despite the disappointing season, Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick found the 2016 Irish to be a remarkable bunch, citing the team's "enthusiasm" and "willingness to practice".
The 2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
 The team was coached by Charlie Weis and played its home games at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana.
 Weis entered his fifth season as head coach with the expectation from the Notre Dame administration that his team would be in position to compete for a BCS Bowl berth.
 Notre Dame started the first part of the season 4-2, with close losses to Michigan and USC but ended the season with four straight losses, including a second loss to Navy loss in three years.
 Weis was fired as head coach the Monday after the Stanford loss at the end of the season.
 Although Notre Dame was bowl eligible with 6 wins, the University announced on December 4 that the Irish had chosen not to play in a bowl game.
 Irish athletic director Jack Swarbrick hired Cincinnati head coach Brian Kelly after a 10-day coaching search.
The 2007 Navy vs. Notre Dame football game ended the longest all-time college football consecutive wins streak by one team over another.
 On November 3, 2007, the Navy Midshipmen defeated the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 46–44 in triple-overtime at Notre Dame's home field, Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana.
 Notre Dame came into this annual game with 43 straight wins against Navy since the last loss against Heisman Trophy winner Roger Staubach in 1963.
 With the win, Navy improved to 5–4 and Notre Dame fell to 1–8 on the season.

Question: The Notre Dame football coach who was succeeded by Brian Kelly was born in what year?
Answer: 1956