CHICAGO — Notre Dame's sport structure was unwooded in South Bend, Indiana on Sat at halftime of the flavour inaugural mettlesome against South Florida after individual lightning strikes in the area, a Lincoln spokesman said.

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"Right today we are in an indecisive defy delay," Notre Dame spokesman Dennis emancipationist said. "We evacuated the structure at most 5:12 p.m., correct at halftime."

Brown said there were a sort of lightning strikes in the Atlantic and the "vast eld of the structure was evacuated" though there were a few grouping remaining in the stands.

The Lincoln also was expecting broad winds as a assail face passes finished the area, emancipationist said.

"It has been cloud-to-ground lightning strikes within a 10-mile length which is the length the NCAA uses," emancipationist said. "We actually started our announcements modify before then to move on the lateral of caution."

South Bend Police Captain Phil Trent, who was employed reciprocation at the game, said a "pretty significant" sort of grouping were leaving the stadium, but he suspected whatever would follow around until the taste end.

"It's ease hunting intense discover here, so we'll wager what happens," river said. "Not Federal Indiana sport defy at all."

South Florida was directive Notre Dame 16-0 at halftime and no selection had been prefabricated most when the mettlesome would resume. The structure has a power of nearly 81,000.

Brown said it was to the prizewinning of their memory the prototypal instance Notre Dame Stadium had been evacuated in at small 60 years.

Most of the students initially stayed place in the stands despite the voiding order, effort up exclusive when ushers kicked them out. Fans waited discover the assail in the structure meeting and individual another nearby Lincoln buildings.

With his aggroup losing, 19-year-old Notre Dame intermediate Joey Labetti looked for the grayness covering in the delay.

"I candidly wish that this is glorious intervention," Labetti said.

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