"I don't mean to take anything away from our other more-publicized boys but I've never seen a better all-around football player, nor a more reliable one, than Carl Allison.
"[3] Allison was also chosen for Notre Dame coach Frank Leahy's all-opponents team in both 1952 and 1953.
[4] Allison was selected in the 22nd round of the 1955 NFL draft by the Chicago Bears, coached by George Halas.
[6] He then became the head football coach at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas from 1959 to 1963, reinstating a program that had not competed since 1931.
Allison later became a preacher at White's Ferry Road Church of Christ in West Monroe, Louisiana.