SOUTH BEND — Lunch period on a recent Friday afternoon at Edison Middle School included a surprise visitor for O’Shay Smith and two dozen of his Chargers football teammates. Along with boxes of pepperoni and cheese pizza as a reward for the group, Notre Dame football All-America cornerback Leonard Moore stopped by to spend an hour or so with the aspiring young athletes in the school auditorium. As part of his “Tackle Attendance” initiative, which included a similar visit to Clay International Academy the prior week, the 20-year-old Moore conducted a 30-minute question-and-answer session with the help of three moderators from Gentlemen and Scholars, a local nonprofit. Smith, a 13-year-old...
