Neale Daniher spent just one year living at Newman College. Yet for many who shared that formative time, his impact is as enduring as Walter Burley Griffin’s stonework masterpiece. Fellow 1979 freshman Jim Peters says: “When you’re 17 or 18 you don’t know yourself very well, you get up to all sorts of high jinks. But Neale was so steady and clear. I thought, ‘Gee, this guy knows himself really, really well.’” Plainly, the 18-year-old knew how to play football, too. After captaining Assumption College the previous year, by the 1979 intercollegiate grand final Daniher was midway through a debut season with Essendon in which he would play all 23 games. It’s the stuff of Newman legend that he also played a 24th that winter. Intercollegiate football was serious business for those with skin in the game, featuring Queen’s, Trinity, Ormond and Newman in contests that drew boisterous mobs of supporters to University Oval bedecked in college colours.…