deathless

Brian Kelly’s very good Notre Dame would sit on a second tier, above most but decisively below the few, their great 20th century still howling at them in a sport of deathless pasts.

Finally the epithet of "deathless" gets some explanation, stemming from Golovan's fearless ministrations during a plague.

The deathless man character had been creeping around in other things I had written, so he came next.

For one deathless moment his genius had carried him to the heights, and a white blaze of publicity had given him a halo of glory.