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To The Metnory of 

Ru part Mills . 

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Rupe, who was · a four spo~ts 

letterman at Notre Dame, went to 

his death July 21, 1929, in· a vain 

attempt to save a friend from 

drowning. 

That he was a true son of Our 

Lady was shown not only in his 

heroic death, but in every act of his 

campus and later life. 

May the memory of Rupe Mills be 

a vivid example for Notre Dame men 

·of the future to follow.

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1929 FOOTBALL REVIEW 

University of Notre Darr),e 

STAFF 

Joseph S. Petritz--------~-----------------:_----------Editor-iu-Cbief 

Richard L. Donoghue------:--------------------------Assistaut ·Ed if or 

August L. Bondi....: _____ _..:. ____________________________ Assis taut Ed it or 

Harley L. McDevitt_ _____________________________ Graduate Manager 

John J. Cannon ____________________ · _____________ Circulatiou Ma11ager 

Lawrence Mullins __________________________ Ass't. Circulation Manager 

CONTRIBUTORS 

K. K. Rockne 

John B. La.w . 

Paul G. Sullivan 

Harry_ A. Sylvester, Jr. 

John Bergan 

Robert E. Gorman 

Robert C. Balfe 

Feg Murray 

The staff wishes to express its appreciation of the assistance of lVIr. George Maypole, Miss Ruth 

Faulkner,_ Mr. J. Arthur Haley, Miss Marie \Villi_ams, Mr. James Armstrong, Mr. Harry Elmore, 

Mr. Herb Jones, Mr. Arthur \Vest, and Mr. ·Archer Hurley, in the compilation of this Review. 

Cover design by Art Kane.

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'Dedication 

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HOf!SANDS of persons have co1nkined th~ir efl~rts through tl:e years to 1nake 

posszble the new Notre Dmne stadnt1n whrch wzll be opened tn ·1930. Every 

1nan who ever wore the Blue and Gold ·of Notre Da11ze, every 1ne11zber of 

the faculty, every 1ne11zber of the coaching staff, every loyal Notre Da11ze student, every 

faithful Notre Da11ze follower has done his share since the fo1tnding of the school to 

1nake this dreauz of Coac/1 Rockne's a 1'ealit)'· To the known and unknown heroes ·who 

have contributed their bit in bringing about this new honte for the wan·iors of Our 

Lady we offer ou1· heartfelt thanks, and to these do we dedicate this acco1int of the 1 ~ 29 

teauz., worthy successors to Notre Daute tea1ns of the past.· · ' .

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REVEREND CHARLES L. O'DONNELL, C.S.C., Ph.D. 

PRESIDENT oF THE UNIVERSITY OF NoTRE DAME

OFFICIAL FOOTBALL REVIEW-1929 

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REVEREND M. A. MULCAIRE, C.S.C., Ph.D. 

VIcE-PRESIDENT oF THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 

CHAIRMAN OF THE ATHLETIC BoARD OF CONTROL

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-By CourltSy of The Alumnus.


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VY congratulations to one of the finest 

c.JCJb Notre Da11ze tea11zs of all ti11te and 

to the splendid coaching staff headed 

by To11z Lieb, that carried on so -u;ell and 

effectively in 1ny absence. In fact, I believe 

that Lieb, Chev.igny and Voedisch did the 

co{lching while I just helped .a little._ 

· Every 11te11tber of the tea11z lived up to 

the finest traditions of our great school and .. 

I have every reason to feel proud ·of their season's 

1vork. · · · 

The student 1nanagers, the band; the socalled 

Scrub~ and Fresh.inen also did yoe11tan 

service and 1vere a vital part in the suc~e~sful 

season. · 

KNUTE K. RocKNE

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CAPT. JOHN B. LAW, NOTRE DAME, 1929

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. LfS.captain of the Notre Da.~ne football 

U ~ tea1n of 1929, 17'!ay I say _that I have 

. . never played against 1nore. capable 

and 1nore sports1nanlike tea1ns than have 

been 1ny pleasure to compete with this year. 

In spite of the rather obvious disadvantages 

to be sur1nounted this y~ar, I feel th.at 

I have, in 1ny o~v1z s1nall way justified the 

position given 1ne, made possible, however, 

only by the 1ne11~bers of the tea11~ ~vhose 

loyalty and dauntless fighting spirit never 

once slac!?..ened. 

To the faculty and studf!nt body I can 

only say that it 1'vas their spiritual- support 

and splendid co-:o peration that 1nade this 

seaio1~'s clean slate possible. 

JOHN BRENDEN LAw


Patrons 

Ben Bloom 

New York City 

T. J. Curtin 

Chicago, Ill. 

J. T. Harrigan 

New York City 

Dr .. Paul Dineen 

New York City 

Anthony J. Heinlein 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 

D. F. Kelly 

Chicago, Ill. 

James T. Se-xton 

New London, Ct. 

Wm. F. Leimer 

·Orange, N. J, 

R. J. O'Donn"ll 

Chicago, Ill. 

Robt. P. Morrow 

Buffalo, N. Y. 

M. F. Devereux 

WC?odcliffe, N. J, 

Rev. Walter D. Casey 

Hartford, Conn. 

R. A. Gallagher 

Chicago, Ill. 

Walter J, Riley 

E. Chicago, Ind. 

J. Kalman Reppa 

E. Chicago, Ind. 

Jas. Newman 


J. B. Lamb 

New York City 

J. M. Studebaker, Jr. 

'South Bend, Ind. 

John C. Sullivan 

Passaic, N. J. 

John Carroll 

Calumet City, Ill. 

Barney U dol£ 

New York City 

Arthur G. Peacock 

New York City 

D. R. Kirby 

lJetroit, Mich. 

Thos. C. Casey 

W. Orange, N. J, 

Francis V. Pisula 

Latrobe, Pa. 

E. T. Christmas 

New York City 

John P. Kalina 

Cleveland, Ohio 

-W. J, Cassady 

Norwood, Ohio 

Frank E. Hering 

South Bend, Ind. 

Chas. J, Raleigh 

New York City 

John J. Poulton 

Chicago, Ill. 

Dr. Crow C. Coady 

Dubuque, la. 

Thos. J. Cronin 

Binghamton, N. Y. 

Thos. L. Grace 


John A. Byrnes 

New York City 

Cornelius A. Breen 

Hackensack, N. J. 

Geo. Larkin 

Chicago, Ill. 

Majorie Ann Mendelson 

Detroit, Mich. 

Doris Marie Mendelson 


H. A. Mendelson 


Commissioner Curry 

New York City 

Otto Brunenmeister 

New York City 

James H. Chapin 

Far Rockaway, N. Y. 

Joseph V. Gallagher 

Manhasset, L. I., N. Y. 

M. A. Fanning 

Chicago, Ill. 

William F. Hughes 

Caldwell, N. J, 

Wm. L. Crilley 

New York City 

Harry R. Abbott 

· New Jersey 

E. B. Dunigan 

Oak Park, Ill. 

William J. Reidy 

Chicago, Ill. 

Francis P. Kenny 

New York C1ty 

Paul E. Moore 

New Brunswick, N. J. 

Tyler Williams 

Chicago, .Ill. 

John B. Wheeler 

Chicago, Ill. 

D. A. Eister 

Hornell, N. · Y. 

Wm. C. Kinne· 

Hornell, N •. Y. 

Richard Haggerty 

Chicago, Ill. 

Bernard J. Fallon 

Chicago, Ill. 

M. E. Stetz 

Haverstraw, N. Y. 

Andrew J. Haire 

New York City 

Walter J. Williams 

New York City 

Louis A. Wildman 

New York City 

Benil!_min Margolis 

New Rochelle, N. Y. 

W. L. Conwell 

New York City 

E. J. Mahoney 

New York City 

J. Walter Hannon 

Indianapolis, Ind. 

Reginald J. Hunt 

New York City 

Floyd R. Murray 

Hammond, Ind. 

R. J. Kasper 

Chicago, Ill. 

John W. O'Donnell 

New York City 

James P. Egan 

New York City 

Geo. N. McDonald 

Waterbury Conn. 

John A. Hanley 

· Jersey City, N. J. 

Edw. McDonough 

Bronx, New York 

William Crilley 

New York City 

J. M. O'Day 

New York City 

Richard Anderson 


John E. Fitzgerald 

Hammond, Ind. 

Harry A. Scharf 

New York City 

Wm. J. Bellinger 

Niagara Falls, N. Y. 

N. A. Scull en 

Cleveland, Ohio 

R. F. Tierney 

New York City 

Edward King 

New York City 

Byron V. Kanaley 

Chicago, Ill. 

Martin J. Healy 

New York City 

Henry P. Downey 

Hammond, Ind. 

T. P. O'Donovan 

Chicago, Ill. 

Edw. F. Dunn 

Lake ·Geneva,·Wis. 

Louis J. Hackert 

. Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Gerald H. Hurst 

New York City 

James F. Connell 

W. New Brighton, N.Y. 

T. P. Brosnan 

New York City 

. 0. George Casey 


P. S. Shinners 

Binghampton, · N. Y. 

John R. Barry 

New York City 

C. J. Irwin 

Buffalo, N. Y. 

John P. Brice 

Chicago, Ill. 

Zolton Drosdick 

Hazelton, Pa. 

C. F. Feltham 

Chicago, Ill. 

Henry Kest 

New York City 

Mary M. Dwyer 

Chicago, Ill. 

Chas. W. Lynch . 

New York City 

P. C. Reilly 

Indianapolis, Ind. 

Thos. S. Donlon 

Hudson Heights, N. J. 

D. P. O'Keefe 


Francis A. B~lin 

New York City 

Louis R. Rochetto 

Chicago, · Ill. 

Dr • .las. E. McCambridge 

Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

Harold J. Burke 

Chicago, Ill. 

A. Michellini 

New York 

Walter R. Shanny 

New York City 

Mrs. Dorothy V. L. Flynn 

Croton on Hudson, N.Y. 

Joseph Hinchliffe 

Paterson; N. J, 

Edward J. O'Brien 

New York City 

R. C. Stephenson 

South Bend, Ind. 

Frank Pavis 

New York City 

Dr. James Murphy 

Middletown, Conn. 

Francis X. Sullivan 


Margaret Merwin 

Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. 

Dr. Josepli T. Mahoney 

Chicago, Ill. · 

Geo. J, Schriener 

Hammond, Ind. 

Hugh Mulligan 

Chicago, Ill. 

Rev. Pat. Maloney, O.F.M. 

Chicago, Ill. 

A. P. Kane 

Bloomington, Ill. 

James W. Sanderson· 

New York City 

Andrew Rudner 

Coaldale, Pa. 

G. J. Garvey 

Chicago, Ill. 

G. A. Hannigan 

New York City 

Mrs. K. Zabriskie 

Jersey City, N. J. 

p, J. Keough 

Lake Bluff, Ill. 

John L. Mcinerney 

Chicago, Ill. 

J. J. Heffernan 

New York City 

J. J. Laughlin 

New York City 

August Klein 

New York City 

Archie R. Campbell 

Flint, Mich. 

Bernard M. Noonan 

Morristown, N. J.


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The Traveling Squad 

1.929. Record 

Notre Dame __________ 14; Indiana ______________ 0 

Notre Dame -----'------14; Navy --------------- 7 

Notre Dame ___________ 19; Wisconsin ___________ 0 

Notre Dame ___________ 7; Carnegie Tech ________ 0 

Notre Dame ------~---26; Georgia Tech :.._ ________ 6 

Notre Dame __________ 19; Drake _______ _: _______ 7 

Notre Dame · __________ 13; Southern California ____ 12 

Notre Dame __________ 26; Northwestern __ .:.. ______ 6 

Notre Dame ---------- 7; Army --------------- 0 

1929 Coaching Staff 

K. K. Rockne ______________________ Head Coach John Voedisch ------------------Assista11t Coach 

Thomas Lieb ~------------------Assistaut Coach John Chevigny -----------------Assistant Coach 

Thomas E. Mills_ __ ~------------Assista11t Coach \Villiam Jones ------------------Freshmait Coacb 

Varsity Personnel 

John B. Law, Captain 

August Bondi 

Martin Brill 

John Cannon 

Frank Carideo 

\Villiam Cassidy 

\Villiam Christman 

Edmo~d Collins 

John Col rick 

Thomas Conley 

Carl Cronin 

AI Culver 

Richard Do~oghue 

John Elder 

·Albert Gebert 

Norman Herwit 

N ordoff Hoffman 

AI Howard 

Cla.rence Kaplan 

Thomas Kassis . . 

Thomas Kenneally 

Bernard Leahy 

Frank Leahy 

Joseph Locke 

Arthus McManmon 

Regis MeN amara 

Bertram Metzger 

Tim Moynihan 

Lawrence Mullins 

Thomas :Murphy 

Joseph Nash · 

John O'Brien 

Paul O'Connor 

Fred Reiman 

Joseph Sa voldi 

Marchmont Schwartz 

George Shay 

Ted Twomey 

H. Manfred Vezie 

George Vlk 

Thomas Yarr


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KNUTE K. ROCKNE 

Head Coach 

Courage and thoroughness evident in his every action are the two qualities 

that have gone to make Knute Rockne the peerless ~ootball coach. 

The former trait was more conspicuous this year, perhaps, than ever before. 

After l~sing four games in 1928, Coach Rockne came back and risked his very 

reputation on the hardest schedule ever lined up for a modern day fo

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THOMAS A. MILLS 

Ass' t. Coach 

A man of many parts is Tommy Mills. His comprehensive knowledge of football and 

his keen eye make him one of the best scouts in the game, and the information he brought. 

home from his expeditions was directly responsible for a large share of Notre Dame's great 

1929 defense. · 

His ability t.o teach intrica.te plays to reserves and Freshman teams stamps him as a great 

instructor of the sport. His understanding of the Rockne system, his love of boys, and 

his genial make-up make him the ideal coach. The players respect his word and at the same 

time. take him on as a real pal. 

Notre Dame and ~ockne never had a better friend and helper than Tommy .. 

JOHN CHEVIGNY 

Ass'!. Coach 

When the entire 1928 backfield of Brady, Niemiec, Collins, and Chevigny finished playing 

for Notre Dame last year~ Jack Chevigny decided that it·was up to him to do something 

about the situation. 

So he stayed around this Fall and whipped into shape one of the greatest backfield combinations 

Notre Dame has ever had. Frank Carideo, Jack Elder, Larry Mullins, and Marty 

Brill will all tell you how much of their success they owe to the t~aching of this 1928 s~ar. 

During Coach Rockne's illness, uchev" was indispensable. He drilled the backs just 

as Rockne would have drilled them, and he co-operated with Tom Lieb at games as none . 

other could. Playe.rs who' saw him wear himself to the point of exhaustion time and a.gain 

during the 1928 season respected his wishes and gave him discipline and attention that was 

remarkable for one who was one of them a .few months previous. 

JOHN CCIKE" VOEDISCH 

Ass'!. Coach 

Avery, very quiet, but very, very efficient young man is John ulke'·' Voedisch, who does 

most of his work with the ends on the s.quad. 

One of the b~st ends ever to play at Notre Dame, ulke" knows enough of the finesse of 

the flankman's job to develop a really outstanding set of ends this year. He was quick to 

master the new shift that Rockne gave to the wingmen this year and the exact manner in 

which he taught it to his pupils aided very materially in the deceptiveness ·of the 1929 

team's attack. · · 

He always had six or eight men ready to step into any game at any time and hold 

their own against the most powerful open running attacks of Notre Dame's nine powerful 

opponents. · Not only this, but he had men who could go in and catch passes when they 

were needed. 

E~ds ha.vc· aiways "been vital factors of Notre Dame teams and under Voedisch they 

have gained rather than lost in importance.

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The Varsity Roster 

Name Position ·Prep School Age Wt. Ht. 

Bailie, Roy~--------R·. End ______ Hollywood High ____________ 20 163 5 ft. 11 in. 

Bloemer, Bernard ___ R. Gu~rd ____ St. Xavier, Louisville ________ 19 162 5 ft. 9 in. 

Bondi, Gus ________ R. Guard ____ Dixon, Ill., High ____________ 21 175 5 ft. 9 in. 

B-rannon, Bob ______ L. Half ______ Denison, Iowa ______________ 20 15 5 5 ft. 9 in. 

Brill, Martin _______ R. Half ______ Pennsylvania Charter ________ 21 181 5 ft. 11 in. 

Cannon, Dan ------;-R. Half ______ Aquinas, Columbus, Ohio ____ 21 163 5 ft. 7Yz in. 

Cannon, Jack ______ L. Guard _____ Aquinas, Columbus, Ohio ____ 20 193 5 ft. 11 in. 

Carberry, Jack _____ R. End ______ Ames, Iowa, High __________ 22 175 6ft. 

Carideo, Frank _____ Quarter _____ Dean Academy------~------ 20 172 5 ft. 7 in. 

Carmody, James. ____ Tackle _______ St. Phillips, Chicago _________ 20 190 6ft. 

Cassidy, Wm. ______ L. Guard ____ St. Stanislaus _______________ 22 

Cavanaugh, Vincent_ Center ______ St. Rita, Chicago ___________ 19 

Christman, Bill _____ Quarter _____ Green Bay, Wis. ____________ 19 

Collins, Ed. ________ L. End ______ St. Ignatius, Chicago ________ 22 

Colrick, John ______ L. End_-:---- St. Benedict, N. J. ___________ 21 

Conley, Thomas ____ R. End ______ Roman c;:atholic, Philadelphia_ 20 

Conway, Pat ______ Full _________ Warren, Ohio, High _________ 21 

Cronin, Carl ------~R. Half ______ St. Rita, Chicago ___________ 20 

Culver, Al ________ R. Tackle ____ St. Th

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Leahy, Bernard _____ L. Half ______ St. Mel, Chicago __________ ;_ __ 20 

Leahy, Frank ______ L. Tackle ____ Winer High, S.D. --------: __ 20 

Listzwan, Tom _____ Full _________ Procter, Vermont, High ___ :.__21 

Locke, Joseph ______ L. Guard_-:-~--St. Rita, Chicago ___________ 22 

Lyons, Jim ________ R. Guard ____ Holyoke, High _____________ 21 

Mahoney, Henry ___ End _________ Cathedral Latin, Cleveland ___ 19 

Manley, John ______ Tackle ______ .Dyersville, Iowa ____________ 20 

Massey, Robert _____ L. Guard _____ Bloomfield High, N. J----~--- 20 

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McManmon, Art ___ R. Tackle ____ Lowell High, Mass. __________ 20 201 6ft. 2 in. 

McNamara, Regis __ L. Tackle ____ Binghampton, N. Y. ________ 20 165 

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183 5 ft. 11 in. 

15 8 5 ft. 8 in. 

165 5 ft. 10 in. 

170 5 ft. 11 in. 

165 5 ft. 10 in. 

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Metzger, Bert -~~---R. Guard ____ Loyola Prep., Chicago ________ 19 165 5 ft. 9 in. 

Moynihan, Tim ____ Center _______ Rawlings, \Vyo., High _____.__ 23 195 6ft. 1 in. 

Mullins, Larry _____ Full _________ S. Pasadena, Cal., High ______ 20 175 6ft. 

Murphy, Emmett ___ Quarter ______ Duluth, Minn., High ________ 20 158 5 ft. 10 in. 

Murphy, Tom _____ R. End ______ Baptist High, Conn. ________--20 185 6ft. 1 in. 

Nash, Joe _________ Center ______ Mt. Carmel, ~hicago _________ 22 177 5 ft. 10 Yz in. 

O'Brien, Ed _______ L. Half ______ D.L.S., Chicago -~----------19 172 5 ft. 10 in. 

O'Brien~ John ______ L. End _______ Los Angeles, High ___________ 21 180 6ft. 2 in. 

O'Connor, Paul ____ Full _________ N. Walpole, N.H., High _____ 20 · 175 5 ft. 9 in. 

Provissero, P. ______ L. Guard _____ Paterson, N. J., I-iigh ____ -:-___ 21 194 5 ft. 8 in. 

Reiman, Fred ______ Center ______ LaCrosse Central, Wis. ______ 21 

Rogers, John ________ Center _______ Alexis, Il1. _________________ 19 

Savoldi, Joseph _____ Full _________ Three Oaks High, Mich. _____ 20 

Schwartz, Charles __ L. Tackle ____ Naperville, Ill. _____________ 21 

Schwartz, M. -~----L. Half ______ Bay St. Louis, Miss. __________ 20 

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Seymour, AI _______ Guard ______ ;Malone, N. Y--------~------ 21 

Shay, George ______ Full _________ Hartford, Conn, High __ .;_ ____ 21 

Thornton, Joe _____ R. Tackle ____ St. James, Haveril1 __________ 22 

Twomey, Ted ______ R. Tackle ____ Duluth, Catholic High _______ 22 

Vezie, H. M. _______ R. End ______ McDonald, Pa., High ________ 22 

Vlk, George _______ R. End _______ Holy N arne High, Cleveland __ 20 

Wharton, Terrance __ Tackle_~ ____ Altoona, Pa., High __________ 21 

Whelan, Vincent ___ L. Guard _____ Grantwood, N. Y., High _____ 20 

Williams, Aubrey ___ Full _________ Central, Ft. Wayne __________ 19 

Yarr, Thomas ______ Center __ ,_ ____ Chinacum Prep., \Vash. ______ 20 

Yelland, John ______ Center _______ West High, Minn. __ _; ____ _; __ 20 

Zoss, Abe _________ R. Guard ____ South Bend High ___________ 19 

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186 6 ft. 2 in. 

172 5 ft. 9 in. 

192 5 ft. 11 in. 

160 5 ft. 9 in. 

161 5 ft. 10 in. 

174 5 ft., 10 in. 

160 5 ft. 9 in. 

18 2 5 ft. 9 Yz in. 

195 6ft. 

175 6ft. 

170 6ft. 

187 6ft. 1 in. 

165 6ft. 

181 6 ft. 1 in. 

18 5 5 ft. 10 in. 

173 6ft. 

184 5 ft. 11 in. 

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The Players 

CAPT. JOHN LAW 

Right Guard 

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In John Brendan Law, the tradition of fast, scrappy, really great guards, the 

tradition of Anderson, and the two uClipper" Smiths found a noble perpetuation. 

Not as big as most guards, Law made up for his lack of size by his speed, his 

fight and his cleverness. There is no department of guard play in which the 

compact N cw Yorker is not a master. To his perfect physical co-ordination 

he added a degree of brain-power which even coaches do not look tor in their 

guards, much less the general public, with whom the idea of the udumb guard" 

still prevails. It is incn like Law, few as they are, who are slowly dispelling 

this notion that the guards are the dullest men on the team. It is not an ex; 

aggeration to say that Johnny Law's mind is as keen and fine as that of any 

quarter-back in the country. 

As captain of one of the greatest of Notre Da~c's great teams, he served 

well as both a leader and an inspiration. The very sight of him outplaying men 

anywhere from 10 to 50 pounds heavier throughout the entire season was more 

than enough to inspire the men he led. 

\Vords cannot be .framed to describe him as a leader; his qualities of leader.., 

ship arc too obvious. H~ will go down in football history as one of Notre 

Dame's greatest captains. 

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· All-American 

Left Guard 

Figuring prominently in every play, offensively and defensively, Jack was 

chosen unanimously for All~American honors by leading sports writers. Playing 

continuously without a headgear, he was an outstanding figure and a most 

important member of the forward wall. Cannon, Capt. Law, and Moynihan 

formed a. pivot trio in the line that was unsurpassed by any team in 'the 

country. 

On defense, Jack showed unusual.'ability to gauge plays and was continually 

next to the opposing ball carrier on the bottom of the pile. There is hardly 

a game which can be called his best; he was steady and consistent throughout 

the entire season, his third on the varsity team. 

Jack Cannon's personality, courage and football ability will live long in the 

memories of Notre Dame football enthusiasts and followers. He will be remembered 

in years to come as a sterling guard and one of the second Rockne 

edition of Seven Mules. ·

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FRANK CARIDEO 

All-American 

Qziarter-Bacl?.. 

One hears of ideal quarter-backs, but rarely comes across one. Always there 

is something lacking, but in Frank Carideo the ideal is approached just about as 

closely as possible.· 

A quarter-back's job is to direct his team-to use his head; his next most important 

work is to block. In these two departments of the game, Carideo 

knows no superior and few equals. But where most quarter-backs leave .off 

here, he just begins, for, besides his directing and blocking ability, this chunky 

lad has the faculty of punting, passing, running, and kicking extra points after 

touchdown along with the best in the country. 

Surely it is a long time since any field general has been able to do all of these 

things and do them well. Carideo's handling of punts is a thing to watch in 

wonder, and his clear, confident voice is an urge to victory-a call to battle. 

His cool calmness never deserts him and the driving lash of his voice is never 

ruffled. 

Little wonder it is, then, that he was the unanimous choice of the 

.A:ll-American pickers this fall, and the most talked-of football general m the 

country. He's a great man, this Frank Carideo of Notre Dame. 

TED TWOMEY 

·· Left Tackle 

In every school and on every team there are men who are known as "tough" 

-not in the grosser sense of the word, but in connotation which we of Notre 

Dame have given to it, namely, that they have infinite coura-ge and can give 

plenty while taking as much. 

This is what we mean when we say that Ted Twomey is the toughest of the 

tough. For this giant, so genial off the playing field, is truly a figure to be 

feared when in action. Not at all flashy or sensational; spectators cannot understand 

why it is that many who know call ~1im great. Nor can they understand 

why, along about the end of the first quarter, tl;te opposing team is not 

hammering very much at Ted's side of the line. 

Only those who have played against him or seen him perform at close range 

can appreciate his ability. His forearm ••shiver" is about as gentle as a caress 

with a steel beam, and the fierce smash of his tackle is like the charge of an 

enraged bull. 

\'V'hen tackles who have held a larger place in the public's eye have long been 

forgotten, Ted Twomey will still be remembered with awe and respect by those 

who know his real ability. He was prominent on the All-Ap1erican selections 

due to his consistent play this year.

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JOHN ELDER 

Left Half 

. \Vhen Jack Elder is a bit older, he will be able to look back upon his collegiate 

career as one of the greatest any undergraduate ever had. Reminiscing, he 

will see tha.t he was the co-holder· of two world records in track, one of the 

greatest sprinters of all time. 

But the greatest thing he will see, and will be able to call his own, is the fact 

that he made himself a football player by sheer hard work. Although endowed 

with worlds of speed, .. The Rabbit" was not a natural football player. He 

found difficulty in cutting in an open field, and could not block or pass. 

Jack worked at these things, however, and worked hard where another man 

might have given up and rested on his track laurels. The fruit of his labor was 

reaped this year when, unstopped by any of Notre Dame's nine powerful foes, 

he stamped himself as a real football player and one of the finest all-around 

backs of the season. 

He takes his place with the few great sprinters who rose above mediocrity 

when they donne,d cleats instead of spikes. 

LAWRENCE MULLINS 

Full-B~ck 

One of the greatest and most versatile a.thletes ever to attend Notre Dame, 

.. Moon" was·a vital member of the .. New Four Horsemen" backfield of Rockne's 

this fall. 

uRock" had needed a full-oack in the middle of the '28 season and he had 

turned to Larry, who was then pla.ying half-back. That this rangy, speedy 

Californian delivered as a plunger: is a fact known. to all gridiron followers. 

Time and again he knifed through opponents' lines for substantial gains, and, 

once past -the line of scrimmage, it was a marvel to see him revert to type and 

become a half-back again, dodging, twisting, side-stepping, and stiff-arming. 

He was undoubtedly the best blocking full-back on the squad, he was an outstanding 

pass receiver, and an unequalled defensive back. 

To his many physical qualifications he added as keen a mind and as fine a 

football intellect ·as ever graced the classic bodies of Notre Da.me's other 

"greatest of the great."

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MAR TIN BRILL 

Right Half 

.. Marty" is the type of back coaches dream of and pray for, but are lucky 

enough to get only about once in a generation-the type that is steady rather 

than brilliant, firm rather than flashy, the kind that does the work and lets 

the glory go to his rna tes. 

Despite his work-horse duties at right half, Brill's play was so flashy at 

times as to draw comment even from the uninitiate.- Big, strong, rugged, he 

made an ideal man for the Rockne system which calls for a right half that 

can block. 

Possibly lacking in the finesse of Chevigny and Herndon, he made up in sheer 

strength and determination what he was missing in the fine points of his 

position, and so took his place with these two Notre Dame immortals. 

His greatest stock in trade was, of course, his blocking, but his backing up 

of the line, his pass receiving, and his ball-carrying-especially against Navywent 

to make him a great all-around back. He came here from Penn State 

because he .. wasn't getting a break there," and showed the world what he 

could do. 

Next ye-ar he'll show them some more. 

RICHARD DONOGHUE 

Right Tackle 

One of he flashiest Freshman players at Notre Dame in the days of Christy 

Flanagan, but handicapped by injuries last year, Dick came to the front this 

season and distinguished himself as. one of the most reliable men on the squad. 

He has the size, weight, coolness, good judgment, aggressiveness, and football 

sense that go to make the ideal tackle. ·He knows how to use his hands on defense 

and has the faculty of breaking through an opponent's line to smear the 

strongest power plays directed at him. 

Dick played in every game this fall and never made a wrong move at any 

stage of the season. In the thick of every battle, his ruggedness is shown by 

the fact that he went through the season uninjured by any of Notre Dame's 

nine powerful opponents.

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TIM MOYNIHAN 

Center 

\'\fe could formulate no greater tribute to the prowess of "Big 

Tim" than that made by \'\falter Eckersall, nationally known football 

authority, in the Chicago Tri~uue the day after the big center 

broke his ankle against Northwestern. Eckersall says: "It was a 

costly victory, however~ as Tim Moynihan, one of the best centers 

in the country, suffered a broken bone in his right ankle. This injury 

is bound to handicap the Rockne eleven for the struggle with 

Army in New York. 

"Moynihan's passes always were accurate. He was ever mindful 

to make sure of his passes before crashing through to take off . the 

secondary defense. He frequently was down the field under punts 

and was ·a good tackler. He knew when to play his position in the 

line and when to pull out to help break up forward passes." 

His reckless custom of starting behind his own line and hurdling 

over the scrimmage pile to· nab the ball-carrier for a loss is 

what cost Tim a chance to play in the Army game. It was on one 

of these air excursions that he snapped the bone in his right ankle 

and thus ended his Notre Dame career. 

In his three years with the varsity, Tim met some of the best 

centers in the country, but he bowed to none. ..Rock" will have 

to look a long time to find another like this scrapping Irishman 

from Chicago. 

JOHN COLRICK 

Left Eud 

John Colrick is not a new name in Notre Dame sport annals. Johnnie is 

· one of the ablest and most versatile athletes that ever represented the Irish. In 

addition to his football letters, he won three monograms in basketball and 

three in baseball, and served as captain of the diamond club last year. 

At the left wing of Coach Rockne's forward wall, Colrick was dependable at 

all times on defense and was one of the best pass receivers on the squad. His 

work during the past season was the equal of or better than his two preceding 

years at end. John gave good account of himself in every game, catching 

passes that brought the crowd to its feet, and stopping every play in his territory. 

While apparently easy-going and almost indifferent, he was in reality the 

hardest type of worker. He leaves behind him a most enviable record as a 

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TOM CONLEY 

Right End 

In this quiet, reliable Philadelphian, the tradition of Boland, Maxwell, and 

McNally found another worthy wearer of the Blue and Gold. A player of unquestioned 

ability when he first came to Notre Dame, he did not rest on the 

laurels he had gathered in his sophomore year when he achieved that distinction, 

rare indeed among sophomores, of making his letter in football. R~ther he 

continued to work and study the position he played, until he now bids fair to · 

be one of the most finished ends in the country next year. 

As it was, his playing this year toward the close of the season stamped him 

as one of the best in the Middle \Vest. Tenacity~ courage, and persistence are 

but a few of his q~alities. Frustration or defeat serves rather to spur him on 

than discourage him, as was demonstrated in the Southern California game when 

a pass labeled ... touchdown'' slipped off his reaching fingers. But 'he came back 

to catch two even more difficult tosses, one of them resulting in Notre Dame's 

first score. 

Most ends are a bit one-sided inasmuch as they are specialists in some one· or 

two departments of end-play while their work in other departments is only 

mediocre. \Vith Conley, however, such is not the case; he is possibly the finest 

all-around end that the squad boasted this year. · 

MARCHMONT SCHWARTZ 

, Left Half 

It is seldom that a sophomore makes a letter in football at Notre Dame; it is 

even less often that he ranks :is one of the 'leading backs of the country. Such, 

however, is•the case with Marchmont Schwartz. 

His rise to prominence was rapid and justified. A good blocker, a good 

kicker, a most consistep.t runner, and one of the best passers in the country, 

it is not strange that he has risen to the heights in this, his first year of collegiate· 

football. 

But if there is one thing that causes this earnest, hard-working boy from 

the South to stand out more than any other quality, it is his coolness under fire. 

No matter how trying the situation; Marchy Schwartz is always cool, calm, 

. calculating, never flt;ist~red, never hurried. It is not logical that a Southerner 

should be so, and really, he is not this way by temperament; rather it is his will 

that forces his body. to obey. 

· March is almost . a sure. bet to play w.ith the first eleven for the next two 

years when, according to the present outlook, Rockne should turn out a.t least 

'two rp'ore championship. teams.

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JOSEPH SA VOLDI 

Full-Back 

After his great showing in the \Visconsin game, sports writers called Joe 

the "\Vandering Italian," and he certainly did an unusual amount of wandering 

toward. enemy goal lines during the course of the season. 

Joe really found himself this year. "He had seen some little action with the 

reserves during his Sophomore year, but was not espeCially promising. This 

season, however, found him a hard-hitting, plunging back who was continually 

straining for extra inches when carrying the ball, and blocking well when 

his teamma~es were toting the oval. 

Defensively, too,. he showed remarkable ability and was one of the best 

known full-backs in the country. Against Indiana and Navy he got off to 

a good· start and he thrilled the packed stands of Soldiers' Field as he led the 

way to victory over \Visconsin. Injured at Georgia Tech, he was not in the 

line-up for the Drake game, but was his old self the rest of the season. His 

high dive over the line of scrimmage in the Carnegie Tech game scored the lone 

touchdown that won for Notre Dame and, incidentally, won for him the nickname, 

"Jumping Joe," which seems likely to stick with him the rest of his life. 

THOMAS KASSIS 

Right Guard 

Never did a more willing worker or a scrappier player than Tom Kassis perform 

for Notre Dame. After plugging along at center for two years with but 

fair success, he was made over into a guard this Fall and disting~ished himself 

in practically every game by his fiery play. 

As understudy to Jack Cannon he played all season with the shock troops 

and stood out always for his spectacular tackles behind the line of scrimmage 

and on punts. The offensive work of a guard is nevu as noticeable as his defensive 

pla.y, but anyone who knows the game and watched Tom this year will 

tell you that he was in there on every Notre Dame drive, leading the interference 

on end runs, holding on passes, or charging on line bucks to open gap;. 

ing holes for the backs. · 

A sprained ankle in the Wisconsin game necessitated his removal from the 

field, but, although the injury seemed to get worse each week, Tom was always 

back in the lineup ready to fight to the end for his team, his school, and his 

coach.

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FRANK LEAHY 

Right Tackle 

The original tough luck boy of the Notre Dame squad, if there ever was one, 

is found in Frank Leahy, varsity tackle. · 

Although very light in weight-too light almost fo~ a tac_kle-Frank wanted 

to play and he showed enough stuff in spring practice to put him first among 

the candidates for his position. Even before the season had opened, though, 

he received a shoulder injury that was to hamper him all year. He had just recovered 

somewhat from this ·hurt and was going great in the Drake game when 

he twisted his ankle very painfully and had to take another forced vacation from 

active work. 

These setbacks would have discouraged most men, but not Frank. He always 

~arne back for more and was in there at the end of the season fighting as hard 

as at the beginning, handicapped almost overwhelmingly, but battling his 

heaviest opponents to a standstill. 

MANFRED VEZIE 

Right End 

"Mannie" started the past se~son in top form against Indiana and Navy, but 

a week later in the \'\Tisconsin game he suffered a recurrence of an old knee 

injury that was so serious as to prevent his playing again until well along in· the 

schedule. 

His work in the Northwestern and Army games was up to his usual standard 

of steady, driving play, and he certainly had the sympathy of all his followers 

that his leg had to go bad on him while he was doing_such good work. 

He proved his ability in the -1928 season and everyone at Notre Dame knows 

that without this injury jinx he would ha.ve had a far better year than he did. 

His rather unstartling showing this year, however, will not detract in the least 

from Notre Dame's respect for him as one qf its greatest ends and a fine fellow. 

Next season will see "Veze" back at his old post where h.e will form the 

nucleus for another fighting Rockne line.

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BERTRAM METZGER 

Left Guard 

The "watch charm"· guard they call him, and like a diamond watch charm 

he is small and very valuable. A lot of high school coaches would consider 

Bert Metzger too small for their team, but, to the Great Coach, if a man has the 

stuff, nothing else matters. 

Bert Metzger's trail was not an easy one; he has been up against some of the 

best players in the country, ever since he has been out for football, but he 

· ·. carried on and finally gained recognition. To do so required his attaining well 

nigh perfection in his finesse, for in no other way can a small man hope to play 

gua.rd. But to his finesse he added a body small but hard, a mind sharp and 

keen, and courage, both mental and physical. 

As Captain Law's capable understudy he has gone f.ar this season, and it is 

not too much to expect him to gain national recognition next year. Already he 

is a part of the Notre Dame tradition of small, fast, smart, tough guards. The 

Smiths, Hunk Anderson, and the other great guards can look upon his work from 

the pinnacle to which we of Notre Dame ha.ve raised them and they can find 

that it is g~od that the tradition did not die with them. 

AL GEBERT 

Quarter-Bac/{ 

The story of Bud Gebert is as old as the Dome is old, the story of years on 

the reserve squad and the sternest competition. But these failed to break his 

spirit and he plugged along finally to come through. 

His rise was not phenomenal or rapid; ra.ther it was like the growth of a 

.great tree, slow, sure, and perfect. His sole asset when he started at Notre 

Dame was a keen football mind, a real quarter-back's mind that analyzed quickly 

and completely. He worked, though, until he had developed his blocking and 

speed to the point where "Rock" could not help but recognize it. 

As the leader .of the shock troops, Gebert distinguished himself and his team. 

In most of the games his entire team was used a.nd in all of them the backfield 

played. Their work under Gebert was so outstanding that it drew the recognition 

of football followers all over the country; the shockers were seldom scored 

on and always made consistent drives agai~st Notre Dame's strongest opponents. 

The heady 'work of Bud Ge~ert is what sustained ~he second team attack until 

such time as the "New Four Horsemen" went into battle, and no one will ever 

know just how much he contributed to Notre Dame's success this Fall.

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PAUL O'CONNOR 

Right Half 

Handicapped throughout the season by a :variety of injuries, this sturdy, 

silent New Englander nevertheless carried on. One of the hardest ruiming and 

blo~king backs in the country, O'Connor's work was not flashy, although at 

times the steady flowing stream of his consistency was rippled with flashes of . 

greatness, as at the Northwestern game, when his slashing run of 40 yards paved 

the way to Notre Dame's first touchdown. 

His self-sacrificing attitude was demonstrated perfectly in this run when, 

instead of cutting over the middle of the field, he followed the teaching ·of 

Rockne and permitted himself to be tackled out of bounds. He might ha.ve 

cut in and run 40 more yards to a touchdown and personal glory, bu~ there was 

a chance of being tackled ncar the sidelines and "Rock" had told him to run 

outside when in a position like this. His sacrifice had its reward on the next 

pla.y when Joe Savoldi got away on a reverse for a score. 

As a member of the 1929 shock troops, "Bucky's" work stamps him as another 

of Notre Dame's great work-horses - the right half-backs who· block 

for the other fellow. 

JOE NASH 

Center 

Just another reason why Coach Rockne was optimistic this year is found in 

Joe Nash, shock troop pivot man. 

He had distinguished himself time and again during the '1928 season by his 

all-around heady play and notably by his 60-yard touchdown run against Drake 

on an intercepted Bulldog pass, but this year he outdid even himself. 

In every game he _got the call with the bruise-absorbing shockers, who never 

get such a lot of credit, but who are in there for a purpose. He received a 

very painfully sprained ankle in the Drake game, but· was back again the next 

week to relieve Moynihan and to perform his usual wearing-down duties against 

the Southern California Trojans. \Vhen "Big Tim" broke his ankle in the 

Northwestern scrap, Joe was right there to fill his place and he bore the brunt 

of the attack and defense against Army in the finale. 

It's spirit like this that makes Notre Dame a winning team and his passing, 

with that of Moynihan, is going to leave a vacancy in the Notre Dame ranks 

that will be hard to fill. · 

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REGIS McNAMARA 

Left Tac:kle 

Don't let the first name fool you folks. If ever an unsuspecting infant was 

misnamed, Mr. McNamara of the shock troops was some so years ago by fond 

parents, who, in all probability, never dreamed that their son would grow up 

into a big, raw-boned footballer. 

At any rate, his fellow players have decided that .. Mac" is much more fitting 

moniker and have attached it to this fighting Soph who does his work at left 

tackle with the shock troops. Filling in for Ted Twomey, we tell you, is no 

easy assignment, but McNamara did it about as well as any one could ha,ve 

this year. · 

He was aggressive, fast, deceptive, and smart all the time he played with 

the second club and never failed to have his man considerably softened up for 

Ted to finish. 

Mac played easily as much ball as any other Sophomore lineman and will be 

counted on to do big things for .. Rock" and Line Coach Tom Lieb during the 

next two seasons when he will cavort in Notre Dame's new stadium. 

TI-IOMAS KENNEALLY 

Quarter-Back 

Small in body, but great in mind and brain power, Tom Kenneally rated 

second to none as a chooser of strategic plays. Handicapped by his size 

throughout his early career, Kenneally got his start with a hall team where he 

was first noticed by Rockne. This year he came through nobly with the varsity 

squad. · 

Realizing that next to using his head, a quarter-back's most important job is 

to block, the earnest Tommy concentrated on this department and this season 

his blocking was excellent. Competing with two of the best quarter-backs 

. in the country, he did not see as much action as they did, but at every opportunity 

he added further proof to his ability. · 

· His sensational run in the Northwestern game, after he had perceived ~hat 

the man to whom he was to throw a lateral pass was covered, was a striking 

indi~ation of the hair-t~igger quickness with which his brain functions.

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EDMOND COLLINS 

Left E1zd 

Another member of the team following in the footsteps of an older brother 

was Eddie ·Collins. Some years ago .. Chuck" Collins was holding down one of 

the wing positions on Notre Dame's varsity. 

Along ·came little brother Ed, not so little at that, to demonstrate that football 

is a decided family trait as far as he is concerned. He is a great defensive 

end-no opposing team carrying the ball on those sweeping flank plays ever got 

by him and many of these formations were smeared behind the line of scrimmage 

as he broke through fast and sure. 

In addition to being poison on defense 1 

Ed was no novice at the art of passcatching, 

and was also very capable as ·a swift, heady leader of interference. 

Completing his third year on the varsity, Ed has written another glowing 

chapter in the volume of brother history on Notre Dame teams. 

BERNARD LEAHY 

Left Half 

"The greatest find of the season and another Chris Flanagan," said· Coach 

Rockne as he watched Bernie Leahy perform in the first Freshman game this 

year and far be it from us to dispute .. Rock's" word. 

Bernie had the misfortune to be playing at the same time as Jack Elder, however, 

and although he could match the .. Rabbit"· at everything else, he didn't 

have quite the speed that was in Jack's flying legs. For .this ·reason, he spent 

most of the year as a reserve man, but ,at every opportunity he· demonstrated 

qualities that mark him as a man possessing triple threat ability and more. 

One of the best passers, kickers,· and runners on tl~e squad, Leahy is also a 

good defensive back and a hard blocker. He should see plenty of action whe!l 

he closes his career at Notre Dame next season.

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JOHN O'BRIEN 

Left End 

If Johnny O'Brien never does another thing on the gridiron, his name will 

go down among Notre Dame's immortals as the man who scored the winning 

touchdown against Army last year and the only player ever embraced by 

Coach Rockne. 

But "Tex", as he is more familiarly known, was not content to rest on his 

laurels. He was out every da.y this season working hard and was a .constant 

threat to Notre Dame's nine opponents. By dint of much hard labor, he has 

brought himself up to a level with the best all-around ends on the squad. He 

can block to perfection, he is a good defensive man, and he has mastered the 

little finesses of Notre Dame ends that go to throw opponents off their guard 

and pull them offsides. 

Primarily a track man-the best hurdler on the squad, in fact-O'Brien has 

joined the ranks of the very few cinder artists to attain fame on the gridiron. 

He won the Army game his Sophomore year and has another chance to perform 

next season. 

AUGUST BONDI 

Right Guard 

Gus is another of the "watch-charm" guards that distinguish Rocknecoached 

football teams. Only five feet nine inches in height, he has the drive 

and defensive qualities that distinguished John "Clipper" Smith, All-American 

and captain in 1927. 

A guard never has much chance to distinguish himself, especially when his 

lot is to understudy Capt. Johnny Law, but Gus gave good account of himself 

whenever opportunity knocked. He has plenty of fight and his snappy talk 

in the line is an inspiration to his teammates. 

Bondi will leave Notre Dame in June. with the satisfaction of knowing that 

he made good in the school where football competition is the keenest in the world. 

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GEORGE.VLK 

·· ... ·Right-End : · 

The despair of. radio announcers and reporters, George Vlk was a real joy 

to Coach Rockne _and ~11. N~~~~- J?a~eJoll.o:wer~ ?u:ing the past se~son,. 

\Vith Manny Vezie out of ~he. gam~ f1 large part· of the time with ·.hi~. Leon 

Errol trick knee, George alterna_red with Tom Conley. and handed in some very 

creditable performances. He was given jus~- a bare outside chance of making 

good last se~son .when he ro~p~d al?out ~ith the reserves, but he came up fast 

in spring practice and was' playing with 'the varsity and shock troops a large 

part of the time this fall. . · · 

Unlike many wingmen, George -ha~ ~o specialty. He is a good defensi~e 

man, a ca.gey pass receiver, and· a smart blocker. Players as consistent as· Vlk 

are few and far between, and his steadiness promises much for next year when 

he will wind. up his Notre Dame. career. 

CLARENCE KAPLAN 

Right Half 

\Ve warn you, don't be misled if you see a slight, unassuming lad wearing 

large shell-rimmed glasses and answering to the name of Clarence. For the 

chances are it's none other than "Cap" Kaplan one of the most promising 

Sophomore backs on the squad. 

He was robbed of a chance to score the first touchdown of the season when 

he caught Carideo's pass just a. foot past the end zone against Indiana, but he 

showed some real stuff in the \Visconsin game when, as he started around left 

end and found his way blocked, he reversed his field and picked up 13 yards to 

put the ball in scor.ing position. .. · 

«Cap" has keen footb~ll sense, he is a real triple-threat man, and a good 

blocker and tackler-an exceptional one considering his lack of weight. He 

was hampered by a s~oulder ~njury this yea~, but always came back for more, 

and will return for still more next fall. 

Any Soph with a monogr~~ at Notre Dame has quality, and Clarence Kaplan 

is no exception.

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NORBERT CHRISTMAN 

Quarter-Back 

.. Chris" is a smart young quarter-back who just finished his first year on the 

team. Hailing from Green Ba..y, \Vis., where the snow flies, the thermometers 

drop, and the Packers win pro championships, it was only logical that he should 

don the moleskins at Notre Dame. 

Norb had not only the atmosphere but the ability to play the pigskin game, 

.and he traveled with the team the whole season. Inexperienced at the beginning 

of the year, he did not sec much action, but in the N orthwcstcrn game 

his chance came and he grasped it. Sent into the game in the third quarter, he 

turned in a clever piece of generalship, directing the plays that led to Notre 

Dame's last touchdown. 

\Vith the experience gained this yearand the natural ability he has already 

shown, Christman should develop into one of Notre Dame's ablest signal callers. 

GEORGE SHAY 

Full-Bacl~ 

There have been many good football players at Notre Dame. There have 

been some about whom clung that mystic aura that is greatness, but it is 

doubtful whether there has ever been a better defensive full-back at Notre 

Dame than George .. Dinny" Shay. 

When Dinny was a. Freshman his defensive work against the varsity in scrimmage 

so impressed one of the coaches that he said if he' were to have a team 

composed entirely of All-American players, he could not have or. wish for a 

better defensive back than Shay. · 

His blocking is good, his plunging fair, and his open :field running, nothing· 

much at all, but the way he backs up a. line is really great. Rugged, hard, 

quiet, he has come and gone, and the outside world has known him but little. 

But those who have played against or with him will remember him for what 

he really is-one of the greatest defensive backs of Notre Dame history.

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ALLAN HOWARD 

Fulf-Back 

AI followed the footsteps of Larry Mullins all the way from California to 

Notre Dame and a full-back position with the varsi~y squad. 

Since he .was a comparative newcomer to football, not much was expected 

of him early in the season, but he soon developed an a.ggressiveness and determination 

that carried him up among the leaders in the· Rockn~ backfield. 

His first game was against Wisconsin and here he first showed the spirit that 

was to carry him on against Georgia Tech, Drake, and Northwestern. In all of 

these games, particularly the Drake one, he carried the ball well, blocked 

effectively, tackled precisely, and showed proficiency in every depart,ment of 

the game. 

His showings in the Drake and Northwestern games give promise of a 

_future of note in his remaining two years at Notre Dame. 

THOMASYARR 

Center 

\Vith two experienced pivot men ahead of him in the persons of Tim 

Moynihan and Joe Nash, Tommy saw little action in the closer games this 

fall, but showed the makings of a center of distinction when he had the 

c~~~ . 

Traveling with the ustadiumless champions" throughout the season he 

gained a wide range of experience that should help him considerably. during 

the next few years. He used his weight and broad shoulders to good 

advantage in the Drake and Northwestern games where he saw most of his 

action this year, arid to clear him of a false charge, we might diverge at 

this point for a moment. 

One of his center passes had got away from him in the \Vildcat game 

and put the Purple in scoring position. Later, when the ball was fumbled 

by a Notre Dame back and recovered by a Northwestern lineman for a 

touchdown, Tommy was immediately blamed for the affair, but we got it 

straight from the quarter-back that Yarr made no miscue on this play, 

but rather that one of the backs did. · 

His well-balanced proportions of brain and brawn coupled with his 

natural and developed ability should put him with the first string. for the 

next two years.

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JOSEPH LOCKE 

Guard 

Locke is another of the consistent linemen who saw action with the shock· 

troops during the past season. Joe is not the beefy type of lineman, but relied 

on speed and headwork to carry out his assignments on offense. And when 

the other side had possession of the ball, it gained very few yards through his 

section of the line. · 

If the spirit to fight hard at all times has anything to do with the making of a 

successful football player, it was one of the reasons that Locke was .. up there." 

Quiet and unassuming off the field, he rose to the heights of fire and dash when 

he donned a suit ·to become .a literal tower. of strength. 

His presence on the squad next year, his last at Notre Dame, will be welcome 

indeed. · 

ARTHUR McMANMON 

Right T acl?..le 

Preceded by a brother, .. Big John" ·of the famous Seven Mules of 1924, Art 

was not entirely devoid of background when he came to Notre Dame !ast year. 

Plenty of beef, added to his height, was combinel with a-ggressiveness and 

fight to make him one of the most dependable men on the squad. He was in the 

starting lineup with the shock troops whenever they performed and was outstanding 

for his blocking, defensive work, and especially for his ability to open 

holes for the backs. Many of Savoldi's and Schwartz's longer runs were made 

through the gaps opened by Mac. 

\Vith two more years of competition ahead of him, Art will undoubtedly be 

a star lineman in the Notre Dame wall and will carry on the McManmon tradition 

started by his big brother; 

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THOMAS MURPHY 

. Right End .·. . 

' . 

Yom heard the call of Notre Dame football_, 'way.· out. in Connecticut and 

hurried out to the Rockne stables to try his luck. 

Neither Notre Dame nor Tom was sorry .at his. decision. There was plenty 

of competition at the right wing this y~ar, but this tall, ·rangy lad never got· 

lost in the shuffle. An outstanding blocker and. tackler, he distinguished himselt 

in the Northwestern and Drake games as an excellent pass receiv~r. . 

He· never looks )ike he is goi.ng to quite rea~h the ba.ll· when he starts after 

a toss, he never seems to be running very fast, but. just· at the right moment 

out go those large hands of his and he seldom fails to. connect. · 

Tommy has another year ~f competition in which to distinguish himself under 

the Blue and Gold of Notre Dame. 

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ALCULVER· 

Left Tackle 

On~ of the best reasons why .. Rock" said at the beginning of the season that 

he would have the toughest team in football history and one strong in reserves 

is found in AI Culver. 

\Veil .()ver six feet tall -and better than 200 ·pounds in weight, Culver has 

the requisites that go to make the perfect tackle. Like numerous other Sophomore 

candidates, though, he was reminded that only eleven men can play with 

the first string and that Seniors and Juniors must be given first choice when 

there is any doubt as to whom to use, because the second year men will get their 

chance by and by. 

He played bang-up ball in the chances he got this fall and marked himself 

as a man to keep in mind next year when another Seven-Mule Team is being 

?rganized to charge before another set of Horsemen. ·

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The Trainers 

"Doctor" Joe Abbott and his crew of trainers may not be miracle workers, 

but they come mighty close to this mark with their overnight cures of bad 

sprains and bruises. Joe, who is next year's track captain, ex-president of th~ 

Monogram club and not really a doctor at all, has charge of all those mysterious 

violet rays, electric· pads, reducing machines, and scientific hot water applications 

that clutter up the training rooms. 

Dr.· Frank Summers and Dr. Frank Powers ha.ve done some remarkable work 

along the black magic line during the past season as have the three "masseurs," 

Marshall Kizer, Gene Howard, and Roy Cook. 

Naturally a fast man, Joe is always the first on the field when a player 'is 

taking the count and he usually has the patient well on the road to recovery 

when the others draw up. They all work fast, though. If you don't think so, 

try this sometime: take the first unconscious person . you run across, bring him 

to his senses, diagnose his case, and give him. first aid. all in two very short, fleeting 

moments. 

That's just one of the little routine functions of the training sta.ff that go on 

week after week. 

JOSEPH ABBOTT 

Head Trainer 

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The Cheer leaders 

Cries of "Handspring"! 

A very tall, but very limber young man dressed all in white trots out before 

a packed stadium, gracefully obliges with a smooth cartwheel, turns 

around, and takes a bow or two. He is joined by four immaculately togged 

assistants, and, under their direction, a mighty cheer goes up. 

There you have it. Dan· Barton and his four scintillating helpers showing a 

football-mad ·conglameration ·of persons how to give vent to their feelings in 

the most effective way. · 

The cheering at the Chicago "home" games and at the season's recordbreaking 

pep sessions played no little part in the success of "The New Four 

Horsemen." Smiling Dan, the world's best yell-producer, played no small role 

in the production of these ground-rocking roars. 

He was very capably assisted by Art Goulet and Ed Madden, Juniors; and 

Sophomores Powers and Kennedy, all of whom will do their stuff next season 

during the first year of home football in the new Notre Dame stadium. 

Give 'em a hand, folks, they'v:e earned it. 

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DAN BARTON 

Head Cheerleader

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39 

·The Band 

PROF. JOSEPH J. CASASANTA 

Director 

Southern California, North:western, and Army as well as 

learn new formations for these schools. This was no ordinary 

task, but the combined efforts of Prof. Casasa~ta, 

Pres. Harry Busscher, and Drum Major Henry Tholen made 

it look easy. 

The University Band, under the 

capable direction of Prof. Joseph J. 

Casasanta, was a real record-breaker 

this year. 

It broke its own record for size 

with a membership of 85. It made 

:five trips to games-three to Chicago, 

one to Evans ton, and one to 

New York-another new mark. It 

played before an average audience 

of about 80,000 persons in its :five 

appearances to set a season's total 

of approximately 400,000, a record 

that will stand for all bands for 

some time. 

And if the organization did not 

set a new standard for quality of 

music offered and smart drilling, 

we are no judge of either. Director 

Casasanta. had a wealth of last 

year's men to work with this year · 

and . used them to the best possible 

advantage. 

On four successive Saturdays the 

unit had to play songs of Drake, 

HENRY THOLEN 

Drum Major 

At pep meetings and at games, the band was an inspiration 

to the student body and to the team as well. There 

was nothing but praise for the organization this year as 

it sent the ((Victory March" and Director Casasanta.'s own 

uHike Song" ringing through the crisp Fall air. 

. , 

The Band on Parade.

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The Reserves 

1929 RECORD 

October 12, Reserves ----------------12; \Vestern Sta.te Normal--:-· ___ .:..______ 7 

October 19, Reserv~s--------~---~--~1.9; :_Fer;is I~sti~ute -------:----------- 6 

October 19, Reserves_ ___________.:.._.:.....:. 7;: Mic~igan State Norm:iL __ .;..______ 12 

October 26, Reserves---------------- 6; \V~sco~~in.' Reserves ---'------------10 

October 26, Reserves_ _______________ 12; Northwestern Reserves ___________ 0 

October 26, Reserves ________________ 46; Valparaiso · _.:.________ ~ ____ :.._______ 3 

November 2, Reserves_ ________.:._____ 13; Minnesota Res~rves -------------- 0 

November. 9, Reserves_ _____________ 81;. Ball Teachers'-~ College____________ 6 

November 9, Reserves_:-_________ ..;.__ 7; Iowa Reserves: -------------:--.:...__ 0 

November 23, Reserves_ ____.:_________ 0; Kalamazoo --------------------- 0 

' . By HARRy A. SYLVESTER 

Once again a Notre Dame varsity team has completed a 

highly successful season and once· again the reserve or uB" 

teams have done nigh as well as the first squad. 

Traveling to nine ·games-as m~ny as the varsity itself 

journeyed to-and playing two· at home, the reserves acquitted 

themselves nobly and well. At times they had to 

split their squad and play two or three games on the same 

day, and it is significant to note. that they never lost a 

game in the last two years when t;he· squad was intact. 

This year they left behind them a reputation for clean·, 

hard play and football smarter than is expected of reserve 

teams. 

They opened their season with a 12 to 7 victory over 

\Vestern State Normal at Kalamazoo on Oct. 12. They 

outplayed the Teachers decisively in this opening game 

and, according to watchers, deserved a larger score, but 

then a victory is a victory and why fuss about what 

should have been? 

The next week, the reserves split up and received their 

first taste of defeat. One squad went to Big Rapids, 

Mich., and played Ferris Institute's eleven off its feet to 

win, 19 to 6. Another club went to Ypsilanti, Mich., and 

was not so fortunate in its game with Michigan State 

Normal. This uB" team lost, 12 to 7, although having 

somewhat of an edge in the statistician's column. 

Oct. 26 was a big day in Notre Dame football. While 

the varsity was taking its revenge from Carnegie Tech at 

Pittsburgh, the reserves divided into three groups and won 

two out of three games. In a game at Cartier field marked 

by an abundance of fluke plays which worked to the advantage 

of both teams, the uB" team lost to Wisconsin's 

reserves, 10 to 6. Abe Zoss, South Bend's flashy contribution 

at guard, intercepted a Badger pass for Notre Dame's 

touchdown, Obendorfer tied the score with a 57-yard run 

after scooping up a . juggled ball, Lutz added the extra 

point for \Visconsin, and Davidson put the game away for 

the Cardinals with a 35-yard drop-kick from the sidelines, 

the ball traveling over 45 yards in the air. 

Another squad just· about ruined Valparaiso's h~mecoming 

with a 46 to 3 victory over the little school with the 

big riame. A third squad achieved a victory second only to 

the varsity's when it ran rough-shod over Northwestern's 

«B" team in the last quarter to score a 12 to 0 win. Only 

five playswere used in Notre Dame's offensive at Evanston. 

· The cream of the reserve squad journeyed northward 

on Nov. 2 to play Minnesota's scrubs in a night-cap to 

the Minnesota-Indiana game. Although outweighed some 

ten pounds to the man, the Notre Dame club had little 

difficulty in disposing of the Gophers, 13 to 0. So strong 

was their defense that not once did Minnesota have the 

ball outside its own 3 O~yard line. 

The next week, the reserves split· again, one squad st~ying 

at home and the other going to Muncie for a night 

game with Ball State Teachers' College. The squad that 

closed Cartier field's history eked out a 7 to 0 victory in a 

bitterly fought contest that saw Iowa deep in Irish territory 

several times, but lacking in the old touchdown 

punch. In the shadow of its own goal posts, the Notre 

Dame defense was as effective as it was mediocre in midfield. 

The club at Muncie evidently found after:-dark football 

to its liking, for, in an exhibition of dazzling offensive 

. ball, it rolled up what stands as possibly the highest score 

ever totaled by any uB" team, 81 to 6. Led by Sheekestki 

and the shifty Koken, the reserve backs ran wild behind a 

line that tore gaping holes in the home team's defense. 

The reserves took a rest on Nov. 16 and hied themselves 

to the Southern California game at Soldier field to watch 

the varsity 'score its most brilliant victory of the season. 

They closed their year in more or less of a lethargy against 

Kalamazoo college at Kalamazoo the next week. Although 

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again they had t~e edge in first downs, yards from scrimmage, 

and everything else that goes to console beaten and 

tied teams, they came out of the Kalamazoo fray in a 

deadlock which saw no score on either side. 

An interesting story was told ·in a Chicago newspaper 

office concerning Notre Dame's showing on Oct. 26, the 

big day. It seems the sports editor had decided to run all 

of his reserve game stories under a single head and thus 

keep them together rather than scattered all through his 

sheet. \Vhen press time rolled around, he found that he 

had four stories-three of them were Notre Dame's and 

two of them Irish victories. 

This comprehensive schedule that the Reserves play is 

but another exhibition of the genius that is Rockne's. 

Realizing that actual competition under fire· against another 

team representing another institution, is the best 

way to bring out the best that is in his men, he also realizes 

that so large is the squad that it is impossible for 

them all to get this experience in the varsity games. Hence 

the reserve games which have indeed pro"duced_ results. It 

was from the ranks of the reserves that some of Notre 

Dame's brightest stars arose. Leppig, Flanagan, Elder and 

Nash; Law, Colrick and Vezie are but a very few of the 

names that have achieved prominence after an apprenticeship 

on the Reserves. 

And last, but most important, comes the hardest and 

. yet the most valuable thing that the Reserves do; namely, 

act as the scrub team for the varsity. \Veil-nigh every 

week, one or more reserve teams learn the plays that the 

varsity's opponents will use on the coming Saturday, and 

all that week the Reserves will shoot these plays at the 

varsity in live or dummy scrimmage, thus enabling the 

varsity to acquaint itself with the offense they will meet on 

the following Saturday. This is no easy task, but under 

the inspiration of men like Chevigny and Lieb, and always 

with the realization that "Rock's" presence hovers over the 

field whether he is present or not,. the Reserves have time 

and again helped win games in which they did not play. 

Rockne HearS Navy Game on Special \Wire 

Lying in bed list~ning to his team win an important intersectional 

game was a new experience for Coach Knute 

Rockne, but that was all there. was left for him to do on 

the afternoon of Oct. 12. 

It was the week- before the Navy game that the Notre 

Dame wizard first had been stricken with the congestion 

in his leg, and when the time came for his boys to leave, 

he had been told by his doctor that to accompany them to 

Baltimore would be to remain bedfast all season. Reluctantly 

accepting the lesser of the two evils, "Rock" did 

not, however, put the game entirely out of his active mind. 

He arranged to ha.ve a leased wire to Baltimore connected 

to the phone at the side of his bed, and Saturday 

morning he talked to every. man on the ·squad, offering 

bits of advice, encouragement, and last-minute strategy. 

Came the game. Here was Rockne, 800 miles from the 

scene of battle,: helpless. . There was his team . that had 

looked none too impressive the week before against Indiana 

-anp there was one of the greatest Navy elevens in the 

Academy's history. .\Vould his men be equal to their great 

task· without him to guide them? 

·It seemed they might not when the Middies rushed the 

shock troops off their feet and scored in the first quarter. 

The invalid leader frowned. Then came the report that 

the first team was in, and right after this the news that 

Carideo had. completed his· spectacular pass to Elder for a 

touchdown and had tied the ·score with his kick. He was 

all smiles now. 

\Vhen lvlullins plunged over Navy's go~l a while 

later to put· the game on ice, he lean~d hac~ and sighed. a 

long, satisfying sigh o_f relief. Y.es, sir, they were a great 

bunch of ·boys. And "Rock" must be a great teacher and 

leader when his boys can play like they did at Navy without 

him there :to point out each move.

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Notre Datne-A Teatn That Packs 'Etn In 

.. Panoramic view of the 120,000 crowd that jammed Soldier ~ield to see the Notre Dame-South~rn California- game. 

. What Jack Dempsey was to boxing, what Babe Ruth 

is to baseball, what Bobby Jones is to golf-that is what 

Notre Dame represents to football. 

The crowd loves action, fighting h~arts, and the faculty 

for coming back when defeat seems inevitable, and Notre 

Dame teams have never failed to show these qualities. That 

the 1929 team wa~ no exception to the rule is shown by 

the fact that they packed in a total audience of 600,000 

persons, or an average of over 65,000 at each game, to set 

a new mark that won't be broken for some time. 

. uThe New Four Horsemen".·opened their season before 

a Homecoming crowd of 20,000 at Bloomington, and the 

~ext week a sellout gathering of 80,000 saw them beat the· 

Navy at Baltimore. Coming into their uback yard home 

field" in Chicago, Oct. 19, they romped about before 

100,000 pairs of eager eyes to beat \Visconsin. 

The following week, 70,000, the largest crowd ever to 

witness a sporting· event in Pittsburgh, saw them _play 

Carnegie Tech. It was the first time the Carnegie stadium, 

built in 1.925, was filled. Thirty-five thousand saw them 

get revenge from Georga Tech at Atlanta· on Nov. 2. Their 

fame thus far drew a crowd of 45,000 to the Drake game 

the next week, and following tha.t they equalled their own 

record -with a conglameration of some 120,000 souls at 

Soldier Field when they played Southern California. 

Chicago's intersectional clash with Washington did not 

stop 50,000 persons from turning out Nov. ·23 to see 

Notre Dame wrestle with the Northwestern \Vildcats. 

The 80,000 pasteboards for the traditional Army game in 

New York were sold out before the season opened and an 

added 200,000 applications were re~urned to their senders. 

The last three games were all sellouts, for that matter, a 

striking tribute to a team that came back after losing four 

games the previous year and fought its way to the top of 

the heap again. 

. The mobs go fo.r winners and for teams that never quit 

when they are fighting a losing battle. They want to see 

football played scientific~lly, but. not if the elements of 

fight and daring are lost. The keen knowledge of the 

game and the inspiration Coach Rockne gives his players 

combines both of the elements th~t the public wants. 

That is why 600,000 persons went milling through the 

turnstiles of the nation's largest stadia this year. Notre 

Dame football satisfies-but it is not mild. 

HIKE SONG 

T be march is on- 

No brain or brawn 

Can stojJ the charge of fighting men. 

Loud rings tbe cry · 

Of grim defy 

Of hard attack let loose again. 

0, it's a Hike! Hike! Hilu! to victory, 

Tbe call to rise and strilw, 

For Notre Dame men are wimzing 

'Vben Notre.Dmite bears Hilwl Hike! Hike/ 

CHORUS 

Hark to tbe cbeering, 

Songs rising bigb. 

Hark to tbe roar 

As ber raulu go marchiug by. 

Shoulder to shoulder, 

Chautiug her glorious 11ame 

Burn bigh your fires 

A11d swing along for Notre Dame.


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The Manager~ 

JOHN QUIN~ 

Hughes, Joseph Lauerman, Bourke Motsett, and Jack 

Saunders; and these Senior managers: Anthony Kegowicz, 

Con Carey, Robert· Hellrung, Gene Kennedy, and 

Frank O'Marah assisted by the ten Sophomore mana.gers. 

The group of seventy Freshmen managers who 

reported in September was cut to twenty during the 

season. This is an indication of the 'rivalry that exists on 

\Vith Notre Dame playing every game 

of its 1929 schedule on the road, the task 

of the student managers was a gigantic one. 

Too much credit cannot be given to head 

mana.ger, John Quinn and associa.te manager, 

Bernard Conroy, for the efficient way 

in which they took care of the countless 

details of the trips to Bloomington, Baltimore, 

Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Evanston, New 

York and Chicago. 

Every week trunks had to be packed, railroad, 

hotel, and eating reservations made, 

and a thousand and one other details taken 

care of. \Vhen the team was not. traveling,· 

it was practicing at home, and equipment 

had to be ha.ndled, scouts and others who 

did not belong had to be kept off the field, 

and players had to be checked in. 

Besides the varsity trips, there were eight 

reserve games on foreign fields and two at 

home to be handled. These trips were 

handled by the 'following Junior managers: 

Tom Ashe, Robert Balfe, Dan Halpin, Jack 

BERNARD CONROY 

the staff; contrary to general opinion, the managers are 

something more than mere valets to the players. 

The success of the 1929 team was due in a large way to 

the efficient manner in which Quinn, Conroy, and their 

aides-de-camp took the burden of responsibility from 

Coach Rockne and the players and relieved them of unnecessary 

worry. 

Front Row: J. McKean, J. Grams, J. Lauerman, J. Saunders, J. Hughes, D. D. Halpin, C. Carey, F. O'Marah, J. Quinn, B. Conroy, A. 

Kegowicz, T. Ashe, R. C. Balfe, C. Weiss, J. Gill, J. Ross, W. Corr. Middle Row: J. Ryan, G. Armbruster, \V. Johnston, J. Greer, H. 

Schalnick, J. Kennedy, D. Lasardi, W. Kenefick, E. Noble, M. Mulville, D. Fox, S. Addonisio, P. Brannon, C. Spangenberg, J. Colville. Back 

Row: J. Baker, P. Aubrey, T. Murray, J. Birke, A. O'Keefe, J .. Pick, C. Preston, L. Raddatz, \V. "'fcGeory, F. Buhl, H. Prendergast, F. Van Allyn, 

E. Bergan, R. Noll, J; McCoy, J. Williams, R. \Velty, A. Wirry, B. Shinners. Absent when picture was taken: G. Kennedy, B. Motsett, R. 

Hellrung, R. Conley, J. Walsh, J. Kelleher.

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Scenes from early ga~es on Cartier Field.


ttThe Passing of the Old-'' 

By RonERT E. G9RMAN 

Cartier Field, hallowed soil at Notre Dame, is now 

merely a tradition. The historic old battlefield, scarred by 

the cleats of many an Irish immortal, has finally yielded to 

the growth of football~a growth in which one of those 

immortals, Knute Rockne himself, has been instrumental. 

The nation-wide following which Notre Dame teams 

enjoy today makes it difficult for us to believe that there 

was ever a time when a Notre Dame football team was 

-not an attraction. Such was the case, however, back in the 

days when the University was scarcely a wind-break on the 

Indiana prairies. Interhall football at that time was more 

popular than interscholastic competition, and the number 

of spectators that assembled to watch the varsity play 

could usually be accomodated on the players' bench. Football, 

like checkers, was then distinctly a game to play 

rather than to watch. 

In thos.e days Notre Dame played such teams as the 

Illinois Cycling Club, Englewood High School, and the 

Indianapolis Artillery. The advent of such all-time Notre 

Dame stars as Hering, Eggeman, and Salmon served to 

arouse interest in the sp~rt, and \Visconsin, Northwestern, 

Indiana, and other ·present-day opponents of the local 

school were added to the schedule. As more and more 

people were attracted to the games, which were then held 

on a :field known as Brownson Campus, the need was felt 

for an enclosed :field. 

University officials wrote to alu_mni for help in this 

project. It was at this time that \Varren Cartier, of the 

class of '87, donated the plot of land which, under his 

name and the name of Notre Dame, was to achieve undying 

fame. Bleachers were erected for each game as the 

only permanent seats at that time were in a baseball grandstand 

at one end of the :field. 

Cartier Field, as such, was a distinct improvement, but 

it, too, became inadequate when the bewildering· genius 

of a. ·second brilliant coterie of stars headed by 

Dorais, Eichenlaub, and 

Rockne himself, commanded 

the attention of 

the entire football world. 

Accordingly, Jesse Harper, 

who was then head coach, 

in 1915, erected permanent 

stands seating 1 ,000. 

These seats, together 

with 1,000 more which 

were addc;d in the following 

year, sufficed until 

1919. In that . year, 

Rockne, who had meanwhile 

become head coach, . 

promised that if he were · 

allowed to erect another 

5,000 seats he would pay 

for them with the receipts 

from the next two 

games. After being granted 

th~ desired permission 

.. Rock" carried out his end 

\Vf arren A. Cartier 

of the bargain. Since. that year the seating facilities of the 

:field were gradually enlarged until the stadium reached its 

ultimate capacity. 

And now the Cartier stands arc being torn down to satisfy 

the ever-onward stride · of progress. Cartier itself 

passes, but the permanence of the Cartier Field tradition 

has been insured by the grid· genius of Gipp, Rockne, 

Eichenlaub, Dorais, Kiley, and other Notre Dame men of 

might; by the Four Horsemen and the rest of the famous 

1924 championship combination; by ·the phenomenal 

record for consecutive victories; or by any one of these 

factors alone.

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\Vhen the shovels first started last summer 

How the completed stadium will look 

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The 'completed.excavati~n. The dirt in the middle .is for the sunken playing :field

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-And the Cotning. of the New'' 

J. ARTHUR HALEY 

Bus. Mgr. of Atbletics 

Next fall Notre Dame .will open another era in its football 

history,· when the 1930 team moves into its new 

stadium. New traditions will take their place with those 

of the past Notre Dame fields and new heroes will join the 

school's immortals. who have brought glory to Our Lady 

on the sod of theold gridirons. A new policy of having 

five games at home to four away will be introduced and 

such terms as ((The Ramblers" and ((The Nomads" will go 

into discard.- · 

Although construction work is well under way on the 

new stnictutc, a definite name had not been chosen for it, 

as this book went to press. Probability that it will be. called 

simply ((Notre Dame Field" has been expressed by authorities, 

however. The new amphitheater located just south of 

the old Cartier field stands will cost in the neighborhood of 

$700,000 and will scat 60,000 persons in its first form. 

\Vith an eye to the continued popularity of Notre Dame 

football, the structure will be· built so that it may be enlarged 

around the outside to hold 80,000, ·and, with the 

addition of decks, to seat 120,000. 

Every possible convenience has ·been provided in the 

plans of the new Notre Da~e stands. They are rcctangu-· 

lar in shape so that spectators may be as ncar the playing 

field as possible. Thirty-six portals will facilitate handling 

of the crowds; dressing rooms, a first-aid hospital room, 

concession stands, 18 handball and squash courts, storage 

rooms, and other necessary offices will be found . under the 

seats in easy access to the field. The glass encl~scd press 

stand will accomodate 250 reporters and will be fitted with 

ind~vidual telegraph jacks, electric heaters, and three 

' broadcasting booths. 

The edifice is designed strictly for football and the 

playing field, ten feet below the exterior' grade, will contain 

no track or baseball facilities. Electric scoreboards 

built into the stands at both ends of the field will give the 

usual statistics as relayed by ·phone from the sidelines. 

Excavation work was finished early in theFall a·n:d footings 

for the superstructure have been laid ~0 that work on 

the stands thc~selves may be carried on in the remaining 

months before ·the portals are thrown open next September. 

Ralph Sollitt & Sons, South Bend contractors, are supervising 

constructi(?n work, and the Osborne Engineering 

Co., of Cleveland, Ohio, drew· the plans. Possibility that 

railroad spurs directly to the field may be laid to accomodate 

out-of-town spectators has been expressed. 

The extensive work. of financing the new structure is 

being carried on by J. Arth_ur Haley, business manager of 

athletics; Rev. Michael A. Mulcaire, C.S.C., Ph.D.; chairman 

of the. athletic board of control; and other faculty 

members. A very attractive offer for box seats over a tenyear 

period has·. been offered and many loyal followers of 

Notre Dame football have responded to assure the success 

of the new structure. 

The new stadium represents a dream of Coach Rockne's 

realized.: In. his playing days, as he was chasing the passes 

of Gus Dorais all over the playing field, he never thought 

that soine ·day his teams would win fame that would lead 

to his ·first ·stands of 5,000 seating capacity. Once he had 

these, though, he kept going until he got the present Cartier 

stands. Never satisfied, he started to plan for a stadium 

that would take its place with the nation's best; ·and he 

will have just that in this new home of Our Lady's football 

warriors. . 

According· to present plans, the U. S. Naval academy 

teain will dedicate the new stands next year and many of 

the outstanding elevens of the country. will meet Notre 

Dame's future teams in the ((House builded upon •Rock'." 

At the St. Joe Valley Notre Dame club's annual testimonial 

banquet for the team, December· 5, Coach Bill 

Ingram, of Navy, stated that he hoped: the Naval academy 

might be represented at the dedication of the new stadium 

by a regiment of midshipmen. He said that he will do 

everything in his power to have the midshipmen in. attendance 

at this game. 

Pat Page, Indiana's head coach; said that he is looking 

forward with pleasure to his game with Notre Dame in the 

new stadium next fall. At this writing, Indiana and Navy 

are the only two· teams booked definitely for games in the 

new arena, ·although Drake is almost a sure bet to be on 

the horn:e schedule of the 1930 team. Contests .with two 

'other prominent elevens are pending and will be announced 

before Christmas. 

Coach Rockne has stated that he will never book another 

tough schedule, but from all advance indications it. would 

seem that he 1s broadcasting just another of his famous 

bear stories.

Record ·Breakers -The" 

·J 

From stern to stem: Savoldi, F. L~ahy, Kassis, O'Connor:;; 

Colri~k, Locke, Brill, Schwartz, Donoghu'e, Bondi, Howt, 

Twomey, Murphy, B. Leahy, Cannon, Yarr, .McManmoh 

Below, left to right: Trainer Abbott, Managers Conroy al 

Mills, and Lieb, Head Coach Rockne. 

l 

National Champion~

zepp" and Notre Dame 

oynihan, Me_tzger, Gebert, Nash, Elder, KaElan, O'Brien, 

~rd, Koken, Shay, Kepneally: Culver, McNamara,_ Vlk, 

,- Mullins, Collins, Conley, Carideo, Vezie, Capt. Law.- 

d Quinn~ Assistant ·coaches Jones, Voedisch, Chevigny, 

- - - - - 1929

Record ·Breakers -The "Zepp" and Notre Dame 

. p 

From stern to stem: Savoldi, F. L~ahy, Kassis, O'Connor:[Moynihan, Me.tzger, Gebert, Nash, Elder, Ka_elan, O'Brien, 

Colri~k, Locke, Brill, Schwartz, Donoghu'e, Bondi, Howt~rd, Koken, Shay, Ke,nncally: Culver, McNamara,. Vlk, 

Twomey, Murphy, B. Leahy, Cannon, Yarr, .McManmok,- Mullins, Collins, Conley, Carideo, Vezie, Capt. Law .. 

Below, left to right: Trainer Abbott, Managers Conroy and Quinn, Assistant ·coaches Jones, Vocdisch, Chevigny, 

Mills, and Lieb, Head Coach Rockne. 

L 

National Champions - - - .. - 

1929 

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Freshm.an Football 

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.,. . ~- 

~. -· --- 

Abbatmarco, Agnew, Amyett, Aug, Banas, Bansbach, Borello, Barrett, Bassett, Bittner, Beirne, Bcnevino,· ~oenau, 

Bodo, Brancheau, Brantfort, Bresson, Butler, Cousino, DuBois, DuBrul, D'Avignon, Delancy, DeLorme, Dilling, Donnelly, 

F. C. Donoghue, J. A. Donoughue, Doran, Flanagan, Ford, Gabrysiak, Garrett, Gellis, Giorgio, Gleason, Goldstein, Green, 

Griffin, Gorman, Hafrcn, Haecker, Gru, Holman, Hahn, Harris, Hanley, Hurley, Ibach, Jaskewic4, Jones, Kreuz, Kyrth; 

Larkin, Laurie, LaBourne, Leding, LeJeune, Lukats, Lizzardo, McClurg, Marino, Marra, Murphy,. Matthews, O'Neill, 

Pierce, Rawley, ~euland, Rich, Rohrs, Ryan, Shiels; Smithers, Staab, Terlaak, Tobin, Vejar, \Volfe, Wunsch, Zoss. 

..,,,.-·. 

A new syste111 of practice was introduced to Freshman 

football men this fall by Coaches Tommy Mills and Bill 

Jones. In former· years, the Frosh had been employed 

largely as ufall guys" for the varsity. Each week they 

would learn the play of the enemy that scouts had brought 

home, and, after mastering these formations as well as 

possible in a week's time, they would scrimmage with the 

varsity. 

Time showed this to be not only a bad thing for the 

yearlings, ·but now and then unfortunate for _the varsity. 

The green-jersied lads could not organize their team play 

effectively enough to make any sort of headway against 

their older and more powerful colleagues, mimy were injured 

on jumbled· signals, and the varsity did not get the 

opposition it wanted-at least on defense. 

\Vhen the big boys took the ball; however, a different 

story was told; the varsity got more resistance than it could 

handle! Even today you hear stories on the campus· about 

how Torn Kassis wanted to clean up on All-American Bud 

Boeringer, and how Dick Donoghue outplayed the whole 

varsity line before the Army game of 1926, when they 

were in their first year. 

So this fall, Tommy and Bill kept their Freshmen over 

in a secluded corner of Cartier practice field and let them 

turn their vigor into other channels. They drilled on 

fundamentals; men who played full-back in high school 

merely because they were big, were shifted to tackle if 

they belonged there, the Notre Dame style of play was 

taught the men, and in general, they prepared for spring 

practice when they will' themselves be varsity material. 

Some 200 men reported this fall when practice started 

and immediately they were put to work preparing for the 

annual fall classic known as the Freshman-Varsity game. 

\Vith but a week· to organize these 200 lads from Hollywood 

to Naugatuck, the Freshman coaches were unable to 

make much of a classic of this contest and the varsity 

ran up a 96 to 0 score. The rapid improvement in the 

Frosh ranks and the judicious weeding-out that Mills and 

Jones engineered in a week's time were shown in a second 

game ·when the varsity, too, was better organized, but 

which it. won by only a 72 to 0 score, making 36 points 

in the last quarter against the tired yearlings. In both 

these games individuals stood out who later were to distinguish 

themselves as real material for Coach ··Rockne to 

usc next year. . 

They had distinguished . themselves quickly, too,· for 

the squad was shaved to a mere 80 in short order. These 

seven-odd squads were put to work right away on fundamentals. 

They learned Navy and Drake plays for use in 

scrimmage against the varsity, but otherwise ·went 

through much the same routine as the varsity itself. 

The number of real football players who came to light 

during the fall speaks well for next season's prospects. A 

pair of smart, inspiring quarter-backs were found in Herb 

D'Avignon, who prepped at Mt. Assumption Institute, 

Foust, N. Y., and Laurrie Vejar, from Hollywood high, at 

the other end of the continent. 

Steve Banas, a native Hoosier, is in a fair way to step 

into Jack Elder's well-worn shoes next fall at left half, 

and Roger Beirne from Peddie Prep, Hightstown, N. J., 

showed the left ends who will return that he is not to be 

taken lightly. A brace of Badgers are John Tobin, of 

Janesville, and Fritz Staab, of Madison, who did big 

things at right half and full-back, respectively. 

Don Hanley, who came over the mountains from Butte, 

Mont., where men arc-well, we· won'~ say it-will also

OFFICIAL F 0 0 T B. A L L . R E V I E W - 1 9 2 9 51 

make a strong bid for the plunging job next spring and 

fall. . A wealth of good ends was found in the searchings 

of Mills and Jones. · Bierne, already mentioned, probably 

heads the list, but John Abbatmarco, New York; Bernie 

Bresson, \Vooster, Ohio; Ed Donnelly, Bloomington, Ill.; 

Currier Holman, Salix, Iowa; and Francis Donoghue, 

Auburn, N. Y., brother of Dick and ~ern on the varsity, 

were all outstanding. · 

At the tackles, the following did some very commendable 

work: Chuck Bassett, Stratford, Conn.; Chauncey 

Brantfort, Milwaukee, \Vis.; Bernie Cousino, Erie, Mich.; 

Sam Goldstein, Chicago, Ill.; Joe Kyrth, another Madison, 

\Vis., chap; Michael Leding, South Bend; and Bill Smithers, 

·Yonkers, N. Y. 

Some mighty fine guard material for next year, rests in 

Bud Bansbach, Springfield; Ill.; Jim Harris, Belaire·, Ohio; 

Bill Pierce, Sherman, Texas; Bob Terlaak, Cleveland, Ohio; 

Harry \Vunsch and Oscar Zoss, brother of Abe Zoss, of the 

varsity squad, both of South Bend. 

Frank Buder, Tilden Tech, Chicago, star; Ed Agnew, 

Loyola, Chicago; and Ed Amyett, who came from down 

in Memphis, lead in the ball-snappers' derby. 

Phil Borello, Kansas City; Ben Gellis, New York City; 

Frank LaBourne, Brooklyn; and Nick Lukats, Gary, Ind., 

are all, ready ·to dispute their teammate, Nanas' claim to 

the left half berth, while Dan Barrett, Kalamazoo; R. J. 

Ford, John Flanagan, Pitiston, Pa.; and Jim Larkin are 

fighting it out at right half. 

It is interesting to note the distance some of them travel 

. to play under Rockne and to take their chance of making 

good. Many of them know that they could star at a 

BILL JONES 

Freshman Coacb 

smaller school, but they take their chances and come to 

Notre Dame. An old proverb says, uShoot at the Moon; 

you won't hit it, but you'll be a lot closer than if you 

didn't try." \Ve take our hat off to these lads who have 

aimed so high and wish them luck next spring when the 

19 3 0 varsity starts to take shape. · 

Early Rooting 

\Ve swiped the following bit of reminiscence from 

Harvey \Voodruff's column, uThe \Vake of the News," 

which appears daily in the Chicago Tribuue and offer it 

here for your approval. 

Dear Harvey: Perhaps you remember uway back when" 

spectacle and pa.geantry didn't have their present position 

as ubetween the halves" festivity. \Vhen I saw the release 

of the balloons and pigeons by Notre Dame at Soldiers' 

field last Saturday, my mind galloped back to the days 

when I was still a student in the old prep school at Notre 

Dame and all _of us, preps and collegians alike, made a 

mad rush under the grandstand as soon as the half ended. 

There an enterprising South Bender sold sa:ucer pies, ham 

sandwiches, and coffee. The latter was piping hot, served 

in tin cups: For 15 cents the hungry student had a feast. 

\Vhat was probably the first attemp·t at organized rooting 

at Notre Dame took place in 1900 in a game against 

Beloit. Song parodies were written by upperclassmen and 

rehearsed at what we now would call a upep rally." One 

of them still sticks in my mind. It was .sung to the popular 

ragtime ditty of uHello My Baby, Hello. My Honey, 

Hello My Ragtime Gal/'· an:d ran: 

Hello AlFortiu, hello John Farley, 

Hello, the whole darued team; 

Seud tts tbe uews by wire, 

Beloit is left in tbe mire. 

If we defeat tbem, we will entreat tbem 

Not to go bome aml cry; 

So, CajJtain, maul tbem 

And we'll j1rocure the rye. 

\V e did maul them, all right, but lost the state championship 

to Indiana. Fortin, then. captain, is now a prominent 

engineer in New York. 

Notre Dame Alumnus. 

Too bad our friend who signs himself uNotre Dame 

Alumnus" wasn't around the week before the Southern 

California game to see some REAL pep, although we have 

very little to say against the enthusiasm of the crowd at 

the game itself. Really, it wasn't half bad, come to think 

of it. 

·; ·'


Interhall Football 

«They play on class teams, dormitory teams, corridor 

teams-any kind of teams as long as they play football." 

\Vith these characteristic words, Knute Rockne explains 

how and why more than 800 men play football each fall 

at Notre Dame. 

\Vith the same words, .. Rock" exposes a system which 

-has not only mystified. the average football fan, but many 

a fellow-coach as well. The plan is nothing more than an 

arrangement whereby all of the players on these les~er 

teams, which compete in an interhall league, have a chance 

to learn the game and to play it. The following spring 

they have ample opportunity to show the results of added 

experience in spring practice. If they make good they 

are invited to join the varsity; if not, they are «farmed out" 

to the interhall league for another season. The important 

thing is that Coach Rockne has an ever-developing source 

of material on hand. · 

Interhall football at Notre Dame is not a new institution. 

The storied history of die school, even before 1900, 

is crowded with incidents that typify the intense rivalry 

which prevailed in interhall competition. In the earlier 

years of the league a. Sorin-Corby clash for the hall title 

was as bitterly fought as a Notre Dame-Southern California 

battle of today with a national championship at stake. 

Gradually, however, inter-scholastic football arose to claim 

the major share of attention at Notre Dame as well as at 

other universities. 

\Vith the assumption of what Notre Dame men have always 

considered a sacred duty-that of wea.ring the Gold 

and Blue in athletic warfare against the representatives of 

other schools-interhall football was not discontinued. On 

the other hand, the system· was maintained not only to 

supplement varsity athletics, but also to give every student 

of. the university an opportunity to play supervised fotball. 

Instead of being dwarfed into insignificance by the spectacular 

growth which has marked the exp:tnsion of intercollegiate 

football, the interhall movement has profited by 

this progress. In fact, the only pha.se of interhall football 

that remains the same from year to year is the spirit of 

the participants. 

The greatest single advance in interhall .football came i~ 

the years shortly preceding the war when the university 

initiated its policy of furnishing equipment to the players. 

This integral function of the system has been gradually 

developed until today the equipment room for the hall 

gridders resembles the «plant" of. a large university .. 

OFF-CAMPUS, INTER-HALL CHAMPIONS, 1929. 

Left to Right-Standing: Hall, Beesley, Duba, Corea,, :praves, \Valter, Licks, Crosby, Friel, Stowell, \Valsh~ Taro, 

Fitzgerald, coach. Kneeling: Golden, Otte, Gould, Noria, Kozak, (Captain), Neubauer, Gunder, Brennan, Nigro.

OFFICIAL Fo·o T BALL REVIEW-1929 53 

Previous to 1929 the task of supervising the league has 

been in the hands of one man. With the intention of centralizing 

the labor of administering over the league, Coach 

Rockne, in September of this year, created a board of 

directors composed of the twelve rectors with the Reverend 

Raymond Murch, C.S.C., as chairman. In addition, Mr. 

Rockne appointed George Keogan, head basketball coach, 

to be director of the hall system. As the "Judge Landis" 

of the circuit, Mr. Kcogan decides all disputes and protests, 

and assigns the fields and officials for the contests; while 

Father Murch arranges the schedules. 

In placing added stress upon interhall football this fall, 

Mr. Rockne assigned the coaches so that each team in the 

league might profit by the instruction of a man from the 

varsity squad. These men and their assistants arc members 

of the School of Physical Education of the university. 

By this work with the hall teams, they obtain the practical 

coaching experience required in their course. 

In the following list of coaches the first named in each 

case is the varsity representative, and the second is his 

co-worker: Lyons, Conley and Dilley; Freshman, Brill and 

Brown; Off-Campus, ·Lyons and Fitzgerald; Sophomore, 

Koken and Reaume; Howard, Carideo and Janishcski; Morrissey, 

Griffen and Eaton; Brownson, Yarr and Jachym; 

\Valsh, Savoldi, Flynn and Hahan; St. Edwa.rd's, Kosky, 

Carr and Harris; Carroll, Kaplan, O'Connell and Artwan; 

Corby, O'Brien and Maroni; Badin, F. Leahy, \Valsh and 

O'Connor. 

One of. Mr. Rockne's motives in having a varsity man in 

contact with each team in the league was continually to be 

on the lookout for promising material. The product of the 

hall circuit is a fighting ball player more often than a 

finished star, for "fight" rather than "finesse~' is the characteristic 

of this lca.gue. This fits in nicely with the plans 

of the coaching staff, for they find that a player with 

plenty of spirit will ordinarily be an apt pupil in regard to 

football technique. 

From start to finish, a different spirit seemed to prevail 

during the past season. That 1929 was to be no ordinary 

year in interhall history was indicated early in September 

when over 400 answered "Rock's" call and were issued 

equipment. Throughout. the campaign the competition 

was keener and the teams more evenly matched than ever 

before; while Mr. Keo"gan and his board of directors established 

a new era in efficiency in their management of the 

league. 

INTERHALL STANDINGS 

G1·ou.p I 

\Von Lost Tie Pet. 

Sophomore 

________ 3 

0 1 1.000 

Morrissey __________ 3 1 0 .775 

Corby -----------·2 1 .666 

Lyons _____________ 1 

2 1 .333 

St. Edward's _______ o 3 1 .000 

G,.ou.p II 

Won Lost Tie Pet. 

Off-Campus _______ 3 0 1 1.000 

____________ 2 

\Valsh 

1 1 .666 

Freshman _:__________ 2 1 1 .666 

Howard ___________ 1 1 2 .500 

_________ 1 

Brownson 

2 1 .333 

Carroll ____________ o 4 0 .000 

The outcome itself of the grid derby was somewhat out 

of the ordinary. The adjective "unusual" when applied to 

the victory of the Off-Campus eleven is meant in praise 

rather than in disparagement. Year after year. the "Day 

Dogs" enter the "flag" race with the odds all against them. 

The hall elevens have a distinct advantage over them in that 

they not only have a better opportunity to organize but 

also to practice. The Off-Campus division in the past has 

turned out good teams, but it remained for the 1929 edition 

to make history by. winning a pennant for Father 

Heiser's office. 

\Vhen Crosby's forty-yard victory pass had been snared 

by Beesely who subsequently deposited it across the Sophomore 

goal line in the championship clash, it was "Journey's 

End" for the Villagers. Their own particular .Victory 

March had ended in a well-earned championship. At that, 

their title-gaining efforts were but a shade better than those 

of the Sophomore Hailers, who a week before had held them 

. to a tie and necessitated .a play-off. 

The champions played six games. Two of them, one 

against Brownson and the other against the Sophs, .were 

scoreless ties, while Carroll was defeated, 12 to 6; Howard, 

8 to 0; an~ \Valsh, 7 to 0. The narrow. margin by which 

Off-Campus trod the championship ·path is indicative of 

the type of football which marked the season this year~ 

The games, with but few exceptions, 'Yerc battles to the 

last whistle. 

Fi1·st Team Po_sition Seco11d Tem1t 

Crosby (Off-Campus) __________________ LE ___________________ .Citro (St. Edward's) 

Reidy (Morrissey) ----------------:----:---LT----------:----:------Rigney (\Valsh) · 

Melchione (Morrissey)-----------------:- LG ~------------------Bender (Sophomore) 

McCarthy (Sophomore) ________________.C --------·-------:------:Hall (Off-Campus) 

Kane (Freshman) _____________________.RG'------------------· O'Neil (Howard) 

\Valsh · (Off-Campus) Capt. _____________ R T --------,-----------LaRcux (Howard) 

Mikes (Sophomore) ____________________ RE ___________________ E. Jane (\Valsh) 

Chcvallicr· (Morrissey) -----~-----------·QB'--------:-:-------'----- Conti (Sophomore) Capt. 

Kozak (Off-Campus) _____ ..:._______ __.____ LH __________ _:_________ Mangan (Lyons) 

McCarthy (Freshman) -----------------'-RH___________________ N or ton (Morrissey) 

Captor (Sophomore) ___________________ FB ------------------· Gleason (St. Edward's) 

The Inter-Hall of ·Fame~

54 0 F.F I CIA L FOOTBALL REVIEW-1929 

How They Looked Before the Season. Opened 

Bailie, Bloemer, Bondi, Brannon,, Brill, D. Cannon, J. Cannon, Carberry, C~rideo, Carmody, Cassidy, Cavanaugh, Christman, Collins, Colrick, 

Conley, Conway, Cronin, Culver, B. Donoghue, R. Donoghue, Elder, Gebert, Griffin, Herwit, Host, Howard, Izoe, Kaplan, Kassis, Keeney, 

Kenneally, Kerjes, Koken, Kosky, Kramer, Capt. Law, B. Leahy, F. Leahy, Listzwan, Locke, Lyons, Mahoney, Manley, Massey, McManmon, 

McNamara, Metzger, Moynihan,. Mulli~s, E. Murphy, T. Murphy, Nash, E. O'Brien, J. O'Brien, O'Connor, Provissero, Reiman, Rogers, Savoldi, 

C. Schwartz, M. Schwartz, Seymour, Shay, Thornton, Twomey, Vezie, Vlk, \Vharton, \Vhelan, \Villiams, Yarr, Yelland, Zoss. 

.. Yeah fair, just fair." 

Thus soliloquized one Mr. Knute Rockne as he looked 

over the hundred-odd men who were to make up his 1929 

varsity at the beginning of practice this fall. 

True, the rigorous nine game schedule-the hardest in 

football history with every game on the road-was. nothing 

about which one could go into ecstasies. The four 

defeats of last year, honorable and glorious as they were, 

would· make one pause and think a moment before predicting 

a national championship or anything approaching 

it for Notre Dame. 

But even cagey Mr. Rockne, he who gives out those 

very convincing bear stories during the season, did not 

fool· all of the people all of the time. He had made several 

careless slips of the tongue before he went into his shell of 

gloom to say that his team must lose one and possibly 

three or four games during the season. 

For one thing, he had been quoted in the press of the 

nation as saying that .. the 1929 Notre Dame football team 

will be the toughest in the history of football." And again, 

this time at a coaching school at Northwestern university, 

he had come out and said that the era of pessimism is 

over, .. it is time for coaches to take an optimistic attitude 

and thereby bluff the other fellow into thinking he r~ally 

has something." · 

Time has shown that neither of these statements was a 

bluff-rather, they were just slips made while the Notre 

Dame wizard was wondering just what he would do with 

all the material on hand. Notre Dame has the toughest 

team in football history and Mr. Rockne has something to 

be cheerful about. He knew this, he knew that he had linesmen 

back who fought tothe point of exhaustion in 1928, 

he knew that in Carideo, Elder, Mullins, and Brill, he had . 

the ideal backfield combination of. a thinking, inspiring 

quarterback, a fast shifty left halfback, a line-plunging 

fullback, and a marvelous blocking halfback, all of whom 

could pass and -kick on occasion. ·He knew, too, that he 

had a wealth of capable reserves. 

Everyone who didn't know it before, knew it after the 

first Freshman game. \Yfe wonder just what .. Rock" was 

thinking of this year when he said; .. Yeah fair, just fair." 

Thank You, Mr. Ecke~sall, .and Tsk! Tsk! 

Mr~ Corcoran 

In connection with the adjoining story we feel it only 

fitting.to let you know, if you don't already, what some of 

the other ccexperts" had to say about Mr. Rockne's latest 

edition before they knew just how good the 1929 road 

show would be. 

Here's what ccEckie" offered his public after the first 

Freshman-Varsity game: ccA slashing powerful football 

team will represent Notre Dame this fall ... this year's 

team is going to be one of offensive and defensive power ... 

Rockne will have a strong line and one of the best backfields 

in football . .'. It is fortunate for Rockne that he is 

equipped with abundant material for the South Benders 

will play their stiffest schedule in years.'.' 

After yards of lavish praise of Notre Dame's 1929 team, 

Jimmy Corcoran wound up a very interesting feature story 

with the following bum guess: uy es, old Rock has excellent 

prospects this season. His team, four ways from Sunday, 

will be stronger than last season. But-he'll take a: 

licking or two and perhaps three. You can paste that in your 

skimmer, too. For good as his boys seem to be, they're. 

only human. And no human machine can crash through 

without a few defeats in the schedule he has wished on his 

men for 1929." And there, as they say, you are.

: • • • • ~ ~ • ' • ._, • I• ' • ., 

7ho SEASON'S. 

EVIEW• . 

·1929.


Notre Datne 14 

Indiana 

0 

H. 0. "PAT" PAGE 

Indiana Coach 

\Vt were proud lo be hosts of 

Notre Damt .mtll i11 our Homtcomiug 

celebratiou. The whole 

affair was clean cui and a credit 

to two great Hoosier Stale imtillltions. 

We lake 011r hats off lo 

Rock. and his nun who played 

rl'al football from start to finish. 

Wt wish Rock. and his men all tht 

brtaks /or the res/ of the seaso11 

tmd Indiana men look. /oruiarJ to 

Playing itl )'OUT ntiV stadium next 

)'l'tlT, 

• 

Shades of Notre Dame's famous Four Horsemen of 1924 went 

shimmering across the sod of Indiana's Memorial field when 

Coach Rockne started his shock troops in the opening game with 

.. Pat" Page's powerful Crimson and Cream eleven. 

:rrain'ing camp rumor had it that .. Rock" would put a strong 

team on the field for his first game, but with the memory of four 

defeats of last year still fresh in their minds, Notre Dame followers 

were a bit uneasy when they saw eleven untried reserves 

trot out on the turf. · 

. \Vould they pe able to hold their own? \Vhat if Indiana. 

should score on them before the first team could be rushed 

i~to the fray? \Vhat if the varsity could not overcome this lead? 

B1:1t the unheralded shock troops more than justified .. Rock's" 

confidence in them by making three yigorous thrusts at the 

Hoo~ier goal line before they were taken out at the end of the 

first quarter with the ball deep in Indiana. territory. Again, 

.. Rock" was right and fans began to think that there really 

might be something to those reports of championship prospects 

at Notre Dame. 

Once unleashed, the varsity made short work of supplying the 

scoring punch that the reserves had lacked by such a. small margin. 

that was Indiana down to the 20-yard line from which 

Jack Elder started his first touchdown sprint. 

In the third quarter, given the ball again, .. The Rabbit" 

tore through a gaping hole made by Capt. Law and .. Brute" 

Twomey, hesitated when he met the secondary, and 

bounded off to the right to outstrip his pursuers for 60 

yards and a second score.· 

The forwards slowly but surely bunted the Crimson mass 

'..;. 

PAUL BALAY 

Indiana Captain 

I am glad lo have had the ehatlce 

lo play agaitiSt as fiut a ll'am as 

Notre Damt's 1929 ele1·et1. The 

en/ire team played hard, clean 

football and I speak. for my teammates 

as tvell as myself, whm I· 

wish Notre Dame success in its 

future games. 

If there were any doubts before the Indiana game as to 

prospects at Notre Dame for 1929, they vanished like a 

wisp of smoke in :in 80-mile gale when the powerful Blue 

and Gold line held Indiana's best to three first downs-all 

of them by the air route-and when the .. New Four 

Horsemen," Carideo, Elder, Mullins, and Brill started their 

ride. 

·i 

Elder is off to his first touchdown against Indiana.

O·FFLCJ·A·L · FO·OTB.·ALL REVIEW-1929 57 

Elder Scores. Twice as Notre Dame Wins Opener 

THE LINEUPS 

NOTRE DAME INDIANA 

Colrick • 

• Hans~n 

Left End 

Twom~y 

Unger 

Left Tackle 

Cannon· 

Hojinaki 

Left Guard 

Moynihan • • • • Ringwalt 

· Center 

Law (C) • . • • Shanahan 

Right Guard 

F. Leahy • • • · • • Shields 

Right Tackle 

Vezie • Zeiter 

Right End 

Carideo • • • • • Brubaker 

Quarter-Back 

Elder • • • • • . • Ross 

Left Half 

B::-ill • • Balay 

Right. Half 

Mullins • Todd 

Full-Back 

rrHero of the Da'y" 

Yes. Suh, folks,! The Kentucky speed 

marchant, the lad who is not supposed to 

have "football sense," but who CAN run, 

stepped out twice at Indiana and sprinted 

his way to glory. in Notre Dame's first 

victory. 

Besides scoring a pair of touchdowns, the 

. Colonel made some brilliant tackles, some 

sparkling runs, and threw some deadly 

passes to demonstrate that besides being a 

runner, he is a real football player. 

By EDGAR MuNzEL 

Chicago Herald-Examiner 

JACK ELDER 

Bloomington, Ind., Oct. 5.-There was a hustling and a 

bustling in the hall of the famous Notre Dame grid heroes 

today-those illustrious Rockne warriors of other days, 

George Gipp, the Four Horsemen, Christy Flanagan and 

Johnny Niemiec were preparing to welcome a newcomer. 

Jack Elde1·, down here on the gridiron, another son of 

Notre Dame, was doing just what they had done before 

him. He ran the Crimson of Indiana into the sod, 14 to 0. 

Perhaps he. didn't possess to the same degree the allaround 

greatness of Gipp, the keen insight of the Four 

Horsemen, the shiftiness of Flanagan, the power of Niemiec. 

But he had enough of all of that in addition to sheer speed 

of foot to beat the Pagemen practically single-handed. 

Twice Elder got away for touchdowns .and he dominated 

the play as long as he was there pumping his :fine legs with 

a dancer's grace to outstrip the Crimson for repeated gains. 

In the second quart~r the trim-looking Elder, who still 

holds a. 75-yard dash record, swept around right end for 20 

yards to a touchdown. And it wasn't the fleetness· alone 

on this occasion. ·He cut back to near .center after swerving 

wide to evade three crimson-shirred lads who had ideas 

of impeding his· path. 

Elder more than doubled that effort in the third period, 

running 60 yards to a touchdown. He shot through left 

tackle as if. propelled ·from a catapult, hesitated just a 

split second as he faced the secondary defense, and then 

~truck out to the right .. He soon had three of. the backs 

hopelessly outstripped and just one remained, Balay, who 

decided to inake a desperate lunge as Jack was widening 

the gap yard by yard. He sprawled a foot behind Elder 

on the green sod. 

Makes Lo11.g Pass 

In addition to that he occasionally zipped through for 

10 and 20 yards and also did some passing. It was a pass 

from Elder to Mullins that placed the ball within scoring 

distance previous to that first touchdown jaunt in the second 

quarter. Elder tossed laterally to Mullins, who streaked 

down the side line, passed all but .one Indianan, who forced 

him out at the 25-yard line. 

Outside of Carideo, who _kicked the two extra points 

from placement, Savoldi, and Mullins, the victory was all 

Elder. The Hoosiers couldn't stop him because they 

couldn't even get their hands on him. . 

. Indiana, however, was a losing team from beginning to 

end. To top off a brilliant offensive that apparently needs 

only polishing, the Rockne men held the Page men to three 

downs and each of them was due to forward passing. T ak~ 

ing cognizance of the fact that Notre Dame gained 351 

yards by rushing in spite of a penalty total of 110 yards 

there obviously is little to say for Indiana. · 

It was a sad homecoming indeed. \With thousands of 

old grads among the 20,000 who filled most of Memorial 

Stadium, they had little to exult over than the gay decora.: 

tions that met the eye at every turn .. 

Just'once did the Pagemen really threaten and that was 

due to one of two serious fumbles by Carideo. He bobbled 

a. punt that McCracken recovered on Notre Dame's 33- 

yard line. Balay heaved a pretty pass that Brubaker 

snatched out of the air with a tremendous lc;ap from be..; 

tween two Irishers to advance to the IS-yard line. There 

the advance came to grief. 

But even that wouldn't have meant much if the Ram:.:: 

biers had eliminated several mistakes by the Ramblers;~ 

Carideo fumbled on Indiana's 8-yard line after running 

sixty yards following an intercepted pass. But why go 

into that when it ended as it did.

58 OFFICIAL F.OOTBA·LL REVIEW-1929 

Notre Da1ne 14 

Navy 

7 

W." A. INGRAM 

Navy Coach 

I do not know thai I was (Vtr 

mort imprnstd with any football 

team tha11 I u•as with the Notre 

Dame leam /hat mtl N.:Jvy ill 

Baltimore this ;year. That team 

u·as as close lo per/uliotl as a 

/(am could gd and is a grut 

tribute lo the football organi:aliotl 

a/ Notre Dame. Notre Dame's 

football teams carry onto the fidd 

all that is dear lo sporlsmm tmd 

their efficimcy is mart•elous. 

Going into battle with what was heralded as the greatest Navy 

team in years, without the hand of their stricken coach, Rockne, 

a fighting Notre Dame team proved itself more than equal to 

the task at hand in a manner that cannot be praised too hi~hly. 

Rockne had fallen prey to a painful and dangerous congestion · 

in his right leg, an ill that was to keep him away from several 

mor.e games during the season, as he had reluctantly consented 

to staying home when told by his physicians that the trip to 

Baltimore would disable him for the rest of the season. 

Navy, with all but two regulars back from the team tha.t had 

held Notre Dame to a seven-point victory in 1928 was confident 

of victory. \Vhen the Midshipmen rushed the shock troops off 

their feet to score in the first quarter, their swagger seemed to 

be justified. 

But uRock," refusing to abandon his players had talked to 

every man on the squad before the game a.nd had told him to get 

in and fight as he had never fought before. Then he settled 

back to hear, through his special wire, the results of this bit of 

strategism. It must have been a trying moment when the 

Middies swept over for their touchdown-how he must have 

wished to be there to encoura-ge, direct, and inflame his men. 

He breathed more easily a. moment later, though, when Frank 

L. L. KOEPKE 

Navy Captain 

As Caplaitl of /h( U. S. Naval 

Academy football /(am it is a 

Pltawre /or me lo express my admiraliotl 

of the Notre Dam( team 

which mel us 011 October 12. I 

ful that the Notre Dame leam is 

o11e of the best I hav( ever played 

agaimt duri11g my football experimce, 

Notre Dame, with lht 

finest of material a11d splmdid 

sPorlsmamhip, should have a more 

tha11 uwally succeu/ul sraso11, 

Carideo, the master ~uar~er-back, wh,o confidently too~· uRock" back home. It. was just a formality for Carideo 

ov~r the burden of dtrectmg the teams attack, tossed hts to intercept that Navy pass in the third quarter and for 

s~etght-of-hand. pass. to Elde~ for a touchdown a.nd later Mart·y Brill to carry the ball to the eight-yard line from 

tted the score wtth hts place ktck. 

which March Schwartz and Larry Mullins carried it over 

From then on there was nothing to it. The varsity tore for victory. 

into the Middies with relentless fury, battling, striving for uRock" had told them to fight-that was enough. 

The Middies made a gain thro.ugn Notre Dame's line.


Navy Goes Down Before Rockneless Blue and Gold 

THE LINEUPS 

NOTRE DAME 

NAVY 

Crane 

Colrick • • • 

Left End 

Twomey • • • • Bowstrom 

Left Tackle 

Cannon · • • • • • • Swan 

Left Guard 

Moynihan • • • • • Hughes 

Center 

Law (C) • • •. Koepke (C) 

Right Guard 

F. Leahy • • • • • • Bryan 

Right Tackle 

Vezie. .... Gyng 

. Right End 

Carideo • • • • • · Kohlhas 

Quarter-Back 

Elder • • _. . • • • Spring 

Left Half 

Brill • • • • • H. W. Bauer 

Right Half 

Mullins .• • Clifton 

Full-Back 

rrHero of the Day" 

Knocked to his knees by a charging Navy 

lineman, Carideo got off a beautiful pass to 

Elder for Notre Dame's first touchdown. 

A minute later, he tied the score with his 

place kick. 

In the third quarter he nabbed a Navy 

pass to start the drive that resulted in the 

winning score, again kicking the extra point. 

His excellent judgment in calling plays, 

in the absence of Coach Rockne was a deciding 

factor in the Notre Dame victory. 

Baltimore, Md., Oct. 12.-You might as well look out, 

for another South Bend cyclone is under way. It has already 

struck with terrific force from Indiana into Maryland. 

. Today, before 80,000 spectators, another great 

Rockne team that still needs more polishing," rushed and 

ripped its way through a savage· Navy defense to win by 

14 to 7. 

In the first period, Rockne sent in his shock troops with 

only one regular in the lineup. These shock troops were 

not quite good enough to hold back a strong Navy team, 

so the Navr:led, 7 to 0, when the second period opened. 

But at this point, Tom Lieb, acting for Rockne, who was· 

sick at his home,· back in Indiana, sent .in another set of 

flying horsemen. · 

This new stable includes Carideo, Elder, Brill and 

Mullins. You will hear a lot more about them before the 

season is over. They . had far more speed and driving 

power than even a strong Navy defense could handle. They 

rushed and crashed and zig-zagged their way· for two touchdowns 

and they threw away at least two inore by fumbles 

and heavy penalties. 

F-ztmbles, Pe1talties Costly , 

They went through the line like streaks of sunlight, to 

flash and fade only after substantial gains. They ran the 

ends and they threw passes all around the lot, but fumbles 

and penalties killed at least two chances for other. scores. 

The play that led to Notre Dame's first touchdown was 

one of the finest ever seen on any field. Brill, Mullins 

and Elder had rushed and passed the ball something like 50 

yards to the Navy's 8-yard line. Here the Navy rallied 

and charged in with such savage fury that the South Bend 

march was halted for the moment. 

On the .next pla.y, the fourth down, Carideo, who might 

be another Stuhldreher, stepped back for a forward pass. 

As he got into position with his arm up, he was knocked 

By GRANTLAND RICE 

FRANK CARIDEO 

to his knees by a Navy forward, two other Navy forwards 

half covered his body. In the meantime the fleet Elder 

was running out on a wide slant toward the Navy goal line. 

After the manner of another Houdini, Carideo in some 

way worked himself partially free. He wriggled and 

twisted over to one side, and, still on one knee, he threw 

a long slanting pass to Elder, who had crossed the goal , 

line in the corner of the field. It was one of the greatest 

plays anyone will look upon for a long, long time. 

Carideo l1ttercepts Pass 

It was Carideo again who paved the way for Notre 

Dame's second touchdown near the close of the third 

period. He came in like a streak of wind· to intercept 

Spring's pass and carried it on to Navy's 32-yard· line. 

Then Brill, another great back, went to work. He hit 

tackle for seven yards and then circled Navy's end for 

17 more. 

This brought the ball to Navy's 8-yard line as the period 

ended. As the fourth period started, Schwartz and Mullins 

carried the ball to Navy's one-yard line, and on the 

next play Mullins dived clean over the hard-scrapping 

Navy defense for the westerners' second score. Carideo 

kicked· both goals. Rockne put a fast and powerful aggregation 

on the· field when his first string was in operation, 

and with a little mor~ polishing it will be hard to stop. 

The Navy team this year.is strong but it c:ould not make 

headway against the South Bend defense when the regulars 

cam·e in. The battle this afternoon was a riot of noise, 

color and action. Close to 80,000 people packed the huge 

stadium and the .wild frenzy of the midshipmen lasted up 

to the· final play. Bill Ingram has a t'eam that will be hard 

to beat from this point on, a. well-coached, hard-fighting, 

aggressive outfit, but he had no chance today against the 

bewildering speed of Notre Dame with its delayed passes, 

shifts and quick starting. attack.

60 0 F.F I CIA L FOOTBALL REVIEW-1929 


Wisconsin- 

0 

GLENN THISTLETHWAITE 

Wisconsin Coach 

; Judgi11g from the ji11r team p/~y 

displayed by the Notre Da-me foolball 

/~am agaitiSt my boys Oct. 19, 

I ful that yo11 ha~·e tbc best coordinatillg 

szuad i11 your football 

history. Ptr~aps there have bu11 

years wbm )'Oil bad mm who stood 

out more promine11tly, but a 

smootb-u•orking machine is always 

sup~rior to a few individual 

stars. Hence my conclusion that 

the 1929 Notre Dame /tam is OtiC 

of real championship calibre. 

\Vith uRock" again bedf~st at home, after coming out to 

practice and talking to hi~ players from .his- car,. the sons of 

Notre Dame again rose up to win their first urevenge" game of 

the year, battling their way to victory over a d_etermine,d \Visconsin 

eleven. 

It's a good thing Tom Lieb came back to the .Ro-ckne stables 

when he did, and no one will tell you this more ·readily than ·Mr. 

Rockne himself. No better example of the change ~Lieb brought . 

about in the Notre. Dame camp than the \Visconsin· ga~e ca-n 

be cited. · 

Last year it was his \Visconsin forwards· that forced the breaks 

th~t gave the Badgers a 22 to 6 victory at Camp Randall field; 

this year it was his Blue and Gold linesmen that supplied the 

holes and interference that were to- send uBig. Joe" Savoldi and 

uRabbit" Jack Elder on their way to Notre Dame's three 

touchdowns. 

' 

All Joe needed was a chance to get past the line of scrimmage 

and that's just what the line gave him at Soldier Feld .. Once 

in the open, it was nothing for Joe; a. ten-second man, to show 

his heels to the swiftest Badger. 

The line did phenomenal. work in the Wisconsin game fro~ 

end to end and from the varsity tq the ~hock troops. Never did 

the Wisconsin backs sustain a drive for more than 'three 

first· downs, only once did they get within striking dista1_1ce 

of the Notre Dame goal. This was in the first quarter 

after Behr had intercepted-a pass, but the shock troops held 

them o~ the three-yard line. Again in the last. quarter, 

Oman started a one-man drive, but it ended well toward 

mid-field. It was in this game that Jack Cannon's fiery 

play first brought him the attention of the- All-American 

JOHN PARKS 

Wisconsin Captain 

U11Joubtedly· Notre Dame bas 

otze of jts best football teams i11 

)'ears. In our game at Soldiers' 

Fi~ld it 1vas evidetzt- that Coach 

Rock11~ bas attained this year what 

all coaches are always strivitzg for, 

teamwork. This, a jighti11g spirit, 

a11d good sportsmambip should 

mak~ Notre Dame worthy 11alio11al 

champions. \Ve, of Wiscomi11, 

wish them lbe best of luck. in 

their remai11i11g games. 

pickers, and it ·was here th~t Tom Kassis, shock troop 

guard, played one of the best games of his career only to 

be carried from the. field with a sprained ankle in the last 

period. The great defensive work of Ted Twomey and 

Tim Moynihan was also a notable· feature of this game. 

Thistlethwaite put a great team on the field, but Wisconsin's 

best fell far short of the fighting club from Notre 

Dam~ · · · · · · 

Schwartz's 40-yard run lead to the first Notre Dame touchdown· against the Badgers.


Savoldi Settles That Affair With the Badgers 

THE LINEUPS 

NOTRE DAME WISCONSIN 

Collins 

Jensen 

Left End 

Twomey 

Witte 

Left Tackle 

Cannon 

Lie than 

Left Guard 

Moynihan 

Krueger 

Center 

Law (C) • • • • Parks ·(C) 

Right Guard 

Donoghue • • • • Ketelaar 

Right Tackle 

Vezic • • • L. Smith 

Right End 

Carideo . . . . . . Behr 

Quarter-Back 

Elder • 

Oman 

Left Half 

Brill • • Bach 

Right Half 

Savoldi • Gnabah 

Full-Back 


uBig Joe" just wanted to be put under 

pressure and when Larry Mullins was injured 

before the \X'isconsin game, Savoldi 

got the chance he was waiting f~r. 

No one who saw his two spectacular 

touchdown runs, or who saw him time and 

· again drag half the \X'isconsin team on his 

massive frame for long gains, or who heard 

the tremendous ovation he got at the end of 

three gruelling quarters of play will say tha.t 

he didn't make the most of his opportunity . 

Hats off to uBig Joe"-he's a real Notre 

Dame man! 

JOE SAVOLDI 

By IRVING v A U~HAN 

Cbicago Tribu11e Staff \Vriter 

Joe Savoldi, a pudgy lad from a place called Three Oaks, 

Mich.,· probably will become famous as the \X' andering . 

Italian or some such thing. 

Mr. Joe- wandered around Soldiers' field yesterday like 

one who came to see all the sights. He saw them, a~d in_ 

seeing, let 90,000 spectators have a glimpse of a powerful. 

Notre Dame grid army, 'Yhich marche~ over, around andthrough 

the best resistance that a University of Wisconsin 

eleven could offer. It wasn't enough by the distance_ of the 

moon, ·and when the final pistol barked in the haze of· an' 

Indian summer dusk, Mr .. Joe and his cosmopolitan squad 

were out in front by 19 to 0. 

The stocky, speedy \X'andering Italian _and the others 

came to avenge what a Badger team had done to Notre 

Dame's satellites a year ago. They did it in the rough, 

driving, relentless nianner you might expect from a Knute 

Rockne team. No more could be ·asked of them. · 

Sco1'es o1t Loug Ruus 

Savoldi, a sophomore, was~'t alone in his sightseeing, but 

at least he was the leader. There was a back named Jack 

Elder who conducted one -goal seeking expedition. There 

was a large number of other backs who did things. There 

was an endless string of linesmen. who opened large holes 

through which the backs could gallop. But the \X'andering 

Italian from Three Oaks stood out as a bellwether, because 

h~ not only crossed the Cardinal goal line once, but 

twice, the first on a forty-yard dash _and the second on a 

sizzling 71-yard sprint~ 

\X'hat \X'isconsin did against this persistent attack of the 

Rockne army was nothing.· At the start the Badgers made 

·a threat and fumbled when a touchdown· against Notre 

Dame's second string· starting eleven seemed immin:ent. 

The. break probably was .disheartening. At any rate, the 

Badgers sagged down. Their line couldn't hold, especially 

at the tackles. . Their ·backs could make no appreciab_le 

headway .. _In. t_he third period they were actually 

weary. In ·the fourth they pick~d up a bit and threatened~ 

~ut t~e threat faded. At best it was only a bid for a consolation 

touchdown. 

-Lusby Pu1tts Well 

\X'ith a be_tter line \X'isconsin's b-acks might h~ve gone 

places arid seen things as did_ the \X' andering I tali an and the 

dancing Elder. There were times when a youth named 

Oman, who started and finished for the Badgers, was able 

to carry on by himself. The energetic _Lusby. was no 

loafer as a ground gainer or a punter. H. Rebholtz occa:- 

.·sionally kicked holes in Notre Dame's wall. His brother, 

: Russell, in- a few spots ran and outkicked the best Notre 

Dame had. But none of this was sustained. The South 

Benders always were ~ble to· stop it after a flurry. This' 

ability to stop things accou~ted for the fact that the victors 

had twelve first downs against nine for the Cardinal 

clad. - 

Notre Dame contributed its first bit to the day's damage 

in the middle of. the first quarter. This was when the 

\X'and~ring Italian, who is supposed to be a second stringer, 

shot out of a hole and toured 40 yards to \X'isconsin's goal. 

The next came early in tl~e third quarter, when Elder did 

as Savoldi had done. Elder ripped off 43 yards before he 

quit~ Then a. few minutes later Savoldi exceeded· even 

himself. He raced 71 yards before falling exhausted over 

. his opponents' goal.

62 OF·FICIAL FOOTBALL REVIEW-1929 

Notre Datne 

~arnegie Tech 

7 

0 

JUDGE WALTER STEFFAN 

Carnegie Tech Coach 

We at Carnegie Tech are proud 

of our relationship with Notre 

Dame and u•e are proud that we 

"·ere ablr lo bold Notre Damr to 

a 7 to 0 score in our game this 

year. Your 1929 team is a great 

tram. I wish to congratulate the 

national champions and · Coach 

Rockne. 

.. Twenty-seven to seven"! .. Twenty-seven to seven"! 

. This is the cry that rang across Ca-rtier practice field the week 

before Coach Rockne pitted his fighting men against the powerful 

Carnegie Tech machine, and when the starting whistle sounded, 

at Pittsburgh, Notre Dame _was in a rare fighting mood. 

Twenty-seven to seven was the score of the 1928 game 

when the towering Skibos ground 23 years of cherished tradition 

into the mud of Cartier field, and the mere mention of these two 

apparently harmless figures was to inflame to fighting pitch every 

man on this year's squad. 

There were other incentives, too. For example, there was 

.. Rock" helpless in his wheel-chair on the sidelines after leaving 

a sickbed and making the effort that was to keep him away from 

the next two games. There was also the game of 1926, when 

the hardy Scots knocked Notre Dame out. of a national championship. 

· But these were avenged before the greatest crowd that ever 

turned out for a sports spectacle in Pittsburgh. The great Karcis, 

who ha·d plunged the 1928 eleven to destruction, was stopped by 

a dauntless line led by the inspired Jack Cannon. The only 

serious threat Carnegie made all afternoon was in the last quarter 

when Judge Steffan's club was stopped (by Cannon) 20 yards out. 

The Notre Dame touchdown was a marvel to watch. 

Carideo had taken a punt from McCurdy o~ the 50-yard 

line. Jack Elder, still unstopped by any man's· ball team, 

scrambled to the 17-yard line; Marty Brill crashed. to the 

eight-yard stripe; then Joe Savoldi took the situation in 

hand. Three times he flung himself bodily at the stubborn 

Plaid line to put the ball on the one-yard stripe. On 

the fourth down, he again dived fearlessly into the air and 

sailed to rest in the end· zone for victory and revenge. 

But why shouldn't Notre Dame men fight? 

The pic- 

JOHN DRESHAR 

Carnegie Tech Captain 

The Notre Dame /tam we played 

Ibis. year war, without doubt, 

the best. we mel . all seaso11. 

I have never see11 a11y team show 

such remarkable improvement in 

11 year's lime as the Notre Dame 

devm Jid /rom 1928 lo 1929. 

Allbaugh made 11P of the same 

mm, the line Ibis year was far 

n1perior lo the 011e las/ season. 

ture of their greatest friend, Knute K. Rockne, huddled 

in his wheel-chair near the Notre Dame bench in excrutiating 

pain-fighting for them-was reason enough. 

No greater compliment can be paid to the great Carnegie 

team than the tribute the players. themselves made 

after the game: .. Carnegie was the hardest team we've 

played this year." · 

But a team fighting for a national championship, for its 

revenge, and above all for its Rockne, could not be 

stopped. 

Savoldi is scoring against Carnegie as Flanagan (50) tries to pull him down.

' 


Revenge No. 2; This Titne It's Carnegie 

THE LINEUPS 

NOTRE DAME 

Colrick 

Left En~ 

Twomey • • •. • Highberger 

Left Tackle 

Cannon 

Schmidt 

Left Guard 

Moynihan • • • • . • Ducanis 

· Center 

Law {C) • • • Dreshar {C) 

Right Guard 

Donoghue • • • • Schnupp 

Right Tackle 

Conley •· . • • .• L. Flanagan 

Right End 

Carideo • Eyth 

Quarter-Ba_ck 

Elder • • Kerr 

Left Half 

Brill • • • • · • T. Flanagan 

Right Half 

Mullins • Morbi to 

Full-Back 

CARNEGIE 

• English 


Tearing down the field on practically 

every punt for deadly tackles, ripping 

Carnegie's line open for Savoldi's· touchdown 

dive, breaking through to throw 

Karcis for a two-yard loss in the fourth 

quarter to stop Tech's most serious touchdown 

threat, leading interference like a 

general on end runs-that was Jack Cannon 

against the Skibos! 

It was the tightest defensive game Notre 

Dame played all season and it was the work 

of scrappy Mr. Jack that made it such. 

Although unsung by sport writers, he 

was in there on every play taking plenty, 

but giving plenty in return. 

JACK CANNON 

By MAx E. HANNUM 

Pit~sburgh Press Football \Vriter 

Irish vengeance was obtained and Notre Dame's glorious 

football traditions upheld before Pittsburgh's greatest 

sports crowd at the stadium yesterday. Carnegie Tech's 

most magnificent fight went for naught, when with one 

lightning thrust the South Bend marvels wiped out the 

bitter memories of 1926 and 1928 with a third-quarter 

touchdown and a 7 to 0 triumph over the Scotch. 

The great bowl never saw such sights a's were on display 

yesterday. Sixty-five thousand maniacs, with divided emotions, 

agreeing in admiration of the splendid drive and coordination 

of the victors, and the soul-stirring, never-saydie 

battle of the vanquished. 

Thrilling to the sparkling runs of the elusive Elder, the 

wild plunging of the jumping Joe Savoldi and keen-: 

minded generalship and remarkable· kicking of Carideo, and 

the wonderful defensive display by Jack Cannon: 

It was a great te:;tm that· Knute Rockne sent onto the 

field yesterday, a team that was ready to go to the very 

brink for the man who sat helpless in a wheel chair by 

the side lines. 

Peerless Notre Dame 

Rock-bound line, impregnable ends, a b~ck:field whose 

motto was .. ever forward." Keen direction,- ability to give 

as well as take, a seizing of the one big opportunity. That 

was Notre Dame yesterday-the peerless team, fit successor 

to all that have gone before. · 

All ho~or to the lads who could face it without flinching, 

fight it back until the issue remained in doubt to the 

very end, and stay on their feet uritil the finish. Elder 

the winged-foot, the ghost, flitting through a broken :field. 

until he placed the oval in position of Savoldi's inspired 

plunging. 

Savoldi a Hero 

Savoldi, who took up the burden of scoring the touchdown, 

single-handed, dived over a massed defense, with 

reckless disregard of personal injury, until, one last chance 

remaining, he· catapulted through the air yards off the 

ground, and tallied a hard-won touchdown. 

Such wild line bucking. had seldom been seen here, , nor 

has Carnegie's desperate efforts. to stop the Notre :Qame 

dervish. As often. as Savoldi left his feet in his onward 

rush, so did the Plaid linemen rise to meet him. 

Four times he sailed into space. .Three times . he 

was met head-on, and brought to earth. But each time 

he wa·s gaining precious inches. On the final attempt the 

Tartans could not bat him down quickly enough, and over 

he went. That. was enough to win, for Carideo remained 

master of the situation the rest of the game. 

Notre Dame was pushing forward again as th~ game 

ended, having worked their way clear to the Plaid 32 

at the close. · 

They might have gone over again with another five 

minutes. · 

As .Elder dived at left tackle for the last play of the 

game, he was stopped under a pile of red-jersied figures. 

It was Carnegie fighting .to the end. 

Beaten by a better team. 

But defeat with honor.

64 OFFICIAL FOOTBALL REVIEW.:_1929 


Georgia Tech- 

26 

6 

The Notre Dame football special, rambling through Georgia, 

with the throttle wide open, bucked into a. stubborn, whirling 

tornado-a Golden Tornado-hesitated a moment, then rolled 

on, never ~topping·until it was back in South Bend with another 

victory chalked up on its side. · 

That, figuratively, is the story of the Georgia Tech game. 

Last year's national champions, already twice defeated, were in 

a v'engeful mood when they met Notre Dame and they were 

striving, like everyone. else, to halt a winning streak that had 

reached four straight games. Inspired by last year's victory, the 

Engineers tore through the shock troops and even the varsity, 

to score in the second quarter. 

But Rockne's men are more inspired by defeats than victodes 

WILLIAM ALEXANDER and· it seemed that every man on the team wanted to help wipe 

Georgia Tech Coach 

Th~ Notre Dame team im- out last year's loss with a touchdown. At any rate, .. Rabbit" 

n•er 

pressed 

had 

me 

the 

.as 

pleawre 0 "c of ihe 

of 

best 

set'i11g 

1 Elder broke loose less than a minute after the Tech score to tie 

play. It has PoU"er. in rmlimiled the count, and "Moon" Mullins crashed the goal again in the· 

quantities. I was particularly impressed 

wilh the rushing line. Can- same period to sew up the game, after Conley had placed the 

noll and Moynihan pla)·ed super- b 11 • d d f C "d 

football in our game. Notre Dnmt a JUSt one yar OUt On a 20-yar pass rom an eo. 

. gave ils safely man more help on 

punts tban any otber team I cver 

satu. Tbe subsliltllts played like 

ugulars. Tub u·as glad to be able 

to score on mcb a bzmcb. 

The Tornado had spent its fury and Frank Carideo and ·March 

Schwartz-performing for a crowd from Bay St. Louis, Miss., 

hi$ hom~put on steam and added another brace of markers 

W. HARRELL RUSK 

Georgia Tech Captain 

We wbo ·are members of tbe 

Georgia Tecb football squad consider 

tbe Notre Dame game as the 

greatest oit oitr scbedule and u·e 

feel that we were defeated b:t a 

far superior team, n·ery membcr 

of tubicb played hard, clean foolball. 

It was cerlaitzly a pleamre lo 

see th~ precision wilh which every 

nza11 performed. There is 110 doubt 

lo us ·but tbat you bave the 

greatest leam i11 the cou11Jry. 

in the last· two quarters. Carideo's touchdown run of 75 the sultry weather, had all the zip and fire of a team of war 

yards was a marvel. He had taken a punt on his 25-yard horses. Although 'Ted Twomey's work was the most 

line, _his interference formed quickly, and he was off on conspicuous of any, the rest of the new Seven Mules were 

the longest side-trip of the day. 

in there-Ed Collins, Jack Cannon, Tim Moynihan, Johnny 

Law, Dick Donoghue, and Tom Conley-batting 'em 

The blocking on his and on Elder's run over a 53-yard 

track, no turns, featured the game.- The line, in spite of 

down and rooting 'em out to clear: the track for the New 

Four Horsemen. 

Photos on this p2ge by P2cific :tnd Athntic. 

Thomason, of Tech, is picking up eight yards ·around right end.


Another Defeat Wiped Out By New Horsetnen 

THE. LINEUPS 

NOTRE DAME GA. TECH 


Colrick • . . • • • Jones 

. Leh 

Since he has the faculty of always doing 

End ' 

the right thing at the right time with very 

Twomey . • • • • Watkins 

·Left Tackle 

little apparent effort, Ted Twomey usually 

. Cannon • . • . West brook is not noticeable to the average spectator, 

Left Guard 

but you can depend on it that he's always 

Moynihan • • • • • Farmer in there, a tower of strength on offense and 

Center 

defense. 

Law (C) • • • • • Brooke· 

Right Guard 

He stopped the ferocious thrusts of Mizell 

Donoghue • • . • • Holt and Thomason and unwound the Golden 

Right Tackle 

Tornado's funnel ·in a way that could not 

Conley • Williams be overlooked, even by the ball-following 

Right·End 

spectator. This son of the Great North is 

Carideo 

Dunlap 

Quarter-Back 

probably the most consistent man on the 

Elder • • Mizell squad and his ruggedness is shown by the 

Left Half 

fact that he has never been injured during 

Brill • • • • • Thomason his career at Notre Dame. 

Right Half 

Mullins ... Maree No wonder they call him .. The Brute." 

Full-Back 

By jiMMY BuRNS 

lutematioual News Service Feature \¥Triter 

TED TWOMEY 

Grant Field, Atlanta., Ga., Nov. 2.-Eclipsing even their score and, with a burst of brilliance that stunned the fans, 

own previous record for brilliance, Notre Dame rallied here Brill ran 28 yards to return the kick to his own 40-yard 

this afternoon to defeat Georgia Tech's Jackets, 26 to 6. line. Mullins went off right tackle for six yards, finally 

It was a great team, that bunch of fighting Irishmen from being stopped by Maree and Mizell. 

up South· Bend way. They flashed an offense that was 

Then Elder, the great Notre Dame back, broke off right 

dazzling and on the defense they were concentrated poison. 

tackle, squirmed through a field of would-be tacklers and 

Tech's Lead Brief 

raced 53 yards for a touchdown. 

For a few brief and fleeting moments the 35,000 fans 

were treated to the thrill of Tech leading Notre Dame. 

Cmmo1t Blocks 

But it was only a temporary lead.· Those Irishmen gathered 

themselves together and set grimly to their task. 

Just before the half ended Cannon partially blocked 

Mizell's punt and it was Notre Dame's ball. on Tech's 31- 

Neither team scored in the first quarter, although Notre yard line. The Irish found the going rough. Losing a 

Dame launched a drive from its own 20-yard line and sustained 

it to the very shadows of Tech's goal. There it was it failed. Then Tech was penalized five yards and the Irish 

yard on two tries at the line, they trie~ a long pass, but 

beaten down and broken up by the valiant efforts of the derived enough encouragement from· that to complete a 

Jackets. 

pass on Tech's two-yard line. It went Carideo to Conley. 

Mullins on his first try 'bucked the ball oyer for a touch- 

About the middle of the second quarter Mullins fumbled 

. down and again Carideo failed to make the extra point. 

and Maree recovered for Tech on Notre Dame's 19-yard 

But· it didn't matter; Notre Dame ·w.as out in front to 

line. The Jackets wheeled into the midst of an offensive 

s·tay. 

that netted them their· only score. 

Both Teams Offside 

Notre Dame scored one touchdown . in ~he third period. 

Mizell bucked · the ball out of bounds and Thomason and added another in the fourth for good measure. In 

was held to a yard at center. Then Mizell passed to Jones, the third the scoring came when Carideo took a punt on 

lacking a foot ·of a first down. Both teams were offside his own 25-yard line and ran 75 yards to score. This 

on· the next play, but Thomasa~ plunged into the thick time the Irish annexed· the extra. ·.Po~nt and. were ahead~ 

of the Irish line and when they measured, Tech had its 19 to 6. Carideo kicked for the extra point. 

first down on the 9-yard line. 

Thomason and Mizell were. stopped in their line th~usts 

N.D. Gets Last Score .. 

Early in the fourth quarter· a. l5~ya~d'penalty threw the 

and Tech again was fo'rced into the air~ This time the Jackets back to their own 11-yard line and on four· plays 

Jackets completed a pass on the one-yard line. Dunlap 

sacrificed· two yards bucking out of bounds. Thomason 

in two plays' finally forced his way over .. It was Tech 6; . 

Notre Dame 0. 

Two plays after the kick-off, Notre Dame tied the 

Notre Daine wound up its· scodng. This time· it was 

Schwartz wlio bucked through: the· line and wiggled· 

eight yards for ·the touchdown .. _The try· for the extra: 

point was good and Notre Dame had· its victory margin, 

26 to 6.



Drake. 

7 

They call them Bulldogs, and what could be a more fitting 

name? 

· Three times ·this little band of Drake. warriors had met Notre 

Dame and three times they had met defeat by comparatively 

large scores. They may have been defeated, but they were never 

licked, for this year they came back stronger than ever and gave 

Rockne's men one of the best battles of the 1929 season . 

. Taking advantage of the shock troops, the Bulldogs, led· by 

that line-smashing, paralyzing mastiff, Chuck Van Koren, 

marched 40 yards to a touchdown in the first quarter. Capt. 

Barnes obliged with the extra point. 

Here the reserves found themselves and with one' of Notre 

Dame's hitherto unsurig full-backs,-Al Howard, in the van they 

OSSIE SOLEM 

.TACK BARNES 

Drake Coach started to march in the other direction that was featured by Drake captain 

The Drake bo:ys a11d I bavc tbr Howard's 3 5-yard dash and climaxed by. his plunge over the Although I had hoped that my 

highest regard for the ability and 

last uason as a member of /be 

tbe sportsmallship of tbe Notre Bulldog goal. The try for the extra point failed and therein lies Drake team would see a Buf/dog 

Dame 1929 team. We gave every- 1 victory over Notre Dame, I am 

tbi11g u·e had lo 110 avail, sitter a ta e. satisfied tvith our showi11g agiliml 

Noire Dame, ;, spite of the fact d' D 1 h ld f h d' d the ·greatest team we ever mrl. 

that the score was clou,· sumed Lea Ing, 7 to 6, ra


Mullins Shakes Bulldogs In Last Quarter 

THE LINEUPS 

NOTRE DAME DRAKE 

Collins • • • • • • Briley 

Left End 

Twomey 

Shearer 

Left Tackle 

Cannon , 

Wright 

Left Guard 

Moynihan • • • Don Carlos 

Center 

Law (C) • • • . Groustra · 

lught Guard · 

Donoghue • . • • . • Faber 

Right Tackle 

Vezie . 

Wensel 

Right End 

Caridco . . .. King 

Quarter-Back 

Elder • • • Barnes (C) 

Left Half 

Brill • • • • • Nesbitt 

Right Half 

Mullins • • • • Van Koten 

Full Back 

rr Hero of the Day" 

Last year when Freddy Collins broke his 

arm, Coach Rockne gave Larry Mullins his 

big chance with the varsity· against Drake. 

His work, you will recall, was phenomenal. 

This year, .. Moon" just carried on from 

where he had left off last season. His line 

bucks, his passes, his end runs, his remarkable 

open field work, and his outstanding 

defensive play were cli~axed when he 

whisked himself 23 yards through a broken 

field to cross the goal standing up for Notre 

Dame's final touchdown against the Bulldogs. 

Larry averaged better than seven yards 

each time he took the ball in this battle. 

By HARRY McNAMARA 

Cbicago Herald-Examhrer Feature ~'(Triter 

For three periods, a stubborn, desperate little band of 

Drake university footballers actually outscored the best 

that the mighty Ramblers of Notre Dame had to offer in 

the way of shock troopers and regulars, too, yesterday at 

Soldier Field, but it was not enough. 

The final score was: Notre Dame 19; Drake, 7; but it 

fails to indicate the desperate fury of the Bulldogs' stand· 

during the first three periods of the ball game. Drake _led 

7 to 6 at the end of the third period, and the game which 

Mr. Knute K. Rockne had scheduled perhaps to give his 

Ramblers a ubreak" in a tough schedule, a .. breather" for 

his troops,- held the 50,000 spectators breathless with 

anxiety. 

The regulars, with Larry Mullins, Marty Brill, Jack 

Elder and Frank Carideo operating as the ball carriers, had 

done no better than hold their own against the dogged 

Drake warriors during the third period and things began to 

look a bit alarming for the Notre Dame followers. 

Elde1' sp,.i1tts Ac1'0SS 

Then came the perfect football play, with Elder, who 

had been staggering around previously without going anywhere 

in particular, sprinting over. the line with what later· 

proved to be the winning touchdown. Notre Dame, once 

in the lead, put the .. crusher" on thereafter and before the 

game ended compiled another touchdown. 

Larry Mullins, the Pasadena Paralyzer, wa'i the author 

of this score, after a s·mash through center had carried him 

into an open field and some beautiful open. field running 

had enabled him to sprint 23 yards over the Drake goal 

line. ·. 

. Mullins, we might add, was a whale of a fullback dur 

. ing the three periods he was in operation. In fact, he 

averaged better than 7 yards on every attempt. 

LARRY uMOON" MULLINS 

Drake, with the Rambler shock troopers forming the 

opposition, got a break shortly after the game got under 

way, ·when Al Howard fumbled and an unidentified Bulldog 

clutched and recovered the bounding oval on Notre 

Dame's 40-yard line. 

To say that Drake took advantage of the break is putting 

it mildly. uchuck" Van Katen started the ball in the 

direction of Notre Dame's goal line by reeling off 8 yards 

on a delayed buck. He w:as on the Irish 2 8-ya~d line before 

he was hauled down on his next try. 

Bulldogs Take Lead 

Van Katen and King made it first down on the twoyard 

line on three smacks at the line. Van Katen was 

stopped dead on his next attempt, but his next try carriea 

him over the goal line and Captain Jack Barnes place 

kicked for the extra point without delay to give his teaqt 

a 7 to 0 lead. · · · 

O'Connor speared Drake's ·kickoff arid ran it back' to his 

own twenty-nine-ya-rd line following the kickoff._ A 

thirty-five-yard dash by Howard put the ball on Drake's 

twenty-five-yard line after O'Connor had added five yards 

around end. Howard, Schwartz and O'Connor alternated 

at lugging the ball until it rested on Drake's three-yard 

line. From this point, Howard thumped off tackle for a 

touchdown. · · 

Just -before the third perio9 ended, Notre Dame acquired . 

th~ ball on Drake's thirty-five-yard line. Mulli~s swung 

into action ·from this point. He_ picked :up five, six and 

seven yards in three hard smacks at the line and the· ball 

. was on the ·enemy's seventeen-yard li~e when the session 

ended. · · .. .- 

\Vhen play was· resumed for th_e_ final period, away. went 

Elder and away went· the ball game as far as Drake was 

concerned.

. I 

! 


Getting Ready For The Trojans 

In this season of superlatives-you know, the toughest 

team playing the hardest · schedule before the largest 

crowds-it would certainly be an oven:ight of the highest 

order to omit mention of the greatest "pep week" in Notre 

Dame hist~ry. 

Surpassing in size and noise made even the great week 

of "Army game pep" in 1928, the 1929 Southern California 

game enthusiasm exposition started on Tuesday before 

the Soldier Field battle, was climaxed on Thursday, 

and anti-climaxed on the day of the game itself. Jerry_ 

Parker, aided by the Student Activities council and the 

Blue Circle, supervised this mammoth week-long celebration. 

The first official "Rockne Day" in Notre Dame history 

wa$ observed on Tuesday with a special Mass in Sacred 

Heart Church, a torch-light parade, and. individual hall 

cheering. \Y/ ednesday was largely a day of organization 

with the various halls bringing in ·lumber by the truckload 

for Thursday's gigantic fire. In the afternoon it was 

decided that Sophomore hall's 30-foot pile contained more 

inflammable material than the equally high Off-Campus 

heap and both were given silver loving cups symbolical of 

first and second places, respectively. 

\Y/illing workers fell to immediately and gathered all the 

wood into one great heap surrounded by railroad ties and 

telephone poles, soaked the whole with crude oil, and 

waited for Thursday evening to come. After dinner, on 

this history-making night, the band went the rounds of the 

halls and students fell in behind until all 3,000 were on 

hand with some 5,000 townspeople at the scene of the 

blaze. A match was touched to the oil-soaked wood and 

soon ever-mounting tongues of flame were licking the sky. 

As at all well-organized pep meetings, the band played, 

the crowd sang and cheered, alumni talked, and everyone 

had a fine time. If you don't believe this, cast a glance on 

the picture below taken from the speakers' stand. 

. Elaborate plans, some of which were carried out, were 

laid out for the game itself. Students in two sections of the 

Soldier Field stands were supplied with many-hued cards 

and instruction slips telling them what card and color to 

liold up when a certain number was flashed by the stunt 

leader. In this way, the two sections were to form a Trojan 

Horse, a four-leaf clover, various greetings, and some silent 

cheers. 

In the excitement of the moment, however, (the moment 

when Tom Conley tied the score with his touchdown) 

the boys became excited and filled with the desire 

to throw something aloft. Hats cost money and the cards 

were free, so up went the pasteboards, sailing about in a 

maelstrom of riotous color much like giant, tinted snowflakes.· 

It was tough for the stunt committee, but the 

impromptu demonstration really looked, as one young 

feminine fan exclaimed "very swelL" 

The parading of the band and the ~elease of many col 

·ored balloons and white pigeons from a. gigantic drum also 

added their bit to the pagentry of the game. It was a grea·t 

week and its result certainly justified. its being. Those 

cynics who don't believe in student demonstrations might 

refer to the score at the top of the page after next and be 

converted to the right cause. ·

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· SOP~IOMORI ~I ALL'S \JOODPI L C 

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.70 OFFICIAL FOOTBALL REVIEW-1929 

HOWARD JONES 

U. S. C. Coach 

In my opinion the Notre Dame 

ltam that Soulhtm .California 

pla}'ed on Nov. 16 was a great 

football team. Noire Dame Jeurvtd 

mort than the one point 

margin of victory lht}' obtaitttd. 

·The otllstanJing features which 

impressed me itt regard to tlu learn 

were a consistent fighting attitude 

and sple11did blocki11g both on 

runni11g plays and opm field work. 

The Notre Dame team is a credit 

to its coach tmd 1u do not con 

Jider·it a disgrace to /rave lost. 


13 

Southern California 12 

Perhaps Notre Dame and Southern California are not the two 

best football teams in the world, but to say that they were on 

the afternoon of November 16 is to digress very little, if any, 

from the absolute truth. 

Every move they made was flawless, exact. They incorporated 

into one thrilling hour everything that stands for football. 

They played hard, clean football all the way through, never asking 

any quarter, never complaining on breaks of the game, never 

disputing a decision-just fighting for all they were worth and 

loving· it. 

Each score was planned, although, as we shall point out, a 

break helped the Trojans to their first one. Saunder's 92-yard 

run was not an accident; in fact, Notre Dame had developed a 

defense for just such an occurrence, but was blocked out by 

charging Trojans. Tom Conley's 54-yard touchdown play 

was worked for smaller yardage· time and again, and Savoldi's 

score was the result of straight footbalL . 

The pass from Duffield to Aspit for the game's first score 

may have worked anyhow, but it came out after the game that 

.. Bucky" O'Connor, who was ~upposed to. be covering Aspit, 

had just received a beautiful shiner around his right eye and 

couldn't see a thing when the play occurred. He didn't take 

tiipe out because he was afraid that .. Rock" would jerk 

him. It must have been hard .to lose such a fiercely fought 

game by the slim margin of OI?-e point, but the men from 

the West took their defeat like real Trojans. 

It wa~ spirit like his that won for Notre Dame and that 

makes Notre Dame the most popular team in the country 

today. Her men never give up. As at Carnegie Tech, 

they were fighting to keep their record clean, to avenge 

last year's defeat, and for Coach Rockne, who was again 

NATEBARRAGAR 

U.S. C. Captain 

I ca11 say honestly that the 

Southem Califomia team made 

n·ery possible mJeavor lo win, 

/rom Notre Dame this year, but 

that we wmt dowtz ;, defeat before 

the greatest eleven on our 

schedule. No o11e i11 our entire 

persOIIIICI bemoa11ed the fact that 

we were bealetz by otzly o11e Poi11t; 

rather, u•e all /eli fortunate that 

the score .tt.1as not larger. My teammales 

a11d I join in wishi11g Notre 

Dame co11linued success 011 the 

football field. 

· with them in spite of. his doctor's forebodings. The .. doc" 

had told him that if he would stay in bed for three weeks 

he would be up walking again by Christmas. ..Rock" 

answered to this effect: .. The season's over in three weeks 

and there's nothing worth walking to then. I wouldn't 

miss this game if I had to stay in bed all winter." 

The friendly feeling between these two powerful gridiron 

opponents was strengthened rather than weakened by· 

their 1929 meeting .. 

Savoldi (54) got away from this tackler for a first down.

OFFICIAL FOOTBALL REVIEW-1929 7.1 

Rockets Beat U.S. C. To Clear Last Year's Slate 

THE LINEUPS 

NOTRE DAME u.s. c. 

Colrick • 

Tappaan 

Left End 

Twomey 

Anthony 

Left Tackle 

Cannon • • • • • Galloway 

Left Guard 

Moynihan • • . • • • Dye 

Center 

Law {C) • • Barragar {C) 

Right Guard 

Donoghue . • • • Hall 

Right Tackle 

Conley • Arbelbide 

Right End 

Carideo . . • . • • Saunders 

Quarter-Back 

Elder • Aspit 

Left Half 

Brill 

Pinkert 

Right Half 

Mullins 

Musick 

Full-Back 


Against Georgia Tech, Tom had caught 

the only Notre Dame pass that worked and 

had put the ball on the one-yard line. He 

resolved then and there that he would carry 

it over at the next chance. And how he did! 

\X'ith Notre Dame trailing 'by six points 

in the Trojan battle in the second period, he 

snatched a heautiful 3 5-yard pass from 

Elder and ran twenty yards to. tie the score 

and put a new vigor into his team that was 

to result in a glorious victory. 

Another time, he .put the ball iri scoring 

position with a difficult catch, but the 

chance was lost on a fumble. He played 

real defensive ball, too, but his score was 

the thing. 

TOM CONLEY 

By ARCH \X' ARD 

Cbicago Tribune Staff '¥Triter 

University of Southern California's ·stalwart band of 

football players traveled 2,3 00 miles to be humbled yesterday 

by the toe of a lad wh6 cavorts in the Notre Dame 

back field. • 

His name is Fr~nk Carideo, a cool, clever athlete whose 

successful kick after his team's second touchdown enabled 

Notre Dame to win, 13 to 12, in one of the finest football· 

wars any crowd ever witnessed. There were 120,000 

banked. around the gridiron at Soldiers' Field to watch 

him do it. 

Fu1·ious Li1te Play 

It was a battle of ftirious line play and brilliant forward 

passing. The deadly tackling and charging defense C?f both 

teams broke up play' ~fter play. It was man to ni.an, body 

to body, fought with unrelenting fierceness, but. minus any 

show of ill feeling. . · · 

. . 

The Trojans scored· their .first. touchdown almost before 

the huge crowd had been seated. A for\vard pass, Duffield 

to· Aspit, caught the Notre Dame· secondary napping and 

As pit raced unmolested to the goal. The Irish also struck 

through' the air for· their first score. It came in the second 

period on a 54-yard pass from· Elder into the arms of 

Conley, who traveled unopposed to the goal. 

Notre Dame· scored its second touchdown on straight· 

football. AI though' facing· a ·heavier· line, the Irish surged . 

mass upon mass~ thundering forth a might that few of 

their followers belieyed possible. · Savoldi was the_ grea_t 

man in the spectacular march. He merited the honor of 

making the touchdown. 

Here Comes the Thrille1· 

Before Notre Dame rooters had time to sit back and 

enjoy their 13 to 6 lead, came the most thrilling play of 

the game. Russell. Saunders, Southern California quarter- · 

back, caug~t the kickoff on his eight-yard line and in less 

time than it ta.kes to tell about it he raced through the 

Notr:e Dame team for a touchdown. Few players ever 

have done that against a Rockne coached eleven. 

The stands were hushed when James Musick, the Trojan 

full-back_ poised for the kick that was· either to tie the 

score or send his mates back to California a heaten team~ 

The effort _was .wide by inches. 

Notre Dame Outplay; T1·oja1ts 

Perhaps it was only justice that Musick missed the kick. 

Notre· Dame had an edge in all-:-aroun'd ·play. It missed 

a touchdown in the first quarter when Brill fumbled on .the 

Trojans' one-yard line. · It .'missed_ ano~her touchdown in 

the second period when an ineligible man caught a forward 

. pass behind the California goal. · · · 

The Notre Dame line refused to be ·fooled by the we~~ 

. erners' puzzling· shift· and fancy maneuvers.· Ends were 

· tricked by laterals an.d sweeps ~~· rare intervals, but the 

backs, particularly ;Brill, came up like express· trains to . 

smack the ball ·carrier· all over the· sward. . There was ·a 

demoh Notr~· Dame gu~rd. named Ja


DICK HANLEY 

Northestern Coach 

The Notie Dame tean1 011 Nov. 

ZJ agaimt Northu·estt'rn u•as Ollt' 

of thr grtatl'st aggregatio11s that 

I ba1•e n·l'r 1dtnrsud i11 actio11. 

E1·rry ma11 a suprrb blockrr, every 

man a u·bale 011 defr11u, tvith 

strong, capable reUTI't'S, and witb 

the mtirt' group functiolling as a 

marbillt', the Notre Dame team 

was, that day at lrast, the best I 

ha1•e t'l'eT Stell. 

Notre Da1ne 26 

Northwestern 

It was just unfortunate that Northwestern had to meet the 

Notre Dame victory special when it did. The \Vildcats might 

have had a chance two or. three weeks before, when they were 

at their peak, but with the Rockets already sensing .the possibility 

of an undefeated season and a nationat c_ha_mpionship, Dick 

Hanley's men 9r .anybody else's. in~n were just something to beat 

for Notre Dame. · · · · ·· · 

Besides the. incentives .already mcntion~d, Notre ·Dame had 

.another motive. for victory in their Evanston game. The day 

before the battle, Coach Rockne sent for all those .who were 

making the trip, gathered them around his bed and told them: 

"Boys; I won't be with you tomorrow; the doctor .says I can't 

go. I want to tell you just one thing, though, before you 

leave: if you win tomorrow, you will have· the .distinction of 

scoring my hundred~h victory since I started coaching here in 

1917. I don't especially care for myself, but if you ·want this 

honor just go out there tomorrow and fight, fight, fight!" 

\Vhcn his 1925 team was trailing, 10 to 0 at the half of their 

Northwestern game, he had said, "\Veil, I sec you're going to' 

have the distinction of bein'g the Notre Dame. team to quit on 

me," and walked out ·of the· dre5sing room. History shows that 

that bunchcame back and scored 13 points and W

OFFICIAL Fo·o T BALL REVIEW 1 9 2 9 73 

Wildc.at Victory IS Ro·ckne's Hundredth 

THE LINEUPS 

NOTRE DAME N. W. 

Collins • 

• Baker 

Left End 

Twomey 

Riley 

Left Tackle 

Cannon • • • Anderson (C) 

Left Guard 

Moynihan • Erickson 

Center 

Law (C) • • Woodworth 

Right Guard 

F. Leahy • • • • • Marvil 

Right Tackle. 

Conley 

~onya 

Right End 

· Carideo .• Hanley 

Quarter-Back 

. Elder Moore 

Left Half 

Brill 

Calderwood 

Right Half 

Mullins 

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"He is the spark-plug, the leader, the zip 

of the forward wall. Our whole defense is 

built around his leadership." 

Thus spoke Coach Rockne of "Big Tim" 

Moynihan, varsity center who rose to the 

~eights in the North,vestern game before he 

was removed with a broken bone in his 

right ankle. Tim was a hero every week 

and perhaps it is wrong to single him out 

for his showing in any one game, but against 

the \X'ildcats he was supreme. 

His accurate passing, his powerful offensive 

drive, and especially his daring tackling 

and smart pass defense work made him . 

the outstanding Notre Dame man against 

Northwestern. 

By CHARLES \X'. DuNKLEY 

Associated Press Sports Editor 

Dyche Stadium, "Evanston, Ill., Nov. 23.-Notre Dame's 

thirty-four men, eleven of them playing at a time, smashed 

Northwestern's well-clawed \X'ildcats 26 to 6 before 

55,00_0 fro'Zen spectators today to wi~ their eighth consecutive 

game of the season and to send them bounding 

along in the direction of a national championship. · 

The game was so lop-sided that it hardly was a contest. 

A stone-wall Notre Dame line, supported by three young 

backfield men-Jumping Joe Savoldi, Frank Carideo and 

Marchmont Schwartz-simply ran the Northwestern 

players ragged.· 

Pzi1·ple Sco1·es o1z Blu1zde1· 

This trio scored three touchdowns in the second period 

and another in the third~ tucking the game safely away 

for the Rockneless Ramblers, while Northwestern managed 

to score its single touchdown on a blunder in the fourth, 

when the third-string Notre Dame team was in there trying 

to emulate the achievement of the regulars. 

T~e victory was cos.tly to the undefeated, Notre Dame 

eleven because Tim Moynihan, the big 190-pound center, 

received a broken .right leg after the scoring orgy in the 

second period and had to be carried off the field. The injury 

ends his football career at Notre Dame, as next week's 

contest with the Army was to have been his last. 

Notre Dame opened up with its shock troops, keeping· 

the regulars, with the exception of Schwartz and Jumping 

Joe Savoldi, on the side-l~nes, and plowed through the 

\X'ildcats for five first downs before the game hardly was 

under way. There was not a scoring threat, however, until 

the second period opened, when Schwartz, Savoldi and 

Carideo got into action behind the first-string Notre Dame 

line and thrilled the capacity crowd with some sensational 

galloping. 

Sclnvartz Starts D1·ive 

Schwartz started the ball rolling when he tore off a. 

uBIG TIM" MOYNIHAN 

forty-rard run that brought him to Northwestern's fortyyard 

lme. Then, behind a solid, oblique wall of interference, 

Joe Savoldi galloped another forty yards for a touchdown. 

Carideo added a. point with a place kick. 

A few seconds a.fter this scoring venture, Schwartz 

passed to Brill for twenty-five yards, placing the ball ~n 

Northwe~tern's ten-yard line. Then Schwartz skipped 

around nght end for another touchdown with Carideo 

adding the extra point. Carideo then decided to do· some 

im~ortant s~oring hi~self and speared a Northwestern pass 

whtle stan?u~g on hts own fifteen-yard line and galloped 

away for etghty-five yards and Notre Dame's third 

touchdown. His kick for an extra point failed, however.· 

Notre Dame scored its .final touchdown in the third 

period when Savoldi broke aw~y on a thirty-two-yard run 

that brought him to Northwestern's seven-yard line. A 

pass. put the ball on. the one-yard line and then Jumping 

Joe JUmped over the center for Notre Dame's fourth touchdown. 

Carideo's kick was too low .. 

Sco1·e o1z Bad Pass 

\X'hen practically all of Notre Dame's regulars had been 

removed from the lineup, Northwestern's \X'ildcats still. 

were clawing and scratching: In: desperation they resorted 

tO a flock of fqrward passes, but were unable to connect 

with one that would produce a touchdown. They managed 

to score, however, when a pass from Yarr, one of the Notre 

Dame centers, ·hit one of Notre Dame's numerous back 

field players and bounded across the goal line. . Marvil, 

Northwestern tackle,-pounced on the oval for. a touchdown, 

but Bergherm's effort for the extra point failed. · -. : . 

Tom Lieb, an assistant coach, handled the Notre ·Da·me 

eleven while -Knute Rockne, the master mind of. the 

Ramblers, was ill in bed at his home in South Bend. 

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"BIFF" JONES,. 

Army Coach 

W'hil~ probably lacking in the 

ji11rssr of ·the 1924. tram, Notrr 

Dame's rlrr·e11 this J~ar was otze of 

th~ grralnl I have ev~r su11. The 

litu slopped rruy Artll)' drir·e a11d 

the Pass Jrfmse was r.w-rllml. I 

am sorry I did not srr them 1111der 

bell~r p/ayi11g co11ditiom. No team 

cat: match Notre Dame's 1929 

record. 


Artny 

·The 1929 renewal of the Army-Notre Dame game, which has 

became THE classic of football, saw a glorious climax to a. glorious 

Notre Dame season. 

The Cadets rose far above anything they had done previously 

and battled to the end like true soldiers in a vain attempt to 

overcome the lone score of the da.y made on Jack Elder's brilliant 

run in the second quarter. 

Both lines were i~ there fighting as they had never battled 

before, Army with its Perry and Messinger and Notre Dame with 

its Cannon and Twomey standing out head and shoulders above 

.the two struggling masses. Army was great that day. Chris 

Cagle, Army's valiant captain, outdid even himself with his determined 

offensive and defensive tactics in this last Notre Dame 

game of his remarkable career. 

The power and alertness of Notre Dame's great club, however, 

was too much for the best that \'{!est Point could offer. 

Every fresh march through the line or around the ends was 

stopped by Tom Lieb's powerful forwards, and every Army pass 

was ~ither incomplete or intercepted. Some said Elder's run was 

a !break of the game, but they must remember that three other 

of Cagle's desperate tosses were intercepted by vigilant Notre 

Dame backs. 

John Colrick, Ted Twomey, Jack Cannon, Joe Nash, 

Capt. Johnny Law, and Jack Elder, playing their last game 

for the Blue and Gold, .performed, if possible, better than 

in any other battle during the rigorous season. Frank 

Carideo's excellent judgment in playing safe after scoring, 

Marty Brill's great blocking and defensive work, Larry 

Mullins' determined plunging, and the work of Frank 

Leahy, Dick Donoghue, Tom Conley, Eddie Collins, and 

Al ·Culver in the line was close to perfection. 

The shock troop backs, Al Gebert, March Schwartz, Joe 

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Army Captain 

The Army-Notre Dame game 

Ibis year was o11e of the greatest I 

have ever had the pleawre to take 

part in duri11g my college career.: 

I am tba11kful that I had the opportunity 

to play against mm who 

could exemte their assignme11ls so 

well 011 that fro::m field a11J glad 

that we wert a real barrier be fore 

the natio11al champioiiS, for il 

may be years before a11other tram 

has such a mccessful seaso11. 

Savoldi, arid Bucky O'Connor, who made four first downs 

in the first quarter also share in the great victory. 

Notre Dame's claim to a national title, made by the press· 

and fans, rather than by the team itself, certainly seems 

justified after the last great ride of the New Four Horsemen. 

\XThat other team in the country could play nine 

major games, six of them without· their coach, a~d not 

crack? Notre Dame couldn't have without the excellent 

work of .. Rock's" three former pupils, Tom Lieb, Jack 

Chevigny, and Ike .V oedisch. 

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Elder's Dash Brings Win Over Ar1ny 

and a Cha1npionship 

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Left End 

ARMY 

Carlmark 

Twomey • • • • Price 

Left Tackle 

Cannon 

Humbert 

Left Guard 

Nash 

• Miller 

Center 

Law (C) • • • • Hillsinger 

· Right Guard 

Donoghue • • • . • Perry 

Right Tackle 

Conley ... Messinger 

Right End 

Carideo . • • • • • Carver 

Quarter-Back 

Elder • • Cagle, (C) 

Left Half 

Brill • • •· • • Hutchinson 

Right Half 

Mullins 

Murrell 

Full-Back 

Yankee Stadium, New York, Nov. 30.-A briiliant dash 

along the field by Jack Elder, fleet Notre Dame half, who 

intercepted a forward pass on his goal line and ran for a 

touchdown, gave the Irish a. 7 to 0 victory over Army 

today, and crowned the South Bend eleven, unbeaten and 

untied, as the grca~cst of the 1929 season. 

Snatching the ball from the hands of a waiting Army 

end, Elder churned the frozen gridiron with flying cleats, 

sprin tin'g past the baffled Cadets 100 yards to cross the 

goal line. Frank Caridco, Notre Dame's All-American 

quarter-back, booted a placement goal for the extra point. 

Aside from this one amazing play which swept the Irish 

to victory the two teams fought each other to a standstill 

before 85,000 spectators in Yankee stadium this bitterly 

cold afternoon. 

. Red Cagle Stm·s 

Captain Christian (Red) Cagle, was the outstanding 

star of the game offensively and defensively, but even he 

could not get free of an alert Irish secondary defense. 

Jack Cannon, Notre Dame's great guard, stamped himself 

as a certain All-American choice by his great play on 

rrHero of the DaJ'" 

\'V e confess we had not intended to usc 

the same man twice during the season in our 

selection of outstanding players in games, 

but if ever a man was a hero, .. Rabbit" 

Elder was against Army. 

In one dramatic stroke, Jack cut off 

· Army's greatest threat of the day, tore out 

of the grasp of a half-dozen snatching 

Cadets, and sped on as only he can speed to 

Army's goal some hundred yards away. 

both defensive and offensive. Playing without a headgear, 

he was in more than half of the plays in the game. 

The break of the game came in the middle of the second· 

quarter. Cagle and Johnny Murrell had ripped up the 

Notre Dame .line and carried the ball to the Irish 19-yard 

line at the start of the period, but there the stubborn 

South Bend defense proved impregnable and the Cadets lost 

the ball on downs .. After three tries at the \'Vest Point 

line had been· stopp~d without gains, Carideo dropped back 

to punt. 

George \'Vashington Perry, Army's 207-pound right 

Thus he closed the season as he had 

opened it against Indiana and as he had 

gone through it in every game-a real Notre 

Dame man and a hero to every follower of 

Rockne teams. 

By FRANK GETTY 

Uuited Press Sports Editor 

JACK ELDER 

tackle, broke through the line and pushed Jack Elder into 

Carideo just as the Notre Dame quarter-back got his kick 

away. The ball bounded crazily over the frozen turf and 

went to the Army on the Irish 13-yard line. 

. Sc1·eam of Delight 

Cagle tried the line and then Murrell, but only two 

yards were gained. Then. the Army captain dropped back 

to the Irish 30-yard line and flung a long pass tg Carlmark, 

who was waiting on the Notre Dame goal line. There was 

a scream of delight from the Army side of the field as it 

seemed that a touchdown would follow. 

One did,- but it was not the Army which scored it. Cutting 

over in front of Ca.rlmark, Jack Elder leaped high into 

the air as though to knock down the pass, but landed on 

his ·feet with the ball in his arms. Side-stepping three 

Cadets who flung themselves at him, Elder cut over. to the 

west side lines which he reached at his 20-yard line. There 

were many Army men, dashing toward him by this time 

and there was no hint of what was to follow. 

\'Vith one eye carefully cocked on the white chalk mark 

- beyond which he might not step, Elder opened up with ·a 

burst of speed similar to those which carried· him to inter.:. 

collegiate sprint honors on the cinder path. He 4as covered 

100 yards in better than ten seconds many times, but 

it never meant as much to Notre Dame as his· 100-yard 

dash did today. 

Now and then Elder had to slow up and side-step to let a 

Cadet tackler ·past him, but when he re1clied mid-field he 

was free of the packand had Gaptain Johnny Law running 

beside him for protection. He crossed the Army goal line 

standing up. After Carideo had kicked the ·goal for the 

extra point there was never a semblance of . a score by 

either side.

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All-Opponent Stars 

NESBITT-Drakc 

Right Half 

SAUNDERS-U.S.C. 

Quarte1·-Back 

BERGHERM-N orthwcstcrn 

Full-Back 

CAGLE-Army 

Left Half 

DRESHAR-Carncgic 

Right Guard 

DON CARLOS~Drakc 

Ce11ter 

PARKS-Wisconsin 

Left Guard 

MESSINGER-Army 

Right E11d 

PERRY-Army 

Rigbt Tackle· 

HIGHBERGER-Carncgic 

Left Tackle 

T APPAAN__.:._U.S.C. 

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The Review's AII~Opponent Teatn·- 

Player Co_llege Position 

Francis Tappaan _______________ Southern California ____________ Left End 

John Highberger _______________ Carnegie Tech _________________ Left Taclde 

John Parks--------------------Wisconsin -----------~---------Left Guard 

Waldo Don Carlos ______________ Drake ________________________ Center 

John Dreshar __________________ Carnegie Tech_~ _______________ Right Guard 

George Perry __________________ Army __________________________ Right Tackle 

Edwin Messinger _______________ Army_...;. ____ -------------- _____ Right End . 

Russell Saunders _______________ SouthernCalifornia _____________ Quarter-Back . 

Christian K. Cagle ______________ Army ________________________ Left Half-Back and Captain 

Richard Nesbitt __ __: _____________ Drake ________________________ Right Half-Back 

Russell Bergherm __________ _: ____ Northwestern _________________ .Full-Back 

Considering the class of opposition the team met this 

fall, this mythical eleven, picked from Notre Dame's nine 

foes, might well be called an All-American one. It is 

not hard to select eleven men from the Indiana, Navy, 

\X'isconsin, Carnegie Tech, Georgia Tech, Drake, Southern 

California, N orthwestcrn, and Army teams that will stack 

up with almost any All-American outfit in the country, 

but, of course, there are objections to putting the national 

rather than "opponent" label on our selections. 

Notre Dame did not play everyone in the country and 

there are players with other unbeaten teams, like Sleight of 

Purdue, Donchess of Pittsburgh, and Ackerman of St. 

Mary's, who are almost the unanimous choice of the ex-. 

perts for national honors. Then, .too, Notre Dame did not 

play itself and we arc forced to leave off men like Carideo 

and Cannon who really belong with the All-American 

stars. 

But, as we· said, we think we. have a team here that will 

compare favorably with most of the "all" teams and that 

could give good account of itself in a- game with any of 

them. In picking our All-Opponent team, we were guided 

not only by our own observations, but by the suggestions 

of the Notre Dame players themselves and of Notre Dame 

scouts who saw these foes in action practically every week. 

The outstanding work of Capt. Chris Cagle, of Army, in 

all games this year, and especially in the llliriois, Yale, and 

Army games, which Army lost, stamps him as tbe outstanding 

back of the country. A_s leader of the Cadets he 

combined all that is great in football: a keen insight on the 

garrie, ability to perform every function of the half-back, 

and especially a spirit of. pcrsevercnce against th~ most 

disheartening breaks of the game. He always- carried· on 

and was never discouraged. \X' e arc honored to name him 

captain of our star opponent team. 

His mates, George Perry at right tackle, and Edwin 

Messinger at right end, were the only two among our 

opponents to make any consistent hea~way against the 

powerful left side of the Notre Dame line made up of 

Cannon, Twomey, and Colrick or Collins. It was Perry 

that pushed Elder into Carideo's kick in the game this Fall 

to bring about Ariny's greatest touchdown threat of the 

day. He and Messinger st

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The New Four'Horsetnen ofNotre Datne 

By PAUL G. SuLLIVAN 

Carideo 

Brill 

Mullins 

Elder 

The Celts of Soutb Bend bave blared out of tbe ''(!est, 

'Mid tbe diu of tbe crowd and .tbe clamorous rattle 

Of conflict tbat roars tbrougb tbeir nation-1vide quest 

Of tbe crown to be gaiued in victorious battle . 

Aud, by leading by rigbt of speed, power, and skill, 

Streak Elder, Carideo, Mullins, and Brill. 

Grim 011 the sideli11e 1vitb all-seeing eye 

Sits tbe ge1iius directiug tbe fray bis team wages 

Tbe spirit incamate of 11ever-say-die, 

Notre Dame's own U1ljJaralleled rrRocl~" of tbe Ages:__ 

Secure in tbe faitb tbat bis way and bis will 

Ride with Elder, Carideo, Mullins, ami Brill. 

Run. tac!des, jJierce center, s!drt ends, burl and jJass I 

Uuleasb every tricl~ known to tactical scieuce I 

Gaps -ripped by a line close to peerless in class 

And tearing tbe barder for bostile defiance, 

'V bile all tbrougb tbe tbick of !be moil aud tbe mill 

. Rage Elder, Carideo,' Mullins, and Brill. 

It's strike 'till tbe strongest of foemen must yield I 

Hold bigh tbe brigbt glories of spotless traditiou/ 

Is it gbost of rrFour Horsemen" tbat rauges tbe field, 

· Advancing. the pigskin to scoring position? 

But no/ Tbose mad sbadows tbat mass for the kill 

Are Elder, Carideo, Mullins, and Brill. 

Long and steep is tbe jJathway to tititlar fame, 

Uutrod, save by bosts ueither tied uor defeated;~ 

Thrice-rougb is tbe road tbat awaits Notre Dame, 

Each rival primed luenly to leave ber unseated; 

But none will disturb her triumphal dash 'till 

He baits Elder, Carideo, Mullins, and Brill. 

Obi Great is this migbty quartet of Soutb Bend, 

Heroic tbese Berserlu from far Iudiana; 

'Tis fitting tbat cbeers of all Pittsburgb sball blend 

Today witb tbe tbunder of sportdom's Hosamzab, 

As seventy tbousaud of fans gaze tbeir fill 

On Elder, Carideo, Mullins, and Brill . 

(Editor's Note--This poem is reproduced here thro~gh the very kind permission of the author and the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegram 

in which paper it appeared October 25, .the eve of the Notre Dame-Carnegie Tech game.)

0 F F I C LA L FOOTBALL REVIEW-1929 79 

Feg M·urray Votes For Notre ·Datne 

MetrO,POiiun Ncwap•per s.mc. • 

By FEG MuRRAY 

(Editor's Note: This tribute by Mr. Muruy is reproduced here through the 

courtesy o£ Mr. Murray himself, the Metropolitan Newspaper Service, :and the South 

Bend Nt"rvs-Timt"s in which it appeared December 6.) 

.. The End of the Trail!" But how different from James 

Earle Fraser's famous statue of that name, with the halfclad 

Indian bent -low over his tired horse out of the snowy, 

wind-swept plain! The Horseman of Notre Dame ~nd his 

steed, Rambler, are both tired, to be sure, and they came 

. to the end of the trail on an icy, ·wind-swept field, but it 

was a trail that lead to victory, and so both horse and ~ider 

are proud and happy. The lorig, long trail that began last 

Oct. 5, only ended on Nov. 30 with Notre Dame's toughest 

game of all, against an inspired Army team, and don't kid 

yourself that the Irish's job of keeping thei~ slate clean 

against the eleven Biff Jones thre·w. at them, aft~r playing 

eight hard games in a row, was any easy task. 

That 95-yard dash of Jack Elder's was~'t just a .. break," 

and who can tell what Rockne's men might have uncovered 

had they not got" those precious seven points through that 

lucky (for them) pass of Cagle's? 

I think that Notre Dame is deserving of the 1929 National 

Football Championship because the Rocks of South 

Bend went through the toughest nine-game schedule any 

team in the land faced, without losing or tying a game.


Notre Dame's First Football Team 

By JOHN E. BERGAN 

Standing, left to right: J. J. Hepburn, end; George Houck, tackle; Edward Hawkins, guard; Frank Fehr, center; Patrick 

J. Nclso, guard; E. P. Melady, tackle; F. H. Springer, end. Seated, left to right: H. M. Jewett, half-back; J. E. Cusack, 

quarter-back; H. B. Luhn, coach, captain and half-back; and Ed Prudhomme, full-back. , 

The great football team representing Notre Dame this 

year with its squad of 100 men can turn its eyes backward 

to the one representing the Blue and Gold in 1887, the year 

of the inception of football at Notre Dame, to the time 

when eleven men composed the football team because there 

were but eleven suits in the University. 

·At a meeting held in Brownson hall in March, 1887, ten 

students of the University decided that the school should 

be represented by a football team. The suggestion was 

approved and Brother Joachim was petitioned to provide 

the team with a football. He tried but his efforts were in 

vain, for there was not a pigskin to be had about the 

campus or in the city of South Bend. He did not know 

how to make one (nearly everything was made in th~ 

community in those days) so an order was sent to Chicago 

for the ball. The finances for the ball were raised by popular 

subscription and from the treasury of the literary 

society. The ball did not arrive for two weeks and when 

it did come its owners were disappointed in its shape which 

resembled that of a modern basketball. 

The organizers were undaunted by the brisk weather of 

March and began active practice for the organization of 

Notre Dame's first varsity. Fifteen fellows answered the 

call for candidates for the team but only eleven men were 

given suits. 

Weeks of practice followed and by the middle of April 

a fair team represented the student body on the gridiron. 

The field then was on the present location of the Hoynes 

College of Law. Two rocks formed the outside boundaries 

and two trees served as the goals. Later, two old 

poles formed the goal so that kicks might be made. A rail 

fence was erected and served as the outside marker and as 

bleachers when the game became dull to the spectators.


During the days of practice there would never be 

enough men on the :field for an opposing team, so innocent 

by-standers were grafted into practice so that the team 

could have its workout. Whether these men knew how to 

pla.y the game did not matter. They needed no suits as the. 

uniforms worn by the varsity were much like baseball suits 

of ~oday, cotton stockings completed the attire. Headgears, 

shoulder pads, and cleats were unheard of and a noseguard 

was occasionally used. 

Practicing with men of their own school became dull 

and much clamor was rife· as to carding a regular game 

with some other school or some team from the neighboring 

city of South Bend. Harry Luhn, who captained :the 

team and acted as coach, booked a game with the strong 

Shamrock A~ C., of South Bend. 

The game was, indeed, a gory affair. It was played on 

Notre Dame's home field and turned out to be a bitterly 

fought contest. 

scores of 24 to 6 and 4 to 0. _However, the team did some 

very fine playing and merited much comment from the 

boys of Michigan. 

·In these games there were no mass formations, even the 

uflying wedge" was unheard of then. Kic~ing and end 

runs were the plays most frequently used. 

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The fo.otball at Notre Dame had gained quite an impetus 

and by the next year Notre Dame won the championship 

of Indiana and Illinois by defeating the ·Harvard 

school, of Chicago, 20 to 0. This game. was played at 

Notre Dame and was witnessed by 500 people, the largest 

crowd ever to view an athletic contest in the state ·of 

Indiana. Prudhomme, the full-back,· and Fehr," the center-rusher, 

were the stars of this fra.y and accounted ·for 

all of Notre Da.me's ·points. The tackling. in this game 

was vicious but no· slugging was noted; Forty-five minute 

periods were played and South Bend men did the officiating. 

Before the. game, the rumor was circulated at Notre The members of the first football team of Notre Dame's 

Dame that the South· Bend bunch had been boasting that and their present occupations are; · 

they were coming out to clean Notre Dame so well that 

there would not be anything left. These rumors were so 

Dr. H. B. Luhn, coach, captain, and half-back-medical 

doctor, Spokane, \Vf ash. 

rife that the home team rooters came well armed and the H. M ... Hal" Jewett, naif-back-former president Paige 

officials from South Bend failed to put in an appearance. Motor Car Co., Detroit, Mich. 

In their places were chosen the-Villagers' cheer-leader, who 

Joseph E. Cusack, quarter-back-colonel, U. S .. Army, 

acted as referee, and John Burke, janitor of Brownson hall, 

El Paso, Texas. 

wh() was umpire .. 

George A. Houck, tackle-ranch owner, Portland, Ore. 

The game certainly had its arguments and disputes. It Joseph L. Hepburn, end-insurance, Detroit, Mich. 

lasted fully two hours and a half. Notre Dame finally 

Ed:ward .. Sim" Hawkins, guard-city official, Detroit, 

managed to win, 8 to 4, Joe Cusack scoring one touchdown 

and Luhn the other. The contest was particularly 

Mich. 

hard on the string of substitutes, for men were laid out 

· Frank ·cc:Dutch" Fehr, center~apitaiist, Louisville, Ky. 

with astounding regularity. Only very open and conspicuous 

slugging was noted by the officials. Notre Dame Iowa, Dubuque, Iowa.. · · 

Patrick J. Nelson, guard-Judge of District ~ourt of 

finished the game with ·nine men, all of whom were completely 

Ed. Prudhomme, full-back-member of legislature, 

and beautifully battered. up. 

Berud;:t, La.· · . · 

Two regular games were "played with Michigan later that ·· F. H ... Dad" Springer, end-attorney, Columbus; Ga. 

year, but the light and inexperienced team ·could not cope Eugene P. ..Butch" Melady, tackle-meat packer, 

with the heavy, aggressive Wolver~nes and succumbed by Omaha, Neb. 

Thirteen Receive Hering· Medal· Contest A wards 

One of the big events of spring practice at Notre Dame 

is the awarding of the Frank A. Hering medals for proficiency 

in various departments. Mr. Hering, donor of the 

medals, was captain at Notre Dame in 1897 and coach at 

the ~arne time. He continued his coaching activities during 

the next two years and since then has been one of the 

most loyal of the many dyed-in-the-wool fans. 

Thirteen medals were given this year in the following 

departments of the game to the following players: 

Punting-Eddie O'Brien. 

Place-Kicking-Clarence Kaplan. 

Passing-Marchmont Schwartz. 

Pass Defense-Emmett Murphy. 

Pass Receiving-Alfred Grisanti. 

Center Passing-Thomas Y arr. 

Full-backs Taking Ends in-Paul O'Connor. 

Quarter-backs Taking Out Secondary-Norbert Christman. 

Ends Blocking Tackles-John Col rick. 

Offensive Line Charge-John Law and Bert Metzger. 

(Law won on toss for the medal.) 

Guards Pulling Out.:_ Jack Cannon .. 

Tackles Across the Line of Scrimmage-Dick Donoghue.

82 OFFI-CIAL FO O.TB ALL REVIEW-1929 

Rockne-Trained Coaches Have ·Good Year 

· The increased use of the Rockne system of football has 

enlarged the demand fo.r coaches· trained by the old master 

until the list of mentors who received ·their scho-oling ·at 

Notre Da.me has become the most important in college circles· 

toda:y: Bcsid~s tho~e at: various high schools and prep 

institutions;throughout the country,over 75 .for_iner.wearers 

of the Blu.e and Gold are .instructing university and college 

teams i!l :t~e finer points. of the popular Fall sport. . 

. That .thi~. dem;nd. is- justified is .shown by. a. gl~nce over 

the.long list of su_cccsses ·these men have made during their 

c:arcers and especially this.past season.· It is not uncqmmon 

t~ see ~s many as three or four former stars from the Rockne 

stables o~ the same c~ach_ing staff; in fact, it is quite the 

r:u~e rather than. the. exception-where any Notre D~me men 

are employed. 

Right here at Notre Dame, Tom Lieb, Jack Chevigny, 

Ike Voedisch, and Bill Jones, handled the 1929 champions 

during a most rigorous season. Lieb and Chevigny had 

charge _of the team in six of its nine games and brought it 

through all' of them without a slip. Voedisch has developed 

a set· of ends that can take its place with any in 

the country, and Jones has helped Tommy Mills build up 

one of the best Freshmen squads in Notre Dame history. 

The story of how Jimmy Phelan, '26, upset the proverbial 

dope bucket all over the Big Ten-or Big Nine as 

it may be called now-to win Purdue's first conference 

championship is certainly one for the books. He attributes 

a large share of credit for this showing t.o Noble Kizer, 

guard on the Four Horsemen team of 1924, and Mel 

Edwards, another former Rockne star. Purdue wasn't 

given an outside chance at the beginning of the season, but. 

had the conference crown cinched a week before the season 

ended and by finishing its schedule undefeated, made a 

claim to national honors second only ·to Notre Dame's. 

In addition to Kizer, every member of the championship 

Four Horsemen eleven is passing on to posterity the tricks 

of the system that won him undying fame. Harry 

Stuhldreher, quarter-back, is now doing big things as head 

coach at Villanova college in Pennsylvania, where he is 

assisted by Ed Hunsinger, who teamed with him at right 

end. Bob Regan, of the famous 1924 shock troops; is also 

giving Harry a hand as an assistant coach. Their team 

. won from such strong opponents as Oglethorpe, Loyola, 

Catholic U., and Duke, and tied with Boston college during 

_the past season. 

Don Miller, 'right half Horseman, is backfield coach at 

Ohio State now after his three successful years at Georgia 

By JOSEPH s. PETRITZ 

Tech, and Edgar Miller, right tackle with the Seven Mules, 

is an assistant coach at Navy. Elmer Layden, full-back, 

and J~e Bach, left tackle, have charge of the strong 

Duquense eleven that showed a· distinctive Notre Dame 

trait, perseverance, by marching 90 ya.rds in the last two 

minutes of play to tie a stubborn \Vf est Virginia team this 

Fall. 

Jimmy uSleepy" Crowley got off to a promising start at 

Michigan State where he took up the reins of head coach 

this Fall. uchuck" Collins, left end, has charge of the 

gridiron destinies of North Carolina. university and is being 

assisted by Bill Cerney, shock trooper of 1929. The Chapel 

Hill boys knocked off such aggregations as Georgia Tech, 

last year's national champions, Virginia Poly, North Carolina 

State, South Carolina, and Davidson, losing_ to 

Georgia by only one touchdown. 

Adam W-alsh, captain and All-American center, and 

John Weibel, left guard in the Seven Muie team, arc 

assistant coaches. The former is at Yale and the latter at 

Vanderbilt. \Vfalsh went to the Bulldogs this year fr~m 

Santa Clara, where he ~as head coach during a successful 

regime, and was the first outsider in some time to join the 

all-Y ale staff of mentors. The work of his powerful line, 

which the critics say improved 50 per cent this year, was 

largely rcsponsibl~ for a gratifying season that saw one of 

th~ Blue's hardest schedules in· history. 

The team they arc talking about out West is little St. 

Mary's which one writer has termed, uthe Notre Dame of 

the Coast," and which has just completed a highly com- 

. mendable season that saw its goal line uncrossed and that 

makes St. M~ry's a potential ~ember of a. big four, consisting 

of California, Stanford and Southern California. This 

team is coached by Ed uSlip" Madigan, who finished his 

playing career here in 1920 and who is assisted by Frank 

Andrc~s of the 1918 eleven. I 

Another big team from a small school on the coast is 

Santa Clara, who held St. Mary's to a 6 to 0 score and beat 

Stanford this ~cason for the second time in three years. 

Maurice uclipper" Smith, another Rockne pupil, has 

charge here and is assisted by Larry Shaw, a Notre Dame 

man . 

Harry Mehre, '22, head coach, and Frank Thomas, '23, 

assistant mentor, pulled their Georgia eleven along at a fast 

clip this year and beat, among oth~rs, Yale with Adam 

\Vfalsh's line and all, Chuck Collin's North Carolina boys, 

~nd Georgia Tech.

OFFICIAL FOOTBALL REVIEW-1929 8~ 

\X'hile Gus Dorais didn't learn his football from Rockne, 

he did learn it with him on the team that startled the· football 

world with the Rockne-Dorais forward pass combination, 

and he is assisted by Harvey Brown, captain in 1924, 

and John Frederick, '28, in the gridiron instruction business 

at Detroit university. His teams won 21 straight games up 

until they met the Oregon Aggies this year and they lost 

by only one touchdown, 14 to 7, when their winning 

streak was broken. ·Their long list of victories started 

·just after Notre Dame had beaten them in ·1927 . 

.. Hunk" Anderson, '22, who helped .. Rock" for four 

years a.t ·the beginning of his coaching career, has the situation 

well under control at St. Louis university with his 

Notre Dame helpers, the famous Christy Flanagan of 1926, 

and .. Chili" \X' alsh, '28. 

..Hunk", Christy and .. Chili" 

work with the line, backs, and ends, respectively, and their 

Billikins managed to take the count of Oglethorpe, South 

Dakota State, and Coe during t~e course of an off season. 

Gene Oberst, '24, and Forest Fletcher, track star who 

finished in '12, guide the \X'ashington and Lee Pres~dents 

in their pigskin activities; Chet \X'ynne, '22, and John 

McMullan, '26, handle the fate of Creighton's el~ven; Joe 

Boland, guard in '25 and '26, and his teammate, Frank 

Mayer, are at the College of St. Thom.as in St. Paul, 

Art Bergman, '20, is an assistant in the same. town at 

Minnesota university; and Harry O'Boyle and Luke Kelly 

help out at Holy Cross. . 

There are some 3 5 or 40 others, both head coaches and 

assistants, in la.rge and small colleges throughout the 

country who helped t~ put Rockne football on the map and 

who are doing much to keep it there with their own teams. 

And don't forget .. King Knute" the teacher of teachers who 

showed this brilliant array of mentors the fundamentals of 

the game that they all love so much and teach so 

thoroughly. 

Although flat on his back during the major portion .of 

the season his influence was felt strongly and will be as 

long as his pupils stick to. the principles h~ taught them. 

Most of his men consistently are successful, a few of them 

are not, but they can't go wrong if they stick to the advice 

he gave them when they were playing for him. 

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THE VICTORY MARCH 

Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame, 

. 1\7 ake up the echoes cheering her uame, 

Semi a volley cheer on higb 

Shake down tbe tbu11der from the sky, 

1\7 hat thougb tbe odds be great or small, 

Old Notre Dame willwht over all, 

1Vhile ber loyal sous are marcbittg 

Ottward to Victory. 

·A Picture of Rockne 

This is how R:>ckne looked when directing practice this Fall. 

him are Student Manager Jack Saunders and Varsity 

. Quarter-Back Frank Carideo. 

By LAWRENCE PERRY 

With 

A picture-Notre Dame arrives in Pittsburgh. The 

Union station is crowded. A band of clear-eyed, well setup 

young men debouch from the train. Two red caps, 

headed by a policeman push a wheel-chair through the 

crowd. The team stands waiting as Tom Lieb, a sculptured 

specimen of humanity, appears on the car platform 

bearing in his arms a chunk of a man with brown ·slouched 

hat pulled down over his eyes. 

Several players rush to the car steps but Lieb shakes his 

head. He is doing the job alone. He steps down to the 

platform and gently seats his burden in the wheel-chair. 

Rockne! A little fluttering cheer goes up. 

A motor car awaiting at the door. Lieb lifts his old 

teacher and now his chief into the car. The door slams. 

Now the' Pittsburgh Athletic Association. Sixth floor. 

An ante-room filled with men talking quietly and smoking. 

A physician comes out of a bedroom. . 

.. Rock will see you and you and you," the medic says, 

singling out the lucky persons. . 

On the bed, in yellow and cream striped pajamas, reclines 

Knute. At one side a magazine. On the other a box of 

cigars. He is smoking a cigar. His face has the bloom 

of health and his blue eyes were never more blue, neve: 

more clear. · 

Now comes a group of new stories which shall not be told 

here because Knute will want to spring them· at dinners and 

-so forth later and it would be a crime to take the bloom off . 

Later. A· motor car rolling to the Notre Dame bench. 

Tom Lieb. lifting Rockne into his wheel . chair where 

throughout the game he sits like some incapacitated 

Napoleon. But brain still working. Later still. The car 

swallowed in the midst of cheering, gyrating ·Notre 

Damians. 

(Editor's Note: This word-picture is offered here through the courtesy of Mr. 

Perry 2nd the South Bend Tribtm~.) 

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Chapel Car Used on 

. Baltimore Trip 

So that their hurried return trip from the Navy game 

at Baltimore might not be without its Sunday Mass, the 

Notre Dame team was supplied with a traveling church 

in the form of a chapel car. 

Playing every game on the road, these God-fearing boys 

had to rush home each week in order to be ready for their 

next trip. Sometimes they heard Mass after getting honie, 

other times, they stopped on the way or, as at Chicago, 

they observed the ~ord's Day before leaving for the campus. 

\Vhen they left Baltimore Saturday night after the 

game, they were stumped for a while, but the Baltimore 

& Ohio railroad company came to. their rescue Sunday 

morning. · 

\Vhen the entourage reached \Villard, Ohio, the mobile 

church, which is shown above, was hooked onto their train 

and they enjoyed the unusual experience of hearing Mass 

en route. The chapel car contains everything essential to 

celebration of the Mass;· and everything is of the finest 

material that the great Pullman company could find. The 

car was built for the use of many of the highest dignitaries 

of the Catholic Church who attended the Eucharistic 

Congress iri Chicago. 

Mass for the team was celebrated by Rev. William 

Maloney, C. S. C., registrar of the university, who accompanied 

the team to Baltimore, with special permission from 

His Excellency, Most Reverend Pietro Fumasonu-Biondi, 

Apostolic delegate in Washington, D. C. 

Since this unusual incident, authorities of the University 

have received numerous letters from all parts of the couri 

. try complimenting the school of Our Lady on the wonderful 

example her sons gave to the youth of America on 

this and other occasions. 

They come from all over to pla.y under Rockne. In the 

first string back field, we find Carideo, from Mt. Vernon, 

N. Y., Elder from Lebanon, Ky., Mullins from Pasadena, 

Calif., and Brill from Philadelphia, Pa. In the line we have 

Colrick from New Jersey, Twomey from Minnesota, Cannon 

from Ohio, Moynihan from Chicago, Law from Y onkers, 

N. Y., Donoghue from Auburn, N. Y., and Vezie from 

Pennsylvania. 

c:cThe Fighting Irish" 

ByT. VINCENTMclNTIRE 

The term .. Fighting Irish" has been applied to Notre 

Dame football teams for years. It first attached itself 

years ago when the· school, comparatively unknown, sent 

its athletic· team away to play in another city. Sports 

writers used the term in an ironical, unsympathetic way. 

At that time .. Fighting Irish" held no glory or prestige. It 

was given by sports writers in the same sense that the crowd 

would give a head of cabbage to a .. ham" actor. 

The years passed swiftly and t_he little school began to 

take a place in the sports world. Journalists suddenly 

woke to find the cabbage transferred into a beautiful bouquet 

of shamrocks. The .. ham" actor no longer took his 

bow to an indifferent audience but answered the 'curtain to 

an enthusiastic crowd. ccFighting Irish" took on a new 

meaning. The unknown of a few years· past had boldly 

taken a place among the leaders. The unkind appellation 

became symbolic of the struggle for supremacy in the field. 

. ..Fighting Irish!" Recall the associations of the. term. 

Think of John T. Mitchell, Robert Emmett, \Vol£ Tone, or 

Edward Fitzgerald, fighting Irish all! Review the struggles 

qf an indomitable race crushed under the cruel heel of 

an empire's boot. \Vhat does the term imply? Does it 

not recall the Easter of 1916, when sixteen «fighting Irish" 

were backed against a wall in Dublin barracks and shot to 

death? Doe~ it not recall the gallant struggle for existence 

while famine and foreign law clutched savagely at the 

throats of a stricken but unconquered Ireland? 

The term while given in irony has become our heritage. 

The implications of .. Fighting Irish" are too much like our 

own struggles for recognition to be so easily ignored. We 

are criticised on _every side for using the term but the 

critics gave us the name. They too, see that it has more 

than one application. Too late they seek to retract what 

they gave in irony a few years ago. ·Realizing that the 

name CCFighting Irish" has taken a significance they never 

_dreamed of, they now seek to disparage us ·again by other 

terms. ..\Vandering Nomads" we are called ... Ramblers," 

uGalloping Gaels,'.' and uFighting Irish-Italians" are made 

· use of to describe us. None of the terms stick. We hope 

they will not. One by . one, the sports writers will come 

back grudgingly to the old name. 

The ethnologists object to the name on the grounds that 

the Irish are in the minority on the football team. ·The 

Savoldis, Carideos, and the Schwartz's, they say, are not 

Irish, and so are not fighting Irish. For that matter Yale 

'teams are not c~Bulldogs," Wisconsin players are not 

UBadgers," or Northwestern uwildcats." Our name is 

merely an identifying one which has been glorified on many 

a field of battle. So truly does it represent us that we are 

unwilling to part with it. With the Moynihans, the Leahys, 

the Cannons, and the Collins' to justify the name, let us 

go down through history as the .. Fighting Irish" of Notre 

Dame. The term is our legacy, won by grim unyielding 

. struggle. The name honors us. . Let us honor the name. 

And we are sure the Eichenlaubs and the Rocknes, the 

Eggemans and the Stuhldrehers of the past will be with us; 

and, too, the Carideos and the Schwartz's and the Savoldis 

of the present generation.· 

(Editor's Note: This editorial is reprinted here through 

the courtesy of the Notre Dame Scholastic.) · ·

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A Tribute to the 1929 Champions 

Eleven men in blue, eleven heads high, 

Wrote history across the gridiron sky: 

Carideo, Savoldi, Elder aud Mullius, 

Camt01t aud Law, Twomey and Col/ius. 

Eleve1t giants were these~ who fought the best 

Who battled for 11orth, south, east ~11d west 

Trojans, Badgers, Caruegie Tech, 

Army, PurjJ/e, the Ramblin' \V reck.· 

The Irish they call them, fighters, too; 

Aud fight they did 'till ibe whistle blew, 

'Till twilight washed the sod with gray 

Aud cheers were stilled for auother day. 

From cud to eud, tbe liue was steel. 

It charged ahead like a thing uureal; 

Scarce a day was seen when rival back 

Made yardage t!:Jere witb any attack. 

One man [lt half whose 11ame was Brill 

K11ew how to rusb aud quic/Uy spill 

Ball aud carrier ever so wary; 

No better ?nan played secondary. 

Across tbe chalk-marlwd turf there sjJed 

A youtb witb ligbtuing in his tread; 

Stauds rose to cry: rr\Vbo's eigbty-four?" 

rrElder I Elder/" came tbe ecboing roar. 

T bey slasbed tbe tacHes, auil ran tbe cuds, 

T ben tossed a jJass to malw ameuds 

For loss on peualty or otber slijJ 

Shed in the haste of a toucbdown trip. 

One man tbere is, aud ouly oue, 

\V hose tea11; could go. from smt to suu 

Aud make 110 bluuder, even sligbt, 

N~r fail to demoustrate its migbt. 

T be master baud I In single breatb 

His 1~ien for l:Jim -zvould ride to deatb. 

Rock ta1egbt tbe1n how to jJlay tbe game; 

They answered-aud won for Notre Dame. 

-CHARLES 0. MoLz, '24. 


TO GEORGE GIPP 

Sbort years ago he lived aud fame was .his; 

Short ye.ars .. ago his uame crashed 'gaiust a crimson sky, 

Aud Ca'i1!P.. (md otbers bailed him great. 

But tbose wbo lt1zew bim thougbt him more than great 

For tbose wbo kuew GijJjJ loved him. 

· He died, aud many mourned bis jJassing; 

A11d others said, rrHe.'s. golle- 

The great GijJjJ g01z.e. forever." 

But tbere are tbose who kuow tbat tbough 

The lwenmiud and .mighty body are but dust 

. Gipp lives/ 

·For how did mediocrity rise sobbing 

·Over tbose bailed great? 

-HARRY A. SYLVESTER, ]R. 

Editor's Note: This :w:ts written Dec. 13, 1929, for the ~inth :tnnh·ersuy ·of 

~eto~~c~!i;;:sn:ees~th, :and w~s inspired by the Army victory of 1~28 v.-ith its :attend-

of 

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86 OFFICIAL FOOTBALL. REVIEW-1929 

In the Spiri~ 

of St. Francis Xavier 

I 

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Here at Notre Dame, we take our football seriously. 

That doesn't mean \Vall street fashion, as a betting proposition; 

or Carnegie-Report fashion, as paramount to other 

interests; or C. C. Pyle fashion, as work instead of play. 

To recall to your minds just wha-t football means to Notre 

Dame, we reprint a couple of paragraphs frorp the Bulletin 

of October 8: · 

.. Notre Dame football is a spiritual service because itis 

played for the honor- and glory of God and the exaltation 

of his Blessed Mother. \Vhen St. Paul said, c\Vhether 

you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do, do all for the 

glory of God,' he included football as well as everything 

else that is not sinful; and when we make our morning 

offering of all the thoughts, words, and actions of the day 

to God, we include honest recreation as well as food and 

drink and study. Tradition at this school has made this 

spiritual service more intense because daily Communion and 

prayer have been made a part of the training schedule, 

each game is dedicated to some Saint, and the shocks and 

bruises and disappointments of the season, as well as the 

glory of victory, have been offered for the Poor Souls or 

for some particular soul in affiiction. 

.. What part does victory play . in this service? The 

combination of consistent victories brilliant, gritty playing, 

and man-killing schedules has given Our Lady's team 

the largest and friendliest p-ublic following in this country. 

And as sports writers scratch their heads ove~ this phenomenon, 

they come closer and closer to acquainting the 

public with the ideals that dominate both the school and 

the team. Catholic schools know what makes the. difference, 

and when they seek a coach from Notre Dame they 

invariably ask: .. Is he a daily communicant? Is he likely 

to extort a good spiritual infl_uence on our school?" 

This year's season has furnished a brilliant example of the 

spiritual service of Notre Dame football. With an attendance 

of 570,000 spectators at nine games, and a capacity 

attendance of 122,500 at one game and 300,000 applications 

for the 80,000 scats at another, there is no doubt about 

. the popularity of the team. Press comment has been, for 

the most part, exceptionally friendly, and there has been 

notable absence of two features of a generation ag~ 

caustic comment or a conspiracy of silence on the part of 

the press. Furthermore, the press has been eager for more 

material than· it could have on the spiritual side of the 

players. 

Scores of communications have told us of the edification 

that has come from observation of the spiritual side of 

Notre Dame football. One man is thrilled to see a player go 

up from. the benches to serve a Mass when a. priest comes 

out alone; another is moved profoundly when three guests 

at his home turn down his .wife's hot sausages and cakes 

because they want to receive Holy Communion the morning 

after the· game; a high- school team writes for the 

««medals the Notre Dame men wear;" a nun writes that her 

pupi~s arc praying_ for the coach and. the team; priests here 

and there all over the country, urging their parishoners and 

their Holy_ N·ame Societies to frequent Communion, quote 

the example of the team. 

Tomorrow is the feast of St. Francis Xavier, one of the 

first followers of St. Igna.tius, and the Apostle of India. He 

is said to have converted more than a million· people. He 

did things in a large way. St. Ignatius won the heart of 

Francis when he was a brilliant, somewhat worldly- young 

student at the University of Paris, by repeating to him 

constantly, u\Vhat shall it profit a man to gain the whole 

world if he suffer the loss of his soul?" And that is the spirit 

in which the members of the team of 1929 arc asked by 

their school to· accept the national championship. One 

hundred years from now, some pokey scholar may dig out 

of an ancient I!lagazine an account of the fleeting glory of 

the football championship of this year; but the players will 

have eterl!al glory in Heaven if a hundred years from now 

they will be surrounded there by fans, total strangers to 

.them now, whom they won to love of God. In this spirit, 

then, thank God tomorrow in Holy Communion for the 

championship of 1929 . 

(Editor's Note: This is reprinted from the Religious 

Bulletin of December 2 with the kind permission of Rev. 

John O'Hara, Prefect of Religion at Notre Dame.) 

Congratulations Men- 

Notre,Dame 

rou Have Done Nobly! 

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1,3 00 Praise 1929- Cham.pions at Testim.onial Dinner 

Over 1,300 persons paid tribute to Notre Dame's 1929 

football team on December 5 at the university dining-halls, 

the occasion being the annual testimonial banquet to the 

team by the St. Joseph Valley Notre Dame club. It was .. the 

largest crowd ever to attend one of these dinners in the six 

years that they have been given. 

The dinner was unique not only in size, but in· the fact 

that Coach Rockne was unable to attend it due to illness 

that had kept him away from the team most of the fall. His 

absence enabled the notable speakers present to express their 

true feeling toward him without any embarrassment, although 

he was listening in to the talks on a radio at his 

bedside. 

Highlights on the program of excellent speakers were 

the talk of Jimmy Phelan, a former Rockne pupil who · 

showed Purdue the way to its ~rst Big Ten championship 

this fall, and the one by Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C., 

president.of the University of Notre Dame.· 

Phelan very generously stated that : ui bring from 

Purdue and from Purdue's players, the word that we consider 

Notre Dame the greatest team in America today, and 

Purdue claims nothing more than the championship of its 

own little league and of Tippecanoe county." Father 

O'Donnell, before launching into the body of his talk, insisted 

that Purdue consider itself at least the co-holder of 

the national title with Notre ·Dame. · .· · '· · ·. 

The main part of Father ·a~Donnell's-" speech consisted 

in a defense of college athle~ics as consider~~ und~r: t,he 

headings of crowds, its support of scholastic and other curricular 

features, ·and commercialism in athletics. He gave 

figures to show that in spite of the tremendous increase in 

number of those attending games, football still belongs to 

the schools and not to some intangible heterogeneous mob. 

He pointed out that athletics had been supported by sources 

other than itself for a long time and that it was only fair 

that athletics should repay some of its debt to these sources, 

the scholastic departments of the university.· He concluded 

with a strong argument . to the effect that commercialism 

is not the motivating force in college athletics 

today, giving as proof the new Notre Dame stadium which 

will cost in the neighborhood of $700,000 and which will 

not enable Notre Dame to make as much money as it could 

·playing aw:iy from home. 

Paul Castner, president of the Notre Dame club of St. 

Joseph Valley, was the presiding officer at the dinner and 

\Varren Brown, sports editor of the Chicago Herald-Exami1ler, 

was the toastmaster. Other speakers were H. 0. 

uPat" Page, coach at Indiana, \Villiam uNavy Bill" Ingram, 

coach a.t Navy, Capt. Lawrence .. Biff" Jones, Army coach, 

Judge \Valter P. Steffan, ~arnegie Tech coach, Harvey T. 

Woodruff, columnist with the Chicago Tribu11e, and Hon. 

Harry C. Leslie, governor of Indiana. 

All of these men spoke in glowing terms of Notre Dame's 

current and past successes on the gridiron and of their respect 

and love of Coach Ro.ckne. Among those invited, 

who were unable to attend were Hon. James Walker, mayor 

· (Continued on page 89) 

Our Co~pliments to the 

1929 National Champions 

Home Lawn Sanitarium 

Martinsville, Indiana 

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1930 Grid- Card Announced 

At the end of the 1929 season, Coach Rockne said that 

he would never line up another tough schedule for his 

team. On December 14, after a meeting with the faculty 

board of control, he came forth with a ten game card that 

takes its place easily with that of 1929, and with any other 

his teams have played. 

Five of the games will be in the new stadium now under 

construction and five of them will be on the road. Southern 

Me.thodist university, one of the best teams in the South 

this year, will be the first to trot onto the sod next fall, and 

after them, Navy will dedicate the new arena. 

Three teams. from Pennsylvania, Carnegie Tech, Pittsburgh, 

and Pennsylvania-are on the card with Indiana 

and Northwestern of the Big Nine, and Drake, Missouri 

Valley champions. The 1930 team will close its season with 

the annual Army game in New.York on Nov. 29 and another 

on the coast with Southern California the following 

week. 

Southern Methodist university~ Pittsburgh, and Pennsylvania 

are the only additions to the 1929 schedule and Wisconsin 

and Georgia Tech are the teams dropped. 

Following is the complete schedule: 

Oct. · 4-Southern Methodist at South Bend. 

Oct. 11-Navy at South Bend. 

Oc~. 18-Carnegie Tech at South Bend. 

Oct." 25__:Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh. 

Nov. 1-lndiana at South Bend. 

Nov. 8-Pennsylvania. at Philadelphia. 

Nov. 15-Drake at South Bend. 

Nov. 22-Northwestern at Evanston. 

Nov. 29-Army at New York. 

Dec. 5.-Southern California at Los Angeles. 

1,300 PRAISE 1929 CHAMPIONS AT 

TESTIMONIAL DINNER 

(Continued from page 88) 

of New York City, who was laid up with a cold received at 

the Army-Notre Dame game; Maj. John L. Griffith, Big 

Ten commissioner of athletics, who was busy with the Iowa 

affair which came in for a lot of good-natured banter during 

the· evening; Tom Lieb, assistant coach who handled the 

team during Rockne's illness, who was called to the bedside 

of his ill wife; and George Ade, the noted· humorist. 

The players were introduced by Jack Chevigny, assistant 

coach, and six of them, Colrick, Carideo, Moynihan, Cannon, 

Elder, Twomey, and Capt. Law were presented with 

trophies symbolical . of their being placed on the Indianapolis 

Star's All-Indiana team. 

In the stress and strain.of his.illness, Coach Rockne forgot 

his non-scouting agreement with Georgia Tech and 

sent Tommy Mills down to watch the Golden Tornado. 

\Vhen the matter was brought to his attention, he apologized 

to Coach Alexander and threw out all of Tommy's 

. valuable dope. 

Congratulatio11s to the 1929 Team 

on its. Successful Season 

GEORGIAN TERRACE -HOTEL 

Atlanta,. Georgia


Sidelights on the Season 

For the second time in five years, Notre Dame has been 

awarded the Jack F. Rissman trophy symbolical of the 

national championship. Mr. Rissman bases his ratings on 

the strength of the team and its opponents rather than on 

percentage. Purdue was rated next to Notre Dame and 

Pittsburgh third. 

Statistics are always interesting, at least sometimes. Dur- 

. ing the past season Notre Dame scored 145 points to its 

opponents 38, making 20 touchdowns to six for the oppositiOn. 

Southern California was the only team· to score 

twice against the first string line; Georgia Tech scored 

once on the first club, and Navy, Drake, and Northwestern 

each once on the shock troops. Notre Dame made 108 

first downs to its opponents 59; 2,307 yards from scrimmage 

to their 843, and completed 18 passes out of 80 for 

J91 yards, while the enemy completed 29 out of 110 for 

380 yards. 

Two of the longest runs of the season were made in Notre 

Dame games-Elder's run for 100 yard against Army, and 

Saunder's, of Southern California, for 95. Elder also got 

one for 60 against Indiana and one for 53 in the Georgia 

Tech game. Cariedo ran back a Northwestern punt for 

80 yards and a. Georgia Tech kick for 73. 

Elder's pass to Conley in the Southeni California game 

was good for 53 yards and is probably the longest completed 

by a major team this year. While on the subject of 

Elder, we might point out that" he led the team's scoring 

with seven touchdowns. Savoldi was next with six. . 

Jumping Joe Savoldi, the full-back who plunges, then 

gallops, was the best ground-gainer in the country during 

the season. He was given just an outside chance of making 

good last year when he spent his time with the reserves~ 

He averaged around four yar:ds this year. 

Jack Cannon, left guard, and Frank Carideo, quarterback, 

were two of the most prominent All-American .selections 

of the year. · Both were almost unanimous choices 

of the experts. Ted Twomey, Tim Moynihan, Joe Savoldi, 

and Capt. Johnny Law also came in for a lot of honorable 

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Twomey and Cannon were invited by Dick Hanley, 

Northwestern coach, to play on his team of Eastern stars 

against an eleven of Western luminaries on the Pacific 

coast, January 1. Elder was asked to play with a Midd!e 

Western team. against some Southern stars during the holidays 

but decided that he has had enough football and will 

spend Christmas with the folks in the old Kentucky home. 

Sidelights on. the Season 

The Nebraska Cornhuskers stopped off at South Bend 

on their way to their game with Syracuse university and 

were guests of the Notre Dame team at lunch before their 

hosts had to hop a train for Baltimore and the Navy game 

on Oct. 10. The Cornhuskers also worked out for a while 

on Cartier practice field, evidently getting some good out 

of their short drill-they beat Syracuse, 13 to 7. 

The entire left side of the line consisting of Colrick, 

Twomey, and Cannon; two centers, Moynihan and Nash; 

right guard, Capt. Law, right end, Tom Murphy, and 

left half Elder will be lost to the team for next year and 

Coach Rockne will probably sing his usual song of woe 

. next fall before the season opens. 

Although Indiana is considered the football capital of the 

world with its Notre Dame and Purdue, there is not a single 

Hoosier on the former school's traveling squad and only 

three on th~ entire roster. Abe Zoss, of South Bend, is one 

of these and he was to have gone along to Bloomington for 

the opening game, but remembered that Oct. 5 was New 

Year's for him and had to stay home. 

Tom Shaughnessy, a Notre Dame graduate and manager 

of the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team, had his 

puck-chasers at Notre Dame for a ten-day training session 

at Cartier .field. It snowed most of the time and the boys 

went through calisthenics in the gym. 

In 'speaking of the proposed plan for scoring one point 

for each first down, Coach Rockne said, ui underst~nd 

that the American League will score a point for each man 

left on base next year." 

This was the second time in two successive seasons that 

Notre Dame beat both· service teams,' having taken the 

count of both Army and Navy last year. 

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Colrick, Cannon, Law, Moynihan, Carideo, and Elder 

were placed on the Indianapolis Star's All-Indiana team and 

received attractive desk sets as rewards for their good work. 

Collins, Cannon, Moynihan, Twomey, Carideo, Law, and 

Brill were all placed on t~e United Press first All-State team. 

Sidelights· on the Season 

The university band had a great time on its trip to the 

Army game and played in the lobby of the McAlpine hotel 

every time it got a chance. The organization broadcasted 

over a national hook-up, paraded on Park-Avenue;·and got 

a big kick out of tearing around the city in busses with a 

police escort. 

Tommy Mills and Bill Jones, freshmen coaches 

will cheer .. Rock" somewhat with what they claim is one· 

of the best Frosh squads in the history of the school. They 

gav~ out 44 numerals this fall and say that they can fill 

some of the gaps left in the line by graduation. 

AI Culver, shock troop tackle, is the son of Bill Culver 

who played the same position for Northwestern in 1892-93- 

94. Ed Collins, left end, is the brother of Chuck, one of 

Notre Dame's best flankmen and a member of the Seven 

Mules of 1924. He is coaching at North Carolina now. 

Over one-fourth of the university's total enrollment 

played football with the varsity, reserves, Freshmen, and 

hall teams this fall. Eight hundred uniforms were issued 

by the equipment office. 

Eddie Shea and Frankie Garcia, two of the nation's -leading 

featherweights, were scheduled to appear in a benefit 

show at the Notre Dame gym as we went to press. Their 

bout tops a good program carded for Dec. 20. 

Although the team traveled to the Navy, Carnegie Tech, 

Georgia Tech, and Army games in sleepers, it is not true 

that the players sing .. Home, Sweet Home," every time 

they see a Pullman. 

Art Healy, who throws away all those ticket applications, 

says that if the 600,000 who saw Notre Dame play 

this fall were placed end to end they would probably holler 

for 50-yard line seats_in the new stadium. 

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The Notre Dame first seven squads weighed -13,436 

pounds this season, or approximately six and one-half tons. 

The average weight of the players was 174% pounds, thei'r 

average height five feet, 10% inches, their average age· 20 

years. 

John Colrick, left end on the football team, closed his 

athletic career at Notre Dame with nine ·varsity letters to 

his credit, three each in football, basketball, and baseball. 

He was . captain and first baseman on the diamond club 

this year, and played center with the basketball quintet. 

Dick Donoghue, varsity right tackle, has two brothers 

playing footQall here. uBern" is a reserve half-back and 

Francis is one of the most promising ends on the Freshman 

squad. · Jack Cannon's brother, Dan, is another reserve 

half~ back. 

Much of the wood collected for Notre Dame's biggest 

bonfire the week preceding the Southern California game 

was given to the needy of South Bend and the blaze still 

surpassed anything of its kind ever seen here previously. 

A Chicago daily surprised Coach Rockne one morning 

with the news that he was to be' the recipient of a check 

for .$40,000, his ucut" of the gate recipts for the year that 

were said to be $800,000. Both Mr. Rockne and the university 

authorities denied the report, stating that he is on 

a straight salary and that when expenses are paid, the pro-. 

:fits of the season will be a great deal less than the reported 

amount. 

John Colrick, left end; Joe Nash, center; and AI Gebert, 

quarter-back; will all be in the lineup of Jimmy Phelan's 

Mid-Western star team that will play a team of South 

\Vest luminaries during the holidays. 

Frank Carideo, All-American quarter-back, showed his 

versatility in an early-season basketball game when he scored 

Notre Dame's :fiftieth point against Albion. Notre Dame 

won, 59 to 11. Tom Conley, right end, was teaming with 

Frank at guard with the third team. 

Seventeen members of the football ·team were given the 

usual rigorous initiation into the Monogram club at the 

close of the season. They are: Brill, Culver, Kaplan, Howard, 

Gebert, Kenneally, Kassis, Frank Leahy, Locke, 

McManmon, McNamara, Metzger, O'Connor, Savoldi, 

Schwartz, Vlk, and Y arr. The two senior managers, 

Johnnie Quinn and Bernie Conroy, were also initiated. All 

of the players named will be back next year. 

The Student Activities Council, under the direction of 

its president, Robert Hellrung, will emphasize the necessity 

of organized cheering and singing at basketball games 

this season so that the students will give good account of 

themselves next fall when the new stadium is opened. 

Jack Elder was presented with a football given and autographed 

by Nancy Carrol, of talkie fame, for scoring the 

most points in the Army game. \Varren· Browri, jn making 

the presentation at the recent testimonial banquet, 

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these qualities are combined in a high degree. Throughout 

the \Vildcats' succ·essful season Bergherm's work was in 

great evidence. He rounds out what we consider an ideal 

backfield: a smart quarter-back who can run, pass, and 

kick as well as think; a. set of fast, shifty half-backs who 

can block and tackle as well as carry out the usual triplethreat 

assignments; and. a. plunging full-back who is smart 

defensively and who can clear the way_ for other ballcarriers. 

To complete our line, we pick John Parks, left guard 

and captain at \Visconsin. Small but scrappy, he supplied 

the inspiration that pulled together a faltering Badger 

eleven on more than one occasion this Fall. He is one of 

the school of smart .. vest-pocket" guards and distinguished 

himself this season with a comparatively weak team. 

In the controversy· over who should be on the first 

. eleven a great immber of other outstanding players were 

discussed by our advisors and they are mentioned here as 

some small recognition of their great ability. They are 

as follows: 

END5-Crane, Byng, and Jones, Navy; Baker, Northwestern; 

L. Flanagan and Rosenzweig, Carnegie Tech; 

Carlmark, Army; and Arbelbide, Southern California. 

· TACKLE5-Maree, Georgia. Tech; Schnupp, Carnegie 

Tech; Bowstrom, Navy; Price, Army; Riley and Marvil, 

Northwestern. 

GUARDS- Anderson, Northwestern; Barrager and 

Galloway, Southern California; Farmer, Georgia Tech; 

Koepke, Navy; a:nd Hojinaki, Indiana. 

CENTER5-Hughes, .. Navy; Erickson, Northwestern; 

Rusk, Georgia Tech; Dye, Southern California; and 

Ringwalt, Indiana. 

QUARTER-BACKS - Duffield, Southern California; 

King, Drake; Hanley, Northwestern; Brubaker, Indiana; 

Eyth, Carnegie Tech; and Behr, \Visconsin. 

HALF~BACK5-Spring, Navy; Thomason and Mizell, 

Georgia Tech; Calderwood and Moore, Northwestern; 

Balay and Ross, Indiana; Barnes, Drake; Lusby and Oman, 

\Visconsin; Aspit, Southern California; O'Keefe, Army; 

Armentrout and T. Flanagan, Carnegie Tech. 

FULL-BACKS-Ka.rcis, Carnegie Tech; Clifton, Navy; 

Murrell, Army; Van Koten, Drake; Rebholz, \Visconsin; 

Hill and Musick, Southern California; and Maree, Georgia 

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