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VOL. XLIV. NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, DECEMBER 3, 1910. No. 12.

new game. No one, not even the members of A Toast. the committee themselves, could coherently interpret the rules laid down for that year. A H! great are these days with the Gold and Blue Coaches were afraid to instruct a team along flaunting certain Unes, because they were not able to say On high, o'er the campus of fair Notre Dame; with any degree of certainty what would be the AYhen her sons to N. D. and her honor devoted ruling of the officials on the new points of the Defy our opponents to tarnish her fame. game. They could not fully appreciate what For throughout all the West we have one of the best would be allowed or what would be disallowed Of teams that upholds any college or school. under the new rules. Diu-ing the seasons of-1904 And why be depressed o'er the game we were beaten! and 1905 there were very few serious mishaps Our "off day" is seldom, our triumphs not few. charged up against football. After the rules Then here's a full bumber to quaff as our greeting had been tried out for a season or two, however,. To the varsity squad of the gold and the blue. we find a highly interesting system of plays P. P. F. and defenses developed throughout the country. As each succeeding season passed we found the The Annual "New Rules." rules less difficult to understand and the possi­ bilities for new and surprising plays more easily EDWIN J. LYNCH. grasped by the coaches. As soon as the possi-* bilities of this new set of rules came to be recog­ (Assistant Coach.) nized by the coaches, and different systems of play to be perfected as a result of this recog- N a few weeks the Football Rules 'nition, there was an attendant increase in the Committee will meet to change list of dead and injiured. the rules governing that sport. The truth of this statement can be realized This is an annual occurrence. by looking back over the changes effected by Every fall, at the close of the foot­ this committee. In the meeting of 1903 above ball season, there is published a referred to, owing to the weight of pubHc opinion, list of killed and injiured at football; and there was a radical change made in the nature immediately thereafter there is a clamor for a of the game. Followers of the sport did not reform in the game, culminating in a meeting recognize their beloved game in the new rules. of the committee above mentioned. These The idea of playing a football game under the gentlemen meet with the avowed intention of restrictions therein set forth was scoffed at; legislating the element of risk out of football. but as the seasons roUed by and the new game Sometimes they succeed in minimizing the became more familiar to the coaches and players chances for accident and sometimes they do the list of fatalities increased each year. It was not. They attain success only at those times soon evident that more changes should be made when they tium out an entirely new and in­ if the game was to continue to be in favor with comprehensible set of rules. This can be the public. Accordingly a meeting was held illus:jrated by the result of the upheaval in 1903 last fall and the game changed in many ways. when the change was made from the old to the Yet when the list of fatalities was published 178 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC this year we were appalled to see that it totalled are not allowed to leave the field and no rep­ thirteen dead and fifty-six injured. The reason resentative of either team is allowed on the field why the list this 3'^ear did not decrease corre­ of play, conduces to pneumonia, or at least to spondingly with that of 1904 was that the changes a stiffening of the muscles, rendering the player made in the rules last fall were not so radical more liable to injur}'- at the resumption of play. as those made in 1903. Followers of the game This, however, is a debatable question. Even could easil}'- discern the flimsy disguise afforded under the old rules theire' were times when pla)"" it by the new rules. The rules were easily was stopped for nearly the length of the inter­ understood, and besides those in charge of mission provided for under the new rules and teams were furnished with official interpretations sometimes for a longer period. "WTienever placed on the different rules b}- the committee. time is taken out, whether for an injured player There was no such need for regeneration here as or for other causes, the team asking for the existed in 1904. All that was necessarj'- was time has at least two minutes before play to appl}'- the limitations set forth b}' the com­ can be resumed. To my knowledge there has mittee to the existing rules and to proceed with never been a complaint made that the time tlie game as of old. Add to this the fact that thus taken out produced fatal results. Of some of the changes aided rather than hindered course. if a pla3''er imagines that sitting down the chances of "injuiy, and we have the cause of on the cold, damp ground while he is in a heated the comparatively high rate of mortality tliis condition constitutes a rest, he is bound to season. be disagreeably surprised sooner or later by Chief among tlie changes that tended to aid rheumatic pains and attendant suffering. The rather than hinder the chances of injury'" is the men are generally instructed, however, to keep one forbidding the flj'ing tackle. It is a curious on their feet and moA'^ing whenever time is fact and one worthy of note that there was small taken out, and if this advice is followed during risk of injury in the Gying tackle. I think that the three-minute intermission provided for ever)'" man who has ever pla^'^ed football will by the above rule no disastrous results are bear me out in this: that the harder he went for likely to follow. On the whole, I think the rule a man, the less pain he suffered from the impact. is a good one and should be retained. It was not the man who "dove" that suffered Another rule that has proved its worth and the broken collar-bone or the "l^Tenched shoulder, should be retained is the one providing that a but the man who " backed up " the line of scrim­ player who has been removed for any cause mage and met the offense as it came through except disqualification or suspension may be witliout having the chance to put much force returned to the game once at the beginning of in his attempt. I have not the statistics to bear any subsequent period. Before this rule was me out in my contention that this rule would in effect coaches were prone to keep a good man aid the chance of injur}'-, because I believe that in the game long after he had become exhausted, the rule was generally disregarded this season. taking him out only when he was unable to stand. The onl)'- time the fi)'^ing tackle is necessar}'- is This revision of the rules allows a man being when the man carr3dng the ball is in a broken taken out when he fiirst shows signs of weakening. field with only one or two men between himself After a short rest he can be returned to the game and the opponents' goal Hne. Now, whenever with his efficiency increased. this condition existed last season the man play­ Doubtless the rule that has been placed ing back would generally ignore the rule and in the code against crawling will be per­ suffer the five-yard -penalty attached to its manent. Crawling is a term which embraces Adolation for the sake of securing his goal any forward motion of the ball in the hands line from the danger of being crossed. This of a player of the side having possession of it rule was entirely ineffectual and should be after it has been declared dead by the referee. repealed. An attempt to do this before the rule was put Another change that is said by some to have in force was often made the excuse for piling increased the danger of injur)'- is the rule on by the opponents. di-vidihg the game into quarters. Those who The legislation concerning the forward pass maintain this proposition claim "that the "three- introduces some of the most radical changes minute interval between the first and second, made last year. In the^ attempt to eliminate and third and fourth periods, when the teams all danger and still preserve the distinctive NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 179 features of this play the committee went too far. surdity, or the safety zones be done away with. The danger that attended the forward pass The rule which^allows the player who first last year was that the defense concentrated receives the ball .when it is snapped back to its efforts on "spilling" either the passer or the carry it across the line of scrimmage is a good man eligible to receive the ball. They paid no one, although not strictly a.new rule. Such a attention to. the ball itself, indeed they were rule was in effect many years ago. This rule forbidden to touch it until after it had been with the possibilities existing under the open touched by one of the passer's o\vn side. . In style of game should be productive of many the attempt to cure these abuses the committee surprising plays when its practicability is recog­ established two safety zones; and apparently nized. The rule against pushing or pulling.the to make the legislation uniform, and not too man with the ball is one that has been needed difficult to be understood, made the same rules for some time. It will undoubtedly be retained applicable to both kicks and passes as regards mth a fe.w minor changes. these zones. There was an imaginary line five I am afraid that I have drifted a bit from yards back of the line of scrimmage and another what I started out to say. I started out to teU twenty yards ahead of it. Within the twenty- about the meeting of the rules committee which yard zone every man had the benefit of King's X. is sure to be called within a short time to. con­ He could not be interfered with by an opponent sider changes demanded by an "outraged" until certain formalities had been complied pubUc. They ^vill meet with the avowed with. Where the committee erred was in intention of legislating all danger to life and applying this legislation to kicks and in requiring limb out of football. But they will not succeed; that the man executing a forward pass be five that is they will not meet with lasting success. yards back of the line of scrimmage. When the Their efforts will be as fruitful as are the efforts committee allows a forward pass from anywhere of prohibition to prohibit. They are legislating behind the line of scrimmage and re-enacts the against Nature's laws. WTiat has been said of old rules in regard to kicks so as to allow of the aviation can be said of football: there are short, quick, on-side kicks of old, we shall see certain risks attendant upon it; and anyone a much more interesting game. going in for the sport goes in with a full knowledge The efforts of the rules committee are not all of these risks and should bear the consequences aimed at eliminating the risk of injur}'- from the of his act. This looks like a brutal doctrine; game. It attempts to' make the game more but the American football game is hard, rough, interesting to th2 spectator and to eradicate all dangerous. It will stand brutal statement: unnecessary roughness on the part of the con­ If changed, it must be changed radically, which testants. In its efforts to make the game more means the abolition of the present game. interesting to and more easily understood by the spectators, it has been rewarded in no small degree; but in its attempts to legislate against The Season and the Men. roughness it has not been so successful. The effect of tlie legislation regarding the forward ARTHUR HUGHES, II. pass has been to facilitate the commission of one of the most aggravating fouls expressly forbidden under the rules. I refer to holding. {Athletic Editor, Scholastic). In their zeal to enforce the newer phases of the game, the officials have given most of their The football season for the year 1910 was attention to the fouls likely to be committed not as propitious as was the season of 1909.. elsewhere and ver}'- little attention to use of Last year Notre Dame closed the season hands by the offensive players on the line of Champions of the West. This year she failed scrimmage. As a result the men on the line in this respect. There were six games played. have formed the habit of holding their opponents Out of this number were four victories, one during important crises. As was remarked tie game and one defeat. The defeat was before, there is nothing more aggravating and suffered at the-hands of the Michigan Aggies. more productive of bad feeling than this practice. Marquette played us to a 5-5 tie on Thanks­ It will continue, however, unless the number giving day and we vanquished Olivet, Buchtell, of officials be increased, which would be an ab­ Rose Poly and Ohio Northern. Not a great i8o NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

amount of honor was won through our victories, JOSEPH COLLINS (Knd). for the teams defeated were vastl)'- our inferiors Throughout the season a most aggressive in every way as the large scores indicate. In and consistent player, Joe played his last game the Michigan Aggies' game at Lansing tlie team of football at Marquette in a blaze of glory. for some reason failed to play up to its standard, The Notre Dame men who accompanied tlie and as a result the M. A. C. men pla3'^ed havoc team, and the Milwaukee scribes as well, give with ever}'- department of the Notre Dame the palm to the brilliant work of Notre Dame's representation. Michigan's cancellation of the greatest end in recent years. A fast man and Notre Dame game made it impossible for the a sure tackier, he was always found down the team to show its strength and ability when field ready for the opposition on punts. Joe playing in its usual form, for there is no has played three years for Notre Dame and his doubt whatever but our men would have put work during that time has always been of the forth a far better struggle than they did the same high standard.' week previous at Lansing. The men felt the sting which was administered by the Aggies, LEE MATTHEWS (Quarterback, Halfback). and they put in the following week working "Mattie" started the season at quarter and like demons in order to show their real strength played a most consistent game, directing the at Ann Arbor. The game with Marquette team with unusual skill,- but later was moved to brought out the ability and power of tlie team, the halfback position that the team might be for in that game ever)'- man in the line-up gave better balanced. He is at all times a fast man, an exhibition which astonished the local fans a good ground gainer, possessing good judg­ and spectators at Milwaukee. ment and proved a sure tackier. He has Last 3'^ear the material for a championship played three years on the team. team was a great deal more in evidence than GEORGE PHILBROOK (Tackle). was the case this season. T\^ile the men got "Phil" has always proved the best of ground out and fought hard for positions there were gainers. This year in addition to his great not the number of hea\^, experienced men in plunging ability he developed unusual speed for the squad; and it is this that makes teams a man of his build. He was handicapped in the which get into the first page with their accom­ latter part of the season with an injured ankle, plishments. In addition to this, the absence but he continued in the games until the season's of Billy Ryan and Don Hamilton proved a big factor in weakening the team. Had not Ryan's close. He has played three years on the team. bad knee and Hamilton's being declared ineligi­ LUKE KELLY (Guard). ble kept these men out of the game there might Luke Kelly brightened the prospects of Notre have been a different story to relate after the Dame's team by returning to school on the day Michigan Aggies' contest. With the end came of the first game. He played a stellar brand of the close of the football careers of six men on football during the season, being aggressive and the team: Joe Collins, Ralph Dimmick, George usually the first man to break through the op­ Philbrook, Lee Matthews, Luke Kelley, and posing line. The touchdown made in the Mar­ John Duffy. The first five of these men were quette game was made possible by his breaking players on last year's team, and they have through the line and tackling Elsen so hard bade farewell to a branch of athletic sports that the Wisconsin man fumbled the ball, He in which they stood among the best. was in ,the game every minute.

RAI,PH DIMMICK (Captain, Tackle). ARTHUR CLIPPINGER (Halfback, Fullback). Ralph played throughout the season the "Clip" made his debut this year as a varsity same sure dependable game. The number player at Notre Dame, and while playing a of tackles in the country who can use their good game during the season he broke forth as hands in offense in the manner of this giant a star in the Marquette contest. There was player are few indeed. He was a sure man for gameness in every inch of him in this game, and a gain when given the ball, and his line plunges his terrific plunging tore many holes in the and tackle-around plays have brought him the opposing line-up. He has yet two years to play, reputation of being one of the greatest tackles and he will be a most important member of in the collegiate world of sport. next year's team. CO

VARSITY SQUAD, 1910

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TOP Row—Morgan, Smith, Lynch (Asst. Coach), L. Ryan, Jones, Madden, Crowley, Glynn, Hamilton, SECOND ROW—J. Duffy, Feency, Figcl McHugh, R. Duffy, Will'anis, Dunphy, McGinnis, Diebokl. THIRD ROW—Rocknc, Clinnin, Matthews, Dininiick (Capt.), Philbrook, Kelly, Clippinger. FOURTH ROW—Longman (Coach), Martin, Oaas, Bergman, Fitzgerald, Stansricld, McGraw,

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CHARLES DORIAS (Quarterback). He plays a hard game and showed his greatest Dorias got his first chance in the Buchtell ability in running interference." He seldom game, and from the minute he entered the con- failed to put his man out of the pla}'' in this te'st he showed his worth. In playing his first work. He was also a good man on defense. year on the team he made a most favorable LEE RYAN (Right Halfback). impression, and he has proved a worthy suc­ Lee broke into the game at Notre Dame this cessor to "Don" Hamilton. "Dor}-" has a season and proved to be the best man on the cool head and is a'determined player at all team in running with the ball in an open field. times. His work in running the team was He played a head}'- game and picked holes in almost faultless, and he is the equal of any man the line of the opposition with the precision playing football when it comes to returning of a veteran. He seldom failed to gain. punts. •WALTER CLINNIN (Left Halfback). JOHN STANSFIELD (Guard, Fullback). "Clin" in playing his first year on the team Stansfield started the season at guard, but proved a fast man. He was a good ground was later shifted to fullback where he showed gainer and a most reliable man on defense. to very good advantage. He is.a hard, deter­ An- injury which he suffered to his knee in the mined player at ail times, and his line plunging latter part of the season prevented him from in the Ohio Northern contest was the best of getting into the Marquette game. the year. He has two 3^ears to play. ALFRED BERGMAN (Right Halfback). ToRGUS OAAS (Guard, Tackle). For his size "Bergie" proved a wonder.- Oaas is not the sort of player that gets the He is a splendid runner in an open field. The grandstand \vrought up, for he is not of the manner in which he shook loose his tacklers sho\\y sort. He enters the game with all the fight brought him much praise. He is fast and has and fire of his great predecessor, Howard Edwards, the best of judgment and will develop into a last year's captain, and his playing was ver}'' player of the big-league class. similar to that of Edwards. He has two Duffy, Williams, Diebold, McGinnis and more years to pla^-. Smith are men who proved a reliable group THOMAS FOLEY (Center). of substitutes. Tom played his first year for Notre Dame this fall and proved a strong center. He played a steady, consistent game in ever)'- contest, and his breaking through the line in the Mar­ quette game brought him much praise. His handling of the ball was excellent. He has two more years to play.

CHARLES CROWLEY. "Chuck" is a player that a football man would appreciate greater than the fan on the sidelines. He was a wizard when it came to the inside game, and he was continually on the watch for every turn of the contest. His work at end was steady and consistent.

WILLIAM MARTIN (End). Martin broke into the game late in the season and proved a good man in caxrying the ball in the "ends around" pla}'-. Bill is a fast man and his work in getting down under punts made COACH FRANK LONGMAN. him a valuable player. He will be one of the Frank Longman has alread)'^ left the mainstays of next year's team. battle front and returned to his home in CHESTER MCGRATH (Fullback). Ann Arbor. While the 1910 season was not For a man of his size "Mac" is a wonder. so brilliant as that of 1909, yet it was a NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 183

season brilliant enough to satisfy every follower Varsity Verse. of the gold and blue. The defeat by the Aggies and the cancellation of the Michigan game were FAMOUS EVENTS IX HISTORY: THE DSFE.^T two hard set-backs, but "Shorty" and the OF THE INVIXCIBLE ARJIADA. team proved they could come back at Mil­ We got some football team: I say— _ waukee, when the husky Marquettes were kept May bee you theenk \ve can not play! around their goal line for three-quarters of the We beat jus' all the teams roun' here; ^ game. That mek for us one champion j-ear. We beat them all! How—all, I say? ASSISTANT COACK LYNCH. Yes! Ail but one:—the umpire play. "Cop" pla^'-ed center last year. This year An' mek twelve men to play agains' he helped in the work of coaching and proved In that game. He mek great offense. a valuable assistant to the head coach. ly^'^nch We been all South American understands football as well as he plays it, Excep' some seven Mexican and that's no faint praise. Who play with-us. Been Rubio xVn' Palomar,—Canario! He play some class; he use the bean— An' Alvarez, an' big Clarin. - He got 'em all back' oif the cards; He kick that ball five hundred yards. We mek a great big champion play With Sorin Hall, Thanksgiving Day. Oh, such a game! We fight like mad; You think that score he make me sad? We don' know what we're goin' to do With jus' five minutes lef: tie score; We hav' to play that game some more. Some Sorin fellow mek a crack For goal; he kick from way oft back. That ball she sure goin' mek that goal; She go so swift an' straight an' all; But Rubio jump forty feet Right up an' stop her, oh, so neat! But umpire say the .flyin' tack' No good, an' mek him bring her back |Ch my! Quizd pucs. O. H FULL OF' IT. A certain guard Could tackle hard. But when he met Miss Phoebe Centre, He was kalj floored When she imploied. He'd take a quarter back he lent her. R. F. D.

All-Hall Selection.

MS RALPH C. DIMMICK, II. {Captain of Varsity.) FIRST TEAM. Center—Heyl (Corby). JAMES HOPE (Manager). Guards—Mortz (Corby), Hicks (Walsh). "Jimmie" had an ugly schedule to handle Tackles—O'Rourke (Bro\%Ti.), Gushurst (Corby) at the beginning of the season, but he worked Ends—Campbell (Sorin), Sommers (Corby). in his quiet way and did the very best that Halfbacks—^Fish(Sorin),Howard (St. Joseph). could be done under the circumstances. Jimmie OuUback—^K. Jones (Corby). finishes in law this year. Fuarter—Mehlem (Corby). 184 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

SECOND TEAM. Corby have been chosen as all-hall tackles. Center—DeLandero (Sorin). To O'Rourke more then to any other man on Guards—R. Jones (Corby), Rubio (Sorin). the Brownson team does coach Oaas owe the Tackles—Yund (Corby), IMcSweeney (St. Joseph) success of his famous tackle-shift ^formations. Ends—Corcoran • (St. J.), Newning (Walsh). HeaA^'- and shifty, O'Rourke possessed an Quarter—Hug (Walsh). unusual amount of speed for a man of his size, Halfbacks—Larkin (Walsh), D. Kelly (Brown.) while his lightness on his feet enabled him to Fullback—O' Neill (Brownson). perform the deceptive tricks usually to be In the selection of the All-Hall Football found in the playing of an end. Team the v-nriter does not lay claim to infallibil­ Gushurst stands in a strange light, that of ity, and accordingly has secured tlie help of playing better in a new position than in the one the various hall coaches in making up the roll he was regularly called on to fill. Through­ of honor. The S3'stem followed in making tlie out the season Gushurst was trained for the selection has been as follows: each coach line, but when the critical time came he was picked an all-star team and eliminated in called on to take a berth in the backfield. his selection all men from his o^vn squad. His wonderful defensive work stands as a The pla^-ers then receiving the highest numb'er landmark in Corby's triumphant march. His of votes were placed on the all-hall eleven.. work on offense, in which he handled the ball On the first team it is seen that Corby leads well, and his great speed often enabled him to with six men, v>-hile Sorin has two, and St. make gains where a lighter man Avould have been Joseph, Walsh and Brovvmson each have one. throwTi for a loss. He was not spectacular, The fact that Corby won the championshijj but won his positions through hard, consistent naturalty places her men in the lead. There work, and by proving himself a careful student may have been stars that failed to come to of the game. light because of the -poor showing made by GUARDS. their teams in the interhall race, for however Two guards of varsity calibre were seen in brilliant a man's pla^ang ma^- be, it is necessary, the interhall games this season in Hicks of before its effectiveness is fully appreciated, that Walsh and Mortz of Corby. his team-mates lend an equal effort to make Captain Mortz led his' team through one of his work effective. No man on the first eleven the most successful seasons ever enjoyed by received less than three votes out of a possible a Corby eleven. His untiring efforts and four, which made the matter of final selection persevering methods stamp him as one of Corby's a purely mathematical problem. In making greatest football captains. He was a power a selection of this kind there is always more or both on offense and defense. His forte was less dissatisfaction, but it is hoped that the breaking through the opponents' line and plan followed this year wall at least seem fair, stopping their plays before they were fairly if not infallible. started. He is also chosen captain. With the new rules in effect the selection In Hicks Walsh has a man of whom she may of the men has been difficult, for not only well feel proud. His ability in defensive work had the individuals to be watched, but their was never shown to greater advantage than in adaptability to the rules and their gradual the Corby-Walsh game, when he worked so well improvement as the season progressed had the Corby backs could not gain an inch through to be considered. Agressiveness, spirit, head his position. He was little used on the offensive, work and sportsmanship have been the save in opening holes for his backs, but on these predominating factors in the decisions of the occasions he always made a good place through hall coaches. which they might go for a gain. He was fast TACKLES. in getting down the field under punts, and his Never before have tackles found their positions work in tackling was as phenomenal as one so difl&cult to, play as this season. With most would care to see. of the attacks directed between tackle and end, the men have found their tasks strictly de­ CENTER. fensive, and they have seldom been called on Heyl of Corby undoubtedly has earned his to carry the ball. right to lay claim to the pivotal position on the O'Rourke of Brownson and Gushurst of team—having been selected unanimously. Heyl NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 185

had a style all his own. Throughout the the best men seen on Cartier field this season season he was played loose and had that peculiar in this department. but valuable faculty of solving the plays of As a running mate for Fish the coaches have his opponents. He is a hard tackier, sending selected Howard of St. Joseph. An all-hall team his man back by his charging instead of per­ would not be complete without such a player mitting him to fall forward. And his passing whose defensive qualities have shown to such of the ball has been remarkable, not a pass great advantage this season. On offense his being out of the way. work was effective at all times, but his superior work in backing up the line stamps him as one of ENDS. the greatest men ever tmmed out by the hall on Although their work has increased in difficulty, the west side. ends have been especially numerous in the FULLBACK. interhall activities. Campbell of Sorin, Sommers of Corby, Newning and Baujan of Walsh, At fullback K. Jones of Corby seemed to have Lower of Brownson and Corcoran of St. Joseph, things his own way. He was the one man in loom up as the best men in the department. the "BraA'-es" backfield about whom most of the Besides the regular defensive work in smashing plays were built. His line bucks were remark­ interference and tackling, the players have able and he seldom failed when called on to been chosen for their ability to elude their carry the ball. On defense Jones seemed to be opponents and get free for forward passes. everyivhere at once. His fierce tackling was Campbell of Sorin looms up as the best end noticeable in the Sorin game, and the w;ay he the "Bookies" have developed for several years. threw his man was a surprise to Sorin. Standing over six feet he has the greatest speed QUARTER. of any man on the hall elevens. On offensive Mehlem of Corby, more than any other, is he was called on to carry the ball often and qualified for the numerous duties of. quarter. seldom failed to negotiate the necessar}'- yard­ Hug of Walsh has all season showed himself age. Besides his necessary ability as an end a good man, and mth another season's coach­ he is a valuable man to the team in the punting ing will undoubtedly be the man for the place department. if he keeps up the work of this year. Mehlem -Sommers of Corby was the choice for the other showed to advantage in every game. 'end position. His performances on defense After the team has been picked we realize have been of a high order, and no consistent that a hair-line distinction has been made in . gains have been made around his side of the line. many cases and we come again to the question ' He has been successful in blocking his tackle of the "infallibilit}'-" of the coaches. We find and paving the way for his backs to advance the that there still remains a second team well ball. His work in getting do^vn the field on worthy the steel of the first team; but for the punts had added materially to the effectiveness stubborn fact that the all-star wagon has only of Mehlem's punting throughout the season. a seating capacity for eleven, some must w;ait for HALFBACKS. the next means of conveyance—^the second team. Halfbacks have been plentiful in the interhall In the line we find such men as De Landdro, league this season.and a number of men with Hughes, Morgan and Rubio of Sorin, Corcoran unusual ability have shown up. Among the and McSweeney of St. Joseph, Newning and best playing the positions were Fish of Sorin, Baujan of Walsh, R. Jones, Hebner, Madden, Larkin of Walsh, Howard of St. Joseph and Yund and-Devitt of Corby—^.all men of high Kelly of Brownson. calibre, whose ability makes the task of picking Fish and Howard were given the call an all-star cast a most difficult one. ... over the other men, but that heady player, In the backfield there is a wealth of material. Larkin of Walsh, stood only one vote behind Hug, Larkin and McNichol of Walsh, McDonnell the elder men when the final count was made. of Corby, O 'Neill of Brownson are all men whose Fish of Sorin was the mainstay of his eleven performances of the season just closed brings and showed well all season. He carried the ball back that troublesome and perplexing question— in a most brilliant manner and was the one man the infallibility of the coaches. With such wealth upon whom Sorin depended in all her games. of material—strong, husky, healthy lads—^the His work as a drop-kicker stamps him as one of future of the Varsity is safe for some time yet. i86 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 187

education is, after all, simply preparation Notre Dame Scholastic for the greater battle that will come later; Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter and while the intellectual side should not be sacrificed to the ph3'sical in education, too great Published every Saturday during the School Tenn at the stress can not be laid on the necessity of some University of Notre Dame kind of physical contests as a part of college Terms: $1.50 per Annum. Postpaid training. Mere calisthenics will take care of Address: The Editor Notre Dame Scholastic physical culture; athletic contests mean much Notre Dame, Indiana more, for their efi'ects are just as much moral Vol. XLIV. December 3, 1910. No. 12. as ph3'sical, and are not without their intellec­ tual side. The men who have upheld the Board of Editors. standard of Notre Dame this year are worthy of all honor, and we congratulate them .at THOMAS A. LAHEY, '11 the close of a successful season. .A.RTHUR HUGHES, 'll CHARLES C. MILTNER, 'll JOHN F. O'HARA, ' 11 FRANCIS WENNINGER, ' I 1 JOHN C. TULLY, ' 11 RALPH C. DIMMICK, ' I I —In this issue is presented, after careful JOHN P. AIURPHY, 'l2 PETER P. FORREST.A.L, 'll examination, the men who are considered PAUL RUSH, '12 worthy of positions in the All-Hall first and second teams. The selec- —The close of the 1910 football season at The All-Hall Teams as tion will hardly prove Notre Dame has not been marked by any great Varsity Material. satisfactory' to every­ demonstration such as closed the season last body, but it wall prove year, but the absence satisfactory- to those who have follow-ed the The Men of 1910. of an enthusiastic out­ work of the players, and judge impartially. burst must not be taken This selection of all-hall men should serve a to mean a diminished loyalty to the team of twofold purpose. It should ser\'e to honor and this year. As usual the gold and blue was rep­ distinguish those players representing any hall resented on the gridiron by a team that was whose work v.-on favorable notice during the willing and able to cope Avith any team in the season. It is indeed a recognition of ability. west. Owing to circumstances over which the The second purpose reaches out to a practical team and the University had no control, the result. Perhaps v.-e ought to qualify, and say it men were denied that privilege. With but one reaches out to what the SCHOLASTIC considers defeat, and that defeat administered under a practical result. Is it not possible to consider unfavorable circumstances b}' a team that the men who have been selected to positions outplayed every other opponent on tlie gridiron on the first and second all-hall teams—or if this fall, our men have no cause for regret. more desirable the first team only—as varsity The cancellation of the Wabash game deprived material for next fall? In that event these men the players of a splendid ©importunity to show would not be eligible to represent a hall team— the best that was in them, and handicapped at least not until the varsity coach shall have them for the season. decided them unfit for the varsity. They would But all this is beside the mark. WHiat really make a valuable addition to the varsit>^ squad counts, after all, in any contest is the spirit when the football season opens. If these men of the men who compete. If we have athletic did not make the regular varsity team the first contests it is that we may be trained in those year, it would occasion no surprise. It is not qualities which count in life.' The football at all necessary that a candidate jump right off player, to be successful, must be a fine specimen from a hall to a varsit}^ position. Indeed, a of manhood. He must have strength and skill; year of experience on a freshman team that has he must be trained to think and act quickly. to bear the hard knocks of the monogram men It is too often forgotten that the qualities will prove very serviceable in training and will for Avhich we most esteem tlie man are the qual­ help to get a deeper knowledge of the game. ities underlying his conduct in the game. It would seem there ought to be some rule This is the higher meaning of football, and to guide coaches at the beginning of the foot­ of college athletics in general. The work of ball season "when the^'- are calling for candidates. i88 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

leather card-cases. The music, furnished by Apostolate of Religious Reading. Professor Petersen's orchestra, was unusually good, and nothing was left undone that could The following books have been added to the contribute to the thorough enjoyment of the library of the apostolate: "The Dweller on the guests. The following committee was in charge Borderland" by Lanza, "The Barrier" b)'^ Basin, of affairs: Fred Williams, Frank Crowley, "Great Possessions" by Ward, "Hiawatha's Raymond McConlogue, William Moran, William Black Robe" by Leahe}^ "A Life's Ambition" Hogan, Earl Luder, Alfred Bergman, Martin by Kelly, "Grapes and Thorns" by Ticknor, He^d. "The Matchless Maid" by Vaughan, "As Gold More than 80 couples were present at the in the Furnace" by Copus, "Earl}'- steps in the affair, the guests from out of the city including Fold" by De Zulueta, "Marcella Grace" by the Misses Frances Martin, Ethel O'Connell, MulhoUand, "Miss Erin" by Francis, "By Th}' Editli Leech, Mabel Stoakes, Adelaide Barsa- Love and Thy Grace" and "His First and Last loux, and Adelaide Washburn, of Chicago; the Appearance" by Finn, "A Daughter of New Misses Marie Prahl, Ethel Pulian and Slargaret France" by Crowlej'^, "Discourses and Sermons Johnson, of Mishawaka; Miss Theresa Donahue, on Various Occasions" by Gibbons, "A Little of Richmond, Va.; Miss Stella Bergman, of Maid of Arcady" by Reid, "The Purpose of the Peru, Ind.; Miss Charlotte Bruff, of Chicago Papacy" by Vaughan, "Notes on Ingersoll" Heights; Miss Pearl Smith, of Indianapolis, by Lambert, "Blessed Gabriel, C. P.," by and the Misses Marie Keip and ]\Iarguerite Ward, "The Divine Stor}^" by Holland. Dr. Cahill, of St. Mar)'-'s college. Mr. and ilrs. James J. Walsh has presented three of his most William Logan Benitz, Mr. and Mrs. William widely read volumes. These are "The Thir­ Budd Kelle}'-, and Mr. and Mrs. John Lorimer teenth, the Greatest of the Centuries," ."The Worden, chaperoned the affair. Popes and Science" and "The Makers of Modem Medicine." This thoughtful and gen­ erous contribution, as well as the spirit in which Preliminaries in Oratory. all of his work is done, makes it evident that Dr. Walsh is laboring as a true apostle in the In the trials preliminary to tlie Breen Medial caiise of truth. Ma}'^ his noble apostolate be contest in oratory, Messrs. Miltner, Wenninger, ever more successful. Any of the above- Hagert)'^, Heiser and Lahe^'- finished in the order mentioned books ma}'- be obtained on applica­ named. The first four mentioned will be tion to Brother Alphonsus. eligible to compete in the Breen ]\Iedal contest which will be held on December 14. The orations were of an exceptionally high order, and very Sophomore Cotillion. close markings resulted. The first meeting of the executive committee Discarding tradition and adopting the latest of the state oratorical association met Sunday novelties with clever variations, the sophomore afternoon at the Denison Hotel, Indianapolis, class gave the most successful class function for the selection of judges on thought and that the University has seen in recent 3'^ears in composition for the annual contest, which will their cotillion last Wednesdaj'^, November 30. be held in Indianapolis, February 24, 1911. The ball was held at Place hall. South Bend. The hall was decorated as never before. More than two hundred electric lights in Japanese Society Notes. lanterns swung from the ceiling, and the draping of the walls and ceiling was notably artistic. St. JOSEPH LITERARY. A supper was served during intermissions that Last Sunday evening St. Joseph Literary were arranged on the novel plan of "supper Society rendered one of its customary, highly extras.'! The guests were divided into four enjoyable programs. Mr. Sanford recited" The diflFerent groups, and one-fourth of the company Picket Guard," and Mr. Smith, "The Hindoo was served during each of the extras. The Paradise." Following the recitations, a debate programs, maroon colored for the gentlemen was held. The question was: Resolved, That the and white for the ladies, took the form of influence of the " Nickelodian" is demoralizing. WTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 189

Messrs. Costello and Schallert argued for the short time ago. Mr. Taylor is now comiected affirmative; Messrs. Barry and ,_McGrath, for with the Pittsburg Plate Glass Co. the negative. By a two-to-one vote the —Mr. Henry E. Taylor, student dming the judges decided in favor of the affirmative. nineties, paid a visit to the University several "The Equestrian Courtship" was then recited weeks ago. Mr. Taylor holds an important by James Traynor, and Wrhittier's sonnet, position in the Solid Tire Department of the "Forgiveness," was recited by Julius Meuninck. Diamond Rubber Co., of Chicago, 111. The difficult task of reciting a sonnet was very- —Stewart M. Graham, student here in well performed by Mr. Meuninck. The meeting engineering for several years, is now working closed with a violin solo by Charles Robinson for the Chicago and Western Indiana and Belt accompanied by Prof. Derrick. Great interest Railroad. Mr. Graham is a track foreman with is showTi in the work of the society this year, three assistant foremen and sixty-five men every member entering into the spirit of the work. under him. Arrangements for a debate between the fresh­ men of Brownson and St. Joseph halls are —^Joseph A. O'Niel (student in 'o8-'o9 and under way. '09-'10) visited the University last Thanksgiving day. "Joe" is grading and inspecting lumber BROWNSON LITERARY AND DEBATING. at his father's yards and mills in St. Louis, Mo., The ninth regular meeting of the society was and intends to gain a thorough knowledge of held last Sunday evening. An excellent debate the business. was held on the question: Resolved, That cities with a population of more than thirty —Hon. Timothy R. Ansberry (LL. B. '93) thousand should adopt the commission form has been re-elected for the third time to the of government. Messrs. W. O'Shea, J. O'Brien United States Congress from the fifth Congres­ and R. Scott spoke for the affirmative; Messrs. sional district, Ohio. He is also an aspirant for T. Mahoney, O. Daly and R. Halligan, for the United States Senatorial honors, for the term negative. Strong arguments were advanced of the present Ohio Senator expires in 1911, and by both sides, but the negative disclosed Mr. Ansberry is considered a Hkely successor in the drawbacks of the proposed plan so clearly that office. that the judges gave an unanimous decision —^An invitation came to Provincial Morrissey in their favor. Mr. Peter Meersman, a former from L. F. Craig (student '02-06),Stratton, Colo., member of the societ}'-, spoke on the benefits to assist at the laying of the comer-stone of the he derived from a membership of a year and a new Catholic church which is to be erected half. Brother Alphonsus entertained the society at Stratton. With the characteristic enter­ witli two recitations entitled "Driving Home prise of the Notre Dame man Leo is working the Cows" and "The Bridge." Father Carroll for the spread of our Faith in the far West. closed the program with some complimentary Congratulations and success to Leo! May the remarks about the efforts of the speakers of New Colony church be a realization of his most the evening. enthusiastic hopes! —Howard Edwards, Capt. of Western Cham­ Personals. pions in football last year, and a graduate of the short Electrical Course, was back again at —Thomas L. Donnelly (C. E. '04) of Bay City, Notre Dame this week. Ex-Capt. Edwards says IMichigan, is a civil engineer on the Michigan he will be around South Bend this winter and Central Railroad. is contemplating going to school again at N. D. —^Agustus J. Hampton (student in 'oS-'og) Howard brings good reports of his season's work is the Ass't Civil Engineer on the New York at West Virginia Wesleyan. His team was very and Hartford Railroad. successful, losing but two games all season and —^John J. Devine (student in the years '08- tying U. of W. Virginia for state championship. '09 and '09-'ID) renewed old acquaintances by —Our worthy and most enterprising reporter visiting friends at the University last week. on the Personal Column failed to secure the —Mx, Bryan M. Taylor of St. Louis, Mo., interesting item to the effect that Rev. Henry who was a student in St. Edward's and Carroll Kemper (Litt. B. '05) will be ordained to the halls from 1897-1902, visited the University a priesthood on December 7. Father Kemper 190 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC will sing his first mass in St. Michael's church, Xmas xams, will be the Faculty's holiday Chicago, Ill.jCon the feast of the Immaculate gift to the students. We trust the beloved Conception.; .The SCHOLASTIC on behalf of his Faculty will not be lavish in the matter of giving. many friends here at the University extends to Father Kemper the wish that he may enjoy Ralph Dimmick has some courage to pick an length of years and gain a wealth of merit in all-hall team and still stick around. his sacred calling. *** AULD ACOUAINTANCE. Obituary. "Both sides presented strong arguments" in the Brownson Literary Societ)^ Brother Raymond, C. S. C, of the students "The lecture was highly interesting and book store, was called home by the sudden instructive" according to our dramatic reporter. death of his father yesterday morning. As "Although our men were outweighed twenty Brother Raymond is well known and appre­ pounds to the man, we," etc., etc.—Football ciated by all the students for his unfailing News. courtesy and readiness to be of assistance, Ave "The snow storm indeed spread gloom over are confident they will remember his beloved the campus." O you gloom! father in their prayers. R. I. P. "The plans for a battalion are fast being realized." Secunduvi Joannem Murph}'-. • ' Safety Valve. "Orchestra practice at 7:30 p. m." "The sun cast his rays on mother earth and In the Chicago-Wisconsin game a W. player made all nature smile." Nine rahs for old Sol! was put out of the game for slugging. The Maroon, on whom he landed, said the Badger John TuUy contributes the suggestion that merely pulled his nose. T\niereupon the umpire John Bell might make a valuable addition to apologized, and there was a big purity banquet, the Chimes. We reckon the Chimes is reasonably or something, in the evening. The press said well furnished with belles, John. Thanks, how­ it was a fine example of clean athletics. If ever, for your thoughtfulness in the matter. it .were our case, "A Notre Dame player slugs," done in black, bulky type would be the Come into the garden, Noud, for the dark bat view-point. Night is flown; Come into the garden, Noud, I am here at the ^As a disinterested third, we put the question gate alone. to you, Marquette: Was it a passion for pure athletics or a case of weak knees with Michigan? We notice from a newspaper clipping that Honest now! young Edward H. Schwab explains his present lack of fame to the fact that for the past ten .The fellows "came back" at Milwaukee. years he has been buried at Notre Dame. They came back frovi Milwaukee also, but Alas! poor Yorick. several delayed pass plays were used in the inarch to the home goal. Calendar. *** Certain students returning late after Thanks­ Sunday, Dec. 4—Band practice after mass giving have returned, paradoxically speaking. " Holy Cross Literary Society *** " Brownson Literary Society Will somebody distinguish between ball, " St. Joseph Literarj' Society Monda}-, Dec. -5—Band practice at 12:30 prom, hop, cotillion? How is cotillion pro­ " Orchestra practice nounced? Was the soph affair a cotillion? Tuesday, Dec. 6—Rehearsal of Glee Club 7:00 p. m. By what must you divide cotillion to reduce Wednesday, Dec. 7—Civil Engineering Society it to a dance? " Philopatrian Society *** Thursday, Dec. 8—Feast of the Immaculate Concep­ tion. No classes. "Shoveling off demerits. Stony?" " Band practice after mass "No, you fool, just sprinkling roses." Friday, Dec. 9—^Band practice at 12:30 p. m. NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 191

the danger line. The snow shovels made an Local Items. opening and got the flood approaching the normal height. —Great weather for our soldiers. —^As we go to press the snow is still falling. —Has anyone heard from the juniors lately? Several poems are due on the subject. We consider it only fair to prepare you. —Examinations will be held on the 20th and 2ist of December. —CarroU hall is rejoicing over the winning of the middle class championship in football. —^The minims attended mass in a body on the Fine work, Carroll. Remember we look to you feast of St. Andrew. for otu: future. —^All report a good time at the cotillion. The —Confessors were kept busy Thursday even­ sophs were in their glor>-. ing with a large throng of student penitents. —Between the new uniforms and the cap On Friday morning all approached to receive and gown, the seniors are kept busy. Holy Communion. —^The toboggan slide affords all kinds of fun —^The next time you see us we expect to for the 3'-ounger element in this sliding weather. have the pleasure of presenting you some —Corby, not being satisfied with honors won Christmas literature. 'Twill be worth reading, on the gridiron, is now organizing a literary- you may be sure. society. —^The bugler of the military company has —^Accommodations have been secured for the at last succeeded in emitting the official army Staff's Christmas contributions. They are due calls. Bugler was first heard at this office to-day. yesterday at 1:30 p. m. —Great revolution on the Walsh tables in —^The sophomore affair proved a set back to the refector}'-. Many of the heads were de­ the SCHOLASTIC. Many of the editors got foolish throned. and went to the dance. Copy was a rare com­ —The members of the dramatic club are modity the next morning. hard at work on the play to be presented —^The secret of the high bowling score at President's day. Walsh hall has been discovered. Hereafter, —Special examination essays, society debates, those that go beyond the chalk line will be orations cause an overflow of truth-seekers guilty of a foul. Now who will pay? to the librar}'- these days. —^The news that Corby is about to form a literary society will dispel the idea 'that the —^The next SCHOLASTIC will be the Christ­ braves are merely athletes. Even the bookies mas issue which will come out on Saturday, haven't made a start in that direction. December 17. —^The other day Brother Hugh had to call —^There was no regular meeting of the En- on two workmen to help him break up an old gineejing Society on Wednesday, owing to the piano that was first used in 1878. They say sophomore dance. it was made of mahogany, and cost eight —^The Notre Dame avenue may be paved hundred dollars in its palmy days. We have some time. Meantime it would stand a couple our doubts. hundred loads of gravel. —^The junior class herein formally and —B. H. Lange is the artist of the cover for definitely challenges the senior class to meet in this issue of the SCHOLASTIC. He is now work­ a game of basket ball some time in the near ing on a cover for Christmas. future. They agree to play under A. A. U. —It would be well for some of the students inter-collegiate or "Mules & Colonels" rules, to keep in mind the rule against smoking in whichever the challenged party may choose. front of the Main- Building. —^The Brownson gym is the scene of some —" Gene" Connelly has been appointed coach lively hand-ball contests these days, as Paul of the Carroll indoor baseball team and Lee Rush would put it. Madden, Soisson [Note by Matthews of tlieir basket-ball team. Monotype man: Which? there are four or five —^The snow proved a blessing to many Soissons on the student list?], Hinde, Daly, fellows whose demerits had run up close to "Nemo" et alii, engage in splendid exhibitions. 192 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

—^Lee Matthew's "Review of the Season" and^trick plays which netted many gains, but will soon' be out. It will contain individual fumbles prevented scores. pictures of all the varsit}'' football men and of The contest afforded Dorias, the freshman the interhall champs. In this he also makes star, a chance to displa)'- his wonderful ability known his choice for the all-hall football as a quarterback. It was thought earlier in the team. Reports claim it to be the "hit" of the season that the former Chippewa Falls high seasohl school man had not the experience to direct —Owing to some serious mistake of some- the team this ^'•ear, but his work in tlie Mar­ bod}- in some department the shield that quette struggle demonstrated beyond the shadow held the electric numerals of the sophomore of a doubt that he possesses natural ability class could not be found on tlie day before the when it comes to handling the destinies of a big cotillion (i. e. dance). The boat people football team. His punting far outclassed that blaine the electricians, the electricians blame of Voelkel, the Veteran Marquette man, and the boat people. At all events, the blame thing his running back punts proved the feature of is lost, and Al Ke^^s can't get head or tail to the afternoon. Collins in playing his last game the whole business. for Notre Dame put up a grand exhibition. His running under punts drew much attention from the bleachers. Martin covered himself with glory Athletic Notes. when he recovered Elsen's fumble and crossed the line for the Varsity's only score. Dimmick VARSITY PLAYS WONDERFUL GAME. and Philbrook played their last game and On Thanksgiving afternoon the Varsity met fought to the last ditch against the mighty its old-time rival, Marquette, at Milwaukee, tackles, Klsen and Hanley. Ever)'- man on the and after one of the hardest fought struggles of team played a most brilliant game as is evident the year succeeded in holding tlie strong Wis­ from the score: consin aggregation to a tie score. The^field NOTRE DAME (5) MARQUETTE (5) was a sea of mud and for a time it was thought Martin . R. E. Curtin, Capwell the game would have to be postponed, but Dimmick R. T. Elsen after much application of sawdust this idea Kelly R. G. ^IcCusker was discarded, and the Thanksgiving custom Foley C. Westenhagen between Marquette and Notre Dame^^was Oaas j L. G. Housley Philbrook L. T. Hanley, Thackeray carried through. Collins L. E. Brennan The first half was Notre Dame's from the Dorias Q. B. Schaller start, and it was at this time that we scored Clippinger R. H. Waldron, Mehegan our only touchdown. "W^hile this score was Matthews L. H. Voelkel Stansfield, McGrath F. B. made on a fumble by the Marquette tackle Munsell Touchdowns—^Martin, Brennan. Umpire—Kelley, the fact that the Varsity had brought the play Princeton. Referee—Snow, Michigan. Head lines­ within ten yards of Marquette's goal line makes man—Dr. Ingham, Nebraska. Time of periods— the .result earned, rather than an accident. Fifteen minutes. Marquette started the second half strong, and BASKET-BALL. a series of forward passes and line bucks brought Coach Maris' call for basket-ball material them within one yard of the Varsitj'^'s goal. was responded to by seventeen men. Among Brennan, who was a member of the Notre the old men reporting are Fish, Maloney, Dame squad last season, went through the line Ulatowski, Walsh, Burke, McNicol and Lynch. for the necessary distance, and the score was At the present, prospects look bright, but the tied. Time and again after that the ball was coach is anxiously looking for a capable centre. dangerously near the Notre Dame goal, but The season will open here with Lewis Institute each time the men of the gold and blue by the on the loth of December, followed by Hull finest of defensive work staved off another score House Club of Chicago on the 17th. and a defeat. The first quarter of the second half ^3s as much Marquette's as was the first Notre The call for track men will be issued some time Dame's. Toward the close of the game Captain next week. The first meet in which Notre Hanley's man took advantage of the darkness Darne competes will be the First Regiment of and put through a variety of forward passes Chicago, on the 21st of January.