Notre Dame Alumnus, Vol. 09, No. 02

The Archives of The University of Notre Dame 607 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-6448 [email protected] Notre Dame Archives: Alumnus October, 1930 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 33 Congratulations from a Champion to a Champion Cy-'O Notre Dame and Knute Eockne, Builders of Champion football teams, Stude- -* baker, Builder of Champion motor cars, extends congratulations. Your magnifi cent Stadium is a reward well won. It is as much a symbol of courage and sportsman ship as the Gold and Blue itself. It is a credit to the University, and to South Bend, as well. May it echo often to the triumphant strains of "The Victory March"! STUDEBAKER Buildei's of Chai7ipio?is 34 THE NOTRE DAMEALUMNUS October, 19S0 B lllllltllNtltllllllHIMIIIMItllllllininilMIUIIMIItllllllllllllilllllllllllltllllllllltlllllltlltllltllltlltllltlltll ..Q THE OSBORN ENGINEERING CO. 7016 EUCLID AVE. CLEVELAND. OHIO ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS Designers of the New Notre Dame Stadium TWENTY YEARS EXPERIENCE Twenty-nine Stadiums and Athletic Fields Fifteen Baseball Parks Five Fair Qround Grandstands WE WILL BE GLAD TO FTJRNISH REFERENCES B •iniiiiiiiiiMiatiMiiiuiuiiitiiiiiiiii •lllllllllllllllllll llllllllllltlllllllllltllttlllltlMlllllltllltlltlKMIIIKIIDIII imill itQ ALUTH-PROUTY COMPANY AND DANVILLE MALLEABLE IRON DIVN DANVILLE, ILLINOIS STANDARD PRODUCTS IN DAILY PRODUCTION Door Hangers and Hinges — Airport and Garage Door Hardware industrial and Fire Door Hardware — Overhead Carriers -- Rolling Ladders STADIUM SEAT BRACKETS Pitching Shoes and Stakes — Stampings -- Machine Work Certified Malleable Iron Castings IRON Flitimmmum""""""'" IIMIUIIIIIMIIIIIII IIIIIMIUIIMIHIIlillMtllMIMIIMIUIIUIMtlMIIMIItllUIH MIKIIIItlll Hllllitlll •Illllll •Illlllllfal October, 19S0 THE NOTRE DAMEALTJMNUS 35 fSlniiiinitiiitnitumummi llllllllNDUMIIMIMIIinlB Notre Dame Guests ' when in South Bend make their home at the OLIVER HOTEL 350. ROOMS The center of all activities EXCEPTIONAL REFINED SERVICE HOSPITALITY CENTRALLY LOCATED and CONVENIENT TO ALL TRANSPORTATION Three excellent restaurants with added facilities during all big games offer the best meals obtainable in the city ANDREW C WEISBURG J. W. MISAMORE Manaser Ass"t Manager llllltlltlMllltllllMMtllllllUUIIIII 36 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS October, 1930 THE STANDARD OF COMPARISON ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT WILL IMPROVE YOUR GAME Football • Baseball • Golf • Tennis • Basketball - Track • Swimmins Boxins • Soccer • Volleyball • Handball • Gymnasium WILSON-WESTERN SPORTING GOODS CO. NEW yORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO October. 1930 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 37 0" "B IN TtilS IXXUE COMMENT The New Notre Dame Stadium- -Frontispiece This Football Phenomenon, by Bev. C. L. O'Donnell, C.S.C.__ 39 University Dedicates New Stadium- 42 This issue of the ALUMNUS rep Notre Dame's Football Poetry, by John H. Sheehan. 46 resents what the magazine would like Believe It Or Not, by James Carmody 48 49 to do more often, but what time and Georgi Gipp, by Harry Sylvester, Jr.. Cartier Field, by William Magarrall 50 expense will not permit. However, Notre Dame Coaches "Who's Who," by E. Morris Starrett- 51 the dedication of the new Notre Dame Notre Dame's First Football Team, by Frank Svoboda 53 Stadium brings to Notre Dame men The Five Miller Brothers, by John J. Raleigh -. 54 such a wealth of tradition, of memo Trafiic Routes to New Stadium (Map) : 56 ries and of Notre Dame spirit that Coaches Before Rockne, by John Weidler_ 82 the ALUMNUS could not overlook Notre Dame's Football Captains, by Robert Balfe_ 84 this opportunity. What Makes Notre Dame Football, by Richard Connelley 88 The Four Horsemen, by Walter Dillon 91 The magazine is published monthly during the scholastic year by the Alumni Association of the University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame. Indiana. The subscription price is $2.00 a year; the price of sinsle copies is 25 cents. The Unfortunately, the few pages that annual alumni dues of $5.00 include a year's subscription to THE ALUMNUS. follow cannot begin to portray ade Entered as second-class matter January 1. 1923, at the post office at Notre Dame. Indiana, under the -Act of March :J, 1897. All -correspondence should quately the march of football years be addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus. Box 81. Notre Dame. Indiana. since 18S7, years that have filled MEJIEER OF THE AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL Scholastics, Domes, and the nation's MEMBER OP THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC ALUMNI FEDERATION press with uncounted columns of gloiY. We only hope to have gath THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS ered here some of the stories, some of JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, '25, Editor the characters, some of the underlying HARLEY L. MCDEVITT, '29, Advertising Mgr. principles, that have made these cir cumstances so. THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION of the UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME The Editor wishes to e.\press his appreciation to Professor Cooney's Alumni Headquarters, Main Floor Administration Bldg., Notre Dame, Indiana feature writers, 1929-'30, from whom came many of the interesting features JAJIES E. ARMSTRONG, General Secretary in this issue. It is good for Notre ALUMNI BOARD Dame men to have learned and REV. JOHN CAVANAUGH, C.S.C, '90 Honorary President i written of these things. It is good FRANK E. HERING, '98 - - - President | for Notre Dame men to read them. HON. WILLIAM J. GRANFIELD, '13 Vice-President | JAMES E. ARJISTRONG, '25 - - Secretary | WALTER DUNCAN, '12 - - - Treasurer i GEORGE M. MAYPOLE, '03 Director i M. HARRY MILLER, '10 - Director i The Editor and Mr. McDevitt, the T. PAUL MCGANNON, '07 Director = PETER P. MCELLIGOTT, '02 Director | Advertising Manager, also take this JOHN W. EGGEMAN, 'CO {ex officio) Director i occasion to thank the advertisers who have come into this issue. While we H .." • • •••" • ' ' iminiitmiitiiitniimnnimnntminnMimintniFl feel that Notre Dame men appreciate cated with an eagerness to go out and more than a clear view of Notre to the point of patronage the various convert others to the same enthusi Dame's football games. It is going commodities and services these adver asm. This is a football stadium, to give thousands of people, for the tisements represent, the fact remains built for the nation's leading football first time, a clear view of Notre that this advertising defrays an e.\- team. It is a fitting home. Beauty Dame. pense of publication and illustration is combined with practical features to that the ALUMNUS, alone, could not a degree unbelievable to those who afford. The results to us and to our have experienced the disadvantage of advertisers we trust will be mutually so many stadia. Just come down for a game—prob profitable. ably by the time you read this you will have seen a game. Even the Notre Dame men on the campus are This is not the editorial page, but enthusiastic about the new structure. Seeing is more than believing with the thought cannot be resisted that That, to the informed outsider, is the new Stadium. It is being incul- the new Stadium is going to give eulogy indeed. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS Volume IX. OCTOBER, 1930 No. 2 THIS FOOTBALL PHENOMENON By Reverend Charles L. ODonnell, C.S.C. (Following is reprinted, for the first No, it's the annual beating which all ter for each leg. And football sup time, the outstamling address which of us in some degree, but nobody porters might remember that when the president of the University of more than myself, must take in this they buy football tickets they con Notre Dame delivered at the annual civic testimonial football banquet of matter of football ticket demands, tribute just as much to the support the Notre Dame Club of the St. Jo made by all sorts and conditions of of the school of their opponents as seph Valley in the University Dining men, who find only on the eve of a they do to their own school. Nobody Halls on December 4. 1920. Even the game that they are going to be able criticises that condition. One simply introductory remarks of a year ago calls attention to a fact. At the risk are so nearly applicable to airrent conditions that the address is pre of making myself perfectly clear, let sented in its entirety. EDITOR'S NOTE.) me say that a Wisconsin alumnus and a Notre Dame alumnus, purchasing ~"HE character of this celebration tickets for a Wiseonsin-Notre Dame has been fittingly widened by the game, are a pair of good suspenders I turn that football events have —I don't say good spenders—^for both taken this year, and by the turn universities equally. events have taken here tonight. Not This football phenomenon—and that only are we paying tribute to Notre is what football has become in Amer Dame, but we are rejoicing that ica—strikes me as being something other universities in this State have like the elephant, which, in the old achieved a notable success in the story, the blind men went to see. One great college game of football. While of the blind men, stumbling against some of our rivals are reciting with the elephant's side, said, "I perceive more or less appropriate pride the the elephant is very like a wall." An short and simple annals of the pure, other, happening to catch hold of the Notre Dame and Purdue are modestly elephant's trunk, opined that the ele accepting national honors, and Purdue phant was like a tree; while, to an is champion of the Big Ten, while other, who happened to catch hold of Indiana is celebrating its close shave REV. CHARLES L. O'DONNELL, C.S.C. the animal's tail, the elephant ap at Northwestern. What the future President of the University peared much like a rope. Now foot may hold in store, none of us can ball is like that. How you regard it know, but I am sure I voice the senti to contribute their presence as part will depend upon what aspect of it ment of a good part of this gathering of the public attraction.

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