Notre Dame Scholastic, Vol. 56, No. 06

,C^^:^ ameScbolastic .j>s:z::fi DISCEQUASISEMPER-VICTVRUS • VIVE- QUASI- CRASMORITVRVS Vol. LVI. November 4, 1922 No. 6 dismay at the expansiveness *of the old HERE WE ARE. school. Well, let this homecoming shake you out p^HIS is your homecoming, old boy. of that. This celebration is really "some We're glad to see that smile of yours, stuff." It has been planned, diligently glad to feel that firm gTip which we worked at, and gladly prepared for, so that felt—Tfith some regret but also with you may know that older sons also have the more pride and joy—^\vhen you had packed fatted calf killed for them, no matter how the sheepskin into the trunk and were ready many "kids" may have been born into the- to face the world. The world has accepted family. Eat and rejoice. Notre Dame has a your challenge, all right. Marks of the future, but also a dear and sacred past in struggle may or may not have lined j'-our which not the least important thing is her face, but they can be found upon your mind. memory of you. She will become gi'eat whsi It is true, perhaps, that you have changed you, who have gone and now return, look a little, hardened under the impact, learned upon her really and truly not only as your much of men and their ways. Notre Dame Alma Mater in Latin, but as your Radiant- and what-she did for you may be a hazy and Mother in English. Let this homecoming be- happy memory, something like the memory a time of rejoicing but also a period of re-^ of a lark; and of books you have, for all we juvenation. Get back into the file that winds, know, the same remote unpressions as those seriously to the class-room, and rioutously you cherish of grandmother's ginger-bread. to the field. Say "Hello" to the young chaps you meet. It will tickle them to death, and It is ever possible that you fancy a great deal you'll find a hearty response. of college education quite ornamental or, at least, valuable in the sense that'fresh air is Naturally you want, first of all, to get in. valuable. touch with "the fellows" who stayed in We are not §;oing to analyze you more Corby from—^to—. You have come back deeply. Today you mil witness a football mostly, perhaps, because of that. It doesn't game at which the old fighting Notre Dame spoil the affair to see that some haven't come colors will be carried again with honor. It back, that others cannot, ever, come back. will be a great game and a great spectacle. Somehow they are Notre Dame men. The Your enthusiasm will be worthy of any col light will go on in their old rooms presently lege boy, But we msh to remind you that and you will drop in for a chat. You wiU you have looked round a bit. Where have all discuss the refectory, the profs and the these old chaps come from? Has Notre- •charms of the girls you took to the class Dame really turned out so many? ôw do dance. It will seem that yesterdays can be they draw such crowds to a game? When come, with magic ease,- todays, that dreams, was this building put up, and.that? Upon are realities. The team that is proud now ta every side you have beheld a larger, strong uphold the traditions of Notre Dame will be er,-more, impressive school. The tramp of merged somehow into the team of such and thousands is on a campus which used to such a year. And over all will be, as ever, bustle with hundreds. Like Odysseus who the brooding peace of Indiana skies and the came home to discover that Penelope had glory of gold—^the gold of the sun in the mir forty suitors' where one husband used to ror of the dome. serve the purpose, you may feel a tinge of And here's rosemary for remembrance. 168 'Sfie Notre- 5ame §cholascic cherished dream of each N. D. man was CHEERING FOR OLD N. D. realized when "Red" Miller, "Cap" Edwards ; TIMOTHY P. GALVIN, and the other heroes of '09 brought home the Editor, the '16 Dome. Wolverine scalp. Arguments over the eligi History (according to the teachings laid bility of players resulted in the cancellation down by Professor Hines for the edification of the Michigan game in*1910 and gradua of all Notre Dame Freslmien) can be under tion broke up the great eleven of those years. stood and appreciated best when it is di As a consequence, Notre Dame began to look vided into its various epochs; and the be for new worlds to conquer and for a new ginning and the end of each historical epoch team with which to conquer them; and thus is marked by some great historical event. began the modern period of our football Particularly is this true of Notre Dame's history. football history. Its epoch are two, which, Horace Greeley once said, "Go West, for convenience, we can call the Ancient and young man, go West," but it remained for the Modern periods. The great historical Jesse Harper to say, "Go East, Notre Dame, event which marked the end of the ancient, go East." ¥/hen Harper arrived on our and the beginning of the modern period oc campus in 1913, he found that he had in curred at Ann Arbor in 1909, when an ill- herited from JaclrMarks a real football ma fated Michigan goal post collided with the chine, made up of men who had associated brawny back of "Pete" Vaughn as he cata with enough of the old players of '09 and pulted himself over the Michigan goal line '10 to have imbibed the spirit of Lynch and and ended for all time the "practice" games Dwyer and Matthews. When Harper cams between Michigan and Notre Dame. It is to uSj Notre Dame had already produced the not the purpose of this article to relate the teanr with which to conquer; it remained for details of that collision. The writer has no Harper to supply the "worlds" for our con desire to enter into the controversy as to quest. His determination to invade the East whether the goal posts were of oak or of was probably the most momentous decision steel; neither will he attempt to give the in our football annals. Who of us can forget exact Avidth of the Gold and Blue stripes that fall of '13 when Captain Rockne led his which adorned the great fullback's sweater warriors on the first invasion of the Army after the touchdo^vii; indeed the author even Plains? Harper had added to the battering refuses to either confirm or deny the report line attack of Eichenlaub, Pliska and Finne- that a flying splinter from the goal posts gan, the first great football "battery," Dorais struck Coach Yost in tlie eye and so affected and Rockne. In one afternoon, Notre Dame his sight that to this day he has been unable smashed and passed its way into the exclu to "see" a Michigan-Notre Dame game. All sive circles of the effete East. Without mak these matters can well be left to Father ing a single substitution and taking time out Walsh for decision; and if any doubt as to only once (and then only to allow Jos Pliska the exact details of tlie goal post incident re to tie his shoe string), Notre Dame over mains in the mind of any Notre Dame whelmed the Cadets, 35 to 13. Then in order rooter, there can be no question that Father to let the world know that we intended to Walsh's vivid recollection will iserve to. sup remain in the sun, the same team a few days ply those details with minuteness and later defeated Penn State on her own field, accuracy. a feat that no team had accomplished for a But the fact rerîains that Notre Dame's period of eighteen years. The football victory over Michigan in 1909 marked the critics stilLtalk and write of our great '13 culmination of a long upward struggle on team, chiefly because it was that team which the part of our Alma Mater. In those days, first demonstrated-the real possibilities of the glamor of Heston's achievements still the forward pass. Yet the team of '13 was lingered over Michigan and made victory but little, if at all, superior to the teams that over the Wolverines the goal towards which followed. The elevens led by "Deak" Jones the teams of tlie west were ever striving. in '14, Fitzgerald in '15 and Stan Cofall in Notre Dame was no exception. The long- '16, were all typical Harper machines, play- 'ê Houre 5ame ^cholascie 169 ing hard, fast brainy football, losing but minds to need recounting; the deeds of Gipp seldom and fighting always. and Mohardt, of Bariy, of Coughlin and of Nineteen hundred and seventeen, the last Shaw have not yet been relegated to the year of Harper's regune, was a crucial one things of yesterday. The end of the season for Notre Dame. War called most of the of 1921 saw the passing, of another great old stars before school opened in September ; Notre Dame eleven- and only Captain Cax- Captain Phelan went to the colors in mid- berry, the superb Castner, Ed Degree, Bill season; the coaches scarce knew from one Voss and Frank Thomas remain this year week to another Avhat men would remain on to steady the new meii who have already the squad.

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