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The Notre Dame Alumnus

Vol. Ill Contents for November, 1924 No. 2

Catholic Education, by Dudley G. Wooten, LL. D 33

Joseph M. Byrne. Sr., 1897 39

Editorial 40

The 1887 Team 41

Athletics 42

The Alumni 52

The magazine is published monthly durinjr 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 single copies is 25 cents. The annual alumni dues of $5.00 include a year's subscription to The Alumnus. Entered as second-class matter January 1, 1923, at the post office at Notre Dame, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1897. All corres­ pondence should be addressed to The Notre Dame Alumnus, Box 81, Notre Dame, Indiana.

ALFRED C. RYAN, '20. Editor

The Alumni Association — of the — University of Notre Dame Aliimni Hcadqitarters: 232 Adm'inhtfatwn Bldg., Notre Dame. Alfred C. Rymi, '20, General Secretary.

ALUMNI BOAED

REV. MICHAEL J. SHEA, '04 Honorary President HUGH A. O'DONNELL, '94 President •JAMES V. CUNNINGHAM, '07 Vice-President JOHN P. MURPHY, '12 Vice-President •-. EDWARD A. EOACH, '13 Vice-President RAY T. MILLER, '14 Vice-President MARK L. DUNCAN, '15 Vice-President DONALD GALLAGHER, '24 Vice-President WARREN A. CARTIER, '87 Treasurer THOMAS T. CAVANAGH, '97 Trustee FRANK O'SHAUGHNESSY, '00 Trustee GRATTAN T. STANFORD, '04 Trustee ALEXANDER A. MCDONNELL, '04 Trustee JAMES E. SANFORD, 15 Trustee STANLEY B. COFALL, '17 Trustee THE LARGEST CROWD EVER PACKED INTO CARTIER FIELD, STANDING WHILE THE NOTRE DAME BAND PLAYS THE VICTORY MARCH BETWEEN THE HALVES AT THE NEBRASKA GAME. m CATHOLIC EDUCATION m By Dudley G. Wooten, LL. D., of The Hoynes College of Law. m m\ HE visitor to the National Museum at Catholics, ignoring the latter as represen­ TWashington, which is a development of tative of real Christianity; which classifi­ the Smithsonian Institute, will notice, cation the impartial student of history and tice, with interest and instruction, a depart­ social development will readily agree to be ment devoted to "The Eeligions of the the logical and scientific treatment of the subject. In a synthetical view of civiliza­ World". Under appropriate divisions are tion during the last two thousand years, it arranged the visible and tangible symbols ^vill clearly appear that the only constant of each of the great religious systems that force and continuing factor in the pro­ have commanded the faith and moulded the gressive movement of the Christian world minds of men in all ages and countries, has been that which is embodied in the pretermitting those that no longer main­ spiritual and moral teaching of historical tain any organized and vital existence, such Catholicism. The words of the Founder of as the mythologies of the pre-Christian era. Christianity are literally Judaism, Christianity, , and figuratively true, now Buddhism, Mohammedan­ The scholarly treatment of and throughout the his­ ism, and other cults of the timely subject of Catholic tory of His Church: "He lesser importance are ex­ Education by Judge Wooten that is not with me, is hibited by a systematic in this issue is of particular against me; and he that array of the objects con­ interest to the alumni and old gathereth not with me. nected with the worship stzidents. For a number of scattereth". They are and of each. Whoever super­ years a member of the State always have been true, intended the arrangement Board of Higher Curricula not only in the realm of of this department—and in Washington and chosen by religious belief and prac­ it is this that gives it Archbishop Christie of Port­ tice, but in the domain of value and significance— land in 1922 to direct the secular thought and action did so upon strictly scien­ campaign for the protection as well—there is the Cath­ tific and historical prin­ of private schools against olic point of view and con­ the attacks upon them in the ciples, without bias or ception of truth, as con­ state of Oregon, he has an discrimination, just as he tra-distinguished from the intimate and thorough knowl­ would have arranged the edge of educational systems non-Catholic, upon every specimens of a botanical that alloivs him to speak tvith subject that can engage collection, or the fossil authority. the attention, arouse the evidence of the geologic convictions and challenge ages. The most striking the support of thinking men, always and feature of this religious exhibit is the fact everywhere. The non-Catholic often real­ that Christianity is represented wholly by izes this more distinctly than does the the things that constitute the familiar rites hereditary Catholic, and oftener still the and ceremonies of the Catholic Church; no non-Catholic feels it instinctively and un­ attention is given to the various schismatical consciously, which accounts for much of the and heretical departures from the authentic blind and unreasoning hostility to the faith of Home, or the multitudinous sects Church among those outside of her fold. and denominations of Protestant Christ­ Aside from questions of faith and dogma, ianity, so-called. It is as if the collector— there is probably no one subject upon which and his motive cannot be questioned on the the fundamental difference between the ground of religious partisanship—consid­ Catholic and non-Catholic viewpoint is so ered Christianity to be synonymous with marked and apparently so irreconcilable, Catholicism, and had divided the Christian as that of Education; and this divergence world into two sections—Catholics and non- is becoming more pronounced and increas- H THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS ingly practical in our own country. It is cussion on a topic so vital as the stragetic not the ignorant and lawless alone who control of education by an organized power entertain erroneous and prejudiced notions alien to American ideals"—^meaning, of of the scope and purpose of Catholic edu­ course, the Eoman Curia and Church to cational ideals and enterprises; the highly which his colleague had more openly re­ cultured and presumably tolerant seem to ferred. Since this sentence contains a covert be equally blind and every whit as bigotted. This is shown in the very recent and still and cowardly untruth, the amount of hon­ pending controversy that has arisen at esty that would characterize any discussion Harvard University, relative to the ap­ in which Mr. Wister might engage can pointment of a distinguished Catholic to be readily be inferred, and his writing during one of the Fellows of that institution. At the World War demonstrated his superior least two eminent Harvard alumni have qualifications as an adept in malicious voiced bitter opposition to this appoint­ mendacity. ment—John Jay Chapman and Owen Wis- ter, both of them men of scholarly renown But these expressions and the source and literary achievement. Their views, from which they come disclose the serious­ publicily expressed, are not less hostile and ness and the sinister import of the non- fully as malignant as those made popular Catholic attitude towards the Catholic con­ by the editors of the Menace, the Search­ ception of education; and the potential light, and the Fellowship Forum, and for threat against Catholic institutions of learn­ ing contained in them evidences, what close downright falsehood and absurdity they observers of recent movements already had are not surpassed by anything that has realized, that the purpose of crippling, and emanated from the Kit Kliix Klan. Says Mr. if necessary destroying, all Catholic edu­ Chapman: "It is thought unkind and sub- cational agencies is deep-seated and wide­ ; versive for any Protestant to resent the spread. The man who deceives himself into ; claims made by the Roman Curia, or even believing that this anti-Catholic campaign I to call attention to them. The outspoken against parochial schools is merely a spas­ •< purpose of the Eoman Church is to con- modic and sporadic exhibition of religious ji trol American education. This is one of and racial hatred, inspired and conducted I the larger issues of our epoch. It is in the by what Judge Ben Lindsey lately demon- ; minds of all intelligent educators". This iated "a midnight aggregation of morons, sounds like the pronouncement of the Rus­ dim-wits, fanatics, and hoodlums", makes j sian Soviet, and is in almost the exact lan­ a fatal mistake in his estimate of the naturej guage of the Soviet Commissar in 1921, and extent of the agitation. The victories! when all Catholic schools and churches were of the friends of educational freedom in; closed by the despotic action of that revo­ Michigan and Washington, and the fore­ gone decision of the Supreme Court in the lutionary tribunal. If the Roman Curia has Oregon school law case, are but prelimi­ ever said or done anjithing even remotely nary skirmishes in the real battle that be­ affecting American education, the knowl­ gan nearly a century ago, to completely edge of that fact is confined to Mr. Chap­ sterilize American education of all religious man, for certainly American Catholics have motive and of such morality as comes from never heard of it, and very naturally they religious teaching. The Catholic Church and would resent such a malicious falsehood as her firmly-fixed and immemorial education­ "unkind and subversive". So far from seek­ al ideals being the chief, if not the only, ing to control American education, the obstacle to this design, her power and in­ "Roman" Church has had all she can do in fluence in the educational field must be recent years to control her own parochial broken. The Klan and its auxiliary cohorts schools and to protect them from attempts of ignorant demagogues and pseudo-pa­ at un-American proscription. Mr. Wister triots make their assault upon the primary is more diplomatic in his utterance, but to schools, while the literati like Chapman and the same effect: "I welcome • honest dis­ Wister war against the recognition of THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS SS

Catholic culture by the great universities shown your good sense and your courageous and colleges, where Modernism—"the syn­ convictions on the subject by maintaining thesis of all heresies"—has its strongholds your parochial schools; we need your help and prostitutes the wealthy and the well­ in the effort to establish a system of relig­ born by its propaganda of rebellion against ious and moral education in the public all supernatural religion. But, v/hether at schools, and you are strong enough to help Harvard or among the masked and hooded us if you were not already provided with rabble of the countryside, the language and that kind of instruction in your own schools; objective of the movement are identical. I want to close up the Catholic schools, so The polite phrases about "the larger issues that your people will be compelled to help of our epoch", "strategic control of educa­ us reform the public schools along religious tion by an organized power alien to Am­ and moral lines". It was a novel statement erican ideals", and the like euphemisms, and evidently an honest and candid one, but are but academic translations of the Klan's it was a significant and pathetic disclosure favorite slogans—"100 per cent American­ of the hopelessness of depending upon ism", "one flag, one language, one school", Protestant influence in behalf of Christian "down wihh Popery", "the Catholic, the Jew education. It did not seem to occur to this and the Nigger must go", and all the other man, or he considered it unimportant, that cheap and vulgar clap-trap of the cross­ his plan of securing a desirable religious roads and the country church. It all means training for children in the state schools the banishment of Christianity as a factor would involve the insuparable difficulty in national life and character, the en­ of reconciling the various Protestant sects among themselves, and then of reconciling thronement of agnosticism or rationalism as Protestantism and Catholicism, in order to the ruling spirit of American civilization, formulate a standardized system of relig­ and, necessarily, the proscription of Catho­ ious and moral instruction; and the further licism and all of its activities and agencies, fact that such a system under government as being the only real and formidable foe sanction and control would be the utter to this radical revolution in the principles destruction of religious freedom by the es­ of American social life and the traditions tablishment of a state religion, a thing ab­ of American piety and patrotism. There are horrent to all American principles and tra­ many devout and loyal Protestants who ditions. The scheme would be impracticable share with Catholics the opposition to this and more objectionable than the present irreligious or non-religious cult, but condition. Protestantism as a system is powerless to resist the movement, by the very tenets of The ultimate fact remains, after all al­ its faith and the process of that "scatter­ lowance for accidental and exceptional cir­ ing" foretold by Christ in His declaration cumstances is made, that the Catholic view before quoted. The more earnest and pat­ of education, and the instrumentalities the riotic Protestant leaders are beginning to Church has provided and is developing for realize the impotency of their system. Dur­ putting that view into practice, are the ing the campaign on the school bill in Ore­ last hope and the only effective means for gon two years ago, the writer met a very preserving the principles and ideals of au­ intelligent and sincere Methodist minister thentic Christianity in the United States. in that State, who declared himself in favor Within the past sixty or seventy years a of the measure, and when asked why, he vast and radical change has taken place on replied thus: "The greatest curse of this the subject of religion among the people of age in this country is the Godless education this country. Seventy years ago seventy-five of our public school system; our children per cent of the population claimed and was are being brought up without any relig­ credited with entertaining some form of ion and without any moral sense founded religious belief, mostly the Christian; today upon religious principles, we Protestants but a scant 40 per cent professes any sort seem to be powerless to alter the situation of religious faith. These are the census and we are divided among ourselves, or in­ figures. Less than two generations ago very different to the danger; you Catholics have few men openly denied the existence of God 36 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS or repudiated the Divine government of the Brownson, in a famous address at Balti­ world, and it was exceptional to find a man more in 1853. It has taken many years for who publicily scoffed at revealed truth, it to reach its present stage of aggressive denied the Divinity of Christ, and disclaim warfare upon religion and in favor of a ed credence in the Bible. Nowadays the cult secularized monopoly of national education, of utter disbelief in these things is one of founded upon the doctrine of the govern­ the most prominent and potent elements ment ownership of children. Sovietism has in the self-constituted Intelligentsia; the moved much more rapidly in Russia, but state universities and most of those under to the same ends and upon the same lines, private control have banished all sem­ the chief objective in both countries being blance of religious profession, and many of the destruction of the Catholic Church and the most distinguished teachers in these in­ her institutions of Christian culture. It is stitutions are noted for their avowals of significant that the loss of religious senti­ infidelity, agnosticism, or materialistic ment and the decrease in the religious forces rationalism. Some of the most popular and of the United States, above mentioned, have influential clergymen in the Protestant not been in the ranks of American Cath­ churches are proud to proclaim their eman­ olics. On the contrary, the Church has cipation from the superstitious doctrines of grown steadily and prodigiously in strength historic Christianity. Everywhere and and numbers, until today she musters near­ among all classes—^but notably among those ly half of the total religious population of "intelligent educators" of whom Mr. John the country. Jay Chapman speaks as being opposed to the "Roman Curia" and the "Roman This has resulted in an alignment that Church"—it is considered an evidence of accords with the age-old line of cleavage intellectual freedom and scientific progress between Catholics and non-Catholics, spok­ to sneer at and denounce the Christian be­ en of in the beginning of this article, and liefs that were formerly regarded as among which the Savior described in His classifi­ the verities and sanctities of respectable cation of those for Him and against Him. living. The things that Washington loved Against the Church and her educational and recommended to his countrymen as es­ system are arrayed not only the remnant sential to national prosperity and happiness of a' fast decaying Protestantism, held to —^the patriotism that he considered to be a superficial allegiance by force of habit founded upon morality and religion—are and the inherited antagonism to Catholic­ out of date. The truths that even Franklin ism, but that great majority of irreligious and Jefferson and John Adams—esteemed and non-religious people whose hostility to "free-thinkers" in their day—^prized as the Church is part of their former Protest­ among the indispensable guarantees of ant affiliations, augmented by a fierce and political and social order, are scorned as unscrupulous animosity towards what they obsolete and valueless by the apostles of a consciously or unconsciously recognize to be new Americanism, that was born somehow the sole and unshaken champion of super­ out of the bloody and brutal throes of the natural religion. It appears to be an un­ World War, and has been baptized by its equal struggle, and it -will undoubtedly be sponsors in the name of a Godless idealism, a desperate one. It involves not only the that rejects as antiquated and unprogres- safety of Catholic truth and power, but the sive those principles and faiths that were integrity and perpetuity of American insti­ held vital and venerable by the founders of tutions as the offspring of Christian prin­ the Republic. ciples and traditions; it is a fight for God and country—^for piety and patriotism, the These sinister symptoms of a disordered twin products and the joint conservators of or a decadent civilization are the first fruits rational freedom and justice. In this con­ of the non-Catholic conception of education flict the indispensable and most potent for the nation, and they are precisely the weapon of the Church is her educational sys­ natural consequences of that organized tem—^the practical application of her Chris­ tian doctrines to the religious and moral campaign against Christianity the incept­ training of her children, as citizens of this ion of which was described by Orestes THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS S7 free and growing republic. Her adversaries policy of the exclusive state monopoly of realize this even better than her own mem­ education are adopted, there can be no bers do, and it is this realization that rational objection to extending the monop­ lends vigor and venom to their attacks upon oly to include academies, colleges and uni­ Catholic education. It is important that versities—in fact, a stronger argument can Catholics should understand not only the be advanced for such extension than for the motives but the methods of this aggregation original proposition. The movement in that of anti-Christian forces, for the attack is direction, however, is as yet inchoate and oftener than not by concealed and indirect veiled beneath generalized criticisms of approach. private institutions, especially those of the In the matter of the parochial schools, Catholic Church. The Harvard Fellowship the method of procedure is single and di­ incident indicates the spirit whose overt rect. In a country where universal suffrage manifestation remains to be developed. renders universal education indispensable Meantime, there is on foot and in process of to the creation and. preservation of a cap­ accomplishment an indirect and insidious able citizenship, the state has the undoubted plan for bringing all privately owned and duty and authority to prescribe and enforce religiously directed universities within the a uniform and compulsory system of pri­ zone of secular influence and irreligious or mary instruction for children of school age, non-religious dictation. which instruction must be entirely secular It is a characteristic of Secularism to on account of the American doctrine of re­ seek to systematize, solidify and standard­ ligious freedom and equality. It also has ize its ideas and plans, in order the more the right to require that all private schools easily and effectively to put them into actual shall conform to this standard of secular operation; and this trait becomes more pro­ studies, but it has not the right, and never nounced when the state itself adopts and can have while our constitutional system enforces the doctrines of the cult. State remains intact, to exclude from private Socialism is Secularism in action, and its schools such religious and moral instruction practice is evidenced in the present system as their founders and patrons may see fit of public education in the United States, to adopt, or to destroy such private schools from the primary schools to the state in­ upon the ground that they inculcate religion stitutions of higher learning. The whole in addition to the standardized secular in­ course of instruction has been standardized struction established by the government. and sterilized of religious and moral ele­ The line of defense is thus clearly drawn ments, and, what is almost as bad, the in­ upon the plain mandates and limitations centive and opportunity for independent of American constitutional law, and it can initiative and progressive improvement are never be passed unless organic principles so restricted as to be practically prohibited. of government are transcended or obliter­ It is literally an educational bed of Pro­ ated. The prevalent disposition to amend crustes, and the obvious design of those and alter the Constitution in order to pro­ "intelligent educators" who have in mind mote certain idealistic schemes of social the "claims of the Roman Curia", and the welfare and economic reform, is the most "outspoken purpose of the Roman Church dangerous symptom of a decaying loyalty to control American education", is to make to fundamental American ideals. The safe all private, and particularly Catholic, insti­ and sane thing for Catholics to do is to op­ tutions fit the iron measure of a secularized pose all such changes in the organic law, uniformity. Since it is not yet possible to for they are in effect so many Trojan horses achieve this end by legislative enactment, whose admission within the walls of consti­ it must be arrived at measurably by a sys­ tutional protection will inevitably lead to tem of syndicated compulsion, in the shape other and more vital innovations. The at­ of various voluntary organizations, whose tempts to destroy private religious schools objects are to establish and enforce upon naturally and logically carry with them their membership a uniform standard of the ultimate purpose to assail the institu­ qualifications and requirements, which in tions of higher learning, conducted under effect bind the associated institutions to religious control; once the principle and compliance with the will of the majority. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS

Being wholly secular in its constitution and ments in the United States since 1830 af­ purposes, under the leadership of "intelli­ fords abundant warning against such in­ gent educators" committed to a purely sidious efforts to seculai'ize and monopolize materialistic conception of education, and all education in the hands of the govern­ covertlj'^, if not overtly, hostile to the Cath­ ment. olic conception, membership in such an or­ The University of Notre Dame, by com­ ganization is of doubtful, if not dangerous, mon consent, is regarded as the most typi­ import for a Catholic institution. The as­ cal and distinctively Catholic institution in sociations of American universities, law America. The devotional spirit and day-by- schools, and like bodies of affiliated educa­ day piety of her student body have become tional interests are ostensibly meritorious matters of nation-wide and world-wide in design and advantageous in op-aration; repute; occasioning pilgrimages and in­ they promote fellowship among men and in­ quiries to discover the- source and strength stitutions engaged in a common enterprize of this intelligent loyalty to the Faith. Her of incalculable importance; but in public faculties of instruction in the various col­ estimation they cultivate the opinion that leges are not surpassed in ability and • membership in them is a credential of prov­ achievement by those of any other Catholic en merit, while failure to belong to them university, and may justly challenge com­ is a badge of inferiority; and thus they ex­ parison -with those of any secular institu­ ercise a kind of moral intimidation over non-members and create a popular discrim­ tion in the land. Her graduates rank with ination in favor of those who yield obed­ those of any of the other centers of higher ience to their secularized standards, .which culture, and they possess qualifications of are often arbitrary, artificial and more or character and moral manhood conspicious less inferior. The state universities, being and uncontested. Her situation in the very a part of the standardized system of public heart of the Continent, midway between the education, veiy readily accede to such or­ ancient and conservative civilization of the ganizations, and such private institutions Atlantic seaboard and the Avide-stretching, as Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Johns new and impulsive regions of the West— Hopkins find no difficulty in accommodating inheriting the culture of the one and re­ their methods to such a syndicate of sec­ sponsive to the adventurous vitality of the ularized instruction. It is a well known and other—gives her a commanding and lamentable fact that most of the great uni­ stragetic position of power and expansion versities of the East, founded by the pious that is not possessed by any other of the zeal of Christian philanthropy and boasting Catholic universities between the two of an ancient and honorable lineage of de­ oceans. She is not subject to the narrow votion to Christian culture, are today even provincialism that has always character­ more pagan in their anti-Christian activi­ ized the old' colonial portion of the Union, ties than the avowedly non-religious state nor is she placed where the sordid motives institutions; and ilj is under the leadership and distracting influences of commercial and control of these apostatizing private greed and activity interfere with her cul­ colleges that most of the organized effort tural and devotional energies; nor does she towards solidifying and standardizing edu­ feel the effects of an isolated egotism and cational content and method is being con­ assumption of authority that spring spon­ ducted. The whole scheme is potential of taneously in the environment of a political injurious effects upon the integrity and in­ capital like Washington. The great men and dependence of privately owned universities, institutions of the Eastern shores of this and being strictly non-Catholic, if not anti- wide and many-minded land have always Catholic, in its spirit and objectives, it may been prone to look at other sections and dis­ well be viewed with caution by our rep­ tant objects through the big end of the tele­ resentative institutions. Certainly, no more scope, and so they minimize their import­ ingenious and effective method of paving ance and mistake their significance. It is the way for a uniform and compulsory sys­ the judgment of acute and impartial ob­ tem of non-religious education could be servers, growing in formation and force conceived. The history of educational move­ throughout the country, that it is a fatal (Continued on page 51) THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS

JOSEPH M. BYRNE. Sr., 1897

When death called Joseph M. Byrne, Sr., Board of Education, and a member of. the of Newark, N. J., on the night of November City Plan Commission. 23rd,' the University and the Alumni Asso­ His loyalty to Notre Dame was even ciation lost a most prominent and influ­ greater than his than local interests. He ential member. The name of Joseph Byrne was a national figure in Notre Dame circles. had become so intimately linked with every His name was known to practically every alumni movement and every growth of the student and every graduate. Whenever rep­ University, that his name was known to resentatives of the University appeared in every group that ever attended the Uni­ the Metropolitan district, it was inevitable versity They knew him as a gentleman so that one of the men to render every possible interested in the progress of Notre Dame ser-vice and extend many appreciated cour­ that nothing was ever so tesies was Joseph Byrne. important as the success­ He was instrumental in ful realization of any the arrangement of the plans that directly or in­ football contests with the directly concerned Notre Army in New York City Dame and its men. His and was indirectly respon­ period of service to Alma sible for the national Mater bej\.n when he first prominence Notre Dame matriculated at Notre has gained through the Dame in the seventies and publicity accorded the uni­ continued unabated until versity in the public press. The old students of the his death. His interests Metropolitan District rec­ were never confined to any ognized him as one of particular field of univer­ their leaders and at the sity activity, but were di­ time of his death was a rected in whatever chan­ member of the board of nels his unfailing judg­ governors of the Notre ment loyally prompted. Dame Club of New York His conception of a true City. In 1921, he was Notre Dame man was re­ unanimously elected presi­ flected in his entire life. dent of the Alumni Asso­ His genuine Catholicity ciation of the University for 1921-1922. was ever evident. The re­ JOSEPH M. BYRNE, SR ligious and charitable in­ His interest in the gen­ stitutions in and around Newark benefited eral policies of the University over so many from his interest. Aside from many sub­ years resulted in his appointment to the stantial financial contributions, his counsel Board of Lay Trustees of the University and active effort were responsible for the when it was formed in 1921. He served as broadening of their field of service. a member of that Board until his death. His duty as a citizen was manifested Mr. Byrne was president of the Joseph throughout his' carreer. He was a former M. Byrne Company, general insurance Assemblyman from Essex County, serving agency. He was a director of the Fidelity two terms and served one elective term as Union Trust Company, -dee president of the a member of the Newark Board of Street United States Sa-vings Bank, a director of and Water Commissioners. Appointed a the Newark Fire Insurance Company, first member of the State Board of Institutions vice-president of the Chamber of Com­ and Agencies by Governor Edge in 1919, he merce and a special partner in the brok­ was subsequently reappointed by Gover­ erage firm of J. M. Byrne & Co. nor Edwards for a term which expires in The Newark Athletic Club elected him 1929. He was also a member of the Newark (Continued on page 51) uo THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS

As the football season nears tives are responsible for the gathering of ANOTHER the closing and the ever-pres­ men at meetings. The presence of the men ent contention of the value of in a group is indicative of some interest, VALUE inter-collegiate athletics and but the contacts that are thus established, , the dangers of the over-em­ the friendships that are renewed, the new phasis of this phase of college life are again acquaintances that are made are all of more advanced by those who fail to cleai'ly see lasting benefit than the primary purpose of the proper balance, we cannot halp but add the meeting. That value of alumni contact our word to the endless talk that the event­ is immeasurable. It can and does help ful months of football always provoke. alumni organization. From an alumni point of view, we know We speak with reasonable assurance. The of 110 value as great as that of college officers and members of the Notre Dame athletics to awaken alumni interest, not Club of New York City will tell you that only in the sports themselves but in the this fall was their first successful period University and its men. And it is the in­ from a viewpoint of organization and co­ terest in the University and among the operation. The Chicago Club, with its re­ alumni that concern us. College football, or markable reception and dinner dance, the . any other college sport, will always iind its largest ever given in Notre Dame circles, loyal followers and we cannot be too greatly found many new members in the city and concerned about it. the group will benefit accordingly. Those Here at Notre Dame, where alumni ac­ men out of touch with club activities are tivity and interest v/as not always as en­ encouraged by the success and their re­ couragingly fine as it is today, we can see sponsiveness in the future is certain. the striking side of it all. Since Notre Dame Even in other communities, like Cleve­ has achieved national prominence in ath­ land, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, the letics, particularly football, we have found Ca'umet District, Louisville, Minneapolis an increasing amount of alumni interest. and Milwaukee the clubs have materially Thfs interest, properly accepted and spon­ benefited from an alumni interest in ath­ sored, can be retained after the season is letics. We would say, with little hesitation, over and utilized for whatever reasonable that after the present football season is purposes occasion the need of it. over, the entire group of alumni clubs will Alumni interest reaches it height during be in a sti'onger position than ever before, the first few months of the scholastic year. that the clubs will find it less diflScult to It is then that the alumnus advances his get the men together in the future be­ claim as a graduate. When he wants foot­ cause of the service the club as a unit has ball tickets or other ser\'ice, he feels that been able to render. It is also possible that as an old student he is entitled to more con­ what plans and proposals the Association sideration than the average follower of foot­ or University will have cause to present ball—and he gets it. That is only one side will be more responsively received because of the story. of this organization. During the months of October and No­ This is all oifered in an optimistic man­ vember, the local alumni club is reallj' ner. Whether our contentions are entirely functioning. The members look for organi­ true and alumni interest is maintained, is dependent upon the continued service to zation to carry out the wishes and plans of every one concerned. The club will prosper the group. They may want tickets for the only as the men continue their interest and games, special trains to the scene of the the Association will advance in its ser\nce contests or a reasonable and proper re­ to the University and the alumni as co­ ception of the team should it be visiting operation is received fi"oni the men and the in the club's particular locality. These mo­ clubs. THE NOTRE DAIME ALUJINUS Ul THE 1887 TEAM IN 1887

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Left to riglit, bottom Row—Harry M. Jewett, riiiht halfback : J. E. Cusack, (luarterback: Henry B. Luhn, left halfback: EJ Prudhomme, fullback. Second row—J. L. Hepburn, rijiht end: Georpre Houck, right tackle; E. A. Sawkins, rijrht guard; Frank Fehr, center; Pat Nelson, left tackle: Gene Melady, left guard: Frank Springer, left end. IN 1924

Left to right: Joseph Hepburn of Detroit: Frank Hagenbarth of Salt Lake City, Dr. Henry B. Luhn, Spokane, Wash.: Col. Wm. Luhn, Omaha, Nebr.: Edward Prudhomme, Bermuda, La.: George Houck, Portland, Oregon: Patrick Nelson, Dubuque. Iowa: Wm. P. ilcPhee, Denver: Frank Fehr, Louisville: Eugene Melady, Jr., and Eugene Melady, Sr., Omaha. The other members of the team were unbale to attend the celebration. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS

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When you spend the months of a foot­ alumnus who has ever known the true bal­ ball season at Notre Dame, your reaction to ance between athletic and student life. the glory and success of what we call an Notre Dame herself claims nothing. It is ordinary season can be qualified and under­ content to allow others to advance the claim stood. But to have spent the past five weeks should they care to do it. The five im­ among the men who live and radiate that portant games on the schedule have been spirit that has brought to the campus per­ played and won in the fashion that all haps the greatest football success in many games of Notre Dame are played and won. years is to have lived in a modern paradise The men have played the game as it was of masculine youth. To know the attitude taught to them and it has been the fortune of the men who have brought victory and of the present season for them to win. There consequental praise to Notre Dame is a is glory in it for us and glory in it for the blessing. You can understand why 1924 men who have earned it. It is the glory of stands out pre-eminent as the year of foot­ student success in any collegiate endeavor ball years. You like to believe you know and we allow others to place the praise how and why it happened. where it is deserved. There is so much that can be said, yet We can say but this: Every man who little that has not already been^ recorded has played this season has given everything either in student publication or ^blic press. he had to the game. Every one has con­ There is nothing important to criticize. It tributed his share and while the limelight should all be praise; and praise it has been. has yet to fall on some of the lesser lights, If there was even something to explain; if it is to be remembered that the team—^the there was something remarkably unusual eleven men on the gridiron at any time about the men, the team or the spirit, it during the game—^has been responsible for would be different. the unprecedented season we now enjoy. Notre Dame, as all know, has a team NOTRE DAME 13, ARMY 7 that occupies a position in intercollegiate When Notre Dame prepared for its football seldom accorded any team. It is a twelfth annual game with the respected team of young men, physically and mentally Army team, it understood that it was going equipped to execute the orders of a great to meet one of the strongest Army teams coach with a great system. It is a group of in recent years. It knew that victory was men possessed with the instinct that makes far from certain and they prepared accord­ real football players and who can arise to ingly. What football generalship was dis­ any emergency through a development of played at the Polo Grounds on the 17th of •faculties that makes not only athletes but October is already kno%vn. That game is scholars and gentlemen. considered by some as the game of the year The 1924 squad has passed through the —^it can make or break a team, they say. crucial period of its schedule with a record If it's true, the team was made, for it for clean playing, clean sportsmanship and emerged victorious from a game that was clean victory that arouses a pride in every a hard, driving and tough battle from the THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS .1^3

CROWLEY AROUND THE END FOR ANOTHER BIG GAIN IN THE ARMY GAME. NOTICE THE INTERFERENCE. opening whistle to the shot that ended the fields may come and go, but in Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden, covered by a fast and charging contest. line, Notre Dame can take its place in front of the field. Grantland Rice, writing in the New York Coach McEwan sent one ot his finest teams into action, an aggressive organization that fought to the Herald-Tribune, treated the game in so last play around the first rim of darkness, but when masterful a fashion that we take the Rockne rushed his Four Horsemen to the track they rode down everything in sight. It was in vain that privilege of reprinting his interesting story. 1,400 gray-clad cadets pleaded for the Army line to hold. The Army had its share of stars in action, So many alumni have asked that the article such stars as Gabrisch, Farwick, Willson, Wood, be quoted, at least in part, that we accede E'.linger and many others, but they were up against four whirlwind backs who picked up top speed from to their wishes. the first step as they swept through scant openings to slip on by the secondary defense. The Army had "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the great backs in Willson and Wood, but the Army Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they had no such quartet, who seemed to carry the are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and mized blood of the tiger and the antelope. Death. These are only aliases. Their real names Rockne's light and tottering line was about as are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They tottering as the Rock of Gibraltar. It was something formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before more than a match for the Army's great set of which another fiRhtC-ng Army football team was forwards, who had earned their fame before. Yet it swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds yester­ was not until the second period that the first big day afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down on thrill ot the afternoon set the great crowd into a the bewildering panorama spread on the green plain clieering whirl and brought about the wild flutter of below. flags that are thrown to the wind in exciting mo­ A cyclone can't be snared. It may be surrounded, ments. At the game's' start Rockne sent in almost but somewhere it breaks through to keep on going. entirely a second string cast. The Army got the When the cyclone starts from South Bend, where jump and began to play most of the football. It the candle lights still gleam through the Indiana was the Army attack that made three first downs sycamores, those in the way must take to storm cel­ before Notre Dame had caught its stride. The lars at top speed. Yesterday the cyclone struck South Bend cyclone opened like a zephyr. again, as Notre Dame beat the Army, 13 to 7, with And then, in the wake of a sudden cheer, out a set of backfield stars that ripped and crashed rushed Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden, through 'a strong Army defense with more speed and the four star backs who helped to beat the Army a power than the warring cadets could meet. year ago. Things were to be a trifle different now. Notre Dame won its ninth game ;h twelve Army After a short opening flurry in the second period. starts through the driving power of one of the Wood, of the Army, kicked out of bounds on Notre greatest backfields that ever churned up the turf of Dame's 20-yard line. The cloud in the west at this any gridiron in any football age. Brilliant back- point was no larger than a football. There was no -44 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS sign of a tornado startins. But it happened to be fifteen yards, with the ball on Notre Dame's 20-yard at iust this spot that Stuhldreher decided to put line. on his attack and began the long and dusty hike. At this moment Harding was rushed to quarter •. On the first play the fleet Crowley peeled off fifteen in place of Yeomans, who had been one of the lead­ yards and the cloud from the west was now begin- ing Army stars. On the first three plays the Army nJng to show signs of lightning and thunder. The reached the 12-yard line, but it was now fourth fleet, powerful Layden got six yards more and then down, with the two yards left to go. Harding's Don Miller added ten. A forward pass from Stuhl­ next p'ay was the feature of the game. dreher to Crowley added twelve yards and a moment As the ball was passed he faked a play to Wood, later Don Miller ran twenty yards around the Army's diving through the line, held the oval for just a half right wing. He was on his way to glory when Wil­ breath and then, tucking the same under his arm son, hurtling across the right of way, nailed him swung out around Notre Dame's right end. The on the 10-yard line and threw him out of bounds. brilliant fake worked to perfect?on. The entire Crowley, Miller and Layden—Miller, Layden and Notre Dame defense had charged forward in a surg­ Crowley—one or another, ripping and crashing ing mass to check the line attack and Harding, with through, as the Army defense threw everything ;t had open territory, sailed on for a touchdown. He irl the way to stop this wild charge that had now traveled those last twelve yards after the manner come seventy yards. Crowley and Layden added of food shot from guns. He was over the line before five yards more and then, on a split play, Layden the Westerners knew what had taken place. It was went ten yards across the line as if he had iust a fine bit of strategy, brilliantly carri-ed out by every been fired from the black mouth of a howitzer. member of the cast. In that second period Notre Dame made eight first The Army brought a fine football team into action, downs to the Army's none, which shows the unwaver­ but it was beaten by a faster and smoother team. ing power of the Western attack that hammered Rockne's supposedly light, green line was about as relentlessly • and remose'.essly without easing up for a b'g as the Army's and every whit as aggressive. What second's breath. The Western line was going its is even more important, it was faster on its feet, full share, led by the crippled Walsh with a broken faster in getting around. hand. It was Western speed and perfect interference that But always there was Miller or Crowley or Lay­ once more brought about Army doom. The Army den, directed through the right spot by the cool and line couldn't get through fast enough to break up crafty judgment of Stuhldreher, who picked his plays the attacking plays, and once started the bewilder­ with the nest possib'.e generalship. "The South Bend ing speed and power of the Western backs slashed cyclone had now roared eighty-five yards to a touch­ along for eight, ten and fifteen yards on play after down through one of the strongest defensive teams play. And always in front of these offensive drives in the game. The cyclone had struck with too much could be found the whirling form of Stuhldreher, speed and power to be stopped. It was the prepon­ taking the first man out of the play as cleanly as if derance of Western speed that swept the Army back. he had used a hand granade at close range. "Thie The next period was much like the second. The Notre Dame interference was a marvelous thing trouble began when the alert Layden intercepted an to look upon. Army pass on the 4S-yaixI line. Stuhldreher was It formed quickly and came along in unbroken ready for another march. order, always at terrible speed, carried by backs who were as hard to drag down as African buffaloes. On Once again the cheering cadets began to call for receiving the kick-off, Notre Dame's interference a rallying stand. They are never overwhelmed by formed something after the manner of the ancient any shadows of defeat as long as there is a m'Jnute of flymg wedge and they drove back up the field with fighting left. But silence fell over the cadet sector the runner covered for twenty-five and thirty yards for just a second as Crowley ran around the Army's at almost every chance. It was speed that beat the r'ght wing for 15 yards, where Wilson hauled him Army, speed plus interference. And when a back down on the 33-yard line. Walsh was hurt in the such as Harry Wilson finds few chances to get play but soon resumed. Miller got 7 and Layden got started you can figure upon the defensive strength 8 and then, with the ball on the Army's 20-yard that :s barricading the road. Wilson is one of the line, the cadet defense rallied and threw Miller in hardest backs in the game to suppress, but he nis tracks. But the halt was only for the moment. found few chances yesterday to show his broken On the next play Crowley swung out around the field ability. You can't run through a broken field Army's left wing, cut in and then crashed over the tintil you get there. line for Notre Dame's second touchdown. The Army has a better team than it had last year. On two other occ;is:ons the Notre Dame attack So has Notre Dame. We doubt that any team in the almost scored. Yeomans saving one touchdown by rountry could have beaten Rockne's array yesterday intercepting a pass on his 5-yard line as he ran back afternoon. East or West. It was a great football thirty-five yards before he was nailed by two tacklers. team brilliantly directed, a team of speed, power It was a great play in the nick of time. On the and team play. The Army has no cause for gloom next drive Miller and Layden in two hurricane over its showing. It played first class football against dashes took the ba'l forty-two yards to the Army's more speed than it could match. 14-yard line, where the still game .'Vrmy defense Those who have tackled a cyclone can understand; stopped four plunges on the 9-yard line and took The opening line-up, the tall. Notre Dame (13) PosCtion Army (7) Up to this point the Army had been outplayed by a Collins Gilbraith crushing margin. Notre Dame had put under way L. E. four long marches, and two of these had yielded Bach Griffith touchdowns. Even the stout and experienced Army L. T. line was meeting more than it could hold. Notre Weibel Ellinger Dame's brilliant backs had been provided with the L. G. finest possible interference, usual'y led by Stuhldreher, Walsh ' Garbisch who cut down tackier after tackier by driving head­ C. long at some rival's flying knees. Against this Kizer Farwick each Army attack had been smothered almost before R. G. it got under way. Even the great Wilson, the star E. Miller Saunders from Penn State, one of the great backfield runners R. T. of h>. day and time, rarely had a chance to make Hunsinger Eraser any headway through a massed wall of tacklers who R. E. were blocking every open route. Scharer Yeomans The sudden change came late in the third ciuarter, Q. B. when Wilson, raging like a wi'd man, suddenly shot Crowley Wilson through a tackle opening to run thirty-four yards L. H. B. on to midfield before he was finally collared and Heardon Gi'.more thrown with a jolt. A few moments later Wood, R. H. B. one of the best of all the punters, kicked out of Cerney Wood bounds on Notre Dame's 5-yard line. Here was the SCORE BY PERIODS chance. Layden was forced to kick from behind his Notre Dame 0 6 7 0—13 own goal. The punt soared up the field as Yeomans Army ; 0 0 0 7— 7 called for a free kick on the 35-yard line. As he Touchdowns—Layden, Crowley, • Harding. caught the ball he was nailed and spilled by a Points after touchdown—Layden (place Western tackier, and the penalty gave the Army kick) ; Garbisch (drop kick). THE NOTRE DAJIE ALUMNUS U5

NOTRE DAME 12, PRINCETON 0 roamed like wraiths over the cross-barred field to pile up the staggering totals of 20 first downs by On the 25th of October, we were to re­ rushing, for an aggregate of 250 yards. Bare statis­ tics make dry reading, but one simply must under­ turn to Princeton for our second annual stand the figures in order to appreciate the com­ plete ascendancy obtained by the gentlemen from contest. Going into the game a slight Indiana. , favorite, we realized that Princeton teams Only a crushing series of penalties and a distress-' ing succession of fumbles prevented Notre Dame always fight, always play up to the game from rolling up four touchdowns instead of two. every minute and are never beaten until Despite the misleading score, Princeton was never in the running. Until Weeks came in at halfback, the the final play has been executed. The vic­ Tiger offensive was a pathetic thing to contemplate, the plays being smothered at the goal line with uni­ tory of the week before had inspired the form regularity. team but it had not caused over-confidence. Princeton employed the Nebraska defense against Rockne's lightning sweeps and slants, the tackles It was our privilege to win, but it took good, playing extremely wide after the fashion taught by Coach Fred Dawson. This defense, far more in­ smart football tactics to do it. telligently conveived than that shown by the Army, George Trevor, Staff Correspondent of proved futile in the face of the cyclone speed un­ leashed by Harry Stuhldreher, the master mind of The Brooklyn Eagle, witnessed the game, the Notre Dame eleven. As well try to halt a Kansas cyclone as to steam the blue wave from was evidently pleased with the performance Notre Dame which breaks with thrashing violence and we again save our pencil to bow to Mr. on the luckless defensive ends and tackles. That neatly tCmed hop-shift was working with the Trevor for the courtesy of a reprint and precision of a turbine engine. The four Notre Dame backs, alligned in box formation, timed their allow you to see the game as he saw it. jump to a nicety. As the ball was passed, they "Don't ever laugh again at the movie magnate halted with a click for just th& fraction of a second who refused to accept 'The Hunchback of Notre called for by the rules. Then the interferers leaped Dame' for productkin because he thought the public ahead, clearing out the Tiger defenders' as a forest was tired of football stories. After watching Crow­ fire licks up dry underbrush. Beside the take-out ley, Miller and Layden do their stuff in the Palmer man heading the tandem, Rockne threw a roving Memorial Stadium this afternoon, no one need wonder guard) against Princeton's loose tackle. that Victor Hugo has been more or less lost in the In a compact cluster, the Notre Dame backs swept shuOle. around the Tiger ends or cut back viciously through The halfbacks of Notre Dame ran riot in defeating tackle, the interferers mopping up the secondaries. a mediocre looking Princeton by the score of 12-0, It was fascinating to sit high up in the towering a tally which by no means represents the overwhelm­ press box and watch Stuhldreher manipulate his men ing superiority of the Westerners. Rockne's Rockets as Capablanca moves his pawns.

THE FIRST TOUCHDOWN OF THE PRINCETON GAME. A6 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS

Now it is Elmer Layden, the human mole, on a the job, fighting his way through five Tiger tacklers bullet like plunge through the heart of the brawny to fall headlong across the line. Tiger line. Layden who skims so close to the On this thrilling play, the hop-shift shook Crowley turf that one expects to see his neck snapped off, past the primary line of defense. He went the rest Layden w*ho keeps churning ahead with three Prince­ of the way on hCh own, squirming, writhing, back ton tacklers draped on his back, Layden who leans jumping and shinning like a pin-wheel. Jim is so far forward that he seems to be nose diving in- Irish and just naturally refused to listen to reason. . stead of running. , Notre Dame's try for goal was blocked. Rockne Now it is Don Miller's turn. Miller with the speed seems to have overlooked the factor of providing of the antelope and the eluslveness of the serpent. protection for his kicker. Still, under the circum­ Miller who sneaks his way through would-be tacklers, stances, we are inclined to forgive him. He taught twisting his hips away from their desperate lunges, his boys everything but how to find the fourth back jumping and writhing like a hula-hula dancer dimension. On this blocked kick, the Tiger guards under the influence of rock brandy. pulled Notre Dame's center forward on his face Now it is Jim Crowley's chance, Crowley the ani let Princeton's pivot man through. whirling dervish, Crowley the fighter, who literally The second half had barely started ere Notre Dame claws his way through the heart of the melee; Crow­ unleased the best sustained advance of the after­ ley who deliberately offers a tackier his foot and noon, carrying the ball from her own 20-yard line then withdraws it; Crowley who refuses to be stopped clear across the enemy goal. Unfortunately for even when three pairs of orange-striped arms are Notre Dame, this touchdown does not show in the clutching his blue jersey. score, for the referee's eagle eye detected holding Verily here is the mythical all-Amer:can back- on the play wherein Don Miller sneaked his way over field translated into reality: the dream of a Walter the goal. Camp come true. No wonder Rockne pops up and Elmer Layden was the hero of this superb 80-yard down on the side-lines as he sees his outriders in advance, at one time shooting through big holes for blue drifting ghost-like, through the crumbling 17 yards. Layden was ably assisted by Crowley and orange wall: no wonder Capt. Adam Walsh forgets Miller, who sneaked their way past Tiger tacklers in the pain in his bandaged hands as he leans forward their own inimitable fashion. from his seat on the bench, his face tense with Notre Dame's second touchdown came at the emotion; no wonder the thousands of loyal Catholic start of the final period, after a 70-yard -march, rooters massed in the west stand wave their azure- i'ards meant nothing to the Indiana typhoon. Layden, blue banners and shrief hysterically. This is a Crawley and Miller took turns in skirting the Tiger great team, gentlemen; an investment of beautiful flanks or wriggling through broad avenues in ths precision, an outfit that hits like the hammer of line. Crowley's final stab for a touchdown was un­ Thor, a balanced blend of power and deception, force canny. At least four Princeton tacklers hit him and fineness; a tj-pical Rockne team and ipso facto cleanly, but he twisted and fought his way through one of the greatest elevens of the modern era. them all. Jim ran with knees flung high, twirling Rockne sprang a fo.sy trick on the brawny from the hips in a tantalizing fashion. Again Notre Princeton eleven right at the start of the game. He Dame's attempt at goal was blocked. took a chance which almost cost him dear. He On the following kickoff the Hoosiers astounded gambled on his entire second team to halt Princeton the critics by pulling the old flying wedge. It for one whole period, and the subs showed their be­ didn't work very well, but it gave old-timers a real loved master that his faith was not misplaced. We thrill. Again, the blue parade started. This time have never before seen any coach start h;s entire Don Miller slipped off tackle for a hair-raising dash second string in a supposedly major game. of 3n yards. Don back jumped his way past three Figulatively speaking, it was a direct slap at Tiger tacklers. Princeton's face. It was a neat bit of psychology, One of the few forward passes that Rockne's men for once Princeton found that the South Bend subs resorted to next carried the ball close to the goal. could stop her varsity combination, the Tigers were Discarding his ilashy stuff, Stuhldreher now used seized with an inferiority comple-K that settled that Layden as a battering ram. Just before the goal ^sue then and there. Rockne must have snickered line was reached Layden was knocked cold. He was up his sleeve as he sat on the bench and watched still groggy as he regained his feet, but Stuhldreher his subs play the Tiger regulars to a standstill. called on him for the final plunge notwithstanding. Sly fox that he is, Rockne knew that his three It was bad judgment. Layden was so goffy he didn't musketeers were chafiing under this enforced in­ know which way the goal lay. Princeton stopped activity, that they were champing at the bit, eager him before he could dive and took the ball on to b^ up and at 'em. , downs right on the goal line. As the first quarter ended, the crowd was treated As the gentle Jersey twilight enveloped the players to a unique sight. Rockne rose from his bench, the whistle shrilled, ending the game. Princeton gesturing with his right hand. With a concerted had waged a game but futile fight against a team bound, the eleven Hoosier regulars tossed aside their that knew more football than the Tigers have ever blankets and raced like whippets into the field, while known or will ever know. As a coach Knute Knockne the studium thundered its ovation. begins where most of the other mentors leave off. "Here come the regulars," shouted from a thous­ Beacons are burning along the banks of the Wabash and Notre Dame throats. "Watch 'em go." tonight, where the sycamores whisper beneath a pale As the sweat-smeared subs trooped off the field. Indiana moon. Rockne has scored his second Captain Walsh personally slapped each man on the "double". Once again he has taken Army and back and thanked him for his valiant effort. Now the Princeton within the space of 14 days. fun began. It was chunky Stuhldreher who started it by catching a Tiger punt and speeding '35 yards NOTRE DAME.34, GEORGIA TECH 0 up the eld. If you have seen a raindrop flit down The third intersectional battle within a window pain, now halting momentarily, now dart­ ing ahead, you can conjure up a mental picture of three weeks was played on Cartier Field be­ Stuhldreher's whirlwind run. Opening up his batteries, the Hoosier quarter sent fore a crowd of some twenty thousand Miller and Layden knifing through the Tiger line alumni, students and followers. It proved until the 8-yard mark was reached. A touchdown would have followed, for Notre Dame is one team to be another victory for the team that was which does not lose its punch when the goal line draws nigh, had not Layden fumbled the ball. The rapidly attracting attention as the out­ South Bend bullet had actually broken clear through the Tiger defense when the slippery ball popped out standing team of the year. of his hands. It was Homecoming. The stands were A Tiger fell on the pigskin. From behind his goal line, Slagle punted to mid-field. That's supposed to filled with alumni from every state who had be well out of danger, but when Notre Dame has returned to see the team in action and nar­ the ball, any point past mid-fie'd is a scoring zone. It took the rollicking Irish exactly five plays once more rate in the moments after the game the to put those 50 yards behind them. A well-concealed forward pass, Stuhldreher to Miller, lopped off some tales of how great the squad was and how 20 yards. Then came a low plunge by Layden, the human mole, who burrowed through center like a it compared with the driving, crashing swimmer executing the crawl. Crowley completed teams that have never allowed defeat to THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS U7

IT TOOK THREE GEORGIA TECH MEN TO STOP DON MILLER. NOTE THE FLYING TACKLE. mark the cherished gridiron on Cartier not play, as he was nursing injuries re­ Field. No matter what the individual ceived at Princeton. The first string back- opinion might have been, there was no field were not needed to win for Connel, room for anyone to claim that the Varsity Livergood, Reese and Roach all scored their did not display remarkable football against points for the varsity. It was a pleasing a team that has proven as loyal an op­ reaction to know that Notre Dame had ponent, both on and off the field, that scoring combinations for future games Notx-e Dame has ever played. that were not playing full line on account of the extraordinary ability of the famous We like to play Georgia Tech. We like 1924 backfield. Perhaps it was one of their sportsmanship and we like their Rockne's ways of sho^ving the alumni that tactics. They play football all the time and the material for next year should not be always present a colorful offense that makes any cause for worry this early. them a team interesting to watch from the stands. Georgia Tech started its only drive down There was no shame or disgrace in the the field in the first quarter. It ended suc­ defeat for Georgia Tech. It was simply a cessfully on Notre Dame's 42-yard. But case, it seemed, of an ordinary football team from then on until Wycoff made his sen­ unable to match the superior playing of an sational run in the final seconds of the unusual team. They played hard and they game, it was all Notre Dame. did everything to honorably meet the drive of Rockne's many backfield men. The task The outstanding player of the day was was just too great, but we have lost none Captain Wycoff of Tech. It was Wycoff who of our respect for our Southern opponents. on many occasions broke through to stop The game was really a game of substi­ the varsity backs before their drive coiild tutions. Coach Eockne used between thirty get successfully started. Wycoff was always five and forty men in directing the attack. the last man the varsity ball carriers had The second and third teams played most of to elude on their way to touchdowns. And it the game, the noted combination of Miller, was Wycoff who carried most of the offense Crowley and Layden going into the game for Georgia Tech. In fact, some of the var­ only in the second quarter. Stuhldreher did sity men will tell you that Wycoff was the •45 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS best man in all-around play that they met tacular, colorful and clever. It was a game this year—and that is a compliment! that the stands like to watch. There was no The statistics of the game showed Notre time for diversion. The style of play and its Dame earned the victory. Notre Dame execution, either by Notre Dame or Wiscon­ made 19 first downs compared to Tech's sin, commanded attention every minute. It six. In forward passes, Notre Dame com­ was a game more interesting than the score pleted four out of nine for a gain of 58 would indicate, although it was the varsity yards while Tech completed one for a that usually provided the thrill. To see twelve yard gain Gains through the line Crowley run through the entire Wisconsin and around the end were overwhelmingly team for 65 yards, and through consistent in the varsity's favor. gains around the ends or through the tack­ NOTRE DAMt' 38. WISCONSIN 3 le score 15 of the points, was satisfying. • Wisconsin expected a battle on Novem­ And the clever field running was not con­ ber 8th. They were drilled and trained to fined to Crowley. Miller, Layden, O'Boyle, stop, if it could be done, an offense that Roach and Livergood all contributed their had already gained national prominence share of gains. When the yardage gains several weeks before the varsity trotted on showed that Notre Dame gained approxi­ to Randall Field to be cheered and praised mately 350 yards around the end and off by most of the 34,000 people who packed the tackle against the three yards of Wiscon­ stadium to see the Fighting Irish in action. sin, the advantage can be understood. Wis­ If we were inclined to believe the expressed consin, supposedly a strong defensive team, sentiment in and around Madison, the in­ was weak in this phase of the game. It terest in seeing the team in action was as seemed as if any one of the backs could great as the desire to see Wisconsin win. We gain at will. It might be the unusual elusive- were disappointed to learn that many didn't ness of our fast backs or poor training in an expect Wisconsin to win—to them, it was a important phase of the game, but Wiscon­ case of the conference eleven being able to sin was as poor and uncertain in their tack­ keep down the score. ling as the other teams earlier in the sea­ No matter what the attitude, the fans son had been. were treated to a game full of action, spec­ The varsity line, dependable in any sit-

LLVERGOOD WITH FINE INTERFERENCE MADE FORTY YARDS THROUGH TACKLE IN THE WISCONSIN GAME. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 4.9 nation, tore big holes in the defense that line took a battering from the heavier Ne­ made it easy going for the backfield. The braska line that is not wanted every Satur­ work of Walsh, Bach, Miller, Weibel, Hun- day, the backfield found the gains not as singer and Collins has been exceptional' in easy as in previous games. But Nebraska every game played, and it was evidenced in found a superior team in every sense of every play of the game. Either on offense the word. It discovered, if it hadn't realized or defense, the line was alive and into the it before, that the varsity was out to break play fast and sure. Their work satisfied the unforgettable two successive defeats Rockne and it pleased the spectators. and before the afternoon was over, Ne­ The work of the second string at the braska realized just how decisively the vic­ start of the game was so successful that it tory had been achieved. It was the heaviest was feared that the regulars would not defeat Nebraska had ever been given by play much of the game. Edwards handled Kotre Dame. the team well. O'Boyle made consistent gains To those interested in the statistics of and his goal from placement early in the the game, Notre Dame made 19 first downs first period started the avalanche of points to Nebraska's two; Notre Dame completed to be made during the game. 7 out of 9 passes for a total yardage of 94 D. Harmon, Wisconsin quarterback, show­ yards. Nebraska completed but one out of ed flashes of brilliance that added color to the nine passes tried for a yardage gain of the contest and Capt. Harris, at tackle, 25 yards; line and end plays gave Notre played a steady game His work stood out Dame a total of 402 yards gained while Ne­ far above that of the balance of the Wis­ braska gained 67, far less than varsity consin line, both when defending or leading yardage in a single quarter. These facts the offense. make victory seem even more decisive. Rockne used his usual large number of Notre Dame displayed every quality men and by the time the final whistle blew, shown in any of the previous contests. End the only men on the bench were the coach runs for long gains, off tackle smashes, and trainer and that inevitable group known beautiful forward passing, perfect inter­ to some as the "Board of Strategy". ference and most satisfying offensive and defensive line work were all factors in the NOTRE DAME 34, NEBRASKA 6 The game of the year! That is what every game. Notre Dame man thought of the Nebraska E. A. Batchelor, correspondent for The game before the 15th of November and late Detroit Saturday Night reviewed the game that same afternoon every person that wit­ in a style that elicited comment from many nessed that satisfying struggle was firmly alumni and the following excerpts are convinced that what was not displayed on offered: Cartier Field during the moments of play "Notre Dame is as close to an ideal football team as we ever e.\pect to see. Practically everyone who has little place in modern football. It was reads the papers knows that it has a wonderful backfield. Yet some followers of the sport seem a battle that could not have been more to be laborinjr under the delusion that the seven linemen are in the same just because the rules re­ decisively won or lost. Contrary to the quire 11 players on a team. usual fact, the game was a contest far Any idea that the Notre Dame line is made up of emaciated and puny young men ;s far from the more interesting than the score would in­ fact. It isn't the biggest line in the country, be­ cause the mastadon type of athlete would get run dicate. Every minute of the game was play­ over and mangled by that high-speed backfield. But ed a nip and tuck affair. It would be hard it is a long way from a small line and still longer way from a weak one. physically or any other way. to pick out the highlights of the contest. The guards are lighter than the prevailing style be­ cause Rockne wants guards that can pick up their The fact that the regular first string line­ feet and get into the plays on olTense, instead of up played the entire game with the ex­ merely blocking. There isn't a weak spot on the l:ne anywhere, or ception of the first few depressing minutes if t^ere is Nebraska failed to find it last week and the Huskers have a lot of power and a lot of inquisi- of play speaks more for the game than tiveness. Captain Walsh, the Notre Dame pivot, is anything else we can say, unless it would probably the best center of the year. He played against Nebraska with two broken hands, accbrdr be that even the first team was mighty glad ing to report. He could have his hands cut off and still be better than most pivots. One has to see when the final shot was fired. the Rockne offense in order to appreciate what a Notre Dame met opposition in Nebraska job the center must do. An absolutely baffling pro­ gram of shifts makes the work of feeding the ball that proved to be just as stubborn and exceptionally hard. Every pass has to be right, to the breadth of a human hair, or there will be trouble. avengeful as it was predicted to be. The Walsh did his work so well that not once in the 50 THE NOTRE DAJIE ALUMNUS same did the back for whom the ball was intended block of \vpod. • The left side of the opposing bul­ fail to get it at the right time and in the right warks fell to the left and the right side to the right, place. leaving a lane in the center, through which Layden Defensrvely Walsh is a marvel. He "points" p!ays hurled himself like a projectile. as a setter points birds. Nothing fools him, ap­ Rockne's team runs practically every play from parently, and nothing can keep him away from the a balanced line. That does away with the necessity man with the ball. If a line buck is attempted, he is for gathering in a group to call signals. The quarter­ there 'to smear it. If a pass is the order, he will back just stands up and mentions a few numbers, be somewhere in the vicinity of the designated and then they move up the yard sticks. rceiver. Notre Dame's forward passing game has long been The hand deceives the eye when Notre Dame famous, but it probably never was "clicking" any has the bail. In the Nebraska game the Husker better than in this game. In the first place, the safety man was frequently the first defender to figure passes are well masked at the inception. AH of the out what was going to come out of that maelstrom backs apparently can throw as well as receive and of shifts and that tornado of speed. He knew be­ the team uses the aerial stuff from all kinds of for­ cause he saw a player in a blue jersey bearing down mations and in all sorts of situations. Once on the on him. Rockne's backs, while awaiting the start­ fourth down, with about eight yards to go, the backs ing signa', cross their feet, step gracefully hither lined up in their usual formation close beh'lnd the line and yon and in general conduct themselves in the and launched what looked like a tackle slice. But manner of esthetic dancers until one grows dizzy Stuhldreher took, the ball right up under Walsh, watching them. Then all of a sudden they do—and darted back 10 yards and shot it to Crowley for a they DO go. They start as if they had been shot out gain of about 25 yards. This play, incidentally, of a gun and they gather speed wHh every step. started Nebraska on the road to ruin. The Notre Dame attack contains the three es­ Another time, Stuhldreher raced around end with sentials, speed, power and deception. It can skirt one of the other backs acting as interfere..-. When the tackles, run the ends, crash the guards or put the Nebraska tacklers had been nicely "sucked in" on a forward pass shower that nobody has yet been the erstwhile interferer cut loose with a burst of speed able to stop. In the early part of the game, the and Stuhldreher shot a forward pass to him on Irish were not markedly successful in gaining the dead run for a long gain. through Nebraska's big and fast-charging line. It In 12 attempts, Notre Dame made connections seemed to the writer, however, as if the line smashes nine times—a fair record for any team. In every were intended more as a blind for the real gainers case where the pass was completed, the receiver was than as serious attempts to score. absolutely alone, so well were the plays conceived and Late in the day, Notre Dame got the ball on about so speedily executed. There was no undignified Nebraska's 40-yard line and called on her human scrambling around and clutching the ball out of catapult, Elmer Layden, to show his stuff in the some opponent's hands. The longest gain of the line-bucking way. Carrying the leather in two of day was on one of these great passes, Stuhldreher to every three plays, Mr. Layden banged his way Crowley. It was good for about 80 yards, counting through for a touchdown, never once failing to gain, the pass and the subsequent run, and it scored a and repeatedly coming through for advances of five touchdown. Practically all of the passes went to to ten yards. One of the plays used by the Irish one of the backs, with Miller, Stuhldreher and Crow­ in exhibiting Layden laid the Huskcrs' line open ley taking turns receiving and Layden cutting in e-xactly as if they had taken an axe and split a on the throwing.

CKOWLEY MADE TWENTY-FIVE YARDS ABOUND PRINCETON'S END 214568 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 51 Nebraska's line is biff and powerful and it charges tions both Catholic and comprehensive— very hard. Captain Weir is a tackle good enough for anybody's team, and both Robertson and Collins Catholic in the specific sense and catholic are fine ends. Yet the Irish forwards, whose names never get into the headlines, outplayed and outguessed in the broad meaning of American ideals. the bigger westerners consistently on both offense and defense, as is proved by the fact that Nebraska made She stands where her vision is not clouded no first down by line bucking. She made two all or obscured by any narrow limitations, past told, one on a long forward pass and the other by an end run late in the fourth period. or present. At no other place is there such The Notre Dame "seconds" were plainly fidgetty a combination of advantagous circum­ and they got into a hole that the first-stringers couldn't get them out of without the loss of six stances, tending to make her the national points. Notre Dame kicked off and Nebraska had to punt. Notre Dame fumbled in midfield on representative of both Catholic and Ameri­ the first attempt to rush but Nebraska fumbled right can principles. Here are mingled, in wise back. The Irish couldn't make their distance and had to kick. The effort was a sad one, covering less unwonted, the historical recollections of the than ten yards. Nebraska punted again and this time Bloodgood drove the ball out of bounds on Notre making of the Republic. Here, in an elder Dame's 20-yard line. An offside penalty and some spry work by the Husker linemen put the Irish in a sit­ day. Catholic missionaries explored the vir­ uation that called for a punt. gin wilderness, taught the savage inhabi­ Rockne rushed Elmer Layden into the game to kick the ball out of danger, but the pass from center tants the ways of peace and piety, and left was bad and he fumbled it. Then he tried to run but on every stream and lake the saintly names changed his mind and kicked the ball while trying to elude several tacklers. It rolled along the ground and venerated memorials of Catholic wor­ and a Nebraskan picked it up and ran it back to the three-yard l>ne. The whole Notre Dame first ship. Here, at a later day, a generation of team then entered the game, but even these doughty pioneer priests aided in the "Winning of warriors couldn't stave off the touchdown, which Nebraska made on her third plunge. the West", and thereby assured the winning This concluded Nebraska's portion of the enter­ tainment so far as scoring or threatening to score was of the continent. In the succeeding settle­ concerned. The Irish proceeded to touch off the fire­ ment and development of this great central works after receiving the next kick-off, and they spent the rest of the afternoon in parading up and portion of the Union, the Church and her down the field for touchdowns. In the second period, they made one march of 54 yards and another of institutions have been identified -with every 52, for touchdowns, using all the plays in the book enterprise and influential in every progres­ —and some that are in the 1924 appendix—to advance the ball. sive movement. For over three-quarters of a century—ever since the heroic Sorin plant­ JOSEPH M. BYRNE, Sr., 1897 ed Our Lady's banner in the Valley of St. (Continued from page 39) Joseph—the zeal and intelligence of the as first president and chairman of the Board Holy Cross Fathers have materially ad­ of Trustees. He was also president emeritus vanced the cause of civilization and en­ of the Deal Golf Club and held membership lightenment in the Middle West; and their in the Essex County Country Club, Pine expanding energies have carried Catholic Valley Golf Club, Eumson Country Club, education to the shores of the Pacific and Essex and Down Town Clubs, the Lotos the borders of Old Mexico. By every right and Manhattan Clubs in New Yox-k, the of historical association, traditional ident­ Celtic Club, Elks, Knights of Columbus and ity with American growth, intrinsic achieve­ Royal Arcanum. He was a past grand ments in the field of Christian culture, and knight of the K. of C. potential capacity for leadership and coun­ sel, Notre Dame occupies the vantage CATHOLIC EDUCATION ground of superiority among Catholic Continued fi'om page 38) universities in America, in the impending mistake to centralize and monopolize the and inevitable struggle for the protection power and agencies of American Catholic­ and advancement of Catholic education. The ism in the comparatively local and isolated hand of God and the force of circumstances, Eastern centers of thought and enterprize, it can reverently be said, have appointed as has been the tendency in recent years. her to the Primacy in the splendid company Notre Dame labors under no such hind­ of her devoted sister-universities in other rances to her continental vision and atti­ sections, and unless all signs fail she will tude upon subjects of universal concern.-,to not, falter or yield in the mission thus im- the Church in America. Her- location jand/ ",p65,6d','upon her. To that exalted end she environment, her history and traditions,' thei relies upon the united and loyal support of character of her student body 'ind^thfe't^nW iiei; ii-iends and alumni all over this land, per of her administrative organi'zatibn, aU, -,ySi(5h she loves so well and has so well contribute to render her joutlpok, and, as.pira- served, in, the past. 52 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS

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1S75 Under Secretary of the Chinese Educational Mission, and his two secretaries. Dr. C. H. Hsie and Dr. Theo. LASSXOTES about the men of this time T. Wong, who were found shot to death in the cellar of the mission in Washington on January 21, are more scarce than football defeats 1919. C at Notre Dame, and when THOMAS H. Efforts in Wan's behalf, conducted by O'Donnell and his friends, never ceased in all the years he GRIER, of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, decided was in jail, although he was penniless and no material sum was ever raised to help him. The to see the Wisconsin game and wrote us Chinese government is said to have spent a con­ about it, we were pleased to receive his siderable sum to aid in prosecuting him, because the murder victims were members of its official gov­ message. He mentioned that while having ernment family. FiVe times, during the four years, O'Donnell, passed his seventy-third birthday, he still through his own efforts, saved Wan from execution. felt a deep reverence for his old Alma He enlisted the aid of priests and missionaries, who. working in China, assisted in the fight." Mater. He said "My old classmates of the 1899 class of 1875, I am believing, have all DR. JOSEPH F. DUANE, is specializing in passed over the great divide. I wish I eye, ear, nose and throat work in Peoria. might see someone who would be able to He attended the Princeton game, accom­ tell me something of some of the old boys panied by friends from his home town, and of 1873, '74, '7.5 and "76." Mr. Grier's ad­ was greatly rebuked by his friends for his dress is 1106 Wisconsin St., Lake Geneva, lack of knowledge of the Notre Dame yells Wisconsin. He would be glad to hear fi-om and songs. He promptly decided to renew some of the men of his time. his contact and attended the Homecoming 1SS9 with his wife. Hon. Jas. V. O'Donnell, Class Secretari*. 1900 420 Reaper Block, Chicago, II!. Francis O'Shaughnessy, Class Secretary, JOSEPH E. CUSACK, Colonel 1st Cavalry 1252 Otis BIdg., Chicago, III. Di\asion, wrote Warren Cartier that he DR. JOS. M. TONEK is engaged in profes­ was sorry that he was unable to see him sional practice at 3197 Sixteenth St., San and the rest of the "old fellows" at Home­ Francisco. The Doctor will be in Pasa­ coming. He was particularlj' anxious to dena New Year's Day if the pi-esent plans be in attendance as he had promised Henry for the California game are completed. Luhn that, as a member of the 1887 foot­ ALFRED DU PERIER is located in Port ball team, he would certainly be in evi- Arthur, Texas, and engaged in the practice dence. Conditions unforeseen arose and he of law. was compelled to change his plans. Colonel JOSEPH P. SHIELDS is in the advertising Cusack is now living at 3920 Fort Blvd, business in Chicago as special representa­ El Paso, Texas. tive of several magazines. 1S94 L. M, BEARDSLEE is rated as one of the The following clipping from The Editor expert real estate men in the field of in­ and Publisher of October 18th will interest dustrial sites in Chicago. the classmates of HUGH A. O'DONNELL: 1901 "A New York newspaper man was responsible for Jos. J. Sullivan, Class Secretary, the successful termination of the four-year fight, 30 N. LaSalle St., Chicago. 111. October 11, resulting in the United States Supreme ROBERT L. FOX, now in the wholesale Court decision, barring a murder confession made under duress. plumbing supply business in Denver, spent The court held that the confession of the Chinese student, Ziang Sung Wan, convicted of a triple mur­ the month of October in the East. Fox der, was inadmissible, because aft^r Wan was ar­ witnessed the Army and Princeton games rested in New York and taken to Washington, where the crime was committed, he was "third-degreed" and stopped off at Notre Dame on his way for 11 days. A new trial was ordered. Wan had been the valet of Hugh A. O'Donnell, home to see the Homecoming battle. assistant business manager of The New York Times, 1902 The triple murder, for which Wan was found Peter P. McEIIigott, Class Secretary, guilty and sentenced to hang, was committed* in .•; . ••^338 W;. 23rd St, New York City. 1919. O'Donnell believed his former va'et ivwiocout. ^• *• 5qi|N*B. PICK, for many years living near With Warren Nolan, now with the New Yoiik Tele-' gram and Evening Mail, then with the Times, he C(5fFfee* "Crfeflf," Montana, has returned from obtained the services of James A. Nolan, a«l3«.vy^,. and later successfully appealed to John W.. Pavis" th^fVcntj©* find is now living in Pittsburgh, to interest himself in the young Chinese 'boF's an(l !s) «s99?iated with the Atlantic Bottle behalf. " " Wan confessed to having killed Dr. Ben Sen ,Wu, Com|)any,of Brackenridge, Pa John has THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 53 spent the last fourteen football seasons on Cull the class secretary, on the Army game. his Montana ranch and is quite content to He portrayed the victory in true alumni be near the scene of real Notre Dame foot­ style and we only wish we had the space to ball again. He was a fullback on the var­ quote it in full. sity in "00 and played center the following J. J. CONATY, old student '06-'08, is now year. There are three more football can­ associated with Toplis and Harding, Ad­ didates in the Pick family and the two justers, 172 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago. daughters are ready to augment any N. D. 1909 cheering section. John wants to be remem­ John B. Kanaley, Class Secre'ary, 29 S. LaSalle St., Chicrfto, I 1. bered to the gang and he extends an open DR. EUGENE LEON DALLWIG, old student, welcome to his friends whenever they hap­ is engaged in the practice of medicine in pen to be in his locality. Milwaukee and has offices at the Soldiers THOMAS H. CAHILL, old student, is now Home Hospital, that city. His residence ad­ with the Economy Laboratories Co., manu­ dress is 222 Thirty-third St., Milwaukee. facturers of Economy Scale Solvent, Kan­ AL GUSHURST reports from Lead, S Dak., sas City, Mo. Cahill was on the campus that the famous Gushurst family will have recently and took advantage of the privilege a candidate for varsity honors in 1941—he of watching the squad in action. was born September 15th. Al was one of 1906 the few "Niners" who was back for our JACK LAMPREY, now manager of the 15th Anniversary last June. Lamprey Products Inc., manufacturers of ED CARVILLE oflFers only one regret over store specialties, with offices in Minnea­ the season's record—^the distance of Cartier polis, Duluth and Portland, Oregon, found Field from Elko, Nevada, where he is busily the first issue of the magazine for this year engaged in practicing law. of sufficient interest to write us about it JOHN DIENER left his law practice at and bestow a few words of praise upon the Green Bay, Wisconsin and ED CLEARY for­ editors. Jack says "it is great to read got his banking duties at Monience, Illinois, about the old school and its doings. It seems to witness the Northwestern game. only yestei-day that Jack Shea of Holyoke, Tom Lally of Spokane, Bob Sweeny of Spo­ LEO HOGAN and JOHN KENNEDY have promised to be our representatives at the kane, Fred Kasper of Chicago, Grat Stan­ Georgia Tech game in Pittsburgh, while ford, Bobby Lynch and the rest of the gang used to gather in Sorin Hall, then FRANK WALKER, now located in New York City, did the honors by entertaining large under Father Reddy's jurisdiction, and talk parties of friends at both the Princeton over Red Salmon's prowess in football—but and Army games. this was in 1904—20 years ago, but the same old N. D. spirit still pi'evails."' Jack FAY WOOD, former end and graduate is now living at 1784 Laurel Ave., St. Paul manager of athletics, accompanied the and would welcome news from the gang. Georgia Tech team to Notre Dame. Woody is now one of the prosperous insurance men 1907 T. Paul McGannon, Class Secretary, of Atlanta with offices at 835 Transporta­ Bar Bide., 2G W. 44th St., New York City. tion Company of Ga. Bldg., Atlanta. A clipping from the Tulsa Daily World 1910 of November 20th, conveyed the news that Rev. M. L. Moriarty, Class Secretary, PAT MALLOY told the members of the south 527 Beall Ave., Wooster, Oh:*). At this time when one could reasonably central division of the United States Cham­ expect that no Notre Dame affair could be ber of Commerce in Memphis just what was overlooked and no Notre Dame letter ig­ what about oil production. Mr. Malloy nored, the Secretary of the Class of '10 re­ spoke on "Oil Production and Its Relation ports that the great percentage of the. to the Prosperity of the South and South­ "Tenners"' are experimenting with the de­ west". Those who know Pat know just how layed pass—at least, as far as ink is in thoroughly interesting the topic was dis­ question After a weird cry for help, and cussed. 1908 information and support, the tally sheet FATHER RATH, now stationed at St. shows little audience, less information and Pancras' Rectory, 2794 Myi-tle Ave., Glen- no support. We are now indulging the hope dale, New York City, enlightened Frank that the accounts of the Wonder team will 51, THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS bring in a few reports from the outlying the Fifteenth Anniversary in June. precincts. Mario Dominguez, formerly of Vera PAXHi DONOVAN, la^vyer, comes across with Cruz, Mexico, is with the Motive Power a cheerful word from Harvard, Illinois. Department of the Illinois Central Railroad Paul reports an occasional chat with Harry in Chicago. His brother, Ralph Domin­ McDonagh and Jimmie Cahill at Chicago. guez, 'GO, is with the Mexican Petroleum He mentions Jim Kenefick, the man from Company in Brazil. the Michigan town made famous by some 1912 John P. Murphy, Class Secretary, players named Gibbons and Carpentier. Marshall Bldg., Cleveland, O. LEO McEiiROY, whose intimacy] with Your Secretary had the pleasure of at­ Horace provided a source of wonderment in tending both the Georgia Tech and Ne­ the old days to the secretary of this outfit, braska games where he saw Notre Dame is the successful copy department of the and her "Four Horsemen" riding triumph­ Goldman-Corrigan Co., 565 Fifth Avenue, ant to the greatest football glories she New York CitJ^ It is easy to assume that has ever achieved. Leo does no copying in the ordinary and Both occasions provided a great many w. k. acceptation of that word. other pleasures besides the football games, FATHER MATHIS is Superior at the new not the least of which was seeing so many Mission House recently dedicated at Holy old and familiar faces and shaking hands Cross College, Washington. No other class with so many of my old classmates. I am at the University can boast of a man di­ now able to report that Marcellus Oshe, recting the work of training men for the Walter Duncan, Harry Cullen, John Devine, foreign missions and we are glad and proud Hugh Daly, Russell Finn, Bernard Lange to know that Father Mathis is achieving (now Father Lange), Chester McGrath and a national reputation for the Order and John Bannon are all well and happy, and incidentally bringing richly deserved credit even more enthusiastic alumni than ever to himself. because I saw them in the actual flesh. They HARRY (RED) MILLER burns with the old all agreed with me that Notre Dame had perfervid love for Notre Dame. He boasts secured her place in the sun. of attending all the big games on the sched­ On my trips to see Notre Dame play the ule this fall. It is rumored that Red under­ Army and Princeton I had the pleasure of stands some of the intricacies of the game. traveling with Walter Duncan and enjoy­ Red, in his day, was all Four Horsemen in ing a long talk about old times. Both Walt one. and I were mighty proud to be known as DR. JESSE H. ROTH of Kankakee, Illinois, Notre Dame men on both of these memor­ sends along an interesting word—so inter­ able occasions. esting it suggests the idea of passing on One of the finest things that your Secre­ these letters in a sort of a round-table fash­ tary has the pleasure of recording is the ion. Jesse is on the teaching staff of the establishment of a very fine custom by one Illinois University Medical School. That of our classmates, Donald M. Hamilton. It furnishes some idea of how Fowler, Indiana, seems that Don was unable to come to Notre has a claim on history. Dame for the Homecoming game owing to REV. GEORGE FINNEGAN, C. S. C, Su­ a call upon his services as official for some perior of the Holy Cross Seminary at the of the games throughout Ohio, but, noth­ University, along \vith FATHER PETER ing daunted, Don, in order to obtain first­ HEBERT of the College of Arts and Letters hand information, and to be properly rep­ gave freely of their time during the weeks resented sent his very attractive and charm­ of the summer school when occasionally a ing wife (formerly Leota Leeper). Mrs. miniature, but none the less highly success­ Hamilton very modestly admitted that Don ful reunion of men of 1910 was held on makes an ideal husband and father for a the home grounds. very real, live, growing American family. Appeal is herebj"^ and herewith sent out We told her that we are looking forward to all men of '10 to get their committee on to the day when some of her boys will be arrangements appointed and functioning in able to come to Notre Dame and fall in the preparation for the goodly celebration of footsteps of their illustrious father. THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 55

Your Secretary desires to remind the HARRY NEWNING, senior class president, members of his class that he is still looking is in Mexico City. He says that Mexico forward to answers to the several letters City is not such a bad place to live but it he has already dispatched to them, and if is a very difficult place to acquire any of this they don't answer soon, they will be further world's gold. We are all in the same boat, in debt because he intends to keep on writ­ Harry. ing until he gets an answer. JOHN L. HOOD is following the principles 1913 taught him at Alma Mater, being general James R. Devitt, Class Secretary, 2249 Harcourt Drive, Cleveland, O. manager of the Golden Rule Merchandise CLYDE BROUSSARD, not to be outdone by Company in Pocatello, Idaho. Harry Kirk, sends on a photo from Beau­ RAY MILLER of Cleveland stopped in Chi­ mont, showing the five young Broussards. cago on his way to the Notre Dame-Wis­ FRANK DURBIN, that gentleman and consin game and said hello to many of his scholar from Lima, Ohio, announces that friends. He was also among those present there is a one-year old daughter in his at the Northwestern game. family. Gonzaga University has tied the Univer­ SAM SCHWARTZ has been much married sity of Idaho for the championship of the for many years. His daughter, Amelia, is Northwest Conference in football. Gus six years old. DoRAis is coaching at Gonzaga and LEE "PEACHES" GRANFIELD held an open house MATTHEWS is directing athletics at Idaho. at his room in the Oliver on November 15th. JOE FARRELL ^vrites that he is now located Most of the '13 boys got up there some time in Cleveland and hopes to gain some control during the evening. of the General Electric before many years. FRANK O'HEARN is still single. He lives THE CURRY BOYS, SIM FLANIGAN and in Kansas City, Mo., where he is engaged WALT CLEMENTS, represented the class of in the insurance business. He promises to '14 in New York City at the reunion which write dear, old "sec" again in the near took place during the week which intervened future. after the Army game and before the Prince­ LEO SCHUMACHER has been in Tulsa, ton game. Okla. He's in the oil business, married and DAN SHOUVLIN, whose interests in the Su­ there's a family. He is also a faithful cor­ perior Gas Engine Company of Springfield, respondent. Ohio, are well-kno%vn to the crowd has been "Rudy" Noud is keeping real busy. He's doing considerable travelling during the in the shoe manufacturing business with the past months. His company has acquired the Manistee Shoe Mfg. Co., at Manistee, Mich. business of the Otto Engine Works at His letter sounds serious but we are inclined Philadelphia and Dan will consequently find to believe that "Rudy" is still plenty play­ trips to that city rather frequent in the ful at times. future. During October, Dan was in Tulsa, From the safe security of the Kansas Oklahoma, attending the Oil Exposition and City A. C, old man DAN MCGINNIS ven­ ran into LEO SCHUMACHER, who is Purchas­ tures the observation that there are plenty ing Agent for the Kingwood Oil Co., at of girl babies in the families of the '13 Okmulgee. It happened that Leo had given class. a sizable order to Dan's company shortly JIM WARE is farming at Kewanna, Ind. before the latter's arrival in Tulsa, and be­ He is married and there is a daughter fore the official connections were known to booked for St. Mary's. either. MIKE NOLAN also played host to Shouvlin while in Tulsa. Mike is now Chief 1914 Frank H. Haynes, Class Secretary, Chemist for the Producers and Refiners 25 N. Dearborn St., Chicago, HI. Corporation. Mike has been out of touch Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES L. VAUGHN an­ with things Notre Dame for some time and nounce that St. Mary's has acquired two the order is "fix him up". prospects in the twin daughters recently born to them at Lafayette, Indiana. 1915 James E. Sanford, Class Secretary, JiMMiE CAHILL, old basketball star was Chicago Tribune, Chiiago, 111. one of the many '14 men seen at the Wis- An announcement from Hayden, Stone & consin-Notre Dame game. Co., 25 Broad Street, New York City, dated 56 THE NOTKE DAME ALUMNUS November 1st, informs us that they take corded in this column although two of them pleasure in announcing that JOSEPH M. occurred during the summer. They are BYRNE, JR., is now associated with them. the marriages of JOHN REUSS, LOUIS WAG­ 1917 NER and JAMES LOGAN. The marriage of John U. Riley, Class Secretary, South Bend Lbr. Co., South Bend, Ind. John Reuss to Miss Marie Ann Kelly took A card from JOHN T. STARK and wife, place in June at St. Paul's Church, Marion, 1048—35th St., Des Moines, brings the news Indiana. The marriage of Louis Wagner that "one Rockman is due at Notre Dame, to Miss Marie Vernoica Lanigan occurred 1942." in August at Brooklyn, N. Y. On October GEORGE SHANAHAN was seen on the 14, Miss Agatha Clarke became the bride campus during Homecoming. He is busy of James Logan. This wedding was solem­ selling coal and building supplies to the nized at St. Patrick's Church, South Bend. old hometown neighbors in Lima, 0. Jack Mr. and Mrs. Logan will make their home Shanahan will go to work for Rockne in in Denver. To John, "Hans" and Jim, and 1940 and the two daughters will be at St. their ^vives, we wish much happiness. Mary's a bit before and after that time. CHARLIE CALL has the distinction of be­ BROTHER MATTHEW, C. S. C, writes from ing the N. D. man of '18 longest in repor- Holy Cross College, New Orleans, that all torial harness. He has been writing for the faculty at that institution are N. D. a newspaper for six consecutive years. He men and the N. D. spirit certainly prevails. and Mrs. Call and Miss Charlotte, age three, He mentions that there are three coaches recently spent a week at Notre Dame. from the old place in the South this year. Charlie is in Hasbrouck Heights, N. J. Oberst is at Shreveport, Shaughnessy at DICK DUNN IS in the city that has no Jefferson and our own Jimmy Burns at subway. He is interested in getting in H. C. touch with any Notre Dame men who EUGENE F. ROONEY, old student, who at­ specialize in or have had experience with tended St. Louis University Medical School casualty insurance claims. If you don't after leaving the campus in '18, is now know his address, write us. privileged to practice medicine. Dr. and VINCE GIBLIN is as enthusiastic about Mrs Rooney announce the birth of their Jacksonville, Florida, as ever. He'll prom­ daughter, Virginia Marie, on the 20th of ise royal times to any N. D. men wintering August. in that paradise. Vince and Harold Foley All '17 men will be interested to know took in both the Army and Princeton games. that JOE GARGAN has written a few of GEORGE HARBERT is in Chicago, having his many friends that he is planning a re­ been associated with the Chicago Title and turn to the States. Joe says that he has Trust Company for more than a year. been representing the Kailan Mining Ad­ From Huntington, W. Va., comes word ministration, with head offices in Tientsin, from LOUIS HELLERT that he is credit man­ North China, for the last five years in the ager of the Lewis Furniture Company. Lou Philippines and "has done quite well." To just transferred there from Chicago. continue, "they have just given me six TOM HOBAN, while still a resident of months leave with full pay and transporta­ Elgin, is connected with the legal depart­ tion to N. Y. and return, so I will be ment of the Chicago Title and Trust Com­ dropping in on you within the next three pany. Tom is married and Thomas J. III., months." The postcript is typically Gar­ is a year and a half old. gan: "I almost forgot to mention that we are having a little war here just now, but MAX KAZUS is still boosting for Buffalo. it is not as bad as the papers try to make He and Alex Szczepanik are rounding up out. It is very difficult to travel but very the N. D. men in that vicinity with the few people ever get hurt." If you haven't intention of forming a Notre Dame Club. heard from Joe personally, we promise fur­ Success be theirs! ther news as to his whereabouts in the Mishawaka claims JOHN RAAB as its own. next issue. John is practicing law there and is now 1918 serving his third year of a four-year term John A. Lemmer, Class Secretary, 309 Seventh St., Escanaba, Mich. as City Judge. Three events of importance must be re­ JOE RILHTY is active as ever in Muskegon, THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 57 Mich. As Grand Knight of the Muskegon —who is now the senior member of the firm Council, Knights of Columbus, Joe put of McGarry and McGarry, Architects, with across the most successful state convention offices in Cleveland and Ashtabula, Ohio. of the K. of C. ever held in Michigan. The Cleveland address is 4614 Prospect GEORGE SCHOCK is another of our pros­ Ave. If you don't find Mc. at the oflSce, taxi perous attorneys * * * He recently moved to 1830 East 97th, where the gang is always his offices to the New Sherland Building welcome at his apartment. in South Bend. 1920 V. F. Fagan, Class Secretary, DR. NEIL WHALEN is now a house resident Notre Dame, Ind. at Harper Hospital, Detroit. He has been After disposing of some several thousand stationed there for the past few years. Neil barrels of loganberries, getting due press had the sad misfortune of losing his brother publicity for the way he is contributing to recently, a young man who would have the earnings of transcontinental railroads helped to make athletic history at Notre during football season, delivering lectures Dame. to the journalism classes at both Notre FATHER CHARLIE WILLIAMS is at St. Ber­ Dame and St. Mary's playing host to his nard's Church, Peoria, 111. He hasn't friends at a fish dinner which we person­ changed a bit and is as genial as ever. He ally praise as one of the best, and doing and 'John Cassidy and George Springer con­ everything and anything that suited his stitute the outfield in their territory for all fancy, E. MORRIS STARRETT has returned things Notre Dame. to Port Townsend, Washington to tell the After spending two years in Boston, natives how it happened. If the California game goes through, Starrett is planning to "JUDGE" FRANK HURLEY moved to Chicago. canoe down the calm Pacific to Pasadena He is in the Claim Department of the and complete a perfect year of football Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Company. following. DICK HYLAND is one of the fortunate PAUL CONAGHAN, after spending three ones who saw both the Army and Prince­ years at Harvard Law and vacationing on ton games. Dick's monthly check comes the Continent, has returned to the Middle from the Maintenance of Way Department West, unchanged and as personable as ever. of the Pennsylvania E. R. Paul is living at the Allerton House in FATHER LEO J. JONES, who was ordained Chicago and is associated with the law firm in September, is awaiting a ticket to China. of Knapp and Campbell, 208 S. LaSalle St., At present he is teaching in the MaryknoU in the Continental and Commercial Bank Foreign Mission Preparatory College, building. Clark's Summit, Pa. Our best wishes to TOM BEACOM, who is also recovering from Father Jones! post-grad work at Harvard, is connected 1919 Clarence W. Bader, Class Secretary, with the First Trust and Savings Bank, GoO W. Pierce St., Gary, Ind. Chicago, in the Trust Department. He is Your genial secretary has found the pres­ living at 70 E. Elm St. Tom made all the sure of business and the absolute necessity mid-western games this year. of attending the games on the schedule this 1921 Alden J. Cusick, Class Secretary, fall a bit. too much of an effort to knock Lockbox 1664, Milwaukee, Wis. out many alumni notes. We've kept track A postcard from JOCK MOONEY dated of all the whisperings of the gang, and have October 3rd, was mislaid and we just un­ contracted for a double spread in one of the covered it. Jock says, "Just back from Chi­ early issues—said spread to carry complete cago where I was royally entertained by illustrations and answers to all questions. Cliff O'Sullivan, George Witteried and Dan Chick always motors to the place of the Hilgartner. Am neither married nor play­ game a day ahead and leaves after the ing Santy Claus. How about yourself. * * * week-end is over—^those fortunte enough to On September 15,1 was appointed Assistant be able to do likewise know how much time Attorney-General of the 15th Judicial Dis­ is left for business after you arrive home trict The position of a law enforcement and recuperate. So pardons are offered, but officer always appealed to me, even tho I we do want to mention that we had a chat am sometimes negligent in the matter." Avith McGarry—none other than Bernard C. CLYDE WALSH, still claiming mail at 58 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS

Campus, Illinois, said he was over to St. RAHE is selling for Marshall Field, going Viator's to see the Reserves play early in sti'ong and living at the Allerton House. the season. He met Chet Wynn's brother Ben Susen is in the real estate game and who is due to annex another monogram for ^vill sell you the Wrigley Building whether the Wjmn family in the next year or two. you want it or not. ARNOLD MCGRATH EDWARD ANTHONY arrived at the home of helps edit the Chicago Tribune. HAROLD Mr. and Mrs. E. BRADLEY BAILEY on the MCKEE is in the advertising game. ART 3rd of November. You Avill remember Ed VALLEZ is at present in France on a busi­ of Badin Hall and varsity track meets. He ness trip in the interests of the Vallez Ro­ is living in one of the suburbs of Phila­ tary Filters Corporation. Art was married delphia, but failed to give us the street not so long ago and had me function as address. his best man. FRED GLAHE is with A. G. RED DECOURCEY wanted Nebraska tickets Spaulding and I am his youngest's God- so bad that he wrote the Class Secretary dad. And I—oh, I'm still laying bricks." in a vain plea. We gave you all the infor­ STEVE CARMODY hangs out at 7301 Kedzie, mation about Red in the last issue except Chicago. Hick's card came just too late to that he is now living at 4249 Drexel Blvd., make the last issue So busy that he has Chicago. hardly had time to see anyone. JOHN A card from LEO D. KELLEY mentions CARROLL has been chaperoning Hick over the that among the '21 men in New York for city for a couple of months. the Army game were: Joe Pavlinac, Red DICK GLUECKERT bashfully admits that he Slaine, William Coughlin, Dave Haynes, too, has left the bachelors in his rush for Tom DoUard, Jim Huxford, Duke Kinney, happiness. He joined the ranks on August Bill Neary and Walt Miller. We saw Kell 25th and took unto himself Miss Mary in the Belmont before the game, but he was Neville of Hamlet, Indiana. (Get your all keyed up to get some place and only map!) At present they are living at 1733 hurried greetings were exchanged. He N. Meade Ave., Chicago. Glueckert has looked great and promised more news later. been working in the interests of the Western The arrival of Miss Barbara on October Electric Company for the past two years. 24, 1924, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. WM. BOB GALLOWAY is still on the road to J. FITZGERALD is announced. We ran into make his first million in the law game at Fitz before the Northwestern game and he Silver Creek, N. Y. looked fit. MORGAN SHEEDY left the National City After seeing Fitz in Chicago, George Company of New York and is now connected O'Brien in Madison and Kell in the East, with the Farmers National Bank at Pitts­ we are forming new ideas about matrimony. burgh. Sheedy extends greetings to any It certainly agrees with everyone we have who may be able to make the trip to met in the class, and we heartily recom­ Pittsburgh for the Carnegie Tech game mend the institution. on the 29th. Sheedy is now living at 5540 CALLIX MILLER has opened up offices for Bryant St., Pittsburgh, Pa. himself in the J. M. S. Bldg., South Bend. FRANK BLOEMER and EDDIE PFEIFFER have Callix has been missing our mail of late, joined themselves in a partnership. Oil so the address is offered for all interested. magnates, leaning on the towers of the noted DAN CARR is still the popular professor at Harry Sinclair. The firm of Pfeiffer- Seton Hill College, Greensburg, Pa. He Bloemer is the exclusive distributor of Sin­ is Head of the Science Department and con­ clair Oils in Jefferson and Bullet counties, fesses devoting most of his time to Chem­ Ky., and Floyd and Clark counties in In­ istry, or in other words, trying to convince diana. Eddie made the Nebraska game the young ladies of that college that NaCl and Frank promises to make up for two is salt. years when he lands in South Bend next 1922 fall. Frank C. Blasius, Jr., Class Secretary, 24 W. Main St., Logan, Ohio. DANNY COUGHLIN rated the headlines in EMMETT BURKE ventures to enlighten the society column of the Duluth News- some of us as to the whereabouts of some Tribune last month. It carried a detailed members of the Chicago colony. "JACK story of a service that tied the knot -with THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS 59

Miss Mary Elizabeth Blackwood of that Storen, Walt Stuhldreher and Dan Sullivan. city. Following the wedding, the couple WHERE'S THAT CARD? took a trip through Canada and are now at Just about one hundred and fifty men - their home in Waseca, Minn. forgot to mail that card that they had writ­ JACK HIGGINS has been at Georgetown for ten out to send to the Sec. Only a few the last few years. If Jack gets a few of weeks until the next issue. Let's have a the breaks, he will claim a degree from the little Christmas greeting in the form of an Law School there in June. answer to that last call letter! JIM FOREN has been in Detroit for the 1923 Henry F. Barnhart, Class Secretary past year or so, has been elected an officer 33 Bowdoin St., CambridBe, Mass. of the Notre Dame Club of that city and is Your secretary hopes that none of you living at 932 W. Bethune St. noticed the absence of the '23 notes in the FRED DRESSEL is the junior member of previous issue of The Alumnus. Do not the company of Dressel & Dressel, pro­ think the secretary is negligent to duty; if prietors of the Hotel Pathfinder in Fremont, you do think this, keep it to yourself, for Nebraska. Nebraska should not be such you've hit the nail on the head. Thanks a tough place to live since the 15th of No­ to all of you, we received many interesting vember. How about it, Fred? letters and cards in response to the letter. PHIL DANT was stopped on his way from At the meeting of Class Secretaries last somewhere to somewhere at the Big Game June, our Class led them all in the percent­ and told us that matrimony is certainly age of answers received to the letters. This making its inroads into the Dant family. record will continue if each man takes it WEINIE, one of the older brothers, married upon himself to spend a minute once or a Miss Lucille Donoghoe of Louisville last twice a year sending on the news. March and RED mari-ied Miss Sara Croan The erstwhile, versatile professor. BILL in June. Phil also mentioned that Eddie CONLEY, is now covering the eastern terri­ Pfeiffer isn't letting oil interfere with his tory for one of our leading tire companies. tennis activities. He won the City Cham­ pionship for the third time this year but lost out in the Southern at Asheville, N. C. We were not told how he fared at the An Opportunity State championships. Another bachelor has forsaken his ranks. TuFFY HART and Miss Catherine Louise ATT'E have an opening in our sales ' ^ organization for a college man Herman of South Bend were married by who is looking for an opportunity for Father Lennartz early this month. Frank personal developir : and increased O'Neil of Cleveland supported TufFy at the earnings. Selling experience would be altar. Mr. and Mrs. Hart will make their valuable, but if you do not have it you home at 2969 Ripley Road, Cleveland, after may feel that with the right training and December first. co-operation you can develop sales CLARENCE MCCABE is now living at 1661 ability. Washington St., Denver, Colorado and is connected with the Rocky Mountain News You need not necessarily be desirous of that city. of making an immediate change. We The Nebraska game brought the following want to get thoroly acquainted with you men of '22 in touch with the editor of this and your qualifications, give you full in­ column. Eddie Anderson, Emmett Burke, formation concerning our work, and ar­ Pete Champion, Harry Denny, Jerry Dixon, range for a personal interview before Jos Duffy, Bill Dwyer, Lawrence Goldcamp, concluding final arrangements. Write Tuffy Hart, Eddie Herbert, Jerry Jones, fully to Ray Kearns, Art Keeney, Tom McCabe, Skinny Mahoney, Pat Manion, Jim Mur- Alexander Hamilton Institute taugh, Johnnie Mohardt, Ken Nyhan, Red 13 Aster Place New York, N Y. Paden, Eddie Pfeiffer, Cornie Pfeiffer, Paul Pfohl, Joe Rhomberg, Walter Shilts, Mark 60 THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS

Bill -wi-ites, "My job is getting bigger every morning editions. Flan says that PAT day as they are giving me added responsi­ O'CoNNELL is a prospering lawyer, worry­ bility. I am already beginning to specu­ ing a bit perhaps, "because some of his con­ late on the possibility of retiring." Bill founded clients talk too much". GEORGE is a living proof of the fallacy of that re­ DEVER is on the Chicago Evening American. spected adage, "To be successful one must JOE HENNEBERRY is with the Illinois Central. begin at the bottom and work up". Busi­ HI HUNT announces the opening of an ness or social correspondence may be ad­ 511 Security Building, Minneapolis, Minn. dressed to Conley at 149 Sanford St., East Orange, N. J. From Apple Sauce Inn, 1048 Woodward We had the pleasure of inspecting the Avenue, South Bend, Indiana, comes word fraternity house at New Haven in which from JOHN CAVANAUGH, one of the four CHARLIE MARTIN is domiciled. The study apples (Cavanaugh. Castner, Haley and impressed us most. In it were a deck of Rothert), who is holding forth under that cards, two Cross-Word Puzzle Books, and fair banner. The letterhead on the Inn's seven empty shelves for other books. Charlie new stationery is clever and meaningful. is hitting the law books, long and often, in John writes that it was made "to contrast his second year at Yale. Avith the letters that will go under it." On From Decatur, Illinois, comes the refresh­ the contrary, the rumor is that it was made ing line of HARRY FLANNERY, who sits at to emphasize beyond a reasonable doubt the the suburban and telegraph desk of the nature of contents. Paul and John are still Decatur Herald culling the "^vildest stories stepping on the gas with Studebaker, while of poison slaj'ers, probes, charges, allega­ Howard Haley sells millions of feet of lum­ tions, looters and hecklers—^most interest­ ber for the Smogor Lumber Company and ing to a morbid public," and pondering duly Matt Rothert is pointed out as the Chief over "Checkiang, Kiangsu and Ropidata", Statistician for the South Bend Chamber of that vie with one another for space in the Commerce. ,

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At Mt. Angel College in Oregon are In the world of insurance, FRANK DOBIOT EED NOLAN and JOHN MCCABE. John is is making famous the old caution that professor of journalism. Red writes that he "there is only one thing worse than a home is "still teaching, likes it fine" and "as to without a mother and that is a mother being a benedict, who would take a penance without a home". Frank implies that this, like me for life." That's the ultra modest like the Notre Dame team, never fails to Red for you. , make a touchdown when needed.

MICKEY KANE volunteers that he is not JOHN FLYNN joined the Cleveland crowd Mayor of Springfield, and that he is not some months ago and is adjuster of the seeking "such a high place in politics". Claim Department, Royal Indemnity Com­ pany, Davis & Farley Bldg., Cleveland. AL FICKS is making more baskets than LINUS GLOTZBACH is a member of the firm ever with Clete Lynch in New York City. of Pfaender & Glotzbach, Suite 4-10 Otto- Al was married during the summer and is meyer Bldg., New Ulm, Minnesota. Glotz exceptionally happy. tells us that he is "located in the county After his return from an assignment on seat town of about 7,500 people and have the World Series, FRANK WALLACE pounded had the good fortune of forming a partner­ out a note to the effect that he has had an ship with an old practicioner here who is interesting year in New York working on all big sport events. "Am a personal friend of Epinard, Harry Wills and Louis Firpo", wi-ites Frank, "saw the Prince take his daily cropper and am a polo expert—if you can CLOTHES FOR THE COLLET ACAN imagine that—but since Rock has taken it up, I suppose it will be safe to go back some day. NOT married YET but slipping, boy. 1 ^ willingly." /jfc\ NEIL FLINN staged a delicious comeback, ^^•l^g^JJ^ as follows, "I am not married yet. Are u^^ you?"

DUTCH RIEDER is on the "last leg of his llfff college career". He will receive his Law Degree at Notre Dame in June. In the words of Dutch, "I am not on the list of benedicts, but you never can tell. Professor The Shuster got married." SACK SUIT HAROLD FABIAN HAYNES is Secretary to (T'wo and ihres button) the Manager of the Southwest Tire Com­ V>OT with that conserv­ pany at Kansas City. Harold expresses the atism carefuUy dressed men plight of a number of us when he says "I demand, and tailored in ap- am long in experience, but short of change:" propriate> rich patterns that stamp them as dia> BOB QUINN in doing commercial research tinctive. work for the American Cyanamid Com­ ^3250 to H2^^ pany, the builders of Muscle Shoals, at East Orange, N. J. NATLUXENBERG ©BROS. LEO MCGARTY is managing to "get in 841 BROADWAY, NEW YORK three good meals and a flop" at Madison, BRANCHES Wis. 863 Broad St.. 221 Water St., Newark, N. J. Exeter, N. H. BERNIE FOLEY is on his last lap of the Law at Notre Dame and claims that he is Our style memo, book sent &ee on request now entitled to a pension. ez THE NOTRE DAME ALUMNUS well known and widely liked. It is my in­ Lorenzo in the general practice of law, un­ tention a year from this present time to run der the firm name of G^sscott & Glasscott, for the office of County Attorney and the Citizens Bank Bldg., Michigan City, Ind. way things look now I will have at least * * * * that CuRLEY ASH is selling insurance an even break of getting the office". in Indianapolis * * * * DON GALL.4GHER is There are well on to a hundred more let­ studying for the priesthood at the North ters and cards which haven't been touched, American College in Rome, Italy * * * * he including a letter of the most delicate laven­ left on the noon of the Army game * * * * der hue from Jack Norton, that must be JOE BERGMAN has been one of the assistant held over until next month. Also: A revela­ coaches at Purdue this fall * * * * HARVE tion of the antics of the CHAPIN STREET BROWN is line coach at St. Louis University IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION (the * * * * JIM JUDIE is taking post-grad work corporate name adopted by the '23 men in at Michigan * * * * FRANK KOLARS is now Chicago) will be ^^dthheld until the prom­ an accredited member of the faculty and ised letter of Ed Gould is forthcoming. telling the boys about it * * * * GENE MAYL

1924 has been in Cincinnati for the past few- months helping Chief Meyers at St. Xavier's We have heard that LOUIE LUJAN is braving the dangers of Chicago by and studying for a bar exam * * * * MARK working overtime with the Straus Broth­ NOLAN is also an instructor at Notre Dame ers Company * * * that JERRY FOX is teach­ * * * * JIM SWIFT and SLIM LYNARD are ing Chemistry at Trinity College, Sioux hitting it otf in Minneapolis where Jim is City, Iowa * * * that CLIFF NOONAN is with associated with the law firm of Ware and Graham, Probst & White. Architects, Chi­ Melrin, 710 McKnight Bldg. Jim has been cago and receives mail at 1117 Columbia doing just what every Notre Dame man Ave. * * * that EDDIE CASEY is liAring at 524 would suspect him of getting done * * * * Sheridan Road, Evanston, and uses the let­ Jim has reorganized the Notre Dame Club terheads of Cassels, Potter & Bentley, a law of the Twin Cities, successfully arranged firm, at 1060 The Rookery, Chicago. * * * for the finest meeting ever held by the That Duke DePaolis is a graduate student crowd in that city and by accepting the po­ in the School of Chemical Engineering sition for secretary-treasurer of the Club Practice at the Massachusetts Institute of has instilled an altogether new spirit into Technology and living at 15 Pleasant St., the men in that section. Jim was seen at Cambridge, Mass. * * * that CHARLIE RO- the Wisconsin game, but he was so busy BRECHT, is ^vith the American Gas and Elec­ meeting the gang that an intimate moment tric Company at their Atlantic City plant or two was impossible * * * * We promise as a Chemical Engineer * * * that Jim more for next time, but wait until Mike Corbett is with the Rutenber Electric Co., gets going * * * * we'll swamp you with Marion, Ind. * * * * that ROBT. E. GLASS- news! COTT has become associated -with his brother

Local Alumni Clubs THE NOTRE DAME CLUB OF FORT WAYNE THE NOTRE DAHE CLUB OF KANSAS CITY Wm. P. Breen, '77, 913 Calhoun St President Dr. D. M. Nigro, '14, 611 Sharp Bldg President John W. EKgeman, '00 Vice-President Henry A. Burdick, '08 Vice-President Clifford B. Ward, '23 Secretary Maurice Carroll, '19 Secretary Felix L. Logan, '23 Treasurer Joseph R. Stewart, '20 Treasurer

THE NOTRE DAME CLUB OF THE TWIN CITIES-NOTRE DAME CLUB WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA Thos. J. McGrath, '07, 607 Guardian Bldg., St. Paul President John B. Barr, '24, 403 Braddock Avenue..Pres-dent Louis P. Chute, '90, Minneapol's Vie-President Dr. Leo D. O'Donnell, '17 Vice-President Eugene M. O'Neill, '13 St. Paul Vice-President Leonard M. Carroll, 'IG Secretary James P. Swift, '24, Raymond J. Black, '22 Treasurer Minneapolis Secretary-Treasurer Continued on Following Page