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Notre Dame Scholastic, Vol. 56, No. 10 -- (P. 293) Football Number 1922 •••• •••• ovnemdnobastic DISCEQUASISEMPER-VICTVRVS VIVE- QUASI- CRAS-MORITVRVS Vol. LVI. FOOTBALL NUMBER No. 10 schedule of ten games which demanded twa THE SEASON'S REVIEW. invasions of the East, a march to Georgia, and a trip to Nebraska in addition to those JAMES P. COYLE. contests engaged in at home and on foreign T hasn't happened—^the 1922 panic in the fields nearby; games, every one of which gridiron ranks of the Gold and Blue so promised a stern taxing of our best gridiron freely predicted at the end of last year's strength—^it was truly an hour of trial and season by the second-hand seers and ebbing hopes; it did look as if Notre Dame singers of pigskin sagas the country over, was due to swallow some of the medicine" The star-spangled achievements of the peer- which had been prescribed in such generous less Rockne and his stellar squad of 1922 quantities by the all too numerous "Calamity have turned the Janes and Johns." laugh on doubt. The thought of com­ Sporting critics gen­ I pleting the schedule erally are re-mark­ THE SCHEDULE. without one defeat, ing Notre Dame val­ I Sept. 30—Notre Dame-46; Kalamazoo 0. yes without two de­ ues, are estimating Oct. 7—Notre Dame 26; St. Louis U. 0. feats, was enter­ again in terms of Oct. 14—Notre Dame 20; Purdue 0. tained by few. certainty, where a Oct. 21—Notre Dame 34; DePauw 7. Behind the failure? few months ago they Oct. 28—Notre Dame 13; Georgia Tech 3 at Lincoln lies a were fumbling in Nov. 4—Notre Dame 27; Indiana 0. great nobility. The' team finds itself rich^ speculative futures. Nov, 11—Notre Dame, 0; Army 0. 1 It was a far cry Nov. 18—Notre Dame 31; Butler 3. 1 er for the discipline from Icarus to Cap- Nov. 25—Notre Dame 19; Carnegie Tech 0, of defeat. There is i no disgrace in losing; roni—from the bush- Nov. 30—Notre Dame 6; Nebraska 14. I man's telegraph to I the disgrace is not wireless, but intelli­ trying. Who can say gence covered the distance. Persistence, that the Irish did not try? Facing a sea- coupled with ingenuity, finally feathered the soned team of brawny veterans, outweighed wings that nature denied our kind, and de- many pounds to the man, wearied by the veloped a talking spark to outreach the strain of a strenuous season,—a fighting thunders. K. K. Rockne is the latest to team of striplings went down to defeat, re­ prove that nothing can long resist full-flung sisting gamely the slashing onslaughts of an determination. Phoenix-like, he has risen older, stronger and—^yes—better team. And from the ashes of his last year's post-season so the tumult and the shouting die. It has disappointments, and from barren begin- been a good year. Carberry, Castner, De- nings has brought an inexperienced, but dog- gree, Thomas, Oberst and Desch are lay- ged and pertinacious handful of Sophomores ing away their moleskins, are bidding the to an unchallenged position in the world of chalk-lines cm revoir,—and we applaud these football—and all this to the deafehing huzzas departing gentlemen who have bequeathed of wondering and credulous millions in an estate of fighting loyalty. We can't esti- sportdom. mate the resources of the future. But in The skies did look cloudy for a while at 1923 we shall again have Rockne and sound- the outset of the 1922 season. Facing a er prospects than ever before. 294 'Sfie Noure 5ame Scholascie nmi;n.v;iiv;n^.;oi;iiu.nun.unv;itU-iiUiiuii^./iVUA<.;ii.u^^^ V= r ' i!?n^^7?^^rSt!f%Tli^§!^i£a2^^ ffS^ yff^5iiStJgBgIS?S?!^iSiMIiSSguSi^I^i^ti^^ I lsfi& Nocre 5ame Scholagric 295 Rock, and the 1913 team which was cap­ ROCKNE. tained by him. It was with this latter team, Every Saturday afternoon for two full that he and Dorais introduced the perfected months, several thousand students have held forward pass to the country, a style of game- their breaths for the space of about two that has contributed much to his fame, and. hours, generally between two-thirty and as equally much to the grey hair of a mul­ four-thirty o'clock. But at every four-thiii;y, titude of rival mentors. except the last one which happened to be on Characteristic of the man at that time, Thursday, there was a great sigh of relief, of course, was a certain genuine modesty followed immediately by unprecedented coupled with a really studious disposition. •cheering, all the more prolonged and sten­ Some person attached to this institution at torian because of the previous suspense. At present would marvel, indeed, if they looked the beginning of the season, not even the into the grades which their hero made in most sanguine would have dared to hope for silence during his college days, or found out such a happy consummation, as they glanced how able an instructor in chemistry he was <iown the long list of the country's top-notch to become later on. Virtually track-coach athletic schools and strove to realize that during his Senior year and doing the im­ JSTotre Dame, shorn of all but fight and possible by beating his own record in the Eockne, was to be pitted against them. Now pole-vault by a good foot, Rockne was no we all look back and declare that fight and less active in Reactions. liockne is all that Notre Dame need ever Iromediately after having.served his full possess to bring her through.. We had taken three years in the moleskins, Rockne was the fight for granted because that is a tra- made assistant coach under Jesse Harper, •dition at Notre Dariie, but we were not quite and when that renowned mentor retired to .so sure that there ever, was a coach alive his ranch somewhere out west, Rocke took who would be able to perform athletic mir­ full control. He has undoubtedly the most acles. If there was, we had him, but we enviable record of any of the younger were not quite so sure that there was. Now coaches in the land. In five seasons, teams we are inclined to think that Rockne, if he built up by him have lost but three games, decided to try, could play Harvard by him­ two of which were much more like victories self. At least it is ^not unthinkable to put than defeats, if yardage and first downs anything past the accomplishment of one count for anything. During those same five who made three famous football teams out of seasons Notre Dame has registered forty- several seniors and juniors and a great many two victories, victories which mean some­ sophomores. It has not been done before, thing, because Rockne invariably frames dif­ and will never be done again unless, of ficult schedules for his team. course, Rockne will have to do it. At any If, heretofore, there was any doubt in any­ event, at another" univei'sity three times as one's mind about Rock's super-ability, little large as ours, there is a coach that had the room is left now for it, when, facing the same opportunity as did our coach, and his hardest schedule in our gridiron history, team was beaten by one that we swamped. with the poorest prospects we have had for Rockne's Notre Dame connections extend many a year, Knute literally created a ma­ over a period of ten years. This decade, chine which has been the talk of fandom coupled with a half dozen years previous to from coast to coast. Of course, a great meed it, has marked the most brilliant span in of praise and credit is due to Notre Dame Notre Dame football history. During the fight and the Notre Dame men who went three years when Rock played end on the through this season's mill, but we all admit team not one game was lost, while victories that Notre Dame could not have Rockmen were scored over such teams- as Pittsburgh, Y\rithout Rockne. We believe that, while they Pennsylvania State and West •P9int (35-13). are picking their Ail-Americans, the critics Two of the very greatest teams that have might as well open up a new position on represented our university' on the afield were their mythical eleven and choose our own the nationally famous 1921 team^ coached by Knute K. Rockne for its All-American coach. 296 '^e Noure ^me Seholasck #• NOW THAT IT'S OVER. FRANK WALLACE. CANTO 1. THE INFERNO OF 1922. Ajrgwnent. The Spirit of Notre Dame football, having lost his way in a gloomy forest and being hindered by certain wild beasts from ascend­ ing a mountain, is met by Rockne, who un­ dertakes the task of leading him from the DEGREE. forest. The Spirit follows the coach. In the midway of this, our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct: and e'en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth. Which to remember only, my dismay, Renews in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befell All else will I relate discover'd there. How first I entered it my memory well Recalls: How graduation took from me Most valiant men; and that dire tempter of The college man hooked others.
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