Ame Fa E by Lois Firestone OTRE DAME WAS an OBSCURE College, Football-Wise, in the Early Years of the 1900S, but One Man Changed That, Both As a Player and a Coach
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U.S. POSTAGE BULK RATE PERMIT NO. 119 SALEM, OH 44460 'Iuescfay, 'J\{_ovem6er 4, 199 7 Section of 'Ifie Sa{em 'J\&ws • • 1 ns t1 to otr ame fa e By Lois Firestone OTRE DAME WAS AN OBSCURE college, football-wise, in the early years of the 1900s, but one man changed that, both as a player and a coach. It took awhile for Norwegian-born Knute Rockne to get to Notre Dame at all. For six years, he worked as a railroad brakeman to scrape enough money together for tuition. After he was enrolled at the Indiana uni versity, he played football under coach Jesse Harper who emphasized speed over power in his coaching - the Harper Formation. Rockne adapted the Harper pattern to his own teams. He popularized the forward pass, originally developed by The Fighting Irish to make up for their lack of muscle. His small but mighty backfield was nick named The Four Horsemen because of their devastating speed on the football field. They led Notre Dame to 29 victories in 31 games. ln 13 seasons, Rockne produced five unbeaten teams. Probably his severest test as a coach, and for Elmer Layden, Harry Stuldreher, Jim Crowley and Don Miller, the famous four, came in the 1925 Rose Bowl. The team had ended its season that year with a perfect record of nine straight triumphs, but Notre Dame was the under dog against Pop Warner's Stanford squad. His men came through for him, winning 27 to 10 at Pasadena. Although Rockne wasn't an Ohio native, A few famed horseman of Notre Dame are pictured on their steeds, from left, Knute ·Rockne, his wife he had Ohio connections as did two mem Bonnie Skiles Rockne, Father John Cavanaugh of Leetonia, Ray "Iron Eich" Eichenlaub and Arthur B. See Notre Dame, page 4 "Mickey" McBride. Medallion has illlpressive history By Stephanie Ujhelyi reading a story in a May issue on one side of the medallion; of Yesteryears that talked about however, he hasn't been able to ON HOLLINGER HAS the Osborne Coinage Company decipher whether it is Osbor D discovered that a med in Cincinnati. The article ne's mint mark. allion passed down through explained that the company The worn medallion is made generatiDns of his family might had manufactured these medal of bronze and between the size have more than sentimental lions since the 1830s, citing value. of a quarter and half dollar. It specifically medallions for Lin reads "Honorable Abraham A resident of Lisbon whose coln's second campaign in family has lived in Columbiana Lincoln" above the bust and at 1864. Hollinger' s medallion is the bottom "1860." On the County since the 1700s, he from the first Lincoln back, it shows a man swinging recently acquired the family's campaign. an axe and reads "Rail splitter precious good luck charm, a After contacting Osborne, of the West." commemorative medallion company officials said they During his investigation, from Lincoln's 1860 presiden weren't sure it was struck by tial campaign against Stephen Hollinger said he encountered their company because many of the Civil War discharge papers A. Douglas. their old casings and records According to Hollinger, his of his grandfather's youngest were lost. brother, Jason, at an antique grandfather served in the However, if the medallion Union Army along with his show near Alliance. was cast by Osborne, it will Hollinger just wants to learn two brothers. Levi Hollinger, have a very small mark that the middle son, served in Gen more information about the eral William T. Sherman's identifies the engraver of the medallion. He is not interested Don Hollinger of Lisbon displays the commemorative army. piece, an official told Hollinger. in selling it. He wants to keep medallion from Abraham Lincoln's 1860 ·presidential· cam He- became aware what the He has noted a mark right at it in the family like his ances paign, handed down through generations in his family. medallion might be worth after the bottom of the Lincoln bust tors did. r- -- -- - - ~~~~ ,,£~/·=-. Minister's -\~;:;~/ Notre Dame '\~;~'h . ~(~~~f • ~~; ·~~.:- Continued from page 1 f)7' tomb is ')~.--.. 0 ·: . bers of his famed backfield. unearthed The famous forward pass was OLISH ARCHAEOLOGIS- perfected outside the college Phave unearthed a 4,200- campus - Rockne and team year-old pharaonic tomb near mate Gus Dorais worked at it Cairo that has strikingly col on the beach at Cedar Point ored paintings on plaster of where they were both scenes of court life. lifeguards. The tomb, belonging to Harry Stuhldreher and Don Meref Nebf, a court minister in Miller were from Ohio, quarter the 23rd century B.C., was dis back Stuhldreher from Massil covered recently near Saqqara, lon and halfback Miller from 18 miles south of Cairo, Defiance. Their last game "What - sets this find aside together was the 1925 Rose from the others is the beautiful Bowl when they beat Stanfrod. coloring and vivid detail of the An All-American, Stuhldreher paintings," Zahi Hawass, direc later became the head football tor of antiquities in Giza and coach at Villanova. Miller was Saqqara, said Tuesday. He the U.S. district attorney for the called the paintings "among Northern District of Ohio. the most beautiful examples" Rockne's bride was an of art from that period of Ohioan, too. Bonnie Skiles Egypt's Old Kingdom. grew up in Kenton, and met Among the most impressive Rockne at Cedar Point. They Gary Hicks, museum advisory committee. memb~r, s~ai:i-ds in front of .the stone hou_se !1e discoveries were two yellow and white paintings of geese married a year after they were helped restore and now is the Camp Denmson Oh10 Civil War Muse1;1m m suburb_an Cm.c~n introduced. Mrs. Rockne nati. The building served as a guardhouse at the training camp, hospital and holdmg fac1hty that were almost identical to claimed she could always tell during the war. another painting found in a when her husband had hosted tomb in Maidum, near Saqqara. players at their home because strongest small college teams in Maidum is the site of what is born in 1870. He was ordained land businessman, never play believed to be the first true the furniture was moved into the state. seven years afterward, in 1893. ed or coached. for the universi various play formations. Edgar "Rip" Miller was a Egyptian pyramid. That same year, at the age of ty, although his son did. Other paintings in the tomb Three other Notre Dame Canton boy who played foot 35, he was named Notre Dame McBride became such a players were Buckeye natives. ball in high school - he taped deDict the minister and his wife president. The school was in its devoted fan of the game that he as 'well as a scene from a party Roy "Iron Eich" Eichenlaub his protruding ears to his head 63rd year. Father Cavanaugh formed the Cleveland Browns was the heavy gun in the 1913 to keep them from being where a harpist is playing. was hired as Notre Dame's in 1944, and hired Paul Brown Out:;ide the tomb, the game against Army. At 225 "ripped" off by opposing pl~y new head football coach nine as coach. By the end of the 1949 archaeologists found a mummy pounds, Eichenlaub was the ers. Miller was an offensive years later, in 1914. season, the Cleveland Browns biggest man on the team. He lineman for Notre Dame and in a clay pottery coffin, several Arthur B. "Mickey" McBride, had won four consecutive skeletons and some Creco won that 1913 game by scoring later coached at Navy. a somewhat eccentric Cleve- AAFC titles. the last two touchdowns. He Rornan artifacts. was named to the College Foot Father John Cavanaugh was only 16 when he arrived on the Now taking reservations for ball Hall of Fame in 1972. Fall and Winter Celebrations Harry "The Blond Beast" Notre Dame campus from Baujan played end on Rockne's nearby Leetonia where h: was first five history making teams, Shangri-La between 1913 and 1916. Baujan Arbaugh- Pearce fought in the service during Banquet Center World War I and had a pro rti~ert LL Maximum Seating for 500 career with the Massillon Jree Funeral (Columbiana) 'Perfect for Wedding & Anniversaries Tigers. 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