Notre Dame Scholastic Football Pages Volume 73 Issue 11 8 December 1939 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 15 "Scholastic" Photo by Giedeman 16 THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC Monogram Winners, Coaches Seled All Opponent Team The Foot in 1 Hainan, Lansdell are Guards Unanimous Choices Well, Harry Smith, of Southern Cal, lived up to the press clippings all right. A couple of hundred pounds of dyna­ mite is bound to cause a disturbance in Never does December roll around anybody's backyard on Saturday after­ without a deluge of "all" football elev­ noon. Yes, Mr. Smith, you'll do. Car­ ens. Everybody picks one—sports edi­ negie Tech's Bill Reith didn't weigh as tors, radio commentators, high school much as friend Smith, but he was just kids, and yes, even football players. as tough. Bored with life in the middle They say no one knows mouse traps like of the line, Eeith spent the afternoon the man who builds them. And we main­ covering the whole field, for everywhere tain that football players know each the Notre Dame backs went, there was other far better than anyone else knows Mr. Keith. them. After all, you can't see from a Center box seat whether a guard is falling on his face or being driven to the ground There's no doubt about this one. John Nosed Out—John Mclntyre Breaks Through with a merciless forearm shiver; you Haman, Northwestem's finest center in Conversion as C re trr. can't see from the pressbox if an end years, was a unanimous choice. In the^ is really worth his weight in newspaper line or out of the line he was equally clippings. With this in mind THE SCHO­ effective. LASTIC presents its All-opponent team of Backs 1939, picked by twenty members of this The Irish lettermen picked five backs. year's Notre Dame varsity. Head Coach Put these boys on the same team and Elmer Layden, Manager Neil Geary, they'll give any all-star team a run for ALL OPp Publicitj'^ Director Joe Petritz, Jack Led- its money. Grenny Lansdell, of South­ den of the South Bend Tribune, and End ern Cal, had plenty of holes opened for POSITION NAME Coach Joe Benda. him, but it really didn't make much dif­ Left End Dave Rankin ference, for time after time he ran over Ends Left Tackle Harry Stella players and through players and even Notre Dame opened the season Left Guard Harry Smith carried them on his back. Merlyn Con- against a Purdue team that played hard, Center John Haman dit, great Carnegie Tech halfback, av­ smashing defensive football. In a line Right Guard Bill Reith eraged four yards a try against the that refused to let the Irish go anywhere Right Tackle Mike Enich Irish, carrying the ball on nearly every in particular all afternoon, Dave Rankin Right End Bob Winslow play. Pres Johnston, of S'.M.U., scored stood out. He broke up passes; he Quarterback Grenny Lansdell twice against Notre Dame. He picked nabbed plunging fullbacks, while pro­ Left Halfback Nile Kinnick up the yards when the Mustangs needed tecting his own territory. Bob Winslow, Left Halfback Preston Johnston them. Don Clawson, Northwestern full­ of Southern California, was no stranger Right Halfback Merlyn Condit back, impressed the Irish as few sopho­ to Johnny Kelly and his boys when the Fullback Don Clawson mores ever do. The hardest driving Trojans appeared here last month, for back Notre Dame faced all year, he will last year he played brilliant defensive bear watching in the future. Well, the and offensive football against the Irish. Irish couldn't forget Nile Kinnick and Winslow picked right up where he left his cblfin-comer kicking, the big reason off; only an injury at the close of the they couldn't get started against the first half prevented him from shining Hawkeyes. even brighter than he did. Tackles Lesser Lights Ask any Notre Dame back what op­ Other opponents who earned the re­ posing player he met most often on the spect of the Irish were: Ends—Bob Ison, wrong side of the scrimmage line and Georgia Tech, and Bill Fisk, U.S.C; he'll name Harry Stella, Army's great Tackles—^Al Bergner, Navy, and Pete tackle. Great as he is in other games, Dobrus, Carnegie Tech; Guards—^Frank Stella seems to be at his best when he Bykowski, Purdue, Hal Method, North­ plays against Notre Dame. Mike Enich, western, and Neil Cavette, Georgia of Iowa, was one of the Hawkeyes' 60- Tech; Backs — Bob Hoffman, U.S.C, minute men this year. He dished out Johnny Bosch, Georgia Tech, Art Front- 60 minutes of bruising football to the czak. Army, Ray Mallouf, S.M.U., Mike Irish this fall, and was a big factor in Byelene, Purdue, Lou Mayo, Navy, holding Stevenson, Sitko, and company George Muha, Carnegie Tech, and Jim Fieldgoed—John Kelleher Place Kich From in check. Dubuisson, Army.—Eddie Huff To Defe THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 17 Splinters From The Pressbox Irish Football by Frank Aubrey Years from now many of us will campus like this which advocates the gather round the wassail bowl and bend ten commandments and the tenets of J. the elbow to the good old days of '39. Edgar Hoover when one of our athletes has to resort to common thievery to win Practically everybody will have etched a football game. Well then, we de­ into his mind those breathless few sec­ mand that Bill Kerr return immediately onds of the Purdue game while Mike the ball he took from Merlyn Condit at Byelene was travelling loose. Mike was Pittsburgh on October 28, 1939. It's one step away from clear-sailing for a beside the point that Bill won the game Purdue victory when Piepul's desperate with this theft, for we won't give up the clutch dragged him down—after twenty game—^will we, boys? Let's have one yards of agony for the Irish stands. to bigger and better crimes. Johnny Kelleher had. emerged from the nondescript ranks of the bench to kick On the field where Army's Light-horse the field-goal that gave Notre Dame the Harry Wilson turned in some great per­ lead; it also served to spur an Irish formances we saw another Light-horse laissez-faire policy for the rest of the Harry hold the spotlight. With his pass­ game. Anyway, here's to the Purdue ing and hard-running SteAne turned the game. Bottom's up! Yankee Stadium into another Irish bed­ •S" Tech Defenders to Block Muha's Attempted lam this year. While Harry was riding And of course there was that boy '^ ^irnegie Falls, 7-6 rough-shod over the soldiers' first line Bosch from Georgia. We didn't know of defense, our 1940 right-half hope, from one moment to the other what he Steve Bagarus, grabbed an Army pass was going to do—or how to stop him. and frisked down the chalk-line for the He'd pass—like a bullet to Ison or Gib­ 6-point clincher. A week later another son—^then he'd run, or he'd fake both Steve grabbed an Iowa pass but before and do the opposite. Best bet was to he got far he was frisked, Iowa falling keep the ball ourselves. Bob Hargrave PPONENTS on the ball near oiu: goal. Sitko saved was the second of our quarterbacks to one threat with this play, but cost a lot bloom suddenly. It was Bob who mas­ TEAM VOTES of us some gasping moments. Toward ter-minded those two touchdown sweeps Purdue University 19 the end though Milt Piepul was costing in quick succession in the second quar­ Army 25 Iowa some gasping moments with his ter—and how he laid out those blocks U. Southern California 21 powerful charges. Fill 'em up, Mr., too! How about another round? Sure Northwestern U 26 we're a little low right now. Carnegie Tech 12 c'mon—make it a toast—^to the march Iowa University 16 through Georgia! It took seven attacks to capture the U. Southern California 10 Northwestern gonfalon, but how we did No use pickin' out the high points of it! That guy Hargrave started things U. Southern California 26 the S.M.U. game, fellers. It was one with a 50-yard return of a Wildcat Iowa University 9 continuous roar from where we sat. Ex­ punt. Before that, lil' Benny scam­ Southern Methodist U 9 pected the Mustangs to pass and they pered 50, but didn't hit the pay-dirt, and Carnegie Tech 21 ran us ragged early in the game while then later sprinted 50 yards across the Northwestern U _ 19 we did the passing. Those two shots field to nail Chicago's own DeCorrevont from Stevie to Kerr and then to Lou who was away for a touchdown. All put us in the money. It was anybody's three of these plays, however, were but dice all the way through, but we made samples of what was yet to come against our point once too often for the south­ the Trojans. During that first quarter erners to take the pot. How about one John D. himself wouldn't have risked a on the house, garcon? dime on Notre Dame—^it was aU U.S.C. The snappiest bit of that 400 yards But after the session in the locker-room gained through the Navy was the 27 the old Irish fight began to crop out and picked up by a little jack-rabbit, Sheri­ it was hell-for-leather the rest of the dan, when he whisked over untouched way.