Notre Dame Scholastic Football Review
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ii.iaiss;,a2Eiasa.'=.E^SfSHiSi2i=- • ;«-^i_i*_ ;»aii:fcii--<t5v The Notre Dame football Issue • 50<f Scholastic December g, 1949 asOii^- ^^fe-« pg^sif^ lit #••^1^ # V #1 f ^y 0 /^ --.. Don't forget, fellows, men like Gifts too!! Hurry to GILBERT'S, South Bend's Finest Gift Center for men. McGregor Szceaters, Campus Coats, Sport Shirts and Jackets, ranging S3.95 up: Arrozc Shirts, $3.65 up; Dobhs Hats. S8.50 up; Remington Electric Razors, S17.50 up: Szcank Men's Jezcelry, $1.50 up; Seaforth and Old Spice Toiletries, Si .00 up; etc., etc. GILBERT'S 813-817 South Michigan Street OPEN EVERY EVENING UNTIL 9 P. M. The Scholastic ift GILBERT'S 813-817 South Michigan Street * # Dec. 9, 1949 • *"• •• ^1 I II III! irrn r •T-|iiiniii«im«in •iiiijiiM<iu«Mn.wijmiiu__i_j_i_ Bend's BEST for REST Oliver La Salle Hoffmann The Hotel Association The Scholastic^- H-C-t-i-O-H. 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Main at ColfoX WYMAN'S 103 No. Michigan 8 The Scholastic m Tlie Notre Dame Spirit By HENRY McLEMORE If you peeked in my office window right after every game, and with everything aglow now you would see me seated at my desk except their pride. wearing a football uniform, complete to nu There was a time in this country when merals on my back, with textbooks piled a premium was placed on perfection. No around me, and tuition and spending money more. The time has come when to be pop in my pocket. ular you must be in the middle—not too I have on the football suit today because good, not too bad. So far, Notre Dame I am going to write about Notre Dame's has not subscribed to that theory when it football team. fields a football team. It sends its men out It seems that the Notre Dame football to do their best. Heaven help us when we reach a point where we are sent out to do team is so good that there is talk—much less than that. talk—about it not being able to get any more games. I wonder if the public has ever considered You hear, and you hear it often, that in the possibility that the will to win is a little a few years no school will play the Irish for stronger in the Notre Dame team. I wonder fear that it will get its ears pinned back by if the coaches who don't want to schedule six or seven touchdowns, and so would pre the Irish ever consider the possibility that fer to play schools whose ears it can pin Frank Leahy might be a better coach than back. they are. I do not doubt that this is true. It is also I wonder, too, when it became wrong in a sign, and a rather important sign whether this country to be the best. you believe it or not, that this country is There are lots of Americans left—and getting a trifle soft—that its citizens want this I'll bet—who'll go to see Notre Dame the easy way to victory and momentary sops play itself, if the other fellows don't want to their pride. to put the boys with the green shirts on There was a time in this country when their schedules. the hard way was the way that was wanted, And don't give me the song and dance because it offered a challenge. It offered that Notre Dame offers more inducements boys and men a chance to prove that they to football players than the other schools were just that, with no apron strings bind who go in for football in a big way. I know ing them when they went out to take a better. whack at what was tough. Notre Dame just plays the game a little There was a time when a football team harder, a little smarter, and a little better. would rather beat Notre Dame once in ten More power to you, Frank. Lay it on 'em. years than boast of ten consecutive vic tories over Podunk Poly Tech. Now they (Reprinted through tlie courtesy of Henry want Podunk every Saturday, with parades ^fcLcmore and McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) ^Ae SCUOIGAJUO P^eientA. Dec. 9, 1949 Review The 1949 Season The Scholastic Z^^^S! «e'W e shall always want Bi^otre Bame men _•;; \' ^"'to-play-towin': '[^I'v-^'.' 'i!?" solong as there is a Notre Baini<e \^ .\i/^r uv M n ri to win cleanly according t6 the riiles . S _^^' W. ^^^'At^ hecause Notre Bame men are reared t n. m 'm here on the campus in this spirit,.^ *^f and because they^^exc^mplify 7 •, ,. ^,tIi|8:spirlt>_aU;o?^er the woi^ld,"' ;''<< .:^4 ^ey ar<ff^lfe>nir^...oi"'the:natl©^^ itev . ^Ohn jr. Cavanangh, e^SXr ^m: IS' "t-j-^ L^. *=. •^ .< - -* >r ".-» /*> ';^^ ^3 >f «*3^i INTJ -ii>^* 2^: IJ%V. ie^ r fikf •"--;-. .r i*?j 5j-:5,3^ ?MJ3 m ->. -^ '^, •«f<"«< % ^t *%; k^ S£ ^^. * " ^ ••C3 ^^^^ '^ fM' '• \ .c' ^1^^ ^ si '^ •^ s Dec. 9, 1949 11 Kranse Directs Irish Atlileties Edward W. Krause . director of athletics and Holy Cross for three years, returning to Notre Dame head basketball coach. "Moose" left the coaching field in 1942. He served in the Marine Corps from 1944 to early in last year's season to confine his football activ 1946, returning a second time to Notre Dame upon his ities to the atliletic ofiices as assistant director of ath discharge. "Moose" claims the distinction of being letics. Shortly after the '48 season, he moved into full the only athlete in the University's history to be voted directorship when Frank Leahy retired from the post. a trophy by the student body. Now that football is He has remained in his position as basketball coach. over, he will put all his efforts behind the 1949-50 Ed was an Ail-American in football and basketball basketball squad. Practicing since October, the Irish while a student at Notre Dame. He was line coach at netmen show promise of being one of his best teams. • The Scholastic « Dr. Pessimism Puts B^D on Top Francis W. Leahy . head coach of the Fighting after his graduation from Notre Dame. Ten years Irish . has just ended one of his most successful later, after successful stints at Fordham and Boston football seasons at Notre Dame, turning out one of his College, he returned to Notre Dame, head coach of greatest teams in the process. He achieved the ulti his alma mater. His record with the Irish prior to mate in pessimism at the beginning of the '49 season, this season showed only three losses in six seasons, predicting the Irish would lose seven games. Rather while his lads captured the national championship his team piled up more records and added more glory three times. Frank Leahy w^as bom August 27,1908, to his name. Leahy first entered the coaching game in O'Neill, Neb. He is married and has six children, in 1931, as line coach at Georgetown the same Fall four boys and two girls. Dec. 9, 1949 13 ( Left to right: Coaches Druze, McBride, Crimmins, Leahy, Earley and Ziemba. Joe McArdle and Fred Miller were not present. Seven Coaches Aid Fraok Leahy | Behind the power of the Irish teams By JACK POWERS the vital positions as assistant coaches, stands the finest coaching staff in col Leahy has chosen the best men in the lege football today. As Notre Dams business. marches on, year after year, to greater little aware, however, of the seven un- The only man on the staff who has heights in football glory the sport knowTi wonders Frank Leahy has as not been trained by Frank Leahy is pages of the nation devote more and sembled under him.