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:&•••••• aiD^cbolastic DISCEQUASISEMPERVICTURUS VIVE- QUASI- CRAS-MORITVRVS Kntcred as Second Class Mail Matter Published Every Saturday During the School Year. Vol. LV. DECEMBER 10, 1921 No. 12 TO OUR TEAM. appear to be only months. Indeed, it is un believable that Eddie and Euck and the rest A SENIOR. are through already. Why, wasn't it only a WENTY-T H R E E ^fourteen few months ago that the S. A. T. C. was eighty-five! The ball is snapped, there tearing up the campus and boys fresh from is a crash of bodies, a thud, headgears high school were trjring to "shoulder arms"? fly, the referee whistles; then, the Surely, i\, hasn't been four years since Hunk funny little horn of and Ojay were talk the time-keeper is /?- ing about ranning sounded. The stands for sheriff of Calu tremble with a j'-ell, Notre Dame 56 Kalamazoo 0. met when they were as lusty as any Notre Dame 57 Depauw 10. through with their Cartier field ever college education? heard, and the Notre Dame 7 Iowa 10 But it has been, and teams leave the Notre Dame 33 Purdue 0. there is no use try gridiron. A touch ing to wish for the of the pathetic is Notre Dame 7 Nebraska 0. impossible. It would present in the occas Notre Dame 28 Indiana 7 be fine if they could ion. There is not a stay and play foot spectator who does Notre Dame 28 Army 0. ball under the Gold not feel the hand of Notre Dame 4&; Rutgers 0. and Blue forever.. sadness on his They can't. Their shoulder. Notre Dame 42 Haskell Indians 7. task has been to Thursday, Notre Dame 21 Marquette 7. make history for November 24, 1921, Notre Dame and for the man in the Notre Dame 48 Michigan Aggies 0 who is there to deny that they have done world was Thanks Notre Dame 375 Opponents 41 giving, a day on it well? Three years which he was not v= ago, Notre Dame obliged to punch the was a school which- time-clock but could stay home and.eat tur had'to fight for eversrthing she got. Today key. -But for Notre Dame, it was far. more, the conquests of her. football team are com than a day of feasting; it meant the last mon knowledge. game in which thirteen of her greatest play This is the heritage which those man leave ers would participate. The Michigan Aggie to Notre Dame. What is the compensatoiy Notre Dame affair of 1921 will long be re tribute? It is that which college men can membered not because |t was a game to de give—^the tribute of a silent respect, akin cide a championship, but because it marked" to adoration, for the man who has foajg^t the breaking up of a team which has been against the most disheartening odds, and^ heralded from coast to coast as football-per won. It would be cheap to attempt to "de fect. , - scribe the spirit of men like Danny, Bodge, Years which we are going to spend seem or Hunk, whose broken ribs only stirred him like centuries, but years which we have spent to fight all the more.' - - - 178 "Sfie Nocre (^ome Schdasde LOOKING THEM OVER. took almost that length of time to gather the conditions under which Dante could be born, VINCENT ENGELS. and write his epic; Bach could appear and One of the few things that make the world compose his music, and the nineteenth cen a very good place to live in is the presence tury inventors could leave us such luxurious of athletic contests and athletes. One of the devices as no other civilization has known. It seems to me that the spirit of this game, which is football, of course, is understood best at Notre Dame. With due respect to all oijr estimable contemporaries, I still believe thht our men take a keener delight in play ing the game than do they. And this asser tion is borne out by leading sport writers who say that the typical foot ball player is the Notre Dame player. Brave men—every one—^hard fighters and cheerful players, to know them is to realize why the influence of athletics is so wholesome and so neces sary. Now the purpose of this paper is not to extol the virtues of the individual Notre Dame football warriors—^the New York and Chicago papers have accomplished that well. It is to explain why football is such a great game, to explain that by recording the deeds of every one of Rockne's men upon the grid DEGREE. iron. Once already, I have noted that the game calls for the speed of a track athlete. things that distinguish a wholesome soul Back in the blue skyed, vine hilled days of from a withered spirit is expressed in a man Greece, there lived a marvelous runner who ifest enjoyment at sight of an athletic strug brought the news of Marathon to Athens. gle. The direct opposition of muscle to He was a speedy boy, but just between us muscle, of strength to strength, induces the two, he could not have made half so good a most wholesome pleasure that physical man football player as Gus Desch or Chet Wynne. can experience. Athletics and athletes keep Cus Desch, known in New York as half back the world's heart beating vigorously; and if number 17, is the world's champion hurdler they should ever be forgotten then the world over the 440 yard course, but more than that, will be decayed and fit only for fire. he is a Notre Dame football player, who has There have been many fine games in just played his first year with the varsity dulged in throughout history, ever since and who will greatly help in biiilding up a Adam first played hide-and-go-seek with his winning team next fall. Chet Wynne is the son Abel. But it is only recently that the amiable captain of our track team, and has perfect game has been developed—one which completed his second season as regular full combines all the ability of the trackman with back for Notre Dame. He is the lightest full the skill of the boxer and of the basketball back playing in high powered football, boast artist, the wiry strength of the rower and ing to the possession of no more than 166 the strategy of the warrior—^perfect alike pounds. Chet will leave at Commencement, for player and spectator, since it develops which is a most unkindest cut. While play the strength of the former more proportion ing for Notre Dame he was also aided by ately than, any other, and is far more inter these men in the backfield: Danny Coughlin, esting for the latter to watch than any other Phelan, Walsh, Lieb, Kane, Shea, Maher and gfcme which has been devised. It took six Bergman. Danny Coughlin, who also grad thousand years to develop this—^just as it uates in the spring, played one year of col- '5fie NouFe &aine§chdascic 179 lege football at Drake before coming here, return, the veteran Chet Grant having played and gained further experience in the west his last footbabll game for Notre Dame. Chet ern training camps; from which he was became a favorite here during the S. A. T. C. picked by Walter Eckersall as an All West wjien he was noted as a brilliant open field ern Service half back. Danny played two runner. His running accounted for Notre years with us—ran ninety yards against the Dame's touchdo\vn again the Great Lakes Michigan Aggies last fall, and tore through eleven—^the touchdown that almost whipped, the whole Indiana lineup this season for sev and eventually tied that ^ great National eral touchdowns. Championship squad. Since then, however Phelan and Walsh have been first string- he was forced to undergo an operation on reserve men for two years. We did not real his knee. This knee kept him from partici ize all the things of which they were capable pating in many games during the fall, but at until the last. Thanksgiving day, both played lowii and West Point he was used, and their last game for the gold and blue, and showed himself to be the same old Chet. The their performances came as a revelation to Indianapolis Star has named him All-State most of the spectators. Phelan ran twenty quarterback. Thomas, who played little foot yards or better on three occasions, while ball last fail, came into prominence this year, Walsh was plunging consistently for eight and was most valuable in the quarterback's and ten yards. His taclding was also note position. Jack Veiock and Billy Evans both worthy. Our friends, Micky Kane, Red give him honorable mention among the lead Shea, Maher and Bergman aided materially ing quarterbacks in the country. He directed. in the development of Rock's back field this the team ably all season. Pete Smith sur fall. Although none of these men are regii- prised even his friends this year by taking lars, the part which they played in Notre his place among the best quarterbacks in Dame's victories cannot be underestimated. school. He played during several games, not It is a big thing to hold the enemy for five ably the struggle with Purdue. Reese, Lo minutes while the star is resting, and the gan and Gene Murphy played good ball in men we mentioned have often done big the quaiterback's position, and they ^vilI all things like that.