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Vol. VII, No. 1 News Section October 1, 1924 REGIS ATHLETIC BIG THREE NEW DIRECTOR Introducing FACULTY HEAD TOM M'NAMARA, HEAD COACH OF RANGERS Tom McNamara, new Ranger coach, sity's staff, receiving considerable comes to Regis highly recommended notoriety when the Penn defense built by several leading football authorities from his scouting reports turned back of the East. In his undergraduate Charley Moran's Centre College team years Coach McNamara was a star of "Praying Colonels." McNamara's athlete at Georgetown and Fordham reputation has been given confirma­ universities under the well known tion, too, through the medium of his Indian, Exinduil and the New York popular column in the Philadelphia City mentor, Dr. J. Morning Ledger on Frank Gargan. He '·Football for Be­ later assisted Coach ginners.". He can Gargan in prepar­ build a team ing for the Ma­ worthy of a place roon's big games. in the Rocky Moun­ FLOYD SHAFER REV. B. J. MURRAY; S. J . Subsequently, while tain Conferenc3 if "The Rangers this year represent "The most promising team in the a candidate at the any man can. His the greatest football team that Regis last five years," says Floyd Shafer, Infantry Officers record and exper­ Director of Athletics. 'We haye the Training School, iences speak well has ever turned out. Never before best squad we have ever had. The Camp Lee, Virginia, for him. He has have we had such a wealth of good men are heavier and we haYe a good he was placed in the material. Now material," says Father Murray, let's give him the reserve, a factor that has always charge of the Com­ Faculty Director of Athletics. "This pany's f o o t b a 11 solid support of been lacking. The team will have is the first time that we have been the old, Regis fight and spirit and squad. the student body and we are assured able to show what we can do against more of it. In 1919 he enter­ a winner. strong Conference teams on our own "The new Regis Stadium, which ed the University Says the Denver grounds, and if Regis wins its first of Pennsylvania as was formally opened at the Mines Post:- three games, and we have every rea­ a Federal Board son to believe that we will, we will game, September 27, is seating at "Tom McNamara, Student and spec­ soon realize our ultimate ambition­ present close to five thousand peo­ new Regis football ialized there in ad­ to put Regis College in the Rocky ple, and will be, when completed, the coach, is hitting vertising under Dr. Mountain Conference. There is no largest and most beautiful athletic the ball and not Herbert Hess. Dur­ doubt about it;" Father Murray con­ field in the Rocky Mountain states. saying much. He ing the seasons of itnued, "this is the most promising Regis, considered for years past, as a means bu3iuess and 1920-21-22 he acted season upon which a Regis football "·second rater" in athletic circles, knows f o o t b a 11 in the capacity of team has ever entered. With many will this season show the public the from the ground assistant coach at experienced men back from last year's results of its recent development, up, but his theory the Penn institu­ team and many new players who are and that it is worthy to be classed seems to be that tion and scouted all proving their worth, Coach McNa­ 1vith any too.m in the Conference. We actio~ speaks loud­ the big eastern mara is building a team which would have a chance to shoW' what we can er than words. He teams, including be a credit to many a larger insti­ do on our own grounds, as Father · is well prepun·d to the Navy, Pitts­ tution. We have been fortunate in Murray says, and we know that we hand•.e ctny coach­ burg, Penn State, securing the services of a coach of can depend upon the loyalty of the ing job. He has a Mr. McNamara's ability, and with student body and alumni to help and Cornell. The real problem ahead Floyd Shafer, the newly appointed "put the team across." the greatest following season, as Courtesy News-Times of Pennsyl- of him to whip a team into shape to Director of Athletics, a better staff team that Regis has ever turned out. coach of the University play Mines, Denver U. and Colorado cannot be found in the state. "There's no doubt about it, a win­ vania's first Junior Varsity eleven, U. on successive Saturdays. It would "Put Regis in the Conference - -. he made a remarkable record, winning ning eleven is as great an asset to. a be a difficult task that any coach in We need not be satisfied with that. every game except that against the school in its way as a thoroughly the Conference wou!d hate to tackle, It's not wholly visionary to see the Third Army Corps, a team composed standard curriculum is in a higher let along a new coa•:~ with a. strange Ranger Stadium as the scene of of former All-Americans. way. The maculty is giving Regis s;ystem to get goin•{ in three weeks coast-to-coast inter-sectional battles Only in 1924 did he give up ~ctive the latter. Only the team and its time." -as the training camp of the great­ field coaching because of busl~ess, backers can contribute the former. BUT HE IS getting it going! est team in the country." Cboperation spells ·success." though he remained on the Umver- Page Two THE BROWN AN D GOLD October 1, 1 ~21 TRAGIC DEATH OF FACUin'Y MEMBER FLAYS EUGENE HOWARD, RECENT " NO DETOURING MODERN EDUCATION GRAD, DIES SUDDENLY TO SUCCESS '' REGLS HIGH GRAD --R-- -R- ' ~-R-- --R-- Fr. Krenz Stirs Students at Fr. Kelley, S. J. Addr~sses Mass of Holy Ghost College Men Father Leo M. Krenz, S. J., of t he At the initia.l gather ing of College men for the em-rent term of '24-'25, College Faculty delivered a striking Rev. Father Kelley in a very hearty sermon at the annual Solemn High manner welcomed all the Collegians Mass of the Holy Ghost, bringing to to Regis. He dwelt briefly on the the attention of his listeners the rapid growth of the institution and true meaning and value of a Catholic stated how pleased he was with the present large enrollment. education. "To learn to live, not to make a living is the reason you are "Religious education," in the words here at Regis. This is the xplanation of Fr. Rector, "is the only complete of the lives of those who tender you education. For, unless our motives in so hearty a welcome this morning, life are goverened by re l ~gious re­ in this is found an explanation, too, strictions, we are liable to laxity in of the many hard things in the all our pursuits, a wrong outlook on ROBERT 1\f. DUNHAM curriculum of a Catholic college." life, and ultimate failure, in the eyes of the world as well as before (}od." Robert l\1. Dunham, of the gradult­ True Educat ion No Detouring T o Success ing cia s of '24 died on Friday after. "To educate youth," the speaker continued, "is to teach him to live In reference to study Fr. Kelley noon, eptember 5, in Fort Worth, worthily as a man, to raise him said, "work is the only path to suc­ Texas, as the result of bur iiB sustain. above the level of t he brute beast." cess. In my years of experience ed when the gasoline tank of an in educational work I have yet to In stinging words the present wide­ automobile he was repairing explodei see a successful man who reached spread fallacy in education w·as de­ The news of his sudden death was nounced for reducing man to a mere EUGENE B. HOvVARD eminence by any other road." In con­ received with the greatest sorrow by mechanism without a soul, devoid of E ugene B. Howard, A. B., for six clusion he dwelt on loyalty to the I his old teachers and classmates, es· a sense of the higher things of life. school. "If you love Her you will years a student at Regis, a graduate pecially as !t had been generally un· "Youth has a sacred right to know be active in the furtherance of her of t he class of '22, and more recently derstood that "Bob" was to return its true nature and its true end, honorable name. If you are a true a student in the University of Colo­ for another year at Regis. PosseB· and it is a crime against the Christ friend of your Alma Mater you will ed of a fine, manly piety, earnest of Godi to wrest from its heart this rado Medical School, fell a victim to overlook her faults, for a friend is in his work, prominent in athleti~, priceless knowledge of its Go.d and septic poison after but a short illness.