unfortunately for them there were other nations who also had strong national beliefs that eventually became the means of bringing defeat to the Germans let's go into the field of sports for everyone who has ever witnessed a football or baseball game has actually seen this power of suggestion at work the late Knute Rockne famous coach at Notre Dame knew the value of suggestion and used it repeatedly but he always suited his method of applying it to the temperament of the individual team a story is told that on one Sunday afternoon Notre Dame