South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-01-06
NOTRE DAME To
PLAY ARMY LADS
AGAIN THIS FILL
Local College Proves Good
Drawing Card and Accent
Offer For Return ENGAGE
ment-MuSt Develop Team.

Notre Dame will again meet West
Point on the gridiron for ne.otIat.o.s
have been closed for a foot al same
20 be played at West Point Nov =.
The gold and blue made entIable
showing in the east last fall and stood
the cadets on their heads Ia a %
10 victory. The winning Of the ARMY
contest In 1913 brought the HOOs. rs
prominently into the athletic lime
light and showed both east and We-t
that Notre Dame was an eleven OF
championship calibre.
Though West Point had been de-
feated and had piled up against them
the highest total Of points ever
amassed on Soldiers field. the ca
diets felt that they had played a real
team and Immediately asked for an
other game. The Metre Dame West
Point contest should be one Of the
biggest features OF college football
this year. The locals were practic-
ally unknown last fail bat now, that
their fame has spread from coast TO
coast. the tilt with the Army in 1914
should claim universal attention. This
contest will be one Of the biggest in
tersectionsd games of the season and
will offer critics a chance TO compare
relative merits OF the best teams in the
east and west. Notre Dame was
ranked Just behind Harvard in foot
ball this year and the gold and blue
hopes 20 be at the top of the heap in
1914.
WIN Lose Some Men
Notre Dame will lose this fall some
of the best men that were most prom
inent in the recent victory over West
Point. Dorais. All-American quarter.
Rockne, AIl-W estern end, Feeney and
Gushurst Will be missing from the
local line I'm 1919. 1t would seem that
by losing her great quarterback and
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not be so strong in the open game in
1914. The gold and blue has, how
ever. three dependable quarterbacks
from whom 20 pick GOOD pivot man.
Though Finegan cannot touch
Dorais. he IS man Of two years var
sity experience, and with a veteran
team to support him should show TO
good advantage. Sam IS as good as
the average quarterback. and though
now he cannot compare with the phe-
nOmenal Dorais with another years
hard work he should handily fill the
breach This years ITc-hr0ap team
has produced two cool headed quar-
terbacks, Thorpe and Dougnerty-
Both OF these men are built like DOrais
and also handle their teams in much
the same way as did the little Ma
pOleon." Because Of his experience,
however, It is likely that Finegan will
get first call for the position because
players on the team Will have more
confidence in the older man.
Should Finegan work at quarter.
Cofall can fill the formers old place
at left halfback. COfall proved the
sensation OF the year by his playing on
the freshman and SOrln hall teams.
He is without a peer at NOtre Dame
as a defensive player, barring not
even the varsity men. He is fast and
clever in carrying the ball and is an
accurate forward passer. He is also
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VIII Miss Feeney.
Feeney will be missed at center but
in all probability Fitzgerald will be
shifted to that place. The center job
IS not a new one to Fitz for he played
Il at Columbia Prep and CosmOpOlis,
Wash, before coming TO NOtre Dame.
Cook and Voelkers Of the varsity
squad or Buchanan and O'DOnnen of
the freshmen should be able TO fill
the guard position, should Fttz be
used at center. The ends viii give
Harper the most trouble but cOnsid-
ering the marvellous showing of Gus
hurst who was developed in two
weeks. NOtre Dame with good mater
fal should not fare badly. The gold
and blue team that will meet West
Point will be fully as strong as the
1913 eleven. The Army contest is the
third eastern battle scheduled for the
coming season. Carlisle and Syracuse
have already been booked, the former
TO be played in Chicago and the latter
in Syracuse.
With the reopening OF school today
after the holiday vacation. Harper
VIII have his basketball and track
men on the job this afternoon. The
next basketball game is with Beloit
on the 10th. giving the coach just
four days TO get ready for the tilt
Preliminary meets TO try men out Tor
the varsity track team are also dated
for the near future and the candidates
in both sports viii get down TO real
work this afternoon.