South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-03
'BODIE' ANDREWS
To LEAD TEAM
Chosen by Mates to Captain
NOtre Oame-HOId
Banquet.
Chas w Cali

Frank "Bodie" Andrews was
chosen by MS teammates 10 captain
Notre Danes 1918 football team at
the annual football banquet az the
oliver hotel Sunday evening go
die halls from Rock Island, III.
and Is a junior in the Law depart
ment at NOtre Dame For the past
two years he has been a member
Of the football team winning a mon
ogram both years. Last yer be-
cause Of the wealth Of line mate
rial Andrews did not have an op-
pOrtunity TO show his fun worth but
this season ne has been one OF Har-
per's most dependable men, always
In the game with an aggressiveness
and fight that has won him respect
and recognition from opponents and
critics alike. His offensive work has
always been Of the highest cahber
but IL is on the defense that An
drews has proven tower OF
strength, time and again in the crit
Itcal moments Of the strenuous sea-
son just passed, his tacking OF the
enemy for losses has been both time
~ and spectacular.
Andrews Is a hard worker and
popular and the feeling in football
circles is that the Grst big step
toward a successful season for the
gold and blue IN 1915 was taken
with his election
In many respects the past season
has been one OF the most success
ful in the football history at Notre
Dame At least it has been unique.
No season ever started with a more
dismal outlook; no season ever so
gradually progressed and then SO
brilliantly effervesced as the dying
one
At the outset the material thai
faced Coaches Harper and Rockne
was around that point known as alb
solute minimum. The only three
regulars Of the year before 10 put
i'm an appearance were Capt. Phe-
lam Rydzewski and Decree. No
less than 10 men had Joined the
c0lors-Bautan. Bergman. FitzpaJ-
rick, Slackford. Grant. Coughlin,
Meagher, McInerny, O'Hara and
Murphy.
The season was just a game old
when the team was robbed of the
services OF Decree for the rest OF
the season. In a practi- scrimmage
before the Wisconsin battle, the first
conference football game on a Notre
Dame schedule i'm a half dozen
years, the big ST. cloud punter so
badly wrenched his right knee that
ne was practically useless TO the
team throughout the season. He
tried hard to play i'm the Morning
side and W. & J. games but the in
jured member would not support
him. and he had TO give way TO a
substitute
Capt. PheIan got away to bril-
liant start. proving the much need
ed guiding star i'm the midst Of a
host OF budding saterautes but
Uncle Sam put a khaki uniform on
him after the Nebraska game. His
playing against Wisconsin and the
Cornhuskers even surpassed his stel-
lar work OF 1915 and 1916, and
though the offensive strength of the
team had not materialized during
his stay with the team, it was his
tenacity and generalship that pre-.
vented an utter rout OF Notre Dame
in the early season games.
But despite these handicaps Notre
Dame soon coalesced into "a winning
Eridifon machine The South Ia.
kota game marked the turning
point When the gold and blue con-
centrsted It's strength and run over
and around the Coyotes until 40
points had been aggregated close
followers OF the team knew that
Harper and Rockne had az last hit
upon "a winning combination
Came the Army game. What hap
peued 20 the team that critics had
said would be slaughtered? liz fore
ed the future army officers 10 taste
defeat on their historic plains"
Notre Dame won in spite of the des-
peratc efforts of one Elmer Ohphant
the dynamic Army halfback who
when all other means fail his team
IS won't 20 almost literally walk %
victory unaided hy his mates. oil
Dhant tried with every last ounce OF
ight hidden i'm his makeup. but for
The only time I'm two seasons he was
stopped and Notre Dame left the
1eId victorious, Z 10 Q.
Then Gipp mad Allison. whose
speed aud daring had counted much
i'm the battle at West Point. were
Injured; and when Notre Dame once
more turned eastward. those who
pride themselves on knowing q lot
of football shook their heads With
half a hackdeld gone Notre Dame
could not win, thev thought but
they reckoned not with the undyine
nerve Of every last man that wore
NOre Dame suit that took his
place on thta snow covered field az
washington. Pa, I'm the last game
81 the Notre Dame schedule.
It was terrific battle. w. x J
was aston led az the resistance OF
the Notre Dame line that knew II
must hold the fasteners scoreless
n the gold and blue was 20 win The
PennsyIvanians res0rted 90 an over
head attack but that. too, was re.
pulsed. Nineteen separate times DID
The easterners east the ball over the
scrimmaEe line but their total gain.
via the air route did not aggregat,
more than SO Yards
Notre Dame worked "a cOup-fam.
cd for her forward passes. she tried
llt three The big chance came ir