South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-10
BEGIN FOOTBALL
TALK At N. D.
Schedule for Next Fall is a
Strong 0ne-To Begin
Practice Soon.
By CHARLES A. GRIMES.

Since victory refuses absolutely
to perch on the Notre Dame basket
ball standard this season, and Wa
bash has come and gone with an
other Gold and Blue scalp, campus
gossip was confined largely yester-
day to football practice for next
season.
The footall schedule as announced
by Coach Rockne is perhaps the
strongest ever mapped out for a
Notre Dame eleven. Games are
scheduled with two conference
teams. Rockne could have had at
least five conference games had he
available dates for such contests. He
arranged two. however, that ought
10 decide the championship OF In
diana IL nothing else.
VIII Play Indiana.
Indiana will play Notre Dame at
indianapolis, Nov. l, in a game that
from a Hoosier standpoint should
prove TO be the most interesting on
the schedule. The DOWNSTAIRS sew
cred athletic relations with Notre
Dame ten years ago. Last spring
relations were resumed in baseball
and Notre Dame walloped the
Bloomington collegians. Coach
Jumbo" Stiehm, of Indiana, ex-
poets TO develop one of the greatest
Hoosier elevens ever gotten togeth-
er next fall and things he can slip
one over on Rockne's eleven. But
Notre Dame will certainly not be
To- -, 10.
and a great battle should result.
With a badly banged-up team. No
ire Dame trounced Purdue last fall.
Another game has been scheduled
for Nov. 22nd at Lafayette this year.
VIII Tackle Army.
Notre Dame will tackle the Army
again at West Point after a years
lay-off. The game is scheduled for
Nov. Immediately after the arm
istice was signed the athletic direc-
tors at the Point wired Rockne for
a game this season. Rockne consid-
cred the second Saturday in Novem-
Der acceptable. Notre Dame has
won three of the five games played
with the Army.
Games with Great Lakes, Michi-
gan Aggies and Nebraska are the
other important contests on Rock
mes schedule. Kalamazoo College
will open the season here October 4,
Great Lakes comes on the 18th, No
tire Dame plays Nebraska at Lincoln
the 18th, Western State Normal plays
here the 25th, Notre Dame goes 10
indianapolis for the game with In
diana Nov 1. and to West Point for
the Army game Nov. S. The Mich
igan Aggies come 10 Notre Dame
Nov. Is. Notre Dame goes TO Purdue
the 22nd, and from Lafayette TO
Omaha, Neb., to clash with Creigh-
ton in a THANKSGIVING finale.
Practice i'm Three Weeks.
Spring football practice will be-
gin in three weeks. Many of the
old men are returning and great
things are expected of next years
eleven. Grant, O'Hara, Fitzpatrick
Slackford, McDermott, Bergman
Kasper and Meagher are some OF
the old-timers still in France who
are planning TO return 10 Notrt
Dame as soon as Uncle Sam no long
er needs their services. McInerney
and Murphy, having paid the su-
preme sacrifice, will never return
with Gipp. Bahan, Brandy, Smith
Mohn, Trafton, Anderson, Crowley
| and two score other aspiraants
Rockne will start the spring season
with a wealth of material.
Prepare For Baseball.
Trainer SZczepanik, Coach Rock
mes eccentric athletic equipment
Sdictator. is preparing the gym fol
10 new football and baseball men
| Lockers are being repaired for the
use OF the newcomers, many OF
whom will be baseball candidates
First call for diamond aspirants viii
be sounded by Captain Ralph Sjo'
berg shortly after the basket bal
team starts on fits last trip of the
season next week.