South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-04
ROCKNE- DORAIS
DUO A SUCCESS
Beth Coaches Finish a Sue
ceSSfuI First Year With
Notre Dame.

Unsurpassed. perhaps unequaled
are the first year records Of Athletic
Director Knute X Rockne and
Coach Charles l. Dorais of Notre
Dame. These big guns in the uni
versity's athletic world have accom-
plished wonders in their first year
i'm charge of the sports.
Rock as head Of Gold and Blue
athletics for the first year has pro-
I vided not only some Of the best
I schedules. but has turned out some
Of the best teams that have ever
represented Notre Dame. Dorais
who has acted as ROckne's assist
ant in the coaching game since last
! January. has accomplished what
perhaps no other big college base
I ball coach has ever done In his first
session with the big fellows. The
! doing OF his western intercollegiate
baseball champions who have won
ten. lost three and tied one game
} this year have placed Gus" almost
7 as high in the baseball limelight
/ OF 10 as did his phenomenal grid
I iron stunts in the football limelight
OF '13.
ROcknc Takes Charge.
! Rockne took charge of athletics
at Notre Dame just a year ago
! when Jesse c. Harper decided that
I The life Of Kansas ranchman held
an appeal too strong to resist. Twas
job and a half that Rockne
! tackled Enlistments, $. A. T. 9.
rulings, arbitrary army arrange
ments and general uncertainty were
a few Of the many obstacles he en-
countered. Until the first Of Octo-
! Der no one knew whether the gov
eminent would sanction college foot
! ball for the 1918 season or order its
abandonment ROckne remained
/ imperturbed.
Early in the war the fast balding
mentor offered his services to the
army but Uncle Sam decided Rock
1 was too good chemistry teacher to
waste his time teaching rockies the
manual Of arms and back came he
/ to Notre Dame
Rocl1nc Il Teacher.
When not teaching five chemistry
classes, arranging schedules, and
ironing out :. a. 7. G. difficulties.
( Rockne got a lot Of willing but raw
! football material together. Notre
Dame was 10 be represented on the
gridiron unless Uncle Sam forbade.
4 Along toward the later part of Sep
/ TENDER the government decided
football could be continued. Rockne
was prepared.
influenza epidemics upset the or
! ignal schedule but Rockne was not
: To be denied. only once during the
] entire season was his Notre Dame
team stopped. That was on a rainy
occasion at Lansing when Rockne's
! light eleven skidded through 10 a
I defees Purdue and other worthy
! opponents ran afoul of Rockne's
I Rollers Even the Great Lakes ell
even. service champions of the
country was forced TO halt in an ex-
hibition game at Notre Dame. Were
/ 1t not for the fact that former
/ Gold and Blue star got hip 10 the
/ signals Of the locals the Irish would
have trimmed the Gobs. The hnal
score of the game stood Z TO :.
DOrais Signs.
When the war ended Rockne
rightly decided that he needed an
/ assistant Down in Waco, Texas, mis-
Old side-kick. Lieut. Charles z.
Dorais, had just turned out an eleven
than won the divisional football
/ championship of the southwest.
Previous TO his army service Dorais
had successfully directed athletics
at Dubuque. Gus" was the man
Rockne wanted and Gus" was the
man he got.
School re-opened about the mid
/ die of January and Rockne took
| charge of the track candidates while
/ Dorais took upon himself the des-
TIMES OF the basketball team. Get
/ ting adapted TO the old college ways
and DAYS came hard for Dorais and
/ his basketball charges failed TO get
going right for several weeks. Nari-
Gus accidents put the team in bad
way and the season was not a great
success.
Track Men Start.
Meanwhile Rockne was devoting
, his attention TO the track men. The
attention he showered on a squad
/ of Youngsters was SO well spent that
critics everywhere are nov pointing
/ out that ne has one of the best
\ developed and most evenly balanced