The Washington herald., 1921-11-09
SPEED OF INDIANA
TEAM BEWILDERS
Big EASTERNERS
Desch, Champion Hur-
dler, and Castner, Have
Field Day.
BY wEsrBRooK PEGLER.
(unissd News star corsspondsnt.)

(Unttsd News staf Corsspondent.)
yEw YORK, Nov. SIT wasn't
M really fair test OF Notre Dame.
IN but what New York saw at the
Polo Grounds this afternoon in the
game between the Indiana football
team and the numbering red crew
from Rutgers was enough to ex-
plain to the football curious people
Of this town how Notre Dame de-
feated the Army's team at West
Point last Saturday, 2s to 0. This
was the first time the Notre Dame
team had played IN New York al
though the westerners have shown
in eight games with the Cadets,
Just a suburban ride up the river
from the woolworth Building. They
DEBATED Rutgers, 4s to o.
The shrill chatter of the opening
whistle had hardly flown over the
grandstand roof before the boy on
the indicator where Babe Ruth's
honners are marked up in summer
time was recording thes core:
'sNotre Dame, q; Rutgers, o."
Rutgers kicked of and on the
hrst scrimmage. at the Notre Dame
45-yard line. Castner, right half
back for the blue team, slipped
around left end, going like an en-
gine to q three-alarm FIRE, and
whirled across Rutgers goal for
the first touchdown.
New Workers Like visitors.
castner went through the entire
Rutgers team and flashed by the
men on secondary defense so fast
and with so much room that they
were spared even the jar of hurting
themselves in his general direction.
New York would like very much
now to see the Iowa team against
say, the pick of Yale, Princeton and
Harvard, considering that Iowa de-
feated Notre Dame. Or Notre Dame
against Penn State, which showed
here a little more than a week ago
in a victory over the Golden Tor
nado from Georgia Tech. The
westerners have something in the
way Of football that Eastern teams
seem to have not. They not only
hurl forward passes in pretty arcs,
but they catch them and hang on
to them more times than not.
Notre Dame opened up after the
second half began. There was no
necessity for bruising the men by
asking them to carry the ball. And
pass after pass was completed for
Is, 20, 30 yards, the only difficulty
being that the officials were unus-
uaIly scrupulous in watching Notre
Dame for offside during the execu-
ton of the Notre Dame shift In
this manner Notre Dame lost
enough ground to make another
two or three touchdowns.
Desch a speed Demon.
In the third period Coach Rockne,
of Notre Dame, sent in a frightened
deer by the name of Desch, none
other than Gus Desch, the worlds
champion 440-yard hurdler.
1t was explained by Notre Dame
boys in the press coop that Rockne
has not very free use of this Desch
hoy because the track coach does
not want him used up or marred in
such rough work as plunging or
tackling. Hand him the ball from
a formation, though, show him a
hole the size of a BIB shot, let him
alone and then watch i'm go.
Desch ran left and for As yards
on the very first play after ne was
sent in. 1t seemed almost unfair to
use a man so fast as he against
men so slow as the Rutgers fellows,
vet they aren't so awfully much
slower than the average college
= team.
Desch would outrun almost any
body in football. Again they gave
h{-n the ball and he carried it for
50 yards, and on a third sprint he
made IS. simply by outrunning the
red chargers rlunging behind and
conveFging on him.
After one glimpse of this famous
western team that has been defeat
ing the Army year after year for
so many years. New York would
like to see some more, against
big three team, II possible.