South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-15
PEER OF COACHES
MUST FIND A GIPP,
BRANDY, BARRY
Like a Learned Jockey, Col.
lege Mentor Has Staked
All on His Colts.

AAeJ 70 on
Fifty good men and husky VIII
answer the call OF Coach RocSne at
Cartier field at . o'clock Thursday
forming for the first practice Of the
year which VIII seriously
d>mage the athletic prestige OF the
school or Determine the Notre Dame
eleven as national champion and
cKnute Rockne as the peer OF
scoaches.
Like the Jockey who places his
last dollar on his own horse and then
rides hard 20 win. Rockne had gam
-bIed. He has pltted MS men against
xhe best representative elevens OF
three sections OF the country. He
knows that every one Of these teams
viii point throughout the season for
Its clash with Notre Dame and also
that his own team has lost a great
deal OF the speed and Drawn which
carried Il 20 victory IN It's previous
seasons. Knowing all OF these
things, ROckne has plunged. He be-
aieves ne has a good horse and he
will ride 70 win.
Rock Least Optimistic.
Because ne does know all OF these
shings Rickne IS the least optimistic
OF the followers OF Notre Dame foot
hall for the year. Games between
evenly matched teams are won or
lost largely by the caprice OF that
much sought after god, the god OF
l. chance. The best team does not al
Mays win and the most promising
star may ride TO perditiOn on the
coaster OF a broken bone. NOtre
Dame has been unusually fortunate
In the freedom from injury OF its
stars. and IL has always enjoyed at
Toast a friendly relationship with the
power that doleS out the breaks OF
the game.
Breaks Must Remain.
Rut 20 complete the IL game
schedule Of the current season the
Notre Dame team must continue
70 get its share OF breaks and re-
main fortunately free from, injury.
To complete his third consecutive
undefeated year Rockne must con-
tinue 20 develop the Gipps and
Brandys and Coughlins and Smiths
! who have translated the cunning OF
> their coach's brain into winning
games by a certain magic OF their
own.
To Clearly come through Il games
n 81 days. to send Iowa. Purdue.
Nebraska. Indiana, West Point and
Rutgers TO defeat in five weeks,
Rockne's team must have everything
that a football team ever had-and
everything IS quite a lot
n. ID. Rating Very High.
The pathway Is rather thorny.
Notre Dame has been a winner for
zhree seasons. Teams like West
Point. Nebraska. Indiana and Pur-
due have bowed to the gold and blue
for three consecutive seasons. Con-
ference teams have felt the power
OF the local speed clan TO the extent
that Eastern critics have gone to
the length OF rating Metre Dame
ahead OF the Big 10 champs while
- even the Western authorities have
RQnceded an equality.
II becomes Just a little too hard
90 take after a while and there is
q courage born of desperation. Wit
sess the threatened tragedy at In
diana last year when the clean heels
OF Norm Barry. fresh from the side
lines, led the way TO a last minute
victory.
Iowa Victory Bent
Iowa. with Slater and Devine. all
Western men, and an accompanying
squad OF seasoned players. has two
Obtectives for she year-Notre Dame
and Illinois. That Iowa may win
from Illinois and even emerge as
the Conference champion IS no far
fetched thought. but that Iowa will
samely submit 10 a NOtre Dame VIC
tory and make possible a clear Yves
tern championship for the local
team IS hardly a problem for the
class IN psychology.
West Point viii point for three
games - Yale Navy and Notre
Dame. and West Point has exercised
IT, peculiar prerogatve by collect
Eng a number OF stars graduated
from other universities until the
team assembled at the Plains more
nearly resembles an actual all
American aggregation than any ever
brought together. Just now the Sol
diers appear TO be the class OF the
East: and II the Army wins nom
yale and Navy viii they welcome an
opportunity to repay the triple de-
feat administered by Notre Dame
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Irish Scalp I'm Danger.
Then there are Nebraska. Indiana.
Purdue, Michigan Aggies. Marquette
Haskell Rutgers and Kalamazoo
even Depauw which is said 20 have
been working quietly since Sept. 1st
with an Irish scalp as the objective
Rockne expects a mediocre sea
son-and who wouldn't on the evil
dcnce2 But just the same IL is a
good horse with a quIck-thinkins
hard-rlding jockey. OtGer football
ucly-incIined folks throughout the
land think SO TOO. and quite a few
ewes will Re conferred on what sort
OF s L0chinvar VIII come out OF the
West this year.
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