South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-21
With Heaviest Team, Will Try
to Retrieve Last Years
Beating.
BY VINCENT ENGEIs.

BY VINCENT ENGE1IS.
Twenty-six husky Nebraskans left
Lincoln City at o'clock yesterday
afternoon. They were accompanied
to the station by a mob OF 1000
students, and given a spirited send
off. \ new yell was invented for
| the occasion: We're so hungry, oh
so hungry; 50 bring back the bacon
from Notre Dame" Capt. Swan
SON standing on the depot platform.
spoke a few words 10 the enthuS-
astic gathering. You can put IT in
your hat" said he. that we're go
| ing 10 win this game"
The squad will arrive IN South
Bend at 1905 this evening, and will
be met by a crowd Of Notre Dame
students who will tender them the
heartiest sort Of reception.
While Capt. Swanson was making
his prophecy at Lincoln City, Capt.
| Eddie Anderson of the Rockers was
training on Cartier Field together
with 40 teammates. The men took
part in a dummy scrimage, with the
| freshmen demonstrating favorite
| Cornhusker formations. Coach
Rockne drilled the men TO break
up these attacks. but on several at
tempts the yearlings got away with
| long forward passes. II Nebraska
should succeed in like manner Sat-
urday. then goodbye victory for
/ y. d. The westerners are expected
to use the pass a great deal in the
game.
Although Nebraska did not use
an aerial offensive extensively in
/ former years, the arrival OF Coach
Dawson at the Lincoln City school
! caused a change in football meth
DDS. In the game with the Haskell
Indians, Dawson's men exhibited q
1 forward pass formation that sue
ceeded four out of five times
Swanson and Scherer, ends, and
( Preston, quarterback, are speedy
men who know how TO shake off
/ an opponent, and are consistent
catchers. The Cornhuskers employ
| both the long and short pass, and
this procedure may prove pulling TO
/ the Rockers.
Big Battle Ahead.
When the prospects Of both teams
are viewed in an impartial light.
/ however, it can be seen that Notre
/ Dame has no reason to be pessi-
mistic. The plain facts are these:
Nebraska has a heavy team which
IS not lacking in speed. Coach
! Dawson has had enough football ex-
perience at Princeton to enable him
] to teach a team a great deal Of foot
ball Moreover, he knows the east
ern style of playing, and Notre
/ Danes system resembles the east
ern more than it does the western
or conference style. Dawson had
| eight members of last seasons var
sity as a nucleus around which TO
build a team, and enough material
was obtained from the second squad
/ and the freshmen of last year TO
enable him 10 develop a team which
rolled through it's early games cas-
ily enough, beating the Haskell In
dams, one of the very best Of the
second class teams, by 41-O score.
Against this aggregation Coach
Rockne will send a team which a.
the start of the season was reput@
/ 70 be the best IN the country anu
which many persons still believe to
be the best in the United States, de-
spite it's defeat by Iowa, the team
which has practically cinehed the
western conference title. Rockne's
men will go into the game greatly
outweighed by the Nebraska stall
warts, but they possess much more
speed than the Cornhuskers. Rock
ne has always had light teams-he
seems to prefer a light but wiry
man TO a heavy. sluggish one. In
fact, the Rocker first string proba-
bly, weighs less than the second,
many OF the substitutes outweigh
ing the regulars by 10 to is pounds.
The Notre Dame team has also
gone through its early games in e~-
celent fashion, and while defeated
once. came back in remarkable
| fashion, whipping Purdue by a $50
score. This same Purdue held Chi
cago, admittedly one of the best
] conference teams this season to a