Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-30


For example, that Notre Dame
Carnegie Tech foot ball game at
Pittsburgh last Saturday. Notre
Dame put in her second = string
team at the start of'the game and
Carnegie, not to be outdone, also
played a substitute lineup. Both
coaches kept their combinations
intact throughout the first period.
Now in this period Notre Dame made
no appreciable gains-never had the
ball nearer the Tech goal than the 3d.
yard mark And the Tartans were
never nearer the Irish goal than the
Irish 35-yard line.
But that is beside the point. What
mattered was that the Tech ends on
defense were driving straight down into
the backfield, not turning in, and TO
save their lives the Notre Dame full
backs and the other blocking back
could not hit them properly, So the
climax end runs upon which Notre
Dame relies were constantly oelng
turned In.
regular teams in action, Notre Dame
two flashy ball carriers, Elder-a per-
feet whiz-and Carideo, were being
kept inside where Techs secondary
could grab them. Then just toward
the end of this quarter the Notre Dame
fullback, who had been working on one
or other of the defensive ends as the
trend of the play indicated, began hit
ting the Tech wingman on the outside,
after neatly feinting to hit him as he
had been doing. Consequently, Elder
was shot loose for a 25-yard run, and
the half ended with the ball on Techs
15-yard line.
In the third period Tech began to
shoot her ends in diagonally. She had
to, because the way they were being hit,
now that the Notre Dame fullback had
doped out the fiaw in their defensive
strategy, would have spelled muroer'
And it was but question of time when
one of the ends would be knocked for
a loop and the way cleared for the WILD
running Elder. 1t came toward the
middle of the quarter, when. with Notre
Dame in possession of the ball on her
own Award line, Elder went around
right end to Techs l8-yard line. whence
q series of thrusts and prods took the
ball over.
Notre Dame Covers Up.
Carnegie's spirited hard-hitting de-
tense is entitled to high praise. In the
face of 1t, the writer hates to say that
Notre Dame acted as though she had
clever stuff in reserve which she did not
see fit to use. In this mistake OF
Judgment may have been made, but the
writer does not think so. Watched by
bitter enemy scouts, she was not show
ing all she had-or, at any rate, all she
will have.
Notre Danes offense was the same
old, time honored stuff, with the addl-
ton Of sptnners-which never worked.
Seven-man defense, box backfield for
nation. Same old Notre Dame. Car
negie deserted her send-around stuff.
She shifted her tackle from the original
lineup to astrong side, and the quar-
terback was always in motion before the
ball was snapped. And, as seems to be
the rule this year, he was generally
wasted man.
The South Bend defense was beau-
tiful. AS showing how it worked, it
may be pointed out that Tech never
got nearer the Irish goal than the
Notre Dame 35-yard mark, and tten
only once. Thereafter she was never
nearer the South Bend goal than mid
field. The Notre Dame defensive tackle
play was joy to watch, and TIE cut
ting down of ball carriers absolutely
deadly.
Copyright, 1929