The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-12
TALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

HTEW YORK, Nov II. - You
never can tell. right oil !
mean. about these young pleasant
faced fellows with yellow brief cases
who drop in to see you. Now you
lake the case of young VIII Stevens
Who dropped in Tuesday. was
nrettv sure he was selling some
hing. and I informed him gently
but firmly I was not in the market
Tor any canticlever' bridges, kettle
drums or war scenarios
n
put an here TO tell YOU about the
saints" Young WIN stevens interrupted.
well ~ course that was dlderent.
-.s5n haven't been as constant IN my
MUTUAL devotions Of late as posslpis
ought to Be. due to ore rTopeTlv re-
snectiul sttltude and invited the young
man to shoot.
ITO start at the beginning
started Stevens. Z suppose the
most remarkable thing about the
saints is slip Madigan-
Is who?' I demanded.
slip Madigan. You see he's the
coach. He took the St Mary's squad
when you wouldn't have given
dime A. dozen for them and now
well. now they are the berries, and
thew are coming here Saturday TO
plav that unbesten team Of yours
Fordham, I believe, is the name ism
it-2"
n
In situation such as this there is
nothing 10 do but SIT back ana Ely 10 %
iolerant.
New let me show YOU the figures. OF
course. YOU know who Edward Patrick
nslip" Msdigan is He PLAYED center for
Nofre Dame three wears. Plenty OF center
10 be specihc lie learned his football un-
der fellow named Bockne. who am
told is net without certain standing in
this community.
oweu Slip took charge Of the Saints IN
1921. At that time It was 9, college Of
seventy students. including the furnace
tender and the bird who used TO wash tne
Gated then In Oakland; across the bay
from San Francisco. and the natlVes u si
'oId brick pile This was only partially
true While the place was old It, was
hardly pretentious enough to be calIea
pile.
In those days Slip had tough time
getting q squad together. For nearly three
wears he was coach. trainer. doctor and
rubber Of the squad and while I uues-
ton ths truth Of the statement II has
been said that on occasions he used to
trot out on the field and run with the
ball. especially when a piece of first class
running was needed
But things have changed. Today the
nave moved back into the hills. about
dfteen miles from the BAY, and the sight
that wav point with. pride, to the new
Moorish-Spanish buildings that cost two
and half million dollars to build
n
"CLIP has a lot of material to pick
Ofrom now. Why, he even has
an assistant coach, though this is
still looked upon as an ostentatious
display of luxury by the old timers
around the college, and not wholly
in keeping with the primitive spirit
of the picture. There's a band out
there this year for the first time,
but I am not optimistic about its
future, due to a growing feeling that
the presence of SaXophones and
trombones may be devitalizing to
the masculine mood"
n
stevens paused to open another brief
case, and ] was somewhat disappointed
that he didn't dig into the contraption
and come IN with sIip and the varsity
squad without further ado.
Il
THE Saints didn't get going until 1875
when Slips team went through the season
indicated. They had another unneaten
team last season. In the last five years
thew have lost only eight games and they
California. Stanford. Santa Clara; Cali
fornia and OREGON. All the tough ones
out that way and winning from most OF
them. most Of the time.
n
This year the Saints have another great
team. Seventeen letter men out of twenty
three are back. slip has DEVELOPED fast,
nowerful running attack and an air Of
fensive that Is always dangerous. hear
lot about that Fordham line. Well. the
Saints line hasn't been scored through in
two years. The truth is the team hasn't
really been extended vet"
trot to ask il it wasn't so that the Saints
had been beaten by California earlier in the
season. and not particularly hot Cali
fornia team at that.
"oh. that game. Well. that was Just
one of those things. You know how foot
hall is these DAYS. The best team can al
WAYS lose