The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-14
CARIDEO GLAD COLLEGE
= SPORTS ARE EMPHASIZED
Knute Rockne's Field General
Believes Cridiron Mods
Character

South Bend. Ind, Jan. 14.-tP-
If college football Is about to be de
emphasized" the little Napoleon of
Knute Rockne's all-conquering armies
Of 1929 and 1880, is tickled that he
became emphasized"
Dropping an armful, of text books
classes, frankie Carideo. Notre
Danes all-American OF all Ameri-
cans, came to the defense Of 'empha-
sized football by describing it as one
of the best emphasizers of good char
acter building any college student
can experience. ,
I'm only % years old-a compar-
alive kid, I realize-but football has
done too much for me to let the quips
and charges of over-emphaSis go by
unchallenged. I've had a wonderful
experience playing the game. It's
taught me the value of discipline,
elf-assurance, training, Stick-to-it-
iveness, and determination. They're
lessons q fellow can't forget easily.
Lessons that come hard; like many
of those on a football field when
you're in the thick of q great battle,
can't be forgotten easily" i,
Carideo Tells Story
With that, Carideo related some Of
the inside" incidents that helped
him scale heights Of football few
players ever reach.
Zone of the first things l learned
was the simple old-fashioned value
of a good, healthy grin. That's a
Rockne trait If you've ever noticed,
it. When he has q tough game
ahead. he is always smiling during
the practice. That's what a quarter
back or general of a team must do.
If your opponent notices you are
weakening. he'll tackle you that much
harder. Smiling or even laughing out
loud at an opponent often is good
psychology when the going is the
toughest.
I'll never forget the Northwestern
game last fall. Those Wildcats were
the hardest, surest tacklers I eve
ran up against. Every time I got the
ball. I was tackled harder and hard
er although the tackles were as clean
as a whistle. So were Marty Brill.
Marchy Schwartz. Larry Mullins and
the rest of the boys. The going got
tougher and tougher. Finally, Null
Inns, I think It was, got dumped hard
for a big loss and he landed like a
ton of lead. But up he came with a
big broad grin spread acros his face.
It struck us funny and We all laughed.
Better than that. we kept right on
laughing and it gave lis renewed spir-
it. We fought harder and won that
battle.
Gets eagles Goat
I'VE beat Chris eagle and his great
Army team in 1928 by laughing and
joshing the Cadets. We entered the
game with rather drap prospects for
victory. Then some wag hit on a
trick, and it caught. We called every
player on the Army team captain
all except the mighty eagle. We
called him Cadet. I believe to this
day our quips sort of befuddled him.
Anyway, toward the end of the game,
Freddy Collins. who had been making
most of our gains, started q play and
shouted to Chris:
Come, on Cadet, old boy, follow
me this time if you can
eagle did. so did most of the Army
players. Well, Freddy just sucked
'em way out and then Tipped a nice
pass through the big opening to
O'Brien who went over for the win
| ming touchdown"
But what a player eagle IA He
and Russ Saunders of the Southern
| California Trojans were the hardest
ball carriers to stop I ever faced"