Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-31
NATIONS COLLEGES
GO AFTER BIG FUND
November ID Set for General
Service-A. U.-Shepherd
Lone Game Here.
BY II. c. BYRD.
A COUNTRY WIDE drive is
\ under way to erect at

A COUNTRY WIDE drive is
N under way to erect at
1 \ Notre Dame a $1,000
field house as a memorial
to the late Knute Rockne. The
whole Nation is being organized,
even to the most remote localities,
every State having a chairman
and every chairman having under
him a number of team captains.
As an example, Philadelphia's Or
ganization has been worked up so
well that it has more than 500
team captains for the drive, which
gets under way next week and has
for its climax day November IA.
II Is planned to have memorial
service for Rockne between the halves
Of every foot ball game in the country
the afternoon of November L. This
service will be brief, but of such q
nature as to pay tribute to the best
known of all foot ball coaches.
Chick Meehan. president of the
American Foot Ball Coaches Associa-
ton, is behind the drive and Ia send
ing circular letters to all other coaches
urging that they get back of the move
ment. The impetus for the drive "a
coming from Notre Dame people and
from others closely associated with that
| university.
1t is hoped to raise the full million,
Of which $650,000 will be expended on
the building and $350,000 held as an
maintain the building.
1t is felt generally that college and
universities in svery section win get
behind the p~ovement and also that
| many of those interested generally In
educational projects will lend their helm,
It is wosahy object, and Notre Dame
in erectin> such q memorial to its
former coach will also in that way pay
| tribute to the development of college
athletics as a whole. The field house
to be constructed has headquarters for
all athletic teams and also large floors
| for general physical education. 1t win
be one of the biggest things of its kind
in the United States.
| A MEXICAN UNIVERSITY is thu
IA only local school playing on its
home field today. The Methodists
meet Shepherd College at $3.50 o'clock,
! Unless Shepherd is exceptionally weak.
| the local eleven is likely to suffer an
other defeat.
! With the exception of American Uni
| versity, every other local school Is away
on foreign field. Georgetown is at
Boston College, Catholic University
played at Duquesne University last
night George Washington is at Iowa,
| Gallaudet at Pennsylvania Military Col
legee and Maryland at Virginia Poly
technic Institute.
More big games are scheduled in
IN the South this afternoon. Ken
lucky for the first time tries con-
illusions with a far southern school.
when it meets Alabama, Duke goes over
to Knoxville to face Tennessee, Wander
bllt meets Georgia Tech at Atlanta,
and Georgia tries conclusions with
Florida. In North Carolina the contest
between North Carolina State and North
Carolina University should be colorful.
A big game that has been an annual
affair for many years in the Middle
West is to be played between Nebraska
and Missouri Way back in the nineties,
students at Missouri and Nebraska
looked forward to the meeting of their
schools as one Of the big events OF the
| year and time has not lessened the Inn
portance OF the game, at least not in
their eyes.
INDIANA and Ohio State, Minnesota
i and Wisconsin play the most i'm
portant games in the Western Con-
ference. Michigan comes east to meet
Princeton in one Of several intersec-
ttonal contests listed In the east. Unless
Princeton takes a great brace, Mich
igan will carry the honors back to Ann
Arbor. Ohio State seems shade better
| than Indiana, while Minnesota and
Wisconsin appear about evenly matched.
While Princeton meets Michigan,
Yale and Harvard are TO entertain Dart
mouth and Virginia. The odds I'M
doubtedly favor the Dark Blue and
Crimson. Other big contests In the
east are between Penn State and Pitts
burgh and between Cornell and Col
umbia. The meeting between the two
last mentioned schools ought to be one
OF the best ever played by them.