Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-05
COMMENT ON
SPORT WORLD
BY HENRY McLEM0RE
United Press Staff Correspondent

| United PRESS Staff correspondent
NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-St. Marys
galloping Gaels are a good bet to
defeat Fordham today, principally
because MIR. Peter Coyle of the New
Haven sanitation department CoyleS
will be on the bench alongside
Coach Slip Madigan.
BY the same token all the other
Notre Dame coached elevens
| throughout the country are in dam
ger of losing because Mr.. Peter
/ Coyle will not be on hand to grace
| their benches and shout words of
wisdom and encouragement.
Mr.. Coyle is the Two-eyed Con-
molly of Notre Dame football. He
| has held this position Tor some 10
years, or ever since that day when
he. by some mysterious means, at
tached himself to the late Knute
Rockne. Legend has it that Knute
looking up and down the bench
one day just before an important
game, spied Mr.. Coyle.
who is that and throw it out OF
here" Numbered Knute.
Whereupon Mr.. Coyle moved three
places closer to Rockne, told him
TO watch those ends and stayed
put. Notre Dame won, and after
Coyle was Rockne's shadow, and
Rock" would not consider starting
game until his good luck charm
was safely on the bench, Peters
sidelines pass dangling from his
coat. Rockne even put up With
Peters coaching, allowing the New
Haven vagabond to advise him
what plays to run, when to take
out players, and how to set his de-
Tense. And Peter, believing that
Rock was carrying out his sugges-
lions, was happy.
When Rockne died, Coyle trans
ferred his affections TO the young
coaches who were Rockne products
-Madigan, Mehre, Crowley at
Michigan State, Noble Kizer at
Purdue and Hunk Anderson at
Notre Dame.
Seeks Advice
ut was my absence, and my alb
sence alone, that cost Old Hunk
that Pittsburgh game" Peter told
us at the st. Mary's dinner. i
knew all along 1 oughta get out
there and help Hunk, but the Wea-
Their was so cold for hitch-hiking
I didn't make it,"
Peter then asked for advice. 1t
seemed he was in a sweat, worry
inc about whether to help Mehre
and Georgia today, or Madigan and
st. Marys. He finally decided thaC
being as st. Mary's was pretty GRIP
pied I'D, he'd better start the game
anyway, at the Polo grounds.
The first thing Crowley asked
when he arrived with his Michi-
gan State team several weeks ago
was. "Will Peter be here?" He was
told Peter would be present SO ne
went to the game satisfied. At the
end of the first half Fordham Was
whipping Michigan State ana
Coyle hadn't arrived. suddenly
Crowley heard shout from tne
erandstand and there was Peter,
tearing down the aisle toward Che
field. his face a composite picture
of all the miseries.
Jimmy, Jimmy" shouted Feter
while some half a block away "When
in hell are you going to use old to?
Crowley Gained him down and III
the second half Michigan State ran
wild to come from behind ana WIN.
Peter, with a smile mile long mt
the road for New Haven, his thumb
pointing north in the best Mitch
hiking manner.
He was back the next week and
helped Kizer and Purdue take New
York university. And today he II
be nudged close to slipper, OF KID
as he calls Madigan, pointing out
Fordham's weaknesses and begging
Slip to use old 81.