The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-11

.LAYDEN FEARS
|. FOR RAMBLERS
ON ALL SIDES
Loss Of 10 Veterans
Leaves "UnknOwns" to
Form Team Nucleus

South Bend, Ind. --(UP) - Loss
Of 10 lettermen from the 1885
squad has caused Coach Elmer Lay
den to limit his predictions for the
Notre Dame football team to the
simple statement that the Irish will
show up every Saturday,"
"It's bad enough to find 10
lettermen missing, among them nine
regulars and nine backs" said Lay
den, but it's worse to hear all Of
our opponents without exception
confidently predicting that they'll
be better than last year."
Starting his third season as di-
rector of athletics and head coach
of football at Notre Dame, the
former Irish star reported 16 re-
turning lettermen, all virtually
"unknowns," would form the nucleus
of this years team.
Veterans Barely Known
"Scan the list of veterans and
see how many names you recog-
nize," challenged the fullback of
the Notre Dame Four Horsemen of
1924.
He listed them as follows:
Joe O'Neill and Joe Zwers, ends;
Bill Steinkemper, Frank Kopczak,
and Art Cronin, tackles; John
Lautar, Joe Ruetz, Jim Martin,
Joe Kuharich, Elmer zenner, and
Bill Smith, guards; Bob Wilke,
Vic Wopcihovski, and Joe Gleason,
halfbacks; Larry Danbom and
Steve Miller, flillbacks.
1--WE have no lettermen available
at center or quarterback, where
experience counts so heavily" he
said. "Our two returning regulars
are Lautar and Martin at guards
and we are guard poor with six
lettermen and some good reserves
returning.
Backs Lack Experience
"Our best passers, kickers and
pass receivers are gone. We may
have a fairly good defensive line,
but inexperience in the backfield
means that our secondary defense
is bound to make mistakes.
"All I can promise Is that we
will show up every Saturday."
Layden said.
Listed among the graduated
irish are Marty Peters, end; Wally
Fromhart, quarterback; Bill Shakes
peare, Mike Layden and Andy Pill
ney, halfbacks, and Fred Cariedeo
and Don Elser, fullbacks, all among
the nations outstanding players last
year.
Other departed veterans include
Dick Pfefferle and John Michuta,
regular tackles; Henry Pojman
and Fred Solari, centers; Frank
Gaul and George Moriarty, reserve
quarterbacks; Matt Themes, end;
Ken Stillney and Harry Becker, re-
serve tackles; Sonny Church,
guard: and Tony Ma2iotti, half
back.
First Game Oct. 3
Layden announced the following
campaign: Oct. 3, Carnegie Tech,
here; Oct. 10, Washington u, here;
Oct. II, Wisconsin, here: Oct. "a,
At Pittsburgh: Oct. 81, Ohio State,
here; Nov. z. Navy at Baltimore;
Nov. IA, Army at New York; Nov.
81, Northwestern, here; Dec. 5,
Southern California, at Los An
geles.
Sizing up the Irish opponents,
Layden said:
Carnegie Tech has Judge Wally
Stefan back coaching actively
after serving several seasons in an
advisory capacity. Tech started six
sophomores against us last year
and led, 3 to 0, at the half.
washington u. has been COM
ing along fast in recent years and
will throw big, fast, experienced
team in our path.
wisconsin has experienced a
revival Of spirit under Harry
Stuhldreher (who used to call sig
mails for the Four Horsenlen) and
undoubtedly will provide sitter
competition than last year.
Pitt May Be Stronger
"Jock Sutherland Of Pitt told me
that his team will have more ex-
perience and should be stronger
than last year when we squeezed
out 8 to 6 victory on Marty
Peters last-minute place-kick.
"Ohio State has lost some valu-
able men and will be weakened for
It's early season games. We meet
them in mid-season, however, and
the Columbus writer's say they
should be as strong as ever by that
time. We won't have Pilney,
Shakespeare, Millner and some Of
the others we had around for that
last quarter stampede last fall.
"Navy has lost only IS lettermen
and last year it had three teams
of almost equal strength. The
Middies are anticipating the best
team of their history.
Army Also Formidable
"Arny publicity releases say the
Cadets will have as strong a start
ing team and more reserves than
last year when we tied, all, after |
Army led up to the last minute.
Northwestern, the only team to |
beat us last year, promises to be
stronger than ever now that Lynn |
Waldorf has had a year to advance |
his teachings. The Wildcats are
being picked, for the first time |