Evening star., 1939-11-26
0verpowered Irish
Awe 1hrong With
Sheer Spunk
Four Of Five Markers
Come in Lost Stunzu;
U. S. c. ToIIies EorIy
BY WHITNEY MARTIN,

U. S. c. TuIIies EARLY
BY WHITNEY MARTIN,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Nov. 25.-
The mighty Trojans of Southern
California roared along their unde-
feated way today, but the $4,000
fans who shivered and shrieked and
moaned as the Western team won,
20 to IL, went away from the game
with a feeling of awe at the spec
tacle.
Awe for the sheer power of the
white-clad giants from the West,
awe for the spirit of an underdog
Notre Dame team, which never
would admit it was licked.
1t was a football game which built
climax upon climax until the spec
tators in Notre Danes stadium were
limp and exhausted, a game in which
an empowered Irish" eleven, which
seemed on the verge of annihila-
ton, suddenly began ripping and
slashing back at its giant foes until
IL mad tied the score and never gave
up even after the Trojan power
house again had taken command.
-Four of the five touchdoWns were
scored in the last frenzied quarter,
when for a time it seemed that the
impossible would happen; that the
irish" youngsters, dwarfed by their
foes, would steal the game.
In the first period even the most
violent Notre Dame fans wouldn't
have given a worn nickel for their
teams chances. The first time the
TrojanS got the ball, on a punt which
rolled dead on their 33, they began
to march.
TrOjans March 81 Yards.
A van couldn't have moved out
the Notre Dame line more effectively
| than did the Trojan forwards as
Grenville Lansdell and Bob Peoples,
but mostly Grenville Lansdell, began
to hike.
SlXty-seven yards they marched
IN IL plays the only play that failed
TO gain being an intercepted pass,
| and when Lansdell shot over from
the 2-yard mark the bewildered fans
thought they had seen the ultimate
in offensive perfection.
For the remainder of the period
and well into the second quarter the
daZed Irish" were back on their
heels. Doyle Nave had taken over
the Trojan offense at the start of
the second. 1t was Nave, Nave,
Nave, running, passing and kick
ing, and the law of averages almost
promised score from his efforts.
He did carry the invaders to the
Irish" /, but there his own tumble
ruined the bid as Harry Stevenson
| recovered in the end zone for q
touchback.
That break was a tonic to the be-
wlldered Irish" From their 20
they marched to U. S. C.'s "A. with
Milt Piepul and Stevenson sparkling
the attack, but Peoples checked the
invasion by intercepting a pass on
the 10. 1t was the first time they
had been in Trojan territory.
Layden Strategy Almost Succeeds.
Soon after this a Lansdell punt
was returned by Steve. Sitko IL
yards to the u S. c. 80, which was
the signal for an amazing offensive.
Seconds were precious and with
nearly every play Elmer Layden
would send in substitute to stop
the clock and outline the tactics
planned on the bench.
Time after time it seemed that
Layden's skinny finger might be
reckoning some nameless, forgotten
man of the Notre Dame army to a
hero'S place, but the half ended as
John Kovatch caught a pass from
Stevenson on the U. S. C. 5 and the
next play was swarmed by white
jerseys on an end-run attempt.
The Irish" continued their Of
fenslve in the third period They
couldn't burrow through that white
wall, but they could go around 1t
and over it, so they set burly Bob
Saggau and tough Harry Stevenson
and blond little Benny Sheridan to
work
Saggau was the handspring in
one drive which carried to the U.
S. c. IA from the Trojan 80, where
Lansdell's partly blocked punt had
gone outside, and in the waning
minutes Sheridan passed the Irish"
to the Trojan 6 after John Nc.
1ntyre had intercepted a Lansdell
pass and run it back to the U. S.
c. At.
Piepul Scores Standing I'm.
On the first play of the fourth
period P1epul, on reverse from
Sheridan, Slashed outside his left
tackle to cross the goal standing up.
His place kick, which have given
Notre Dame the lead, curved sharply
outside the uprights, and it was 6-all.
The alarmed Trojans perked up
at this, and Lansdell, after intercept-
ing pass on the Notre Dame AZ,
started a personal offensive which
was eliminated in his 5-yard scam
per around his right end for a
touchdown. Bob Jones place-kicked
the extra point.
That set the stage for a slashing
climax, a climax which brought
bedlam to the huge throng. U. S.
G. had kicked off out of bounds,
and 1t was Notre Danes ball on its
IS. A 5-yard U. S. c. penalty brought
1t to the 40, where Benny Sheridan
began his ride to save the Irish"
honor.
He cut off his left tackle, sud-
denly saw daylight ahead and start
ed scampering. Like a wisp he trav-
cleo as heavier-footed Trojans
grasped too late. He covered the go
yards to cross the goal standing
up, but dreams of a tie faded as
John Kelleher's place kick was wide,
and the Trojans led, 13 to IL.
They wouldn't quit, those Irish"
and they threw caution to the wind,
thus opening the gate for the clinch-
ing Trojan touchdown. The Tro-
jams had taken the ball on the
Irish" 40 on downs, and Ambrose
SCHNEIDER cut through a gap on
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