The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-10-02
school at Grandview.

Coach Joe Gavin, of the universe
ty Of Dayton, had warm words last
week for Phil Shoup, former Co
lumbus South high school athlete.
Shoup, in his third year of tack
ling Dayton's opponents, made the
switch to full time duty from a
defensive tackle. Gavin said,
"Shoup has come along exception
ally we'll on offense.
you know he was a defensive
player last year, but has been able
to adapt TO the other side with sue
cess. His play calling, blocking,
and all around play have shown ex-
ceptional progress"
Shoup is a senior in education
at I'D. He's a navy veteran and a
former state patrolman.
NoTRE DAME-As The Irish
opened campaign number IS,
look ct statistics revealed that the
ell time Nofre Dame record Is 400
wins. IS losses, and 80 ties. A year
ago, the Irish won seven, lost swo,
and tied one, with five Of their
victories coming in the role Of vn.
derdoss.
Frank Leshy is starting his sec.
ond decade IS head focsbalI coach
al his alma mater. The scff.spoken
mentor took over the task in l94l.
In 1914 and ls45 he was in the
Navy. This, therefore, will be his
l1fh year st The eosehins helm.
His 10 years record shows 70 vic.
tories, II defeats. and eight ties.
This is the year of the switch
from the two-platoon style of play
to the one platoon. However,
Coach Leahy on certain days has
wondered if the change was rot to
the mo" platoon. 1t has been his
misfortune to have his squad trou-
bled with a phenomenal number
Of minor injuries. This has been
particularly true of his backs. No
less than 10 backs have been side
lined at one time or another, and
on one day. it was necessary to
cancel practice because of a scare
ity of ball-carriers. Johnny Lattner,
first string right half, suffered a
heel injury on Saturday, Sept. 5,
and has done no work since. He
went into the Oklahoma game
without having had any contact
work for three weeks. Joe Heap,
first string left half, has had no
contact work for more than a.
week.
Right at the start OF fall prac-
tice, the Irish were really hit un.
expectedly by the injury iinx. Paul
Reynolds, junior left half, Frank
Paterra, senior right half, Bob Ar
rix, junior fullback and place
kicking specialist, Gene Carrabine,
junior Observation-Disclosures "a two
year regular as safetyman),
amounted to a whole backfield
who were TO be lost for the season
on account of injuries. More i'm
portant, all but Arrix were expert
enced veterans who had each won
two monograms. And probably
hurting most of all, in this new
era of the one-platoon, was the
fact that, outside of Lattner, Rey-
nolds and Paterra were the only
holdover backs who had extensive
experience at playing both on Of
fense and defense. Reynolds was
also the only other punter on the
squad besides Lattner. A further
blow, suffered on the first day OF
practice, was the announcement
that Fred Poehler, senior tackle,
who had started nine games in the
past two years, was going TO forego |
football in his last year OF compe- |
tition. (Poehler, veteran of mill. |
tary service, the oldest boy on the I
squad, at "a, and also the only mar
ried man on the team, felt that he
needed his afternoons TO seek EN-
ployment in South Bend) j