Show Frank Leahy Proud Of Irish Comeback i I By Frank Leahy Head Football Coach of Notre T Dame Damo We Ve certainly are awfully happy to have a victory over Purdue behind us Every Purdue-Notre Purdue Dame game of the past has been beena a real thriller and when the Boilermakers jumped to a 9 to 7 lead in the third period it looked like another storybook k affair However I have never been more proud of our players than I was when I looked at their faces as Purdue scored the touch touch- touchdown touchdown touchdown down which put them into the lead Every eye I looked into told me that such a score meant little and Notre Dame was going to win Our team played its best game of the year as our linemen blocked in a manner which instilled instilled in in- stilled confidence in the running backs The game was won on the ground with good blocking and tackling playing the maj mayor major or role as five men figured in the scoring for Notre Dame Purdue Was Vas Ready Heady As always Purdue was ready for this game We Ve realize that Stu Holcomb's team was operating with their number one running backfield on the shelf Even so sowe sowe sowe we thought they were a very fine football team and feel mighty fortunate to have defeated them The field goal kick by Purdue's Jim Reichert was something to see He was standing very close to 0 our position on the bench as ashe ashe ashe he kicked the ball and as his toe met the ball you knew it was was good His every move was justas just justas I as the instructions read and the ball traveled over 50 yards and split plit the uprights for three points A concrete example of real teamwork brought about one ogle of the he major turning points of the theall ball all game When Purdue had the ball and our offensive group was wason wason wason on the bench Captain Jim t to told o I 1 d quarterback John Mazur 1 that he had noticed when we Hankered a man to the he right the Purdue linebacker on that side moved out slightly to o keep his eye on him Some Daylight This left some daylight in inthe inthe the he secondary on that side Mazur catalogued this information and several everal minutes later when the chips hips were down and it was Notre Dames Dame's ball fourth and andone andone one ne on the Purdue 40 he flank- flank ered red a man to the right and called ailed John Lattner's number on ona ona a run off right tackle John not only got the first down but he went vent all the way for six points to o put Notre Dame ahead 17 to 9 and nd from then on the ball game went vent more in our favor Our face is the reddest over the he selection of Cornell to beat Princeton in the upset of the week We looked at this game gameon gamen on n a comparative basis Yale and Navy played to a tie Princeton had a tough time with Navy Navy- Cornell had little difficulty with Yale These things plus the fact that it Ft is easy to get a team up for a game with an undefeated eleven caused us to favor Cornell Cor Cor- nell My sincere congratulations go to Charlie Caldwell and his wonderful team They certainly are among the nations nation's very best Southern California got by a abig abig abig big one in edging out Texas Christian by two points To me that victory for the Trojans was almost as important as 35 their win over California Dutch Meyer at Texas Christian has an uncanny ability to knock off the leaders Michigan and Illinois continue to roll in the Big Ten with fast fast- improving Wisconsin being ready to move in should either falter In order to confuse the Southwestern Southwestern South South- western Conference standings just dust a bit more the top two contenders contenders contenders con con- tenders Baylor and Texas A M 1 played to a tie The winner of ol that conference may have a very spotty won won lost lost record but on a given day they will match any team in the country |