Show ai I 1 al F I 1 li I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 f I 1 if I 1 k 1 wu NU L things I 1 never knew til now about IL rockne football the reason most football players wear silk trousers is because its hard for an opponent to get a grip on them twenty five years ago football was considered so brutal that the legislatures of half a dozen states passed a law making it a penal offense to play the game old something the radio gaimel gaghen gagmen thought actually a college its square bonicker mo nicker is knox college and its in galesburg IU ill when knute rockne was captain of the notre dame football team he invited his mother to see him play against university of chicago rockne played more more brilliantly than ever making long runs and spectacular pass catches after the game knute proudly a asked what she thought of the spectacle it was marvelously she said breathlessly that cheerleader cheer direr leader who turned the pin pinwheels wheels was wonderful I 1 As a tribute to red granoe grange the illinois football team has never reissued his number the famous 77 to any of its players the winner of tho the minnesota michigan game each year gets possession ot of a little brown jug which cost 18 imagine 22 grown boys fighting over that will rogers Roger onca asked rockne if ho he thought his son eon could make tho the fighting irish team it if lie he went to notre dame no doubt he could replied rockne but he might have to change hla his name to Rogers kLor hogevoll Hog Rog eoll south bend indiana the home of notre noire dame is the only town in the country with a statue honoring a football toot ball player the player honored the great knute knuta rockne as suppose but george gipp his star pupil rockne has a more practical memorial twenty two head coaches around the nation are men who were taught their football A 0 Cs by him Roc knes big ambition was to have his son knuta jr follow in his footsteps last year the lad became a candidate for or halfback on the notre dame team during a scrim scrimmage maje his leg was fractured and its been so meak weakened ened that he may never be able to play football rockne who knew every trick in the book of psycho psychology logi could turn defeat into victory between halves in tho the locker room almost every time during the first half of on one a game the notre dame team played very poorly and the halt half ended with a score of 7 0 in favor of their opponent in the locker room the notre dame lads burst into a cold sweat learing earing what rockne would may aay ho he said paid nothing during the entire rest period when the second half was called he be got up and mere ly said lets go girls rockne who played the flute always insisted on taking the instrument with him to every notre damo dame game ile he had a superstition that it brought the team luck the navy mascot goat inherits the job which is passed down from father to son aon president woodrow wilson was once princeton football coach lie ile also coached at wesleyan I 1 K R n who had a nimble wit was at a loss tor for words only once in his life according to warren drown brown atter aate r the southern california game in 1830 J i P mcevoy the humorist and sever several al newspaper men gathered in 11 Roc knes dressing room and got into a discussion of art and lit carature with him rockne took ex caption to one of Mc Evoys menu ments just as billy as 83 my setting out to imitate keu said rockne can you imagine idagene me trying t to imitate why yes replied mcevoy notes of a newsboy america now realizes that the road to isolation ends where it always ends with tho the ene enemy my on your doorstep ironically th the a only way to set get into this kind of trouble Is to run from it czecho slovakia thought she had isolated herself from om austria poland thought sha isho had isolated herself from czecho slovakia norway thought she hail had isolated herself from vinland finland holland thought she had isolated herself from norway and denmark dut but each had merely isolated herself from tho the help that would have saved her european advocates of isolation to day wear the medals of the dictators their own cou countries kries have dis appeared the newsstand owner at and broadway Dro adway with a sensa yumal ife pinned an button on Will kles picture on lifes current coer cover but right on wendells lapell irving edelson the cab driver who dashed into a flaming building the other day and saved two colored children will be honored by the mayor and police commissioner with the valorous deed medal comforting thought the world will never belong to the Axis because each member ot of the axis thinks the world belongs to him I 1 I 1 I 1 A 41 as ew 1 |