Show v FOOTBALL COACH AT NOTRE DAME IS U UNIQUE N I QUE CHARACTER CHARAC T ER ON GRI D IRON KNUTE ROCKNE REFUSES OffERS h c Great Leader Remains t. t With School in Spite r t of Small Salaries i i 1 fly RODERT ROBERT EDGREN Knute Rockne football coach at Notre 1 Dame Is an- an original charac charac- ter no Rockne kne has been bothered for forto two to or three years by receiving big money offers from other col col- col- col leges lOis His football teams are ex- ex successful Not long ago Rockne was offered the highest salary raid paid ald an American Ameri Ameri- can call college football coach He lie re re- re fused used The offer otter was raised He lie HeI I f refused again I dont don't want to leave leae Notre 1 i Dame flame anyway anway he explained and in any ary case that Is too much money to be paid any football coach I know kho of oC very good professors who are getting less than a II quarter of ot that amount It Is out of oC all proportion pro pro- portion to the services Involved Last year rear Rockne had offers from fifteen other colleges To avoid old any other discussion 1 Rockne signed a new contract with o J Notre Jore re Dame There aren't arent many coaches who run away from more money Usually Usual- Usual l ly Ii coaches are like some preachers preach- preach r ors ers Ive I've known n who always feel teel a richer churches call to pulpits in e V Nate ate Lewis of Chicago ago has managed managed man- man aged some interesting fighters and andIas and as picked up a lot of ot Interesting stories about them There FL was that tl time I took Knock Knock- lout cwt Brown Drown the Greek up Uj to Ham- Ham 1 Canada t to to- fight Jack Dillon Nate a few days das ago bh n we met at the Morrison In ChIcago I I wont won't claim too much s. s toJ Brown but he was a good game slighter and not afraid of anyone and he was given the decision In many newspapers We Ve got home to and I suggested that we rhay bae Ye breakfast ard then go around i tho te newspaper offices We e go I the tIle offices first said Brown YV J can eat afterward So we Advent ent around to a newspaper of- of and sat fat down with ith the sport- sport wI editor and Brown told me to U Uthe the he editor about the fight I 1 X astall ng when all of oC a sudden dhere t ere was a howl from Brown BIown an and andI 1 I J looked around to see him tearing tear- tear 4 Ang ing ng a a. newspaper up in his hands handstand tand throwing the pieces leces on the floor whilo he hll jumped on them At first I glance I thought Brown had ad gone az We Ve all alt Jumped up and asked what was the matter Y Matter Ih aeN yelled Brown ar Looka Atlie the paper Looka the big headline ear across the top Looka what V t sa say sap i E a E BEATS BROWN you ou think about that I II If f a fought ary any guy named Yale rale I I I lick lck Dillon and then the paper say fight Yale and get licked Who la is s guy Brown who's using m my mye e Who is this guy Yale what he beat me You get this Yale Yalei i Ws me quick I knock him for a aj Ot a- a was the day of ot the Yalei Yale- Yale j j Brown n football g game me explained i ate M r good Rood big man can always lick a good od little man said Billy Gb- Gb I I I f Sure Sure said Florry Barnett But w a a good little man looks like when he licks a big man manT t T hat isn't quite so BO good Remember Remember Remember ber th the night Bob Moha loha fought Cox who was supposed to have licked Willard Villard out west Moha was five U. U feet two and Cox just a a. foot toot taller Moha had to Jump up to reach reads Cox Coxon on the chin In the first round Cox ox didn't do anything but laugh when ihen he looked at Moha and from J J- that hat time on he do anything y but ut fall faU over his feet and sit Bit lt down When hen Moha walloped himI him 0 I That fight tight wouldn't be a a. circumstance circum- circum stance istance put In Gibson to what would happen if It Benny Leonard fought lo S' S t Firpo Nothing othin thing could illustrate the un- un uncertainties certainties of or championship golf goll the failure of ot three of or I The best players In the world world- Tol- Tol Swe Sweetser and Dr Or Willing right pJ tf t the beginning of ot the tho national amateur Sweetser madd a a. yard vard down the middle of ot the fair fair- way 8 and sunk unk it in n a muddy spot spott t three ree strokes to get out Cant Can't beat that rhe football l solons decided that thai T there ere was practically no need for foi charges chances In the tie football rules this year ear Football J as played Is per- per f fActly satisfactory In Isn't like C the old days when every ery football I program carried the addresses of r I all nearby hospitals Football I Is C TOW row scientific Lots of ot colleges go gc through the big game of ot the season season sea sea- son sort now no without losing dosing anything more morl than the hats the snake dancers dane dane- ers era throw over the he crossbar Copyright Cop 1924 1911 by the Bell Syndicate Syndi cate Inc |