Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-17 | Page 14 | Wally Steffen Still Heeds Gridiron Call

Wally Steffen Still l Heeds Heeds' Gridiron Call PITTSBURGH Oct 17 Wally JP Wally I Steffen the tho Chicago judge who benched himself as Carnegie Tech's I head football coach because h he didn't have lave time lime to commute between the I WInd Windy city and Pittsburgh is riding the same old trains again He says he just cant can't stay away from when scrimmage time comes round its it's a habit I cant can't shake adds th the judge And a swell habit Interposes Howard Harpster Steffens Steffen's year 26 old successor Wally Wally Judge Walter P. P Steffen of the Cook county Illinois superior court retired court retired as Carnegie Tech mentor mentor men men- tor or last year after a year 19 stretch in which he had become a campus fix fix- ture Tech officials Insisted that he serve on the football committee He consented consented con- con b but t maintained that his commuting commuting com corn muting days were over However the training season was hardly under way before the judge hopped off a train in Pittsburgh grabbed his old sweatshirt and baseball baseball baseball base base- ball pants out of the locker room and hastened out on the field to see how things were getting along He and Harpster and Don Lovewell the theline line coach went into a n huddle Immediately immediately Im Sm- mediately to thresh out the problem of perfecting a Tartan machine that will live up to Carnegie tradition against such foes as Notre Dame Purdue Pitt and N. N Y U. U to mention a few of this years year's foes The chances arent aren't so good but with the judges judge's help a big veteran line and a 1 fair backfield Harpster an American all halfback on Stef Steffens Steffen's fens fen's 1928 team is on the hopeful side Wally Steffen was a University of Chicago o star around Walter Eckersall's Eckersall's Ecker- Ecker sall's sails time succeeding that football Immortal as quarterback on Walter Camps Camp's America all-America team