Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-12-02 | Page 9 | Army Fans Miss Old Rockne Spark as Eleven Renews Feud with Irish

Fa Fans s Miss Miss' Old Rockne Spark lAs As Eleven Renews Feud With Irish S jjr Dr PAUL PAU GALLICO SHEW EW YORK Dec 2 Of OL all the fo football games played the Army Army- tre Dame game is the one that S Knute Rockne the most This Lore re Are than any o other her seemed to me It vas Rockne be fl a coach's game was Int Bit Jones or McEwan or haPpened to be at The Point oever time and aDd when Ro Rockne kne left it seemed to me that e sidelines S C st of the color and drama of that left the game with him It was It-was was me it itIn pet game He played in Rockne's pe and then later as a coach In 11 1913 where Mn to build it to the point helped tS the Yale Harvard-Yale and the theas rivaled t enda anda end and as a a spectacle Nevy games sellout attraction a here was sold out becaUse be be- game hAs name of Notre Dame the caUse football luster lost Its as a not Dot yet cos But the team is not the integral c unIt that tool it once was It is not tint happy hiP team cam and above all it Jt Sli will ot a not oun in it its p play y and us Hs behavior on the field be an expression of that wl and sometimes impish charaC character known os QS Rockne There powerful figure in was as no squat belted topcoat oat and slouch hat bent square shaped to act as twelfth man manoh oh the team No doubt Hunk AnderSon Anderson Ander Ander- son jon Son wants to win more than anything else but buthe he probably does so for other S cons OM than Old Knute J 1 m cd that Army crowd and that's wily hy he liked to beat beal them JIT Great Strategist t f I think is going to grow iway from coaches and end high pressure coaching but those were the days phen n Notre Dame was about 30 per percent percent cent football teem team and 70 per cent Rockne He was a master strategist t I great psychologist an eloquent spell spell- I binder and something of a magician He had power ov over r men Rock used to bring his teams into New York two or or- three days before tHe trie game and take them up to the Biltmore Westchester club near Harrison Har rison and there we wc would go to find Knute Knut and his kids practicing out on one of the polo fields At that time everything was informal and social because all the work of coaching had been done The boys oos were merely on parade runn running ng through signals and catching passes Ro Rock Rk k was busy duck ducking ing professional Notre Darners Damers who had never been near the university who we were e trying to mooch tickets Tells Stories Usually Rock would steal away from practice earl early retire to his room with the gentlemen of the press and begin to tell football stories It might not have been what we were sent to get but it h t was swell fun I never found ou out anyway what there was to write about in a 1 tc teams team's ms m's running signals signal and limbering up the da day before before before be be- fore a big game Knute usually would come up with a story or two I and usually about tome some of his kids and their bravery in playing with injuries InJuries in juries etc Some of it il obviously w was s meant for Army consumption Well or so were at the Yankee Y Yankee Yan Yan- n. n kee stadium today end and the Cadets marched again and the football pIa players play players ers came tumbling onto the field Bonds played and crowds cheered but the spark was missing as It has hns been missing since Rockne lef leCt L There were just a lot lotof of guys gus on the field doing the best st they could and when it was not good enough there was no noone noone noone one around to hypnotize them into their being better than they ever dreamed they could be