Show r ANDERSON RESI RESIGNS NS AS NOTRE DAME COA Elmer Layden Slated To Return to Campus As Hunks Hunk's Successor Bright Member of Famous Four Horseman Backfield Expected to Direct His Alma AlIna Mater on Grid Harper Quits in Sweeping Reorganization SOUTH BEND Ind md Dec 8 UP The UP-The The resignations of ot Heartley Hunk Anderson Notre Dame football coach and Jesse Harper athletic director were confirmed today bY bv the United Press Elmer Layden one of the famous Four Horsemen has been named to ic fill both positions in a sweeping athletic ath nth I letic leUc r v n Ion tion 1 High authorities oo 1 at the university 4 t. t whose football 0 0 t ball m y a teams have been a 4 Y- Y national phenomenon m enon since the rett re re- t tt regime of the late ot K Knute n u te Roc Rockne k n. n e withheld comment on the upheaval until the r return turn o of Rev Charles L L. ODonnell O'Donnell president dent of the Institution Layden tion who is undergoing undergoing under going treatment al at the Mayo clinic In l Rochester Minn Neither Harer Anderson or Lay den would comment pending the official off cial dat announcement by the university There was some indication in the thc Information obtained that Anderson while resigning as football coach might ret return rn ne next net t season as assis assistant ant to Layden although another report indicated that Hunk had already established contact with an eastern school The athletic reorganization came after Notre Dames Dame's most disastrous season seMon on the football fields It was wasa a season marked by defeat after alter defeat defeat de de- de feat and brightened only by a sensational sensa sensa- victory in the last scheduled game In which Notre Noire Dame beat Army by a single le point 13 The resignation of Anderson had V been rumored for or weeks but it had been thought that the upset Army victory might have rehabilitated the coach's fading reputation Bright Backfield Ac Ace The new coach Layden was one of the brightest stars ever turned out in inthe the of the Rockne system He was a backfield member of the Famous undefeated 1924 team one of the most powerful the country had ever seen He coached the past season at Duquesne Duquesne Du Du- quesne university Pittsburgh Pa where his team made a splendid record Layden will be allowed to select his us own coaching staff it was under under- stood Marchmont Schwartz Nordy Hoffman HoUman and John h who have been assisting Anderson probably proba probably bly will be replaced the report stated Graduating from Notre Dame In 1925 Layden played professional football one year and then became coach at Columbia college Dubuque Iowa He went to Duquesne the nex next year He immediately began to improve improve im im- im prove the team and in 1929 piloted 1 it through an undefeated schedule Anderson Andersen w was a pupil of Rockne pla playing ing guard on the Notre Dame Dam team in 1919 1920 and 1921 He served as line coach under Rockne from 1922 to 1927 when he became head coach at St. St Louis university He returned to Notre Dame Dames Dame's s Js assistant as to Rockne in 1929 and was appointed appointed ap ap- head coach when Rockne V pointed was wa killed in an airplane crash in Kansas Kansa in 1931 He developed winning teams in 1931 and 1932 1032 but the collapse o ohis of his 1933 team was the sensation of th the football seas season n. n The team was tied by Kansas lost los to Carnegie Tech Pittsburgh Navy Purdue and Southern California this year and then suddenly played inspired inspired in in- football to hand a strong Army team its only defeat of ot the season |