Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-10-26 | Page 20 | Irish Mentor Discovers His Man of Confidence

Irish Mentor Ment r Discovers His Man of Confidence By FRANCIS J. J POWERS TOWERS Special to The Telegram CHICAGO Oct 26 One day last summer Elmer Layden thought it might be a very good idea to learn if the several young men who had bad expressed an ambition to quarterback Notre Dames Dame's football team were devoting the v vacation cation months to dating or improving im urn- proving Craving their knowledge of the noble nobIe science of ot gridiron strategy So he prepared a questionnaire questionnaire questionnaire question question- for the attention of the potential and and among the problems problems lems was Your ball on the opponents' opponents yard 20 line You are trailing 7 to 6 6 with three minutes to play Its It's third down What would you do Wastes No Time Among the first to reply was Bill Benjamin Bruno better known as Butch of Asbury Park N. N J. J Bill wasted neither time nor ink He merely wrote Id win the game with a drop kick When the Irish players returned returned returned re re- re- re turned for practice in September Layden kept an eye on Bill Bru Bru- no The kid is a stocky pound sophomore who is afraid of nothing noth noth- ing including Ing-including including hari hard work work and and possesses a large supply of self self- confidence Needing a new quarterback Layden Laden began giving Bruno some personal instruction and the youngster developed rap rap- idly