Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-26 | Page 13 | Knute Junior is 'Hot Passer' as Quarter of All-Miami Team

Knute Junior Is Hot Passer As Quarter of Miami All Team IF By HENRY ENRY McLEMORE United Press Sports Writer MIAMI Dec 26 Oh 26 Oh he can wheel that pecan all right but butle's lies Jie's an ornery little cuss f 1 Bill Rockne oldest son of the late Knute Rockne was celebrating celebrating cele cele- brating his birthday by watching his kid brother Knute Jr play quarterback for the Miami all-Miami high school team against Lake Lake- Lake Lake-I land high Florida state champs Young Knute Krute had just rifled a apus pus pass to one of his ends Sammy Baugh never tossed a surer one 1 i L a Rockne grin I said TOld fOld Old Knute could always summon n ne up when things were the t. t i f Yeh Yen hes he's got a grin like the old man all right Bill answered but that's the way he looks loolu like him Im I'm the only one of the kids that really looks like the old coach f t It would be bo hard to put more rc- rc and affection in any combination lion tion of words than Bill Rockne put in those references to the old man and the old coach J AU Over O Field FieldI I Young Knute nute was vas all over the field spurring on his men calling defensive plays moving a lineman here a back there beating a clenched fist into his palm slapping on the back Hes He's a thick thick- muscled firm youngster wout 5 feet teet 6 inches tall taU and weigh weigh- In lag ing a pound or two over Hes got old Knuts Knut's fight I hid id Bill ill shook his hh head firmly l 3 il- il Nope he said with Ib ible ole e finality nobody ever had that kind d of fight but the old coach I Junior Junior that's that's Knute name at home made home made 10 yards on an off off- tackle slant Hes a pretty prett good un at that Bill volunteered Kicks well is a ahot ahot ahot hot passer and seems to have a pretty good head Still growing too Hes He's 17 now and ought to be up around ISO before he stops putting it on He wont won't be as tall as I am Im I'm Im I'm five leven and a half half but but buthe he ought to be as tall as the old man Taught Fundamentals I suppose your our dad taught bothof both bothof of you ou your football I said No I wouldn't say that Bill BiU answered He showed us the fundamentals fundamentals fun fun- and then told us to go out and get the rest ourselves You see ee he was plenty busy teaching the fellows ho he was paid to teach A secondary came up fast to nail young Knute It was a on head-on tackle and the young oung quarterback was flattened on his back But he jumped quickly up and slapped his tackler tackier on the back He uHe taught us that all right Bill said slowly slow and it was the first thing he taught us us-to us to take it as well as hand it out