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Show BIG TEII SEEKS IRISH JHOATS Schedule Difficulties That Once Bothered1 Rockne Are Absent Now By ALAN GOULD (Aseeeleied Frees Spores Writer)' It's too bad Knute Hockno didn't live longer, for a number of good reasons, rea-sons, among them for the satisfaction he would have had In the somewhat brisk rush of Big Tan universities to arrange home-end-home dates with , Notre Dame In football. Of course it would not be quit complete for "Rock" until the day whea Bob Zuppko and Fielding Yost, arm In arm, should cap the Utopian climax by coming around with a iolnt bid for games with the Jien lent In the old days whea Rockne dashed around the lobbies of Big Ten sessions, seeking usually tn vain for schedule dstes among the conference confer-ence "big shots." he liked ' to kid Zuppko unmercifully about "duelling" "duell-ing" Notre Dame. That waa whea Illinois wss right up around the top, too, but Zuppko generally had the laat crack. "Why that crazy Scandinavian really seems to think I would take my students up there to play his football playerar Zuppko might shoutto which Rockne might reply: re-ply: "That Dutch landscape pointer must be afraid of kaung hia social standing Then Zuppko would dose the discussion, smoothly, by Just saying, "Why, no, Rock, you are Just too good for us; we have to admit it" CAN TICK AND CHOOSE Now that Ohio State has completed com-pleted arrangements for two games with Notre Dame In 1938 and 1834, . only Illinois, Michigan and Chicago of the Big Ten have shown no Inclination In-clination to take on the Ramblers, with profits assured. Notre Dame, under the leadership of Rockne and Jesse Harper, reached the happy stage where It could pick and choose Its football dates from one coast to the other. Wisely, the Ramblers have eatab- iianeo more or teas xixeo reiauons now with Army, Navy, Southern California, Northwestern and Pittsburgh. Pitts-burgh. Purdue, a neutral Big Tea rJvaL Is oo the 1933 Notre Dams schedule, as well as Indiana. The Ramblers would like so revive) relations with some big southern school, but until bigger stadiums arc built for bigger crowds In the old south or the southwest, their policy . Is to follow the metropolitan trails. BIOGEB, BETTER SCHEDULES "If the rank snd file of colleges played to gate of $1,415,000, as Notre Dame did In 1932, the schedules sched-ules would not be stiffening st their E resent rate," writes George Carers. 1 the Boston Transcript. -"Even GllmouT Dobie. aa expert la the art, has remained quiescent while 'Rym' Berry booked Michigan, Syracuse, Columbia, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania as Cornell's Last five opponents. ... A stucTent tax is favored (by the Harvard Crimson) and It also hopes sn endowment will be raised to keep the 'athletics for sM' policy alive snd help Director Direc-tor Blnghsm overcome a trernea dous football deficit placed at between be-tween $200,000 snd 9300,000. "But where csn such sn endow ment be obtslned at this time? The answer must be bigger and better football schedules." |