Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-11-27 | Page 13 | Trojan Gridders Carry Spoils of Irish Victory

Tojans See Sights After Hard Battle r a Coach Ike Armstrong . . . Ute mentor, welcomes Southern California'! coach, Howard Jones, right, and Granny Lansdell, quarterback, center, after the Trojans' 20-12 victory ever Notre Dame Saturday in South Bend. The U. S. C. special (topped briefly in Salt Lake City early Monday en route to Los Angeles. , i i i i Trojan stari . . . Al Krueger, Hafry Smith and Doyle Nave, left to right, take a few minutes off to discus Salt Lake City while relaxing after their victory over the fighting Irish of Notre Dame. Smith ll prominent candidate can-didate for an All-America post, while the Doyle-to-Krueger pass combination wa responsible for the Trojan victory vic-tory over Duke in the Rose Bowl last winter. Trojan Gridders Carry Spoils of Irish Victory A modern iron horse, iU sides smeared and painted with the battle cry, "Southern California 20, Notre Dam 12," rumbled into Salt Lake City early Monday bearing the victorious Trojans back to their homeland after completely sacking the ciudel of the In mldseason, Jones did praise his hoys for their fine play against the Irish In their own bailiwick, but stressed the fact that his team's misUkes kept the score down considerably. Fighting Irish Saturday. With battle wounds prominently displayed, the mighty Trojans, unbeaten un-beaten this year, stopped briefly at the Union Pacific sUtlon, enjoyed a whirlwind tour of downtown Salt Lake City and then embarked again for Milford, UUh, where they were to hold a two-hour practice prac-tice session Monday afternoon in preparation for their crucial battle with Washington Saturday, Ne Bowl Talk There was no Rose bowl Ulk either from the coaches or from the players because, as Sam Barry, the basketball coach, said, "Mr. Jones thinks it's a jinx to play the games too tar ahead of time and we want Washington and U. C L. A. victories first." "We expect a pretty tough battle from Washington." said Coach Howard Jones, "and it wouldn't surprise me If Phelan (Coach Jimmy Jim-my Phelan of Washington) had a lot of stuff set up to meet us . . . rinn't ever worrv about that Notre Dame outfit being below par this year . . . They threw everything at us but the water bucket and I'm not so sure that didn't fly Into the game in the last few minutes ... we msde a lot of misUkes which cost us a touchdown, but the Irish did fight back gallantly and it was quite a ball game. . . ." Others In the party voiced approval ap-proval of these sentiments, and all seemed pretty gUd that the exciting ex-citing game waa a thing of the past. Never one to appear optimistic