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IImagme ( Imagme Imagine 22 grown boys fightmg fighting fightmgover fightingover fightingover over that ' ) Will Wall Rogers once oncekIddmgly oncekiddingly oncekiddmgly kIddmgly kiddingly asked Rockne it If he hethought hethought hethought thought his son could make maL.e maLe . theFIghting theFighting the theFighting Fighting Irish team if he went to toNotre toNotre toNotre Notre Dame . . . No doubt he could couldreplIed couldreplied couldreplied replIed Rockne ' ' 'but but ' he might have haveto haveto haveto to change his IDS name to Rogerski Rogerskl Rogerska or orRogeoh orRogeols orRogeoh orRogeohSouth Rogeoh Rogeols RogeolsSouth South Bend Indiana the home of ofNotre ofNoire ofNotre Notre Noire Dame is as the only town m In an the thecountry thecountry thecountry country with a statue honoring a afootball afootball afootball football player The player honored honoredISn honoredisn honoredisn ISn t the great Knute Rockne as asyou asyou asyou you d suppose but George Gipp ( < his hisstar hisstar hisstar star pupil pupal ) Rockne has a more morepractIcal morepractical morepractical practIcal memorial Twenty t"O tO too t"Ohead toohead twohead " head coaches around the nation are aremen aremen aremen men menho \ who \\ho ho aho were taught their football footballA A B Cs by him Rockne s sbIg sbig sbig bIg ambition was to have his has soD son sonKnute , , Knute Jr follow in ID his has footsteps footstepsLast footstepsLast footstepsLast Last year the lad became a candl candy candldate candydate candidate date for halfback on the I\otre I otre \ I \ otre Dame Dameteam Dameteam Dameteam team During Durmg a scrimmage scrunmage his hisleg hisleg hisleg leg was fractured and it s been so soweakened soweakened soweakened weakened that he may net ne , er be beable beable beable able to play footballRockne football footballRockne Rockne who knew every trick track in inthe inthe inthe the book of psychology could turn turndefeat turndefeat turndefeat defeat into mto victory between halves halvesm halvesin m in the locker room almost every everyt t me During Durmg the first half of o1 one onegame onegame onegame game the \ Notre I\otre I otre Aotre Dame team played playedver playedvery playedver ver very } ) poorly and the half ended with witha a score of or 7- 7 7-0 0 7m 7 - - 0 in m an favor of their thell " op- op opponent opponent op opponent - - ponent In the locker room the theNotre theNotre theNotre Notre Dame lads burst into mto a cold coldswea coldsweat coldsweat swea sweat t fearing Cearmg what shat \ ha t Rockne could couldsay \ wouldsay ould ouldsay say He sa d nothing nothmg during durmg the theent theent thecnt ent re rest period When the second secondhalf secondhalf secondhalf half was called he got up and mere merely merely merely ly said Let s go girlsRockne girls gll"ls gllls girlsRockne " Rockne who played the flute al alsays always says \ ays ins ms sted on taking takmg the mstru instru mstrument instrument instrument ment with him ham to every Notre Dame Damegame Damegame Damegame game ( ( He had a superstition that thatIt thatat thatit It at brought the team luck ) ) The TheIavy TheIavy TheIsavy I\avy I avy \ \ mascot goat inherits mherlts the Job lob Jobwhich lobwhich jobwhich which is passed down from father fatherto fatherto fatherto to son President Woodrow WIl WIlson Wilson Wilson son was once Pnnceton PrlDleton Princeton : university s sfootball sfootball sfootball football coach ( He also coached at Wesleyan atWesleyan ) K R who had a nimble nunble wit was wasat wasat wasat hislife hisWe at a loss tor for words only once in m his Brown.After BrownAfter We life according accordmg to Warren Brown . After the Southern California CaWornla game gameill gamein gamein ill in 1930 J P McEvoy the humorIst humoristand , , and several newspaper men gath Bath gathered Bathered gathered ered in Roekne Rockne s dressing dressmg room and andgot andgot andgot got into mto a discussion of art and ht- ht hterature lit literature - erature with him hun ham Rockne took ex exceptlon exception exception ceptlon ception to one of McEvoy s argu ments arguments ' ' That 'That s just lust as silly as my seUmg setting mysetting myseUmg out to imitate unltate Mencken Menckensaid Menckensaid Menckensaid said imagineme imagmeme Rockne Can you imagme imagine me trying trymg to imitate unltate Mencken7 Mencken ? ' Why Mencken7Why yes replied rephed McEvoy Notes of a NewsboyAmerica Newsboy NewsboyAmerica America now realizes that the theroad theroad theroad road to o isolation ends where it al always always always ways ends with the enemy on your doorstep yourdoorstep Ironically the only way wayto wayo to o isto get into this kind kmd of trouble is to run from it Czecho-Slovakla Czecho Slovakla Czecho-Slovakia Slovakia - - Czccho-Slovakiathought Czccho Slovakiathought CzechoSlovaklathought CzechoSlovakiathought thought she had isolated herself herselffrom from Austria Poland thought thoughtshe she had isolated herself from fromCzecho Czecho Slovakia Norway Norwaythought thought she had isolated herself hersel ! from fromFinland fromFmland Fmland Finland shehad Holland thought she had Norwayand Isolated herself hersel ! from Norway and Denmark But each had hadmerely hadmerely hadmerely merely isolated herself hersel ! from the belp help thehelp thebelp thatould that \ would \\ould ould could have saved her European herEuropean advocates of Isolation to day today dictators wear the medals of the dIcta tors Their Thcll " own countries have dls dos dlsappeared dosappeared disappeared appeared . . 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