Show aim aj 57 6 f T THERE HERE Is always the end UL of A a road of every road bach back ta in 1913 a notre dame team came to west point with a quarterback known as gus donals and a stocky end remembered as knute rockne this combination beat a strong army team 35 to 13 with donals winging the ball hall to rockne in a complete comple t rout this game started a series that eventually became more important than harvard and yale yale and princeton califor nia na and southern california A army r m y and navy or any inter ter team duel you can think of at the moment the army notre dame meeting reached such F leahy heights that a year ago biff jones army mys s graduate manager told me he could easily sell a million tickets at 10 each I 1 think be he could in the series of 31 34 games notre I 1 dame has won 23 times army 7 times with 1 4 ties notre dame was far in front until the war came along where tor for example from 1928 through 1913 1943 notre dame won 13 games lost 1 and tied 2 army had no material and man power to match notre dame and army had no rockne but most of these games were well balanced contests hard and closely fought until army piled up a terrific mar gin of points in 1944 and 1945 frank leahy came back in m 1948 1940 to check the army hurricane with an 0 0 party largely emphasized by its extreme dullness w where here neither team would take a chance it wa was the dullest game I 1 saw last year now they have met for the last time in many years at south bend this Is the end of the road tor for some time how long no one knows it may be a couple of years it may be forever no one has ever questioned the superior material notre dame bag has known in these 34 years up to the war notre dame has been the caal tal of football in this country al 1 ways the team you had to beat and always the team you seldom did usually the team with the better football material and at least adequate coaching more than ade quate with knute rockne and frank leahy coaching two of the greatest I 1 might add that notre dame also came along with a spirit that army amy and navy might have equalled equal led but never could surpass notre dame meant football in this country from the days of rockne donals gipp the four horsemen and too many others to mention here last game at south bend having been a close friend of knute rockne s and notre dame for many years there are certain rebuttals that still might be offered many letters have come in at attack tack ing army for dropping notre dame just when notre dame was storm ing back these letters came from frim notre dame dames s subway alumni not from notre dame what this notre dame subway alumni and others overlook in chang ing army with retreating under fira fire Is that from 1932 through 1937 pitts burgh under jock sutherland sutherlan wrecked notre dame in five out 0 ot six games I 1 im m through with pits pittsburgh gh elmer layden told me we haven aven got a chance they not only knock our ears back but we are no good the next week I 1 in calling off the pittsburgh series I 1 which notre dame did I 1 talked this over a few days ago with sutherland who now coaches the pittsburgh jock smiled you couldn coulden t blame notre dame he said they only scored 15 points against us in those six years so notre dame having broken off the pittsburgh series when jock was around can t consistently charge army with quitting notre dame with leahy around I 1 have an idea that jock would like nothing better than a joust with leahy and vice versa it would be interesting to see leahy and sutherland with an even shot at material hook up I 1 know both would relish the chance leahy is a great coach one of the best he also has material that most coaches can only dream about he ile has much better material than army has in particular he lie has johnny lujack who was once ru mored headed for west point pro vs college football it is always a pleasure to have an argument with an expert we are referring to paul brown who ie to now head coach of cleveland s pow erful all ali america conference team pro football he says soon will dominate football just as pro i baseball took over the old game from the colleges college interest Is slipping badly in such cities as cleveland new york chicago and washington the pro game IA 1 now supreme I 1 the tact fact Is that college football to day in the matter of public Ln interest terest is so tar far ahead of the pros there bant ian t even a faint argument |