Show 0 r 4 0 rne NE of my favorite athletes foi some 20 years has been a fellow by the he name of heartley anderson better known as hunk with george halas former and owner of the chicago bears now non in war service hunk is one of the head co coaches pound for pound hunk is the toughest physical specimen n ive ever e er known knovs and that includes bludes joe louis and d strangler liew lew IH As a guard under knute rockne weighing 17 0 pounds hunk made Grantlan dRice surrender and leave the field they wanted no part of hunk who in addition to 6 amazing quickness and unusual strength always has had ing fighting spirit ile he was the type they might kill but never whip art an anderson angle this takes us back to the time notre dame decided to tryout try out field hockey A big squad had assembled then hunk appeared his presence scattered most of the hockey squad do you mean one of them hem asked that im to play in a game in which they are giving hunk hun k an ail derson a stick I 1 dout want any part of it As a coach in the old days hunk may have been a better top sergeant thana general of the rockne type but that still goes as a tribute ile he certainly never has had a superior as a line coach he wall was given the impossible job at notre dame of following knute rockne at the time this was an impossible assignment X his toughest job hunks toughest coaching job came at north carolina state some years ago hunk had assembled a strong southern line and a northern backfield 1 I made one big mistake hunk told me la later t 6 1 I 1 thought the civil war wai was over I 1 soon found that my southern line lifie was wa tackling and stopping my northern backfield before foreit it got started id just forgotten to rush upon up on my history I 1 discovered down south you coulden couldn t anix up bil stonewall bicks jacksons i ons a and n robert E lees with U S grants and william tecumseh shermans Sher mans and philip Sheri dans The T Strong man I 1 doubt that tha t football has ever produced a stronger man than eddie hart Prince tons old football captain now installed as a major in the marines his strong man rival wa was s eddie glass of f yale the new marine is no kid he was prince tons leader back in 1910 and 1911 when he played with a broken neck protected by y a special leather harness now over 50 he is still in fine physical shape and still one of the strongest men ihnow I 1 know something after the manner of pudge kleffel finger who was still a football star at 53 and not so bid bad at 65 when he be played a full period in a charity game two eddie hart examples the night he won a bet that three all americans Arne ricans in the room bowl him over as he stood on one foot the day in paris during the last war when a pound football I 1 pal called from the second floor of a paris hotel im jumping eddie catch me hart HarU caught him the marines get aarud a true marine in eddie hart eddie hart coached the army f football team that played in paris after the armistice eddie mahan was on that army squad it was after this game hart told me that marshal foch said any army that plays this gameos game is already well trained for war it is a game that belongs to the strong and the tha fast and to those who must think under pressure it is the type of competitive sport an army needs E efficiency col bob neyland remarked a short while back that when you can get a team up to go 80 per cent efficiency ficle fici ency cy in blocking and tackling you have about reached the summit of human buman expectancy this Is true with a few exceptions holy cross passed 90 per cent in this respect against boston college I 1 wid W id redskins Red skins were close to per cent against the beaten bears ive never seen a team that tackled fackle 4 harder blocked harder or ran li harder liardet going all out than the redskins Red skins did against the bears they had a record wound to cure that had been festering for two years 73 to 0 prid and yau you could see on practically every play they meant to effect the cure here was full proof ot of what afoot a foot i ball tea team m can do when it becomes emotionally aroused here was the he answer of the seasons upsets upset sto to the way auburn burn n felt about georgia and holy C cross ros s felt about boston college |