Show troad THERE HERE la is always the end of a road of every road paik pack in 1913 it noire dame team cime came to west point with a quarterback known aai aa gus donals and a stocky end re r as knute rockne two combination beat a strong army team 85 35 to 13 with derail win winging aind the ball to rockne in a complete rout this game started a series that i eventually bec becam amedore am emore important than harvard and ayale yale yale and princeton california and southern k Q california A army r m y w and navy or any 4 4 r X inter team duel you can think of tit at the moment the inie army notre dame meeting reached such leahy heights that a year ago dilt alif jones arf mys mya graduate manager told me he ha could easily sell a million tickets at 10 each I 1 think ho he could in the series of 31 34 games notre dame has haa won 23 times army I 1 times time a w with I 1 t h 4 ties NO r a D dame am e w asa a a tar far in front until the war oama along where for example from 1828 1928 through 1943 notre damo dame won 13 games lost band tied 2 army had no material and manpower to match notre dammand 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 mari mar i gin of points in 1844 1944 end and frank leahy come came back ln 1043 to check the army hurricane with an 00 0 0 party largely emphasized by its extreme dullness where neither team would take taka a chance it was the dullest game camei 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 timi time row how long no one knows mow it may be a couple of year sit inay may be forever no one has evev ever questioned the superior material notre dame has knowlin know nIn these 34 years up to 0 the war notre dame has hag been the capital of football in this country countr yali all ways the team you had to beat and always the team you seldom did usually the team with the bet tev ter football material and at least adequate coach ingmore than adequate with knute rockne and frank leahy coaching two ot of the greatest I 1 night might i add that notre D dame me also came along with a spirit that A army amy and Navy might have hava equalled equal led but never could surpass notre notra dame meant football in this country from the days of rockne dorali donals gipp the four horsemen and too many others to mention here last game at south bend having been a close friend oi of knute Roc knes and notre dame cormany for or many years there abera are eel certain tain rebuttals that still might be offered many letters havercome have como come in attack in ing g army for dropping notre metre dame just when notre dame was storming back these letters letteri came fr from orn notre dames subway alumni not from notre dame what this notre dome dame subway alumni and others overlook tn in charging army with retreating under fire Is that from 1932 1032 through 1937 pittsburgh under 1 jock sutherland wrecked notre dame in live five out of 0 six games im through with pittsburgh elmer layden told me we got a chance they not noi only knock ou our rears ears back but we arc no good the next week im calling ot off the pittsburgh series which notre dime damo did I 1 talked this over a few days ago with sutherland who now coaches the Pitts pittsburgh burih celers St jock smiled you blame blama notre dame he ha said aid they only scored 15 points against us ua in thosa those six years so notre dame having brok broken en off the pittsburgh serle series s when jock was waa around cant consistently charge army with quitting notre dame with leally leahy around I 1 have an idea that jock would like nothing better batter than a joust with ler leahy aay and vice versa it would be interesting to see leahy and sutherland with tin an even shot at material hook up I 1 know both would relish the chance leahila leahy Is a great coach oneff the best lie he also has material that most co coaches aches can only dream about he has much better material then than army has in particular he has johnny lujack who was once rumored headed for west point pro vs college foote football all it is always a pleasure to have an argument w with ith an expert we ere are referring to paul brown who is now head coach of Clev elands powerful all america conference neami bearn pro football he be says ays soon will dominate football lust just as pro baseball took over the old game from the colleges college interest 1 Is lipping clipping badly in such cities as cleveland land new york chicago and washington the pro game io 14 11 now ow supreme the facts fact la Is football to deyan dey ln tha matte matteri of public interest la Is so far ahe ahead adof of the pros there wt isalt even a faint argument p 41 f V |