Show COACH ROCKNE'S EOCENE'S ADVICE Coming from Knute Rockne coach of the champion champion champion cham cham- pion Notre Dame University football team and leading leading leading lead lead- ing gridiron strategist the statement that we must not take our football too seriously is indeed re re- re freshing Mr Rockne is a professional coach His livelihood livelihood livelihood liveli liveli- hood is at stake in iri in- inthe the success or failure of his hIs' coaching work Yet with an intelligence and a perspective that some of us lack he warns us that college football must not be allowed to acquire acquire- a place Jn in collegiate activities where it detracts from the main idea of ofa a college college education Mr Rockne tells us that after all football is but a game He sees it as IlS a means of determining ho how v much iron a boy has in his backbone as a means of developing alertness in an emergency as asa asa asa a means of strengthening the body for the more important battles battle when college days are over To this end he encourages every boy at Notre Dame to get into a football suit and take take- part in inthe inthe inthe the schools school's inter college games Hundreds of or young I Imen men are arc getting the benefit of this system instead of the selected few of the university squad Educators in Minnesota and elsewhere have tried to bring this point home in the past and too many football enthusiasts have regarded the advice as the viewpoint of the bookish pedagogue But it will be a sadly unenlightened fan be he student or outsider who accuses Knute Rockne of being a Pollyanna He is a fighter and he coaches fighting teams His faith in brains over brawn on the football field has revolutionized the game I IThe The thing that has always characterized Ameri Ameri- American can college football football fairness fairness in victory or defeat defeat- seemed to be lacking The coach who could turn in nothing but victories was a God The coach who did not was an Yale Harvard and Princeton have realized this and placed a maximum of as the salary to be paid coaches A football coach and a 15 president in a university was rightly declared I to be ridiculous Inter collegiate football is a splendid sport and has a rightful place in the activities of of our educational educational educational institutions but that place is well down in inthe inthe inthe the place is well down in the curriculum When Knute Rockne brings his squad to Minneapolis Minneapolis Minneapolis Minne Minne- apolis next fall we sincerely hope that Bill Spaulding Spaulding Spaulding ing and his Gophers give him a sound drubbing But if this delightful dream does not materialize we as sincerely trust that the Maroon and Gold supporters supporters sup- sup P porters will remember that it is just a game and will be as big in defeat as in victory The The Minneapolis Minneapolis Minneapolis Minne Minne- apolis Tribune |