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Show Football Is Disease at University of Notre Dame The secret of the perennial success of University of Notre Dame football teams was revealed by a Chicago newspaper. news-paper. A campus full of he-men wearing khaki pnnts and flannel shirts, no girls to fuss over, and Knute Rockne'a coaching, wrote a sports expert in recounting re-counting his observations ot conditions responsible for the playing which permitted per-mitted Notre Dame to go East and defeat de-feat the Army and Princeton, and return re-turn West to overwhelm Georgia Tech, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Leland Stanford. Stan-ford. "There Is a football atmosphere oa the Notre Dame campus that probably does not exist anywhere else," said the writer. "It's a disease. No hardy young man can attend school there without contracting it. "If he cannot make the varsity eleven, he may may make the second or third, or fourth, or clear on up to the seventh, for there are seven full-sized full-sized teams practicing every afternoon In the gridiron season. Then there Is a football team for every boarding hall, and a big squad of freshmen, "As for Rockne, lie runs football at Notre Dame. He runs the business end and he coaches the team." |
