Show Notre N Dame Coach Explains Grid Upset Oft Of Y Ye rear e TELLS OF BREAKS IN INI IN Bf nB ElAI JB Til i I f NEBRASKA TILT Overconfidence P Big Factor In Defeat Says Wonder Mentor r Rock flock HELLO ri Glad to lice sea ee you OU Bill BIL greetings preliminary to k Merely nten lew l 1 ly y r Tough to loss lose that game to No- No Ne i braska was my opening k Yes It was WILS bu but then you ou cant can't f In ln them all an and the te rates fates t ed i-ed i cd that wo we should lose Ioe O 0 I suppose Tell the Ule tl o world for me nie that was WILS not the reasons reason That Is one traIt I never neer Into teams that I 1 Tell T ll me nie about tV WelI there is there there- Is Is consIderable considerable to tell In the tint first place we were beaten by a real football teai team It apparently had hal been pointed tor the theotre I Dame game M team en the other hand had hd hadr I played rive five hard games on successive Satur Satur- Saturdays Satur- Satur Saturdays days days and aad despite every effort on I my part as well as the trainer the club let down a a II bit was II a a trifle stale Condition pla pia cd ed the decide decide- r in in the result and Nebraska s-ln s In the better shape I FIELD WAS VERY Any SLOW I Unquestionably the condition of the field flold was wee my team This IS not a a alibI m merely merel rely a a contributing re reaSon on It Is II a new field that had tb been en put In n the best possible but It was as soft and slow Blow and great greatly great ly retarded my my fast fut running backs N Nebraska on the other ther hand Ith ith a weight advantage wa was WM able to use It Noble a big fast running back wasn't ant bothered nearly as much as my lighter backs Vien len lenthe the he got ot under way nay ay ground condL- condL conditions meant nothing to him At At the end ot of the second period it was as evident to me that my club could not make use uro of Its fast run run- running run ning game Inability to get start start- started started start fed ed plus the fact th that t tho the heavy line was m my forwards thereby either hurrin hurr or stopping the plays caused me to order an entire shift In our style of C RESORTED TO IE PASS SS Your only hope Is to keep the I ball In the sir I told my great little Ittle Quarterback In 1 Uie he last two periods Notre Noire Dame re- re reI re-i re I ort ort-d lo to a passing game entirely Had not the tho breaks started to go against us at this stage o things thIng might liase been different Dropping passes is unusual on on the Notre Dame team after a player gets the ball Into his hands 1 l Dame Pame seven such passes in the list two t perlo periods s of ot the Nebraska game One ol ot o th them m Mas dropped after the thc player bad had ble ped over over- tho goal line Ime the 1 he Nebraska defeat defeat- was lust just lne ne of those upsets upset th that thit t tappen cry now lOW and then Inthe sport I t orld orld JIo I w wI I to offer offet no o alibi because the tho 12 o alibi because the thc biggest factor In our defeat was the real ability by the Nebraska team under the conditions that t Neat lear ear Is another Rockne's wa way of ot 8 saving aIng Ing that thebo the bo boss bos would keep Nebraska in mind mindIn mindIn In iii 19 1924 4 nn |