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Show U ' - " - Every Football Year Has Its Hero - 1- I oSSho tf1 i ' ; ' .sfcS Glipp i TO UA" with 2miCi30 CU8S J 3 e, 1 1 na i ii i mi i in 1 1 ii iii iibip- sssss BBiMii ii n 1 1 iiimiii h n i i i i r frrinTfacaa Tbe Mar, come and - ami wlUi theni come mw heroes "1 Bnortdom I hu year there luive been manj heroic he-roic deeds iimie on the gridiron, Bnl probabl) none stands out with iitt4 sn ii great i'i dramatic lustre a- ,.i,i-gc Gipp, tlw crcat super halfback r N.ti- iamc Yet Glpn has had t. pa) dearlj tor the stardom Whlob he iii t f. i iiim-j'ii. He played hi the nni games ol the schedule with n dislocated shoulder and wheu ill from toiudlltbi In ordct iii.n admiring crowdfl mighl not be disappointed Gipp uos r-i t c t-1 1 Ida name hicii in 1920 football blstorj vi he ha imid tin penali oi stardom. Bj EDU ki Nt run UH t Staff Correspondent. SOCTrl BEND, lnd , Dec 8. Being a star r.thOti h;is its penalties George Gipp, Notre Dame's brilliant fullback and hailed a the season's greatest college football played jiushed himself into the hero class, and when Be was l.xdix liijurcd ho hail to live up to his heroic role or disappoint the crowds. He begged to be allowed to zo back j into a game against Indiana, although his shoulder wa dislocated. Th,e 'crowd thought he wds cast iron. A ; week later h- begged again to l-oi into I the game against Northwestern, Chi- cago rowds were yelling for the Notre I a tue hero. PLAYED W HEN 1 11.. tlipp felt he had to go in and play, no matter how it tortured him. Three days after the Northwestern ' game, t.ipp has a tickling in his throat. I It was tonsil it is Then came pneu-I pneu-I nioula. Olooni hung over Notre Dame s 2000 8tudent.s as bulletins from the I sickroom were anxiously n ad. Some people though Gipp's life is j in Jeopardy because of his bulldog de-! de-! termination to play in spite of his In-, In-, jured should.-r. As a mallei of fact, i physicians said there wasn't any cbn-J cbn-J ncctlon between his illness and foot-! foot-! ball 1CH SORRY oA Nevertheless, EuiUte K. Rockne, the football coach. i s.ri h'- w-ok-1 ened under Gipp's pleadings and let ; him play when he was not in '. class condition. 'ut men have to be physically fit j or they (,-im'i play.'' .said Rockne, ' f"i the primary aim of college athletics Is and always should be to benefit the i...y.N ,.ti sic-Uly. All the gridiron fame in the world Isn t worth ruining a single sin-gle hov's health.' II VRD M .'S l !t Ml That's the way everybody feels about it at Notre Dame. So Gipp's Illness was doubly depressing. res.ximi.stic l ones culled it ijlpp's hard luck." l- or i'thej Recall that In his first year of I football he broke a leg so badly that I the following ear his leg injury caused his rejection from an army amp. ; "Gi; was more than game," said Assistant Coach Frank Kalas. Ffe 'wanted to play the season out because it was his last appearance In athletics for Notre Dame. He hated to give ' up". Gipp's father and mother and his brother, Matthew Gipp, of Kalamazoo. Mich., were at his bedside. The hitter hit-ter declared he was satisfied the Star's illness was not due to too strenuous football. Ills DOCTOR S PROPHE4 Y "Those tonsile have been bothering bin. for years," said the brother. He added, with pride: The doctor says George would have been 80 per cent better if he'd had those tonsils out before he played." Noire Dame students and football I coaches of every team Notre Dame has 1 played cannot imagine Gipp being SO per cnt better. If he u.s So pi r cent deficient, his opponents would have been eorrj lo se. him when he wa i good' DOVES i; kSEBALL BI i Bike five other members of the , Notre nam" varsity team. Gipp never played football till he came here. He just didn't hither about football when , he went to high school In Calumet. Mich. He was crazy about baseball and though he was a bit delicate as a youngster, according to his brother, he always carried around a baseball glove in those days. Now. on the heels of Irs football triumphs, tri-umphs, an offer has come to Gipp to ! get into major league, baseball with : the Chicago Cubs next season. He 'a an outfielder. BKlI.lt V i n EVERYTHING Gipp, who is 1..11, rangy and speedy. -'I years old. Is an all-around athlete. Besides foot1, ail arid baseball, her. a star at hockey, a Sprinter and a champion at billiards. And he recently recent-ly won a gold watch oS a dancer. Besides that he's a crack In the classroom class-room ii- s taking a law course. I Coach Etockne discovered by accl-, accl-, H.-m that Gipp could play football. Somebody caught him doing sonle mar-; mar-; velOUS kicking one day. Thr Induced ; him to get into a football suit. And in his freshman year ho put one he-rween he-rween the kobJ posts from the sbcty-I sbcty-I two-yard line. I ! 'ili Rli W HOIC1 . All ..v. r the countrv they're picking pick-ing Gipp for tiio ml'-Amertcari team. He Is hailed as Notre Dame's greatest since "Red" Salmon's days, eighteen years ago. Some say he's greater, but they are different types of men and starred In different styles of football. " hey had to put a guard on the door at the hospital to keep anxious stu-d stu-d its out. That's what they think of their hero athlej,. at Notre Dame. |