Show 1 Things I Never Knew Til Now About I bout FL K 1 Rockne S Football The reason most football players wear silk trousers is because its it's hard for an opponent to get a grip gripon gripon on them Twenty-five Twenty years ago football was considered so brutal that the legislatures of half a dozen states passed a law making it a penal offense to play the game Old isn't something the radio gagmen thought up its up-it's its it's actu actu- actually actually actually ally a college Its It's square is Knox college and its it's in Gales- Gales Galesburg Galesburg Galesburg burg Ill When Knute Rockne was captain of the Notre Dame foot foot- football football football ball team he invited his mother to see him play against University of Chicago Rockne played more brilli brilli- brilliantly brilliantly antly than ever making long runs and spectacular pass catches After the game Knute proudly asked what she thought of the spectacle It was marvelous she said breath breath- lessly That leader cheer-leader who w. w o turned the pinwheels was wonder wonder- wonderful full ful full As a tribute to Red Grange the Illinois football team has never re re- reissued reissued re- re reissued issued his number the famous 77 to any of its players The win win- winner winner winner ner of the Minnesota Michigan game each year gets possession of a little brown jug which cost 18 cents I Imagine 22 grown boys fighting over that Will Rogers once I asked Rockne if he thought his son could make the Fighting Irish team if he went to Notre Dame No doubt he could replied Rockne but he might have to change his name to or South Bend Indiana the home of Notre Dame is the only town in the country with a statue honoring a football player The player honored isn't the great Knute Rockne as you'd suppose but George Gipp his star pupil Rockne has a more practical memorial two Twenty-two head coaches around the nation are men who were taught their football A B Cs by him Rockne's big ambition was to have his son Knute Jr follow in his footsteps Last year the lad became a candi candi- candidate candidate candidate date for halfback on the Notre Dame team During a scrimmage his leg was fractured and its it's been so weakened that he may never be beable beable beable able to play football Rockne who knew every trick in inthe inthe inthe the book of psychology could turn defeat into victory between halves in the locker room almost every time During the first half of one game the Notre Dame team played very poorly and the half ended with witha a score of 7 7 0 0 in favor of their op op- op- op In the locker room the Notre Dame lads burst into a cold sweat fearing what Rockne would say He said nothing during the entire rest period When the second half was called he got up and mere mere- merely merely merely ly said Lets go girls Rockne who played the flute al always al- al always always ways insisted on taking the instrument instrument instrument ment with him to every Notre Dame game He had a superstition that it brought the team luck The Navy mascot goat inherits the job which is passed down from father to so sop President Woodrow Wil Wil- Wilson Wilson Wilson son was once Princeton university's football coach He also coached at Wesleyan K R. R R who had a nimble wit was wasat wasat wasat at a loss for words only once in his life according to Warren Brown After the Southern California game in hi 1930 J. J P. P McEvoy the humorist and several newspaper men gath gath- gathered gathered gathered ered in Rockne's dressing room and got into a discussion of art and lit lit- literature literature literature with him Rockne took ex ex- exception exception to one of McEvoy's ments just as silly as my setting out to imitate said Rockne Can you imagine me trying to imitate I Why yes replied McEvoy Notes of a Newsboy N America now realizes that the road to isolation ends where it al always al- al always always ways ends with the Ole enemy on your doorstep Ironically the only way to get into this kind of trouble is isto isto isto to run from it Slovakia Czechoslovakia thought she had isolated herself from Austria Poland thought she had isolated herself from Slovakia Czecho-Slovakia Norway thought she had isolated herself from Finland Holland thought she had isolated herself from Norway and Denmark But each had merely isolated herself from the help that would have saved her her European advocates of isolation to- to today to day wear the medals of the dicta dicta- tors Their own countries have dis dis- appeared The newsstand owner at and Broadway with a He lie pinned an button on Willkie's picture on Lifes Life's current cover cover but but right on Wendells Wendell's lapel Irving Edelson the cab driver who dashed into a flaming building the theother theother theother other day and saved two colored children will be honored by the mayor and police commissioner with The Valorous Deed D d Medal Comforting Thought The world will never belong to the Axis because Axis because each member of the Axis thinks the world belongs to him |