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...Lakes. During World War I the Station boasted not only a crack basketball team (17 victories in 21 starts), but the No. 1 football team in the U.S. Its roster included four players who have since become famed football coaches: George Halas (Chicago Bears), Jimmy Conzelman (Chicago Cardinals), Charlie Bachman (Michigan State) and Paddy Driscoll (backfield coach for Halas' Bears). Although they played first-rate teams, including one of Knute Rockne's strongest Notre Dame elevens, Great Lakes' fabulous gobs sailed undefeated through the 1918 season, wound up in the Rose Bowl...
...recruit a basketball team, the Station called back into service Lieut. James Russell Cook, one of its 1918 alumni. Unlike Halas, Conzelman, Bachman and Driscoll, Cook-who was a three-letter man at De Pauw University-had chosen basketball as a professional career. For ten years (1920-30) he produced razzle-dazzle quintets at Indiana's Central Normal College; nursed one, composed of five brothers named Reeves, along to the semi-finals of the 1929 National A.A.U. basketball tournament...
...Traditionally, Notre Dame's coach must be an alumnus. That specification applied to 40-odd possible candidates, notably, Jim Crowley (Fordham), Harry Stuhldreher (Wisconsin), Jim Phelan (Washington), Buck Shaw (Santa Clara), Eddie Anderson (Iowa), Frank Thomas (Alabama), Clipper Smith (Villanova), Gus Dorais (Detroit), Frank Leahy (Boston College), Charlie Bachman (Michigan State). At South Bend people thought that the University would probably ignore these top-notchers, promote Line Coach Joe Boland, for seven years Layden's understudy...
Bill Daughaday earned his way to the finals, but was unable to cope with the phenomenal wrestling of Tommy King from Lehigh. He was in a position to win second place from his Penn State opponent, Donald Bachman, but because of the lateness of the match he decided to default and received third place automatically. This is the same position that he won last year. He took two points for a fall and third place...
...that Knoxville's Captain A. Mitchell Long, lawyer and politician, would make a fine Senator. The newspapers told him that Nashville's Albert H. Roberts, ex-Governor of Tennessee, had publicly proposed himself for the job. Many others pressed claims privately. At week's end Senator Bachman's sudden taking off was mourned by no one more than Governor Gordon Browning...