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...world of football after dinner, but on Mondays there is a team meeting to go over the scouting reports on the week's opponent. The coaches handed out a 20-page brochure on Yale: the roster, statistics, play diagrams, defense diagrams, and on and on. Bob Gongola, the offensive backfield coach, had scouted them. Gongola, tall, blond, and muscular, with a flat-top haircut, stands out by inches when the coaches pose for pictures. He is, in his own immortal phrase, "a big stud...
...great shape either. Gene Skowronski and Tom choquette had been in the hospital with injuries though they were out and practicing now. Ulcickas had been hurt towards the start of the week. Neal Curtin, who started the season at left tackle, had torn nerves in his feet. The backfield was full of assorted miseries...
...squad room for a team meeting. Feula spoke first, going over some last-minute blocking assignments. He was visibly keyed up and said little. "It's your game. Let's do a job." Lentz was nervous. Quickly, he went over all the important defensive plays, especially for the defensive backfield. With Mercein out, we would have to contain Yale's top offensive threat, quarterback Ed McCarthy's passing...
Died. Harry Stuhldreher, 63, quarterback of Notre Dame's famed Four Horsemen backfield, the 5 ft. 7 in. "little general" whose pinpoint passes, shrewd field tactics and shin-splitting blocks led the Fighting Irish to 27 victories in 30 games from 1922 to 1924, and won for him a place on Walter Camp's 1924 All-America team-the only one of the four to make it; of acute pancreatitis; in Pittsburgh. Stuhldreher was less successful as a coach, winning only 45 while losing 62 in 13 years at the University of Wisconsin, finally left...
...Yale game, however, the coach was substituting as entire backfield, one and, one tackle, and two linebackers on defense...