Word: knute
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Melinkovich. who learned Notre Dame football under Knute Rockne and spent last year recovering from yellow jaundice; Fred Carideo, whose cousin Frank was quarterback in 1928-29-30; a sophomore named Wallace Fromhart; Mike Layden, younger brother of this year's coach, are Notre Dame's new backfield. Last week Melinkovich ran 60 yd. for one touchdown, plunged 3 yd. for another. Carideo intercepted a pass and scuttled 70 yd. for the third, that beat Purdue...
...Knute Nelson, the family moved permanently to Washington. After grade school and a short time in Central High School, Son Bob went off to Mercersburg. There in two years he became a football and track star, treasurer of his class and a graduate aim laude. His schoolmates were proud to vote him the typical Mercersburg student...
...Fred Canrinus catapulted his big frame head first between two Fordham defenders, fell on the ball for the second touchdown. After that Fordham fought harder than ever and Danowski, alternately carrying and passing the ball, crossed the line standing up. St. Mary's 13, Fordham 6. Systems, If Knute Rockne could return to earth, he might not recognize all the local variations which his system has acquired. His basic idea was to give a smart backfield, big or little, the advantage over a heavier team. (Average weight of the Horsemen was only 164-lb.). Most conspicuous features...
...while Notre Dame was preparing to smother Carnegie Tech, the late Knute Rockne jaunted confidently to Chicago to see the Army-Navy game. Coach Rockne nearly had a stroke as he read bulletin after bulletin from Pittsburgh telling how a Carnegie quarterback named Howard Harpster was running wild through Notre Dame, 19-to-0. Two years later Harpster, All-American quarterback, helped Carnegie to repeat. Last week, as youngest coach in major football (26), he sent his team against Notre Dame once more. In the first minute of play Carnegie handled Notre Dame exactly as Princeton handled Columbia (see above...
...farmers of Neodesha remembered that two years before, almost to the hour, Football Coach Knute Rockne and seven others had been killed in an airplane crash at Bazaar, 75 mi. away...