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...Knute Rockne, grizzled Notre Dame football coach, famed for frowning and talking dolefully about great teams before they went into action, lately spoke to a group of coaches at Northwestern University's summer school. Said he: "Pessimism as applied to football has been worked to death. It is time to swing back the other way. . . . Hereafter I will present a more or less radiant picture of my prospects." Of Notre Dame's nine games this fall, not one will be held in South Bend...
...game, which marked the close of the three weeks Spring training period, was watched by Knute Rockne, famous coach of Notre Dame elevens, who is in Boston on a speaking tour...
Meyers Wilson ("K. O.") Christner, a little stolid and very solid, had knocked out 37 fisticuffers in 44 bouts. But he was almost unheard of east of Akron, Ohio, and west of the Mississippi River, until he demolished Knute Hansen and was signed up to fight Josef Paul Cukoschay ("Jack Sharkey") in Madison Square Garden last week...
...Walter Chrysler denied that he still had an interest in Pug Knute Hansen, recently battered by one K. 0. Christner. He wished to Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. luck with Pug Rene de Vos, in whom Biddle Jr. purchased an interest ]ast fortnight...
Notre Dame has a famous football coach, Knute Rockne, who never turns out feeble teams. Yet he has off-seasons and he remarked last week, "I am not worrying this year-I only worry when I have a good team and expect to see it win." Rockne moved about the country followed not by one Notre Dame team but by several; he arrived in Manhattan with three last week and sent one of them onto the field in the Yankee Stadium where 80,000 people were watching, to play against the Army. Notre Dame has lost two games this year...