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...Game Sir: What a fine football issue TIME [Nov. 9] put out. And if people were seen drooling at newsstands, it was no doubt because of that wonderful Lattner cover . . . Surely there's a lot to argue about concerning commercialized athletics in our schools. But most of us can safely agree that if amateur sports must be a big business, then by all means let's have it a la Notre Dame...
Notre Dame, aiming for its fifth national championship in ten years, almost misfired against fired-up Pennsylvania last week. Striking quickly, Penn scored in the first five minutes. Then Notre Dame's All-America Halfback Johnny Lattner (TIME, Nov. 9) went to work. He took the next kickoff 92 yards for a touchdown, minutes later dashed 32 yards with a punt return to set up Notre Dame's second touchdown, in the third quarter scooted for 56 yards to set up his team's fourth score. In the final quarter, with Penn driving 71 yards downfield...
...Lattner's one-man show left Notre Dame as one of a dwindling number of major undefeated, untied teams. The other two: second-ranked Maryland, hard pressed in the first half, which finally overcame stubborn George Washington 27-6; and seventh-ranked West Virginia, which needed a fourth-quarter touchdown to beat Virginia Tech...
...being intelligently aggressive on the football field. Johnny won All-State honors as an end in 1948, his junior year. The next year Captain-elect Lattner was shifted to halfback, where he became a bread & butter boy for Fenwick Coach Tony Lawless. Known as "Big John" to his teammates. Lattner averaged 18 yds. a carry. He made All-State again, the first player in Illinois records to do it two years in a row at different positions. He also led Fenwick to the finals of the Chicago championship. Fenwick lost, but Johnny will never forget the crowd that turned...
...postwar gold rush for playing talent, Lattner was one of the most sought-after nuggets in Illinois history. Turning down countless other offers, he visited the campuses of six schools-Michigan, Illinois, Purdue, Kentucky, Kansas and Indiana (which made a strong social impression on Johnny by supplying him with a white summer tux and a stunning brunette date for a dance). The offers for his football services included the standard ones of room, board and tuition, with sometimes an additional alumni deal which Lattner will not discuss. He accepted Notre Dame's relatively modest offer: free tuition...