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...Coach's bench at Notre Dame, hallowed by the great Rockne's buttprints, is the toughest spot in U.S. football. On it this season is 33-year-old Frank Leahy, who quit Boston College at the chance to coach at Notre Dame (his alma mater) when Elmer Layden last winter resigned to become tsar of the professional National Football League. Besides a traditionally tough schedule, brave Coach Leahy will be further handicapped by his resolve to overthrow the system of a successful predecessor, substituting stuff that may or may not work with the material at hand...
...succeed Coach Elmer Layden, who resigned to become the Judge Landis of professional football, the University of Notre Dame last week signed up 33-year-old Alumnus Frank Leahy, coach of Boston College's undefeated 1940 football team. B. C. released Leahy from a five-year contract, at a salary reputedly higher than the one he will get from Notre Dame. Said Leahy, onetime lineman on the last two teams (1929-30) coached by the late great Knute Rockne: "I want to give them a chance to get back something they gave...
...Last week its guardians hired an outsider to manage its man-sized affairs. The new commissioner of big-league football is no white-headed Judge Landis. But the football world last week agreed that no one could be better suited for the job than 37-year-old Elmer Layden, for the past seven years athletic director and football coach at Notre Dame...
...reign at Notre Dame is the dream of many a college football coach. Yet last week Elmer Layden voluntarily left the campus that had made him famed-first as one of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame and later as successor to his teacher, the late great Knute Rockne. The old Horseman took a practical view of the matter. "I did it for the future welfare of my family," said he. "The National Football League is the fastest growing institution in American sport. I hope and believe I can be helpful in the further development of the organization." Layden...
While college football viewed Coach Layden's departure with alarm-he is the fourth esteemed college coach to go over to the pros within a year-football fans speculated on his successor. 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...