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\A7 HEN Minnesota ended -the
football season this year, the
Golden Gophers left little doubt as
to the identity of the nation’s best
team.
Winners of the Western confer-
ence title, the Gophers established
a record nnequaled in Big Nine his-
tory. They won their sixth cham-
pionship in eight seasons. The
record book shows conference vic-
tories over Northwestern, Michi-
gan, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Non - conference victories were
chalked up over Washington, Pitts-
burgh and Nebraska.
The Gophers were the best de-
fensive team in the league, and
also the most powerful on at-
tack. Although they accounted for
only 49 points in their first three
conference games, the Norsemen
finished with 75 in their last two
tilts against Iowa and Wisconsin.
Their total of 124 points complete-
ly overshadowed the aggregate of
32 scored by five opponents.
Captain Bruce Smith, All-America
halfback for the Gophers, was in-
jured in two of the first three con-
ference games. With Smith in top
form, Minnesota was one of the
greatest teams on offense since
the Gophers of 1934. Even with
Smith out of the lineup a great
share of the time, Minnesota
played championship football. The
mythical national title belongs to
the Gophers as certainly as it ever
belonged to any team.
At least one veteran football
writer, following the Wisconsin
game, was inclined to rate Minne-
sota as the best team he ever saw
when it was functioning at full
strength. Most observers, however,
still point to the Notre Dame teams
of ’29 and ’30.
In that game with Wisconsin, the
boys from the North gave ample
demonstration of their real power.
They went 73 yards in five plays
for one score and 60 in five for an-
other. Including Smith’s 39-yard
return of an intercepted pass, they
took four plays to go 50 yards and
score. From their own 4-yard line
they made five successive first
downs to cover 99 yards into the
Wisconsin end zone, taking care of
a five-yard penalty in short order.
A IR service is just as important
in football as it is in actual
war. It isn’t everything, but air
control usually means victory. Line
play is vitally im- ^
portant. So is a
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Frank Leahy,
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master - minding
mentor, was quite
willing to tell you
what he knew about a passing at-
tack. After watching Boston Col-
lege last fall and Notre Dame this
fall, my guess would be that In-
structor Leahy knows his share.
“In my opinion,” Leahy said,
“the passing game moves in about
this order: First, the passer; sec-
ond, pass protection; third, receiv-
ing. Each detail is important.
“Tq_ keep, a passing game work-
ing on the winning side you must
have a first-class passer—you must
give him protection and you must
have speed that can get to the pass
—and then hold it.”
Notre Dame this year had all
three essentials — something they
were unable to show against Army
in the rain and mud. The greatest
pass weakness is weather.
“The best passers are born—not
made—to a large extent,” Leahy
continued. “They must have a
natural aptitude for throwing a
football. A coach can improve an
average passer—but he can’t make
him into a Luckman, a Baugh, an
O’Brien, an Isbell, a Parker or an
Albert.”
“Or a Bertelli?” we suggested. Mr.
Leahy smiled, wanly, “Or a Ber-
telli,” he added.
“Giving the passer protection
and catching a ball are easier to
teach—and learn. We have devel-
oped good receivers in a year. We
couldn’t develop good passers in
that time. Good passers—I mean
the better ones—usually started as
kids, something like the caddies
who later on make most of the lead-
ing pros.
“Good protection is just as nec-
essary. You may remember how
well Dutch Meyer at T.C.U. sur-
rounded Davey O’Brien with Al-
drich and Hale—center and tackle.
We use more than two protectors
at Notre Dame.”
There were times in the Navy
game when almost the entire Notre
Dame line seemed to be on guard
around Bertelli who was rarely
hurried or rushed, even by Navy’s
desperate efforts to break through.
Season Oddities
There are always wide football
ranges, but 1941 was fairly close to
the all-time record.
For example, the first five oppos-
ing teams scored 132 points against
Pittsburgh this season. These five
teams had averaged slightly better
than 26 points a game.
Then suddenly Fordham couldn’t
score against Pittsburgh. This was
the main shock of this game—more
than Fordham’s defeat.
Baylor, beaten by Villanova,
slaughtered 48 to 0 by Texas A. and
M., suddenly turned on a great Texas
team, a team that had averaged
34 points a game against teams that
looked to be about on Baylor’s level
—and gives Texas an even fight.
Pittsburgh never had a chance
to get back on her feet after fac-
ing such teams as Michigan, Min-
nesota, Duke and Ohio State on
successive Saturdays.
But the Panther was on all four
feet against Fordham, which has
developed the mournful knack of
jumping off the cliff once a year
somewhere along the route.
One answer is that certain teams,
such as Harvard, start slowly and
begin moving up week by week.
Others, starting at top speed, be-
gin falling back around mid-season.
Harvard, beaten by Pennsylvania,
and Cornell in her first two games,
was a match for anybody at the
end of the season.
From a Coach
Question—Would you like a short
tip? You football writers build us
up beyond our actual strength, and
then a lot of you cut our throats
because we lose. A lot of us are
not as good as you said we were,
even while winning—and not as bad
as many think when we are losing.
It’s the average football writer—
not the Old Grads—who gets us into
most of our trouble. I think you
know that.
Answer—No answer. It’s practi-
cally 100 per cent true.
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the ball turn your finger and wrist
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SPORT SHORTS
C. Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame’s
sophomore pass thrower., complet-
ed 70 out of 123 passes this year
for a gain of 1,027 yards.
C. Hiram Bithorn, signed by the
Chicago Cubs, is the first Puerto
Rican to reach big league baseball
<L Pitcher Rube Waddell of the
Philadelphia Athletics fanned 343
batters in 1904.
C George Atkins of California, new
rookie center for the Harlem Globe-
trotters basketball team, is a mere
seven feet in height.
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The Best Play
Question—What was the best sin-
gle play you saw this year?
Answer — By Bertelli — in the
Navy game. All officials working
this game agree on the verdict. The
Notre Dame passer first dropped
back and faked a pass. He then
.ucked the ball under his arm and
faked a run to the right. He then
stopped suddenly and completed a
ine pass for a long gain. By his
;wo fakes he had upset Navy’s de-
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as well as a brilliant passer.
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detective had been sent to investi-
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“H’m,” he murmured, after he
had been around the house and
asked a few questions. “Looks to
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everything.”
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