Shenanigans
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Beautiful shot of
Sorin Hall from the 1917 Dome.
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A poem from the October 18, 1919 edition of
the Scholastic:
It's time to shed your B.V.D.'s,
The days are getting cold,
The leaves are dropping from the trees,
The autumn's growing old.
The birds are flying South in bevies--
Be wise, my friend; put on your heavies.
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Notre Dame at Morningside,
1919. (George Gipp broke his leg in this game)
It was this game that produced one of the most hilarious and probably most
apocryphal of all Irish football stories. It was so cold that the
Morningside coach equipped all his players with white cotton gloves. On one
of the first plays from scrimmage there was a huge pile-up and, allegedly,
the Notre Dame linemen came up wearing the white gloves.
"Not quite true," said Rock, "but a couple pair did change
hands during the game."
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Nordy Hoffman, guard on
Rockne's famous undefeated team of 1930 recalls:
"'A few years ago I was coming out of my office in Washington, D.C.,
and a woman was standing on the sidewalk in front of me, trying to talk to
me. I was so busy and feeling so important that I walked right by her and
jumped in a cab and rode away. On the ride I started thinking about the
woman and about Rockne and about how this was not what he'd taught me. I
realized that I was such a jerk. I told the cabdriver to go back to my
office and he did. I found the woman and asked her what she'd been trying to
tell me. 'I haven't eaten in a week,' she said. I gave her some money and
she promised to repay me. I said she already had."
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