I know I said that I'd have this up for game day on Saturday, but I got busy, so here it is. The last batch of the yearbook scans from OMM. I don't know about you guys, but this stuff is so cool to me. It really gives us a glimpse into the past before football was a lot of glitz and glamor. Good stuff and thanks again OMM.
A portrait of Rockne.
A poem that went with it.
Schedule and results --- this was the Horsemen's junior year and they lost one game.
Thumbnail of the season
Team picture. Rockne far left middle row. Stuhldreher center bottom row. To his left Don Miller [This was the year Miller was first team AA; the next year the other three were first team and Miller second --- they gave his spot to Red Grange]. Crowley, looking like a potential axe murderer, as usual, is at far left just below Rockne. There is one player absent in the picture and I believe that it is, strangely, Layden. The only possible candidate for Layden is the guy in the back row third from left --- but he looks too big and face a bit too broad. Still, it's possible.
Our captain Brown greeting some USMA monster before the Army game. Obvious why they picked that guy as "first man off the bus"
Actual scenes from the Army game.
Scenes from the Princeton game. At top it is Crowley, I believe with the ball. At bottom it is, I believe, Miller running.
Rockne was famous for personally demonstrating what he wanted done in the practices. I believe that the game picture is from the Princeton game.
I believe that this is Layden diving around right end. The picture on the bottom shows ND in its famous defense-bambozzling dancing shift of the "Notre Dame Box".
The next run of scans are of the players with some running commentaries about the season running below after the first one, which is just general comments.
Stuhldreher on here.
The rest of the Horsemen.
Here is a page of Elmer Layden in his track uniform. People today don't realize how fast Layden was, particularly for his era. Layden was around 4.35 in the 40 in most of the meets he ran, with, as far as I can tell, a personal best of 4.25 timed in a meet. That would put him as around the 15th fastest NFL time ever, I believe. Rather amazing.
Picture showing Harry Stuhldreher as vice president of the junior class. Rockne's offense required the quarterback [Stuhldreher--- who stood just behind the line at about the guard position and didn't receive the snap --- one of the others did like a single wing] to essentially "audible" every play depending upon how he assessed the defensive alignment. Stuhldreher was therefore the "brains" behind the whole offense, shouting out, for instance, what "Notre Dame Shift" the four of them were suddenly going to dance into.
The program for The Monogram Absurdities, a gala goof-off event featuring the athletes in "starring" roles. Stuhldreher was of course an organizer of this too, but the "ham" was Jimmy Crowley who seems to have been gifted with too much personality for his or anyone else's good.
I include this photo, because I think that the person at the bottom right is the famous/infamous Holy Cross priest who establish a legendary "dungeon" weight lifting program years before its time. Tales of what went on in these literally dark "exercise" rooms seem like they should be parts of Stephen King novels.
The campus from the air.
This was the Chemistry lab which Rockne taught in just four years earlier when he had to make his decision if it was Chemistry or Football. It's the same lab that my Dad [OMM's dad] worked in as a student about 8 years later.
A tribute to the 1913 team. Rockne as team captain, fifth from left, center row. Gus Dorais far right second row.
That's it. Thanks again for sharing OMM.
