Word: layden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week when Elmer Layden's troops (three complete teams) trotted into The Bronx's Yankee Stadium for their 26th annual skirmish with Army, 78,000 spellbound spectators watched them. Most of them had never seen either West Point or South Bend, but this was their "Homecoming Game." Notre Dame rooters were proud of their team's record. In five games so far this season it had defeated Purdue, Georgia Tech, Southern Methodist, Navy, Carnegie Tech-none of them pushovers. But to Army rooters that record was just the luck of the Irish: a field goal...
...Notre Dame there is no de-emphasis of football. Coach Elmer Layden has a coast-to-coast collection of 81 players on his varsity squad, 42 of whom were captains of their prep-school or high-school football teams. Starting the season with 177 varsity candidates, he weeded them out until he had three complete teams, any one of which the late, great Knute Rockne, his teacher, might have been proud of. Victor over Kansas, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Carnegie Tech, Army, Navy and Minnesota on successive Saturdays, last week Notre Dame added Northwestern to its string-and incidentally exhibited...
Last week Robert Zuppke's finger-on which he superstitiously changes rings if his team loses-twitched. A highly touted Notre Dame team which Coach Elmer Layden thought was the best he had yet assembled, scored twice as many first downs as Illinois, and twice as many yards from scrimmage. But at the end of the game Zuppke's rings were still in order. Zuppke's 25th anniversary year had begun with a small triumph. Score...
...same football field for the first time since the season of 1924 when both were in Notre Dame's backfield, Coaches Elmer Layden of Notre Dame and Harry Stuhldreher of Wisconsin watched Notre Dame win the first game ever played between teams coached by onetime members of the famed "Four Horsemen...
...football addicts this summer voted for a coaching staff and squad to meet two professional teams in September for charity. Bernie Bierman of Minnesota was chosen head coach by 3,872,251 votes, a plurality of more than a million over Notre Dame's Elmer Layden who ran second. Among players graduated from college last June, Flalfback Jay Berwanger of Chicago had the strongest hold on football's electorate-784,573 votes...