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...gone ahead and in no uncertain terms declared that this team was the greatest thing to hit Wisconsin since Schlitz, every bit as good as his championship aggregations of 1929, '30, and '31 and the players knew it. The Bears were just ordinary Godfearing pro football players. They had Lujack, Luckman, and Layne and they stopped the Packers cold, 45-7. Overconfidence! Next time these two teams meet, the Packers will probably cream the Bears, but that's where Lesson Two comes...
Sleep & Steak. If Notre Dame were starting the season against Spearfish Normal, Leahy would probably predict victory for Spearfish. But for once, this coachly gloom seemed to have some slight justification. Notre Dame's 1947 All-America Quarterback Johnny Lujack had graduated; the departure of Ziggie Czarobski and All-America George Connor had left holes at both tackles. (Gritted Leahy: "You can't lose boys like that without having to start over.") And Purdue's 1948 Boilermakers, though still the underdogs, were a long gasp from an opening-game breather. To many experts, they looked like...
Board & Room. For Lujack's successor at quarterback, Leahy was counting on Frank Tripucka, a shy, skinny New Jersey senior. Like all but a few Notre Dame players (and like many other college players), 21-year-old Tripucka is "working his way through." In exchange for free room, board and tuition, he does easy campus chores (e.g., painting stadium seats) after football season is over. Last year Tripucka completed 25 passes for 422 yards (Lujack's mark: 61 for 777)-but he was not yet a Lujack at tackling, running, or field generalship...
Last fall it would have been a dream team. For his College All-Star squad, Notre Dame's Coach Frank Leahy had lined up such 1947 gridiron greats as Michigan's Bob Chappuis, Notre Dame's Johnny Lujack and Mississippi's Chuck Conerly. In Chicago last week, before a crowd of 101,220, the collegians (most of whom would shortly be pros) kicked off against the Chicago Cardinals, 1947 pro champions of the National Football League...
Married. John Lujack, 23, Notre Dame's All-America quarterback of '46 and '47, who joins the professional Chicago Bears this fall; and Patricia Ann Schierbrock, 21, pretty brunette; in Davenport, Iowa...