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...honored group, boasting a new backfield and a revamped line, has drawn varying opinions as to its potentialities. Notre Dame alumnus Francis Wallace (whose Saturday Evening Post prediction rated Notre Dame as the team of the year, Notre Dame ballhandler Johnny Lujack as the back of the year, and Notre Dame captain George Connors as lineman of the year) placed the Crimson in the "second flight" in the East, with opponents Yale (sixth-nationally and second only to Penn in the East) and Holy Cross ahead of the Cantabridgians, and rated Virginia as a "Southern dark horse...
Even before the first whistle blew this season, sportswriters knew which four men belonged in anybody's All-America backfield. Obviously, two of them were Army's durable Davis & Blanchard; the other two were Georgia's Charlie Trippi and Notre Dame's Quarterback Johnny Lujack. Last week, with every sports editor puffing into print with his own All-America team, the same four men turned up on almost everybody's list. Only Grantland Rice-who picks Collier's All-America team, the nearest thing to an official selection-was different. Granny Rice couldn...
...first time in three years, Army's touchdown twins-Davis and Blanchard -were stopped cold; but so was Notre Dame's brilliant quarterback, Johnny Lujack. As a spectacle it was dull: two superdefenses canceling each other out. The question of which was the nation's top team was not decided, only put off. It remained to be seen whether either team, having given its all, might now drop a game to a lesser opponent and thus give fans a chance to crown a champ by defaultl
...Lujack, who will be hard to keep off anybody's All-America team, rates about as high in the temporal world as "Top-litzky" rates in the spiritual. In a new musical soon to open on Broadway, Top-litzky is the angel who comes down from heaven disguised as a quarterback and charged with the sacred mission of helping Notre Dame beat Army...
Leahy, who likes to do things his way, would rather have Lujack. But if something should happen to Lujack? Then, says Leahy, "I guess we could send a wire to the Pope...