Sunday, November 7, 1943
DAILY NEBRASKAN
YWCA Cabinet
Battles Elements
Over Weekend
It was a beautiful fall evening
Friday just the kind for hay
rides, weeny roasts and retreats.
Then came the dawn. And with
the dawn came a real Nebraska
unexpected downpour.
Hayriders had their rides, pic
nickers ate thir weenies, but what
about the girls who wanted to
retreat into the woods and enjoy
the open fires, fresh air and spa
ciousness of the WAA cabin?
For a while it looked as if the
ten YWCA cabinet members
would be forced to enjoy the se
cluded empty spaces surrounding
the cabjn. The heavy rain early
Saturday morning made triwHne
on the dirt road difficult. But
Husky Hohf and Muscles Daltluvip
headed the rescue party winch
pushed three cars onto th- high
way after an hour's strug
Notre Dame's one-hur.dr.Kith
commencement, to be held :..i. Cot:.
29, will be the last formal com
mencement for the durativi. De
grees will be awarded to 2i'i men.
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The Army and Notre Dame
game in Yankee Stadium was
enough to convince me that this
Irish. outfit is the best ball club
that ever crawled into pads and
moleskins. Any and all doubt that
I might have had was definitely
smashed to smithereens.
Now that is a pretty broad
statement to make, cause even if
you are only thinking of past
Irish teams, there are plenty of
better than any before outfits.
And then there are some fine old
and new Michigan, Minnesota, and
California, and Southern Cali
fornia teams to be reckoned, with,
but I'm still convinced, but thor
oughly. Even in remembering the
Great Gipper and company, the
Four Horsemen, the "They shall
not pass" boys of California, and
the Mighty '09 Michigan band,
I'm convinced.
Just defeating another Army
team today did not prove to me
that they were hot, but defeating
what was supposed to be the
greatest (or near greatest) Army
tea mwas enough. You remember,
don't you, that this was supposed
to be the best Army team in his
tory? And, no doubt it was. They
played a gallant, hard, and stu
pendous game, but as the score
board says, not nearly as gallant,
hard, or stupendous as the Irish,
and that is what counts.
Particularly outstanding, and
shining for the Army, was one
Glen Davis, who did about every'
thing but sell hot dogs to the
spectators.
There is one thing about the
game, though, that goes further
to convince me that Notre Dame
is great any day, or any year, and
that is the oft referred to "Luck
of the Irish." Always when the
chips are down, and the wheel of
fortune is spinning, it is the South
Benders that come up with the
fumble, or have the penalty called
in their favor. Skill, desire, guts,
knowledge, and pure luck are a
bunch of virtues that when they
are wrapped up into one, are hard
to beat, mighty hard. The Irish
certainly have them all. Or do you
remember that Army game three
years ago, or the Ohio State game
five years ago? Those clipping
p'nalties, offsides, recovered pen
alties, 70 yard passes, and 80 yard
runs just seem to happen at the
right time for the Irish. Those
last three touchdowns in two and
a half minutes to win, 21 to 20,
they are just sheer luck. Or,
brother, are they. No, it's just
plain old good football.
2IKMUND WITH NAVY.
Allen Zikmund, who spent
many a thrilling Saturday aft
ernoon carrying the pigskin for
Nebraska, is now helping carry
the victory ball for the Navy.
Ensign Zikmund has been
assigned to the executive de
partment of the Navy midship
men's school in New York. He
is residing at 549 West 113th
Street, New York.
"Zik" graduated from the
Navy school on Oct. 20. He was
one of seven to earn a Royal
Navy Sword, awarded Amer
ican students by the British,
for outstanding scholastic records'.
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