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DAILY NEBRASKAN Thursday, October 17, ISti) Rockne's Four Horsemen perfect football's rhythm Notre Dame shift By George Abbott Of all the things Knute Rockne is remembered for; his All Ameri can players, his nationally famous teams, his innovations of the for ward pass and the improved shift; for these things he will be remem bered but, behind all of it was a certain strategy a psychology which involved brainpower in the game of football as well as brawn-power. A great believer in psychology, Rockne was constantly looking for new ways to achieve some point in his training program. Perhaps one of the best ex amples of this sort of training is demonstrated in the origination of the idea for improving the backfield shift. . . "A little treat tonight." It happened one night in the dressing room following the last game of a very successful 1921 season, in which the Irish rolled up some 150 points to none for their opponents. . . Well, boys, I'm going to give you a little treat tonight! Some thing you haven't had since last September at least, not to my knowledge a musical show in Chicago!" This was Knute Rockne talking to a group of athletes from his own school. It is hard to imagine that a visit to a night club would be included in the training program of a great bunch of players, even though it was a post-season training. The show made a hit with the team and they applauded to the echo when the girls danced toward the footlights in perfect rhythm. Then and this was the amazing thing they noted to the wonder ment the intense absorption of their beloved Coach! He sat on the edge of his seat watching the Special police curb drinking at football tilts Drinking liquor will not be al lowed at Nebraska football games this year. The city commission is swearing in 50 special police to enforce the statute forbidding the consumption of liquor on any slate-owned property. Anyone found drinking liquor will be taken immediately to the police station and will be released under bond only if found sober by the desk sergeant Otherwise, he will be jailed. Section 44. Nebraska Statutes reads: It shall be unlawful for any person to consume alcoholic liquors in public streets, alleys, roads or highways, or upon property owned by the state or governmental sub division thereof, or inside vehicles while upon the streets, alleys, rndn, or highways. Maximum state complaint: (500 and costs and 30 days in Jail DICKINSON TIm Srbeel ut ted Ideal I Mt radio AM. BrSfiVEM SUBJECTS DICKINSON SECRETARIAL cCHOOL Mt-tIS IJMaea IJfc. Life ftiit. t-XI Mt Mtt OeMe) dancers. Suddenly he took from his pocket an envelope and began to make mysterious, penciled notes on the back of it. Rhythm's the thing. For it was in that night-club that Rockne first got the idea of adding to the backfield shift some thing which had been missing until that time rhythm. The idea for the new Rockne shift was based entirely on one thing and that was rhythm. Four men, Elmer Layden, Harry Stuhldreher, Adam Mllier and Jim Crowley were to be the first pu pils of this new art as taught by Rockne. With the aid of an old upright piano placed in the gym, the four gradually learned the technique of this remarkable addition to the al ready remarkable game of foot ball. To say that it was a help to Notre Dame's team is to put it mildly. In the brilliant hands and feet of the Four Horsemen for this became their official nick name the Fighting Irish held the key to winning games and they used that key. For three years the mighty Horsemen rode. In 1924 they won Society offers membership to nndergrads Students may become members of the American Academy of Po litical and Social Science by pay ing a fee of three dollars a year, according to a letter received from the organization recently. This fee not only gives the student the privileges of other members but also gives him "The Annals," monthly publication of the society. "The Annals" consists of six is sues per year with each issue a volume of about 280 page and con taining 20 or more articles on some subject of current impor tance. Recent issues, for example, have been. "Mexico Today" (March); "Marketing in Our American Economy (May); When War Ends (July); and several oth ers similar in nature. A two-day annual meeting is held each spring and other meet ings are held from time to time thruout the year. Students who are interested should write to the following ad dress for membership: The Amer ican Academy of Political and So cial Science. 3457 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Draft- (Continued from Page 1.) but they are not exempted from draft registration. Conscription on this campus took place at ten registration "of fices" in which sixty registrars were stationed. The offices and the number of men who registered in each are: College of agriculture 1M Sociz! Sciences 109 170 Social Sciences 309 114 Law College 55 Mechanical Arts 121 Electrical Engineering 11 Nebraska hall 31 Teachers' College 44 Andrews 117 Student Union 144 K Your Nome Engraved in Gold J ill on the '41 If Purchased Before Nov. 16 See a Corncob or Tassel BUY NOW! the national title. A sportswriter of the time had this to say about the Notre Dame team: Speed, fury, yet music. "What is this new miracle that Rockne has wrought this bolt of Irish lightning that strikes from all sides with such blinding speed and fury? A 'shift' they call it. Yes, but Heisman of Georgia Tech has a shift too. So has Ted Jones of Yale. But their's are simple tunes compared to Rockne's sym phony for this shift is music the music of a master's hand!" "Whatever it is, the Notre Dame shift has become a prairie fire, burning North, East, South and KU eleven out for Husker, Big Six scalps LAWRENCE, Kas Oct. 16. Fresh from respective victories over Indiana and Drake, the Uni versities of Nebraska and Kansas renew their long-time gridiron rivalry Saturday at Lawrence. The Cornhuskers, always one of the nation's top ranking teams, boast one of their finest elevens this year. Almost two full teams of veterans returned from the crack squad which defeated Min nesota and Pitt, among others, during the 1939 season. Added to these veterans of the gridiron wars were a fine crop of sophomores. The result is a combi nation, which might well be de- : scribed as a coach's dream. Husker backs aplenty. Biggest problem for Glenn Presnell, Husker backfield coach, is to decide which four men should be in the starting back field. He has to pick between Roy Petsch and "Bus" Knight at quar terback, Herman Rohrig and Harry Hopp at left halfback, "Butch" Luther and Allen Zik mund at right halfback, and Vike Francis and Henry Rohn at fullback. Kansas, on the other hand, did not receive much recognition in the pre-season ratings. The Jay- hawks tied for fourth place in the Eig Six last year and lost a num ber of valuable backs from that squad. However, undaunted, Kansas is making preparations to give the Cornhuskers one of the hard fought battles for which this rivalry is becoming noted. The Jayhawks have not beaten Ne braska since 1918, but every year recently they have made UN sweat profusely to win. Jayhawks stronger. Coach Gwinn Henry has devel oped the best ground attack this rail that a Kansas team has had in recent years. With a grouo of fine ball carriers available, the veteran coach has spent much time on the blocking in the line and by the backs. The result is that the Jayhawks are breaking those fancy stepping backs into the open where their ability pays big dividends. Even in their loss to Iowa State, Kansas backs rambled thru the line in im pressive style, rolling up 13 first downs. Ringleaders of Kansas ground attack are Ed HalL Jake Fry and Don Pollom. Hall sucks in the de fense with his lightning-like bucks into the line, .hue Fry and Pol lom, alternating at right halfback, reverse the procedure with forays off tackle and around end. Adler suggests no more texts BOSTON, Mass. (ACP). Amer ican colleges and universities should abolish textbooks and sub stitute the study of 100 of the world's greatest books, according to Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, author of "How to Read a Book." As a model for such a move he suggested St. John's at Annapolis, where the teachers lead discus sions on the great thinkers like Homer, Plato, Galen, Hegel, Marx and Freud. Adler says that learning re quires reading and that one must read the great works to be able to read. He doubts whether more than a few students or even teachers really know how to read a book. H.' added that smaller schools must lead in any change because "the larger ones are so top-heavy ' with watertight compartments of ao-called fields of learning." West, relentless and unchecked And whatever it was, Notre Dame and Knute Rockne will re main forever in the minds of mil lions of American schoolboys a legend for every would-be football star or coach to dream of a legend of contribution of some thing to the great American game we call football. mm & , Modern Science Produced STUKMTWIS1 THE MIRACLE SUIT GUARANTEED FOR A WHOLE YEAR m and priced at only . . . M .-9.mwm,mmf 'mmmmmM mi win W) I i BA in w j Liu -- lJ To Meet The Demands of Business Men! The combined efforts of Clotheraft woolen experte and the labors toriee of on of Amerlca'o oldMt and flneet mili produced Sturdl twlrt. 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