'30 A New Stadium, Another Title

RECORD: 10-0 ALL-AMERICAS: FRANK CARIDEO, QB; MARCHY SCHWARTZ, HB. A THIRD AND FINAL CHAMPIONSHIP FOR ROCKNE AND A FIRST IN NEW NOTRE DAME STADIUM

LAST WEEK on its many fronts, football was at the height of its season. Public interest focused on the 10 great unbeaten teams in the country: Notre Dame, greatest of all. In a class by itself, Notre Dame's amazing football machine takes a sleeper jump almost every week, playing far and wide.

This year there are no Four Horsemen in the backfield; a dozen able ballcarriers enable Knute Rockne to work to perfection his system of starting against any opponent whatever combination he thinks is just good enough to win and make the game exciting. Philadelphia has never before seen such football as Notre Dame exhibited against Penn. Marty Brill, a Philadelphia boy, made three impressive touchdowns. Quarterback Frank Carideo, an indisputable All-America choice, sent Marchy Schwartz or Joe Savoldi through plays that came off with astonishing precision, shifting around end, feinting, tearing through the line. Notre Dame 60, Pennsylvania 20.

On the eve of the game Coach Rockne replied to the unsavory charges pressed against football by Penn Alumni. [The alumni committee on athletics, reacting to the growth in college football and its game receipts, charged that college football has become "a contest between professional coaches and their systems" and shows signs of becoming a "racket."] Said Rockne, "I make $10,000 a year win, lose or tie. I never heard of this side money which they say comes to coaches, and I wish the report had been more specific and named some real instances. The boys who play with my team are well above the average in their studies. There are more brains in my squad than in a large part of the student body."

EPILOGUE

AFTER laying waste to Penn, Notre Dame turned its overwhelming force on the quakers on the rest of its schedule, hammering Drake by 21 at the newly erected Notre Dame Stadium and shutting out Northwestern at Evanston to set up its first clash against Army at Soldier Field in Chicago. The teams stayed locked in a defensive struggle for most of the game, but the Irish were patient, chipping away at Army's seemingly impregnable defensive line before Schwartz barreled off right tackle 54 yards for the game's first score. Carideo's extra point gave the Irish a 7-0 lead. Army blocked Carideo's ensuing punt, however, and returned it for a touchdown. Thanks to a blocked extra point a play later, Notre Dame held on for victory, 7-6. A week later the Irish trounced Southern Cal 27-0 at the Los Angeles Coliseum on the way to their 19th straight victory and third national championship.