TH E MICHIGAN DAILY Waldorf Is 17th Wildcat Coach EVANSTON, Ill., Sept. 29-Lynn school, is now a retired lawyer re- Waldorf, who embarks upon his sev- siding in Chicago. enth season at Northwestern univer- While frequent changes in the ity this fall, is. the 17th head coach coaching ranks were made daring sit ths all i th 1th ea cochthe early years of the sport. only in Wildcat football history. three head coaches have-served-the Although football dates from 1885 Wildcats during the past 20 years. at Northwestern, it was not until 1893 Glenn Thistlethwaite served from that the team had its first duly- 1922 to 1926. He was succeeded by i Dick Hanley, who was in charge for appointed coach. He was Paul Noyes, eight seasons from 11927 to 1934 who had captained the team the pre- Waldorf took over the reins in 1935. vious year. Before Noyes' appoint- Over this period, the Wildcats have ment, the captain coached the team. participated in 396 games, winning Noyes, who graduated from law 200, losing 164, and tying 32. 1141 F _" HIGH AINID gI ID By ART HIL Yanks Favored To Capture Series Notre Dame Myth ... FROM THE MOUTHS of babes, guys, radio announcers and press agents, down through the years, there has come a flood of propaganda which has created one of the most unusual phenomena of our time. This ' phenomenon we like to call The Notre Dame Myth. Everyone knows about the Notre Dame Myth--but not everyone knows it is a myth. Ask anyone who has followed football closely for the last five years what college team has play-, ed consistently the best footbal over that period. If he is in his right mind, he'll answer, "Minnesota." FOOTBALL SEASON MEANS T 0Ty It's the season for tossing the pigskin, and that means brisk Fall days. A topcoat that can keep you warm, but still comfortable is a neces- sity for correctly dressed men. Come in and see our fine array of the latest Fall styles with set-in or raglan sleeves, fly or plain fronts in COVERTS CAMEL'S HAIR CAVALRY TWILLS *25 and up Yet, if you approach the man on the street, the casual football follow- er, a member of that vast untutored majority which still thinks that the boys in the Southeastern Conference are just playing for board and room, and ask him the same question, he will probably snap, "Notre Dame," before you have time to catch your breath. This does not mean that this fel- low should be taken away to a laugh- ing academy. There are too many others like him. Why? Well, it's not a very long story. It seems that many years ago, be- fore the great Knute Rockne fell to his death in a plane crash, the lads' down at South Bend turned out some pretty fine football teams. They had at their helm the man whom man3 consider the greatest coach that ever lived. It came to be a pretty foregone con- clusion that, in any given year, the Fighting Irish (as they are jokingly referred to in the public press) would have a winning team. But all that was many years ago. And things are different now. Rockne is gone. There are no four horsemen, George Gipps or Frank Carideos. Instead, there are a bunch of pretty good; gridders nam- Sehable Hats . $3.95 for a limited time only Men s Togge i 7A7 n~ T I P XT P IY/W r nr 'A T'i ('N f 11rV U U an' A hW L U U .ti1 t A ed Juzwik, Evans, Lillis, etc. 1 521 East Liberty, West of the Michigan Theatre hi But still the myth persists. Ten years after Rockne's death, the rep- "The Students' Own Dining Club"- TEMICUHIGAN '-WOL0 VEfRINE bids you welcome to tle University and invites you to take advantage'of: * GREAT SAVINGS ON COST OF MEALS * ECONOMY UNREALIZABLE ELSEWHERE ON LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANING SERVICE * FRIENDLY COLLEGE ATMOSPHERE OF AN ENTIRELY STUDENT-RUN ENTERPRISE Membership Fee for 11941-42 THE MICHIGAN WOLVERINE was organized principally as a $5.00 student endeavor to effect economy in costs of living. By reason of, a non-profit plan, And using student labor, meals can be pro- FALL OPEI#ING: vided for a full week at,$-5.24 plus tax, or all lunches and dinners Wednesday, for $4.37 plus tax per week, with proportionate savings on other September 24, 1941 combinations of meals as desired. In addition, savings as high as 30% can be had on cleaning Wolverine Meals, service. For almost ten years the WOLVERINE has been grow- are the equal of any ing in importance in student life, because it is interested in the served in needs of students. Ann Arbor OPEN HOUSE STOP IN! Twenty well- SUNDAY, 209 South State Street balanced meals Oct. 5 for $5.24 One block north of Campus plus5tax 6:00-1 1:00 p.m. plus tax Opposite Lane Hall utation that he fashioned for build- ing great football teams still exists. Just the other day, we were sitting in a local cinema watching a news- reel. Suddenly, there flashed on the screen the words, "Irish Prepare, For Grid Wars" and we were given the opportunity to watch the Notre Damers in a practice session. The announcer, a fellow named Bill Stern, who ought to know what he is talking about, regaled the audi- cnce with many superlatives. Dur- ing the course of his discourse, he made reference to "the perenially powerful Notre Dame football elev- en." This would be fine and dandy except for one thing. The Notre Dame football eleven is not "per- ennially powerful." Like Michi-. gan or Ohio State or Iowa or any of innumerable other teams, the Ramblers come up with a better- than-average team every now and then. Thei it starts. "Those Irish are terrific," one fan says. "What a great football school," cries an- other. But what we can't understand is simply this: Why is it that, when Notre Dame has a bad team, the whole world looks the other way (ex- .cept for a few astute observers like us)? Take the season of 1940 for exam- ple. Let's bother that fan, on the street again, this time to ask him what kind of a team Notre Dame had last year. "Darn good," he re- plies. "Right up there with the best in the nation." And, believe us, that is what he would say, in nine cases out of ten. Let's look at that Irish club of a season ago. They started off with a rousing 25-7 victory over tiny Col- lege of the Pacific. The following Saturday, they eked out a 26-20 win over a pitifully inept Georgia Tech outfit (which was later defeated. 41-7 by Duke, 26-7 by Kentucky and 16-7 by Florida). "Notre Dame eased up in that game," was the concensus. Then the Irish handed Carnegie Tech a 61-0 trouncing and the wild- eyed Rambler idolators were in full cry again, forgetting, no doubt, that Carnegie is no longer even considered a major college team. They beat Illinois, 26-0 and then proceeded to win a stirring one- touchdown victory over one of the weakest teams in Army football history even though the Cadets pushed them all over the field for three quarters of the game. In their last four games, the Lay- den-coached Irish downed Navy and Southern California by small mar- gins but fell before Iowa, a team that was able to win only two Big Ten games in five attempts, and took a convincing 20-0 beating from North- western, only the third best team in the Western Conference. Those two defeats were a little difficult for Notre Dame fans to ex- plain away last fall. But, now that another season is under way, they don't have to explain them. Because almost everyone has forgotten them. They just say, "Notre Dame is al- ways strong. Watch 'em go this year." If they do hit the victory trail in 1941, we say, "More power to the Fighting Irish." But if they have just an average team, let's face the facts. Let's admit that Notre Dame teams are not always fabulously powerful. In short, let's make them earn their praise. Michigan has to. Waiters Rush, Chefs Cook, Team Eats .. . By MIKE DANN Since arriving on the Wolverine campus the entire student body has been confronted with a substantial increase in food prices. Because of this the Daily has received thousands of letters demanding to know the reason why. It was first thought alien spies were cornering the food market in an attempt to starve out the students. But after careful in- vestigation the Daily has discovered the real reason. The blame rests solely on the shoul- ders of the 1941 Michigan football team. At seven thirty in the morning the. hungry horde arrives for their meal that starts the day. They rush into the Union dining room saying "Good morning" to no one. They gulp down about 10 gallons of orange juice, enough to keep their trachaes or whatever football players have, well cleared. The team's appetite now be- gins to reach its a.m. peak. When the waiters ask whether the boys will have Canadian bacon or ham with their eggs, "Both," is the usual reply and there is nothing lack- ing or unmasculine in their answers. Here's the composite lunch and dinner menus: 120 pounds of prime beef, a bushel of potatoes, eight dozen eggs, five gallons of vegetables, 25 loaves of bread and a gross of rolls, 15 pounds of butter, 240 bottles of 1"' IF YOU WRITE, W E. 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