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28 OFFICIAL FOOTBALL R E V I E. W- 1 9 2 9 .
BERTRAM METZGER
Left Guard
The "watch charm"· guard they call him, and like a diamond watch charm
he is small and very valuable. A lot of high school coaches would consider
Bert Metzger too small for their team, but, to the Great Coach, if a man has the
stuff, nothing else matters.
Bert Metzger's trail was not an easy one; he has been up against some of the
best players in the country, ever since he has been out for football, but he
· ·. carried on and finally gained recognition. To do so required his attaining well
nigh perfection in his finesse, for in no other way can a small man hope to play
gua.rd. But to his finesse he added a body small but hard, a mind sharp and
keen, and courage, both mental and physical.
As Captain Law's capable understudy he has gone f.ar this season, and it is
not too much to expect him to gain national recognition next year. Already he
is a part of the Notre Dame tradition of small, fast, smart, tough guards. The
Smiths, Hunk Anderson, and the other great guards can look upon his work from
the pinnacle to which we of Notre Dame ha.ve raised them and they can find
that it is g~od that the tradition did not die with them.
AL GEBERT
Quarter-Bac/{
The story of Bud Gebert is as old as the Dome is old, the story of years on
the reserve squad and the sternest competition. But these failed to break his
spirit and he plugged along finally to come through.
His rise was not phenomenal or rapid; ra.ther it was like the growth of a
.great tree, slow, sure, and perfect. His sole asset when he started at Notre
Dame was a keen football mind, a real quarter-back's mind that analyzed quickly
and completely. He worked, though, until he had developed his blocking and
speed to the point where "Rock" could not help but recognize it.
As the leader .of the shock troops, Gebert distinguished himself and his team.
In most of the games his entire team was used a.nd in all of them the backfield
played. Their work under Gebert was so outstanding that it drew the recognition
of football followers all over the country; the shockers were seldom scored
on and always made consistent drives agai~st Notre Dame's strongest opponents.
The heady 'work of Bud Ge~ert is what sustained ~he second team attack until
such time as the "New Four Horsemen" went into battle, and no one will ever
know just how much he contributed to Notre Dame's success this Fall.