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OFFICIAL FOOTBALL REVIEW-1929 85
A Tribute to the 1929 Champions
Eleven men in blue, eleven heads high,
Wrote history across the gridiron sky:
Carideo, Savoldi, Elder aud Mullius,
Camt01t aud Law, Twomey and Col/ius.
Eleve1t giants were these~ who fought the best
Who battled for 11orth, south, east ~11d west­
Trojans, Badgers, Caruegie Tech,
Army, PurjJ/e, the Ramblin' \V reck.·
The Irish they call them, fighters, too;
Aud fight they did 'till ibe whistle blew,
'Till twilight washed the sod with gray
Aud cheers were stilled for auother day.
From cud to eud, tbe liue was steel.
It charged ahead like a thing uureal;
Scarce a day was seen when rival back
Made yardage t!:Jere witb any attack.
One man [lt half whose 11ame was Brill
K11ew how to rusb aud quic/Uy spill
Ball aud carrier ever so wary;
No better ?nan played secondary.
Across tbe chalk-marlwd turf there sjJed
A youtb witb ligbtuing in his tread;
Stauds rose to cry: rr\Vbo's eigbty-four?"
rrElder I Elder/" came tbe ecboing roar.
T bey slasbed tbe tacHes, auil ran tbe cuds,
T ben tossed a jJass to malw ameuds
For loss on peualty or otber slijJ
Shed in the haste of a toucbdown trip.
One man tbere is, aud ouly oue,
\V hose tea11; could go. from smt to suu
Aud make 110 bluuder, even sligbt,
N~r fail to demoustrate its migbt.
T be master baud I In single breatb
His 1~ien for l:Jim -zvould ride to deatb.
Rock ta1egbt tbe1n how to jJlay tbe game;
They answered-aud won for Notre Dame.
-CHARLES 0. MoLz, '24.
Detroit, Mich.
TO GEORGE GIPP
Sbort years ago he lived aud fame was .his;
Short ye.ars .. ago his uame crashed 'gaiust a crimson sky,
Aud Ca'i1!P.. (md otbers bailed him great.
But tbose wbo lt1zew bim thougbt him more than great­
For tbose wbo kuew GijJjJ loved him.
· He died, aud many mourned bis jJassing;
A11d others said, rrHe.'s. golle-
The great GijJjJ g01z.e. forever."
But tbere are tbose who kuow tbat tbough
The lwenmiud and .mighty body are but dust­
. Gipp lives/
·For how did mediocrity rise sobbing
·Over tbose bailed great?
-HARRY A. SYLVESTER, ]R.
Editor's Note: This :w:ts written Dec. 13, 1929, for the ~inth :tnnh·ersuy ·of
~eto~~c~!i;;:sn:ees~th, :and w~s inspired by the Army victory of 1~28 v.-ith its :attend-