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FOOTBALL
Coach Frank Leahy and his assistant
coaches started to work on St. Patrick's
Day to rebuild the national championship
football team.
The Irish coaching staff is faced
with a tremendous task during spring
practice, when it is considered that the
only remaining member of the 1949 offensive
first team is quarterback Bob
Williams. The rest all have departed
through graduation.
The Notre Dame line, especially, is
in need of revamping, with the entire
first offensive line being lost. Tackles
and ends were especially hard hit, with
the losses including tackles Jim Martin,
Ralph McGehee, Gus Cifelli, Ed Hudak
and Al ZmijewsW, and the ends Bill
Wightkin, Leon Hart, Ray Espenan,
Doug Waybright and Jack Connor.
Coach Leahy, at the opening of
Spring pi-actice, switched Bill Fleming
from end to tackle, in an attempt to
bolster that department. This leaves
Jim Mutscheller as the chief hope
among the ends, followed by Chet Ostrowsld.
The tackles rate as Flynn and
Bob Toneff at this writing, with the
guards figured as Paul Bums, Fred
Wallner and John Helwig.
Capt. Gerry Groom heads the center
candidates, which also includes Byron
Boji, Jim Hamby and Jim Bartlett.
In the backfield. Bob Williams is
backed up at the quarterback spot by
his last year's understudy, John Mazur,
which should leave little to be desired
in this department.
Leading right halfback candidate is
Billy Barrett, while John Petitbon and
Bill Gay will see lots of action at left
half. At fullback. Jack Landry and Del
Gander are expected to fill the shoes
vacated by Emil Sitko.
BASKETBALL
Coach Ed Krause's Notre Dame basketball
team won 16 and lost 8 during
the strenuous twenty-four game schedule
in 1949-50.
After winning twelve of their first
nineteen games — which included eleven
out of their last fourteen following a
shaky start — the Irish dropped two
of their remaining five games, one of
them a 66 to 63 decision to New York
University in Madison Square Garden,
and the other a 68 to 58 verdict to
DePaul in Chicago Stadium.
Their victims during the final five
games included St. Louis, 55 to 52,
Navy, 65 to 59, and Marquette, 65 to 58.
Capt. Kevin O'Shea, who sparkplugged
the Irish from his guard position,
wound up his four-year collegriate
career with a handful of records.
O'Shea, by virtue of playing four years,
holds the four-year scoring record with
1,065 points, the three-year record (previously
held by Johnny Moir) with 835
points, and the single year record with
358 points. O'Shea won AU-American
honors on the Associated Press and
United Press first teams, and the Look
Magazine second team.
Coach Krause loses O'Shea and center
John Foley off the 1949-50 team, but
next season still will have around such
boys as Dan Bagley, Don Strasser, Leroy
Leslie, Jack Neumayr, and Hughes
Wilcox, plus a few better than average
freshmen, when he starts to mold next
year's team.
GOLF 3
Although hampered by inclement
weather, which has prevented his team
from working out on the university
golf course. Rev. George Holderith,
C.s.c, will lead the Notre Dame golf
team against the University of Iowa
April 17 in the opener of an 11-game
schedule.
Seven Big Ten opponents, Loyola
University, Detroit University, Washington
University and North Texas
State comprise the 1950 Irish links
schedule.
Father Holderith \vill count on two
returning veterans from the 1949 Irish
golf team to provide the nucleus for
another fine team this year. Returning
this year are Capt. Tom Hudak,
of JoUet, 111., and Tom Veech, of Milwaukee,
Wis., who battled his way to
the semi-finals of the NCAA tournament
last simimer.
Also on hand to lend support to
Father Holderith's plans for a successful
season are a talented crop of
sophomores.
The schedule:
April 17—Io\ra at Iowa City, Iowa
20—North Texas State at Notre Dame
22—Indiana University at Notre Dame
24—Purdue University at lafayette
May 1—layola University at Notre Dame '
The Notre Dame Alumnus
6—Northwestern University at Notre Dame
8—Wisconsin at Madison. Wis.
13—^Minnesota at Notre Dame
18—Detroit University at Detroit
20—Washington University at Notre Dame
22—^Michigan State Cbllcgc nt East lansing
BASEBALL
Coach Clarence J. (Jake) Kline must
virtually rebuild his infield in preparation
for the opening on April 11 of the
1950 Notre Dame baseball season.
Missing from the Irish infield when
the season opens will be Gene Lavery,
third baseman from Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Pete Koblosh, Yonkers, N. Y., shortstop,
and Benny Kozlik, second baseman
from Chicago.
Other departees, through graduation,
are outfielder Ray Petrzelka, of Cedar
Rapids, la., and pitchers Walt Mahannah,
of Memphis, Tenn., Dick SmuUen,
of Yonkers, N. Y., and Dick Kluck, of
Chicago. Jack Campbell, ace southpaw
pitcher, of Lowell, Mass., signed a pro
contract and thus will not be available
for competition this Spring.
The only returning veteran in the
Notre Dame infield this Spring is Dick
Giedlin, hard-hitting first baseman from
Trenton, N. J., who is considered prospective
major league talent. Otherwise,
Coach Kline will be forced to start the
season with an inexperienced infield
combination.
The outfield is in somewhat better
shape, with Capt. Tom Martin, of Detroit,
Mich., Jim Gillis, of Huntington
Beach, Calif., and Don Grieve, of Yonkers,
N. Y., available for competition.
Bob' Nemes, of Jersey City, N. J.,
and Tony Lipton, of Baltimore, Md.,
are the holdovers in the pitching department,
while two capable backstops
are available in Tom Boland, of Columbus,
O., and Dick Maher, of Kalamazoo,
Mich.
The schedule:
April 11—Iowa at Iowa Citj-, Iowa
12—Iowa at Iowa
15—MichiEan State CoUeKe at Notre Dame
17—Ohio University at Notre Dame
18—University of ChicaKO at Notre Dame
22—Western Michigan CoIICKe at Kalamazoo
24—Indiana University at Notre Dame
28—Pending
29—Pending
May 2—Purdue at Lafayette
3—Northwestern at Notre Dame
6—University of Chicago at Chicago
10—^Wisconsin at Madison
11—Wisconsin at Madison
12—Minnesota at Minneapolis
13—Minnesota at Minneapolis
16—^Purdue at Notre Dame
17—Northwestern at Evanston
19—Ohio State at Notre Dame
20—Ohio State at Notre Dame
2S—University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
24—Michigan State College at East Lansing
26—Illinois at Notre Dame
27—^Illinois at Notre Dame
June 3—Western Michigan at Notre Dame