“The eyes of the football world are on Notre Dame. Everyone wants to know what we will do without Rockne. You will answer. So carry on.”
Thus Rev. Charles Leo O’Donnell, president of Notre Dame, to the 320 candidates for next autumn’s football team, assembled for spring practice. He said that Heartley (“Hunk”) Anderson would be the new coach. A famed Notre Dame guard from 1919 to 1921, then line coach for six years, and for two years head coach at St. Louis University, Anderson coached the Notre Dame line last year. His first assistant will be Jack Chevigny, shrewd backfield man of the 1928 team, who also coached last year under Rockne. Anderson’s title will be “Senior Coach”; “Head Coach” was buried with Knute Kenneth Rockne.
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