The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 1, 1954, Page 7

~ also in the Imperial Valley, two shocks were felt, one at 8:25 Leahy's Resignation Stuns. <2 es Assistants At Notre Dame By TOM BRANAGAN jmatter over with only one Notre; SOUTH BEND, Ind, w—frank Dame official—the Rev. Theodore Leahy resigned as football coach|Hesburgh, president of the Cath-| at Notre Dame yesterday in a/olic university. “I haven't even: move ‘so startling that it stunned talked to (Athletic Direetqr) Ed @ven his assistants—from whose|Krause,” said Leahy. ganks @ successor likely will be' It was Leahy who actually was. * chosen. {responsible for the surprise sur- Leaby, 45, announced he was|rounding the announcement. As stepping out because of his heslth.|late as-last week, he had laughed He feared the “possibly fatal”’/off queries about his future at consequences of another attack of|Notre Dame. Many times he had pancreatitis, 2 stomach disorder|said he wanted to stay at Notre that put him in bed in the middie|/Dame “‘as long as they want me” of last season. | But apparently doctors con- His exit followed an 11-season'vinced him coaching was becom- earéer second only to Knute ing too much of a strain. He said Bockne’s in success. jhe now is considering three or Backfield Coach Johnny Lujack, four business opportunities. one of those mentioned as a pos-| Meantime, speculation began im- sible successor, said, “I just can’t|mediately on his suecessor, and believe it; I was convinced Frank|names were falling on the Notre would never leave Notre Dame.’”’|Dame campus like randrops. } knew nothing of the ce-| There was no official word on cision until advised by reporters this angle from any Notre Dame at his Chicago home. Leahy him-|official. Neither Father Hesburgh, self indicated he had talked the|Krause nor Leahy would name} <civinbietaininsigusnniviigeaci even: & possibility. | However, insiders thought the choice would be confined to a Notre Dame man—a tradition at the 10, 0 00 MILE |South Bend school—and verf likely |would be one of Leahy’s seven Guaranty on jassistants, | Leahy gave the only hint of a USED CARS jpssible course in an interview in Chicago, saying any one of his with 3D). aides “is capable of taking over.” | a 2 ZN His assistants are Bob McBride, | y Terry Brennan, Lukacj, Bill Early, mR if arlife WEE |Joe ‘McArdle, Walt Ziemba and tae i: Jam | Johnny Druze. All except McArdle} i |and Druze are former Notre Dame! stars. These two were picked up} NAVARRO, Inc. _[head-coaching at ese pede . Hugh Devore, recently signe y | G1 Duval St. Tel. 2-701 Dayton University, and Bernie! Overseas Transportation Company, Inc. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service between MIAMI and KEY WEST Also Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYS Between Miami and Key West Express Schedule | Valley of southern California last/reported tremors, as. did Sports i at saceennet ese Treeeea ee in San Diego, oungste their residents said the shock P et ae oe x bens as felt at 8:25 p.m. At El Cen-|The Citizen: A Family Newspaper? audience is seeing some kid being knocked out and maybe perman- | q ently damaged by a “name” fight- Crimmins, a former Leahy assis- Rou ndup er who is being built up for pd NAVARRO tant who has three more years to things. Maybe this is what the a mc. go on a contract with Indiana} By Gayle Talbot Sponsors and the matchmakers University. thunk they must provide if they Crimmins has said repeatedly he| NEW YORK #—If you liked the convinced that this must have been re petted the sets —— on pre wants to remain at Indiana. He betw: el tai ithe next commerce! so, they last made the statement after a latest peer een ~Archie due fo the lovely mountain scenery | might be underestimating their : {Moore and Joey Maxim down in'that the TV cameras kept picking) audience, F T esd pir gal sia a = Aa awl, don’t feel too bad sbout it/up om that occasion. We were pre-| or iui ay nly in him, However, it is known that|0T hide the fact from your neigh-|pared, therefore, to watch them! Whitey Ford of the Yankees beat he has a gentleman's agreement|bors. We thought it was a whale\very critically this time, there five times in 1953) 8 A.M. till 9:30 P.M. with Indiana that he may return/of a fight too. [being ae eee pees bet theac tea "aaomt dropping a decision, i if and when Because of this independence of n 1 blr, ame meter ft 2 em spirit, we are being looked at|175-pound workmen get in there! Four members of the American LOT NO. l LOT NO 2 Of the Irish staff, Terry Brennan| strangely. But we still think it was'and again tried to beat each other/ Hockey League staff of linesmen ” and Bob McBride are known to|4 humdinger and would be happy|te death for 15 rounds. Two skilled) were former star players in that 424 SOUTHARD ST. OPP. NAVY COMMISSARY have impressed Leahy greatly.|to watch Joey and Archie fight a|fighters who know and practice jgop, | Tel. 2-2242 Brennan at 25 js the youngest of|fourth time. _. jevery_move in the book, who can} e. Tel. 2-7886 the lot, Before joining Leahy last| We realize full well this is a silly|take and hand it out, gave a) season, he made history in Chicago) attitude to take, that it practically sustained exhibition of whatever| . anyway, ostracism in er | plet - 7 School to three straight undefeated|or, anyway, \that was the way it looked from veaaone and city championships. lie beta tecrile turkey, aud we(bere NN hy AGAINST FORD STUB AKER aaa ee apn area BER M/TES/ nny Tesgnation ended, an |e Me past they ‘had to aay|ect eters, into the maver. ‘Nr! : CONVERTIBLE FORDOR football. Since assuming the coach-|Was that the two fighters sould be|the undisputed fact that Maxim is) RADIO RADIO Oe ee mel ge Mine fists ceca Fs nceciset whine ic at } : GOOD RUBBER EXCELLENT CONDITION and 9 ties, Six of his teams were | something, about Archie and Joey.|they are evenly matched, or near- undefeated and four of them were|We even liked the way they went ly so, and that they are willing : national champions. at it out in Ogden, Utah, last! and able to fight from bell to bell.) = e iy ~ Only Knute Rockne, the man|summer. Later we became partly} Anyway, that’s our kind of fight,| Call 2-3254 whose genius brought Notre Dame its national following, did better. Rockne, who coached Leahy in the late 20s, won 105 games, lost 12 and tied 3 from 1918 until his death in an airplane crash in 1931. After Hunk Anderson and Elmer Layden successively coached the Trish through the °30s, Leahy jby Leahy from Fordham, where| Showed be ey bed dapronesre Ue i i lyear coaching record at Boston hlgahig as line coach in the College babind. hime... die. Bortoa Also given prominent mention |€@ms won 20 games and lost only were two Notre Dame grads now|'W°. He previously was line coach at Georgetown, Michigan State and Fordham. Leahy, a personable, handsome man, collapsed between halves of last season’s game with Georgia Tech. At first the attack was thought to be a heart seizure and he was given the last rites of the Roman. Catholic Church. Leahy said later he was convinced he was dying. However, it developed that he was suffering from pancreatitis. He was forced, to miss two sub- sequent Notre Dame games, Horsemen Make Year’s Pilgrimage WALLER, “Tex. —More than (No Stops En Route) LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 6:00 P.M, Arrives at Miami at 12:00 o’clock ‘Midnight. 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