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FearlessF · « **Reply #112 on:** March 19, 2020, 11:10:32 AM »

1922 NOTRE DAME-NEBRASKA FOOTBALL PHOTOS

It was the last game at Nebraska Field and the venue’s biggest crowd ever.

FearlessF · « **Reply #113 on:** March 19, 2020, 11:10:55 AM »

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FearlessF · « **Reply #115 on:** March 19, 2020, 11:13:38 AM »

From left: Notre Dame’s Miller, Layden, Crowley and Stuhldreher in 1923.

Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne said afterward, “We were beaten by the most powerful driving team I have seen in many years. No one could have stopped Noble today.” … Irish sophomores Stuhldreher, Miller, Layden and Crowley would go down in lore as the Four Horsemen. Their only other collegiate defeat would come against the 1923 Huskers. ...
Nebraska’s No. 1 quarterback, Glen Preston, watched from the sideline with a leg fracture suffered in a scrimmage two weeks earlier. … Nebraska captain Harold “Chick” Hartley broke his nose early in game but played on; ditto for Notre Dame’s Glen Carberry with a broken finger, which he taped to an adjoining one. ...
Nebraska kicked off to open both halves. … Each team punted on first down two times. … Notable attendees included coach Amos Alonzo Stagg of the University of Chicago and Gen. John J. Pershing. … Hundreds of fans without tickets watched from rooftops, tree limbs and the coal pile behind the east end zone. … At a pep rally the night before, team captain Hartley urged fans to refrain from destroying the fences and bleachers in the event of a victory. … The Irish were considered slight favorites by oddsmakers. ...
Verne Lewellen was elected 1923 captain shortly after the game. … Andy Schoeppel was elected governor of Kansas 20 years later, and he also would serve in the U.S. Senate. … The Huskers’ only blemish during their 7-1 season was a 9-6 loss at Syracuse in early November. … The Huskers finished 60-11-4 at Nebraska Field, starting with a tie against Iowa on Oct. 23, 1909.

CWSooner · « **Reply #116 on:** March 19, 2020, 05:55:18 PM »

Quote from: FearlessF on March 19, 2020, 11:08:33 AM

1922 HUSKERS’ BRAWN BEATS NOTRE DAME’S FINESSE

JACK BEST
Before kickoff, fans paid tribute to Jack Best, Nebraska’s beloved athletic trainer and a fixture on campus since 1888. It was no secret that the big-hearted Englishman hadn’t much longer to live.
As the Omaha World-Herald described it:

He was carried to the sidelines in an automobile decorated in Nebraska colors. The sight of the Grand Old Man brought the immense crowd to its feet and the stands thundered out:
“He’s the man.
“Who’s the man?
“He’s a Nebraska man — Jack Best!”
And it was then that the old trainer, with tears in his eyes, doffed his hat and waved a response to the throng.
Then the game. Jack said it was great. To see his boys triumph over their ancient enemy!

Best’s presence in the locker room before the game was said to be an inspiration to the players that afternoon.
Best died less than two months later at age 77. Classes at the university were canceled the afternoon of services, which were attended by more than 2,000 at the Armory. For more than 20 years ending in 1949, the Jack Best Trophy was awarded to the top fraternity in intramural athletics.

I love the sports-writer hyperbole of the 1920s. From what I can tell, Nebraska first played Notre Dame in 1916. Yet, by 1922, the Irish were the "ancient enemy."
The 1920s were one heckuva decade. Came in on the aftermath of World War I and the world-wide pandemic that killed up to 100 million people (up to 675,000 of them Americans) and went out with the opening shocks of what would become the Great Depression.
In between came one big blowout where everything was the biggest, the greatest, the fastest, the strongest, the drunkest, the richest, the most of everything. Grantland Rice and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse outlined against a blue-gray October sky led the way for sports-writers.