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First, he did not want boys with swell heads. That sort of boy makes an early success and is co,ntent to rest on his laurels, and wants to play on his reputation. Dry rot sets in and he ceases to play the sort of game he did at first. Then someone gets his suit and locker. Second, he did not want gripers, kickers, complainers. No organization can afford a chronic kicker, because that germ is infectious. And some day he comes to the training quarters and finds someone else wearing his suit.

The third boy Rock did not like was the quitter. The quitter is the fellow who wants to play, wants to be a football hero, but is not willing to pay the high price demanded. Rock used to tell the first squad that that was the time for the quitter to quit, and not wait until he had worried the coaches and team for a while. Fourth, he would irot stand for dissipation, either physically or emotionally. Boys who waste a lot of their time, eat and drink things they should not, stay up late at night, and drive cars with one arm, do not belong on football teams, and haven't a chance against adversaries who do NOT so indulge themselves. Such men destroy an organization, and must be weeded out quickly in order that the team may not suffer. Jealousy, hatred, etc., are emotional dissipations that make weak football players. Look for the good in one another, forget the other fellov/s faults, and thus build for strength in organization. The fifth and last is the fellow with an inferiority complex. Get rid of it, said Rock, and get a superiority complex, instead. Make up your mind to show the coach you are the best of the 350 men on the squad, and get busy to prove it.

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And then he would tell them about the time he got a squad out on the field early one fall, divided it into groups according to the ambitions of the boys, ends, guards, tackles, centers, backs, etc. Then he went down the line looking them over individually. In the group who wanted to be guards there were fifteen big, stalwart boys. And there was one runt. Rock asked him his name. He said "Metzger." t'You want to play guard?" asked Rock. "Yes, sir." "Aren't you a little small to be playing guard?" asked Rock. "Yes, sir," said the runt, "BUT I'M A LITTLE ROUGH, TOO." He became one of the greatest guards in Notre Dame history. Two hundred pound opponents were just meat for his chopping block. No inferiority complex there. And no swell head. Just a guy who knew his stuff.

"Ambition," Rock ard n* blyr, ",t ", is, the right sort of ambition and the kind that counts most on football squads, means that you must have the ability to cooperate with the men around you, the men wo,rking with you. It is my observation that the ability to cooperate is more essential than personal prowess. In this day and age, no individual stands alone any rylsre, and that is particularly true in football teams." And Rock would warn the boys about getting the swellhead-"elephantiasis of the occipital lobe" he called it-and told them that it is a very dangerous malady, rendering the victim practically useless as a football player until he recovers. For this disease Rock used to apply the serum treatment, which consisted of the ridicule of his teammates, the student body, and his best girl. This serum usually reduced the fever and the swelling. *rF*

Rockne enforced the rule that no organization is safe where one or two men get all the spotlight, and the rest of the team did the chores. He wanted every player to take his part with the chores. When he found a player looking too often at the grandstand, he would secretly hang up a sign in the boy's locker, that read: "Success is based on what you do, not how you look." He found that a most potent medici.ne.

One of the great roo,J"rr*rrJries of all times is one I enjoyed telling for many years about those two giants of Notre Dame, Carideo and "Jumping" Joe Savoldi. The Iatter was notoriously temperamental, often sulked during a game, and gave his great quarterback friend Carideo plenty of trouble. One day Savoldi was in one of his blackest moods, and no matter where they tried him he failed to make any noteworthy gains. He was thrown many times for losses, and the Notre Dame fans became tragic as the last quarter came, there was no score on either side, and Savoldi refused to wake up. There was just two minutes left to play. It was Notre Dame's ball in the middle of the field, when Carideo took time out. He grabbed Savoldi by the arm, pulled him back ten yards from the squads, and then started a long conference in which Carideo did all the talking. The crowd could see his arms waving in dramatic gestures as he talked.

All of a sudden, ", .n;*,lnJn"a been touched with the business end of a livewire, Savoldi rushed back to his position behind the line. Carideo passed him the ball and he started like a thunderbolt through the opposing team. He knocked some over, stiff-armed others, dodged, twisted, bumped, bucked, and landed like a human catapult back of the opponent's line for a touchdown. The game was won. When the whistle blew, a crowd of Notre Dame supporters demanded of Carideo that he tell them what had worked the sudden transformation and electrified Savoldi, and Carideo told them: "f say to heem, I say 'Joe Savoldi, I ask you for de lasta time, will you makea da touchdown? If you wonta do heem for me; if you wonta do heem for Notre Dame; if you wonta do heem for Rockne; then I aska you, Jumping .Ioe Savoldi, please, will you do heem for MUSSOLfNI?'"