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My Favorite Football Story

Knute Rocknc delighted to tell a story about himself and the great Indian player, Jim Thorpe, which, regardless of all ottrers, seems to me the best football story I ever heard.

After they were both out of college they met one fall on opposite sides in a great all-star football game, played on that great field in Chicago and attended by a capacity crowd of fans. Rockne said that before the game started Jim Thorpe car4e to him, and pointing to the great mass of people in the stands, said in his blunt Indian fashion:

"Rock, do you know what most of those people came here for? They came to see me run with the ball. That's what they came for. So, when you tackle me Rock, tackle easy, see, and let me run with the ball, because that's what the fans are paying to see."

Rockne said that the calm egotism of the giant player. even though what he said was largely true, made him awful mad, and he made up his mind that he would teach the big Indian a lesson, and that the first time he tackled him he rivould hit him so hard he would never live to forget it. Sure enough, one of the first plays in the game, the ball went to Thorpe and he came flying around Rockne's end, and Rockne tore into him. He had a clear run at the big man, and he tackled him like a battering ram, striking with all his bone and sinew between krlee and thigh, and letting him have all the drive and twist he had in his muscular body.

And, to his surprise, he bounced off the body of the great football champion like a dry oak leaf, driven by a gale, bounces back from the 1s!,urdy trunk of the oak. Thorpe went plunging on mqny yards, until alrnost the whole opposing team pullediTrim down. Rockne picked himself up. His shouldCf was as full of pain as though a house had fallen on it. As he made his way toward the scrimmage line, he passed Thorpe, and the big man grinned as he reached out and patted him on the back, and said:

"That's the way to do it, Rock ! Tackle me easy, and lit me run with the ball !"

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