Sport: Football, Nov. 23, 1936

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Said Northwestern's Coach Lynn Waldorf: "I'm just hoping the boys get past the Michigan game but get such a scare that they'll take Notre Dame seriously a week later." At Ann Arbor, the No. 1 football team of the country last week fulfilled its coach's hopes. In the second period, Fullback Steve Toth place-kicked a field goal from Michigan's 17-yd. line. After that an inspired Michigan team that had lost all but one of its previous games this season and shown nothing much in any of them, played beyond itself until three minutes before the game ended. Then a fumble recovered by Northwestern's Zitko and a 30-yd. run by Kovatch put the ball on Michigan's 6-yd. line. After three attempts, Toth carried it across for the final score, Northwestern 9, Michigan 0.

Of the major football teams in the U. S., Santa Clara and Marquette, as well as Northwestern, last week remained untied and undefeated. But Northwestern's schedule, which included Iowa, North Dakota State, Ohio State, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin was by far the most exacting. If they do not fall before Notre Dame this week, few authorities will deny Coach Waldorf's men a national championship as clean-cut as the Big Ten title which they polished off last week at Ann Arbor.

Win or lose against Notre Dame, assured of lionhood in his profession is the serious young man who became Northwestern's football coach last year by a stroke of pure luck.

Invited to a temperance dinner in Chicago in 1933, Northwestern's President Walter Dill Scott was unable to attend. Northwestern's Athletic Director Kenneth L. Wilson went in his place, which was between Chicago's famed Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg and Methodist Bishop Ernest Lynn Waldorf. Bishop Waldorf, who played baseball at Syracuse University, amiably made conversation by saying that his son was a football coach in Oklahoma. Back in his office, Director Wilson, who was looking for a successor to Northwestern's Coach Dick Hanley, looked up the record of the bishop's son at Oklahoma City University and Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical College. He discovered that in four years Coach Waldorf had transformed an Oklahoma A. & M. team that had just lost seven games in a row into a conference champion. When Hanley resigned the following year, after an unsuccessful season, Lynn Waldorf replaced him.