Notre Dame's fancy football team, on a 24-game undefeated streak, worked out last week in the ballroom of the Lord Baltimore Hotel. With doors locked, visitors excluded, and street shoes on their feet, halfbacks feinted & faked under the crystal chandeliers. Coach Frank Leahy was giving his new U-formation (with two quarterbacks squatting just behind the center) a final tune-up. Leahy, the perfectionist, wanted to be sure.
Next day, on the green turf of Baltimore's Babe Ruth Stadium, Notre Dame's old reliable T-formation worked so well against Navy that the U-formation was...
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