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Jack Cannon
Position: Guard
School: Notre Dame
High School: Columbus, OH (Aquinas HS)
Years: 1927-1929
Inducted: 1965
Place of Birth: Columbus, OH
Date of Birth: 4/19/1907
Place of Death: Columbus, OH
Date of Death: 11/12/1967
Jersey Number: 19
Height: 5-11
Weight: 193
Member Biography:
One of the last of the bareheaded players, Jack Cannon
disdained the use of a helmet and became the crowd-pleasing
roving guard on Notre Dame's 1929 national championship
team. As might be expected, there was a certain renegade
personality in Cannon. He played hard when he felt like it,
letting down whenever the Irish were well ahead and a game
became uninteresting for him. Coach Knute Rockne
constantly chided Cannon until his performances returned to
their usual aggressive levels. During that perfect nine-game
championship season of 1929, Notre Dame played every
game on the road, making the unbeaten and untied record all
the more impressive. Notre Dame Stadium was still under
construction then, and the Irish were forced to travel to meet
the competition. Cannon loved it. He was as much a
wanderer off the field as he was a ball-hawking defensive star.
Harry Stuhldreher, the quarterback in the famed Four
Horsemen backfield of 1924, was to write about Cannon later,
"He was the apple of everybody's eye. Without a doubt, he
was the best lineman Notre Dame ever turned out. He had the
faculty of being able to diagnose opponents' plays and seemed
to be at the point where the play developed every time."
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