Nothing but the Truth!

 
David Casstevens of the Dallas Morning News tells a story about Frank
Szymanski, a Notre Dame center in the 1940s, who had been called as a
witness in a civil suit at South Bend.

"Are you on the Notre Dame football team this year?" the judge asked.

"Yes, Your Honor."

"What position?"

"Center, Your Honor."

"How good a center?"

Szymanski squirmed in his seat, but said firmly: "Sir, I'm the best center
Notre Dame has ever had."

Coach Frank Leahy, who was in the courtroom, was surprised. Szymanski always
had been modest and unassuming. So when the proceedings were over, he took
Szymanski aside and asked why he had made such a statement. Szymanski
blushed.

"I hated to do it, Coach," he said. "But, after all, I was under oath."

David Casstevens
"Condensed Chicken Soup for the Soul"
Editor: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Patty Hansen