Evening journal., 1921-10-19
NOW
GOING WELL
Team Looks Like Old-Time
Class After Walloping
New York
TIME LOST ON
TOO MUCH THEORY

Special 20 The Evening Journal
NEWARK. oct 1s.-Unlversity Of
Delaware football team after going
bad all season won many admirers
and supporters by the game played
against the New York Agricultural
College eleven on Frazer Field last
Saturday. II was not the fact es-
pecially that Delaware won 4s TO 0,
that pleased friends OF the team.
What was especially pleasing was
the fact that the team as a whole
showed more fight and more OF a
general team understanding as what
the team had In mind to do relative
to plays than in any previous game
this season.
At this point II might be ex-
planned that the New York "Aggies"
was the only team that Delaware
has met this season that the So
called scouts or scout has not as a
special emissary from Delaware
seen that the team In action against
some other eleven.
The scout system in the larger
colleges where there are an abund-
lance OF coaches to go over what the
scouts report back TO them as to the
plays OF their prospective opponents
may be all right Even under such
perfect conditions. however. the
system has been declared a failure
and has been. discarded by some OF
the best college football teams In
the country.
As 10 Delaware the scout idea has
failed OF its purpose. 10 has re-
suited TO date this season In the
wasting Of much time each week
( that II has been tried TO the detri-
ment Of the team.
Members OF the football squad
have shown in many ways on tn,
field that they are getting nothinl
beneficial from the so-called scou
plan. With the exception OF las
week the squad has apparent,
wasted two or three afternoons ;
7 week trying 10 meet some mythica
, attack. The players have made
joke to large extent out Of tn
matter evidently because they real
/. lied they were not being beneftc
q by n.
The idea OF the plan Is for IN
scrubs to take the plays given {
n them by the scout supposing TO rer
10 resent the plays OF their next oppo
}, nents and try them against the var
Z sity. Yesterday the scrubs wer
. given plays supposed to be those o
!, Haverford which team Delaware Wi
= meet at Haverford next Saturda,
or course those plays that the az
10 fternoon was taken up on were ex
h lplained as a scout saw them iron
= the side lines. There Is about on
chance in ten that Delaware will b
called on TO meet just such plays a
mapped out, as in all probability nj
such play will ever be used agains
? Delaware next Saturday.
It can be readily seen that unde
such conditions Delaware has los
much valuable time in being coachel
TO defend an attack which will neve
; be made. Those who have scoute
the teams and Coach Derby arc nj
doubt sincere In their desire L
strengthen the squad but the fact re
81 mains that the plan has failed.
a For hours at the time the coac
y has watched the scrubs go up agains
Is the varsity with these suppose
e plays OF their prospective opponent
I. without apparently either the scrub
n or varsity getting anything from /
n Il has invariably resulted in a cor
glomeration OF "balled" up pia,
II that probably no player on eithe
? scrubs or varsity understood.
st In the time apparently wasted o
such plays as explained the squa
l. could be drilled in many OF the fin
m points OF the game in which the
10 are weak, in both attack and d,
at fense.
sr Supporters OF Delaware who ha,
ID mad their ears to the ground cam,
I'd help than realize that Saturday
AZ game went a long way towards ge
ting the team back in the roo
m graces OF the fans and this criticis
N Is onered solely for the reason IN,
Il Is the belief OF many that val,
10 liable time is being wasted in puttir
'h in hours OF time meeting PLAYS IN,
7" scouts figure out their oppone,
n- will use next Saturday.
~ There Is an excellent feeii,
y among members OF the squad ar
o. the team is pulling together bett
than at any time this year. Goa,
Derby with all the handicaps m
he has encountered has gotten n
sether strong backheld. and d
serves much credit for what he NJ
- accomplished against odds.