New Britain herald., 1928-09-05
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 ID D SCOUTING
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Nev .Ysrk. Sept. A-With few exceptions one-half the football world will continue. to know how the other half lives as . new seasen h hidden only by the declining shadow, Of baseball. To scout or not to scout h answered. by most col leees in the aieirgaatiee.
 When football eoachea and form er football coaches get together 1t luncheon they talk football aud when two are named Jones they differ n to the merits of non>scout, tnG systems. Tad" Jones, former Yale mentor, Riff" Jones, head coach of the Army. and Knute Rockne were honor guests at lunch- con yesterday. with Christy Walsh as host. at which other guests wers permitted to ask the coaches ques- tons. -. What do you think of no-scout- ing asreements?" the Yale Jonea was asked.
 Great" was Tad's reply. "Yalc has found it highly desirable"
 Better in theory than in prac- ttce." said Biht replying to the same question.
 Rockne permitted it to be a two- man- discussion but contributed this comment: T would not want to play some teams without scouting them. but others wouldn't matter for 1t would do me no good"
 Yale does not believe on giving its opponents the once-over and has agreements not to scout with all tts major rivals. The Army does not scout Yale but gets all the legiti- mate information it can by watch ing other opponents play regularly scheduled games.
 The non-scouting agreement has been effective at Yale and after two years it. can hardly be called an ex- pertinent there," said the retiring head coach of the Ellis. Tt is not . question of ethics. morals or sports manship, but has been found worth- while from 8 practical standpoint. It has produced better football. A team in my opinion will develop . better offensive when it is forced to go on its own rather than plan on the basis of what 1t knows of the other teams system. Certainly that has been our experience at Yale"
 Captain L. NJ. Jones, | name "Biff' seldom hears. expressed him. self as cheerfully carrying out the policy of his athletic board in re- fusing to even peep at a Yale for nation before game time. but frank ly does not want more than one contest in the dark.
 T think it sounds better than 1t works out" he said. Especially in early season games is 1t helpful to have some idea of what the opposi- ton is likely to spring. It is neces- sary. of course. to be prepared for almost anything when one meets teams from every section of the country but 1t helps to have an ink ling of the way your opponents have gone about their job in previous gamesI'', X.
 "Bift" suggested that it is a strain on the emotions to go to play . game against an opponent with the only availa ble information the color of the players Jerseys.
 '"The night before the Army Yale game last year." said the Army coach rcminiscently. T was con- vinced from a chat with Tad that if he despised anything in football it was any form of shift plays. I nearly fell of the bench the next day when Yale lined up with . shift. modified 1t is true, but nevertheless | shift"
 "You didn't tell them. Biff." re- minded Tad. that early in the week you wrote me you had gone back to your shift"
 The far-hung arena of football territory covered by Notre Dame makes it's scouting system expensive from . standpoint of railway fares alone, but as its scouts are former Notre Dame players. travelling Is no novelty to them. Chided as to the many miles covered by his players. Rockne came back with the obser- vation that "a football player can study his textbooks just as zealously in a Pullman berth as in his dormi- tory bed at home-if he wishes. He added: "Traveling is broadening, you know. After a student finishes . football season at Notre Dame he is we'll equipped to be . travelling salesman or 8 newspaper man." n0anuRVSnuaa NH n