Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-21
CONTESTS KEENER
W|THPLAYS KNOWN
Yale Recedes From Eyes-off
Policy to Get a Line on
Georgia Eleven.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

N ON-SCOUTING in foot ball
| seems to have received body
~ blow. At least, one of the
i ' principal proponents of this
foolish gesture, Yale, has re-
ceded from its position with respect
to the important intersectional game
against Georgia at Athens on Octo-
Der IL.
When Yale and Princeton began their
the opponents of old Eli and the Tiger
agreed to fall in line and others did
not. Among Yale's opponents Harvard.
Army and Georgia were willing to make
| the experiment. Harvard lasted one
year and threw it overheard. Georgia
stuck, but this year Yale scouts will OBJ
serve the AthenianS in their games
against Oglethorpe and Furman. while
Bulldog observers will be at the Yale
Bowl when the Ellis meet Vermont.
"Spies" Wrong Word.
| Unless Vermont differs greatly this
year from Green Mountain teams Of the
past, Yale will not have to show any
thing in particular to win, whereas
Furman is quite likely to make the
Bulldogs produce lot of stuff On the
other hand, the excellent results Of two
games, one promising to be hard, the
other fairly difficult, may well compen-
safe Georgia for any hunts the North
ern spies are able to take back to New
Haven.
The word "spies" is used with hu-
morous intent, but 1t is doubtful If the
word should be used even in that way,
| inaSmuch as foot ball scouting is abb
solutely remote from spying in the &C
cepted sense of the term. And it would
seem that some confusion in the pub
lie mind as to scouting and spying was
the one factor which gave substantial
support to the non-Scout clause.
Whether one tavors non-scouting or
not depends upon his attitude toward
foot ball. If he prefers to see two
great rivals play as nippy and closely
knit game as can be played. either
eleven checkmating the other with
scientific eXactneSs. no more surprise
maneuver and victory coming on the
basis Of superior coordination, driving
power and the like, then a game be.
tween two elevens that have secuted
each other Is the contest for him II
see.
Some Reveal Their Plays.
If, on the other hand, he gets thrift
out of quick, shutting reversals of sill
uations as Eby's ninth-hour touchdown
| against Princeton last year and a lot
| of sloppy, cropping foot ball, such as
| those two champions of non-scouting,
| Princeton and Yale, have played in re-
| cent years, then he will regret that Yale
and Georgia have fallen into apostasy.
But this writer does not regret it.
AS to scouting. it is a fact that
coaches who are able to develop perfect
execution of plays in their teams do not
| give hang whether they are secuted
or not. Glenn Warner, for example, is
willing at any time to send complete
diagrams of his offense, and Knute
Rockne's Notre Dame attack has been
nublic property throughout the country
for years. AS Bob Zuppke quantity saws:
"You can look over all nv plays, but
I'm not going to tell you the order in
which they will be used" And what
scout can tell that with reference to any
given game?
Scouting makes for better foot ball,
for a more standardized game. while
non-scouting does little but promote
hypocrisy.