Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-18
COACHES CROSSED
BY SCOUT PHONES
Both Sides Get Tips That
Are Meant for 0ne-Some
Midwest Gossip.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

n r Ew YORK, october 1s.--If all
M is fair in war, all is fair
within reasonable scope - in
foot ball. Or is it? Talk is
that in some stadiums wires that lead
from observation points on top OF the
arena to the sidelines go to the home
teams bench as well as to the head
coach on the visiting team bench.
Explaining all this. it should be said
that the practice of live coaches OF Dig
teams is to have an assistant perched
high on the walls of stadium who,
from the point of vantage of birds
eve view of the game in progress below,
can detect sins of omission and COM
mission which the coach on the bench
cannot detect. So the observer on high
communicates frequently with his heao
coach and gives much valuable infor-
nation concerning his own team and
the rival outfit.
1t is valuable: that is to say, provided
these observations are not picked up by
the home team coach on his own bench.
In such case the afternoon is apt to be
filled with boomerangS. Nefarious
practice of this sort, or fears that such
practice obtains, is beginning to cause
certain Western coaches to lose in
UereSC III SpeCldl Wires W bISh DSASAAoS'
GONE Western observations picked up
- on the writer's recent tour:
Notrs Dame in her new stadium
has done away with players benches
in the open. Foot ballers occupy dough-
outs a la big league base ball.
There will be an opening for good
live coach at Minnesota within year
or so. Fritz Crisler, the new athletic
riirnofor &c cr;is1uiI1U tho coaching f0h
now and doing finely; but he will not
be able to hold two positions indefinitely
inasmuch as the work of an athletic
director in a great midland university
is of itself sufficient for two men.
Talk is that this is Pat Pages last
year at Indiana. The university pays
some of Pages salary and alumni the
residue. And alumni are often bother
some and unreasonable when 1t comes
to the matter of defeat and victory.
1t would not be surprising If Page
were called back to Chicago, where his
son is now an undergraduate. The boy
was headed for Princeton, but at the
last minute decided to follow IN his
fathers footsteps.
They say that when the Minnesota
athletic authorities tackled SO cents onto
the usual So ticket cost for the STAN
ford game, a lot of foot ball enthusi-
asts went sour and remained away.
Thus 40-odd thousand crowd instead
of so.
All Stanford backfield men powdered
their hands with resin before they went
into the Minnesota game. Warner says
it makes all the difference in the world
in the matter of ball catching. But
1t did not seem to do so last Saturday.
What Western eleven permitted
captain to play last week though he was
known to have diabetes? And what
eleven permitted another captain to
play when he was running a real fever?
Foot ball is getting stern these days.
Wisconsin has lot of stuff to serve
to Pennsylvania. 1t is likely the
Quakers viii meet no stronger eleven
this year.
Be patient with Nebraska. Dana
Bible, the coach, has lot of new and
inexperienced men playing for him.
Potentially good. Old Penn may run
into something tough when Kansas
comes TO Philadelphia, November /.