The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-22
|DOBIE DEFENDS PASS RULE, RAPS
 'SUICIDE' LISTS
Fairness Demands One or Two ''Breathers" Ex-
 plains Coach
By ERNEST BARCELLA United Press Stan Correspondent

By ERNEST BARCELLA United Press Stan CorrespondentD
 Newton, Mass, Jan. 22-(UP)- Virtually recovered from injuries suffered in Q near-fatal automobile crash, Gilmour (GiD Dobie talked today about his first love-football and talked plenty.
 The tall, gaunt coaching patriarch dropped his usual reticence as he sat in his study within sight of the Gothic spires of Boston College where he is gridiron headmaster.
 Frank Opinion
 In his first interview since that horrible dawn seven weeks ago when his battered body was hurried to a hospital, Dobie unleashed a broad side against Suicide" schedules, de- tended the controversial pass inter- ference rule and discussed football in general.
 He pulled no punches as he fired away at the growing practice among major college elevens of scheduling an unbroken succession of top-fiight opponents.
 "1t's really lot of nonsense" the dour Scot observed. I've been in the coaching business long enough to know that you've got to have a cou- pie of set-ups or so-called breath ers' in your schedule"
 That was only the beginning.
 Tt isn't fair to the players, hav- ing to go out there and take a lot of hard punishment Saturday after Saturday" he continued. And 1t isn't fair to the coaches. How are you going to decide on different combinations and test untried play CTS under fire if you haven't got a set-up to experiment against?
 "A suicide schedule is good for just about one thing. The manage inent can display it to the public and say, Now isn't that beautiful thing?'?"
 Fair Minded
 Though his 1886 team was twice victim of it. the pass interference rule got Dobie's o. K.
 "The rule is all right the way it is and it's written clearly enough. The whole trouble is that some officials try to apply their own tnterpreta- tions. That's where they run into dificulties. Then they get a little panicky and the first thing you know they're calling interference when. technically, there isn't any"
 The pendulum of football soon will swing from offense to defense, pre- dicted Dobie who has given 8 of his 57 years to coaching (hell be 58 Jan. 3D, Tn the long run it's the de- fense that always gets the upper hand"
 Relying implications of the sobri- quet Gloomy Gill;" which he ac- quired during his 16 years at Cor. nell, Dobie spoke enthusiastically oi his recovery from injuries suffered in the accident that sent him and his freshman assistant, Frank Mur- dock, to a hospital last Dec. 2.
 T still see a doctor every other day. But I'm able to get out and around. I'll be all set for spring practice"
 Next Wednesday, he will be hon. ored at 8 banquet by the Boston College Varsity club-his first pulp lie appearance since the accident.
 On his forehead over the right eye, Dobie wears a two-inch scar. It was the left side of his face, however, that was most severely damaged. There is a scar on the lower lip and two more on his cheek. The teeth on that side are gone.
 "If the other wounds mend all right" he observed, T won't worry about the missing teeth-I can al- ways buy new ones."