The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-08
Smear Campaign Is Snavely's Penalty
 For Grid Success
Cornell Has Great Squad of Boys Who Like to
 Play Football
BY JOE WILLIAMS

New York, Nov. 8.-It will be in. teresting to follow the operations of the Notre Dame and Army football teams tomorrow, interesting to ob- serve what effect, if any, their re- cent head-on collision in Yankee Stadium had.
 There seems to be no question that the Irishers under-rated the Cadets and as a consequence were lucky to escape with their lives This kind of experience frequently has stabilizing effect on a group Of youngsters. They quit reading their press notices and start play ing football.
 If Notre Dame has the skill and strength that was claimed for the South Bend outfit by western cri- tics before the Army fright, 1t will be on display against Navy, a bet ter than average team. If Notre Dame doesn't take charge of this game you can put 1t down that the Irish were over-rated from the start.
 Conversely, 1t may be that the Cadets needed justt he kind of game they had against the Irish to find themselves, They suddenly started to click after laundering all sea- son. Their performance against Notre Dame should be stimulating to morale and ambition. Thus, they should go against Brown with all the vital imponderables in their favor.
 We weren't surprised to read that James Lynah came to the de- fense of Carl G-for gloom Snavely in the signalling incident. MT. Lynah is the type of gentleman who vigorously stands up for his men when he feels they are right. Ohio State has charged that Snavely quarterbacked the Cornell team from the bench, implying that these tac- tics may have had something to do with the result of the game. Whether 1t was meant to be or not, the charge had all the ear-marks of an alibi by beaten team and MT. Lynah didn't hesitate to make known publicly his resentment in a letter to Ohio States director of athletics. This could be the begin- ming of very warm hostility and 1t probably means that it will be a long time before Cornell and Ohio State enter into another football contract.
 Too Successful
 Without going into any extended discussion as to whether coaches call plays from the bench or not, it does seem that MT. Snavely is paying the penalty for success. He has put together one of the great teams of football and it just na- turally follows, in the minds of cynics, that everything isn't entirely on the up and up. You have right to expect a more generous at titude in the sports world but un- fortunately you don't always find it. If MT. Snavely had come up with a great team in some other league there would have been no sniping from the sidelines. The fact that he plays in the Ivy league, the circle circle of the very, very pure. is what is causing eyebrows to lift and flutter. That could be extremely silly, couldn't 1t?
 Just because the east hasn't ruled football for some time doesn't mean that good football players no longer grow on the Atlantic seaboard. We have done a lot of travelling in our time and it has been our observation that the size and zeal of youngsters is not regulated by geographical boundaries. What we're trying to say is that 1t is altogether pos- sible for an eastern coach to put together a winning team without robblng a bank or poisoning a well 4 fairer attitude would be to admit that Mr. 6navely is q pretty good coach-whlch he is--aIld that he has been lucky in getting together at one time a number of young sters who have a flair and an en. thusiasm for football and their uni. yerNty. That has happened in other eastern schools in the past and we don't recall that anybody ffafftafa@ a aFaaAam anssaFAafnsa aa a aa