The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-11-02
Combines Talent, Expert
ence And Thorough
Drilling
BY DILLON GRAHAM
Sports Editor. APP Feature Servic

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secret of Cornelrs football sue
cess may be that Carl Snavely's
gridders instinctively do the
right thing.
That means a combination of
talent, experience, and thorough
drilling in fundamentals. Add
generous portions of imagination,
and the love of play and you
have footballers who make cor
rect moves instinctively.
Cornell doesn't have Mime
sofas power, Ohio States trick
cry or a triple-threat ace to COM
pare with Michigan's Tom Har-
mon. But the CornenS can turn
on short blast of power when
they need it. Mort Landsberg
not only can muscle his way
through line for precious first
down yard or two but is also a
touchdown threat who can step
on the accelerator and zip through
! the slightest opening.
The backfielders are smooth
pigskin handlers although they
don't try to copy the Buckeyes
magic. And while Cornell hasn't
a Harmon it has a half dozen
young athletes of far better than
average ability and any one of
them can 60 to town.
Matuszczak and Mccullough
are good handlers of the ball.
Mccullough is an able runner
and good passer. Matuszczak
has few peers as blocker. He
loves to bowl them over. Nc
Cullough is satisfactory kicker.
AS for the backfield subs: Lou
Bufalino can knife through the
slimmest opening. run low and
tear away the yardage at top
speed. Walter Scholl, a little fell
low of 1872 pounds who can't take
the heavy pounding of full
game, is the best of the passers.
Vincent Eichler, a 193-pounder, is
the Reds best bet solely as line
puncher.
First Rate Line
The line is good, very good.
Heading the forewall is ALL
America Nick Drahos at tackle,
perhaps a trifle better than a year
ago. Then there is Alva Kelley,
whom Snavely calls the best end
he has ever coached, and the 9TH
er wingmen, Kirk Hirshey and
Jim Schmuck, all adept at Cor
nell's old favorite. the end-around
maneuver. Frank Finneran, a
! ball-hawk, is a mobile center,
while Howard Dunbar is a whizz
at guard.
Time after time, in the second
half, this line stopped Ohio States
/ power and deception cold Many
times the Buckeyes faced fourth
down with still 10 yards to go.
The Big Red wall couldn't be
dented or turned.
In the Ohio State affair-ma-
I jor contest for Cornell and a top
game for the Buckeyes-Cornell
showed that it could take a
pounding, stand up under it and
come back to win Ohio State
demonstrated that it lacked the
fire to retaliate under adverse
conditions.
/ Few teams have appeared as
powerful as the Buckeyes who
marched SO yards to. tally against
Cornell. But Cornell gave no signs
of Encouragement They came
back to win. Ohio State, on the
other hand, was clearly whipped
and without spirit after Cornell
had pushed ahead. That was the
difference.
/ Spirit Not There
/ 1t would be foolhardy to say
that Ohio State, one of the best
in the midwest as shown by its
close games with Minnesota and
! Northwestern. was not as we'll
Fdrilled as Cornell. Or that It had
less talent than the Ithacans. It
just didn't have the same foot
ball instinct and will-to-win.
CornelrS victory in what ap-
pears its biggest hurdle-and it is
now likely to go unbeaten again
this years. a triumph for the
coaching of Carl Snavely, a pre-
scisionist who observes the small
est detail and is satisfied with
nothing short OF perfection.
fTheFe has been a charge that
Shavely signaled plays from the
bench- So many of Cornell's long
Gains against Ohio State were
made as a result of instructive ac-
lions that we think a good reply
TO this charge-whether it is true
or not-iS, as one writer express
cd IT.