The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-03
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By HARRY CRIMSON NEA Service Shorts Editor

New York, Nov. 2.--PaSsing the ball with Aldo Theodore Donelli coach of Duquesne:
 We had a game scheduled with the Georgia Pre-Flight school this year" recalls Buff Donelli, but they cancelled because of transportation difficulties. That left us an open date. Rice couldn't get to Chapel Hall, go at the last minute we signed to play North Carolina.
 Tt was more fun than any game we ever played. and Jim Tataum, their coach, said the same thing.
 "Of course, that might have been a little easier foir him since they beat us, l3-7. But I mean it, and so did he.
 We had no scouting reoprts, Neither did they. We didn't know a thing about each other. When the two teams went out on the field, 1t was like a boxing match. The teams spared, felt each other out. It made a fascinating problem in strtegy."
 Football espionage comes up every fall. Pres and cons are argued heatedly. ome coaches insist it makes for more interesting football. Others declare it is a waste of time, pencils, paper and energy.
 The late Howard Harding Jones once published his entire repertoire Of plays while coaching at South- en California and dared the op- position to make the most of it. He even offered to tip of the opposi. ton before a particular play was called. Football, after all. insisted Howard Jones, was a matter of ex- ecution. The operationsl end of the game is infinitely more important than any surprise element that may be injected.
 Back to Donelli: T remember scouting a game for Duquesne when
 Elmert Layden was head coach. Elmer liked plenty of notes and plenty of diagrams. I was wearing down pencils charting play after play when a veteran Notre Dame scout leaned over and asked:
 What the devil are you writing so much about?' I told him that Layden liked his diagrams and notes and I had to get 'em. He laughed Hell he said, all that literature will only confuse the boys"
 Football scouting is not much akin to war espionage. There is nothing furtive about it. In fact, honor among scouts is almost legen- dary. A Manhattan operative this year disdainfully refused to as much as glance at movies of the George town team in action which were taken by spectator. He preferred to use his own notes.
 The Superfluous part of scouting comes when traditional rivals chart each other year after year.
 Michigan scouts saw Bernie Bier mans offense every year and chart ed 1t dutifully despite the fact that 1t remained static.
 Transportation difficulties being what they are, scout would seem to be peace-time luxury.
 HIS autumn I1ppy Dye or Onlo State was marooned in Seattle three days before he could catch a plane back to Columbus with dope on Southern California.
 A North Carolina State scout hit southern floods. couldn't reach Bos- ton, so ingeniously side-tracked to watch another future rival.
 Some scouts have mobility. They shift to all parts of the stands to get divers perspective of their rivals machinations.
 But there are no Mata Harris. no nus money, no black hats and there $ no record of any scout disguis- ng himself as a water bucket and .hus gaining entrance into a rival dressing room.