Show IJ McLEMORE SA SAYS SAYS SAYS- YS- YS Finally Q an an Honest Grid Wilt Loom y HENRY McLEMORE LOS ANGELES De Dee 19 UP Prom From rom Palo Alto cotes copies the sad n news wl that Cl rk hM has buried his face tace In his fat coaching contract and i is crying coins because he has haIl scant information information in- in formation on From Lincoln comes come the distressing distressing dis dis- word that Biff Bitt Jon Jone can scarcely hold the shears hears steady Mead to clip his cOupons coupons for tor robbing sobbing over his lack of facts on the Stanford style of football pia play It makes a tragic picture doesn't it if Two big strong si silent silent si- si lent men all broken up because they haven't had access to Information in information In- In formation that rightfully doesn't belong to them Start Irom From Scratch Im I'm a as tender hearted as the next fellow but I say great fine tine hurrah huzzah and let letI Jones JontS and suffer 4 I and suffer sutter and suffer sutter and Stanford Stanford Stanford Stan Stan- ford and Nebraska play for the theRose theRose theRose Rose bowl victory Saturday strictly from scratch Come to think of It who ever r started the business of football scouting I dont don't know but my guess is that it was begun by bya a coach who wasn't quite sure of himself or his ability to cope with any play that wasn't right there in n the book on How to Play Football Come to think of it still further why should there be any scouting In my book Its It's accepted cheating It a sort Ort of wholesale legalized PeepIng PeepIng Peeping Peep Peep- ing Tom business There There- have been attempts among coaches to abolish the business of scouting but they died as quick deaths as If It they had been hit in the head by a two two headed headed cobra I dont don't know the reason for tor the failure of this sensible legislation unless it be the fact tact that the coaches didn't trust one another another and and for a good reason Would He lie Better Football would be a much better better better bet bet- ter game to watch if there were no such thing as spying on the enemy and seeing what he had hadin in the way of offense ottense and ds- ds A meeting between tween two clubs who knew nothing about one another would make for spectacular performances And that is why the game Is played Isn't it it or Isn't the No 1 reason for tor footballs football's existence the money that Is paid in by the customer I think it is not because I am cynical but because because because be be- cause I have never seen a de decent decent decent de- de cent game of football played In Ina a stadium where there was no admission charge And as long longas as youre you're playing with not one eye eye eye- but two eyes eyes on on the customer customer customer cus cus- tomer why not give him the best Why not let the boys bos come out and have at one another another another an an- other without benefit of information information information mation concerning the plays to tobe tobe tobe be run run Some Oversight O But that Isn't what the frel freight ht payer paver gets Far from It The only reason Nebraska and Stanford Stanford Stanford Stan Stan- ford haven't scouted one another another an an- ot other her down to the wisdom teeth of or the third string halfbacks is 1 that hat th thy they y didn't know they were going to tie up in the Rose bowl until the season was over Had they known In advance their spies spitS would have been there with notebooks carbon paper indelible pencils binoculars binoculars binoculars lars and all the necessary equipment equip equip- mentA ment A coach admits a definite weakness when he scouts a rival r He admits that he hasn't enough knowledge to figure out a defense de- de or offense on the spur of ot the moment and that to combat anything with an element of surprIse surprise surprise sur sur- prise in it he must be given weeks of quiet thought and practice And we refer to coaches as M geniuses |