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Show PENN'S COACH IS AGAINST SCOUTING Its Elimination Would Be Good for Football. Louis Alonso Young, University of Pennsylvania head football coach, believes be-lieves that the complete elimination of the scouting system at present employed em-ployed by colleges would be a good tiling for the game, yet contends that the present method is a fair one, with every team on the same plane. Young's views were expressed while discussing the agreement between Tad Jones of Yale and Bill ltoper of Princeton not to scout their rival elevens elev-ens before their battle. With scouting in vogue, every team I has the same privilege, but under the no-scouting .agreement Young believes there would be too much temptation for some to "cut the corners." tie compares this new phase of the game to the honor system in the colleges and universities at present, which offers of-fers many temptations that some persons per-sons cannot resist. Youngs views on scouting follow: "I believe that the complete elimination elimi-nation of scouting from football would be a good thing for the game. "Certainly it would give the spectators spec-tators a bettor run for their money, because more time would be spent by the coaches in developing their offenses of-fenses and less time to defenses. This would mean more scoring and a more open game. "Seoul ing das' been overplayed. There is no doubt of it. This is particularly par-ticularly true whore a college has two or three men at every game in which a coming rival is playing. Then again, some teams scout a year ahead for a game the following season. "It Is all a question of the honor system. If every college agreed to keep strictly to the letter of the agreement, there would not be any worry. But the fact of the matter is that some college would 'cut the corners' a trille or more than a trifle, and that would mean trouble." |