| Show SPEAKING OF SPORTS s Po By ROBERT McSHANE ted by W w. w it m Union WM CARL SNAVELY unsmiling pokerfaced poker coach of Cornell uni university's university's football team Is II distinctly unhappy in what should be his moment moment mo mo- ment of triumph Cornell is II putting the East back In fool football ball headlines JIb Ills current Big Dig Red edition has been termed by I more than one sports writer as as' as the best all around all around football team inthe in inthe I Ithe the past 10 years Cornell wasn't given proper credit for its win over Ohio State Big Dig Ten champions in 1939 1039 Too man ma many p people ople called it luck This years year's victory over the Buckeyes gave ample proof of Cornell Cornell's Cor Cot nells nell's power power Critics weren't commenting com come that Cornell was just lucky They have to admit that the victory was wal really deserved But Snavely still Is unhappy Three weeks ago the Harvard Crimson Crimson Crim Crim- son lon undergraduate dally daily charged that Cornell had bad failed to 10 live up to the terms of the agreement for simon pure athletics In an article the paper charged charred that Coach Snavely Snave Snave- ly and subsIdization subsidisation travel hand band In hand The following week Athletic Director Director tor L. L W. W St John of Ohio State university university uni sent a letter to Asa S. S Bushnell Bush Bush- nell neU executive director of the East East- Eastern ern em Intercollegiate Athletic tion In this letter he cha charged alleged al al- glaring Infraction of the foot ball baU rules and of the code of sports manship Not Unusual It is obvious that the second charge rests more heavily on the Snavely brow Harvard's Harvard accusation lion tion I is one that any winning coach I may expect The article said aid Carl Snavely is II the biggest traveling salesman that ever wore rubber off the tires of an automobile Last year he drove several thousand miles solely in hi an effort to corral grid talent for Cornell Cornell's future teams That may be said said and and has hu been said of said of many a coach The process of recruiting is not looked upon with horror in all aU gridiron circles The Ohio State protest Is another matter St. St John charged that Snavely transmitted signals Imal to his team by the manipulation of a white cylinder held beld In different posItions positions peal lions Continued observation convinced us beyond doubt that this manipulation of or the cylinder sig Ilg signaled the play to be executed by the Cornell team leam Indeed a as the game progressed we were enabled to forecast forecast fore fore- cast the play to b be called by the manipulation of this cylinder in Coach Snavely's Suavely's band hand To protect the game against coaching from the sidelines gridiron rule makers long ago adopted a rule prohibiting incoming substitutes from talking before one play pley has been executed One exception was made A new signal caller is allowed al ale lowed to speak his piece at once This doesn't weaken the rule because because because be be- cause few clubs have enough quarterbacks quarterbacks to keep shipping them In whenever the coach gets a brain storm In fact many teams have only one signal-caller signal they would dare use when the game is close Unwarranted Charge The rule would be valueless If coaches could get by with hand signaling sig from the bench There are all nU manner of at little devices whereby a coach might convey to his players expert advice for the Improvement of matters at hand Snavely denied emphatically that he be attempted to dangle his Cornell juggernauts at the end of a wand Mr St St. Johns John's u. u charges he be said are unwarranted ed and contrary to fact Somehow were we're Inclined to sympathise thise thine with the unhappy Mr Snavely Suavely It Is Ia quite doubtful that the rule role Infraction infraction infraction in In- in- in fraction charge charre would have bave been made In the event Cornell lost the tho game That of course does not net lessen lessen les lea sen the degree of guilt mUt If any there be However It would b be very unethical unethical un un- ethical for any coach to give rive his bb team the for future plays play The boys boy are expected to figure pre those thOM thin things out oat for themselves Snavely Is a a. a brilliant coach Cornell Cornell Cor Core nell seU players player are a as Intelligent as aa those of other colleges It J seems leem unlikely un un- unlikely likely that he be would court disaster by so ao blatantly directing his bIs players players' play play- era ers activities when sideline coaching coachIng coach- coach Ing Is la prohibited The penalty for such an infraction does not seem leem especially severe levere It It provides a loss lose of 1 15 13 yards by the I team for whose supposed benefit the offense was committed The referee has the right however If the offense of tense is I flagrant to exclude the offender of fender from the field for the remainder re tee of the game lame Sportsmanship therefore usually is the deciding factor Sport Shorts Frank Mautte captain of the Ute 1830 1936 Fordham football team plans plan to enlist en list in the army air force Frank McCormick has bas played In successive sue suc uc- uc Cincinnati games lames and nd is gunning gun ning for tor the National league record of set by another first sacker Gus GUI Suhr Dahlgrens first organized baseball job was with BUbee Bisbee Ariz in Class D Don I Greenwood University of Missouri I football pia player fer limbers limber up before games by walking on hi his bands I |
