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Show I (FOOTBALL SCOUTS H HELP TEAMS MUCH Si "RASEBALTj scouto havo for many ffL 'j years been one of the most linpor- 'jS f tant assets belonging to the great JUt American' national game, but it has 3B only been within tho last few years fja'i that the football sccut has como into ?fl5 prominence. Unlike th baseball scout. the football scout docs not go about Sb tho country trying to discover star jtij players. Instead, his duty Is to learn TO Jt 1 j3th ' - BB Photo by American Press Association. K HART OF PRINCETON. 1 In Eddlo Hart Princeton had the BV greatest tacklo of tho season. In fact m ono of tho best that ever appeared on B tho gridiron. In every play ho w,uj a BK power on offense and defense. B tho stylo of play used by teams which BB his own ia scheduled to play and then BM Impart tha Information to his own BH player. B Almost all of tho larger schools and BV colleges havo adopted tho sconcing sys- BV tem. Whonover a team of any stund- B ing plays it Is practically assured that B some rival on tho 'gridiron has at least BK one man versed In. tho game present pH: to pick up anything that may holp tho m m BB said rival In the gamo to bo played later In the season. Old Time Scout Wary. In the old days the life of the football scout was to a certain extent dangerous. danger-ous. If caught taking notes on eomo team's formation ho was in for a general gen-eral beating If ho did not possoss tho speed to mako a clean gotaway. A prominent critic of Boston was probably tho first football scout In Ohio. Although ho was never captured, captur-ed, ho had several rather narrow escapes. es-capes. Once ho was able to get out of a certain Ohio college town by Jumping Jump-ing a freight. Another tlmo he got away on a suburban lino while tho town gang was looking for him at tho railway station Now conditions have changed. Tho different teams havo como to expect that their rivals will have them watched. watch-ed. For that reason the coaches Instruct In-struct their quarters not to use any moro variety of play than Is needed to win. At the big games, where It Is practically sure that a team will havo to uso everything It has in order to como out of the game with a victory, five or six rivals aro liable to havo scouts present. These scouts arc not prono to make themselves very prominent when In tho enemies' camp The fear that tho practices of the olden days may ngaln be used generally lcad3 them to keep as much in tho background au possible. Keep In Background. They generally wond their way to tho highest point in the grand 3tand and try to make their notes without being obsorved. Others, howovcr, make no pretense of concealment and boldly show themselves. Tho reason that many try to got a position as closo to the top of tho stands as possible is be-causo be-causo they aro thereby enabled to get a better view of the formations and shifts which they aro sent to observe Whlln scouting In generally thought to bo caoy. It Is a fact that good coaches coach-es aro far more numerous than good scouts. Many a star player has fallen down on tho Job Players invariably lose the part of the program they wish to get by becoming Interested in tho general play. Several car ego a former star was nont to Ann Arbor to get certain plays used In tho Mlchlgan-Penn game. When he returned this player, who had had four years' experience, had a mass of notos. but when ho tried to tell the man who ten' him ho was at a loss to explain what his notos moant. Tho assistant coach Is today tho man generally used for scouting. Ho ut only trlea to find out what plays his opponents aro using, but It Is also his duty to discover the weak -points In their defense and report to his hoad coach as to what style of play can bo used against them .o tho greatest advantage. ad-vantage. If the assistant co.ich has the ability to do this Jn the proper way ho is ono of tho most important cogs In tho whole coaching system. If tho head coach Is surr of his assistant's Judgment Judg-ment ho can build both his effenoo and defenso to meet tho needs of each game, and his trials atid worries aro lessened CO per cent. 4 , -' ' '? V |