Show SPEAKING OF SPORTS S AV 9 B by y ROBERT mcshane by deriera weslarn par union C parl ARL SNAVELY unsmiling pokerfaced poker faced coach of cornell comell uni vers itys football team is distinctly unhappy in what should be his moment of triumph cornell is putting the east back in football headlines his current big red edition has been termed by more than one sports writer as the best allaround all around football team in the past 10 years cornell given pro proper per credit tor for its win over ohio state big ten champions in 1939 too many people called it luck this years victory over the buckeyes Buc keyes gave ample proof of cor nells power critics commenting that cornell was just lucky they have to admit that the victory was really deserved but snavely still is unhappy three weeks ago the harvard crimson undergraduate that cornell had failed to live up to the terms of the agreement for simon pure athletics in an article the paper charged that coach snavely and subsidization travel hand in hand the following week athletic director L W st john of ohio state university sent a letter to asa S bushnell executive director of the eastern intercollegiate athletic association in this letter he charged alleged glaring infraction of the football rules and of the code of sportsmanship not unusual it is obvious that the second charge rests more heavily on the snavely brow Harv ards accusation is one that any winning coach may expect the article said carl snavely is the biggest traveling salesman that ever wore rubber off the tires of an automobile last year he drove several thousand miles solely in an eff effort ort to corral grid talent for Co Cor mells nells future teams that may be said and has been said of many a coach the process of recruiting is not looked upon with horror in all gridiron circles the ohio state protest is another matter st john charged that snavely transmitted signals to his team by the manipulation of a white cylinder held in different positions continued observation convinced us beyond doubt that this manipulation of the cylinder signaled the play to be executed by the cornell team indeed as the game progressed progress ed we were enabled to forecast the play to be called by the manipulation of this cylinder in coach Snave lys 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 has been executed one exception was made A new signal caller is allowed to speak his piece at once this weaken the rule because few clubs have enough quarterbacks ter backs to keep shipping them in whenever the coach gets a brainstorm in fact many teams have only one signal caller they would dare use when the game is close unwarranted charge the rule would be valueless if coaches could get by with hand signaling from the bench there are all manner of little devices whereby a coach might convey to his players expert advice for the improvement of matters at hand snavely denied emphatically that he attempted to dangle his cornell juggernauts jugger at the end of a wand mr st johns charges he said are unwarranted and contrary to fact somehow were inclined to sympathize with the unhappy mr snavely it is quite doubtful that the rule infraction charge would have been made in the event cornell lost the game that of course does not lessen the degree of guilt if any there be however it would be very unethical for any coach to give his team the high sign for future plays the boys are expected to figure those things out for themselves snavely is a brilliant coach cornell players are as intelligent as those of other colleges it seems unlikely that he would court disaster by so blatantly directing his players activities tivi ties when sideline coaching is prohibited the penalty for such an infraction does not seem especially severe it provides a loss of 15 yards by the team for whose supposed benefit the offense was committed the referee has the right however it if the ot of bense is flagrant to exclude the offender from the field for the remainder of the game sportsmanship therefore usually is the deciding factor |