Word: buff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buff Donelli, starting his first season as the Terrier's coach, has done a remarkable job with the squad. He has moulded a few newcomers and about 30 leftovers from last fall's team into a precisioned outfit, capable of holding ground with the best teams in New England...
...Mehawk game was no test of the Terriers. It introduced the winged T to the B.U. fans and gave Buff Donelli a line on what he could expect from his reserves. This week he has been drilling on pass defense and down field blocking and tackling, all of which were unsatisfactory to the Terrier mentor...
While compiling this record Buff became involved in a coaching setup as intricate as any of his winged-T offensive maneuvers. He opened the 1941 season as head coach of both the Duquesne eleven and the professional Pittsburgh Steelers, staying at the head of the pro team until the last game of the season. At that time however when he traveled to the coast to lead the Dukes against St. Mary's, thereby stranding the Steelers in the east, the professionals decided to part ways...
...year later when Duquesne gave up formal football because of the war, Buff moved into the play for pay league once more. He served as an assistant in Brooklyn and then had a successful year as head tutor of the Cleveland Rams. He was drafted into the navy in 1945 and assigned as in instructor in the V-12 unit at Columbia where he helped Lou Little as backfield coach. Last year, after his discharge from the service, Little kept him on as first assistant and indicate that he was slated as the next boss of Morningside Heights...
...certain that the Boston University offer had to be very attractive to lure Buff away from Columbia. Ominously for Harvard, it is equally certain that when Buff Donelli arrived on the B. U. scene top notch football was only a half step away. Maybe less...