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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...
...Freshman coach, at Pitt achieved the dubious honor of first underrating Donelli. He told the 155 pound kid from the mill town of Bridgeville. Pennsylvania that he was too small to play football. Buff got a laugh out of recalling the incident in his Newbury street office this week but Pitt grads still shudder when they think of all the football talent that was chased over to their intracity rivals at Duquesne University. The shudders turn into positive symptoms of delerium tremens when they recall the two tremendous upsets that Donelli-coached Duquesne pulled on the then potent Panthers...
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...