Word: donelli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aldo T. "Buff" Donelli leaned back expansively in his swivel chair, laced his stubby fingers behind his head, contemplated, something in the vicinity of his belt buckle, and spoke form the right side of his mouth in all seriousness, "Why would I want to fool you fellows? These program weights were all taken last sprig and are about ten pounds more than they should...
...months now, at the drop of a sportswriter's participle, the diminutive Boston University coach has been singing the "Harvard is out of our class" blues. Crimson musical experts feel that he is slightly out of tune. It isn't that Donelli is not a completely honorable citizen-it is just that they feel that he is not above a small tactical exaggeration...
...Donelli likes the label of underdog, and, if he has anything to say about it, that is the tag that his Terriers are going to wear out onto Soldiers Field tomorrow. It is improbable though, that he will find Dick Harlow on the other end of the leash. There are too many gridiron "giants" still shaking the cobwebs from their heads after dismissing Donelli with a paternal pat on the head...
...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...
...Pitt victories are highspots in a career that has brought Donelli from the freshman coaching spot at Duquesne--a position at that time just slightly less important than an assistant librarian--to the point where he is recognized as one of the game's better creative minds...