Word: donelli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buff Donelli, coach and athletic director at Boston University, advocated the changes at the affair yesterday. He told the mentors that the point after touchdown should be eliminated, since this "would permit freer use of field goals as determining factors in close games rather than a point after. Under the present set up, a weaker team has a better chance of winning. It is no indication of strength...
...Read where Buff Donelli says Jordan's team hits harder than Army. Pretty high praise, that. We were charging pretty hard the first half, but that second half, I don't know...
Still, it should be noted that this was B.U.'s third such engagement, within the last eight days and that their coach, Buff Donelli, has scrimmaged them hard in between. Thus it was understandable that the Terriers should appear somewhat tired, and it partly explains the fact that their backs fumbled the ball repeatedly...
...while some of B.U.'s errors might be attributed to the players' weakened condition, others cannot be. They were the result of alert Harvard line play and hard hitting by the Crimson defense. Donelli commented after the scrimmage that Harvard hit his men as hard as Army did, something of a tribute to Lloyd Jordan and his staff and the job they have done no far in teaching the fundamentals of tackling...