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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...
...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...
...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...