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...Brown game, he did just what he ordinarily does on a scouting mission, except that the observations he made from the pressbox, instead of being jotted down in a notebook for future reference, were telephoned direct to the Harvard bench. He studied the offenses of both teams to see which plays were gaining through which slots, and kept feeding the information to Nelson, who relayed it via telephone to the bench along with his own observations. "I was very pleased to finally see the team in action," Elmer reports. "They adjusted well to various defenses, and they took advantage...
...these days of high-pressure scouting single-game staffs of three or four men are not uncommon. Cornell had five observers in the Stadium pressbox taking notes on Harvard and Columbia the same Saturday Madar was working at Franklin Field. Colleges treat rival scouts much the same way nations treat each other's diplomatic couriers--with a sort of "we'll be nice to yours if you'll be nice to ours" attitude...
Coach Valpey himself supervised play from the sidelines in a T-shirt and slacks, even though visibility was to bad that observers huddled in the pressbox could hardly see the field of play through the murk. Coach Valpey has a word for all this: "fire". It's a word that will be heard often on Soldiers Field this fall...
...Middle Ages in the midst of Modern Times-arc lamps, newsreel cameras, a radio microphone hanging high above the chancel, pneumatic tubes to speed copy from the pressbox to the telegraphs downstairs (see p. 39). The crowd that rose in the Abbey to greet their King was aware of all this. Five months of intensive propaganda had told them what this 1937 Coronation was held for: a gorgeous and expensive pageant of the solidarity of the British Empire and the permanence of British institutions in a changing world. Most of them had read many times other details of the procession...