"We will never forget Wallace Wade," Dashiell writes, "leaving the bench during the early part of the 1935 Carolina-Duke game to ask officials to stop Snavely's bench tactics. From that point on, he was under the scrutiny of one of the officials and unable to use the semaphore system. As a consequence, his quarterback, Harry Montgomery, was unable to direct the eleven with the authority and poise he exhibited in previous games. Yet, after the game, Coach Snavely had the temerity to accuse Montgomery of poor field generalship face to face.

"Snavely didn't stop at crossing his legs and swinging his foot to indicate a kick; he even sent in messages by the trainer and the colored waterboy. Many a time a quarter-back had his knee reinforced with adhesive tape while his brain was reinforced with a couple of fast-mumbled signals.

"We always thought that the reason Snavely stirred up a hornet's nest by the charge that Duke took movies of Carolina's games previous to their skirmish in 1935 was due to the fact that it was in those films that the Duke staff found out that Coach Snavely also played quaretrback. It was quite a sight.

"Incidentally, a story about Snavely in the current Issue of a national weekly magazine says (1) that Snavely 'Is opposed to scouting with movies,' and (2) that he 'never voiced the charge that Duke used movie aid in 1935.' Our answer to these assertions are (1) the devil he is, and (2) the devil he didn't.

"But we digress." Snavely's denials to newspapermen that he coached Cornell from the bench last Saturday are, from what he wrote in two football letters to two Carolina players two years ago, to be taken with several grains of saline. The man doesn't like the press, and according to himself, will not give it straight stories.

Snavely About-Face

"There is the famous case where he told Bob Madry, Carolina's news bureau director, in 1937 that Andy Bershak was the greatest end he ever coached, and then, a day or two later, said the same thing to Alan Gould, then sports editor of the Associated Press, about Brud Holland, Cornell's brilliant Negro end who had a shot on the AP All-American. Then he denied making the first statement. He was going like a top.

"So, what he tells reporters--well is what he tells reporters. We will accept his self-defense in the same light that he expects his players to accept other statements he makes to writers.

"Mr. Snavely's trouble at Chapel Hill was that he failed to cover his high aims with the same dexterity that he taught his team to hide the ball, and we assume that it is also the basis for the present indictment hurled against him by Ohio State officials.

The world loves a winner, but not one who violates not only the football rules but the gridiron's code of fair play as well."