Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1919 — LEGITIMATE SPYING FAVORED BY BEZDEK [ARTICLE]

LEGITIMATE SPYING FAVORED BY BEZDEK

College Grid Scouting Makes the Players More Alert Penn State Football Coach Unloads Some Logical Matter for Those Opposed to Custom —Likes to Discuss Problems. Hugo Bezdek, manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the baseball season and football coach at Penn State college during the autumn, loves the gridiron game. Even during the months when Hugo is not wrestling with pitching problems he loves to discuss football. While in Chicago Beedek launched into a football discussion via the scouting controversy, and before he closed his remarks unloaded some logical matter for those who are of the opinion that it is wrong for college teams to scout on one another. "Row- are you going to-stop the scouting business?” asked the Pirateleader. “I hear a lot of this scouting talk, and the plans of Yale and Harvard to do away with scouting, but I cannot reason tbe thing out, unless all , coaches become absolutely honest And turn deaf ears to reports on the play of opponents." Bezdek says he can receive enough valuable information via voluntary scouts during a season to enable him to analyze any opponent’s strength, because all football followers like to discuss problems, and they usually rush to a coach with theij discussions. The Pirate leader says he would not favor doing away with scouting. “It teaches players to be alert,” he said, “and when you have an alert crowd of gridders at work you have the making of a championship team. It’s perfectly natural for the members of one team to want to know what style of play an opponent-to-be is using. When you tell them this you arouse their interest and they instinctively set about to neutralize the effect. I favor legitimate scouting at all times.”