DARTMOUTH-YALE AGREE TO ABANDON SCOUTING

Yale University and Dartmouth College have agreed to refrain from scouting prior to October 29, 1927 when the football teams of the two institutions meet in New Haven, according to an announcement by Harry R. Heneage, Supervisor of Athletics of the College. The new plan was instituted in the Yale-Princeton game last fall and proved so satisfactory that Yale and her opponents on the 1927 schedule have agreed to abolish scouting next season.

Letters, authorized by the Dartmouth Athletic Council, have been sent to Brown University, Cornell University and Harvard University, major opponents on next fall's football schedule, inviting these institutions to adopt the non-scouting policy. Mr. Heneage expressed the belief that all these institutions would be favorable to the plan and declared that the scouting agreement together with the new officiating arrangement for next season are direct answers to President Hopkins' suggestions for the conduct of college athletics contained in his letter of March IS to the Council.

The text of the Yale proposal which was submitted to the Dartmouth Athletic Council in March says in part:

'ln the belief that organized scouting in football is contrary to the best interests and spirit of college sport, the Board of Control of the Yale University Athletic Association cordially invites you to consider the general views anl the specific suggestion here offered. In the absence of adverse legislation, the practice of securing expert reports on the play and players of opposing teams has rapidly developed into a formal and expensive system. It tends to increase the machinery of competition and to decrease the initiative and self reliance of contesting teams."