New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-27
Yale Eleven'S Victories
Make Him Fixture in
Athletic System

New Havea, Conn. Nov. 2e.-Within
eight days Theodore Albert Dwight
Jones has become the biggest man IN
Yale football. aside from Walter Camp
The victories Of the Eli eleven, under
the coaching regime established by him
this season. over Princeton and har-
ward have dimmed the reputation OF
SPEEDY" Rush. Of Princeton. and, what
is more 70 the point, of the veteran
rridiron tacticisn and administrator
Percy Haughton, Of Harvard.
Jones is fixture as the head OF
Ysle's football coaching system, as well
as possibly director Of Yale athletics.
I. became known to-day that plans are
on foot to assure his selection as
member OF the Yale faculty, ranking
with the professors of the university,
and having a share in the general uni
versity councils. Walter Camp, TIL has
retirement as Yale athletic head sew
ersl years ago, ranked as professor
and was a member OF the I ale CnlVer,
sity Council, composed Of the deans and
leading professors of the Yale faculty.
Plan Falls Through
When Jones was graduated from
Yale, eight years ago, movement was
started 70 appoint him head baseball
and head football coach. giving him a
contract for two or three seasons. The
plan fell through because Fred Muir
ply, captain Of the Yale nine the next
wear, favored retaining Billy Lush, the
Yale professional baseball coach, while
the football committee favored select
ing Howard Jones. Tad's brother. as
head football coach. giving as reason
The fact that Howard had had expert
cnce as head football coach at SYRIA
use university. while Tad was without
university head coachship training.
In this way Tad Jones drifted away
from Yale athletics and did not return
10 them in any capacity until called 70
the football head coachship the past
season.
In one respect the sport-loving pub
lie has an entirely wrong idea Of Jones.
he has been regarded as simply foot
ball head coach. and his experience at
Exeter has alone been quoted as Civ
ing him a reputation. This is entirely
incorrect Jones has been a builder
OF new athletic systems. and, counting
his achievement At Yale he has been
cminently successful at four different
institutions.
His remarkable success as head foot
ball coach at Syracuse University in
1909 and 1910 resulted in the construc-
ton Of a new football coaching system
20 that university. The Syracuse
clevens coached by him won more
games against prominent rivals than
those OF later head coaches at that
university. That Jones was head foot
ball coach al Syracuse has been largely
forgotten.
Jones accepted an offer to leave SYRIA
cuse TO establish athletics in the
broadest sense Of the term at the Paw
ling School, on the Hudson. and the
system founded by him there is re-
sponsible for the remarkable prosperity
Of that efficient and wealthy prepare
tory school.
Big Success at Exeter
-Four wears ago Jones accepted a call
from the academy from which he was
graduated. Exeter, to return 10 il and
TO establish a new system of athletics
there. His unqualified success at Exeter
is still fresh in the public mind. For
four years football elevens coached by
him won chief interscholastic honors.
but his greatest service TO Exeter lay
in establishing a sound, broadly con-
structed new system OF general ath-
letics
Jones has come TO Yale TO stay as an
influence on the sport Of the university.
Exactly what form this will take is
still uncertain, but the movement 70
make him university representative Of