El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-04
YALE IS CLAD To GET NEW COACH;
JONES MUST GIVE HIS WHOLE TINE
Coach Will Supervise Football Players in and Out of
Season, Keeping Eye on Their Physical Condi
tion Their Studies and Social Diversions, Keep
ing Them Out of Entan Cling Fraternal Tieups.

TEW YORK. Feb. Yale univer-
N sity alumni in general and foot
- bail followers in particular. con-
fidently awaited the formal announce
ment that T. A. D. Jones had been
appointed head football coach for a
term Of several years According to
those who have their ear to the ground.
Jones has been the choice Of the nomi-
mating committee from the first mo-
ment that il became apparent that DR..
A. l. Sharpe could not be pried away
from Cornell. There was considerable
delay, however. i'm reaching the terms
OF the general agreement, which in
cluded a radical change I'm many minor
details Of the present Yale football
system.
1t is reported that the committee has
worked out system which viii re-
quire the presence Of the head coach
at New Haven for the entire schOlas-
tic year with close attention given to
the physical and mental training Of the
Iotbau candidates for similar period.
The slump I'm Yale football is laid in
part to laXity I'm study and the inter-
ference by fraternities in athletics. The
conditions viii be remedied with the
advent Of Jones, who will have Mike
sweeney as advisor in physical mat
ters and Walter Camp as mentor in
such football situations as may require
diplomatic and strategical handling.
ions viii return to his alma mater
with an excellent record as football
coach at other Institutions His first
efforts in this direction were at Ohio
state college and while he did nothing
remarkable in the middle west he laid
the foundation Of a system which
quickly bore fruit when he went to
Phillips Exeter academy. While a stu
dent at Yale, Jones was varsity quar-
terback for three consecutive years
and captain OF the Yale baseball team
Of 1905. Jones win have several Of
his former Exeter football pupils un-
Ger his direction next fall. including
Capt. Black, providing the latter is
able to remove the conditions which
caused him TO be placed on probation
some time ago.
Thirty-three states and Canada have /
furnished 763 entries for the Kentucky |
futurity for foals of 1915. As is natu- /
raj Kentucky leads with pa while |
New York is second with 109. Ohio ]
takes third place with 81. Illinois 1
fourth with 81 and Massachusetts |
fifth with a.. In 1914, 69S weanlings /
were kept in the Futurity as against I
763 in the FutuTity just closed. The /
resented in the list with Peter the /
Great leading with 80. J. Malcolm /
Forbes is second with 46 and Manrico 4
third with IS. Walnut Hall farm at 4
DOnerail, Ky, has the largest number
VI entries. the total being a. Patchen
Wilkes farm of Lexington, Ky. is sec
ond with Al.
= 4
Cuba is to make another bid for the
Olympic games. The offer TO hold the 4
1915 meet having ELECTED no reply, an
invitation has been extended to baron
de COubertin, president Of the inter
national Olympic committees. to visit /
Havana and inspect the facilities Of
fered for the holding of an interna-
tional meet i'm 1916. There is Of
course no possibility of the games be
ing held in Berlin next July as sched-
uled Immediately after the 1912 meet
iu Stockholm. Not even the members
Of the committee can forecast what