El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-12

Jew YORK, Feb. Eff Tad Jones
M does not develop a winner on
i the football field for Yale he
viii have nobody TO blame but him.
self The new head coach is to have
free rein. He can obtain advice from
the most experienced football students
in the country-from Walter Camp
down-but will not he under orders
from living soul. The new regime at
Yale provides an arrangement largely
similar to the now famed Harvard sys-
TEN in which Percy Haughton, the head
coach, has welded power any way ne
saw fit to WELD it. Jones Will be
supreme.
The chief topic Of conversation on
the Yale campus just now IS now Jones
is going to begin. He Will reach New
Haven a week from tomorrow and take
charge OF affairs immediately. SprlnB
football practice will be set in motion
the next day and there viii be an
opportunity then to judge his man
ner Of doing things. Nike sweeney
who viii undertake a work similar tnat
performed up to several years ago ny
old Mike Murphy, trying TO construct
proper relations between the various
athletic teams and between the athletes
and the faculty. will arrive at the same
time as Jones.
Sweenev's task in general is to direct
complete reorganization Of Yale sports
both major and minor. The athletic
association has employed him under
such a sweeping understanding and IL
Will be up to him to work out the de-
tails. It is unlikely that results OF nus
efforts viii begin to appear in detinlte
form until next fan at the earliest Tor
his initial endeavor will be getting ac-
quainted with present conditions anu
planning his remedies before setting
about applying. This VIII require
frrH
what the precise nature OF the reor-
Eanization win be even Sweeney him
self can't say and there is no one else
in Yale athletics with very deilnite
opinion. 1t is certain, though, that
Sweeney will be a big help to Jones
when his reorganization policies are
put into practice.
In addition TO Sweeney. there viii
be q corps Of advisers who can prove
Of great aid to Jones if he only will
ask their opinions. Knowing the man
ner Of man Jones is. it is possible to
say he viii call on them often, never
depending on anybody's judgment but
his own, yet shaping his own judg-
ment largely by what the others think.
Walter Camps presence as a member
on the new football committee means
much 70 the future of Old Eli This old
timer is far from back number Nale's
athletic decline dated from the time
he lost his authority in affairs al New
Haven and perhaps the revival will date
from the time he returns to put his
Btalwart old shoulders to the wheel.
II recent successes mean anything,
Yale has a winning combination in
Sweeney and Jones. The former was
the entire athletic system at Hill school.
the big preparatory institution at
Pottstown, Pa. His personality and
fOrceful methods, full Of ingenuity,
dominated the entire situation and re-
suited in the annual possession OF
crack teams in every line of sport un-
dertakeu. A worlds champion and
record high jumper in his competitive
days, Sweeney mastered the science OF
other sports in no time and kept add
ing to his knowledge and ability until
his name became a byword among ath-
letic coaches Of all sorts.
The achievements Of Tad Jones at
Exeter have been even more spectacu-
lar than those OF Sweeney. Nearly all
the recent fame OF Jones is due to the
remarkable prep school football teams
he has turned out up there in New
Hampshire. AndOver, Exeter's old rival.
has been beaten every year since Jones
came on the scene, generally by an
Overwhelming score. There is not such
a wide difference between prep school
and college coaching as some used to
. believe. Speedy Rush, Princeton
gingery coach. has proved that after
having had no experience in that line
except at University Preparatory
school IN Cleveland. Jones has one ad-
vantage that Rush never could boast
he played varsity football at college;
was one OF the greatest quarterbacks
Yalo ever had