The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-26
BIG CHANGES FOR YALE IN FOOTBALL
 UNDER NEW COACH

New Haven, Conn, Aug. 26.-With the arrival of Tad Jones, Yale's new football chief, the most sweeping change in administration of gridiron affairs at the university ever ordered will go into effect
 From top to bottom Yale has had a football housekeeping as far as coaching is concerned. New execu- tives. new formations, new methods of training ,new organization of the campaign in detail and a new field policy will go into effect with the, ad- ministration of which Jones is at the head Incidentally a new lot of players more than ever before with a record made in either another col lege or in a leading preparatory school will do the gridiron campaigning.
 Next to Jones the football commit tee has engaged Michael F. Sweeney, worlds champion broad jumper, track and football coach at the Hill School. Pottstown, Pa, to fill a new role Sweeney will be "athletic ad- 5uster" at Yale. Sweeney will be ex- pected to make use of his long ex- perience in organizing and campaign ing Hill School football eIevens in ta- king charge of a myriad of details which the captain and the coaches cannot carry out
 Aside from Jones and Sweeney Yale will have the largest staff of coaching lieutenants on the resident squad ever collected here in an eff fort to overcome the handicap of last season. the most disastrous in Eli grid iron history. Yale never before lost more games in a season than 1t won nor had it been defeated by nearly every minor college rival on it's sched- ule-
 Among the coaches will be Billy MArtdng, who has developed remark able freshman elevens for two sea- sons; Aleck Wilson, captain of the team last fall; Nate Wheeler, resi- dent coach for the past two seasons and one of the most successful inven- tive geniuses of football. The list Is not even yet fully completed, but 1t will include a large number of Yale's most successful captains and stars of the gridiron-
 One of them who will be welcomed back If he can find time from a suc- cessfu1 business career to devote to coaching, is Howard Jones, brother of Tad and for two years head coach at Yale. A former Yale star and Coach here and at Annapolis who is expected to devote considerable time to the Yale end play is Jack Gates, more than a decade ago one of the best Eli ends who ever downed an opposing back. It is hoped that Gates will be able to be here the greater part of the season. Another star who will coach is pr. Arthur Brides, one of Yale's greatest tackles
 Capt. Clinton Blacks call to the Eli players has summoned the 1arg- est squad on record here for prelimin- ary work on Tuesday, Sept. 5. A to- tai of 120 players has been ordered to meet at the Yale gymnasium at II o'clock to register and to get uni forms for active field work that af- ternoon. The exact hour for report ing for practice has never been spec flied before and the order indicates the military and disciplinary charac- ter of the training which will be order ed under the Black k-Jones-Sweeney regime.
 All the preliminary training will be done at Yale Field either in the bowl or on the playing surface of the old field. Charley Sheldon and Jim Bra den, who are with the Yale battery at Tobyhanna, are the only players who are regarded sure of regular po- sitions. The battery is expected home by Sept. Is and will furnish a lot of second string candidates.
 The fact that total of 500 Yale have been kept in first class physical condition by mili- tary service all summer is regarded by Capt. Black as splendid condition ing aid to the eleven and he will look for promising reserve material among the members of the battery as soon as they reach this city and are disband- ed.