The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-22
. ALE LOSES TAD JONES
FOR PERIOD OF The WAR
Football Head Coach Goes Back TO
Shipbuildng. as Per Agreement
With Government.

New Haven, Oct. 21.--Tad Jones is
out of Yale athletics for the period OF
the war. This was announced last
night after the game between the
Yale freshmen and Exeter.
He will leave Immediately for Sc
attic. Wash, where he is assistant to
the president of the Ames Shipbuild-
ing and sDrydock company.
Yale athletic authorities are regret
fully allowing him to go, having
agreed with the shipping board that
as soon sthe conditions on the "a
cific coast showed even a temporary
agreement between the shipbuilders
ard the shipworkers. he would be re-
leased from his contract with the
University Athletic association Tor
the period of the war and be allowed
to take UP his work in the West
The university authorities have been
informed by the government authotN
ties that there Is a strong Possibility
OF Immediate resumption of work or
the artisans on the west coast and
that Mr. Jones should be allowed to
go out there at once
The Yale head coach formerly was
in the paper business at Middletowr.
hecal4. connected with one of the inl-
portant concerns of the West where
his talents for handling men we're at
forded q great opportunity
Since he has bean here this fail his
enthusiasm alone Is responsible for any
work that has been done by the foot
ball squad There have been only eight
hours of practice since he came here
with the opening of college.
The military spirit has dominated
Yale with the men in the reserve Off
GERS training corps under Prof. Ed
ward Bliss Read and in the naval re-
serve under Admiral Colby N. Chester
and Prof. Mather A. Abbott, who was
for many years rowing coach at Gro
ton. and who is now professor of La
tin and head of rowing at Yale
i, With athletics practically gone out
at ale and with only two or more
hours a week for work In the f1eld.
there was not the elaborate provisions
that have been in ~<fse past for the
care of the men participating in foot
bali. nor were there any coaches, aside
from Jones and DR.. Brides
Since he has been here. however.
Jores has instiiied certain spirit In
the men so that there has been sub
stantial squad OF undevelopcd matari-
al at the field,
There is general regret among the
university authorities as we'll as the
undergraduates that Jones is leaving
New Haven. In his undergraduate
days, when he was -Aii-Amertesn quar-
terbaek on the foot bali team and cap
tain of the baseball team, he was al
ways an inspiration 10 his teammates
and WAS locked t4Paa-hy- Esaaua tas
and undergraduates as the highest
type of Yale man.
Coming here last year AZ head
coach. eight years after his graduation,
he seemed to have gained, rather than
lost. his powers of leadership. and
turned out the first championship team
since Ted Coy's eleven won in the fail
Of 1909. and the first team which mad
made touchdowns against Harvard
since the teams on which Jones PLAYED
himself
When he came East this fall II was
with the confidential understanding
that as soon as his presence was need
ed in the shipbuildinr work Yale
would give him up for the period Of
the war.
Besides being head coach Of the Vale
fssctbafi team tie Is II sleft1tser gsf the
Yale baseball committee and has been
active In other departments of Yale
faculty works.
At one time. putting him In charge
of all branches of Yale athletics was
seriously considered. but he was up-
willing TO give up his other business
relations to undertake this work.
After Jones goes back TO Seattle the
football work will be under the 'tiitec-
ton of DR.. Arthur f. Brides. who was
line coach last year and who played on
the Yale teams with the head coach.
No other games are scheduled. and
with only three hours of work each
week for practice. it is doubtful 4
Yale can put freshman team IL the
neld to meet Harvard and Princeton,
which are having daily workouts.