The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-28
Want Tad Jones Again
 As Yale Football Coach
Reports From New Haven That Dr. Sharpe Will Be Re leved From Active Charge of Team and That Man
 of More Modern Ideas Will Be Installed

Boston, Nov 2S.-The dope refuses to die in New Haven. It looks like the All-American goat will be picked from the. Yale coaching staff; and the choice will be nearly unanimous. And, unless all signs fail badly, Yale will have a new head coach next fall.
 It isn't yet too late to teach the old Yale bulldog. new tricks for 1920. The pup Is a mean one if it's only unnuz- zled. But a dog, no matter what it's power, can only grow} when it hasn't any bite.
 Al Sharpe is certain to be relieved of the head coaching next season, even though he remains at his post in New Haven. Even before the Blue lost to Princeton and Harvard. it was decided that a change was imperative if Yale was to maintain anything like it's old position in the football or bit.
 The talk of Sharpe's displacement, and the criticism of his coaching, is not necessarily an aftermath of Yale's twin defeats. The sting of the criti cism is all the more biting and force, full, with Yale's team beaten twice; but whether Yale won or lost its two main contests Sharpe was due to get the chutes. It was felt at Yale from the middle of the season that the fdESlty tGdIIl was US1IlS CAOStlGQ O1 li1S finest coaching, but the attitude of the reigning alumni was to give Sharpe at least the full season to make good or queer himself. It would have taken more than simple Yale victories over her two great rivals this fall to in sure Sharpe's tenure for 1920.
 If Sharpe had confounded his mid season critics by producing a team to trim Princeton and Harvard badly it is probable he would have been al lowed to stay as head coach next year. But several weeks before the Princeton game 1t was written on the dope sheet that the Doc would go whether Yale won, lost and drew it's pair of closing contests.
 Sharpe holds a niche at Yale that was specially chise1led for him. He is not hitched exclusively with the foot ball team, but holds a faculty posi- ton as director of all YaIs sports. He < will be on the job isFwinter and next spring. having general oversight of the hockey team fin the cold teams, and likewise tie varsity crew, in the spring.
 But Sharpe will dqSno direct coach ing of any of the ofher Yale teams. Each is to have its own special men tor, just as it has had in the past. Guy Nichols will be in charge of the Yale crews for the first time since 1915, when he went back to England; Johnny Mack will run the track men, and Bill Lauder will coach the base ball team.
 It was never intended that Sharpe should have more than a lofty over sight of any of the sports but foot ball, and next year he will only have oversight of that. For it is certain that Yale vii have new head coach of football before another fall rolls around.
 Because of his success with Cornell teams in the immediate pre-w1r days Sharpe was considered good enough to drill the Yale men in football as head coach. But in this one season he has shot his bolt. It is repetitious to relate that Yale had everything in the way of raw material, but wher test time came 1t lacked team. And Sharpe must stand as the goat.
 The Blue line was the finest in more than decade, and the drop kicking and bunting was better than the aver age. But the unity of the Yale teams play and its whole scheme of general ship were sadly astray. The qualities that the head coach should have in stilled were the only ones that were missing.
 There Is no venom in the post-sea son thrusts at Sharpe. He has beer well liked personally at Yale, and no body is out to get his scalp But re suits are all that count, and his failur, to produce the same means only tha he must pass as head coach.
 Likewise the critics of Sharpe havt no axes to grind in favor of his sue cessor. Those who will see that he i succeeded have no favorite candidat to propose. But there is an insisten call at Yale for the return of Tat Jones, or even his brother Howard Both men can probably be obtained but Yale will dig deep in the coffer for their salaries. The only facto that lost Tad to Yale this fall was al indisposition to pay him the price h asked.
 Bill Roper at Princeon just nntsse, the burning censure that has scare Doc Sharpe. Before the Harvard Princeton game, when things locke dark for the poor old Tigers, ther was a definite movement on foot t expe1 Bill when his contract ended And inasmuch as the papers were fo a years services, the overthrow c Roper would have been smoothly ac complished.
 But Bill confused them all at tn last minute. Instead of turning out team to be buffeted by it's biggest enc mics, he produced from the depths ( despond an outfit to tie Harvard an beat Yale. And for the first time eight years a Princeton team reaIl looked good.
 Roper's sudden but unmistakabl success in the last wo weeks of tn season snaftly si1ences his detractor No, Princeton alumnus now has tt nerve to propose a successor to th reigning coach. And on the strength ( his 1919 showing, Roper may gt more than a years contract when | signs up once more.