The Washington herald., 1919-01-31
GRID GAME TO
B0OMAT YALE
Undergrads Want Tad
Jones as Coach-Against
High-salaried Tutors.

New Haven. Conn. Jan. 30.-AI-
though Yale football plans for next
season viii not be definitely launch
ed until after the general athletic
committee is reorganized. the un-
defgraduate management will have
a schedule ready for announcement
before many weeks, and plans viii
be laid for the 1919 season.
Only handful of former varsity
and freshment players has yet re-
turned to college. and no early
spring practice is contemplated. The
new understanding among Harvard,
Princeton and Yale calls for no OR
ganHed summer practice. although
plenty of individual work will be
done.
No season in the history OF Yale
football ever was awaited. however,
with keener Zest than that of next
fall. and the largest squad in the
histor of Yale Is expected to be
organized. The new Yale order,
which calls for every UNDERGRADUATE
TO get into some branch OF sport.
is expected to result in between zoo
and 800 candidates being registered
for the class elevens which, il is
believed. viii be formed in conjunc-
ton with the large university squad.
More football games than were
ever played at Yale in one season
will be scheduled next fall, and the
capacity OF the university for play
ing fields'wili be taxed to the ut
most.
Only one member of the 1916 eleven,
which defeated Harvard and Prince
ton, has yet returned from war serv-
ice. Jim Braden, the plunging full
back, is already in training for the
weight events and the hurdle. lie
has been elected captain of the track
team and is also playing on one ot
the class basketball teams. Braden
was expected to prove the most val
liable member of the Yale backheld
during the season of 1917, but war
compelled the breaking up of the
most promising eleven to which Yale
had looked forward since Ted Coy's
aggregation OF 1903.
while IL is still too early TO pre-
dict how many of these stellar play
ers will return 10 their studies and
complete their Yale, course, il is re-
garded a certainty that Gates, la
Roche. Callahan. and Braden will be
included on the squad.
Gates. It is fully expected. will re-
turn and captain the eleven as origf-
nally planned. He has been in avia'
tion service for two years. but it 4
believed that he will return TO Yale
this spring. During the 1916 season
he was regarded as an end OF all
American calibrc. lie resides in Iowa
but prepared for Yale at the Hotch'
kiss School. Lakeville. Conn. He Is
- years old. weighs $50 pounds, and
is six feet tall
Greatly restricted coaching rules
will be applied to the Yale system
the coming fall II will not be pos
sible for a coaching stan Of half a
dozen members TO take charge of the
development OF the Yale eleven for
the season. but the announcement OF
head coach is expected to be made
shortly.
The undergraduates are eager to
secure the presence again OF Tad
Jones, who. taking up the position OF
head coach at the beginning of the
1916 season. developed one OF Yale's
strongest teams in recent years. Jones
has gone into business with a ship
building firm in the Northwest. and
il is understood that he is doubtful
about giving up llhe. peIuldnth'
business opening to return TO the un-
certainties of football coaching. His
contract with Yale has another year
to run. but he is one of the highest
salaried football coaches in the coun-
try, and the conservative members
of the Yale football committee. are
not in favor of the payment Of such
a large amount for athletic coaching
II is thought that Harry Legore
may be induced to come to Yale for
part. If not all. of the season as one
of fhe coaches