The Connecticut labor press., 1920-12-25

its final struggle-that with Harvard
the previous season, when all was dark
and gloomy, call was sent to Jones.
Tad went to New Haven with pros
poets none too bright for a winning
combination. He Immediately restored
confidence in the students and their
team, gradually brought the players
through one of the hardest schedules
Yale team of this moder nera had en-
countered and wound up a glorious
season with a 10 to victory over
Princeton and a to 3 victory over
Harvard.
Those weren't the only teams Yale
defeated that season. In fact, the Blue
lost but one cOntest-that to the great
Brown team, which included in its line
others of note. Carnegie Tech was
beaten in the first game, Is to 0, and
the Pittsburghers had capable eleven
that year Virginia was overwhelmed,
81 to 3, and the Lehigh team, which
was going great guns that season, was
stopped, II to 0.
Virginia Poly was the next victim, by
score of 10 to 0, and then came the
powerful Washington and Jefferson
team, touted as one of the best in the
country The Presidents succumbed to
the proves of the Eli warriors by
SO to A.
Everybody remembers what whale
of a team Colgate had that year, and
how it had trimmed such heavies as
Illinois, Syracuse and Brown, the team
that walloped Yale. The score of the
COlgate-BroWn game that season was
% to 0, and was one of the most
astounding upsets of the year. WE'LL
Yale beat that Colgate eleven in a
gruelling battle by ] to 3. There
seemed to be no stopping the New Ha-
ven team.
But in the next game the shock came
Brown wa1tzed out of New Haven with
Fl to victory and everybody began
to fear for the Blue when it met the
Tigers and Harvard. But Jones never
faltered. He brought that team around
in mastery manner and made the play
ers forget all about Brown, and the re-
suit was they toppled Princeton and
turned back stalwart Crimosn ma
chine by E to g.
reason why those who are most inter-
reason VIII those who are most inter-
ested in the success of the New Haven
| institution are so strongly in favor of
| his return.
One may say that Jones had excep-
| tionally good material that fall. 1t
wasn't above the ordinary, as a matter
| of fact; certainly no better than that
| he had to deal with this year. His
backheld of Smith, Carey, Lagore and
Jacques was strong, but so was this
years. Gates and Comerford were the
| ends, Hutchinson was at center, Black
! and Gait at the guards and Taft and
| Balbridge at the tackles.
Why, then, did Jones fail this year?
Principally because he had been away
| from the game for three years. He
wasn't quite sure of himself, as he was
| in 1916. Moreover, as Jones told Yale
| men at a dinner one evening, and as
| everybody knows, he was greatly handi-
capped by injuries. He said that no
| Yale team that he ever remembered of
had suffered so much from injuries,
When the season ended Jones said
that if he is retained he would be back
nthe spring. Which means that he
| will come to New Haven with the firm
| resolution of putting more energy into
| his coaching work than in anything else
| he has ever done before.
Every Yale man who knows the true
situation wants Jones back, and it will
not be at all surprising to see him
| rendered term contract. In which
case you can rest assured Yale will
have a system as good as Harvard's or
| Princeton's or any other.
Many including Yale's supporters,
have criticized the schedule arranged
for the Blue next fall. We have al
ways maintained schedule making was
a matter that concerned a university
alone, but that large universities
should schedule harder teams than the
smaller colleges.
However. Yale can offer the excuse
it is going to install system and
that the schedule was made up for the
development of the team. There is
something in this. For instance, Bos-
ton College was not dropped because
| it plays hard football. The Bostonians
don't play any harder than the Army,
and the cadets will meet Yale on
October p next.
But the point is that the Army is
coached by Charlie Daily, product of
Harvard, who uses Harvard methods.
Boston Colleges system is more like
Dartmouths. Boston College is dropped
for 1921, therefore, for the good of
the Yale team and its future develop
ment, and, according to Yale men, it
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