The Washington times., 1922-10-08

90 WASHINGTON TINES SPORTS =
TWO BROTHERS
ARE OPPOSED
ON GRID FIELD

Tv0WG0 SSuSS sSVS" 'oyS
That Of Tad at New Haven
Next Saturday.
HAVEN, Oct. Al
N though Yale and Iowa. who
~ are potential football cham
pions Of tho East and Middle
West, will meet here next Sstur-
day In tho stellar gridiron match
scheduled for the day, interest in
the teams is divided with that in
their head coaches, Howard and
Tad Jones, brothers. and for fif-
teen years college athletes and
Howard, himself a former Yale
coach, win next Saturday lead a
football eleven against his own
brother and against his Alma
Mater. He and Tad have followed
each other az coaches at three in.
stitutions. Exeter. Yale and Syra-
cuse, The modern generation of
followers of school and college
athletics has almost completely for
gotten the interscholastio career Of
the Jones brothers. To Exeter and
Yale they were almost what the
Poes were to Princeton. They went
to Exeter from their home at
Excelio, Ohio, ~ . ts4.Sball bat
terry and. during their Exetet
career. they subdued every inter
scholastic rival.
Their presence on the baseball
field made them more Of . factor
In diamond championships than
their football game possibly CON
tributed to the gridiron victories
Of Howard and the quarterback
play OF Tad helped win Exeter
three consecutive interscholastic
championships.
injured ut Exeter.
While at Exeter, Howard injured
his shoulder 90 badly that his
promise Of proving one Of Yale's
greatest bssebRll pitchers was made
impossible Of fulfillment. Yet his
headwork won the school cham
pionship for. Exeter, with the weak
ened arm, and made him available
for the Yale team as a pinch
pitcher whenever an emergency
arose. His end.rush game at Yale
was handicapped by his imperfect
shoulder, yet he played one Of the
frontier positions at Yale during
his three seasons in the Sheffield
Scientific School until 1907.
The athletic career of Tad at Yale
waa moro brilliant. As q catcher he
Yale's brilliant backstops, Jesse
Damn, and his batting and baserun-
ming completely eclipsed that Of the
catching end Of the famous Stage
and Damn battery. When Tadd was
graduated from Yale, in 1908, he had(
received offers from practically every
major league team In the United
States. John McGraw wrested from
him . partial promise to talk bust
ness with him in case Tad ever
decided to play professionally, but
Tad insisted tnat he would never
join the ranks Of other than .
college team.
Only two Yale men have equalled
the base.running speed and clever
ness Of rad--Harry Keator and Har-
old Metcalf. BY many Yale baseball
critics Tad is regarded as Yale's
greatest catcher and base steaier.
Cosched Ut Exeter.
Both coached at Exeter following
their graduation at Yale. A year
after Howard left Yale, Syracuse
University desired to install the Yale
system OF coaching and engaged
Howard as gridiron mentor. Howard
secured q date from Yale for his
Syracuse team, exactly as he had
done with his Iowa pupils of 1922
and threw q genuine scare into the
Ellis, who were able to defeat him by
only to 0 score.
The next year Howard was enEag-
cd a. head coach at Yale and remain
there two seasons. While he pro-
duced an excellent team with slender
material. Il failed to make an i'm
preston against Harvard, and How
ard was subjected to sweeping criti-
cism. He refused to continue rs
head coach and went into business
at Holyoke. vowing that he was
through with football coaching. Yet
tive or three seasons afterward Iowa
tempted him with an urgent request
to rehahilitate football there and he
again returned to the gridiron.
Wins Western Title.
Possessing .only mediocre material,
he has developed an eleven which
last season won the Western Confer
ence championship, and which has
consistently stood high in Middle
West rating. His material this year
is weaker than last season, but In
terest 10 sharp In the East to learn
what impression his coaching of 1892
can make against his FORMER team
mates At Yale. ..
Tad succeeded Howard ~ head
coach at Syracuse, but the reputa.
ton he left at that university was
less impressive than that Of his older
brother. A year later he accepted
q position a. director Of athletics at
the Pawiing School on the Hudson,
and for three or four years turned
out athletic teams which defeated
schools several times the siss Of
Pawling. He was inplored by Exeter
graduates to return TO the academy
to direct athletics, and he spent 1914
and 1918 there. restoring the cham
pionships which had been won by
Howard and Tad as undergraduates
An urgent call went from Yale
TO -ad to break the string Of de-
feats which the team had suffered
persistently since the graduation of
Ted Coy's brilliant eleven In 1910.