Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-16
URGED AS MENTOR
OF GRID COACHES
AlumnuS Wants Him to Hold
Position Like That Once
Occupied by Camp.

N Jew HAVEN. Conn., December
mi 76.-Samuel r. B. Morse,
captain of the Yale 1906 foot
a ball eleven, in the Yale
Alumni Weekly declares that
IT is time for Tad Jones, Yale foot
pan head coach, to take a position
similar to that which Walter Camp
held at Yale for quarter century,
OF coach of the coaches, general and
advisory coach and director of the
field work.
His statement follows:
The old Yale system of graduate
coaching was made possible by the
fact that there was a strong adviser
at the helm-Walter Camp. He was
always the coach's coach. The very
TACT that he did not have to subject
himself to the routine of daily prac-
tice made it possible for him to de-
wise plays and strategy of inestima-
bic value each year. The head coach.
going back usually in the person of
the retiring captain, was in far
better position 10 conduct the helu
work than an older man longer out
of the game could have done.
Good Team Inevitable.
Assisted by the old players who
came back on invitation and advised
by Walter Camp, the turning out OF
q good team was inevitable, and the
record of those years speaks tor 1t
self. 1t was an ideal COMPUTATION
of the professional and amateur sys-
TENS.
rs 1t not good time to return TO
this system when ii is, we hope, pos
sible to secure the proper man to
take the position formerly occupied
by Walter Camp? Tad Jones by this
time must have convinced even the
most doubling of his qualifications
for this position
Morse is in business in San Fran
cisco. He is a grandson of the in
ventor of the telegraph.
William H. Corbin of Hartford, 1889,
captain of the eleven which rolled up
597 points to nothing for Yale's OPP
ponents. the largest total in Yale
history. urged continuation OF the
non scouting program, which Taa
Jones has introduced among Ameri-
-can colleges. Corbin, head of the Hart
ford Chamber of Commerce, said:
Wants Coaches I'm Stands.
"Yale ought to take a further step
and request all the coaches be seated
in the stands with no contact what
ever with players except at intermis-
sion. This will develop much needed
leadership and responsibility on the
part of the players and will bring the
game back to an undergraduate-play-
ing contest, instead of, as it. is now,
a lot of pawns being moved and
manipulated by a board of mature
strategists, and in many cases with
no Information given to the player of
the action taken"
William O. Henderson of Columbus.
Ohio, a member of the first Yale.
eleven, which met Princeton in 1873,
said in the weekly that Yale owes II
to herself to abrogate the agreement
which led to the sacrifice of Bruce
Caldwell, that freshmen should be req
stored to membership on Yale eleTens,
and that volunteer coaching will never
succeed He urged Yale to continue
the appointment of coaches OF the |
highest quality and experience.
There is no good reason, he said. |
twhy paid coaching should stunt per-
sonal initiative or self-reliance in
members of teams. The dangers in the |
game lie in absence of real leadership |
in captains and coaches, the disturb
ing influences of college politics and |
a want of playing harmony in teams.