Evening star., 1932-07-11
EASTERN GR|DDERS
DOOMED TO DEFEAT
Howard Jones, at Helm, Adds
to Advantage of Coast
Squad in Exhibition.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

n YEW YORK, July 11.-That COM
nj posite foot ball team made up
of Harvard, Princeton and Yale
graduates of classes of 1882
leaves today for the West Coast, where
as one of the exhibition features of the
tenth Olympiad at Los Angeles the
eleven will meet an outfit made up of
recent graduates of Southern California,
Stanford and the University Of Cali
fornia.
The Eastern polyglots go to almost
certain defeat. Indeed, partisans Of the
historic big three, as we'll as those who
hold brief for the prestige Of Eastern
foot ball, can logically do no more than
hope that the Y. H. P. combination will
find their opponents in Summer holi-
day frame OF mind and thus somewhat
below the standard of their forms as
exhibited on Autumn afternoons Of the
last three years.
TNASMUCH, however, as Howard
/ Jones will be head coach Of the Pa
citic representatives, the chances
are that his team will take the field
mentally geared as well as physically
prepared to demonstrate pretty ade-
quately the physical prowess and tech
nical efficiency Of West Coast foot ball
Howard Jones Is one of the great
coaches of the country, whose natural
and acquired ability to teach and to
inspire was demonstrated before he
went to a university whose material Is
practically coachproof. Otherwise, we
would suspect that Howard'S present
fame was less due to native genius than
the occupancy of a post which would
be any coachs dream Of elysium.
In the present case he will have at
his command material which on the
whole appears to be better than that
which Brother Tad of the Eastern
potpourri will put on the field.
There will be some players OF un-
doubted excellence in the Big Three
delegation, but the presence OF certain
weak spots, which the Californtans will
know how to exploit, is indicated in the
preliminary outlook.
Not infrequently Yale grads, who
would like to see Yale foot ball restored
to its former estate as a national ex-
ample of the best that the American
college game produces, cast longing eyes
in the direction of Howard Jones. not
thinking that were their fellow alumnus
willing to give up his lotus-eating life
at Los Angeles and return to their alma
mater to coach foot ball it would be
the manifestation Of a waning men
tality too serious to warrant any hope
Of his success at New Haven.
MO. Howard Jones will stay on the
IN West Coast, no doubt rejoicing,
since he Is fighting man, at pros
poets that from now on he will have
more bitter opposition on the slope
than at any time since he brought the
TrojanS to the top Of the foot ball
heap out there.
California, under the ruggedly deft
guidance Of Navy Bill Ingram. backed
by an awakened and united alumni is
a coming colossus Of the gridiron, while
Stanford, now that frenzied concepts
of intensive scholarship have been con-
siderably mitigated, will demonstrate as
early as next Fall that she Is a force
with which to be reckoned-even by
the mighty Trojans.
But that is the way foot ball works
on the Gold Coast. A coach arrives
from the East and has his sway, only
to find sooner or later that his heaven
is filled with trouble and turmoil. First
it was Andy Smith at California, then
Pop Warner at Stanford, then Howard
Jones at Southern California-with Slip
Madigan butting in to play the role OF
a pestiferous hornet. Now will the
wheel turn back to the sage Of Palo
Alto? Or will Bill Ingram be the new
giant?