The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-23
BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Jan. 81 hear
IN now that the dear old Yales
are grooming Mr.. Ed Leader for the
job as varsity football coach. I
hear this via the grapevine route.
1 have never known exactly what
the grapevine route is, but I do
have a vague idea.
1 imagine it consists of one
bleary-eye gent talking to another
bleary-eye gent at the bar about
nothing in particular when all of a
Sudden-like a remark is made
about the Yale football situation,
how hilarious it is, and why on
earth doesn't some one in authority
do something about it,
This is the cue for A, who in
reality is the first aforementioned
bleary-eye gent, fixing B., who is in
equal reality the second aforemen-
toned bleary gent, with an I'M
steady glare, and remarking: "Ev-
erything's all set. know. Leaders
the guy. I got it straight from the
prexy's Office. But keep it under
your hat And make mine the
same, will you, Gus?
u q
CTILL, I am inclined to put
~ great deal of credence in the
report that Mr.. Leader is the guy
if for no other reason than that up
to now he is about the only man in
North America who has net been
mentioned as the new Yale football
coach. Sooner or later the elimina-
tons just naturally had to make
him eligible.
Besides which they do some very
strange things at Yale in connec-
ton with their football, and since
Mr.. Leader is one of the greatest
rowing coaches that ever barked
through a megaphone at a broad
shouldered stroke. it seems per-
fectly logical that he should be Sc
lected as the man most qualified to
reorganize a badly disorganized
football system.
In line with this reasoning, of
course, Mr.. Howard Jones of South
ern California should be brought
back to alma mater to take over
rowing, his qualifications being con-
coded by one and all. There are
very few better football coaches
anywhere than Mr.. Jones, wherefore,
he is by all standards of clear
thinking just the man for the crew.
q
TDO not mean to imply that Mr..
Il Leader would not make an ac-
ceptable football coach at Yale. The
requirements are not altogether ex-
acting. 1t may be that what Yale
football needs it rowing coach.
Yale football has been ,fioundering
for some time, and everybody con-
nected with it seems to be at sea.
Then, too, Mr.. Leader has had
some slight experience at the sport.
He was pretty fair end at Wash
ington, in the far west, before he
began to attract attention at row.
ing. At least he knows the shape Of
football, the length of the field
and the position Of the goal posts.
The office at Yale, it would seem,
demands little else in the way of
technical knowledge.
Moreover, Mr.. Leader would ap-
pear to qualify as Yale man, and,
as you know, only Yale men shall
teach Yale football. Mr.. Leader, I
believe, is a member Of the faculty
in some capacity, a circumstance
which apparently cleanses his soul
of all previous academic misalliances
and makes him one of the sacred
blue cult.
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EOR all I know Mr.. Leader might
Il make a very fine football coach.
1t requires much restraint not 20
suggest that he would have to be
most inept not to be an improve
ment over some of the recent adj
ministrations.
And vet changing a pre-eminent