Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-21
WIN, LOSE OR
DNAW By FRANCIS srANN
A Banker Named OgIesby

CHANCES ARE. UNLESS you very old Yale man.
the Bill Oglesby, o2 doesn't anything oglesby
played freshman football for the Blue but the
varsity After he graduated he home Middletown
Ohio, and became banker.
One day he watched the local high school team take
beating and realized how little football they ogesby
felt that the boys they would do better
His fellow bank workers. all boosters, agreed to do Bls
after-closing-time work while he coached.
ogiesby had only II players and sometimes his team
played with only 10 but it finished the scoring
points to the opponents % and most Of these
in the game that lost As oglesby put later:
my seven linemen got onto the idea that it
easier to get opponent out of the by humping him
hard and low My quarterback smart and my fuback
a husky boy My two hafbacks honeys.
These two boys, when took charge, were inclined
toward Princeton Naturally talked up Yale They did 60
to Yale look on them as gift to school, They
Tad and Howard Jones'"
DEEP DEBT IS OWED to the gifted Tim Cohane
author Of THE Yale Football Story" background
the late Tad Jones that not included in the obs
The brothers. born Is months apart with Howard the elder
twin-like in their athletic endeav6rs Tad-ThomAs
Albert Dwight Jones-and Howard both starred Exeter
and Yale both coached at Yale ahough Howard best
known for his teams at Iowa and Southern California; and
both are among the al-tme great coaches.
Neither Tad Howard played in losing foot
ball game at either Exeter Yale.
Tad, who 10 when he died Wednesday. was on
Walter Camps A-America team Of 1907. The quieter Of
the two, Howard called Mother" Tad on
other hand. velier e decided later the
not necessarily frown highbal, cigar and a flyer
In the stock market" cohane observes in his book.
Tad coached the Yale team which most Old Blues and
other football regard the greatest in the schools
long history meaning the % outfit This last
beaten and united team in ELS history and when
broken up Yaes sun began to set
BILL MALLORY WAS CAPTAIN of the 20 eleven and
he Camps Al-America fuback AZ he entered the
Army Air Force intelligence oicer and had quite
war record until he was killed in plane crash three
later He the Legion Of Merit for his Operation
loy plan which cut out % Of the "a bridges crossing
the Pc River, thus helping to smash German supply lines
into Italy
Harvard had beaten Yale eight out of nine times until
fortune smiled the Bulldog in 49, In addition good
material already hand Yale blessed by transfers
who were to make hisoryCentury Mstead at tackle Nal
Stevens and Wildly Neae Greasys younger brother at
halfbacks, and Lyle Richeson at quarterback
Mstead had been standout at Wabash College in
Indiana Stevens from Washburn Kansas Rcheson
from Tulane and Neale from West Virginia and Marietta
In the first two games Yales % teams up % points
to against North Carolina Georgia. then licked
Buckne Brown Army Maryland. Princeton and Harvard
to finish with an 30 record and the mythical national
championship
The Bulldogs had only one close squeak and that was
against Maryland
ON THE SCHEDULE the Terps were sandwiched be-
tween Army and Princeton and Harvard Although Mary
land had lost only game and had beaten Penn to o.
the Old Liners were not rated in Yales class.
Indeed Jones and most Of his coaching staff went down
to Princeton to watch the Harvard game Tad left
orders to End Coach Charlie Comerford hold out the
injured Mstead altogether and the rest his rs line
until late in the second half But Maryland coached by
H. c. (Curley) Byrd, proved tartar.
The Terrapins took the opening kickoff and scored on
pass Yale again kicked OF and Maryland duplicated the
feat Now It 40 and Yale finally decided things were
getting serious At the end Of the half was l4lO Maryland
At Princeton Jones asked somebody for the Yale score
ITS i-1O at the half" replied apparently assum-
ing that Yale ahead Tad himself got that impression but
he said to his coaches:
Maybe should be worried"
He would have been plenty worried had he known that
Maryland in front Only 50yard punt return by Nal
Stevens to the two and the touchdown that followed saved
the day for Yale, Is to H.
After that scare Princeton apd Harvard were easy That
Vas Tad Jones greatest year o. coaching