Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-30
SEGH AT LARGE
Coaches Antics
Shake Biff Jones
Bv MORRIS SIEGEE

THE WAY BIFF JONES regards the Big One in Phila-
depha they've got the wrong the foot
ball field The Bffer thinks it might be velier match
if they were to toss the ArmyNavy coaching staffs
the field instead Of their players
Biff who tips his hat in his studied contempt
for Navy during ArmyNavy Week, thinks the Middies'
coaches have been acting like bunch Of alley cats in
their attitude toward the Army coaching staff.
1--WE anything like this name calling, Col.
Lawrence Jones, USA retired complained last night
There's guy there at Annapolis who called Paul
Detzel everything the book in breath and in the
next sentence said Detzel is a nice guy.
"Ill bet he doesn't get Christmas card from Detze
know what he would get from if he said all those
things about me that he did about the Army coach"
q BIFFs UNREsTRAINED antagoniSm toward Navy is
no sudden development. He brainwashed into the
idea many years ago. In fact he probably maiored in
the Beat Navy" while soldering at West Point
Later it became commercial necessity for him to hate
Navy He coached Army for four years ds26-ls2s and
served graduate manager for several more years In his
last spin at The Point
Bffs football travelogue later took him to coaching
Jobs at LSU where he had to contend with maneatng
schedule and Huey Long, Oklahoma and Nebraska But
wherever he went he always Army man, just as
Chuck Dresser was Dodger heart while doing penance
with the Senators and Braves awaiting the call to return
THERE'S ONLY ONE recorded incident of Biff being
nice to a Navy man during Army-Navy Week.
In 1913, when the teams hooked up at West Point,
President Roosevelt okayed the game only the condi
ton that attendance limited to persons within 10 miles
Of the Academy because of wartime transportation
difficulties.
This meant that Biff's old pal Admiral Emory Land,
who hadn't missed an Army-Navy game since heaven
knows when couldn't make it. Admiral Land was based
in Washington man. not the photographer in
Lands own office could redraw map which would
make Washington only 10 miles from West Point
Bff was equal to the dilemma FDR's ground rules
imposed on Land AS graduate manager OF athletics at
The Point, one of Bffs chores was to designate who
would handle the down markers and the first down chain
Admiral Land became natural choice.
IT WAS AN UNCHARACTERISTIC display of thought
funess on part of old Army dehard like Btf toward
a -enemy Navy but it preserved Admiral LANDS
attendance record for the Big One
Biff is unusual in another respect. He's native
Washngtonian He played his football at old Central
High and when he through campaigning Tor west
Point and several civilian enterprises which sought MS
talents and he home to live The old soldier
in Bf came out him the other day when he was told
of conversation between couple Of todays Pentagon
stalwarts who were discussing tomorrows bloodletng
: "Fhat Dietzel" said, hes dull coach unoer-
stand Army has only six plays"
well" his Army pal answered, that's three more
than we had when Biff Jones coaching u.s.
Last night Bff corrected the record When coached
Army we had more than three plays We had four, and
Chris eagle carried the ball on all four