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Tad Jones
Tad Jones (College football. Born, Excello, OH, Feb. 27, 1887; died, New Haven, CT, June 19, 1957.) Brother of Howard Jones, the school’s first paid coach, Thomas Albert Dwight Jones became a successful Yale head coach. Jones was graduated by Yale in 1908, becoming head coach at Syracuse (1909-10) for two seasons. He was lured […]
Howard Jones
Howard Jones (College football. Born, Excello, OH, Aug. 23, 1885; died, Toluca Lake, NY, July 27, 1941.) Although he was to earn fame as the long-time coach at Southern California (1925-40), Howard Harding Jones learned both football and coaching at Yale. Jones played for powerhouse Yale teams before his 1908 graduation, coached there in 1909, […]
