Word: tad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While speculation as to which would be most imposing later in the season is properly confined to barrooms in college clubs and the writings of Grantland Rice, alert prognosticators fixed their attention upon the coaches. Of these, the most interesting is Marvin Allen ("Mai") Stevens who has replaced famed "Tad" Jones of Yale. Brown, lithe and shy. "Mai" Stevens played for Yale in 1923 on famed "Memphis Bill" Mallory's undefeated team; before that he had played for Washburn college, in Kansas. In his senior year at Yale he was ineligible ; later, he was wont to divide his time...
...Tad) Jones told the Yale Athletic Board quite a while ago that when he got through coaching the 1927 football team he wanted to retire. Yale men asked him to reconsider; Jones did not change his mind. Last week his resignation took effect. Faced with the problem of chosing a new coach the Yale Athletic Board turned naturally to Marvin Alien Stevens, a handsome young man who came to Yale in 1922 from Osborne, Kan., played halfback on Mallory's eleven, proved himself a brilliant open field runner, an accurate place kicker, a good punter...
...that who drops into Mower Hall, and engages in pillow fights with the first-string half back of the University eleven, who wakes up Mr. Bingham at midnight, who knows just what the Harvard stroke told the cox at the 3 3-4 mile mark, and who talks with Tad Jones before Fishwich has even finished dressing. Such a man, it is obvious, is no scribe, no more athletic back. He is an artist, an author, a man with important contacts...
...Fishwick are slow getting down under punts but are sturdy tacklers, and neither knows what dropping a forward pass means. Fishwiek will probably have in mind his last game in the Stadium when he took Tibby Bunnell's place as a greenhorn, and will have to show Harvard that Tad Jones has found the right position for the lanky ex-quarterback. Quarrier and Eddy are two husky tackles who should give Harvard's linemen a ride. In addition Eddy can boot the pigskin over the goal line every time on the kick-off. The writer does not think either...
...Michigan, for the first time in 25 years, the punishment was not directed by Coach Fielding H. ("Hurry Up") Yost. Overwhelmed by duties incident to the general direction of athletics at Michigan, the grey-haired gridiron notable turned the post of head coach over to his right hand man, Tad Weiman. One of the most famed coaches of all time, Yost has won nine Western Conference championships out of 15. Since 1901, his teams have scored 5,989 points; their opponents 834. Yost's retirement came almost coincidentally with the announcement from New Haven that famed Tad Jones...