Word: tad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Miss Irene Dorgan, sister of famed cartoonist and sports writer, Tad Dorgan; to John J. Tierney; at Great Neck...
...autobiography will sell these days without some pranks at Yale. So Mr. Lardner recalls football days under John Paul Jones, a grandfather of Coach Tad Jones. He tells how a big guard named Heffelfinger got called down for unclean nails; how Brinck Thorne got his neck tickled by Ted Coy. There actually are three men by those names, and Mr. Lardner knows it. Books have been written before this on the theory that people dislike seeing their names in print and will pay $1.75 to keep at least one copy out of circulation...
...Tad") Jones, Yale football coach: "Just before the late Yale-Princeton game, incensed by criticisms of my coaching, I said: 'Those yellowbellies who crucified my brother and Frank Hinkey and Tom Shevlin are not going to crucify me. I was forced into this job. I am willing to be judged by other coaches . . . not by shyster lawyers, poor doctors, dentists, $18-a-week clerks who think they know more football than Roper, Dobie, myself and all the other coaches in the country. Injuries have crippled the team so that at times this season I have been lucky to have...
...regret very much the split of the Big Three, but I have troubles of my own", said Tad Jones, when interviewed tonight...
...glow over the Green turf of the Great Allston Horseshoe (not bad, that, for an unliterary person), football fandom will be surprised, yea, shocked, for--but I'm not supposed to tell how Harvard games are to come out. That is part of the scouting agreement that Bill Roper, Tad Jones, and I made; and all good scouts keep their agreements just as regularly as they do their daily good turns. So I won't tell. I will only say that the Forecast shekels are being staked on said outcome in breath-taking amounts. It has always been hard, almost...