Word: tad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Easter vacation on April 6, ended last Thursday. The period of training was the longest and hardest ever held at Yale, and although the work was handicapped by many football men, among others Captain M. P. Aldrich, being engaged in the various spring sports, Coach "Tad" Jones has expressed himself as well satisfied with the results...
...South Carolina game. Third base is also a sore spot in Yale's lineup. Hickey appeared to cover it at the beginning of the season but has deteriorated in his playing to such an extent that Kelley, captain of last year's freshman team, and Tommy Jones. Tad's brother are now fighting neck and neck for the position. The outfield is not hitting as it should and Hickey and been started in several games in right field replacing Eddy. Slogan has evidently just gotten over a bad batting slump as he got two hits in the last game played...
...giving T. A. D. Jones, former star and coach for 1920, a position as head coach to extend over a period of years. Captain Malcolm Aldrich and the Alumni Advisory Committee on Football joined in recommending the appointment of Jones, which was ratified by the Board of Athletic Control. "Tad" Jones played on the Yale team four years as quarterback, coming to New Haven as head coach in 1916, the year "Cupid" Black's team defeated the University. His work at Yale was interrupted by the war, but he returned as head coach last year only to have his team...
...cover of this number is an example of the above. Seldom has Lampy offered a more professional bit, combined with so apt a title, though I humbly suggest that you can't hunt Tad's Bulldog with such antique firearms...
Corresponding to a similar movement by "Tad" Jones of Yale, Coach Fisher seems to be determined that during this week his second string men shall reach the acme of development. He also realizes only too well that some of his regulars are apt to be laid out in the Princeton game, and that he may have to play men on team "B" against Yale and in any case against Brown...