Word: tad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently resigned from N. Y. U. to coach at Manhattan College. Tall, quiet, solemn, Mai Stevens went to Yale as a transfer from Washburn College. Kan., paid his tuition as night watchman in an undertaking establishment. He was halfback of the 1923 Yale team, started coaching at Yale when Tad Jones retired in 1928. An interne at the New Haven Hospital last year, he was detailed to ride the ambulance on the morning of the Yale-Dartmouth game. As soon as he was elected, Coach Stevens announced that he would appoint a committee to investigate the causes of football injuries...
...Tulane tried for the extra point and failed. Ernie Pinckert, a brilliant blocking back, made two of Southern California's touchdowns. Ray Sparling the other. After the game they heard themselves described as "football champions of the Universe," watched their coach, Howard Jones, brother of Yale's Tad, being presented with an automobile...
...Committee has been meeting in New York and required a representative from New England, to succeed Coach Tad Jones of Yale, whose term of membership is finished. It was felt that Mr. Bingham was the logical man to fill the vacancy for he has been connected with football for many years, in both competitive and executive positions...
...Winchester's fortunes have fallen. It tried to beat guns into fishing tackle, roller and ice skates, cutlery, flashlights. It tried even to enter the chainstore business through purchase of Simmons Hardware Co. in 1922. Last winter it was unable to pay a bill owed to Thomas Albert Dwight ("Tad") Jones, Yale's longtime football coach, a coal dealer. On Jan. 22 the great Winchester Repeating Arms Co., whose stock (largely held by New Haven's Bennett family) was quoted at $3,000 a share during the War, passed into the control of a Federal receiver. Thus it was that...
...Three- Yale, Princeton, Harvard-made the sportswriters' 1930 All-American. Remembering great years in the past, when Walter Camp's All-American consisted almost wholly of Big Three players, the East was interested in a reverie issued to the press last week by Thomas Albert Dwight ("Tad") Jones, Yale's famed coach for ten years who three years ago retired to his New Haven coal business. Tad Jones remembers 26 years of Big Three football. He was All-American quarterback himself in 1907. He was a hard-working but colorless coach; he originated few plays though...