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...candidates, and ample speed, weight and skill for the backfield positions. The Harvard game will be played at New Haven with any advantage that the home grounds carry. The coaching force, which did not come up to expectations in 1919, has been torn out by the roots, and Tad Jones, with a few carefully selected helpers, have been put in power. All New Haven seems to have an abundance of confidence in Jones and, since 1916, has rated him as the football genius of a generation. This will mean an esprit de corps running through the football squad...
...reason for this meeting is to tell you what is expected of you. I will read you Tad Jones' letter to show you what to expect...
...Coach Jones will bring out everything there is in a man. I might say now that there are 11 positions open on next fall's team; no man is secure of his job now. The best man always gets the position on Tad Jones's team. The men on the eleven next fall will be chosen for their knowledge of football. Keep in condition and return prepared to put across the most successful season Yale has ever...
...alternative, then, is to employ certain specialists at certain times or to maintain a staff of coaches the year round whose dominant characteristic is their mediocrity. Mediocrity is implied if only for the reason that the cost of maintaining permanently a group of men such as Haughton, Tad Jones, et al, would be altogether prohibitive--assuming they could be induced to devote all their time to athletics at any price...
...reception late in the afternoon which was attended by all the former Yale athletic stars who had come to take part in the reunion. Cheer on cheer was given for Captain Black and the victorious team, as well as for Captain Gates of next year's team, Coach Tad Jones, Johnny Mack, the trainer, the scrubs, Captain Myer of the crew, and Captain Overton of the track team. Following the reception a dinner was given to the football team...