JONES, HOWARD (HARDING) AND T(HOMAS) A(LBERT) D(WIGHT)

born Aug. 23, 1885, Excello, Ohio, U.S. died July 27, 1941, Toluca Lake, Calif. born Feb. 21, 1887, Excello died June 19, 1957, New Haven, Conn. U.S. collegiate football coaches, brothers, who made their mark on West and East Coast football. The brothers played football at Middletown, Ohio, and at Phillips Exeter (N.H.) Academy (190304) and entered Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) in 1905, where Howard played end. After playing from 1905 to 1907 Howard coached at Yale in 1909, after he had begun his coaching career at Syracuse (N.Y.) University in 1908. He coached at Ohio State University (Columbus) in 1910, returned to Yale in 1911 as assistant coach, and became the first paid coach at Yale in 1913. During his coaching stay at the University of Iowa (Iowa City; 191623), his team's 107 victory over Notre Dame in 1921 drew national attention to him. After coaching at Duke University (Durham, N.C.) in 1925, he went to the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), where he remained until retirement after the 1940 season. There he developed 13 All-American players, and his teams won seven Pacific Coast Conference championships, two national championships, and were undefeated in five Rose Bowl games. T.A.D. Jonescalled Tadwas an All-American football player at Yale in 1907, becoming first string quarterback in his freshman year. He was an assistant coach at Yale in 1908, coached at Syracuse (190910), and, after coaching at preparatory schools, Pawling School and Exeter, he again coached at Yale in 1916. During World War I he worked in shipbuilding, after which he returned to coach at Yale (192027). After he left coaching, he formed an industrial oil and coal company.