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Show COACH SHARPE REPLIES TO CRITICISM OF YALE ALUMNI AND UNDERGRADUATES ...v:-SiSXJ.,..-. j IR.. Aii. SHARPS TAD JONES Although most of the Tale alumni and undergraduates 'Cordially support Dr. Al Sharpe in his policies as general gen-eral athletic coach and director, a minority mi-nority has made his life miserable since the Harvard and Princeton defeats de-feats by 'demands that he retire in favor of Tad Jones, who was head coach three years ago. Goaded by-incessant criticism of his football coaching, Doctor Sharpe said: Won't Insist on Gontract. "If Yale alumni aild undergraduates undergradu-ates really attribute tlte loss of the Harvard and Princeton games to my coaching and want to bring Tad Jones back as head coach I shall not da-mand da-mand that Yale carry out my three-year three-year contract. If my work is unsatisfactory unsatis-factory and there Is a popular demand that I go I shall go. There have been cliques that were not working for the best interests of Yale, and there was not harmony. There is too great a bridge between the academic and the scientific departments. Yale lost Its two biggest games because of loose playing." Doctor Sharpe was asked to comment com-ment on the statement made by Trainer Train-er John Mack to the effect that, when an eleven is on the one-yard line and cannot score because of a missed signal, sig-nal, something Is wrong. He answered an-swered : "The play that was calle-S for was an off-tackle play and Braden, who took the ball, went through center." "Then Braden disobeyed his signals?" sig-nals?" "Either that or he misunderstood them." |