Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-12-29 | Page 15 | Howard Jones of Troy Proves Kingpin of Ros Bowl Coaches

Howard Jones of Troy Proves Proves' I Kingpin of Rose Bowl Coaches His Team Wins Three Games in Colorful Classic I Rockne's Team Stands Out 4 Note This Note This is the sixth and last of ot a I. I series of stories giving giving- highlights highlights high Wh- lights in the history of the Rose bowl gridiron classic By PAUL ZIMMERMAN N Associated Press Pres Sports Sport Writer A parade of puppet masters the masters the coaches who pulled the strings of the Rose Tournament games' games football teams has teams has passed in review through the 18 years that the classic has run On the the lustrous list are the names names names' of ol Lone Star Dietz whose Washington Washing Washing- ton on State team won the first game from rom Brown 14 to 0 in 1916 Hugo Bezdek who coached three separate organizations the late Andy Smith of California the late Knute Rockne of Notre Dame Wallace W. W Wade Glenn Gleim Pop Warner J. J B. B Jock Sutherland and Howard Harding Jones This year it will be Lou Little and Tiny ThornhilL Jones Heads the List The most impressive impre Rose Bowl rec- rec record record ord rd is held by Coach Jones of South South- em ern rn California whose teams have won each ach of ot their three games rolling up 10 0 points to 26 for their opponents On the opposite side of the ledger Coach Sutherland of ot Pittsburgh heads the he list with three defeats in as many appearances To Coach Wallace Wade of Duke formerly of Alabama goes the palm palmas as the most successful invading men men- tor or Wades Wade's start in Rose Bowl history his his- tory ory was inauspicious his Inauspicious his progress glorious He played guard on the Brown team which met defeat at athe atthe atthe the he hands of Washington State Inthe in inthe the he first game In 1926 Alabama beat Washington 20 to 19 under his guidance guidance guid guid- ance tied Stanford 7 to 7 in 1927 and beat Washington State 24 to 0 in n 1931 Rock Won Single Game Bezdek started with a a 14 to 0 victory vic vic- tory ory for Oregon over o Pennsylvania Pennsylvanian in n 1917 His Mare Mate Island Marines beat Camp Lewis in the first of the two wo war period service games 19 to 7 7 His Marines were beaten 17 to 0 by the Great Lakes Training team Again in 1923 Southern California beat Bezdek's Nittany Lions of ot Penn State 14 14 to 3 Rockne appeared only once but with his usual brilliance Dame with one of the greatest great greatest est cst heads in football his his- history tory ory meted out a 27 to 10 defeat to Stanford That marked Warners Warner's first Rose Bowl appearance In 1927 Pop came back with Stanford playing a 7 to 7 tie with Alabama and again in 1928 his Stanford eleven cleven beat Pittsburgh coached by Sutherland one of Pops pupils 7 to 6 Smiths Smith's California Wonder Team whitewashed Ohio State 28 to lo 0 in 1921 but was held to a scoreless tie by ay Washington and Jefferson the following following fol following lowing year Thornhill has been in the Rose Bowl three times as Warners Warner's assistant assistant assist assist- ant but this will be the first time the burden of ot responsibility has rested entirely on his shoulders as liS ashead head lead coach of ot Stanford's Indians Little like Wade was a great lineman line lineman man on a defeated Ro Rose Bowl team for tor or he played right tackle on the 1917 Pennsylvania eleven Whether his Columbia squad can do as well as did Wades Wade's remains to be seen