Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-06 | Page 10 | Jones Defends Yale Gridders

JONES DEFENDS MEMBERS Tad Jones. head coach of Yale's football team the past season, has , taken Btrenuoua exception to state-i state-i mcnls appearing In the Ylo Weekly that Vale's 102u grid machine lacked a knowledge of the fundamentals of the game. Jones ulso rise to defend his position In not taking charge of the squad until September 7, which was the subject for a mild attack editorially editor-ially in the Weekly. Before concluding his season's work at New Haven, Jones declared It would be impossible for him to return in the spring for light work. Soon after It became known that he could not return, re-turn, various attacks were made on the VAle football situation through the Vale Weekly, al lof which Jones wlth-' wlth-' stood until the charge wa-s made that ' the team did not have BUfflclt nt know-I know-I ledge of the fundamentals of the game. Jones declared it was not necessary for him to drill the grlddsrS In the fun- damcntals of tho game, but to concentrate concen-trate almost ntlrely on tho Yale system. sys-tem. He replied to hia critics that his players were expected to know football fundamentals and that if they did not I know them they were out of place on tho squad.