T. A. Dwight Jones

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Name = T.A. Dwight "Tad" Jones

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DateOfBirth = 1887-02-22
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DateOfDeath = 1957-06-19
Sport = Football
College = Syracuse, Yale
Title = Head coach
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CoachYears = 1909-1910
1916-1927
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Yale
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T.A. Dwight "Tad" Jones was football Head Coach at Phillips Exeter Academy, Syracuse (1909-1910) then Yale (1916, 1920-1927). [Thomas Bergin, The Game: The Harvard-Yale Football Rivalry, 1875 - 1983, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1984] Jones lead Yale football to a 5 - 3 - 1 record versus Harvard, and gave the most revered pregame peptalk in Yale athletic history before the 1923 Game. His overall record at Yale was 57 - 15 - 4. [Bergin's book cites the 1917 season was "informal" with the team led by Dr. Arthur E. Brides and Johnny Mack, trainer. That team had a 3 - 0 record.]

Jones quarterbacked Yale to 6 - 0 and 12 - 0 victories versus Harvrd as a junior and senior, respectively, in 1906 and 1907. Yale finished with 9 - 0 - 1 records both years, and he was named an All-American both seasons. [see 1]

Before the 1925 Game, Jones intoned famously, "Gentlemen, you are about to play football against Harvard. Never again may you do something so important." [The New York Times, November 18,1989, by William N. Wallace] That contest ended in a scoreless tie.

Jones's brother was Howard Jones, who coached at Yale, but more famously at USC.

Head Coaching Record

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year = 1909
name = Syracuse
overall = 4-5-1

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year = 1910
name = Syracuse
overall = 5-4-1

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year = 1916
name = Yale
overall = 8-1-0

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year = 1920
name = Yale
overall = 5-3-0

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name = Yale
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year = 1922
name = Yale
overall = 6-3-1

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year = 1923
name = Yale
overall = 8-0-0

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year = 1924
name = Yale
overall = 6-0-2

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year = 1925
name = Yale
overall = 5-2-1

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year = 1926
name = Yale
overall = 4-4-0

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year = 1927
name = Yale
overall = 7-1-0

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External links

*http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=1215
*http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/jonestad.shtml