Tad Jones

T. A. D. (Tad) Jones told the Yale Athletic Board quite a while ago that when he got through coaching the 1927 football team he wanted to retire. Yale men asked him to reconsider; Jones did not change his mind. Last week his resignation took effect. Faced with the problem of chosing a new coach the Yale Athletic Board turned naturally to Marvin Alien Stevens, a handsome young man who came to Yale in 1922 from Osborne, Kan., played halfback on Mallory's eleven, proved himself a brilliant open field runner, an accurate place kicker, a good punter, and who for the last three years has coached the backfield and studied at the Medical School. Stevens will carry on Tad Jones's system which he probably understands as thoroughly as Jones. He has a contract for three years.