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 1887 - 1957 (70 years)
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| Name |
Thomas Albert Dwight Jones |
| Suffix |
Jnr. |
| Birth |
22 Feb 1887 |
Excello, Butler, Ohio, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Also Known As |
T. A. D. Jones |
| FindaGrave ID |
128230878 |
| Death |
19 Jun 1957 |
Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA |
- Thomas Albert Dwight "Tad" Jones (February 22, 1887 - June 19, 1957) was an American football player and coach in the United States. He served as the head football coach at Syracuse University (1909-1910) and Yale University (1916-1917, 1920-1927), compiling a career college football record of 69-24-6.[n 1]
He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1958. Jones quarterbacked Yale to 6-0 and 12-0 victories versus Harvard 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.
As head coach, Jones lead Yale football to a 5-3-1 record versus Harvard, and gave the most revered pregame pep talk in Yale athletic history before the Harvard-Yale game in 1923. Before the 1925 game, Jones intoned famously, "Gentlemen, you are about to play football against Harvard. Never again may you do something so important."[2] That contest ended in a scoreless tie. Jones's older brother was Howard Jones, who also played at Yale from 1905 to 1907.
The elder Jones also coached at Yale and Syracuse, as well as Ohio State University, the University of Iowa, Duke University, and the University of Southern California. The "T.A.D. Jones" room at the Phillips Exeter Academy gymnasium is named for Jones.
Thomas Albert Dwight "Tad" Jones is entombed in a private crypt in Woodside Cemetery & Arboretum in Middletown, OH
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| Burial |
Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA |
Address:
Woodside Cemetery, Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA |
| Person ID |
I72253 |
Lasbury Family |
| Last Modified |
26 Apr 2024 |
| Wife |
Bettie Morris Shearn
b. 30 Aug 1889, Houston, Harris, Texas, USA
d. 10 Apr 1978, Hamden, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (Age 88 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. Bettie Theresa Jones
b. 3 Jul 1910, New York, New York, New York, USA
d. 17 May 1962, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (Age 51 years) |
| | 2. Thomas Albert Dwight Jones
b. 1914, New Hampshire, USA
d. 1958, Tokyo, Japan (Age 44 years) |
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| Family ID |
F30071 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
26 Apr 2024 |
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 | Birth - 22 Feb 1887 - Excello, Butler, Ohio, USA |
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 | Death - 19 Jun 1957 - Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA |
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| Burial - Address:
Woodside Cemetery, Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA - - Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA |
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