Saturday, 21 December 2024
Howard Jones
- Contest: The US Athletic Hall of Fame - Coaches 2024
- Sport(s): Football
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Statistics:
6 NCAA National Championships (1909, 1921, 1928, 1931, 1932 & 1939)
2 Big Ten Championships (1970)
7 PCC Championships (1927, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1938 & 1939)
194-64-21 NCAA Football Record
5-0 Bowl Record
44-14 NCAA Baseball Record
Member of the College Football Hall of Fame -
A successful college player at Yale, Howard Jones would later coach for one-year stints for Syracuse (1908), Yale (1909), Ohio State (1910), and again, Yale (1913). That seems like a nomadic approach, but he was successful in all four of those years, even winning a National Championship with Yale in 1909. It was not until he agreed to coach Iowa in 1916 that Jones stayed in one place for more than a year.
Jones, who was also the Hawkeyes' athletic director, stayed with Iowa until 1924, where he won two Big Ten Championships and a National Championship in 1921. He left Iowa for Duke, but that was another brief stop as he ventured west to USC, a school he would coach for 16 seasons.
The aloof Jones may not have felt like a good fit for Los Angeles, but none of that mattered on the field. Jones led USC to seven league titles, five Rose Bowl wins and three National Championships, an incredible run of success, and one that placed him among the best football coaches in the first half of the 20th century.
Jones was also a baseball coach, amassing a 41-14 record with Duke and Iowa.
We are proud to nominate Howard Jones for the United States Athletic Hall of Fame.
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