Architect's Drawing for Million - Dollar Tribute to Coach
ellar Sinkers tymie Claire
'night Prexy, Glendale Bigwigs iake Terms, Set Jones Dance
hey even tried to put us ln the basement, irst the Glendale civic center would let us serve cofid doughnuts at the Howard Jones Memorial dance, len they wouldn’t. They said we’d have to move down-to serve refreshments.
“That trouble is cleared now though, and there will be coffee and doughnuts for everyone at the dance next Friday night.” explained Guy Claire, Trojan Knight president.
"That was just one of the troubles we had in arranging the dance at the civic,” said Claire.
“It all began with an ordinary phone call to the Glendale City hall. We quickly reserved the night of Mar. 21 for our dance. Then the troubles began.
COPS CALLED IN "We had to hire three Glendale city policemen to be at the dance.
“We had to have special permission so the dance could go on after midnight. .
“We had to hire stage electricians, ticket takers, and people to run the check room.’*
Resting easily after recuperating for a few hours on the beach, Claire said the difficulties in arranging for two bands were nearly cleared.
“We still don’t know how we will find parking space for Freddy Martin’s band when it arrives after midnight,” he said.
“It’s going to be a sensational evening, with Skitch Henderson, Freddy Martin, and one of the best combos available,” said Claire.
BIDS FIVE BUCKS Tickets may be purchased in the Trojan Knight office. 232 Student
]. FRANK HOLT heads drive
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Vol. XXXVIII
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University of Southern Cali-I and its well wishers in the nity owe a great debt to Jones. For two decades he Union* or ® the ticket office, 208
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recognition to the umver- _..
Bids are $5 a couple, for seven ^ring a period in which it has hours of dancing.
from a small school to a Beginning at 9 with Skitch Hen-hnstitution. Not only did he derson’s band, dancing will con-
Ihe university to the attention i ^ue un^ii 1 a m- when the surprise i ......	combo will take over the stand.
world, but the entire area of ____ ___. . . „	. .
I Martin and his men will begin at
Irn California is belter known: j -30 ancj piay until 4 a.m.
Viy people because of his great The dance will be informal, with J Today many individuals and °o flowers, said Claire. Souvenir [tions are enjoying the fruits ^ids will feature a cut of Howard
i Jones, with a green background.
| “This dance will be the biggest insider it an honor t0( be eVent for the school this semester.” ian of the campaign to raise said Claire. “The sorority lockout for a memorial to Howard hour has been changed to 4 a.m. While the campaign has ^d^we^?xpec^a^en^icM^urnou^^ |under way but a short time, j
options have already been El Rod Proofs
py seven people to Joe Holt
amounting to$3.300. i have Deadline Today
All proofs are ready for those in southern California for persons who had pictures taken generation but I have j for the El Rodeo, according to Douglas Kilgour of the photographic department.
If students don’t select their proofs by 5 this afternoon, the photographic department will make the selections for them.
SC Honors Howard Jones
Memorial Fieldhouse Campaign Launched
Trojan Club Gives Support To Memorial
Ifound a cause that had so ■ appeal as this memorial to Id Jones. I am sure the cam-. |will be a conspicuous success.! J. Frank Holt.
Drive chairman. I
by Len Seltzer
Word has been seeping through that SC students will someday watch home basketball games without the aid of field glasses. If and when the proposed Howard Jones Memorial fieldhouse is completed, many campus and alumni groups will have been responsible for its building.
Among them is the Trojan club, an SC alumni organization. Since its beginning in 1923, it has boosted Trojan athletics. These are the boys who delightedly sit through California's liquid sunshine just to eye their football team in action. Win or lose, stand or fall, the Trojan club is the athlete's buddy to the end.
MONDAY QUARTERBACKS
Their “Monday morning" quarterback luncheon is one of the highlights of the SC sports scene, and a roster of the club's membership indicates that many of the prominent Los Angeles citizens are interested in Troy's athletic fortunes. Though membership is primarily intended for SC graduates and former students such as Judge Clarence Kinkaid, Sheriff Gene Biscailuz, Attorney General Fred Howser, and Mayor Fletcher Bowron, nonalumnus members in good standing include Clark Gable, Edward Arnold, and Robert Taylor, plus a host of professional and business men throughout the state. PRESIDENT SPEAKS In an interview for the Daily Trojan, Leo Anderson, president of the Trojan club, stated:
“Erection of a new fieldhouse at this time will be a tremendous benefit to the university, especially in athletics. It will make a more complete setup for the athletic program.”
Anderson pointed out that the (Continued on page 6)
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lersons desiring to donate to the Howard Jones Mem-' building fund should fill out the contribution blank belcw and deliver it to the office of the Director of ii and Student Activities, 215 Student Union.
^ake all contributions payable to Arnold Eddy, treasurer Howard Jones Memorial fund.
;by contribute to the
HOWARD JONES MEMORIAL FUND of the University of Southern California
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Signature of Subscriber
LEO ANDERSON • • • tells benefit
IN FOOTBALL UNIFORM, Howard Jones is shown above as he looked when he helped to make Troy's gridders famous throughout the nation during his 15 years as head coach. A Memorial Fieldhouse will be built in the memory of SC's former head-man.
Editorial-
Fieldhouse Need Vital
Not only reverence but urgency has prompted the university to declare this Howard Jones week. Chief project in the week’s activities is raising funds for the Howard Jones Memorial fieldhouse—a project that cannot wait.
As SC expands at a rapid pace to meet postwar demands for education, it is not sufficient to provide only additional faculty and classrooms. Other essential phases of school life—athletics, social activities, assemblies, rallies—cannot be forgotten. It is to overcome the present inadequate provision for these activities that the new fieldhouse has been planned.
The fieldhouse is such a vital and immediate need that there can be no delay in laying its cornerstone.
It will help 100 per cent in the training of our var'-sity teams. It will provide facilities for athletic participation by hundreds whom the present gym cannot accommodate. It will make room for an enlarged program of all-university social events.
But most important of all, the memorial to Howard Jones will kindle anew the Trojan spirit which has been waning on this overcrowded campus. With an impressive Hall of Fame, the fieldhouse will be a place that every Trojan will point to with pride, a landmark around which the new SC will develop.
Contributions from students and alumni are urgently needed to hasten the beginning of this project.
It is the duty of every Trojan to lend his support now.
Delay in building the Howard Jones fieldhouse means only a continually compounding loss to SC students, to progress of the university, and to the status of Troy as one of America’s great educational institutions.	’
Alumni Group Pushes Drive For Memorial
With one-third of their $100,000 goal for the Howard Jones Memorial fieldhouse and Armory already reached, the Trojaneers, a group of SC alumni, are moving on in a drive to contact contributions from among their business friends and associates.
The larger part of the $35,000 already in the fund, has been obtained from the members themselves. whose roll book reads like a “Who’s Who-’ of top Los Angeles business personalities.
Heading the drive for the Trojaneers is 2nd vice-president J. Frank Holt, father of Joe Holt Jr., ex-AMS president.
It is the designed policy of the Trojaneers to establish a fund of $50,000 from among its members. Later they will forge ahead by soliciting the appeal to their business associates, according to Ray A. Myers, president of the Trojaneers.
From the personal accounts of the board of directors of the organi-tion have come sums as high as $1000 and $1500.
Students have been urged to help in this cause by contacting friends, explaining the drive and its taxable deductions, said Arnold Eddy, secretary-treasurer of the Trojaneers. Checks should be sent to Arnold Eddy, Treasurer, Howard Jones Memorial building fund, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Cal.
Administration, Students Urge Support of Drive
Observance of “Howard Jones Memorial Week,” in remembrance of SC’s famed football coach, whose accomplishments assured him a high place in the Valhalla of great sportsmen, gets officially underway today as students and faculty open a drive for funds to build the much-needed university fieldhouse.
Wholehearted approval was given the program yesterday by administration leaders and students interviewed informally as the drive for the stadium funds got underway on a university-wide basis.
JONES TRIBUTE Willis O. Hunter, director of intercollegiate athletics, stated:
“The Howard Jones Memorial will be of tremendous value and practical worth to the university, and it
as home floor for local games, seats 6600 people.
TROJAN CLUB DRIVE
The active drive for stadium funds was started last year by the Trojan club which has already collected $35,000 of its $100,000 goal. The Trojaneers, a group of season ticket holders, expect to help the Trojan club campaign.
A bronze bust of Howard Jones will recognize the great contribution) will be placed in the center of the
made by our late coach, Howard Harding Jones.”
The $1,000,000 memorial, which will form the university’s western boundary at 35th street and McClintock avenue, will house training and dressing quarters for Troy’s teams and will accommodate 10.000 spectators for SC basketball games. The Shrine auditorium, now used
fieldhouse pavilion surrounded by permanent exhibits of SC athletie records and trophies.
“We are trying to build the finest fieldhouse possible for the university,” said Arnold Eddy, executive director of the general alumni association and ex-official member of the board of directors of the Trojan club.
Howard Harding Jones, Trojan
The Headman's Story
RAY MYERS , Trojaneer prexy
by John Beebe
“We'll all be in there pitching next fall”—these were the last words concerning football spoken by the Headman—Howard Harding Jones.
Commenting on the future just 24 hours before his death in 1941, Jones here :eflected the character that made such an indelible footprint in the minds and hearts of the American sporting public. HOLDER OF MEN
It is true that Jones is remembered by the sporting world as a ccach who developed more all-Americans and turned out more championship teams than almost any other grid mentor in history, but his greatest feat was the abU-ity to mold character.
Jones’ sincere and intense concentration in the game is reflected in the famous title. “Headman.'’ hung on him by Al Wesson, Trojan publicity director in the midthirties.
USED POWER SYSTEM
Coming to SC in 1925. Jories built up a gridiron juggernaut that {
soon had the rest of the country eagerly watching the rise of this far-western powemouse. In eulogizing Howard Jones, Warren Brown, famous Chicago sports writer, claims that the great Troy coach put Pacific coast football on the map and hung out a warning to the eastern and midwestern big names of that era.
The famous Jones system, which carried Troy to the heights of football glory, was buUt around a surging power attack with hard-hitting backs running behind big lines. FIVE ROSE BOWL WINS
It was this system that carried Cardinal and Gold aggregations coached by Howard Jones to a fabulous Rose Bowl record of five victories out of as many attempts and four unofficial national championships. In 16 years at Troy, his teams won or tied for the Pacific Coast conference gonfalon no less than eight times.
Behind this power system of football such famous backfield names as Morton Kaer, Morley Drury. Ernie Pinckert, Gus Shaver, and Ir-(Continued on Page Three)