Ins & Outs

When Michigan's Harry Kipke finally made it clear that he had not been invited to coach football at Yale (TIME, Jan. 22), the sports-page-&-barroom tempest over Yale's coaching staff subsided for a while. Last week the Yale Board of Athletic Control announced the 1934 staff: Head Coach Raymond W. ("Ducky") Pond, Assistants Earle ("Greasy") Neale, Denny Myers and Ivan Williamson. It could hardly have caused more rumpus if they had chosen Yale's President Angell as coach and three ditchdiggers as assistants. "Ducky" Pond, like his predecessors, is a Yale graduate (1925). He has no experience as a varsity coach. The New York alumni of Yale, who had waged a furious fight to end Yale's policy of graduate coaches and demanded a proven game-winner from outside, felt they had been brazenly flouted. On the other hand, they fumed, the situation remained chaotic because the assistants were outsiders Neale & Myers of West Virginia, Williamson of Michigan. While alumni raged, the undergraduate Daily News accepted the decision as "logical, practical . . . consistent with the preservation of Yale sportsmanship."

Ducky Pond was a spectacular halfback, tutored by Tad Jones. He is most famed for the game which won him his nickname, played in a driving rain with Harvard in 1923. Pond recovered a Harvard fumble, sloshed to Yale's first touchdown against Harvard in seven years. Since 1928 he has been on Yale's coaching staff in charge of scrubs and as chief scout. He is short, thick, dainty on his feet, exceedingly fast. On and off the field he is quiet. He does not scold his players, does not give fight talks, convinces them that they know what to do in a game and need only do it. Personally popular, Ducky Pond was spared the ire of disgruntled alumni, who vowed to "get" Athletic Director Farmer for ignoring their wishes.

Dartmouth. Unlike Yale, Dartmouth found and hired a new coaching staff with efficient dispatch. Following Princeton's suit, Dartmouth went outside its alumni ranks to pick Earl Henry (''Red'') Blaik, a graduate of West Point where he has been backfield coach for seven years. Head Coach Gar Davidson rated Blaik the real strategist behind Army plays. Like Pond he is quiet, more of a teacher than a driver. College of the City of New York last week hired as head coach Benny Friedman, Michigan's All-American quarterback who retired from professional football last season, replacing Dr. Harold J. Parker, able dentist-coach of C. C. N. Y.

Ohio State's student body and "downtown coaches" made things too unpleasant for Coach Sam Willaman, who last week quit, signed with Western Reserve. Duquesne's Elmer Layden last week formally took over at Notre Dame, where he succeeds Heartly ("Hunk") Anderson. To succeed him as director of athletics, Duquesne got Christy Flanagan, former Notre Dame back, lately assistant coach at Navy.

Who Won P: University of Kansas' Glenn Cunningham; the one-mile run of the Millrose Athletic Club track meet in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, for the second time, after challenging and passing able Miler Gene Venzke of University of Pennsylvania.

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