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Howard Harding Jones (August 23 1885 - July 27 1941) was an American college football coach at Syracuse (1908), Yale (1909, 1913), Ohio State (1910), Iowa (1916-23), Duke (1924), and Southern California.

Born in Excello, Ohio, Jones played for Yale and later coached there, winning a national championship in 1909; he returned to coach there in 1913, but a lack of team talent drove him toward greener pastures a year later, and he would eventually enjoy great success at Iowa and Southern California.

In 16 seasons at USC, Jones coached seven Pacific Coast Conference Championship teams and four more national champions, and won each of the five Rose Bowls in which his Trojans played.

He was the brother of Hall of Fame coach Tad Jones. Moments before a USC-Stanford game, Jones visited the Stanford locker room and discovered Cardinal All-America halfback Bobby Grayson was nursing an injured knee. Jones returned to the USC quarters and instructed his players to avoid hitting Grayson in the crippled leg. They never did. All told, Jones' career record was 194-64-21, percentage .733, for 29 years at Syracuse, Yale, Ohio State, Iowa, Duke and Southern California.

Jones died at age 55 in Toluca Lake. He was a member of the College Football Hall of Fame's inaugural class of inductees in 1951.

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