Young Coach Is Sought to Lead Crimson

Harvard is looking for a young football coach, and one who is not particularly well established, according to Donald M. Felt, assistant director of athletics.

Felt and Thomas D. Bolles, director of athletics have been touring the country in search of a replacement for Lloyd Jordan. Acting on tips from friends, alumni, and anyone else interested, the two have interviewed dozens of candidates and hope to make a final choice "within the next four or five weeks at the latest.

Although a Felt said he had no rigid criteria which the new coach would have to fulfill, he said the man must naturally possess as certain amount of technical football ability, and must be a man of sound moral character as well.

More significantly, however, Felt said they are looking for a relatively young man if possible. "We don't like to change coaches any more than anyone else does," he said. We'd like to get behind one man and stay behind him for a long time."

Moreover, Felt said they are not after a big name coach. It is known that he visited such famous football masterminds as Bobby Dodd of Georgia Tech. Matty Bell of SMU, and Paul Bryant of Texas A and M, but these visits were apparently just to discuss coaching in general, and more particularly, to get a line on any young prospects the three men might suggest.

"We weren't after these men themselves," Felt said. "For one thing, we probably couldn't pay them enough, and for another, they probably wouldn't want the job. After all, Dodd practically runs the school down there."

Felt declined to name any of the men he and Bolles have interviewed, but it seems evident that no definite offers have yet been made to anyone. Rather Felt and Bolles have simply been talking with every man possible in an effort to come up with the best candidate.

Bump Elliott, backfield coach at Iowa and one of those known to have been interviewed said "I was not offered the position. We just had a very informal chat, a get acquainted meeting. Bolles generally outlined the situation at Harvard, and we exchanged ideas on football."