Howard Harding Jones (August 23, 1885 – July 27, 1941) was an
American football player and coach who served as the head coach at
Syracuse University (1908),
Yale University (1909, 1913),
Ohio State University (1910), the
University of Iowa (1916–1923),
Duke University (1924) and the
University of Southern California (1925–1940), compiling a career record of 194–64–21. His 1909
Yale team and four of his
USC teams (1928, 1931–1932, 1939) won
national championships. Jones coached USC in five
Rose Bowls, winning all of them. Before coaching, Jones played football at Yale (1905–1907), where he played on three national title-winning teams. He was a member of the inaugural class of inductees into the
College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951; his younger brother
Tad joined him as a member in 1958.