No Girl Gridder, Claims Jordan; Calls Quote Lie

Football Coach Lloyd Jordan yesterday damned as "lies" Boston newspaper reports that he planned to use a Radcliffe girl in the 1953 Yale game.

The stories claimed that Jordan had hinted that Harvard would retaliate for Yale's Yeager Incident by sending a Radcliffe student against the Ellis.

"That's ridiculous," he said.

Jordan did address a dinner for New York schoolboy athletes on Tuesday, but "neither I nor anyone else referred to our fair friends from across the way."

Another inaccuracy in the same story, Jordan revealed, was a supposed quote addressed to Yale's scoring manager. Jordan was alleged to have told Yeager: "I'd like to look upon you as a son."

According to Jordan, what actually happened was that "the photographers wanted me to pose with Charlie for a gag type picture. I told them I had too much respect for the Harvard squad to do anything like that, but I'd be happy to pose for a conventional shot with Charlie, with my arm around his shoulder, 'as though he were my son."

East-West Game Mentioned

In the course of the specious, New York Giants Coach Steve Owen deplored the Ivy League's ban on post-season participation, because it kept players out of the East-West Shrine Game, a benefit staged in San Francisco for a local crippled children's hospital.

When Jordan spoke, he turned to Captains Ed Bell of Penn and Frank McPhee of Princeton, both of whom would ordinarily play in the game.

"I think it's too bad for the kids in the hospital that they won't be able to see the product of our League in the East-West game."

Newspaper reports expanded this into a dig at Ivy policy.

"I never comment on policy," Jordan said last night. "That's something about which I have nothing to say. At the dinner, I did not attack any policy. I just feel that it's unfortunate--for the children--that they won't be able to see Ivy League players in the Shrine game."