Howard Jones Memorial Foundation

The Howard Jones Memorial Foundation was organized around the memory of Howard Jones, an influential college football coach whose USC Trojans tenure lasted from 1925 to 1940. The foundation's name indicates a commemorative purpose, while its documented activities place it in the institutional history of American college football awards and championship selectors. Its best-documented role began in 1962, when the foundation started making national championship selections in college football. These selections were not described as being made by a governing athletic association; instead, they were determined through a vote of sportswriters from the Los Angeles Press Club. That arrangement connected the foundation to the Los Angeles press community and gave its championship designation a journalistic, rather than purely administrative, basis. The organization also presented the Howard Jones Memorial Trophy to the team it recognized as the national champion. The trophy served both as a memorial to Jones and as the physical symbol of the foundation's championship judgment. In this respect, the foundation combined historical commemoration with competitive recognition: it honored a former USC coach while participating in the broader effort to identify the leading team in a college-football season. The foundation's activity belongs to an era when several polls, selectors, and sporting organizations could issue national championship claims. Its selections consequently formed part of the wider historical record of college-football championship recognition rather than representing an undisputed universal title in every season. The available reference material does not identify every winning team, explain the foundation's voting rules beyond the involvement of Los Angeles Press Club sportswriters, or document how long the program continued after it began. No reliable source material supplied for this entry establishes the foundation's exact founding year, named founder, trustees, staff, legal structure, financial resources, website, or current operations. It also does not confirm whether the foundation remains active, has become dormant, or has been dissolved. The documented historical core is therefore limited to its memorial purpose, its association with Howard Jones and USC, its national championship selections beginning in 1962, and its presentation of the Howard Jones Memorial Trophy.

• 1962

  National championship selections begin

  [1]Howard Jones Memorial Foundationen.wikipedia.org

  The foundation began selecting college football national champions. The selections were voted on by sportswriters affiliated with the Los Angeles Press Club.

A commemorative athletic foundation linking Howard Jones's USC coaching legacy with Los Angeles sports-media recognition of college football national champions.

• Sports award

  Howard Jones Memorial Trophy

  A memorial trophy awarded by the foundation to the college football team it selected as the national champion. The award connected Howard Jones's coaching legacy with the foundation's championship-recognition program.

• College football recognition · 1962

  National championship selections

  A championship-selection program associated with the foundation and initiated in 1962. The selections were based on voting by Los Angeles Press Club sportswriters and were accompanied by presentation of the Howard Jones Memorial Trophy.

1. 1Howard Jones Memorial Foundationen.wikipedia.org