James J. (Jim) Feula has been named to succeed Ted Schmitt as tackle coach for the Crimson varsity football team.

A native of West Orange, N.J., the 36-year-old former all-conference tackle at George Washington University comes to Harvard from the University of Virginia, where he served as line coach last year. Previously, Feula had coached the line at his alma mater, GWU, for eight years, from 1952 to 1959.

Varied Career

After serving as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army on the European theatre from 1942 to 1945, Feula worked for one year and then enrolled at GWU, a part of the large conference which later split up into the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Southern Conference. In his senior year ('51), he received all-conference recognition.

For a brief period after college, Feula was recalled into the service, where he became head coach of the Fort Dix football team in New Jersey. Feula who is unmarried, has "played single wing but coached T," so in terms of coaching experience he will find the adjustment to the Crimson T system of head coach John Yovicsin not a completely new experience.

Already, Feula has been introduced to the Harvard style of football through movies and play diagrams, and has had a chance to meet several of the boys he will coach next fall.

Nothing that "there were many bigger boys at GWU and UVa.," Feula said yesterday that he did perceive a strong sense of desire and willingness to work in the boys whom he has met. "Desire's a big word in my book" the sturdy 5 ft., 10 in., 215-pounder said, adding, "With a willingness to work, you can accomplish an awful lot."

Misses Spring Football

This is the first time in Feula's career as a player and coach that he has experienced no spring football, the policy of the Ivy League for nine years. Asserting that he "misses a good football practice on a nice spring day," Feula praised the Crimson coaches for producing the calibre of football they have without spring drills.