Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seriously, it is a book that will please the football coach, player, and rabid spectator, because it is written so that anybody can enjoy...
...wave of triumph, sweeping all Harvard elevens before her with relentless power. In 1908 the tide turned, and although the Crimson victory in that year was followed by a Yale win in 1909, Harvard was launched on her triumphant march under the headship of Percy D. Haughton '90, the coach who led the Crimson forces out of the football doldrums...
Under Haughton's leadership the Harvard elevens became incarnations of smooth power and merciless efficiency that crushed all opposition. Evolving a complicated system of hidden ball plays, which were revolutionary in American football, Haughton uncovered the system which was the envy and despair of every coach in the country. Even after his coup in the 1908 encounter, it was four years before he scored over Yale, but minor victories came thick before this...
Twenty years later Harvard had her revenge, and again an Englishman was the middle man. A visitor to the University in 1914, a total stranger to American football, had seen Yale practice, and remarked to Coach Haughton that Yale played very much on the Rugby style. This startling news called a coaches' conference, it was decided that the Elis had something of a lateral pass up their sleeves, and plans were laid accordingly...
Percy D. Haughton '99, Harvard's greatest football coach, who led the Crimson to the pinnacle of intercollegiate football during his eight-year regime, will be honored today at the scene of his former triumphs...