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Following are the scores made by the University eleven this fall...
Harvard was not so well off at the opening of the season in point of material, but in its coaches was fortunate in being able to secure Mr. Haughton and his assistants of 1908. On the same principles as last fall they have developed a team which has but one or two stars, but which in its team-play is one of the best that ever represented the University. It has been much retarded by injuries but it comes to the final game in better condition than is usual at the end of a hard season. Besides its knowledge...
...opening of the football season this fall Harvard men felt that with eleven "H" men in College and Coach Haughton again as head coach, the prospects for turning out a successful team seemed very bright. However, the usual series of misfortunes and accidents has prevented the team from developing as fast as some had hoped. Of the last year's team, Crowley, through trouble in his studies, was not allowed to play; West, Dunlap, Corbett, P. D. Smith, McKay and G. G. Browne have all been injured in such a way that they have been prevented from playing in several...
Notwithstanding these set-backs, Coach Haughton has gone straight ahead and formed an eleven which throughout the fall has been a "coming" team. In each game it has shown a consistent improvement in spite of the fact that in almost every instance some of the regulars were not in the line-up. The development has been somewhat slow, for Coach Haughton has used the same methods and tactics which he employed a year ago. In the early games, which the University team had practically no difficulty in winning, the new material was given a try-out. It was not until...
...hardly necessary to say anything of Coach Haughton's methods of coaching, for he employed the same ones as he used last fall--methods which have been much discussed and unanimously declared to be of the best. He places the responsibility on the player; each man must work out for himself the rules which Haughton gives him--each man has his own method for accomplishing the desired effect, but he is, at the same time, carefully watched by the coaches to see that this end is accomplished. The work...