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...think defensive kicking was never done any better than last year by Law, of Princeton, just as I think there never has been any better attacking kicker than Haughton, of Harvard, and his pupils...
...think that really well placed and deadly punting of the most useful variety may take its date from the Harvard-Yale game of 1898, when Haughton was dropped back from tackle to do the kicking in a driving rain, and with a wet football--and anyone who has handled a wet football would be an easy winner in a greased pig contest--Haughton kicked to spots that could have been covered with the skin of gooseberry had they not already been covered by crimson jerseys. It was probably the finest piece of all round punting in the history...
...football season was opened auspiciously on Saturday with a 44 to 0 victory over Bates. The first appearance of the team showed the regulars unusually far advanced, and well schooled in many departments. All of those who faced Bates have in previous years been tutored under the Haughton regime, and the fact that the general policy of the coaches remains constant accounts largely for the fine showing. The great value of continuous coaching by the same men is that it is cumulative. The players are not forced to start fresh each season, acquiring new wrinkles and adapting themselves...
...have the utmost confidence in Captain Brickley and Coach Haughton to give Harvard a team which shall merit our highest approbation. In their efforts to build such a team they have our unbounded interest and hearty support. From the experience of recent years we well realize that eleven men, and not a few individuals, make the victorious type of football team. A difficult task confronts the coaches in choosing these eleven men. They must be qualified to work as a unit against the strongest opposition Harvard has yet known. Michigan, Princeton, Yale, and every other team on the schedule will...
...Underwood, and Weston fighting it out for guard on the other side of centre. At the latter position Soucy seems to be the most likely candidate, Trumbull going to fill the position of right tackle. Bigelow, Atkinson, and Wallace are all out for the pivotal berth. For tackle material Haughton has, outside of Trumbull, to choose from a number of heavy men, D. P. Morgan, Sweetser, F. B. Withington, R. C. Curtis, Elken, and Cleary among them...