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...coaching at Harvard. The team of 1889, guided in its football theories by Forbes, had in the lineup four men who were to direct Harvard coaching for 14 of the next 17 years. They were B. H. Dibblee '99, W. T. Reid '01, J. W. Farley '99, and Percy Haughton. Haughton, perhaps the greatest football coach, was appointed in 1908. Unfortunately for him, the athletic committee had abolished professional coaching, and he served without salary that first year...
...following season, Haughton had to revamp the offense completely, as the last remnants of the brute force plays were abolished, with rules prohibiting pushing and pulling of the runner. The wedge had disappeared long since; it had to. Public outcry over football deaths and injuries had reached such an extent that in 1906 President Roosevelt influenced the College to stop the game once again. Haughton's arrival signaled resumption...
...been built at Soldiers' Field in 1902--with funds donated by an alumnus--at a cost of $295,000. For three seasons, 1913-15, Harvard was recognized unquestionably as the best team in the country. Its stadium had a 55,000 seating capacity; and it was only long after Haughton had left that interest was to wane and 20,000 of these seats were to be removed...
...game was the first played in Yale Bowl, and the first in which a new weapon--the lateral pass--was used against the Crimson. But Haughton was prepared. The defense spread out over the field, leaving only three men in the line...
Sears also had a very successful weekend, although he lost the first set of his match with Columbia's Lloyd Moglen. Moglen's success was somewhat ephemeral, however, as Sears easily took the next two sets. On Saturday, Sears triumphed over Dave Haughton in straight sets...