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Enright has been almost all the home games since then, and up until a few years ago he used to make the trip to New Haven. Naturally, he can reminisce with the best of them. It seems the late Percy Haughton was the local originator of post-game goal post demolition, a pastime which was to increase in popularity later on. Haughton was coaching at Cornell at the time and came down to watch a Harvard-Yale game. "He always was a playboy," recalls Enright...
Though this record is warped by the number of victories Harvard won when football was a family affair with Yale and Princeton, the Indians saved their scalps by staying up in the hills from 1912 to 1922. This was the Golden Age of Crimson football when Percy Haughton's machine won 71 out of 83 games and the Cantabs went to the Rose Bowl...
While Dartmouth avoided Haughton's teams Harvard had the misfortune to be on the Green schedule during Red Blaik's Hanover regime. Blaik's power teams ran over the Cantabs seven straight times before Harlow's eleven tripped the Indians...
...instance, the locals showed in spang new leather suits which thoroughly surprised everyone. And one year they showed up with Percy Haughton, a great punter and an even greater coach...
...cause of the break-off after 1910 was a tragic accident in the game that year. The Army coach refused to remove his left tackle, Eugene Byrne, despite the fact that he was so obviously exhausted that Haughton sent a request to the West Point bench asking that he he taken...