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...against the Orange and Black, there will be one unseen participant who will take part in the fight with Old 'Nassau. In the plays of the University team, in the "do or die" spirit that it displays, and in the coaching it has received, the hand of Percy Duncan Haughton will everywhere be evident. As originator of his famous system, of which the present University team is partly a product, Haughton has become an inseparable part of Harvard football...
...greatest punters the game has ever known. Haughton played on the University football teams of the three years from 1896 to 1899. For several years after his graduation he was an assistant coach in charge of the kickers on the Crimson squad, and in 1907, after a particularly disastrous season, he assumed complete control of the University's gridiron destinies. During the next eight years the Crimson reached the pinnacle of its football glory under his skillful guidance. He produced teams which crushed the Blue five times and tamed the Tiger on four occasions. Under his regime, the University lost...
...which his recent death evoked from the members of his teams and his fellow coaches is touching evidence of the deep, almost reverent regard, in which they held him. Seven of the coaches who trained the team which will meet the Orange and the Black this afternoon, played on Haughton's teams, and all were deeply moved by his death...
...Hardwick '15, one of Haughton's star products, gives a glimpse into the real nature of the man a nature as thoughtful and kindly as it was active and forceful...
...utmost. Every seat in the Bowl was occupied when the game got under way. The Cadets, 1200 in number, gave their customary drill exhibition on the field shortly before the contest began. During the intermission between the halves an Army bugler sounded "taps" in memory of Percy Haughton while three Yale cheer leaders and three West Pointers stood at attention with flags lowered and the spectators looked on with heads bared...