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...funeral services of Percy D. Haughton '99 will be held this afternoon in St. Paul's Cathedral in Boston. Bishop Lawrence will be the officiating clergyman. He will be assisted by Reverend Sherrard Billings '80 of Groton School, where Mr. Haughton prepared for the University...
...building up football at Columbia as he had built it up at Harvard, and when he died, his team had just won an overwhelming victory. I believe that those who know football regard Percy Haughton as one of the greatest coaches that the game has seen...
From 1908 to 1916, as coach of Harvard football, Percy D. Haughton created the system which made him one of the leading figures in the history of the game. His coaching did much to convert football from a contest of brawn to one of skill and brains. Quick thinking was the essence of it. From the first day of practice he grilled his men upon fundamentals. Rules were established covering every variety of situation, so that every player was instructed exactly what he should and should not do in each specific case...
...results of such methodical precision startled even the oldest adepts in the game. What to do under given conditions was no longer a simple matter of individual ingenuity. Football had been put through the laboratory and reduced to a science. The contagion of Coach Haughton's magnetic personality, moreover, inspired in his teams a pluckiness and "fight" which made them undaunted in defeat as well as in victory. So successful was his system, that when he resigned, Coach Fisher, who had himself been drilled in the Haughton school, chose to continue...
...Percy D. Haughton was an American sportsman. He played not for sport's sake, though none got greater enjoyment from sport than he. He played to win: and it was fitting that he should end his career upon so signal a victory as that of Saturday...