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Prof. James Haughton Woods will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock...
...decade and a half ago. In 1910 the supply of suitable graduate coaches appeared to be exhausted, and the policy of appointing a professional was inaugurated, a policy which has continued ever since except for a few weeks at the end of the 1916 season when P. D. Haughton '99 came to the rescue of a wabbling nine and ied it to victory over Yale...
...undergraduate hopes of victory and the Charybdis of ever-ready denunciation on the score of "over-emphasis" requires a master hand. Surpassing even the crafty Ulysses, Dean Briggs has made sacrifices neither to the one nor to the other. It is true that the golden age of the Haughton regime made the football seasons more than satisfactory to the students and alumni--but in other sports there was no overwhelming superiority to lull would-be dissenters into "innocuous desuetude". Having a clear idea, however, of the place which athletics ought to occupy in college, or more especially, at Harvard, Dean...
...problems were not-simplified by a resolution of the faculty calling for a curtailment of athletic contests. An unsuccessful football season which began with the brightest prospects brought a demand for a definite policy in football, and led to the appointment of an advisory committee and the selection of Haughton as head coach with results which are well known During this first year there was considerable agitation in regard to summer baseball Dartmouth had cleaned house drastically with the result that its baseball team was seriously crippled. When a request came, therefore, for the Harvard baseball team to break precedent...
Under the personal direction of P. D. Haughton '99, and a staff of five assistants, spring football will get under way at Columbia tomorrow afternoon on Baker Field. Although many of the most promising candidates are at present engaged in other sports, indications are that an exceptionally large squad will report for the three weeks practice session...