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...Club's first golden age came soon after it was founded in 1908 at the urging of football coach Percy D. Haughton '99. The building was erected with funds provided by Allston Burr '89 in memory of his nephew Francis H. Burr '09, the Club's first president. From its founding until the time the House plan was put into operation in 1931 the Club served as an effective meeting place for the College's athletes. Upperclassmen lived in the Yard or along Mount Auburn Street, and the Club was comparatively nearby...
...immortal Harvard gridiron greats, Coach Percy Haughton '99 and halfback Eddie Mahan '16, were elected Saturday to the Football Hall of Fame at Rutgers University...
...Haughton, one of America's greatest punters as an undergraduate ushered in the Crimson's gridiron golden age when he became head coach in 1908. His teams, in the stretch from 1908 to 1916, won 71 of their 83 contests, while losing only seven and tying five. An undefeated string of 33 games and five unbeaten seasons are the highlights in his record...
...shoe was on the other foot, and Percy Haughton was enthusiastically strangling bulldog pups in the pre-game locker-room meetings and urging his team to go out on the field and do the same...
...only to buy an occasional Big-Time team. Present-day Stadium diehards might also be pleased to learn that from 1938 to 1941 the hapless Yalies won 7 and lost 24 games and still survived. Local readers will also find new background and stories of Crimson great like Percy Haughton who brought Harvard into the national spotlight, and walloped Yale 36 to 0, and 41 to 0 after allegedly strangling bulldog pups to work his teams into the proper attitude toward the Elis...