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...dedicated to the late Percy Haughton and the 1908 team, on the 40th anniversary of Houghton's taking over coaching duties at Cambridge...
...series was called off for almost twenty years after a tragic incident marred the 1910 encounter. The Army coach refused to remove his left tackle, Eugene Byrne, from the game, despite that fact he was so obviously exhausted that Harvard's Percy Haughton sent a request to the opposing bench asking that he be taken out. "We'll leave him in there until he drops," was the replay. On the very next play, according to the story, Byrne was removed from the field, dead...
More cautious and staid in its praise, but still loaded with adjectives, was the New York Times. Allison Danzig dubbed the Crimson as "one of the cleverest, fanciest, and hardest-hitting Harvard elevens since Percy Haughton...
...Nothing like these black and crimson clad heroes has been seen since the dear dead days that seemed beyond recall for Harvard through years of mediocrity ... (this is) one of the cleverest fanciest, and hardest-hitting Harvard elevens since the days of Percy Haughton...
...oldest groundkeeper on Soldiers Field, who has watched the gradual changes, tells you that if you look closely enough these days at the plaque of Percy Haughton near the Stadium, you'll see a gleam in the eyes...