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...exceedingly mystifying; it causes one to suspect some unusual motive--unless indeed the Columbia oarsmen have decided to row frontward a la Chesapeake Bay or to adopt some other equally revolutionary stroke. It has been suggested that this is a result of the all-pervasive influence of Mr. Percy Haughton, who like most sorcerers accomplishes his greatest miracles in an atmosphere of secrecy. But a clue to an even more satisfactory reason is furnished by the news that London's riverside flappers had to be dispersed by the "bobbies" when the Oxford oarsmen made their first appearance at Putney. Their...
...will bring school stars flocking to the University "with cap and knee" does not much matter. What is heartening is that thanks to Coach Farrell a new spirit has been infused into this sport, a spirit comparable to that which has prevailed in football since the regime of Percy Haughton--the spirit of fighting to the end for victory...
...last year in which P. D. Haughton '99 played on a Harvard team, the Yale game was played in "rain, pools of water and mud," and in 1912, the chronicler speaks of a Princeton game played in the "worst sea of mud imaginable," thereby proving conclusively that the expression "sea of mud" was not used by sport writers for the first time two weeks...
...strong Cornell team finished its season without a marring defeat by overcoming the University of Pennsylvania 14-7 on Franklin Field in Philadelphia, yesterday. A second Thanksgiving day victor was Dartmouth, which trampled "Percy" Haughton's Columbia eleven 31 to 6 in New York...
Among the most interested of the 50,000 spectators was P. D. Haughton '99, founder of the Harvard system, who took a vacation from his duties at Columbia, to watch the Harvard Yale struggle in the Stadium...