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...Percy D. Haughton, who overthrew the strongest traditions in American football when he cooled the blue blood of the New Haven bulldog, has deserted Harvard to assume control of the faltering destinies of Columbia upon the football field...
...Haughton was a member of the Harvard team of 1897 that held Yale to a scoreless tie and of the 1898 eleven which won 11 to 0. He was captain of the Crimson baseball team in 1899. He came to Cambridge as head coach in 1908 and in the eight years that he held the position Harvard won 64 games out of 77, five games ending in a tie. He devised and established at Cambridge the most dangerous combination of strategy and strength in American football. The " Haughton system " is virtually a synonym for victory. Since 1916, he has acted...
Only an ironist could describe football under the Haughton system as a sport. It is a learned profession, a vocation in the religious sense, a life work compressed into the space of three years. Its practitioners are vowed to poverty, celibacy, obedience and hard work. They sacrifice their personal comfort for a remote and dubious objective, hard to attain, dimly understood, and of more or less speculative value. It is a form of monasticism, a rejection of the world for the edification of the spirt. From this standpoint, the employment of Mr. Haughton at Columbia ought to be regarded...
...such feeble taunt can be flung at Percy Haughton's kind of football. His advent means that a number of Columbia's young men are going to submit to iron discipline, to a harsh cenobitic rule, for the upbuilding of the corporate over-soul. That is a fine thing in this selfish age. New York Times...
...acceptance of the position of football, coach at Columbia by Percy D. Haughton, and the success of his system under Robert T. Fisher at Harvard, leads one to wonder what would happen if a Fisher-coached team met a Haughton-coached team. It is like trying to conceive of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object. The mind has visions of a scoreless game and darkness closing down on the field. In desperation the two coaches rush out and advise their respective teams. Mr. Haughton whispers to the quarterback; a most remarkable play is carried through, except that the pigskin...