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Like a bolt from the blue comes the announcement that for business reasons Percy D. Haughton has found it necessary to server all official connection with Harvard football. More than even we realize how much confidence the University has placed in Coach Haughton's ability to develop its football teams. Nor has that confidence been misplaced. During the nine years of his career as head coach Haughton has developed his elevens with system and success always an apostle of sportsmanship and sane athletic method. We cherish the hope that circumstances may yet permit Haughton to occupy at least an advisory...
...Haughton Really Through...
...announcement that Percy. D. Haughton '99 would be unable to resume his position as coach of the University his position as coach of the University football team next fall was confirmed by the Athletic Association yesterday. noon. "We have been afraid for some time that Mr. Haughton would be unable to return next year," said F. W. Moore '93 in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter, "but even after we received a tentative refusal a short time age, we hoped that Mr. Haughton might be persuaded to change his mind, until we receive definite word from him last night...
...greatly related to an ethical issue as between the seasonal and the permanent coach as to the desirability of excellent instruction. If Harvard, Princeton, or Yale or whatever college could find one man each, in whom resided the ability to approximate in football the qualities of a Haughton, in baseball the genius of a Bill Clarke, in rowing the ability of a William Haines and so on, there would be no questioning the advisability of engaging him permanently. But of course such a paragon does not exist...
...alternative, then, is to employ certain specialists at certain times or to maintain a staff of coaches the year round whose dominant characteristic is their mediocrity. Mediocrity is implied if only for the reason that the cost of maintaining permanently a group of men such as Haughton, Tad Jones, et al, would be altogether prohibitive--assuming they could be induced to devote all their time to athletics at any price...