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Show unless he Improves !t may be that Haughton will have to place a "rookie" on this Important place In he line. Haughton. all In all. is confronted with as tougli a Job as any coach ever had to tackle and the open question Is Can I Haughton deliver? THE FOOTBALL OUTLOOK I OPINIONS OF AN EXPERT By FRANK G. MENKB. NEW YORK, Sept. S. The 1915 football foot-ball season probably will answer the three -year-old question: Was it the wizardry of Percy Haughton as coach, or was it the individual brilliancy of the players, that made Harvard supreme in the football foot-ball world? Pome there are who give the major portion por-tion of the credit for Harvard's showing in the past to Haughton. Others contend con-tend that it was Rrickley. Mahan, Hard-wick. Hard-wick. Pennock and the other Crimson 1 football satellites that caused Har-J Har-J vard to shine so bright I v. They assert thai with such material .if Hauchton had I in 1912. 1913 and 1914 the dubbiest coach jin America could have welded together ) a championship combination. The coming season surely will a newer the question and answer it beyond any dispute. If Harvard finishes the season on the top of the football heap the glory for ft must go to Haughton and so must j go to Haughton the glory for Harvard's j amazing showing In the other years. Graduations hit Harvard a harder wal-1 wal-1 lop than any other big college In the I country and Haughton has left for his i 1915 team only three of the men who started against Yale last November and ! only ten of the twenty-five men who made Op his varsity squad of 1911. Few Veterans at Harvard. I Haughton must build anew; he must build with material tha t does not look overly promlsirtgr. If he does build a machine with the materia 1 at hand tha 1 will sweep all before It, then Haughton truly Is a wizard surely the most remarkable re-markable football coach of the age. Brickley. the wonderful, is gone; Hard-wtck, Hard-wtck, the greatest all-around football player in the history nf the game has gone. Graduations. In addition tu taking those two varsity regulars, also took from the Harvard lineup Logan, the star quarterback; quar-terback; Pennock. the giant alt-American guard: Francke. the fullback; T. J. Cool-idge. Cool-idge. end; Trumbull, an alternate guard and tackle and one of the greatest linesmen lines-men that ever played at Harvard: Brad-lee, Brad-lee, halfback; Weston. Underwood and Arthington. linesmen ; turgor t. substitute substi-tute quarterback, and a half dozen other first substitutes. Eddie Mahan and Soucy, center: Oil -man and Cowan, linesmen, are the only regulars that remain. The six other men who won their varsity letters' last year and who make up the ten that are left from the peerless 1914 squad, are C. A. Coolldge. end and linesman; Curtis and Blgelow. linesmen : King and McKlnlock, brti"ks, and Watson, quarterback. Haughton's Task Difficult. In other words. Haughton must begin with only ten men who have ever played on a varsity eleven before and with a bunch of recruits that have come up from the freshman class of a year ago. Some of these may develop Into stars of especial brilliancyand they may not. It all seems to be up to Haughton. Enwrlght. the spectacular fullback, comes up from the "freshies" of a year ago. and Harvard has nigh hopes that he will do much to plug up the void left by Brickley. Robinson Is a promising-looking promising-looking "rookie." He's a backfield man and is said to be a drop kicker of rare skill. Two youths Murray and Taylor promise to give battle for the honor of being the varsity quarterback. End material, however, is lacking and one of t he biggest jobs before Haughton Is to develop n brace of young men to fill the holes made by the loss of "Jeff' Coolidge and Hard wick. Xor has Harvard a certainty for center. cen-ter. Soucy is a good centerbut Is he good enough ? Considerable fault was found with his passing last year and |