Show E WERE talking about the pleading WE leading football coaches of the present year frank leahy frit crisler and lou little were in the lead there were votes for george munger of pennsyl vania matty bell 11 of blair ra cherry of texas bobby dodd of ilk georgia tech and bob higgins of perm penn state also harry of wisconsin pop waldorf of califor nia and red sand pop warner ers of vanderbilt came in for pleasant mention i from this point the conversation began to veer back to the great coaches of the past pop warner knute rockne hurry up yost bob howard jones jimmy phe i lan ian bill alexander don mcgham bob neyland frank thomas wal lace wade bill roper Lonnie stagg the long list began to grow and grow finally a gray haired kansan butted in his name was jesse har per rockne s coach at notre dame back in 1913 the team that wrecked army in that year of football history youve overlooked one of the greatest harper said on a par at least with rockne warner warne r and yost this was a pretty fair build up III I 1 II 11 tell you his name harper said percy II aughton of harvard II aughton must be ranked around the top here was a great coach not merely a good one lie he was cold er than an iceberg harder than granite but he was brilliant a natural leader he was to football what gen george patton was to our armies he was on his own he had no respect for what million ameri amerl cans thought of him because b cause be he knew 95 per cent of them were wrong as far as his job was concerned conc arned he lre perfected plays no one ever invents anything harper said twenty coaches claim they used the forward pass first ten coaches claim they used the huddle first the formation was used as far back as 1908 but it was haughton who really perfect ed the hidden ball attack and it was wa haughton who really perfected the molise mousetrap trap play more than 30 years ago haughton never had the abaz ing personality of rockne but he knew more football than anyone else except pop warner he gave the game more he worked day and night he hated football writers so they hated him he hated practically ev except Us his own harvard team he tie could hate them too he was ruthless but don dont t let anyone tell you that haughton wasn gasn t one of the greatest coaches of all time I 1 couldn coulden t place a coach above him then I 1 began to remember a few things about haughton back around 1915 in his contest with yale I 1 happened to mention the fact that yale had a big fast hard charging line I 1 only wish they were twice as fast haughton said well we let em through and then cut em down that was the way it happened that was the start of mouse trapping I 1 if II aughton told us to jump off a cliff 80 feet high and he d catch us wed we d jump tack hardwick told me once and the odd part la Is that if he told us that and we jumped he it d catch us haughton was brutal in his treat ment of many of his men ask sam felton a great harvard star who had to take unbelievable abuse haughton timed bis his practice by the clock five nil minutes for this 20 minutes for that 15 minutes for something else he knew exact ly what his team needed not a minute was ever wasted even in practice no harvard player ever walked on the field he had to run football is all action haughton said you don t walk in any game cot got writers barred haughton felt that it was in his power to insult or override anyone who barred his way including a lawrence lowell then president of harvard I 1 think we are overplaying football at harvard 11 president lowell told him once I 1 agree with you 11 haughton aughton II said too much publicity let s bar all football writers from the field lowell said 0 K it was exactly what haughton wanted and so did most of the other coaches only haughton got away with it football writers today spill noth ing it was different 30 years ago especially when a flock of boston s football writers were dartmouth men haughton was the one who sup plied rough 4 yellow gloves tor for his harvard team against speedy rush s princeton squad next day the faces of princeton players were a sight tad jones refused to let lei the yale game start until these gloves were removed haughton had one basic idea win the game for tour four glorious years in a row be he wrecked lour four good yale teams two by scores of 56 36 to 0 and 41 to 0 |