| Show kice W VE E WERE talking about themos y V leading football coaches of the idt present year frank leahy Frit ifOr crisler and lou little were in thai BY lead there were J C votes for george munger of pennsylvania matty bell of blair cherry of texas bobby dodd of georgia tech and bob higgins of penn state also harry of wisconsin pop waldorf of nia and red ked sand pop p op W wara er ers of vanderbilt Van derbUt came in tor for pleasant mention from this point the conversation began to veer back to the great coaches of the past pop warner SA HA knute rockne hurry up yost bob boat howard jones jimmy phe vl lan ian bill alexander don mcgrain Mc Guain bob neyland frank thomas wal ua lace wade bill roper lonnie stagg L the long list began to grow and v grow i finally a gray haired kansan butted in in his name was jesse harper Roc knes coach at notre dame back tn in 1913 the team that wrecked army in that year ot of toot foot hall ball history youve overlooked an one e a of the greatest harper said on a par par i at least with rockne warner and yost this was a pretty fair build up ill tell you yon his name harper at said percy haughton of 0 harvard 1 7 f haughton must be ranked around 11 I 1 the top here was a veat great coach not merely a good one ile he was colder than an iceberg harder than grani granite te but he was brilliant a 5 natural leader he was to football what gen george patton was to our armies he was on his own he had no respect tor for what million ameri fh cans thought of him because he ha p X knew 95 per cent ot of them were wrong ip ij as far as his job was concerned he perfected plays no one ever invents anything harper said twenty coach coaches gul claim they used the forward pass TT first ten coaches claim they used the huddle first the T formation was used as far back as 1908 but TH i it was haughton who really perfect at ed the hidden ball attack and it was haughton who really perfected the mousetrap play more than 30 years ago haughton never had the amazing 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 J except his own harvard team he could hate them too he n was ruff ruthless iless but dont let anyone tell you that haughton one f IN ot of the greatest coaches of all time m fa A I 1 place a coach above him acri tg I 1 then I 1 began to remember a few 13 las 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 1 I only wish they were twice as fast haughton said well let em through and then cut em down that was the way it happened that was the start of mouse trapping if 11 haughton told us to jump off a cliff 80 feet high and hed catch us wed jump tack hardwick told me once and the odd part Is app that tt if he told us that and we jumped hed catch us haughton was brutal in his treat m ment ent of many of Us his men ask sara sam felton a great harvard star atar who had bad to take unbelievable abuse haughton timed his practice by the clock five minutes tor for this 20 minutes for that 15 minutes for something else he knew exact C ly what hla his team needed not a I 1 minute was ever wasted even in practice no harvard player ever walked on the field he had to run football Is all action gaughton said ald you dont walk in any game got writers barred haughton felt that it was in his S power to insult or override anyone who barred his way including a lawrence lowell then president of harvard 1 I think we are overplaying toot foot ball at harvard president lowell told him once 1 I agree with n ah y yon lH aughton said too anh much irl I 1 ty lets let bar all football writers from the field lowell said 0 K it was exactly j 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 s especially when a flock of it football writers were dartmouth men haughton was the one who supplied rough yellow gloves for Ms his harvard team against speedy rush princeton squad next day i the faces of princeton players were L a sight right tad jones jonea refused to let the yale game start until these afi gloves glove were removed haughton had one basic idea win the game for tour four glor glorious IOUs j years year in a row he wrecked tour four 1 good yale teams two by scores score of 39 36 to 0 and 41 to 0 |
