Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-06
WHEN HAueHToN MET YALE.
vexed Question SettIed-Present liar. ward Coach Never on Losing Crimson Team.


 Since Percy Haughton took hold of the Harvard football situation last fall the air has been filled with steadily waxing rumors of his prowess against Yale when he was Harvard under graduate some dozen years ago. The rumors all started in the perfectly cor rect statement that no football team or which Haughton played was ever beaten by Yale.
 The First Time No Score.
 The facts about Haughton are that he played two years against Yale in 1897 and 1898 immediately following the resumption of relations after the famed break of 1894. In '97 Yale played it's firstagame on the new Har- yard field and Percy Haughton played fullback on a Harvard team that was expected to beat Yale by million or more. Even Walter Camp had given up hope and was reported as saying that the Yale defense was a thing of the past. But there was some good stuff on that Yale team which Jim Rogers explained. Charlie Chadwick and the freshman, Gordon Brown. who became somewhat famous a few years later, Charlie Desaulles, the fastest of quarterbacks, Haven and John Hall of New Haven on the ends and Corwin at the halves, and MacBride to blow the line and kick the ball as no Yale man has been altogether able to do since until Ted Coy arrived And this ag- gregation went against the confident Harvard team and all but whipped it. That thing -of-the- past" threw Har- yard back three times when within the Yale five yard line and then Mcbride kicked the ball so far up the field that Harvard never got near enough to be feared again. "To say that Haughton outkicked Mcbride is absurd" remark ed the New York Sun the next morn ing. So much for the first time Yale didn't beat Haughton.
 Next Year It Was Different.
 But the next year it was sadly other wise. and for this Burr Chamberlain, who explained that Yale team of 1898, mas been subjected to much harsh crit icism which has outlasted the memory Of the really fine work he did for Yale as tackle. It was period of de- pression in New Haven when the un- wonted situation of having Harvard hailed as the Bulldogs superior at the game was wearing coaches and players to the raw. And Chamberlain tore loose and decided to run things him. self. AS the game drew near and that speedy halfback, Ben Dibblee, and his mighty men were resting at Meriden. confidence began to return to New Haven and the odds almost if not quite
 
 reached even money. And when Sat urday morning came with a soaking November rain Yale men said: 'Dib- blee can't keep his feet in the mud we'll smear them yet" But Dfbblee did keep his feet and so did Charlie Daly and so did Bill Reid and the liar ward team ran circles around the bat ting Ellis and the wet and shivering crowd saw IT monstrous points piled up It was in this game that Daly won ms reputation when he tackled Morris Ely of New Haven. who was galloping along for a touchdown with a broken IT'D or two tickling his chest And in tnls game too, that Ray Townshend. who was at fullback because of Nal colm McBride's injury in practice. re- celved the injury to his leg from which he still limps. In that game Percy Haughton played at right tackle and never again did he play against Yale. 1