The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-23
HARVARD CRAZY
 TO DEFEAT YALE
COACH HAUGHTON WANTS TO DOWN ELS IN FOOTBALL THIS SEASON TO SAVE
 HIS RECORD

As a supplement to Harvards in-
 tense desire to defeat Yale on the
 football field Coach Percy Haughton introduces another element into the situation. This is his ninth year in charge of the Crimson squad and the last of his present contract. Whether or not he is retained for another per iod will depend to some extent upon the result of this season During the four years that he has coached at Cambridge Harvard has won one game from Yale. has lost one and played two GO games. There is, there fore, double incentive for Haughton to develop a winning team this fall.
 Although the Crimson candida tes have been working Independently for some time formal practice did not be- gin until Monday. Since that time Haughton has been putting the men through two practices a day
 Tn veteran material the Harvard team is not quite so well off as Yale. Of last years team three of the line men who played against Yale were taken by graduation, while in the backfeld only Captain Wendell at fullback has returned. To replace all >of these men is no easy task. and in this respect the Ellis Undoubtedly have the better of the situation.
 who played an All-American game at right end; ex-Captain Fisher and Les lie. in the backheld the Crimson miss es six star players in Potter. Hunting ton. Blackail, Morrison, Campbell and
 
 Reynolds
 Harvard is fortunate, though. in having so much good line material with which to start the season. Eel ton ought to develop into one of the best men in the country and O'Brien' a substitute of last year should be an efficient running mate for him. Hitch cock and Storer were two capable tac- kles. and there was enough suostltute good men to replace Fisher and Les lie
 The real trouble promises to be in the back field. Wendell. the All-Am- tainty in his position, and just now the coaches seem to think highly of freshman team. Brickley possesses many of the same qualities as Wen dell in addition to which he is a field goal kicker of unusual excellence In one game last year he scored four such goals from placement.
 The problem of developing a quar- ter,back will undo9bted5y e Gt r3e De nsIU maGe the ouarter-back and captain Of the | 1900 team For a good many years l the Harvard nagement has been endeavorfng to secure the services of Daly as a coach for the quarterbacks, l but he has not been able to coach with any regularity heretofore.
 In common with the rest of the col lege world, the Harvard coaches think that the new rules will permit more by the touchdown route In these two old rivals since the introduc- l ton of the forward pass only four l touchdowns have been scored. And every one of them was scored by ale | The only score that Harvard has made against the Ellis in that time was Ken nard's goal from the field in 1908, l which won Harvard the game, and on | the subject of scores 1t is interesting -o note that Harvard has been held | scoreIess by Yale every year but twice since 1sea One would think that un- der inc circumstances the Crimson would be in a frenzy to administer the most f1umiliating kind of a defeat to the Ellis.
 The Yale team, though. will not lend itself to any such benign program.