Omaha daily bee., 1914-12-20
FINE TRIBUTE TO HAUGHTON
Many Schools Seeking Harvard
Players for Coaches.
WHOLE TEAM IS LIKE BIG UNIT
Even When BrickIey Was Taken
Ont of the Game the Rest OF
the Players Forged Right
Ahead 60 Victories.
I0LE TEAM IS LIKE BIG UNIT

BOSTON, Mass. Dec. ia.-The scramble
OF universities ana colleges i'm all parts
of the United States TO get Harvard var
sity foot ball players as coaches for their
own teams Ii the greatest endorsement
and tribute that Head Coach Percy ID.
Haughton OF the Crimson has yet re-
ceived. Heretofore. the silent strategist
Of the Harvard foot ball army has been
given complete credit for his manoeuvers
because OF the material he had at hand.
but not until the performance of the
Crimson team in the last season did other
foot ball managements realize that
Haughtons system is the most efficacious
yet devised.
The absence OF Captain Charley Brick
ley from the ffhaup In the most impor-
tant games OF the last season has been
mostly responsible for the widespread
recognition of Haughton's system as the
best. In former seasons. when the sue
cess OF the Crimson was almost as great
as IL has been In 1914. men OF high stand
ing In foot ball judgment attributed the
greater part of Haughton's power to the
fact that he had In Brickley man who
could make a winner OF any combination.
Team wins Anyway.
But this year, when Rrickley saw the
Princeton. Yale. Michigan. Penn State and
Brown games from the side lines, the re-
naming forces OF the head coach went
In and broke up the contest, and proved
that Haughton had not developed a one
man team. In the Yale game. when the
power OF the Harvard team that had up
TO that time been concealed was uncov-
cred. tho whole backfield and the line
was working as n unit that was virtually
unstoppable.. and system. instead Of a
! drop-kicking wizard. won the game.
Harvard players who have been coached
under Haughton since his ascendancy al
Harvard have been besieged with offers
OF coaching berths since the close Of the
present collegiate season. and half a
score OF the greatest OF them could nov
step into coaching Jobs worth from $500
10 5000 year. Most OF the members
Of this years team who win he Graduated
from Harvard I'm June will not consider
coaching positions. but will follow tho
plans they had originally when they en-
tered the university.
! Harvard coaches have superseded Yale
/ men In popularity. After many years Of
! ELI successes the old Yale players fel
into good Jobs among the smaller col.
leges because OF the effectiveness Of Yale
foot ball. Fred DAILY went to Williams
where he now is. Tad Jones. Ted Coy
Arthur Brides and others took up grid
iron pedagogy at high salaries. But To-
day there 10 a bigger market for Har
ward players. who have been through the
mill under Haughtons direction.
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BrickIeg Refuses Offers.
Charley Brickley has the refusal o.
half a dozen coaching positions. Uni
versities in Iowa and Nebraska. wher,
they think that conservative eastern foo
ball may perhaps after all be better thar
| the western brand, are seeking him. bu
Brickley Is 10th to go far from the At
lantic coast when he gets out of college
The proposal by the New York uni
versity team. which was formerly coached
] by Carl Flanders OF Yale. that BriekleY
take charge OF it's development next yeal
sounds reasonable to the drop-kicl5er, In,
asmueh as he is TO locate in business II
New York next fall. but Brickley Is tS
take plenty Of time before he decides OF
any coaching offers
Ham Fish, the old Harvard captain
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