Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23
HARVARD COACHES
IN DEMAND FOR Is
Success of HaughtOn's System
on GridirOn Makes His AS
sistants Popular.

The scramble of universities and
colleges in all parts of the United
States to get Harvard varsity foot
ball players as coaches for their own
teams is the greatest Endorsement
and tribute that Head Coach Percy
d. Haughton, of the Crimson, mas yet
received. Heretofore the silent stra-
tegist of the Harvard football army
has been given complete credit for his
maneuvers because of the material
he had at hand, but not until the per-
formance of the Crimson team in the
past season did other football man
agements realize that Haughton S
system is the most efficacious yet de-
vised.
The absence of Captain Charley
Brickley from the lineup in the most
important games of the past season
has been mostly responsible for the
widespread recognition of Haugh-
TONS system as the best. In former
seasons. when the success of the
Crimson was almost as great as 1t
has been In 1914, men of high stand
ing in football judgment attributed
the greater part of Haughton's power
to the fact that he had in Brickley a
man who could make a winner OF any
combination.
But this year, when Brickley saw
the Princeton, Yale, Michigan, Penn
State and Brown games from the SIDE
lines, the remaining 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 uncovered,
the whole backfield and the line was
working as a unit that was virtually
unstoppable, and system. instead Of a
drop-kicking wizard, won the game.
Very Much In Demand.
Harvard players who have been
coached under Haugnton since nus
ascendancy at Harvard have been be-
sleged with offers of coaching DertnS
since the close of the present col
legiate season, and half score or
the greatest OF them could now step
into coaching jobs worth from Sz,Vo0
to 5000 q year. Most of the members
of this years team who will be grad
uated from Harvard in June Will not
consider coaching positions, but will
follow the plans they had originally
when they entered the university.
Harvard coaches have superseded
Yale men in popularity. After many
years of Eli successes, the old Yale
players fell into good jobs among the
smaller colleges because of the eftec-
tiyeness of ale football. Fred DAILY
went to Williams, where he now is
Tad Jones, Ted Coy, Arthur Brides
and others took up gridiron pedagogy
at high salaries. But today there Is
a bigger market for Harvard play
ers, who have been through the mill
under Haughton's direction.
Charley Brickley has the refusal OF
half a dozen coaching positions. Uni
versities in Iowa and Nebraska, where
they think that conservative Eastern
football may perhaps after all be bet
ter than the Western brand, are seek
ing him, but Brickley Is loath to go
far from the Atlantic coast when he
gets out of college.
Offers to BrickIey.
The proposal by the New York
University team, which was former
ly coached by Carl Flanders, of Yale,
that Brickley take charge of its
development next year sounds rea-
sonable to the drop-kicker, inasmuch
az he Is to locate in business in New
York next fall, but Brickley is to take
plenty of time before he decides on
any coaching offers.
Ham Fish, the old Harvard cap
tain, has been booked to become head
coach of the Columbia University
football team in case the faculty lifts
the ban, which at present prohibits
the playing of the game. Fish Is a
close student of the Haughton sys-
tenn and knows all the twists and
turns that have brought success to
Cambridge In the past few years.
Assisting Alma Mater.
Most of the old Harvard stars are
devoting their time to Harvard foot
ball as assistant coaches to Haugh-
ton, however Lothrop and Paul
wilmington, Tommy Campbell, Percy
Wendell, Sam FELTON,, Bob Fisher,
Bob Storer. Harry Gardner, Dick
Wigglesworth and Rex Hitchcock all
hover around Cambridge during. the
fall season, instead of hieing off to
coach elsewhere.
Although anV of the first string
players of this years team who will
get their degrees in June might sign
up for coaching positions, the most
of them are intent on following orig
iral plans for their after-graduation
work. Logan, the quarterback, Will
go to the Harvard Law School; Pen
mock, the All-Amerfcan guard, will
enter a chemical business in Syra-
cuse, N. Y. Hardwick will go into
business; Francke will continue his
studies at Harvard; jeff Coolidge will
follow a business career in Boston,
as will Bradlee, the halfback. Swi-
CERT, the substitute quarterback, will
go into the steel business in Port
land Oregon,