South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-09-11
NE " MEN MUST
|. Be DEVELOPED BY
HARVARD s COACH
Only a Few of Last Years Vet
Grams Will be Back in
Game the Coming
Season.
BY Frank G.. Menke.

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE 1918
football season probably will answer
the three-year- old question:
Was it the wizardy Of Percy Haugh-
ton. as coach. or was ii the individual
brilliancy of the players that made
Harvard supreme in the football
world?
Some there are who give the major
portion of the credit for Harvard's
showing in the past TO Haughton.
Others contend that ii was Brickley,
Mahan, Hardwick, PennOck and the
other crimson football satellites that
caused Harvard to shine so brightly.
They assert that with such material
as Haughton had in 1912. 1913 and
1914 the dubbiest coach in America
could have welded together a cham
pionship combination
The coming season surely will an
swer the questiOn-and answer ii be-
yond any dispute. If Harvard finishes
the season on the top of the football
heap. the glory for it must go to
HaughtOn-and so must go to Haugh-
ton the glOrv for HaTvards amazing
showing in the other years.
Few Veterans at Harvard.
Graduations hit Harvard a harder
wallop than any other big college In
the country and HaughtOn has left for
who started against Yale last NOvem-
Der and only 10 of the % men who
made up the varsity squad of 1914.
HaughtOn must build anew; he
must build with material that does not
look overly promising. If he does
build a machine with the material at
hand that will sweep all before it
then HaughtOn truly is a wizard-sure-
ly the most remarkable football coach
of the age.
Brickley. the wonderful. is gone:
Hardwick the greatest all-arOund
football player in the history of the
game has gone GraduatiOns. in ad-
ditions to taking those varsity regu-
lars, also took forever from the Har-
ward lineup Logan, the star quarter
back: Pennock, the giant all-Ameri-
can guard; Francke. the fullback;
T. J. Coolidge. end; Trumbull, an al
ternate guard and tackle and one of
! the greatest linesmen that ever play
ed at Harvard; Bradlee, halfback;
| Weston. Underwood. Arlington,
| linesmen: Surgert. substitute quarter
back, and a half dozen other first sub
stitutes.
1 Eddie Mahan, Soucy, center. Gilman
/ and CoWan, lineSmen, are the only
regulars that remain. The six other
men who won their varsity letters last
year and who make up that 10 that
are left from the peerless 1914 squad
are: G. A. Coolidge. end and linesman
Curtis and Bigelow. linesmen; King
and McKinlOck, backs, and Watson
| quarterback
Difficult Task Ahead.
In other words, Haughton must be-
gin with only 10 men who have ever
played on varsity eleven before and
with a bunch of recruits that have
come up from the freshman class OF
I o ~ do.
velop into stars of especial brilliancy
and they may not. Ii all seems tC
be up to Haughton
Enwright. the spectacular fullback
comes up from the "freshies" of {
year ago. and Harvard has high hopes
that he will do much to plug up th'
void left by Brickley. Robinson is
promising looking "rookey." He's ;
backfield man and is said to be {
drOp-kicker of rare skill.
Two Murray and Taylor
promise to give Watson a battle TO
the honor of being the varsity quar-
terback End material. however
that is likely looking end material
is lacking and one of the biggest job
before Haughton is to develop
brace of wing men TO fiji in-or TT!
to fill in-the holes made by the los
of Jeff Coolidge and Hardwick.
Nor has Harvard a certainty 70
center. SOucy is a good center-but i
he good enough? Considerable faul
was found with his passing last yea
and unless he improves it may b.
that Haughton will have 10 use
ROCKY" on this important place il
the line
Haughton. all in all. is confronte,
with as tough a young job as an,
coach ever had to tackle and the Opel
question is
Can Haughton deliver?