The Detroit times., 1915-03-12
With Chairs Pencils and Paper Percy Haughton Is Now
Planning Harvards 1915 Grid Campaign Against Yale
This is the Busiest Sea-
son for Crimson
Coach

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. March H.
Like the VILLAIN In the play. Percy d.
Haughton still pnrsucs Yale.
While the winter weather makes
the Harvard Stadium and the Yale
Bowl look like blank parchesi
board, and cafe parfait respective
ly, Percy D.. Is enjoying comfort
able aftermath season cooking up
something new to spring on the Yale
boys when they make their biennial
bow In the Stadium next Nov. 20.
Haughton never bursts into double
column display on the sporting pages
In competition with auto shows and
boxing matches during the winter,
hut he does stick close to the home
hearth with pencil in his hand and
q nstfull of ideas In his brain.
II wasn't last November when
Hanghton licked Yale In football and
scrambled Frank Hinkey's football
system.
On the direct contrary. II was early
in January, 1914. when the Ellis we're
beaten on paper. and Haughton was
30 certain OF himself that he stuck
to what was left of his fundamental
ideas even when Brickley was wrest.
ed away from him before the middle
OF the season
And this year the sheik OF Har
ward football Is at his task again.
grinding away nj figures and scrawl
Ing on diagrams on note paper.
Plays that will not be disclosed to
the public that Ia lucky enough TO
get a seat In the horseshoe until the
latter part OF next November will be
devised In the Haughton homestead
~ Charles River Village. small
part OF Needham, between now and
when the flowers bloom I'm the
spring. And defences that may prove
to be the right thing In the right
place against Hinkey's 1915 offence
will be jotted down ON the wood
pulp between now and then. too }.
Out at Harvard the mathematics
experts have a good time annually
figuring how much Haughton earns
per second. minute or hour. while
coaching the football team. They
70 on the fallacious basis that all
work n done from the day when the
gridiron squad assemblies for first,
practice. about the middle OF septem-
Der. to the day OF the Yale game.
In those IL weeks Haughten works
six days a week. three hours day.
His salary of $500 as b football
coach brings his hourly earnings to
s42 or s43. but that ia where the
mathematicians make their mistake.
II all that Haughton accomplished
came In those III weeks of actual
work. his stipend for each: so min
utes OF exhortation would run into
Csruso figures. hut the brain work
or which Percy DIS grand little sys.
TEN Is based comes in the dead OF
winter. whom the robins have all
gone south.
Around the first !. OF each year
Haushton assemblies his football
data, gets out his war paraphernaiia
OF pencil and paper and sets 20
work. Re consumes quite a bit OF
Needham electricity IN me process
too. for about tho only desk lamps
that are going after II D. m. In
Charles Rivef Villages are those OF
the Haushton homestead on the hill.
BY day Haughton stayk 10 his
swivel chair on State street and sells
bonds. And when Night cornes be HES
himself to his own nreside and be-
gins 20 hsursho his heavy Harvard
artillery can throw bombs into the
Yale camp and get behind the Yale
lines-goal lines, principally. BY
spring the head work r. done, and
the Harvard coach has a mass OF
jumbled paper with dots, straight
lines. arrows and other Haughtonian
hieroglyphicss All over them. Alto
kether. they represent what Harvard
Is going to do to yale---on paper.
When autumn begins to loom ND.
Hsrghton rs ready 70 make dummi,
OF the football candidates and force
them through the fancy steps and
brainy moves that viii serve to
check the foe from New Haven. But
that II another story. Everybody
knows what Haushton does In the
playing season. The main mystery
Is what he does In the winter. when
he IL miles from the limeiight.
January. February and March are
the campaign months for Haughton.
New plays and variations OF the old
ones are framed up and put In the
football drawer I'm Haughton's
private rolltop. There "a nothing
very remarkable about H. Kitchener
and loire and wilhelm III. and