El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-03
HAyGHTOBMAKES HARVARD WIN;
HARD DRIVING COACH SUCCEEDS
Crimson Football Director Takes Squad of Raw Mate
rial and Molds Winning Team About Mahan, Only
Star; Hard Work and Plenty Of It. is Haughton's
Recipe For Success on the Gridiron.
ny PRANK G. MENKE.

TEW YORK. Dec 3-Perey Haugh-
N ton is the wizard Of the grid
= iron. The pigskin game never
has known a more wonderful teacher.
Those who were skeptical about
Haughton's skill, of Haughton's genius,
are skeptical no longer.
When the season began it was re-
garded as the season that would test
Haughton, would answer the allah
sorbing question
Was it the wiZardy Of Haughton or
the natural football power or ms men
that made fame in the other years2
The answer is Percy Haughtnn.
The Crimson coach found a difficult
task confronting him when the season
began. Bricklev was gone; 50 was
gan, Francke, Trumbull, Underwood
and those otEer stars. None OF the
satellites Of other years except Edoie
Mahan was left HauEht0n had TO
build around Mahan with green" ma
terial and he built a superb machine,
None Of the Crimson players OF 1915
were really brilliant But HauGhton
was undiscouraEed- He hammered,
tinkered, took out old cogs from his
machine and then replaced them. He
made numerous changes and in the end
for that Yale game he presented FOR
public appreciation one OF the smooth
est working and most powerful foot
ball engines that ever steam-rolled a
Hsuehtaa's Coaching sIetkOdS.
What is Haughton's system
A simple one. He never wastes his
time on really raw material Sc lets
his assistants do that and he handles
only the semi-finished article
When the football candidates present
themselves Haughton spends lew
days looking over the assortment OF
-HH nHnrIor
in picking out real players from among
a bunch of raw recruits After he has
looked over his whole squad Haughton
picks ont his veterans Of the year De-
fore, selects a dozen promising iookins
youngsters IS candidates fer the places
on the substitute varsity. and leaves
the development Of the others TO his
He Is the Boss.
HauEhton has his own L4eoIles
about develoning men and his 9s5ist-
ants follow his dictates AC1Fe 81
else. HaughtOn Is boss t1e demands
obedience froiR his men and the asso-
Lutte following Of his rules by'ilis as
sistsnts-
II Haughton. after experimenting
for awhile with his varsity candidates
finds some Of them don't measure .u2
to standard, he turns them over 10 ms
assistants. When Haughton needs al
dftions TO his first string squad he
sends an order TO his assistant thusly :
7 want halfhack: fellow who is
fast. Weighing between 190 and lS0-'
Or. T want a guard" OF. Il want an
end-one who is good at handling the
forward paSs" And HaughtoD's or
ders are filled. because his assistants
know they are subject 10 just such
calls and thew are PREPARED aor them
HauGhfOH i a Driver.
The Crimson mentor is q driver He
works TO the full limit Of his energy,
and he expects his men TO do the same
thing He will not couutenance slOth-
Every man who wants TO play on a
Harvard eleven under the Haughton
regime rnust be willing to stand 10 IN
der the strain >of scrimmaging "a
hours a day. should Haughton decide
that such an amount was necessary
HaughtOn isn't laxative on the foot
ball field or off. He talks rarely. but
always TO the point He never wastes
a word His orders to his men are
brief as far as speech is concerned
The tone Of his voice and his nervous
gestures fill the gaps that the words
may leave And no one ever misun-
deFstoOd a Haughton command.
TO what do you attribute football