The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-25
Harvardss System of
 Coaches Entirely New
 For Present. Campaign

Boston, Sept. 25-Harward's assets this year are coaching system suf- hciently elastic to be applied ito al- most any situation andha nucleus Of powerful players around which a strong eleven must surely be built. A doleful correspondent at Cambridge notes a difference in the material be- , tween this and last season, and cer- ] tainly one may suspect, consider l the loss of Brickley, Hardwiek, Brad lee. Pennock. Jeff Coolidge, and other strong opponents of the autumn game, that this correspondent had some warrant for his mournfuI screed.
 Yet with Mahan and Enright and McKinlock as Q basis for a backhefd, with Soucy, Parson J. Cowen, and Gilman in the line, there should be extremely little cause for pessimisn. l Curious1y, if any cause for worry ex- ! fsts, it will be found not so much in ithe material as in the coaching staff. l In past years Percy Haughton had surrendered himself with a, group of specialists who had grown toA be-in their respective spIieres-as import ant to Harvard football as Haughton himself, or approximately so- Reared in the Haughton> school, knowing to "a degree the ideas of the master, they were qualified to go their ways in the different departments carrying on the ground work until such time, later in the season, they cOuIQ turn 10 the head coach and say: Here are your tools, all fashioned to your use-''
 Whereupon Haughton would take them and apply them to the general tactical purposes which he had had time to develop, without the necessity of diverting attention to individual instruction in the details of the game he had planned.
 He knew. for, example, that his end coach would instruct the ends, as he had he had the time, and so with the Ifnesmen' the backfe1d. In other words. his coaches impregnated with nothing but the Haughton idea, and capable of turning out just the imple- ments required by Haugaron m his larger scheme, were, an asset to the head coach and to Harvard which can hardly be estimat ted.
 This asset will exist only partially this season. The staff of coaches which Haughton had gathered about him has disintegrated to a large ex- tent Some of the dependable in- structors have taken thought of the future and decided that if they were ever to make their way in the world in circles outside of football, they had better begin, while others have accepted offers to coach at other col 1eges. If the preceding paragrap ph 1eges.
 If the preceding paragrap ph has been read, the reader Will gain some Idea of what this means to Haughton. fl not to Harvard. Primarily, it's sig nificance lies in the fact that the head coach will inevitably be obliged to concern himself with details of which ordinarily he would not be required to take thought.
 Haughton's capacity for work and for manifold dutiesh is, of course, un- questioned, but he is human, after el.. and not until he is satisfied that his subordinates are. capable of fash foning units of just the temper and grounding and general efficiency that are needed for his complete strate- gicaf scheme. will be in a position to turn his mind to the broader aspects of the Harvard game