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 Ia
Like the VILLAIN in the play. Percy ID.
Haughton still pursues 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. 90.
Haughton never bursts into double
column display on the sporting pages
In competition with auto shows and
boxing matches during the winter.
but he does stick close TO the home
hearth with a pencil in his hand and
q fstfull OF ideas In his brain.
II wasn't last November when
Haughton licked Yale In football and
scrambled Frank Hinkey's football
system.
On the direct contrary. II was early
In January, 1914, when the Ellis were
beaten on paper. and Haughton was
so 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 at figures and scrawi-
ing on diagrams on note paper
Plays that win not be disclosed to
the public that "a lucky enough to
get seat In the horseshoe until the
latter part OF next November win be
devised In the Haughton homestead
a. Charles River Village. small
part OF Needham. between now and
when the flowers bloom in the
spring. Ard defences that may prove
to be the right thing In the right
place against Hinkey's 1915 offence
win be jotted down on the wood
pulp betweel now and then, too.
Out at Harvard the mathematics
experts have q good time annually
figuring how much Haughton earns
per second. minute or hour while
coaching the football team. They
10 on the failacious 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 ii weeks Haughton works
six days week. three hours day.
His salary OF $500 as football
coach brings his hourly earnings TO
s42 or s43. but that Is where the
mathematician make their mistake.
II all that Haughton accomplished
came In those IL weeks OF actual
work. his stipend for each, 60 min.
utes OF exhortation would run into
Caruso figures. but the. brain work
on which Percy DIS grand little sys-
TEN II based comes In the dead Of
winter, whom the robins have all
gone south. npt
Around tho FIRST OF each year
Haughton assemblies his football
data. gets out his war psraphernalia
OF pencil and paper and sets TO
work. he consumes quite a bit OF
Needham electricity Ia the process
too. for about the only desk lamps
that are going after IL p. m. in
Charles River Village are those OF
the Haushton homestead on the hill.
BY day Haushton stays in his
swivel chair on state street and sells
bonds. And when night comes ne hies
himself to his own hreside and be-
gins 10 figure how his heavy Harvard
artillery cen throw bombs, into the
Yale camp and get behind the Yale
iines--goai lines. principally. BY
spring the head work IS done, and
the Harvard coach has n mans OF
jumbled paper with, dots. straight
lines, arrows and other Haughtonian
hieroglyphics all, over themA Alto
gether. they represent what Harvard
Is going to do to yaie-.ofi paper.
When autumn begins 10 loom Oh.
Hrrghton Is ready to make ddmmr
OF the footbail candidates and force
them through the fancy steps and
brsiny moves that viii serve to
check the foe from New Haven. But
that is another story. Everybody
knows what Haughton does In the
playing season. The main mystery
IL what he does In the winter. when
ne IL miles from the nmelight.
January. February and March are
tho campaign months for Haughton.
New plays and variations OF the old
ones are framed up and put In the
football drawer In Haughton's
private rolltop. There 70 nothing
very rsmsrkab5s. shout n. Kitchener
and Jcffre and wilhelm II. and