Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-04
DICK HARTE DECLARES THAT
HAUGHTON IS NOT LIKELY TO
COACH CRIMSON'S 1916 TEAM
Harvard's All round
Athlete Says, How
ever, Love of Game
and Harvard May In
duce Him to Return

! 1NHAT there is a strong feeling that
! i Percy Haughton, the great coach OF the
Harvard football elevcns and the most
| consistently successful football tutor in
! the country in recent years. will not re-
turn to coach the Crimson eleven next
| fail is admitted by one of the best play
crs who wore the Crimson last fall. Rich
| ard Harte, Jr, of this city. son of the
! former Director of Health in this city,
Harvard's best all-around athlete and
the end who was responsible for the vic
tories over Yale and Princeton last fall
Is the Harvard man who expressed doubt
, as to whether the Harvard coach would
return.
Harte. who was in the city over the
New Year holiday with McKinlock, n
star back and Amory. n substitute on the
Crimson eleven, told the EVENING LEDGER
that everybody at Cambridge Is in doubt
as to Just what IIaughton intends doing,
but that there is wel-grounded fear
that he may not come back.
No Announcement
I'VE are counting upon his love OF foot
ball and Harvard said Harte. "He has
not announced that he will not return.
The stories to that effect have come from
people who are well acquainted with him,
but he says nothing. However, in the
pdSl ne mas Detn lne nfSt TO spike such
stories. Howe 'er. if the wish is father 10
the action. he will return. for every loyal
Harvard man is pulling for him to return.
"Only those who have worked with Mr.
Haughton can appreciate what his loss
would mean to Harvard. He is not only
wonderful coach. but he also Is admired
by every Harvard football man, and he
can get the utmost results frmo his mate
rial. If Haughton goes Harvard will
lose n man who will be difficult to re-
place. You see he has built up a wonder
full system.
Yes. our games last year were proof
OF that. The amazing amount of detail
which he teaches a football squad can
hardly be appreciated from the sidelines!
Cards of instruction
Harte was asked whether Watson, the
brilliant little Harvard quarterback.
actually had n pocke in his football
trousers in which he carried instruction
cards. Yes, Watson did have a pocket
in his football trousers and II contained
cards upon which were written signals
and certain instructive points that he
needed occasionally to refresh his men,
ory. You know, Harvard had an amazing
number of plays to carry last season, and
a great variety of shift formations"
"It was information upon these points
that he carried in his pocket and which
he used occasionally to refresh his mind.
or course II was somewhat hazardous, as
the pockets might have been ripped OFF
but then, the memorandum would have
been unintelligible. This just shows one
of the many ways in which Haughton
carried out the details of his work. Wat
son was a brilliant all-around quarter
back at school and when he entered Har-
ward, but Houghton merely used him as
field general.
THE death of Tom Shevlin was almost
as big blow to Harvard as to Yale. We
all admired him, and had the greatest
amount of respect for the man and his
ability. When he jumped in last fall you
may be sure we counted upon a mighty
stiff game. The only thing that prevented
was that the material couldn't hold out.
Out of Hockey
II will not play hooked this winter. nor T,
will ! go into tennis in the spring, or
handle the weights with the track team.
/ have still another year to go and |
must save myself and my time. For this
reason l viii devote all my spare time TO
baseball in the spring"
Harte is probably the best all-around
athlete In any of the colleges today. He |
played football for the first time this fall.
having been prevented before by parental
objection He easily made an end and /
his brilliant work was instrumental in /
winning at least three games. He de /
feated Springfield Training School single /
handed, and his brilliant handling of a 1
forward pass made possible the victory /