The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-28
Noted Coach Dies In Hos- pital Within Hours
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NEW YORK, Oct. 27. Percy D. Haughton, head football coach at Co |Iumbia university, founder of the ia nous aHaughtOn system,v at Harvard, generally regarded as one of the fore most opponents of gridiron sport, died this afternoon at St. Luke's hospital at ; o'clock, one hour after he was stricken with acute Indigestion at Baker field while directing the work of his squad.
 His sudden death came two days after the Columbia eleven had admin istered crushing defeat to Williams college, which was taken as proof by critics that Haughton had installed 8 football system at Columbia destined to rival his former success at Harvard where his teams from 1908 to 1916 ranked with the best in the history of the sport. t
 The fatal attack interrupted the first practice which was to prepare his squad for its real test next Saturday at Ithaca against Cornell.
 Record Contract
 Haughton came to Columbia Tn April, 1923, taking charge of the spring training of that season. His contract was said to have been for $15,00O a year, thought to be a record price for a football coach. Prior to his advent at Columbia the football teams had been of mediocre calibre.
 The new coach worked slowly to in stall the fundamentals. His success Hast year was fair and his 1924 squad was only promising. The early games of this year, particularly the 10 to 2 defeat at Pennsylvania two weeks ago showed some improvement, but in the Williams game the Columbia eleven dis played a''powerful attack which had proved to be the big surprise of the pres ent season and heavy with possibilities.
 At Harvard university, Haughton took charge of another ailing football situation in 1908 and built up the most remarkable systems in the game up to that period. From the time that his teaching took hold until 1916, when he left, the Harvard elevens were among the most formidable in the east. His 1914 and 1915 teams administered to Yale the most crushing defeats ever received at the hands of her Cambridge rival.
 Master of Details
 Haughton-eoached teams were famous for their mastery of the intricate de- tails of the game. The modern scout ing system which has been so gener ally adopted as to become an accepted phase of the sport, was first intro dueed in a broad scale by Haughton. On the field his methods resembled the efficiency of business. He maintained a general supervision of the work and acted upon reports brought from 8 staff of assistants who were entrusted with detailed instructor.
 When he left Harvard in 1916 to become president of the Boston Ma tional league baseball club, he was generally regarded as the most sue cessfuf football coach of the decade. He resigned the presidency of the Braves in 1918 to enter the service as major in the chemical corps. After the war he became associated with banking in- terests in Boston. These still were maintained at the time of his death.
 EMughton was football end and captain of the 1899 baseball nine at Harvard. He also was head coach at Cornell university for two years. He succeeded Buck" O'Neill who had failed to develop a winning team at Columbia in three seasons after a successful record at Syracuse.