Coach Who Strangled the Bulldog - How Harvard''s Percy Haughton Beat Yale and Reinvented Football

This is the biography of Percy Haughton, college football's first modern coach. A true innovator, Haughton systematized the game in the early 1900s when it changed from a plodding push-and-pull affair to a wide-open game utilizing passing and speed. In nine seasons at Harvard, Haughton's squads went 71-7-5 and were national champions three times.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue: Two Brickleys, A Century Apart
1: P.D. Strangles the Bulldog
2: Death in the Afternoon
3: Haughton Cuts Camp Off at the Pass
4: "Here Is the Theoretical Superplayer in Flesh and Blood"
5: The da Vinci of the Dropkick
6: The System
7: Brickley 15, Yale 5
8: The Football Industrial Complex
9: "Yale Supplied the Bowl . . . But Harvard Had the Punch"
10: Poor Eli's Hopes We Are Dashing
11: From Soldiers Field to Flanders Field, and Beyond
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Dick Friedman

Summary

This is the biography of Percy Haughton, college football’s first modern coach. A true innovator, Haughton systematized the game in the early 1900s when it changed from a plodding push-and-pull affair to a wide-open game utilizing passing and speed. In nine seasons at Harvard, Haughton’s squads went 71-7-5 and were national champions three times.

Product details

• Authors: Dick Friedman
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781538107546
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0754-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, American Football, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports, SPORTS & RECREATION / History, SPORTS & RECREATION / Football, history of sport, Biography: sport, United States of America, USA