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Zusatztext This timely book will have a broad appeal-even more so than it would have just a few years ago due to the recent controversies surrounding the modern game. From medical issues and concern over violence to corruption and astronomical head coaching salaries! this book touches on many of the problems that plague the game today! only excluding political protests. It provides a detailed biography of Percy Haughton-the football genius and Harvard coach-as well as a history of the sport he so dearly loved through some of its defining early moments. Haughton made many game-changing contributions to the sport's modern incarnation in the early 20th century during his career as an Ivy League coach-first at Cornell but most prominently at Harvard. Friedman! a sports journalist! is not a scholar in the traditional sense! but there seems to be no other sports historian that could have written such a detailed and thorough account! documenting both the history of football and the person who arguably changed the game. Ultimately! this book is a fun and engaging read. Informationen zum Autor By Dick Friedman Klappentext This book details the life of Percy Haughton, college football's first modern coach. A true innovator of the game, his Harvard squads went 71-7-5 during his tenure and were deemed national champions three times. In many ways, college football in the 1910s resembled what we still see today. A half century old, there were already concerns about violence and corruption. There were skyrocketing coaches' salaries, stadium arms races, bragging rights, and meddling boosters. There were recruiting excesses and cheating. And from Harvard coach Percy Duncan Haughton, there was a sophistication of football that would surprise many fans today.In The Coach Who Strangled the Bulldog: How Harvard's Percy Haughton Beat Yale and Reinvented Football, Dick Friedman tells the fascinating story of a football genius. The sport's first modern coach, Haughton systematized the game and utilized passing, speed, and deception. In nine seasons at Harvard, Haughton's squads went 71-7-5 and three times during his tenure the Crimson were deemed national champions. Haughton's system perfected line blocking, employed tactics such as the delayed handoff, and eschewed huddles. His practices were scripted to the minute and he had revolutionary ideas on conditioning. The Coach Who Strangled the Bulldog is not only a captivating biography of an influential coach from the early days of college football; it is also a history of the sport itself. Featuring timeless photos and tirelessly researched, this book provides valuable insight into the game today-how it has evolved and how it has stayed surprisingly the same. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 NotesSelected Bibliography IndexAbout the Author...
