| Percy Haughton | |||
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| Sport(s) | Football, baseball | ||
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| Biographical details | |||
| Born | July 11, 1876 Staten Island, New York | ||
| Died | October 27, 1924 (aged 48) New York, New York | ||
| Playing career | |||
| Football 1898 Baseball 1899 | Harvard Harvard | ||
| Position(s) | Tackle (football) | ||
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |||
| Football 1899–1900 1908–1916 1923–1924 Baseball 1915 | Cornell Harvard Columbia Harvard | ||
| Head coaching record | |||
| Overall | 97–17–6 (football) 23–7 (baseball) | ||
| Statistics College Football Data Warehouse | |||
| Accomplishments and honors | |||
| Championships Football 3 National (1910, 1912–1913) | |||
| Awards Football All-American, 1898 | |||
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Percy Duncan Haughton (July 11, 1876 – October 27, 1924) was an American football and baseball player and coach. He served as head football coach at Cornell University from 1899 to 1900, at Harvard University from 1908 to 1916, and at Columbia University from 1923 to 1924, compiling a career college football record of 97–17–6. The Harvard Crimson claim national champions for three of the seasons that Haughton coached: 1910, 1912, and 1913. Haughton was also Harvard's head baseball coach in 1915[1] and part owner of the Boston Braves from 1916 to 1918.[2] He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951.
Early life and playing career[]
Haughton attended Groton School for high school, graduating in 1895, and then went on to Harvard, graduating in 1899.
Coaching career[]
Haughton and his wife owned Gould Island in Rhode Island where Haughton trained the Harvard football team.[3] Apocryphal tales[4] assert that before the 1908 Harvard-Yale Game, Haughton strangled a bulldog to death in the locker room to motivate his players.[5]
Haughton became Columbia's football coach in spring 1923 as the school re-established a team that had been dissolved in 1905 following allegations that football had become too violent. To alleviate concerns that the game was still too violent, Haughton promised to instill discipline in his players, saying: "It will be my purpose to teach the men what they should learn in order to better prepare for life after the university. If I can do that, if I can contribute toward qualifying them for the finest type of citizenship, I will be satisfied."[6]
Haughton died suddenly in October 1924 after becoming ill on the Columbia football field.[7][8]
Head coaching record[]
Football[]
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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| Cornell Big Red (Independent) (1899–1900) | |||||||||
| 1899 | Cornell | 7–3 | |||||||
| 1900 | Cornell | 10–2 | |||||||
| Cornell: | 17–5 | ||||||||
| Harvard Crimson (Independent) (1908–1916) | |||||||||
| 1908 | Harvard | 9–0–1 | |||||||
| 1909 | Harvard | 8–1 | |||||||
| 1910 | Harvard | 9–0–1 | |||||||
| 1911 | Harvard | 6–2–1 | |||||||
| 1912 | Harvard | 9–0 | |||||||
| 1913 | Harvard | 9–0 | |||||||
| 1914 | Harvard | 7–0–2 | |||||||
| 1910 | Harvard | 8–1 | |||||||
| 1916 | Harvard | 7–3 | |||||||
| Harvard: | 72–7–5 | ||||||||
| Columbia Lions (Independent) (1923–1924) | |||||||||
| 1923 | Columbia | 4–4–1 | |||||||
| 1924 | Columbia | 4–1[n 1] | |||||||
| Columbia: | 8–5–1 | ||||||||
| Total: | 97–17–6 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title | |||||||||
Notes[]
- ↑ Harvard University Base Ball Club. Records of Organized Baseball at Harvard : an inventory
- ↑ "P.D. HAUGHTON BUYS BOSTON NATIONALS; Harvard Football Coach Heads Syndicate of Baseball Club Owners. STALLINGS AS MANAGER James E. Gaffney Surprises Sporting Circles by Disposing of Braves -- Price Said to be $500,000. P.D. HAUGHTON BUYS BOSTON NATIONALS". The New York Times. January 9, 1916. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E00E3D61739E233A2575AC0A9679C946796D6CF. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
- ↑ "A GOULD ISLAND CHRONOLOGY And Some Associated Historical Notes" By Captain Frank Snyder (USN Ret Naval War College Professor) Jamestown Historical Society [1] (PDF)(Accessed January 4, 2009)
- ↑ Thecrimson.harvard.edu
- ↑ Burnham, Jeremy (2004-06-14). "Back in the Day: The Forward Pass". The NFL History Network. http://nflhistory.net/shared/articles/news.asp?action=detail&article=224. Retrieved 2007-06-08.
- ↑ "Butler Attends Haughton Dinner: Columbia President Optimistic in Talk Before Enthusiastic Alumni", The New York Times. April 6, 1923. Page 13.
- ↑ "PERCY D. HAUGHTON EXPIRES SUDDENLY: Famous Football Coach Taken Ill on Columbia Field, Dies Soon After Being Rushed To Hospital; Deep Sorrow at Harvard Associates Stunned by the Sad News; Preeminent In Modern Game; Last Words Said Jokingly To Dr Withington". Boston Daily Globe. October 28, 1924. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/1082798542.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Oct+28%2C+1924&author=&pub=Boston+Daily+Globe+(1923-1927)&desc=PERCY+D.+HAUGHTON+EXPIRES+SUDDENLY&pqatl=google.
- ↑ "Percy Haughton Buried at Boston". The New York Times. October 31, 1924. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F50F12F73C5B12738DDDA80B94D8415B848EF1D3.
References[]
External links[]
- Percy Haughton at the College Football Hall of Fame
- Percy Haughton at the College Football Data Warehouse
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