The 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.

ISBN-13: 9781493049097

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers - Inc.

Publication Date: 09-01-2020

Pages: 296

Product Dimensions: 6.19(w) x 9.01(h) x 0.66(d)

Dick Friedman is the football correspondent and contributing editor for Harvard Magazine. He worked for four decades as an editor and writer at People, TV Guide, and Sports Illustrated. At SI he covered the NBA, baseball, college basketball, and golf. Friedman also helped edit several of SI’s coffee-table books, including on pro and college football, and was a contributor to College Football’s Best (2016). Since 2014 Friedman has been a contributor to SI’s sister publication Golf Magazine.

Table 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