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The Coach Who Strangled the Bulldog - How Harvard's Percy Haughton Beat Yale and Reinvented Football (Hardcover)
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The Coach Who Strangled the Bulldog - How Harvard's Percy Haughton Beat Yale and Reinvented Football (Hardcover)
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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.
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