Dick Friedman

Coach Who Strangled the Bulldog

How Harvard's Percy Haughton Beat Yale and Reinvented Football

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 637g
• ISBN-13: 9781538107546
• ISBN-10: 1538107546
• Artikelnr.: 50447922

Autorenporträt

By Dick Friedman

Inhaltsangabe

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
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