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.

Author: Dick Friedman
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 09/01/2020
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781493049097
ISBN10: 1493049097
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Football
- Biography & Autobiography | Sports
- Sports & Recreation | History

About the Author
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.