HAUGHTON TO CONTINUE AS HEAD FOOTBALL COACH

Percy D. Haughton '99 will continue as head coach of the University football team next fall, while Leo Leary '05 will be field coach. This decision was formally announced at the meeting of the Athletic Committee held last evening. This action of Haughton's is a great source of satisfaction to the whole University, since it was feared that the new business duties which have devolved upon him as president of the Boston Braves would compel him to give up coaching the University team. Coach Haughton's relation with next year's eleven is of vital importance, for the successful system of coaching which he has instituted requires just such a man as he is to carry it out. With Leary as an assistant, Coach Haughton will be ably supported, for the two have worked together for some time in the instruction of the University football teams, and Leary thoroughly understands the methods which Haughton uses.

Football at the University has been under the direction of Coach Haughton for eight successive years, and the success which has been attained is to be as much attributed to him as to the members of the teams. During this eight years Yale has been defeated five times and tied twice; Princeton has been defeated four times during Haughton's regime and has beaten the University once, for football relations between the two universities were renewed only in 1911.

The influence of Haughton in football is not limited to Cambridge, for no other coach has ever made such effective use of punting as a ground-gaining play, but a great many are now following his example. While in college, Haughton was one of the greatest kickers the game ever had, and he has succeeded in passing on some of his ability to such players as S. M. Felton '13, C. E. Brickley '15, H. R. Hardwick '15, E. W. Mahan '16 and many others.

It might have been Coach Haughton's inclination to retire while his reputation as a coach was at its highest point, but the unanimous desire of those who are interested in University football has been fulfilled by his decision to remain