Grid Scribes Pick 2 Crimson Stars For Hall of Fame

Two immortal Harvard gridiron greats, Coach Percy Haughton '99 and halfback Eddie Mahan '16, were elected Saturday to the Football Hall of Fame at Rutgers University.

They are among 32 players and 21 coaches who will be the first to have their names inscribed on bronze plaques inside a planned $5,000,000 memorial hall at the birthplace of American football.

Haughton, one of America's greatest punters as an undergraduate ushered in the Crimson's gridiron golden age when he became head coach in 1908. His teams, in the stretch from 1908 to 1916, won 71 of their 83 contests, while losing only seven and tying five. An undefeated string of 33 games and five unbeaten seasons are the highlights in his record.

Mahan, halfback in Walter Camp's All-America teams in 1913, 1914, and 1915, sparked the Haughton machine through two undefeated seasons.