“It has been a great privilege for me to have played on different teams that have had strong players.  I cannot say too much about Hardwick, Bradlee, and Trumbull.  Brickley was one of the hardest men for our opponents to bring down when he got the ball.  He was a phenomenal kicker.  I had also a lot of respect for Mal Logan, who played quarterback on my team in 1915.  He weighed less than 150 pounds.  He used to get into the interference in grand shape.  He counted for something.  He was a tough kid.  He could stand all sorts of knocks and he used to get them too.  When I was kicking he warded off the big tackles as they came through.  He was always there and nobody could ever block a kick from his side.  The harder they hit him, the stronger he came back every time.”

When I asked Mahan about fun in football he said: 

“We didn’t seem to do much kidding.  There was a sort of serious spirit; Haughton had such an influence over everybody, they were afraid to laugh before practice, while waiting for Haughton, and after practice everybody was usually so tired there was not much fooling in the dressing room; but we got a lot of fun out of the game.”

Of Haughton’s coaching methods and the Harvard system Eddie has a few things to tell us that will be news to many football men.

“Haughton coaches a great deal by the use of photographs which are taken of us in practice as well as regular games.  He would get us all together and coach from the pictures—­point out the poor work.  Seldom were the good points shown.  Nevertheless, he always gave credit to the man who got his opponent in the interference.  Haughton used to say: 

“‘Any one can carry a ball through a bunch of dead men.’

“Haughton is a good organizer.  He has been the moving spirit at Cambridge but by no means the whole Harvard coaching staff.  The individual coaches work with him and with each other.  Each one has control or supreme authority over his own department.  The backfield coach has the picking of men for their positions.  Harvard follows Charlie Daly’s backfield play; improved upon somewhat, of course, according to conditions.  Each coach is considered an expert in his own line.  No coach is considered an expert in all fields.  This is the method at Harvard.

“Outside of Haughton, Bill Withington, Reggie Brown, and Leo Leary have been the most recent prominent coaches.  The Harvard generalship has been the old Charlie Daly system.  Reggie Brown has been a great strategist.  Harvard line play came from Pot Graves of West Point.”

[Illustration:  KING, OF HARVARD, MAKING A RUN; MAHAN PUTTING BLACK ON HIS HEAD]

George Chadwick

What George Chadwick, captain of Yale’s winning team of 1902, gave of himself to Yale football has amply earned the thoroughly remarkable tributes constantly paid to this great Yale player.  He was a most deceptive man with the ball.  In the Princeton game John DeWitt was the dangerous man on the Princeton team, feared most on account of his great kicking ability.