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Percy Haughton

American athlete and coach (1876–1924)

Field	Value
name	Percy Haughton
image	Percy Haughton, owner of Boston NL (baseball) LCCN2014700752 (cropped).tif
birth_date
birth_place	Staten Island, New York, U.S.
death_date
death_place	New York, New York, U.S.
player_sport1	Football
player_years2	1898
player_team2	Harvard
player_sport3	Baseball
player_years4	1899
player_team4	Harvard
player_positions	Tackle (football)
coach_sport1	Football
coach_years2	1899–1900
coach_team2	Cornell
coach_years3	1908–1916
coach_team3	Harvard
coach_years4	1917
coach_team4	Camp Devens
coach_years5	1923–1924
coach_team5	Columbia
coach_sport6	Baseball
coach_years7	1915
coach_team7	Harvard
overall_record	97–17–6 (football)
23–7 (baseball)
championships	Football
4 national (1908, 1910, 1912–1913)
awards	Second-team All-American (1898)
CFBHOF_year	1951
CFBHOF_id	1276

23–7 (baseball) 4 national (1908, 1910, 1912–1913) Percy Duncan Haughton (July 11, 1876 – October 27, 1924) was an American football and baseball player and coach. He served as head football coach at Cornell University from 1899 to 1900, at Harvard University from 1908 to 1916, and at Columbia University from 1923 to 1924, compiling a career college football record of 97–17–6. The Harvard Crimson claimed national champions for three of the seasons that Haughton coached: 1910, 1912, and 1913. Haughton was also Harvard's head baseball coach in 1915 and part owner of the Boston Braves from 1916 to 1918. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951.

Biography

Haughton was born on July 11, 1876. Haughton attended Groton School, graduating in 1895, and then went on to Harvard College, graduating in 1899.

Haughton and his wife owned Gould Island in Rhode Island where Haughton trained the Harvard football team. Apocryphal tales assert that before the 1908 Harvard–Yale Game, Haughton strangled a bulldog in the locker room to motivate his players.

He bought the Boston Braves with Arthur Chamberlin Wise in 1916. Haughton served as club president until the team was purchased by George Washington Grant in 1919.

Haughton served as the head coach of Camp Devens football team in 1917. In 1918 he was commissioned as a major in the United States Army's Chemical Warfare Service. After Haughton's military service ended, he announced he would not return to Harvard, instead focusing on his work with White Weld & Co.

Haughton became Columbia's football coach in spring 1923 as the school re-established a team that had been dissolved in 1905 following allegations that football had become too violent. To alleviate concerns that the game was still too violent, Haughton promised to instil discipline in his players, saying: "It will be my purpose to teach the men what they should learn in order to better prepare for life after the university. If I can do that, if I can contribute toward qualifying them for the finest type of citizenship, I will be satisfied."

Haughton died at age 48 on October 27, 1924, after becoming ill on the Columbia football field. The cause of death was classified as acute indigestion.

Head coaching record

Football

Notes

References

"Harvard University Base Ball Club. Records of Organized Baseball at Harvard : an inventory".
"Archived copy".
(January 9, 1916). "P. D. Haughton Buys Boston Nationals. Harvard Football Coach Heads Syndicate of Baseball Club Owners. Stallings As Manager. James E. Gaffney Surprises Sporting Circles by Disposing of Braves. Price Said to be $500,000". [[The New York Times]].
(January 31, 1919). "G. W. Grant Buys Braves". The New York Times.
(November 2, 1917). "76th Division, National Army, Football Team at Camp Devens". The Boston Daily Globe.
(July 27, 1918). "Percy Haughton Appointed Major". The Boston Daily Globe.
(April 3, 1919). "Haughton Lost to Harvard Football". The Boston Daily Globe.
[https://www.nytimes.com/1923/04/06/archives/butler-attends-haughton-dinner-columbia-president-optimistic-in.html "Butler Attends Haughton Dinner: Columbia President Optimistic in Talk Before Enthusiastic Alumni"], ''The New York Times''. April 6, 1923. Page 13.
(October 28, 1924). "Percy D. Haughton Expires Suddenly. Famous Football Coach Taken Ill on Columbia Field, Dies Soon After Being Rushed To Hospital. Deep Sorrow at Harvard Associates Stunned by the Sad News. Preeminent In Modern Game. Last Words Said Jokingly To Dr Withington". Boston Daily Globe.
(October 31, 1924). "Percy Haughton Buried at Boston". The New York Times.

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