The Coach Who Strangled the Bulldog: How Harvard's Percy Haughton Beat Yale and Reinvented Football - Paperback

by Dick Friedman (Author)

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 Biography

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.