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Plans for a memorial to Percy D. Haughton '99 who died last fall, builder of the famous football system, have been completed. The memorial, which is a cenotaph in stone, will be erected in front of the Locker Building at Soldiers Field, it has been announced by the committee in charge of the plans.
The famous coach will be shown down on one knee, in his favorite attitude. Beside him will be reproduced the runner with the ball and the tackler.
The plans provide for a white stone memorial, approximately 12 feet by five on the ground and eight feet high, with three stone steps leading to a cenotaph. On the face will be the striking football group with the words "In Memory of Percy Duncan Haughton" directly underneath the bas-relief. The coach, crouching to the right of the group is to be a portrait sculpture of Haughton. At the base of the monument will be cut the words. "A Memorial to Percy Duncan Haughton." On each end of the cenotaph will be the figure of an athlete, life-size in bas-relief.
The sculptress of the work is Miss Mary O. Bowditch and Walker, Walker and Kingsbury are the architects.
The members of the Haughton Memorial Committee are: Arthur Adams '99, J. W. Farley '99, J. W. Cutler '09, G. G. Browne '10, Paul Withington '10, R. T. Fisher '12, H. R. Hardwick '15, and M. L. Logan '15.
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