The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03

smaller colleges were merely tryouts for the big teams, with the results never Tn doubt. Now when Brown, Dartmouth, Carlisle, Army, Navy, Pennsylvania State and several other small teams line up against the best of them it means bat tie from the very start. And this is good for the game.
 Harvard will be In the game next year. She has a freshman team which has won all it's games and has never had it's goal crossed Freshmen football, as rule, does not amount to ,much, and is or little interest even to the colleges them selves The results of the clubs games are of importance only because they give some sort of line on a colleges prospects for other years, prospects, incidentally that are not always what they seem to be.
 These youngsters at Harvard, however, are an exceptional lot. The team is the heaviest freshman eleven Harvard has ever had Hardwick, a IFS pounder, is the highest man in the backfield, barring Quarterback Logan, and the linesmen, a well balanced set as to weight, average around 173. Fullback Brickley is a deli- cate sort of child who can make 1sS by training hard.
 He is not only a line plunger of un- common strength, but has shown such wonderful skill in the drop kicking line that he is already considered a certainty for next years varsity. Not in years has Harvard had a back combining such rushing strength and kicking ability. Brickley more than any other man. has been responsible for the Harvard cubs present exalted position among the freshmen teams. Hardwick and Bradlea are moth good punters and consistent ground gathers, but the line, though hna ig 10 Ia y-xr defense has done more to foster that scoreless record than the forwards. Brickley was at his best as drop kick I.er when Harcards 15 defeated the | Princeton freshmen F to o. That morning the stocky crimson fullback kicked four goals, scoring all his teams points at distances ranging up to 37 yards. All told 1 he had six chances to score, all but the | frst-a placement effort from the 37 yard line-at different angles. Only Thorpe who kicked four against the Harvard varsity last week. has equaled this record of Brickleys. @
 | Though most of the strength of the team is concentrated in the backfied quartet l there are two youngsters of unusual abil- , ity in the rush line, both bearing familiar names. There is another Wilmington | younger brother of Paul and Lathrop, as
 well as second Wigglesworth. There l
 he had the bridges of his nose broken a | Princeton and his face generally badly | mussed up.
 l Yale and Princeton are not so well sup l piled with star freshmen. The Tiger cub.
 have been beaten or tied by very nearl,
 every team they have played, and tn. Bulldogs pups, though boasting of bet
 ter record, are no stronger
 There are promising men on both, bu xnfll tal lot nf .tx..~ l..,s,x them up to varsity form.
 It looks as though Yale is going to b, tip against it next Year. Nine of th years football outfit graduate next June
 And the worst of 1t Is that the young
 material at New Haven has not show
 up any too well this year. The mel
 wearing blue togs for the last time are
 Francis, ScullS Childs, McDevitt, Paul
 Howe, Freeman, Loree, Reilly and Strou,
 Camp, Spaulding and Bomeisler an, Ketcham are the only first string mel on this seasons eleven that will be ol
 the job when the call for candidates i , issued next year. The only eleven. east or west, whic
 has been able to make any conssten i headway with the rushing game is Gle Warmers thin red line'' and backfiel
 heroes from Carlisle.
 The Indians have shown the stfonges scoring machine in the east, with a fast i, powerful rushing attack well bolsterc with the fine kicking ability. Defensiv,
 ly the Indians are not as strong a
 Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth or Yves , Point, but they deserve credit for attempt ing more innovations than any other team and thereby giving the new game faire 1 test.
 r Dartmouth lost both her big games thi
 year through the merest flukes. and b