The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-09
CHARLIE bR|CKLEY, HARVARD' PUNTER. WAS ALWAYSASTAR
Played Great Prep Ball at Everett High-Captained Harvard's Freshmen
 Team-His Career

Eight years ago the manager of the football team that represented Everett High school sent out his annual call for students, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The institution wanted an eleven and the manager took the customary way of hay ing one formed.
 Among those who reported to the coach on the school athletic field that day in September was sturdy, good looking. compact, confident piece of masculinity. He answered to the roll when the name Brickley was called.
 ! He was dark haired and had eyes of Irish blue. He had the fighting qualities Of that race. He was a scrapper from the drop Of the bonnet
 If you want to know how Brickley fared. pick up the public prints and read how the Crimson of Harvard foated to tri- umph over the Orange and Black of old Nassau Scan the columns of copy that have been written telling thow the lads of Cambridge slew the Tiger, and then you will find how Brickley kicked Prince ton out of the championship. Weighs 100 Pounds And now, of course, you want to know something about Briekley. Very well. you shall have it. BriclSley is now 23 years old. stands feet inches above the ground and when the scales touch the 1s0 pound mark, why. they hit charlie's avordupois.
 The coach at Everett that season was | uo rrt.. greatest halfback which Everett had turned out previous to that time. He went subsequently to Dartmouth, where the name is still numbered among those who did yeoman service for the green on the gridiron.
 Jennings, in his elementary instruction had the men fall on the ball and pass | it The system of coaching gradually broadened until there came the line up. Young Briclzley, then a freshman, was shunted to the second string. He stayed there during one half.
 At the shank of the first half the subs took the ball. The signal was shouted. The ball was snapped. Brickley started. | He squirmed around the end. He dodged the secondary defense. He uneorked a burst of speed. He skipped 60 yards down the field for a touchdown.
 Back to the center of the field came the ball. The first eleven kicked off; straight to c. k. Brickley. Again the brilliant kid deftly caught the whrlng sphere. Once more he tucked the pigskin under his arm and was away like a flash. Not an opposing tackle reached him and again 1 ha ba1 coora5 far tba ct,I,e
 Makes the First Eleven
 That settled his status. Jennings yanked him out of the second string and threw him in as fullbaek on the varsity. He remained there four years. He made all-interscholastic teams three of his four years at Everett He soon became known as the best schoolboy back in New Eng land.
 Charlie readily measured, too, with any schoolboy backfield mar in the east. His diversified talents included everything within the line of academic and esoteric football. He tore through the line with the power of a locomotive. He eluded the ends and slSirted by the secondary de- | fense in wonderful bursts of speed. | On the defense he proved a stalwart.
 
 the secondary back was called upon to get the man with the ball, after the end had smashed the interference. l But he did not rest his fame as a schoolboy entirely on this. He studied kicking, He became a master like Billy Bull, the famous punter and kicker of | Yale. But Brickley did not care so much about distance kicking. He mastered the art of kicking that scored.
 As a drop kicker he excelled any back | in the east, even when in high school. His drop kicks often went 70 yards. Some l tines he even overtopped the crossbar with the ball from distances that ran | from 40 to 55 yards. In fact, he was veritable Pat O'Dea as an interscholastic star.
 Thus did his four years at Everett hold for hi mthe future promises that were fulfilled when he beat Princeton with his cunning foot. In interscholastic | circles he brought Everett to the pinnacle of champion by his flashing, doughty and daring efforts. His runs around the end made Sonerville. Medford and other high class schools bite the dust. His course at Everett finished Brick | ley went to Exeter for two years to pre- pare for Harvard. At the latter prepara- | tory scbool--a farm" for Harvard, to drop into the vernacular of baseball-Gus | Zoigler, the noted Pennsylvania football | player was the coach. The fame of Brickley had been emblazoned before | Charlie's arrival in the New Hampshire town where Exeter Academy is seated.
 He easily made the academic eleven. Andover is Exeter's greatest rival Both were founded by the Phlllipses, and the feeling between the two academies on the field of athletics is of the keenest sort
 Mahan Stops Him The yearly contest between the two brings to the gridiron where the game is staged a crowd that lacks none of the luster of a big college game. Num- bered among the alumni of Andover and Exeter are some of the greatest foot | ball players who ever donned the mole 1 skins.
 But to return to Brickley. He made the eleven. Then came the day of the great football game between the keen rivals three years ago. Andover had found Nemesis for Brickley. She found It in Eddie Mahan. recently elected captain of the Harvard freshmen, and who will be varsity material next sea 1 son.
 Brickley had Exeter's hopes pinned in 1 his prowess and the power of his boot. | Eut she reckoned without Mahan. An dover played for Brickley. She ignored the fellows in the backfield. But she spotted and espied him every time. | Charlie would start an end run. He would be smothered when the end and secondary backs. often pair of them, would pile or him pell mell and together. | His star went into the descepdancy 1 seintilated. Two years ago this was ! ,a fri tff.f,