Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-11-23

Eight years ago the manager OF the
football team that represented Ever
EFT High School sent out his annual
call for candidates. 1t was In Sep
teber. School had been opened but
a few days. The institution wanted
an eleven. And the manager took the
customary way to have one formed.
Lest one be mistaken, 1t would be
an act of geographical instruction to
state the locality of Everett. II is
one of the toes on the foot of Boston.
A no-license town, has a city hal,
street car system, a high school, loads
of pretty girls and-charlte Brickley.
And now to the heroic angle OF tbs
little tale. Among those who reported
TO the coach on the school athletic
field that day in September was a
sturdy. good looking, compact, conf
dent piece OF masculinity. He an
swered 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
Jared, pick UP the public prints and
read how the crimson or Harvard
foated in triumph over h orange
and black of old Nassau. Scan the
columns Of copy hat have been writ
ten telling how the lads OF Cambridge
slew the TigeR and then you will find
how Brickley kicked Princeton OUT OF
the championship.
And now, of course, you want to
know something about Brickiey.
Very well, you shall have 1t. Brick
lev Is now % years old, stands 8 feet
3 inches above the ground, and when
the scales touch the 1SO-pound mark
why. they tilt Charles a~voirdupois.
The coach at Everett that season
was Ted Jennings. The latter had
heen the greatest halfback which
Everett High had turned u previous
to that time. He went subsequently
to Dartmouth, where his name is
sttl numbered among those who did
veoman service for the green on the
gridiron.
jennings, in his elementary instruc-
ton. had the men fall on the ball ana
pass it. The system of coaching
gradually b~roadened until there came
the line-up. Young Brickley, 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 aroun
the end. He lodged the secondary
defense. He uncorked a burs OF
speed. He skipped sixty yards down
the field for a touchdown.
Back to the centre of the field came
the ball. The first eleven kicked on
straight to c. E. Brickley. Again
the brilliant kid deftly caught the
whirling sphere. Once more he
tucked the pigskin under his arm, ano
was away like a flash. Not an OPP
posing tackle reached him, and again
he had scored for the subs.
That settled his status. Jennings
vanked him out Of the second string
and threw him in as fullback on the
varsity. He remained there four
wears, He made all-interscholastlt
teams three of his foul years at Ev-
erett. He soon became known as the
best schooIboy back in New England
Charley readily measured, too, with
any schoolboy back-field man in tht
East. His diversified talents Included
everything within the line of AGA
demic and esoteric football. He tore
through the line with the power OF a
locomotive. He eluded the ends ana
skirted by the secondary defense in
wonderful bursts of speed.
On the defense he proved a stall
vart. Rarely did he fail to nail his
man when the secondary back Was
called upon to get the man with the
hall. after the end had smashed the
interference.
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 n
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 n
back in the East, even when in high
school. His drop kicks often went
forty yards. Sometimes he even DER
touped the crossbar with the ball
from distances hat ran from forty to
fifty-hve yards. In fact, he was q
veritable Pat O'Dea as an interscho-
lastic star.
Thus did his four ears at Everett
hold for him the 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 dashing, doughty and daring
efforts. His runs around Ii end
made Somerville, Medford and other
high-class schools bite the dust.
His course at Everett finished,
Brickley went to Exeter for two years
to D for Harvard. At the lat
ter preparatory school-a farm" for
Harvard, to drop into the v~ernacular
of baseball-Gus Ziegler. the noted
Pennsylvania football player, was
the coach. The fame of Brickley had
been emblazoned before Charles ar
rival 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
PhiIllpses. and the feeling between