Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-07
BRIcKLEY TRULY FAMOUS.
Harvard's Football Hero Senses Leca- ton of Goal Posts Rapidly and Ac- curately-Star Performers of Other Days.

The brilliant achivement of Charles B. Brickley this fall invites at the present time unusual interest in this branch of the football art. Brickley's performance in the game with Prince ton not only is remarkable because it scored enough points to have won the game for Harvard, but also because so many field goals have been kicked by one player in single game only once before in the 96 years of football between Harvard. Pennsylvania and Yale, says an exchange The drop and place kicks presents the most diff cult performance in football. To exe- cute drop kick, the player, in the face of a veritable avalanche of ad- versaries crashing upon him, must drop the ball from his hands to the ground. and catching it with his toe upon the bound drive it over a distant crossbar IS feet and inches in width. So perfectly timed by long practice is the kick with the rebound of the ball that the eye cannot perceive that the ball really has touched the ground, but practiced ear easily and instant ly detects the bound by pronounced difference in the sound of the kicker s foot against the ball. The place kick
  ball held in position upon the ground by a comrade.
 In his drop kicking form Brickley presents a vital difference from the great goal kickers who have preceded him, in that he kicks absolutely with out deliberateness. Other kickers have been forced momentarily to boise and point the ball, and to locate the goal posts with their eye. As a result their kicks frequently have been block ed by the charge of the opposing rush line. When the ball reaches Brickley from the center there is no pause. It instantly is deftly Tipped into position, dropped and kicked, the flight of the ball to Brickley, it's drop to the ground, and course to the crossbar, rather re- sembling the bank shot, of billiard ball. Accurately sensing the exact To- cation of the goal posts, Brickley does not even take flashing glance at the object at which he is aiming, but with his eye on the ball kicks into space. The next instant he is buried benath the charging avalanche of hostile play CTS, but the ball, sailing safely above their heads, is we'll on it's way to the fatal crossbar.
 While the glamor of Brickley's field goals is still toout us let us compare the feat with the greatest field goal achievements in the history of the American game.
 For the longest goal from the field we must go back to the Princeton Tale game of November 30. 1882. Those were the days when the kicking game comprised the major method of attack and the rushing game was only in its infancy. At that time every player up on team was expected to be prof. cient in all kinds of kicks. Thus it happens that the best kicker upon the Princeton team was J. Triplett Hax- til, who was playing the position ot next to center" post now known as left guard. The Yale goal posts are 6a yards away. Haxall again carefully sights the ball for place kick. The ball is 13 yards to one side of center and a slight cross wind Is blowing Judging the wind with a wisp of grass, Haxall takes a last look at the crossbar, leaps against the ball on the run, and with mighty kick sends the pigskin spinning high above the lime lines, and the upturned faces of ths Yale players. Midway in it's flight the ball begins to fall. and 1t seems as though the kick will be short, but witt mysterious momentum it still keeps or and crosses over the bar, with foul