Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-24

Harvard's decisive victory over
Yale on Saturday brought to asclose
what experts term the "major college
season" on Eastern gridirons. Har-
ward is practically certain to be rated
as the champion eleven of the East
again. Harvard went through the en-
tire season without being held to a
tie. Princeton had the honor OF
making the best showing against the
Crimson. Annapolis has not suffered
a defeat this season, but the Middies
have not played as many big teams
as Harvard has fought and con-
quered.
Guernsey Drops One Over.
Harvard, in the person OF Charley
Brickley, crushed Yale In the annual
football game on the Stadium grid
iron Saturday by score of 10 to 5.
All of Harvard's points were due To
the superb kicking of Briclley. He
sent the oval flying above the cross
bar on five separate occasions, four
goals being the result of drop kicks
and one being driven across the mark
from placement
Yale's points resulted from a sue
cessful drop kick from the 3S-yard
line by Guernsey in the second period
and a safety touchdown by O'Brien,
Harvard's right end, in the first PEE
riod, the latter play being of an ivory
nature which will hardly be forgotten
by the present generation of football
| fans.
O'Brien picked up the ball that had
been kicked against one of the goal
posts and had bounded back into this
| gridiron, and before anyone could get
O'Brien's thinking apparatus in prop
err thinking order he had trotted over
the goal line, where he placed the hall
down amid wild shouts OF laughter
from thousands of Yale men who
could not believe their eyes, But
Brickley's magnificent kicking put
Yale out of it--so much so that tho
New Haven crowd, filing out of the
stadium after the combat was over.
found consolation in the belief that.
without BriclSley Harvard would have
tasted defeat.
Whether such a result would have
come to pass or not is a mere matter
of conjecture. But 1t cannot be de-
MED that Brickley's goal kicking helps
ed the Crimson to a victory which
was devoid of anything that looked
like n Harvard touchdown.
BricIxIey's Toe Did 1t.
Princeton, to 0, due to field goal
by Brickley.
Brickley by his phenomenal plays
/ ing and kicking in This and the pres
ceding games, virtually assured him-
self of the captaincy of the 1919 elev-s
en-, and his record is so unusual aa
to indicate clearly that he will have
no opponent.
AS a freshman he kicked four field
goals for the Harvard youngsters
against Princeton, and followed that
feat by scoring all the points against
the varsity Tigers the next year
Last season he kicked three goals
against Yale, gaining nine of the
twenty points scored by Harvard, and
won both the Yale and Princeton
games of 1918 by his remarkable drop
and placement kicking.
Harvard was faster than Yales
That tells part of the story in few
words. Under Mahan's punts the
Crimson forwards got down the field
SO swiftly that Yale's quarterback.
Wilson, in four cases out of five was
unable to run the ball back.
Harvard, on the other hand, seemed
to have more success in running back
kicks, but on several occasions the
Crimson defensive tactics were made
to look school-boyish when Yales
protective interference, which was
provided the runner, doomed up in
peculiar fashion.
Yale Fights to Last Ditch.
| Yale fought valiantly every inch
of the way. When the first half
ended, many persons, including Har-
wards sympathizers, said they would
not be surprised if Yale carried the
day, and as the game progressed
Yale's desperation was apparent to
everyone. Brickley, however, over
whelmed the Blue, and that was all
there was to 1t.
| Those who saw Brickley's drop.
kicking in practise nearly three-quar-
ters of an hour before the time sched-
uled for the game to start were not
surprised by his achievements during
the contest. Brickley drop-kicked
goals from all sorts Of angles, and
all the way from the 20-yard line to
the center of the field. The stadium
was half filled at the time, and Brick
ley's work was watched by every
body. The Yale men quickly realized
that this young warrior was the one
that the Blue eleven would have to
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