The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
.BRICKLEYSF FEAT
ANOLD RECORD
Five Field Goals Made by Har-,
ward Star Accomplished
Years Ago by Traford.
HIS DISTANCE GREATER
EekersaIl, Of Chicago, EquaIed sh.
Same Stunt-RecOrd Made
Against Cornell in 1890. +,

Charley Brickley's great feat of Li.L.
ing hye held goals against Yats H., g
uiuaS mas ehc1ted lot of inforn,atior
and stu more misinfOrmatIon v,ith -
gard 10 records in that football snsci,It,,
and many followers of the game bay,s
been led to believe that the AeIJ s1o,I
ls strictly modern development under
she ne" rules as they have been in ef-
feet since the grand tinkerinR Of IaIo
bHckey stunt does not entitIe him to
the record, even II EckersaITs naraII,I
feat were TO be overlooked for h. -,
snare II with an Old-time Harvard pIaver
named Trafford. Field goals were w.,
often kicked even in the good old dsts
OF the mass play and the touchdown
b. w Tranord was the RrickIev nty
the gridiron nearly a generation apof
While Brickley kicked four goals from
drop kicks and the fifth from placement
Trafford booted five drop kicks over the
bar in the game with Cornell on Noyen-
Der /. 1880. The Crimson star sent tyu-I
OF the goals across from the g5-yari
line and the other three from the 30
yard mark. Brickley sent his drop kicks
over from the q, 40. % and H-yard
lines, and the goal from placement from
the Ss-yard mark
All-rOund kicker
Trafford was about the greatest hack
and al-around kicker the game had pro-
dueed up to his day, and since then
there have been few who have excelled
him. 1t will be seen that the total dis
tance of his kicks was 10 wards. as
against 154 yards for Brickley. How
ever, it must be considered that the
Harvard team which stood in front of
Trafford Outclassed the opposing eleven
from Cornell, as can be learned from the
score of n to O. and the Crimson had
no trouble IN holding back the weak
Cornell line in protecting the kicker.
Like the modern Harvard star, Trafford
succeeded in kicking five out Of seven
goals.
There have been quite a number of in
stances OF mems boOting four goals In
one game. The trick was first turned
by Alex Moffat, of Princeton, in the bat-
tie with Harvard in 1SSa Alex had
knack of kicking equally well with both
legs. Moffat's goals were all scored from
drop kicks, one from the 50, another
from the IS, and two. from the A-yard
chalk lines He still holds the recNN
for total distance Of kicks for goals in
one game. with las yards
BaIentI shows Class.
There has been a lot of conjecture
about the number OF field goals kicked
by Walter Eckersall. the famous Chi
cago quarter back, in the game with
Wisconsin in 1903. Eckersau kicked four
goals. one from sthe 4S-yard mark ane
three from the 2-yard boundary. All
were drop kicks. Another case of four
goals being kicked by a man in any
one game is that of Mike Balenti. Of the
Carlisle Indians. in the tussle with the
Navy in 1905. The Indians goals were
all booted over from placement, from
the IS, $. 3. and 2O-yard lines.
Football history contains several in
stances Of three goals credited to one
man in one game. George watkinson.
the great Yale player, in the contest
with Pennsylvania in lSSS. sent three
over from the 35-yard line, and Jim
Thorpe. of the Carlisle Indians, booted
trio from placement, one from IS and
two from 3 yards. against Penn State
in, 1905 W. E. Sprackling, the All
Eastern quarter of Brown, kicked a trio
of placements from % yards in the 1917
battle with Yale, and George Capr
the famous football player of MinnesOH
in the 1907 game with Wisconsin. kicked
two drop kicks from IS yards and one
from 30 yards.