The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-27
HARVARD IS SAVING
BR|CKLEY FOR FALL
Great Halfback Ordered to
Keep Out of Summer Sport
by Authorities.

Charlie Brickley, the star halfback Of
Harvard's last years victorious foot
ball team, will not be seen in active
competition DUNG the summer athletic
season. According to an edict issued
from Cambridge, the great player who
was principally responsible for the
Crimson s great showing on the grid
iron last fall has been requested to keep
out of all forms Of competitive athlet-
les this season.
On the advice of DR. Nichols, the
Harvard medical mentor, it has been
decided that Harvard cannot afford to
take any chances with the star who, it
| Is believed, will again help materially
to bring the football championship to
Cambridge next fall.
New Move at Harvard.
Such move on the part of the Har-
yard football authorities is one of the
Few known in the history of athletics
at Cambridge. Heretofore the Harvard
football solons were always strong for
any of the football players taking part
IN any competitive sports during the of
season, 1t was thought that such
thing kept them in fne condition to
start a strenuous football campaign in
the fall. The Crimson football officials
oelleve that the Crimson star is too val
liable player to expose to mishap.
1t is a well known fact among COL
llege athletic followers that Brickley
has been suffering from a pulled ten
don, the result of the strain of the last
!ootbal season. While the injury in
it was one that could not be neglected.
1t was in the Harvard Princeton
game. last fall that the injury first
manifested itself II was Bricklev' s
first experience in hig championship
game. He was particularly anxious to
make a good showing. He was forced
to stand much of the hrunt of the at
tack of the Tigers besides doing most
Of the running and kicking. He pulled
q tendon IN the upper part of bis leg.
Later, in the Yale game. as most of
The playing centered around the Grim.
son star, the injury again asserted
itself
Much Needed Rest.
After the close of the Harvard foot
ball season it was the intention of the
great football player to take a we'll
needed rest. But when the training of
the spring candidates for the baseball
team came around Bricklev again pre-.
sented himself as candidate for the
team and started training again.
Under Doc Sexton he trained for a
few weeks, but gradually was forced
to give up all thoughts of making the
team on account of his leg He be-
came candidate for the track team
and started early training in the Har-
yard baseball cage for the shotput and
jumping events He was. however, ad.
vised to give up active work for these
events. Later he competed indoors
and in the Harvard Cornell and Har-
ward Yale dual meets, where he made
a fine showing.
The dicision Of the crimson crack
TO give up. athletics this summer does
not mean that he will give up all train
ing As he is rapidly putting on weight
he will do little light exercise all
summer to keep his weight down.
Since college closed he has been
member of the Squam camp in New
Hampshire along with Ned Mahan and
other Harvard football players.
He has been. putting in his time
rowing. swimming and taking long
walks, besides teaching the young
idea how to shoot