The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-06
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moi broken.
.BRICKIEY MERELY TIED GOAL
PERFORMANCE S OF TRAP. Y, :
FORDlIN 1890:
IN SOME RESPECTS TRAFFORD's
RECORD WAS BETTER THAN
THATtOF BRICKLEY.

NEW YORK, Dec. 6.-The specs
tacular manneriin which: Haryardide
feated Yale in their annual football
game, due to five. field goals kicked
by Charles Il. Brickley, the Crimson
fuIlback, has;led TO uchdelying into
grldiron records TO ascertain whether
The feat wasya record one. as claimed
by many Immediately after the games
Careful research has proved that
Brickley did not make a new field
goal record, but merely tied the one
made by Bernie Trafford Of the Har-7
ward eleven in 1890 in the gamewitl
Cornell on November 1 Of that year;
In some respects Traff6rd's record
was better than Brickley's, since all
Of his kicks we're drop-kick field
goals, while Brickley scored four IL
this manner and one from placement:
The Cornell team Of 1890 was very
weak compared to the Yale eleven
that faced Harvard on November %
Of this year. The Crimson combina+
tion defeated the Ithaca team Of
1890 n to 0, and Trafford kicked be-
hind a defense that was never tried
in the manner that the Harvard eley-
en- of 1913 was while holdtng'bacK
the Blis who aimed tosploek Brick.
1ey's Kicks: Trafford, never hurried
N any time, kicked five drop-kick
field goals Out OF seven attempts from
the thirty and thirty-fiye yard lines,
averaging thirty-three yards for oil
five. Brickley scored from the TWEEN
ty-four, thirty-eigl&, thirty and TWEEN
ty.two yard lines and his placement
goal was made thirty-nine yards from
lie Yale Bar. This was total dis
lance of 1856 yards and averaged thlf-
ty.one yards per kick.
other football records which haze
been reported as broken this season
include the long field run and htgn
score, but in neither case do the l9lJ
performances rank with those Of otil-
Or games. The longest run Of foot
hall is credited to Walter Eckersall
If the University of Chicago team
who ran 100 yards in the game o.
1904 against Wisconsin. Eckersall
caught the ball on a kickoff and ran
from virtually his own goal lint
across Wisconsin's at the other enc
Of the field, passing the entire Bad,
ger eleven in his flight. The record
run from scrimmage is held by Il, M,
Coleman, OF Wisconsin, who pickeo
m the ball on tumble in the Min.
ncsota game of 1891 and ran lo0
wards for touchdown.5
There have been an unusual mum
her Of big scores rolled up during the
1918 season and sevcralof these nave
been claimed as records: Evansville
Ind Higl, school defeated Rockport
Ind, High school 143 to . on Sep
TENDER 81; Oklahoma A. and NJ, col
lego defeated Phillips University IL
10 3 on october Is; the University o
Louisville defeated Washington col
lege 10 OTTO on October is; wash
ington and Jefferson defeated Grow.
city 100 to 0 on November l, ant
Gallaudet defeated Baltimore colleg'
los to o. These nigh scores do no
exceed some of the big totals made
!. by famous eastern gridiron machines
Of mast years, all things considered
Princeton scored 140 to 0 agains
Lafayette in 1880 and Yale defeated
Wesleyan 100 to in 1885. SOM
yearssRgp the University Of Michigan
defeated 1.-THE Universitypf Buffalo b!
| aiscofes running into tiIrec figures Y
10. Coach "Hurry-up"s Sost tells Al
amusing story in connection will
this game. ;s
The contest was specially arranged
and held during the Buffalo Exposi
ton of 1901. Yost brought his ia
nous "point-a-minute" machine IRON
Michigan and the Wolverines pro
ceedcd to score touchdoWns on al
most every play. Buffalo had bu'
eighteen players in the squad ant
soon all were badly used up. In or
der to continue it was necessary tt
relay these men. 1t was against tht
rules of those days to returnsa playei
| to the game once ne had been takeE
J out: but Yost agreed to waive this
rule under the conditions. Late IL
The game lie saw form huddled W
under a Michigan-blanket on III:
side line and fearing that one OF nj:
men had been hurt, Yost went oYei
and lifted the blanket. Underneath
lay a Buffalo uniformed player.
Get over on your own side Of thSS
field" said Yost. This is Michigan
territory.
mot for thousand dollars" re
piled the player. If l go back they
will put me in the game again and
I've been in and out five times now
| know khen I've got enough II you