Evening star., 1913-11-25
NOT AN EASY TASK
TO RATE ELEVENS
Almost Impossible for Experts
to Pick Champion South
Atlantic Team.
RECORD SHOWS BRICKLEY
is MAINSTAY OF HARVARD
Has Done Much Scoring in the Three
Years He Has Played
Foot Ball
BY H. c. BYRD.

1t will be extremely difficult to make
a rating of the teams in the South At
iantic section this year. 1t has been
long Gne since the eievens have failed
to Show n such 4 manner that win
ner OF the championship could not be Sc
lected with a fair certainty that there
would be little doubt about il, but II
| seems impossible to forecast the games
| of Thanksgiving day go as to clear up
the situation and enable those who take
| it upon themselves TO accurately place
the schools in their proper order at the
! end OF each season
| Had the North Carolina Agricultural
and Mechanical College won from the
Virginia Military Institute there is little
I doubt that i; would have been given the
preference over all the others, provided
lit wins from Washington and Lee
Thanksgiving day.
/ If il beats Washington and Lee de-
cisivey it is going to step in with
strong claim. anyway, but there
viii be that black mark set against its
record by V. NJ. /. Virginia would also
have n grand chance to claim the cham
ponship. not only of the south Atlantic
region, but also of the entire south; but
what about that defeat at the hands Or
Georgetown. which had previously lost TO
the Agricultu- al and Mechanical College?
The Virginia Polytechnical Institute de-
feated North Carolina but 1t lost 10
Washington and Lee. which is as yet un-
feated If the aforementioned wins from
A. & NJ. Thanksgiving day 1t will put
up mighty strenuous objection II any
body rates another school higher than it
self and not without reason.
Had Virginia not lost to Georgetown it
would undoubtedly have been entitled to
the best rating. There is not much ques-
tion about its ability TO secure victory
over North Carolina, and one over
Georgetown would have given it an ac-
knowledged championship over nearly
the entire south. This would have been
conceded by all. Had Virginia won from
the Blue and Gray there would have been
but one eleven to dispute It's right to the
highest southern honors-the University
of Alabama.
Here is something of a tumble out
of which rating must be made: A. ana
NJ. beat Georgetown; Georgetown won
from Virginia. Virginia defeated V. NJ. l.
and Y NJ. /. won from \. and M. v
P. |. obtained a victory over North Car
olina. and both these teams lost to WASH
! ington and Lee. Virginia also has vic
tories over Georgia and Vanderbilt to
it's credit This makes almost hopeless
tangle, with several contests yet to be
played. If Washington and Lee is the
victor over A. and NJ. Thursday it looks
as if 1t will have to be given a preference
the mix-up will be even worse.
Georgetown has begun work in ear
nest this week for it's game with Holy
Cross. Little was done last week. 1t is al
ways difficult for the Blue and Gray
players to get started after their Nir-
ginia game, and this year has been no
exception.
A table of statistics shows that Brick
ley has accomplished a great deal for
Harvard since he has been representing 1t
on the gridron. There are few foot
ball players who point to as brilliant
record as that which Brickley has. He
has been at Harvard three years. and
during that period has played on the
freshman team one year and on the var
sity two. He has scored total of 245
points. TWenty-four touChdowns have
been made by him and thirty-four field
goals have been kicked. In two years as
a varsity player Brickley has scored