New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-25
Polo Grounds Gr0on1ed
for Football Invasion
Gridiron Laid Out and Everything
Ready for Army-Navy Game
on Saturday.
SCORING PUNCH BY HARVARD
Exact Figures Furnished for the
Three Marches Down Field
Which Opened the Way.

Whom the Army and Navy elevens in
-ode this city on Saturday to fight out
,,.ir yearly battle and ring down the
tootbaU curtain they will find the Polo
Grounds shorn Of any semblance to a
hossbau diamond and converted into an
approved gridiron.
One of the goal posts will be at the
ho,,e Mate. the other in centre field. The
shin part Of the diamond has been sodded
long enough TO make The turf firm, while
low fence has been built around the
,lavine field. Temporary stands and tenn
norary boxes have been provided and
sverything done for the comfort and con-
venience of the players and onlookers-
everything except 10000 or more seats,
tor which. unfortunately, there is no
room.
Tickets fol the game are being guarded
under lock and key in safety deposit
boxes behind combinations and time
locks
The following query one of six along
the same line. has reached the sporting
editor Of The Tribune:
What are the exact figures which bear
ont a statement in The Tribune that three
distinct marches down the field by Har-
ward. with running attack on Saturday,
led Nd in sequence TO the fnality of
score by drop kick?'
These figures are easily furnished.
Early in the third period Harvard. TAX
ing the ball on a punt on her own 3O-yard
line. rushed II forty-two yards in seven
plays and Brickley kicked a goal from
the SS-yard line.
On the next kickoff by Yale Mahan
ran back fifteen yards to the Crimson 30
yard line, whereupon Harvard, in six
rushes. gained forty-nine yards, and
Brickley again kicked a goal from the &C.
yard mark.
In the fourth period Harvard took the
ball about the centre of the field and car
RED IT thirty-one yards In eight rushing
plays for Brickley 10 kick a goal from the
2-yard line.
As a matter Of fact. Harvard had one
other short march down the field in the
first period when. with the ball on Yale's
S-yard line, as the result Of l5-yard
penalty, the Crimson advanced il twenty
Yards in five rushes for Brickley to do
the rest.
Surely no question can be raised as TO
the continuity and finality of Harvard's
offence The drop kick is quite as much
part Of football as an end run or
plunge off guard.
Going UP to Cambridge on Friday even
ing. a number of college graduates were
discussing the then approaching struggle
In the stadium. and a Yale man said;
Show me the Harvard back who has
eyer been able to gain any ground con-
slstently through a Yale line except Wen
dell" Dibblee was suggested Non
sense" he replied thank CUTS ana
Blagden for Dibblees good work.
Coming back from Cambridge. il would
have been easy to add Charley Brickley
and Eddie Mahan to the list.
Percy d. Haughton. head coach OF the
Harvard eleven, who earns thereby
psltry s. 90 q year for about ten weeks OF
work, is quoted as saying;
ITO my mind the skill Of the Harvard
team was but a detail when compared
10 It's spirit"
Becoming modesty and nice sentiment
but Brickley's toe a mere detail? Perish
the thought
Carl Flanders, former Yale player OF
note and keen student Of football, says
in THE Boston Herald:
Il call the Harvard team great team.
and later adds: The game of the Yale
team. considered in general. would have
been entirely adequate had IT not been
for the presence Of entire certainty in
the Harvard backheld in the person of
Brickley."
Most every Yale man seems 10 thlnk
II was a case of-Too much Brickley.
Some Pennsylvania men are not so sure
as others that Cornell will provide the
usual sauce for the Thanksgiving Day
dinner.
Several Harvard coaches will give Char
ley Daily a hand in the final polishing OF
the Army eleven. Yale men VIII DO the
same at Annapolis