The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-23

and kicking in this and preceding
games, virtually assured himself of the
captaincy of the 1914 eleven, and his
record is so unusual as to indicate
clearly that he will have no oppositionsl :
AS freshman he kicked four field
goals for the Harvard Youngsters
against Princeton and followed that
feat by scoring all the points against
the varsity Tigers the next year. Last
season he kicked three goals against
Yale, gaining nine of the 20 points
scored by Harvard and won both the
Yale and Princeton games of 1918 by
his remarkable drop and placement
kicking This season alone he has
kicked eleven field goals in nine games,
thus earning a place among the famous
kickers and punters, including O'Dea,
Hirschberger, Dewitt, Eckersall, Bull
Trafford and Brooke.
That Harvard really defeated Yale
by score of Is to is conceded by the
adherents of both elevens tonight, for
the safety scored by O'Brien was
two-point gift to the Blue, due to
misunderstanding of the rules. The play
with its unusual feature came in the
first period Immediately following
Brinkley's first field goal from YaIe's
3S-yard line; Guernsey kicked off from
his own 40-yard line.
O'Brien's misunderstanding
1t was a long drive and the ball hit
the Harvard goal post about six feet
from the ground, bounding back TO
Harvard's five-yard line. Had the
speriod remained there, ii would have
gone to Harvard and been put in play
in the usual way. Instead, however,
O'Brien, to make doubly sure what he
considered touchback, picked it up
xtrh fhn Vala ~,
away and carried it back across his
own line, where he touched it down,
thus committing a safety play accord
ing to the ruling OF Referee Langford.
This was the only error of judgment no.
ticeable in a hard fought, clean game.
There was little fumbling and but few ex-
hibitions of temper, despite the desperate
character of the struggle, and these never
passed the penalty point.
With but one or two exceptions, the
entire combinations forming the two teams
played football of high standard, and
several of both the Yale and Harvard
eleyens rose even above this lofty plane.
Brickley, aside from his field goals
kicking, proved that he is a player of
all round merit for he gained many yards
in line plunges and broken field runs. On
the defense he shone as the leader in di-
agnosing Yale's attack, particularly the
forward pass Brickley intercepted tile
long tosses of Wilson several times and
when he could not quite reach the ball
took care that no Yale player did better.
1t was this brilliant all-round playing,
together with his five goals. that makes
him Harvard's hero tonight.
Brickley Kicks Goal
Standing on the 26-yard line i'll the first
PERIOD he scored Harvards initial three
points, followed with another goal from
the 3S-yard line in the second period,
added two in the third session, one from
placement, and finished with fifth in the
final period from the 23-yard mark He
was standing near midfeld awaiting the
pass for another try when Timekeeper
Fultz terminated the game with the final
honk of his automobile horn
Credit for unusual playing form also
must be awarded to Logan, Harvard1
quarterback, who ran the team with keen
Judgment, timing and mixing his playsl
in way to disconcert Yale repeatedly.
He also caught and ran back difficult|
punts in excellent form. Mahan. althougnh
carefully covered by the Yale ends,
showed flashes of his broken field run
ming ability and several times slipped
through the line around the ends for
long runs. Bradlee as a secondary de-
fense player was the surest of the Grim
son backfeld quartet, stopping Eli after
Eli when they swept through or around
ond period because of injuries. The left
wing of the line showed weakness at
times. and 1t was through O'Brien, Storer
and Hitchcock that the Yale quick for
nation gained more frequently than
against Pennock. Gilman and Hardwick
For Yale, Quarterback Wilson was. a.
star of the first magnitude. In addition
to directing the Blue eleven without theI
errors of judgment noticeable in the
Princeton contest he shone as the best
ground gamer of the Eli backs. With lit
tie or no interference he drove through
the line or swept around the ends for
steady gains, and when Harvard had the
ball his tackling WAS fast and sure, Aims
worth also did excellent work, several of
the wing sweeps being due to his rapid
and sure footing. Knowles was used inl
several of Yale's runs from fake kick
(COntfnued ON fage FIfteen)