Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-24

Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 2S.-The
Harvard football team of 1913, with
fullback Charles +. Brickley playing
in the stellar role, established new
epoch in Crimson gridiron history,
Saturday, by defeating Yale, for the
first time in the Stadium, by score
of Is to s. Although 20 points were
scored by the two elevens neither
succeeded in carrying the ball across
the others goal line and all the points
were the direct or indirect result OF
kicking. Seven times during the 90
minutes of play Brickley drove the
ball spinning and turning over the
heads of the Yale players ana so
deadly was his accuracy with eye and
toe that Eve times the ball crossed
the goal bar for Crimson points.
Four times Guernsey, Yale's field goal
kicker, essayed the same feat and
but once did the leather spherold
cross Harvard's goal. To the ELS
earned three points, there was ADDED
an unearned two, due to an uninten-
tional safety by left end O,Brien OF
Harvard.
Thus. thanks to Brickley's splendid
Kicking ability, did Harvard defeat
Yale for the second time in two years
and win undisputed right to the East
crn intercollegiate football champion
shin of the year Excellent and spec
taclilar as was Brickleys play both
in running and kicking, however, the
fact remains that the splendid ma
chine that Coach Haughton develop
cd, this autumn earned equal glory
with the famous drop-kicker, for it
was the concerted play and efforts OF
the eleven men as whole that paved
the way for the situations from which
Brickley scored the 10 points that
stands as Harvard record against the
Blue That Guernsey, on the other
hand. failed to approach Brickley's
feat was due almost entirely TO the
fact that the team In front or nm
could not hold or drive back the
Crimson to a point where field goat
kicking passed from the improbable
to the possible.
That such should be the case was
not accounted for by any great physi-
cal or playing superiority of the Har-
ward men as individuals, but rather
by the coaching methods and system
of attack and defense, stated broadly.
Harvard played well balanced game
in both offense and defense In which
the best and most conservative parts
Of the new and old football were skill
fully combined Opposed to this was
a Yale game that would undoubtedly
have won under the five yards in
three downs" days; but it was abso-
lutely unsuted to win against the
Harvard eleven of 1913. The victory
of the Crimson, therefore, was as
much victory for the Harvard
coaching system as il was for the
Crimson players.
That IL was Harvard victory in eY-
cry sense of the word, devoid of ukes
or questionable features, is eloquently
proved by the figures and statistics oil
the game play by play, the Crimson
surpa ssed the Blue, and there was am
pie reason for the unrestrained enthu-
siasm and rejoicing in Boston and
Cambridge, Saturday night.
During the 60 minutes of struggle ON
the turf of the Stadium, Harvard
gained 229 yards and nine first downs
in So rushes, against Yale's li5 yards
and six first downs in Al rushes. Ma
han gained III yards in 16 punts to 4oZ
yards I'm the combined 10 punts by
Guernsey and Knowles.
B,ickley kicked five goals out OF sew
en- tries covering a total of 30l yards
10 Guernsey's one goal in four tries
covering a total of TIA yards Harvard
PLAYERS ran back Yale punts 133 yards
against 54 yards, thus regained by the
Ii a z
Yards for holding and rough taekiing
to Barvard's five yards for oh-side
play.