El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-06
BrickJey Of HARVARD Ties
IroffOrd's Kicking Record
Harvard Hero Against Cornell in 1890 Made Five Drop
Kick Field Goals, While One of Brickleys Goals
Was Made From Placement; Records Show the
Games of 1913 Do Not Create New Figures
as Claimed by Some Statisticians.
Ew YORK. Dec. 6.-The s

- ? EW YORK, Dec. 6.-The spectac-
ular manner in which Harvard
= defeated Yale in their annual
football game. due 10 five field goals
kicked BY Charles E. Brickley, the
Crimson fulIback. has led to much
delving into gridiron records to ascer-
tain whether the feat was a record one,
las claimed by many immediately aIIer
Hhe game. Careful research has proved
that Brickley did not make a new field
goal record, but merely tied the one
made by Bernie Iraftoro, OF the mar
ward eleven of 1890, in the game with
Cornell on November 1 Of that year In
sumo respects TaffOrd's record was
better than Brickley's. since all OF ms
kicks were drOp-kick field goals, WhlIe
Brickley scored four IN TINS manner
and one from placement
The Cornell team Of 1890 was very
weak compared to the Yale eleven that
faced Harvard on November Y OF TINS
year The Crimson combination defeated
the Ithaca team Of 1890 by n to o.
and TraffOrd kicked behind defence
that was never tried in the manner that
the Harvard eleven OF 1919 was Whlle
holding back the Els who aimed TO
block Brickley's kicks. Trafford, never
hurried at any time, kicked five drop
kick field goals out OF seven attempts
from the 30 and % yard me, aVeIstgllss
90 yards for all five Brlckley scored
from the "a, So, 80 and p yard lines
md his placement goal was made 80
yards from the Yale bar This was 2
total distance Of 155 yards ana aver
aged 81 yards per kick
Other Records Broken
Other football records which nave
been reported as broken this season IN
clude the long field run ana hlgn score
but in neither case do the 1913 per
formances rank with those or other
games. The longest run of tOorDall IS
credited to Walter ECkerSau, OF the
University Of Chicago team, VINO ran
IO5 wards in the game Of 1904 agalnst
Wisconsin Eckersall caught the pan
on a kickoff and ran from virtually MS
own goal lire across W1SconslnS al the
other end Of the field, passing the en-
tire Badger eleven IN MS 1llgnL Inc
record run from scrimmage is held by
H NJ Coleman. of Wisconsin, VINO
picked up the ball On a tumble IN the
Minnesota game Of 1891 ana ran 4V9
yards for a touchdown.
Big Scores Of 1913.
There have been an unusual number
IF big scores rolled up during the 1913
season and several OF these nave peen
claimed as records Evansville mo-
high school defeated RockporI ND
high school 143 to 0 on September q;
Oklahoma A & n college deIeateo
university 112 to 3 on october
IS. the University Of LOUISVILLE de-
feated Washington college 100 to on
October IS; Washington and Jefferson
defeated Grove City ZOE to on NoVem-
Der / and Gallaudet defeated Baltimore
college 103 to 0. These high scores 90
not exceed some Of the big totals made
BY famous eastern gridiron machines
of past years, all things conSldereo-
Princeton scored 40 to 0 against La
favette in 1880 and Yale defeated
WESLEYAN $50 to in 1886. Some years
ago the University of Michigan de-
feated the University Of Buffalo by a
score running into three 1lgureS- 10 o.
Coach ''Hurry-up" 4ost tells an anus