The Washington herald., 1913-11-09
.BRICMEYS TOE
DEFEATS tigers
Harvard Triumphs Over
Princeton on Muddy Grid
IRON by Score Of 3 to 0.
DROP-KICK DOES TRICK
Crimson's Star Turns Trick in Second
Period-Cambridse Team No
Juggernaut.
DR0P-KIcK DOES TRICK
BY DAMON RUNYoN.

Brickley. already a mighty figure IN
American football history, booted old
Harvard to to victory over the
Princeton Tigers this afternoon.
One lifting smash from the famous
foot of the Massachusetts, boy shunted
a water-sogged ball between the Prince
ton goals. and the game was over. so far
as the result was concerned.
Plastered with mud from shoe cleats
TO head gear. and dimly visible to the
5000 spectators through a furious furry
OF rain, Brickley suggested nothing SO
much as a picture Of a primitive cave
man when he dropped back behind his
dripping line In the second period.
A kick by Law, Of the Tigers, had
been blocked at Princeton's 25-yard line,
and Gilmore had received the slippery
ball by a mad plunge through the muck
of the soaked field. Then a couple of
smashing plays against the Tiger line
edged the ball to close range OF the
Orange and Black posts. and the great
booter of the Crimson stepped backward
few PAGES. shaking big clots OF mud
from his shoes by kicking his legs
viciously at the air.
II had been raining intermittently
throughout the game, but at the mo-
ment when Brickley set himself for his
boot. the swirIing clouds above the field
suddenly shed a wild gust of water. and
the spectators were so busy trying to
shield themselves that they hardly real
ICED the import OF the play before the
solid thud Of Brickley's boot as IL met
the heavy leather. carried across the
field.
BricLIey Kicks n Goal.
Then the ball spun slowly upward and
forward. shedding a fine fuzz Of water
as Il moved, until II had passed between
the Tiger posts
II was not spectacular kick. as such
things are reckoned in football, but II
happened to be the kick that won. and
so Il will take complete place among the
great deeds of the game. Thereafter.
throughout the furious fight up and down
the sloppy field, Brickley was one OF the
Crimson stars. but he was never able
, to repeat his TaIlop of that wet moment
in the second period. although he tried
time and again. The dope on this game
went wrong. as the dope on football
games so often goes wrong.
II was expected that Harvard would
win by a good sized score. When the
rain came on Princeton men said their
team had been practically eliminated
from the contest entirely. They said this
in view of the showing Princeton made
against Dartmouth on a muddy field two
weeks ago, but they reckoned without
the Princeton team
The Tigers outplayed the Crimson
crew most of the way. and instead OF
proving a walk-over for the championship
Cambridge team. there were moments
when II looked as II Princeton might
triumph.
A great fellow is this Charley Brick
ley, who won the game. In appearance
during his more peaceful pursuits. he is
a miniature Jim Jeffries. dark OF COM
plexion, thickly thewed. the beetle
broYed, but of infinite good nature.
wherein he differs materially from the
one-time champion of the world. He
reached Harvard at a period when the
athletic worm of the college had just
commenced to turn. and he has been,
and he still Is. of the greatest individ-
ual factors in the transformation, up
Cambridge way.
Hobey Baker, the blond-haired captain
Of the Tigers. tried a number Of shots
at the Harvard goal. without success.
Once in sheer desperation he fired from
the +-yard line. while the spectators
gasped their establishment at his temer-
ity The attempt fell far short Brick
ley. too tried a goal from the neighbor-
hood OF the G5-yard range. at a time
when Harvard had commenced to regard
her slippery hold on the victory with ap-
prehension, but Is yards on a wet field
Is too far for even a Brickley.
The Crimson won, but the Crimson
was no football juggernaut to squash the
Jersey jungaleers at the whim Of its
drivers On dry field, but then that
is something that is ever debated after
in a game on a wet field. There is no
reason to believe that mud handicapped
Harvard any more than II did Prince
ton, IL as much. II was simply a case
of the oId-time Tiger spirit leading up at
the sight of the Cambridge foe, and pro-
ducing a battle that win furnish an en-
tire chapter in itself for the football his
tories that are to be written.
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