The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-25
.bR|CKLEY'S ABSENCE WILL
CAUSE HARVARDss DEFEAT
Nlichigan's Team Not All-star Aggle.
cation, but Powerful Work
ing Machine.
NEW TACTICS MUST PREVAIL
Instead OF Haughton's Men Relying
on the Wonderful Brickley, They
k Must Now Garry Ball Over the
Line, an Almost Impossible Task.

| NEW YORK, October .24.-Harvard.
without its marvellous Brlckley. seems
due for beating when 1t tackles tho
powerful Michigan team that Hurry
! Up" Yost has assembled and which he
will send against tho Crimson warriors
! in Cambridge next Saturday.
4 One Of the most regretable features
( OF the( year. from the sporting view
7 point, is the fact that Brick1ey has
been forced out OF the Hazard lineup
I that he will spend next Saturday in the
] hospital recuper.ting from an opera
! ton when his services are SO badly
! needed by his team.
With Brickley In the lineup. the
/ game promised to be a thriller. 1t
J promised to be one OF the greatest
battles in football history. But with
Brickley hors dc combat. only a few
I of the staunchest Harvard supporters
| feel that the Crimson Will triumph over
! the Make and Blue
/ Tho Harvard team was built around
I Brickley. The great fullback was the
main cog In the Harvard machine. With
! that cog removed. the machine seems
minus It's power and its tremendous
drive. To Brickley. more than anyone
| else, Is due the credit for Earvard's
| great showing during tho past three
years. Brickley'e boot beat Yale and
Princeton last year. and 1t was figured
that Brickley's boot might repeat
against Michigan.
Tho Harvard team during the past
three seasons has not been drilled to
| make touchdowns against It's strongest
foes. 1t hasn't been drilled to smash
through the enemys lines and smash
and smash again until 1t has carried
the ball over the line. Its main drilling
has been to get the ball to within TWEEN
ty or thirty yards OF the rival line and
to leave the rest to Brickley and his
boot
Rarely has the Harvard team at
tempted to carry the ball over tho line
OF It's powerful foes since Brickley
Joined the squad. Coach Haughton
probably figured there wasn't any use
in taking chance on having his men
battered in II fierce fight In the shadows
Of the goal posts when he had Brick
ley's toe to lead Harvard to an easter
and less dangerous way to victory.
lIne-up, leaves Harvard without a real
that line So has Hardwick But
/ s Hausht e1 NOV" now i face to face with
the task OF drilling the Harvard team
in to becoming touchdown machine.
He realizes that he must school 1t not
only to carry the ball to the twenty or
thirty-yard line. but then carry it over
!, forestall bitter battle within the ten
yard line. The task that he faces in
the limited time that he has is q huge
one.
Haughton may. succeed. Harvard
may give Michigan beating when
they meet next Saturday. This Is the
year when all the dope" IS being upset
But IL Harvard wins 1t will be q sur
prise--and a big one-because Harvard
will be pitted against a powerful
The Michigan team of 1914 is {, team
that it's every foo must respect and
| fear. 1t isn't cluttered up with nll-
star men. 1t isn't given to individual
playing but the team is perfect in it's
machine work. 1t is faSt and il surely
can fight 1t is. equally powerful OH
defense and offense. \
Yost has schooled his men as he
never before schooled a team. The
greatest ambition OF. his life has been
to beat Harvard. The opportunity lies
before him-and he means to grasp It,
Ee is drilling his men to use an alter
mating attncS on Harynrd--a mixture
of old football with the new. And Yost,
too, has taught his men some tricks
that only the wonderful brain OF Yost
can figure out-tricks intended to
amaze the spectators and sweep Har-
ward on It's feet.
It's too bad for the sake OF the
play; a wonderful and thrilling
both teams sending their full strength
permit ai!bis. such as are likely to come
from Harvard--and with justification
IL Harvard Is beaten.