Harvard at Princeton

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  The Washington herald, November 9, 1913, page 20

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  .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 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 moment 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 individual 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 temerity The attempt fell far short Brick ley. too tried a goal from the neighborhood OF the G5-yard range. at a time when Harvard had commenced to regard her slippery hold on the victory with apprehension, 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 producing a battle that win furnish an entire chapter in itself for the football his tories that are to be written. Lineup and summary:

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  South Bend news-times, South Bend, Ind., November 13, 1913, page 1

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  SCORES PLACE NOTRE DAME UP WITH THE BEST Michigan AggieS-South Dakota and YaIe-PrinCetOn Games Saturday Expected to Clear the Situation. BY virtue Of her recent brilliant victories over West Point and Penn state, Notre Dame has come before the notice OF the football world with a rush. In the first year on eastern sridirons the gold and blue has star tied the enthusiasts Of the great col lege sport, and many noted critics are taVorably considering NOtre Dame as championship material. The Hooslers handily trimmed Penn State on Penn nome grounds. the first time this Feat has been performed in States history. and rolled up against West POINT the largest score that has ever been registered on the soldiers field. NOtre Dame has turned out splenaid teams in the past few years but not TIL she took the bull by the horns and invaded the east did she receive the recognition that was due her. The gold and blue is now classed with Harvard and Dartmouth and is thought TO be one OF the greatest teams IN the country. With the Army game as basis OF comparison NOtre Dame would stand on good terms with the best the east can offer. ON Nov. l. West Point was buried Dy the HOOsiers under a 80 70 IL score. The New York sporting writ ers hailed the westerners as one of pecIaIly lauded DOraiS and Eichenlaub for their stellar individual play ing. In this tilt the speedy Army eleven looked like nOVlceS and were completely amazed by the brilliant open attack OF the gold and blue. Previous 10 this game West Point had nOsed out Colgate 10 o. in hard fought battle and, on the same day that NOtre Dame scored her signal triumph. the big blue eleven of Yale succumbed To Colgate 10 10 s. Has IL Over Yale The above review Of recent games would prove NOtre Danes superior ity over Yale by wide margin. Now the blue usually gives Harvard the battle Of the season and by comparing ~ ale’s work against Princeton Saturday with the Harvard 3 TO 0 victory over the Tigers we viii be able TO fora a good estimate OF the relative strength of the Notre Dame and Harward eleyens. Turning now to games with Penn State, at first sight Notre Dame would seem inferior TO Harvard. The gold and blue trimmed State IA to while Harvard ran up a % to o score on the Quakers. When we examine the mat ter more closely, however, we find that Harvard played state in Cam bridge just after PENIS discOuraging defeat at the hands OF Washington and Jefferson. NOtre Dame tackled the fierce blue and white crew after the State men had gone through a months hard training and had met such teams as Harvard. w. K J. and Pennsylvania University. Again. NOtre Dame played State on States grounds which makes the vic tory all the more remarkable The gold and blue, moreover, had been weakened by excessive travelling ana the fact that the Army and Penn games were but six days apart gave the westerners only two days practice between these vital contests. When these facts are taken into con sideratiOn the victory over Penn State appears more formidable and the crimson cannot be said 20 have any thing on NOtre Dame till it is proved by an actual game. Comparative scores snow that the two teams are at teast on an equal footing. Title Is In Middle. ha rrraefawr “a or1enfn will

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  Arizona republican, Arizona, November 9, 1913, page 1

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  TIGER KICKED BY BR|CKLEYS VALUABLE TOE Harvard Drop-Kick Artist Scores Only Three Points in Princeton Game-Yale WOrsts Brown Cornell Trimmed PRINCETON, Nov s. Harvard shattered ancient football tradition here today by defeating Princeton on her own grounds by a score of 3 to 0. Credit for the victory goes in great part to Brickley, whose solitary goal field gave Harvard the three points which divided the victors and van ouished Brickley’s ability to score by kicking solved the football problem for the crimson which mud and rain other wise would have baffled. Finer points of football were absolutely lost be- cause of the muddy field. In the second period with the ball on Princeton’s twelve yard line, Harvard tried two line pIunges. The orange and black forwards held firm and it was evident, of the Crimson were to score, it must be by Brickley’s toe. Stepping back of the twenty yard line he care fully wiped the mud from his famous propelling boot; SOucy placed the ball and almost instantly it sailed across Princeton’s goal for the score which sent Harvard home a winner for the first time from JungletoWn. Princeton started with a rush. but the power to gain through the Crimson 1 line soon melted away. The Crimson grew stronger as the game drew to 2 1 close.

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  The Ocala evening star, Ocala, Fla., November 10, 1913, page 1

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  Harvard Beat Princeton on Her Own Ground Princeton, y: j., Nov. 9.-Harward Yesterday shattered an ancient football tradition here by defeating Princeton on her own ground by 3 TO 0. The credit for the victory goes in part to Charles Brickley, whose solitary goal from the field gave the Cambridge eleven the three points scored in the game and solved a football problem for Harvard which the mud and rain would. otherwise have baftled. The game was played on a field inches deep in mud as slippery as creased glass

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Princeton leads 51–⁠37–⁠7 in 95 meetings, counting the 77 since this game.