Word: brickley
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...spirit alone?which partly accounts for their devotion to football. Pigskin heroes can assume mythical proportions for eyes that have never beheld them. James Thorpe, the Indian, was a coppery comet, leaping in seven-league strides over a field of endless goal-lines; the right toe of good Charles Brickley stiffened into an obelisk for the reverence of generations; Eddie Mahan's red sweater, a football flattened against it, flamed across a continent of hushed back yards...
...football team, who nominated Haughton to the Athletic Committee as head coach for a term of years. Burr's eager advocacy of the appointment was justified by Haughton's record. Haughton, with time to work in, built up Harvard football. He had unusual material--Mahan, Hardwick, Brickley, Pennock, for example--and the coaching was as remarkable as the material. Haughton had skill, knowledge, magnetism, and, with all his fire, a common sense which kept in his mind the need of sending on the field players with their wits about them, not players deadened by overwork. This common sense he showed...
...Brickley's Toe Wins...
...game, played on November 16, was a grueling battle and marked for its roughness. The 3-0 defeat of the Green eleven was brought about by a skillful dropkick by Brickley. Harvard and Dartmouth drew further and further apart after this conflict, and no game was arranged for the succeeding year...
...Brickley '15 kicked five field goals in the game against Yale in the Stadium on November...