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After 20 minutes of inconclusive struggling in 1913, the Crimson's Charlie Brickley dropkicked a 12-yard field goal to give the varsity a 3-0 lead. For the remaining 40 minutes of play, the valiant varsity line fought to contain Princeton's offense on the wet, muddy field. The Tigers twice moved deep enough into Harvard territory to try for a field goal, but each time the kick fell short. The varsity limped off the field still undefeated, but subdued. Two weeks later, Brickley, one of the greatest kickers in collegiate annals, scored 15 points on five goals from...
Crimson headlines after the game proclaimed, "Harvard 15, Yale 5. Brickley's 5 Goals from Field Wins (sic) Football Championship. Stadium Looks on a Yale Defeat After Eight Years Waiting." The greatest drop-kicker the game has ever known, Charlie Brickley, scored all 15 Harvard points on field goals ranging up to 40 yards in length. Brickley earlier that season had tallied the field goal that edged Princeton...
Drop-kicking played an important role in the 1912 Dartmouth game. Charley Brickley, probably the greatest kicker in the history of Harvard football, split the uprights in the third quarter from seven yards away, for the only three points scored in the entire contest. Nor was Brickley merely a field goal specialist; he rushed for 68 of the Crimson's 190 yards on the ground...
...rabid reformers and ultra-busy reshapers are almost always little flat-chested half pints who did the heavy watching and accused the team of quitting cold when it happened to lose." The New York Herald Tribune wondered why the CRIMSON didn't get the idea when Harvard still had Brickley, Casey, and Mahan, while other graduates and football coaches sympathized with the idea, but termed it impractical...
Among former Crimson players and coaches pictured for having starred in past Harvard-Yale games are Tack Hardwick, Percy Haughton, George Owen, Barry Wood, Charlie Brickley, and Ned Mahan...