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...varsity bounced back to take the next four, winning, 5 to 3, on a blocked kick in 1911 and, 3 to 0, the following year on a field goal by Charley Brickley, "the most accurate booter who ever lived...
Harvard football continued on this high plane until the great upset of 1923. Going into that game, Yale had not scored a touchdown in the Harvard Stadium in 16 years; the names of Brickley, Hardwick, Pennock, Bradlee, Trumbull, Mahan and Casey were discussed by schoolboys throughout the country. Yale wasn't given a chance by the sports writers...
...Charley Brickley was the star of the 1912 victory, scoring two touchdowns for Haughton. He also got a goal with a drop kick in the first period and a placekick in the second...
...with a red feather in his hat will walk across the Lars Anderson bridge, he will enter his section of the stands and wave at a few acquaintances. He will look out on the field and see Ernie Horween or Eddie Mahan or Charlie Brickley. He'll watch the game and won't remember the score...
Died. Charles E. Brickley, 58, Harvard ('14), an All America football great and most spectacular dropkicker of them all; of a heart attack: in his Manhattan hotel room. In his greatest day, Halfback Brickley kicked all of Harvard's points in the spectacular 15-5 victory over Yale in 1913, in three years, made a total of 30 touchdowns and 34 field goals for the Crimson. He found life a tougher game to play, tried pro-football, brokerage, in later years wound up as an advertising salesman...