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...centered around Canton. Since then, at least 30 more professional teams have sprung up in the territory extending from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. The scope of the new football craze is perhaps best measured by the size of the cities which support the salaried players most generously. Charles Brickley '15 organized a team in New York several years ago, and this rather unsuccessful venture has been now transformed into a distinct success. The rivalry between the Chicago teams, the Bears and the Cardinals, weekly brings out crowds of 40,000 spectators. Kansas City, Rock Island, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, Canton...
...Never in all my football experience have I seen a gamer team than the Harvard eleven which, in holding Yale to a scoreless tie, gave an exhibition of desperate, defensive play which will certainly be long remembered by all those present."--Charles E. Brickley...
...Brickley tore off sixty yards and kicked a goal as well: Eddie Mahan went around the end and gave the Elis hell: O'Brein pasted Rafferty, assisted by Mike Shea: Kilpatric fook Tom Shevlin's place and messed...
...coach. Then the golden age of Harvard football flourished until the period of the world war. Harvard seems to have viewed its good fortune with an excess of caution; for, at the beginning of the 1914 season, the Alumni Bulletin felt quite gloomy over the fact that only Mahan, Brickley, Hardwick and Pennock could be counted on among the letter men returning to college...
...player enjoys the game as a game is not as easy to find an answer to as might seem at first sight. Undoubtedly George Owen's statement will be contested by many players. The Boston Herald has interviewed live former football stars and found only one, Charlie Brickley, who substantially agreed with Owen...