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...that 1914 season which exemplified Brickley's greatness? The captain of the Crimson eleven, Brickley was kept off the gridiron early in the season by an inflamed appendix. Nevertheless, he returned for The Game and booted the final extra point of the 36-0 defeat of the Elis, extending Harvard's unbeaten streak to 26 games to close his career. Or was it proved during the Yale showdown the year before? Harvard had never won at the Yale Bowl and had never beaten the Elis twice...
Then, those to whom the gridiron torch had been passed lined up against each other, and Harvard Coach Joe Restic's last game against the Tribe began...
Firing back correct answers to questions on everything from genetics to the gridiron, a team of HArvard trivia buffs took first place Saturday at the Terrier Tussle II trivia tournament hosted by Boston University...
...define a presidency, but so will small acts at the margin. Who knows? If Richard Nixon hadn't dressed the White House guards like Prussian police, he might have survived Watergate. There would have been no need for the fashion-obsessed Nancy Reagan to debase herself at a Gridiron Club dinner dressed up like a bag lady in hand-me-downs if the East Wing had not declared a tablecloth crisis and ordered new hand-painted china inscribed "Nancy" the minute she moved in. George Bush got most of the symbols right, except for the pork rinds and country music...
...same way he loves the spontaneous combustion of an opposing player and the quick, extemporaneous cut to the open field. The gridiron is his stage...