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...Blackman, coach of the losing Dartmouth football team, remarked after Harvard's 9-6 upset Saturday that the kickers made the main difference in the game. The Crimson's margin of victory came through a field goal by one kicker, Dave Ward, and its domination of the contest largely through the efforts of another, Bruce MacIntyre, who contributed a good deal more than his toe work...
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...
...scrum, veteran kicker Graham Russell and wing forwards Ted Frembgen and Dick Holmes are the standouts. With the return of Jim Keating, an excellent prop last spring, and Bob Embersits, Yale football captain two years ago, the scrum will combine power and speed with great experience...
...signals are coming in loud and clear." If its perigee edges in too close to the earth, the paddle-wheel satellite still has a 5-lb. kick rocket that can be fired to elongate its orbit; last week's launching was such a perfect shot that the kicker was not fired...