“Then began the mighty wall-scaling struggle to get over the fence and secure the coveted ball.  As fast as one team would try to boost each other over, their opponents would pull them down.  This contest continued for fully five minutes while the crowd roared with delight.  In the meantime George Butler, the Referee, took advantage of the situation and, with the assistance of several spectators, was boosted over the fence where he waited for some player to come and fall on the ball, which was fairly hidden in a ditch covered over with branches.  Butler tells to this day of the amusing sight as he beheld first one pair of hands grasping the top of the fence; one hand would loosen, then the other; then another set of hands would appear.  Heads were bobbing up and down and disappearing one after the other.  The crowd now became interested and showed their partiality, and with the assistance of some of the spectators a Tech player made his way over the fence and began his search for the ball, closely followed by a Georgia player.  They rushed around frantically looking for the ball.  Then Red Wilson joined in the search and quickly located it in the ditch; soon had it safely in his arms and Tech scored a touchdown.

“This was probably the only touchdown play in the history of the game which none of the spectators saw and which only the Referee and two other players saw at the time the player touched the ball down.”

That Charlie Brickley was in the way of bringing home the bacon to Harvard is well known to all.  There have been very few players who were as reliable as this star.  It was in his senior year that he was captain of the team and when the announcement came at the start of the football season that Brickley had been operated upon for appendicitis the football world extended to him its deepest sympathy.  During his illness he yearned to get out in time to play against Yale.  This all came true.  The applause which greeted him when Haughton sent this great player into the game—­with the Doctor’s approval—­must have impressed him that one and all were glad to see him get into the game.

Let us hear what Brickley has to say about playing the game.

“I have often been asked how I felt when attempting a drop kick in a close game before a large crowd.  During my first year I was a little nervous, but after that it didn’t bother me any more than as if I were eating lunch.  Constant practice for years gave me the feeling that I could kick the ball over every time I tried.  If I was successful, those who have seen me play are the best judges.  Confidence is a necessity in drop kicking.  The three hardest games I ever played in were the Dartmouth 3 to 0 game in 1912, and Princeton 3 to 0 in 1913, and the Yale 15 to 5 game of the same year.  The hardest field goal I ever had to kick was against Princeton in the mud in 1913.

[Illustration:  THE EVER RELIABLE BRICKLEY]

[Illustration:  A FOOTBALL THOROUGHBRED—­TACK HARDWICK]