THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1948
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Harvard All-American Has Lead A Rough Life
New York, Dec. 16—(UP)—Fate still was kicking Charley Brickley around today.
It has made a habit out of it in the case of the Harvard football immortal, for Charley, in the years since he was a Crimson All. has taken more lumps than he ever did on the gridron.
Currently the big man with that wide smile is seriously ill in Roosevelt hospital. He entered on Dec. 12 and all they'll tell you is that he is "improved."
You can bet that Charley isn't kicking. He did a lot of it in his time, but always against a football. That kind of kicking he did very well, too.
Because Charley ranks with the late Walter Eckersall of Chicago as the greatest drop kicker of all time, Ask them at Yale even today and they'll tell you, too. Harvard and Charley beat the Bulldogs, 15 to 1 in 1913—and Brickley made all the Harvard points on five field goals.
He was terrific in those days, and never did Yale win that traditional game while Harvard had Brickley in the backfield. In 1912 he scored a touchdown and kicked two field goals as the Crimson triumphed, 20 to 0. The next year his unerring right foot scored that 15 to 5 victory, and it was Charley's field goal which
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so produced the only points as Princeton was humbled, 3 to 0.
An appendectomy kept him on the sidelines through most of the 1914 season as a perverse fortune started to work on the two-time All-American who seemed to have such a wonderful future ahead.
Charley played a bit of pro football with the Massillon, Ohio Tigers after his graduation and then served during the first world war as a lieutenant in the navy. After that he opened his own stock brokerage firm and the years beckoned brightly in front of him.
But Charley wasn't shrewd enough for the wolves of Wall Street. In 1923 he was accused of illegal stock deals but Harvard men who had cheered him on the gridiron rallied to his aid and Charley was acquitted.
Four years later there was trouble again. The man whose name had been sung and cheered was accused of running a bucketshop. The gala days of gridiron glory faded as Brickley was convicted and served seven months in prison.
The flame of fame sputtered low then for the big fellow. The shining dreams collapsed as Charley want to work as a laborer in a carpet factory. Then, during the war, he turned up as a laborer in a Wilmington, Del., shipyard.
Gone were the bright uniforms of Grimson and the trim business suits to which they had led. Brickley's uniform now was a battered sweat-shirt, faded dungarees and a plastic helmet. The football hero who invaded Wall street was drawing $48 a week.
Now fate has kicked him again. It has done so quite often since those promising days of 1912 and 1913.
Charley took that job to aid his kids. His two sons were in service, and Brickley was doing his best to help them win another game. He wasn't the star now, just another guy doing a job like those ignored linemen of long ago. But Charley kept right on smiling.
Mitchell Returns To Sooner Lineup
Norman, Okla., Dec. 16- Quarterback Jack Mitchell returned today to his vital role in the University of Oklahoma football lineup as the Sooners worked out in weather described as typical of that to be expected in Year's Orleans New Year's dies.
Mitchell shook off all signs of his recent leg injury as he took part in scrimmage* yesterday, but halfback Darrell Royal was kept out of the pileups to permit an ankle cut to heal. The scrimmage yesterday came after a heavy afternoon shower which left the field soggy, and more showers were due today.
Hot Combo Leads AL Hockey Play
New York, Dec. 16—(UP)—Winger Paul Gladu and the St. Louis Flyers stacked up as the hottest combination in the American Hockey league today.
The Flyers, Western division pace-setters, increased their lead to eight points last night by Gladu's three goals and two assists. Last night was the fourth time Gladu has scored three goals in one game this season.
OU May Break Big 7 Bowl Jinx
Oklahoma University has a chance to be the only Big Seven, formerly the Big Six, conference team to win either a Rose, Sugar, Cotton or Orange bowl game. North Carolina university, Oklahoma's opponent in the Sugar bowl this year, was beaten by the University of Georgia 20 to 10 in the Sugar bowl game of 1947, the only major bowl game North Carolina has played in. North Carolina has a record of nine victories and one tie in the regular season play. Oklahoma has lost only to Santa Clara, the opener this season for the Sooners.
Nebraska, the only Big Seven conference team ever to compete in the Rose bowl, lost to Stanford 21 to 13 in 1941.
In the Sugar bowl game of 1942 Missouri lost to Fordham 2 to 0. Oklahoma will be the second conference representative to compete in the Sugar bowl.
Three conference teams have competed in the Orange bowl in its 16 years of existence. Oklahoma lost to Tennessee 17 to 0 in 1939, and Georgia Tech beat Missouri in 140, 21 to 7. Kansas came within a few inches of sideline of beating Georgia Tech last New Year's day, but came out on the short end of a 20 to 14 count.
The Cotton bowl has seen two of the Big Seven conference teams since the first game in 1937.
Sooners Safety Team The Best
New York, Dec. 16—(UP)—Little Lee Nanda, Vanderbilt university's 162-pound scatback, today won honors as the best safety man in college football during 1948, with a record rundown yardage to boot.
The Commodore star caught 43 opponents' punts and ran them back for a total of 791 yards—an average of 18.4 yards per try. His yardage total topped the previous high of 616 yards set by Indian Bill Gever of Colgate in 1941.
Billy Gregus of Wake Forest won the kickoff return title by a slim margin over Johnny Freeman of Portland. Gregus ran back 19 kickoffs for 503 yards while Freeman took 21 kickoffs back the same total. Oklahoma's Sugar bowl-bound Sooners had the prize two-man safety combination of the season in Jack Mitchell and Darrrell Royal. Mitchell finished second in punt returns with 22 catches that were run back 515 yards, while Roy was 14th with nine for 272 yards.
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