The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-28
HARVARD-OREGON
 CLASH INDICATES
 NEW ERA IN CAME
East and West Will Meet on New Years Day at PasaI dena, Cal.-Great Scrap
 Is Promised

New York, December N.-Although the Il intercollegiate football season of 1920 is S still some nine months away, the pros poets of record gridiron session during |sthe coming year are clearly indicated by Il the playing of the Harvardoregon game l at Pasadena, Cal, on New Years Day as part of the Rose carnival. In many l respects this contest is the most unusua. | ever staged. and the breaking down oI \ generation old football traditions pears o1t the fact. demonstrating in the etest \ schedules that the sport will reach | pinnacle next season never approacheo in the past.
 | While there have been numerous inter- l sectional football games in other yearS' 1 and the playing of eastern college eleVef' l on Pacific coast gridirons is not unprece- | dented. the appearance of team rom one of the oldest and most famous or 1 America's universities in this role IS decided advance and recognition or the ever increasing scope of the auIuinn snort No championship is at stake ana | the claim ia not made that the two eiev- ems are the best in their respective secs l tions They were, however ranked hish 1 at the close of their seasons and can pc | accepted as fully representative eievens of the Atlantic and Pacific coast type or play.
  during the 1919 schedule, and was scored tn,rnon in three others. Harvard took par. fhA7 nine games won eight and was tleo Ebv Princeton in the other contest An I total scoring against the crimson cou sisted of two field goals and one toucn- l down made in the Yale ana Fri.ceeoA 1 earnes. There is no way in which 10 op 1 tain a line upon the respective strengtn l of Oregon and Harvard, even through Aha unsatisfactory method or compar~ five scores. for the institutions are so widely separated that mutual oppohei' was out of the question.
 PACIFIC TEAMS WIN
 | Ir the few Atlantic vs Pacific coast in +ercollegiate football games played eo ssats inc advantage rests with the fa l r;se ,rst;tution elevens. In 1915 Wasn- sngton defeated Brown, IA to V The Ao,- nowinx year Oregon defeated ,oie vania by a similar score. Durihs ls.' Syracuse made tour or tne ia snS | defeating Occidental college 50 to anu O-s.or Aggies 28 to 0. Previous to seach- Sng the coast Montana had tied the "yt l acuse combination in a to game. |" re17 and 1919 Syracuse played Nep,asN. winning the first game 10 to ana ioslns +he second to O. These games ov.as ,..ss,., l +nt. :. majority of the contests inVolVlns | sor waetern trips by eastern colleges. 1S-b;,e Harvard has never made such an | 4Saa trin an intersectional game IS l rot an innovation for the Crinson' iol Harvard and Michigan, to cite ony ,oo1 ease. have met in four games. III
 the wolverines were defeaaea 'G io 1a14 | Harvard completed us quarie' VI
 | bv winning, to 0. Harvard had an easy scneduie thiS SSa | and until the Princeton game vn ,. 1 verrher did not have to exteno i.sS SI. | r-;r..so, teams are developer physicahy l idea 1,s,9 tbem in condition to play tneir
 hnst srainst their old rivals or iae i And other games are taken III sei iue A uas,,It of this, combined with an easy l ecb edule. is that the Harvard 'eeah .an | sxnected to be able to DICK UP as t&.an l s,Nt vsost season contest muck easier tnan tne poas ,sioh nave been trained for sew ai srsc;al games in 8 season or naru iS. s~pooch'' Donovan, trainer oi @ @oIi .on teams for many years saiu at
 ha left with the eleven for tne coass ~, 1 nMv boys ought to be m top aoa nesn vesr,s | don't think they have oeen New ,s sa, h;shest vet this year. I'll bring
 .,s,,a along. I'm sure, and we Ill mahs
 Stn,ie,rr;a.s milder climate help, insteao
 oi rRIMSON LINE HEAVY nsstarn team will outweignt CrIn- con m the line, but will nave s, ,- i hack field Harvards me rraSa hlv / no .s.,r,,da from end to end, or an Av ara se of about 4 pounds to man. ;n cree eeJd Iarvard's shortcomng n ;,ht ia represented by the 'n,S.s.t stween the 155 pounds of casey, ns sa.s star and the If5 pounus V.
 his Oregon opponent this year varied one. It included so"
 thinx of the old-time line
 ,l .nlns snna of the more advanced tac-
 aeA' .s forward and lateral passins'
 n5 freer use of the punt ana Aion, hoth for the strategy wnicn looA' a;
 ultimate advantage and the n,oie
 rect ara team as developed by
 1as.x Rohert T. Fisher, while not tne
 ss. ., inc eastern colleges in any oi
 t s.veraI phases of the game, com
 1;ned all of them to round out me'n
 cd of play. eastern
 reptuation as an alert and DrainS con in
 bination. It's line, uncer. stnns season. became the proverpial s1on
 -rsI1 against Yale, and by close cnars-
 ;nr and lifting, mastered the neavief
 s .rnnosedlv better blue line. liar
 s.ard's stand one foot from it's goai
 arairst a Yale assault which had car
 ried from midfield was one or the nisn snots fthe seasons defensive pias,
 The Crimson's defense asains s of
 and lateral pass attack is less oi
 ,nawn ouantity Innovations by ore
 yon may prove this to be Harvard
 weak spot.
 The Crimson scheme of attack IS 2
 we,l assorted one, with deception ana
 nnen play developed as the more orii- . liant supplement of rush and charge,
 Its open game is built largely arounu
 aE,ddie" Casey, the scintillating back
 fie1d stard. choice of Walter Camp for
 all-American back this year. Casey,
 a slip of a youth by comparison with
 the heavier set type of player. is ex-
 nected to flash as brightly in the west
 as he did through Harvard's campaign
 in the east Notwithstanding that he
 was the object of defensive attention
 bv several opposing players in each of