The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-20
CASEY RELIED
 UPON ID BEAT
 YALE SATURDAY

l Boston, Nov. 2O.-Casey and for
 ward passes will be Harvard's offen- i siVe reliance or Saturday. With Ralph Horween an uncertainty for playing the Yale game, the Crimson would be foolish to depend on a line bucking attack. For if there is one phase of its power where Yale can show at it's best it is in it's line de- fense.
 Against any but her lightest op- pOnents this Fall Harvard has found rather hard going in straight attacks
 on the line. The Crimson forwards
 have neither opened wide gaps for
 the runners to skip through, nor
 have they shown any superb steadi-
 ness when placed on the defencive Taken man for man, the Yale line shows heavier specimens. When the
 two lines are compared, Yale like wise seems to have an edge, although 1t is not wide one. But so long as
 Harvard lacks a pIunging back like
 Wendell, Bradley or ATahan, any line
 of the proportions of Yale will give
 the offence Q stiff. struggle.
 With Casey and the forward passes
 rating as Harvard's best bet, the
 Crimson still has plenty of trouble
 in front of it. There is no assurance
 that Yale cannot stop Harvard's
 overhead play. Certainly the Yale
 team was able to do more smearing
 against Princeton's TrimbIe- -to-Stru-
 ping pass than Harvard could do.
 Strubing, in fact, was nearly always well covered whenever the Tigers got
 ready to pass; and Princeton shift ed the threat to Garrity on several occasions, because the Tiger quarter back was hardly ever free to accept the pass.
 Princeton's passing game is by far the best of the Big Three, but l the ale-Prfnceton chart shows the Blue was much more successful in holding it in check than Harvard was
 There is reason to suppose, how ever, that the Crimson has improv- ed tremendously in it's passing since it met the Tigers. Haughton saw Harvard in the Princeton game, ana has been at Cambridge faithfully l ever since. This week he is again on the scene. and it is no wild stab to guess that he Is crilling the liar yard team in some tricky passes. Casey will doubtless be on the re- ceiving and throwing end of forward l passes Saturday. His sphere is known to include both ends of that partfcu- lar play, although in only one. game has he ever thrown a pass. That Springfield contest when Eddie got away with two successful forwards is still in the Yale mind, however. Casey's pass throwing is a big as- set for him and a real threat against Yale. Should Casey take the ball; start on enc of his usual end runs and then suddenly wheel and throw pass to some Harvard player down the field, the Yale defence would very likely be caught off of it's guard. For certainly every time that Casey takes the ball, the Yale team will be prepared to stop one of those flank
 excursions
 All season long Harvard's passing game has been little better than or ] dinary. Its greatest punch in that direction has been a short, quick pass over the middle of the line a play that has gained perhaps five
 or ten yards every time it succeed
 ed. But taken in the long run, when , the ball is in the enemy field it is i these short and successful passes that demoralize the defence. Not Harvard alone, but practically every big team
 in the country, has netted more gain | through the use of skillful short pass than through the more uncer- tain and longer heave.: