The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-30
Pacific Coast Teams Have
 Lead In Foo ball Series
Odds Favor Oregon in Coming Contes5-Coast Players Are Accustomed to Climate and Are Tn Better
 Physical Condition Than Harvard.

New York Dec 30.-A1though the nterconeg1ate football season of 1920 is stIu some nine months away the prospects Of Q record grIdi-on ses- sion during the coming year are clearly indicated by the playing of the Harvard Oregon game at Pasa- dena, Cal, on New Years Day as part of the Rose Carnival. In many respects this contest is the most un- usual ever staged and the breaking down of generation old football tra- d+ttons bears out the fact, demon strated in the latest schedules, that the sport will reach a, pinnacle next season never approached in the past.
 While there have been numerous erSactionaI football games in other years and the playing of eastern col lege eIevens on Pacific coast grid irons 1s not unprecedented, the ap- pearance Of q team from one of the oldest and most famous of Americas s universities in this role is Q decided advance and recognition of the ever increasing scope Of the Autumn sport.
 No championship is at stake and Ehe claim is not made that the two elevens are the best in their respec- tive sections. They were, however, ranked high at the close of their sea sons and can be accepted as fully representative eIevens of the Atlantic and Pacific coast type of play.
 Oregon won i've out of six games played during the 1919 schedule and was scored upon in three others, Harvard took part in nine games, won eight and was tied by Prince ton in the other contest. The total scoring against the crimson consisted of two field goals and one touch down made in the Yale and Prince ton games. There is no way Tn which to obtain a line upon the resp ective strength of Oregon and Harvard, even through the tisfautcpy method of comparative scores for the institutions are so widely separated that g. mutual opponent was out of the question.
 Tn the few Atlantic vs. Pacific coast intercollegiate football games played to date the advantage rests with the Pacific institution eIevens, In 1915 Washington defeated Brown 14 to 0. The following year Oregon defeated Pennsylvania by a similar score.
 During 1916 Syracuse made a tour of the far west defeating Occidental College 35 to 0 and Oregon Aggies 2S %o 0. Previous to reaching the coast Montana had tied the Syracuse com bination in a to game.
 In 1917 and 1919 Syracuse played Nebraska winning the first game 10 to and losing the second to Q. These games constitute a majority of the contests involving far western trips by eastern colleges. While Har- yard has never made such an extend ed trip an intersectionaI game is moi an innovation for the crimson for Harvard and Michigan to cite only one case, have met in four games In 1881 the Wolverines were defeat ed to 0; in 1888, 3 to o, in 1885, 1 to 0, and in 1914 Harvard completed its quartet of victories by winning ! to 0.
 Harvard had an easy schedule this year and until the Princeton game on November did not have to ex- tend itself. Crimson teams are de- veioped physically through a season with the idea solely of having then in condition to play their best against their old rivals of Yale. All other games are taken "in stride" A result of this. combined with an easy sched uIe is that the Harvard team is ex- n@eeed to be able to pick nn aaair