Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-31
All is Ready For Havard-OregOn Game

said before he left with .ne eleven for the coast: My boys ought to be in top-form by New Years. I don't think they have been at their highest yet this year. I'll bring them along, I'm srre, and we'll make California's milder climate help, instead of retard us"
 The Eastern team will outweigh Oregon on the line, but will have lighter backfeld. Harvards line ad- vantage in poundage will be cocsider- able probably 100 pounds from end to end or an average of about 14 pounds to man. nI the backfield Harvard's shortcoming in weight is represented by the differnce between the 155 pounds of Casey, it's slight star, and the 175 pounds of Brandenberg, his | Oregon opponent.
 The eastern college game this year was a varied one. It included some | thing of the old time line bucking at tack, some of the more advanced tac- tics of forward and lateral passing, and freer use of the punt and kick, both for the strategy which looks to ultimate advantage and the more di- l rect scoring action of the field goal. | The Harvard team as developed by Coach Robert T. Fisher, while not the | | these several phases of the game, combined all of them to round out a method of play.
 This gained for the eleven an east ern reputation as an alert and brainy combination. Its line, uncertain in mid season, became the prevefoial stonewall against Yale and by close charging and lifting, mastered the heavier and supposedly better Blue Line. Harvard's' stand one-foot from it's goal against a Yale assault winch had cared from md-field was one of the hgh spots of the seasons defen- sve play. The Crmson's defense aganst forward and lateral pass at
 tack less of a known quantity. h. novatons by Oregon may prove this
 to be Harvard weak spot
 The Crimson scheme of attack is a well assorted one, with deception and
 Spen play developed as the more bril-
 liant supplement of rush and charge
 Its open game is built largely around
 Eddie" Casey, the scintillating back
 field star, choice of Walter Camp for
 An-American back this year. Casey slip of youth by comparison with
 the heavier set type of player, is ex-
 pected to flash as brightly in the west
 as he did through Harvard's cam
 paign in the east. Notwithstanding
 that he was the object of defensive
 attention by several opposing players
 in each of Harvard's big games, he came through as the star of each.
 Whether in open-field running
 where his ability to shift and dodg6
 to change suddenly both pace and di- .. rection, and to protect himself by
 warding off opposing tack1ers with
 stiff straight arm, gave him gain af- ter gain: in forward passing where , he served both as thrower and re ceiver more often as the latter anG , for considerable advances Casey prov cd himself one of the best backs ot the. east for all time. Harvards prin cipal weanon Of attack. Casey tied tn,
 game with Princeton and won tn, game with Yale bv receiving forward passes and completing his last gam : under the contest at Pasadena ht will be playing his last game unde , Crimson colors, as his service in tht . navy will count toward a degree. The 1919 records of the two team. and the probable Harvard -Oregor [ statistics follows: