The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-30

for the post season contest much easier than teams which have been trained for several special games in a season of hard play. ''POoch' Don- oVan, trainer of Crimson teams for many years, said before he left with the 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 sure, and we'll make California's mfIder climate help, instead of retard us"
 The Eastern team will outweigh Oregon on the line, but will have a lighter backfeId. Harvard's line ad- vantage in poundage will be consider able. probably 100 pounds from end to end, or an average of about II pounds to a man. In the bacI1ffeId Harvard's shortCOuing in weight is represented by the difference between the 155 pounds of Casey, it's slight star, and the l75 pounds of Branden- berg, his Oregon opponent.
 The eastern college game this year was 2 varied one. IL included some- thing Of the Old-tiue Iine-bucking at tack, some Of the more advanced tao tics Of forward and lateral passing, and 9 freer use of the punt and kick, A'Ot-l -ti -l1- o-- ettt5s WHICH LOOKS Io ultimate advantage and the more di- rect scoring action of the field goal.
 The Harvard team as developed by Coach Robert T. Fisher, while not the best Of the eastern colleges in any Of 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 brafny combination. Its line, uncertain ln rnid-season, became the Proverbial stonewau against Yale, and by close charging and lifting. mastered ths | heavier and supposedly better Blue line.
 HarvarCs stand One-fOOt from it's goal against a Yale assault which had carried from mid-f1eld was one of the high spots of the seasons defensive play. The Crimson's defense against forward and lateral pass-attack is less of a known quantity. Innova- tions by Oregon may prove this to be l a Harvard weak spot.
 The Crimson scheme of attack is a ! well asserted one, with deception and i open play developed as the more ! brilliant supplement of rush and 1 charge. Its open game is built largely ! around Eddie Casey, the scintiIlat-
 
 1 Camp for AII-American back this ] year. Casey, a slip of youth by com 1 parison with the heaviest-set type of player, is expected to flash as bright l ly in the west as he did through liar wards campaign in the east.
 i Notwithstanding that Eddie Casey was the object of defensive attention l by several opposing players in each ] of Harvar5's big games, he came l through as the star Of each. 1 Whether in open-ffeld running, where his ability to shift and dodge, 1 to change suddenly both pace and di- rection, and to protect himself by wardtng off tackiers with stiff straight arm. gave him gain after gain; in forward passing, where he served both as thrower and receiver. more often as the latter and for con- siderable advances, Casey proved l himself one of the best backs of the east for all time. Harvard's princi l pal weapon of attack, Casey tied the 1 game with Princeton ana won the game with Yale by receiving forward 1 passes and completing them with l ell1ziva runs In the contest at Pasa-