The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-12
Harvard Men Praise
 Oregon Football Stars
Say Coast Players Had Powerful Attack They Ever Faced, But Were Not Quite So Good
 On Defense

companied by the writers and friends who took the trip with them- Amongt the latter was Christy Walsh, pu5 licity director for the Maxwelll- -Chal- mers Autocomobile Go. Speaking of, the game in which Oregon was beat en New Years Day by to 6, he said:
 New Years Day at Pasadena l | was roofing for Oregon, the best in the West After four days of Pull man life with the national grfdtron champions, I am also roofing for Harvard, one of the finest aggrega- uons of a1l-Anerican sportsmen that,. ever learned the same set of tan bark signals.
 Oregon was a game loser. but Harvard is more - game winner! To capture the pikskin champion ship of the world without having to ? order a full set of large-size pneu- matic headgears for every man on the squad proves the sporting pedi- gree of the eastern victors |
 While 8 great majority of the 32,000 spectators at Pasadena backed | their western favorites to the last whistle, not one among them has more respect and admiration for the Lemon and Yellow than Coach Rob ert Fisher and every wearer of the crimson.
 According to the experts, the game was to prove the comparative value of football as done in the East and in the West. But it is now clear that the game, as dished up in New England or in Southern California is just good old American football, occasionally trimmed with a few fancy wrinkles, representing the notions of the individual coach and not the section of the country. This is the verdict ot the Harvard players.
 The battle of Pasadena proved 1 to be a bruising combat of ambi- | hous athletes. Even the winners were not certain of their impres- ! sfons for many hours after the ter rtble struggle. On the night of vic tory they were rushed from the elite environment of Hotel Raymond to | the more Bohemian atmosphere of | Vennon, a B. per cent. country club on the outskirts of Los An geles.
 1 At ten o'clock the following morning the California Limited stop ped at the Pasadena hostelry while twenty-three gridiron tliskies cIin,b- ed aboard. Immediately twenty linn pio eyel1ds were groping toward the waiting berths, where Pullman cur | tains folded them to daylight morn ing.
 By Saturday morning, with the cactus breath of Arizona filling UT their chests, the rested varsity be- gan to breathe and stretch and look its fighting self.
 F. Play by play. the game was re- | viewed Man for man, each Oregon 1 stalWart came in for a tribute iron, his Harvard opponent
 II It was the toughest ganoe +his l crowd ever went through Such was Coach Fishers comment.
 i The heat at Pasadena hurt us. of course, but we don't have to use snv aHbts, as a victory by a decimal poin+ IS just as sweet as any. Fortunata1v New Years Day was cloudy and cool er' and yet at the end of the first l quarter Harvard was as wfIted ss they were after the entire Yale esroa l But this was not entirely due to tba | warm weather, for Oregon must he credited with having the hardest hitting backf1e1d I have ever watched However, I believe that had we n1ay- ed Oregon before Thanksgivine. Harvard would have won by three | touchdowns.''
 That Oregon outfit would fight any team in the East to a standsti1I1 This is the opinion Of Billy NT,,rra,- Harvard captain and ouaterbsciz | Ihe1r interference was like a well staged movie It was dazzling ana perfect The man with the ball had all the protection of an iron fence Fasadena was my football valedicto- Iy ana believe 1t was the roushest. hardest game I ever played. These oregon cnaps are hard as rocks and came into our line like a landslide Never have I Seen our forwards s,, bruised. Never have I seen Sedeuicl, ana our other big 1inesmen actua111, reel rom the shock of attack Ran burger ana Huntington are two of the hardest, driving plungers I ever saw Bill Steers, the heralded ousr- teroack, did not live up to expecta
 tons, although, of coursa he n-o
 out the entire second and third ouar- lers. think Oregon needs improye
 ment in defensive work When Har- Vard had the ball in mid-fie1d or m the nve-yard line, Oregon's defence remained unchanged Their offan- saVe was swift and terrific in inc open, but once within our twenty yaro line the quarterback depart
 nIene apparently lacked the variety or plays to go further"
 Eddie Casey put up the pre.+es+ defensive game of his entire carae
 and perhaps his closing season .c
 
 cording to Harvard coach The vast holiday crowd naeged at him for l spectacular work on the offence hn+ ne was so busy throwing himself in
 the path of Oregon interference tba+ the Harvard bench was constant1y
 uneasy For many years Casey has had an injured stomach, an- Hstead or tackling, throws himself at tba knees of his opponent
 This stuff is the bunk says Eddie Casey. Charlie Chaplin anl Doug Fairbanks were on the Har~ yard bench, and both agree with me Too much is expected of the alleged star, and sometimes I wish was
 nard-Worklng, consistent guard or tackle instead of an overrated ha1f- !, back. In line with MT. GreeJev,s advice, we went West. and. we had two obJectives in mind-one. to win the game, the other to show o41r California friends that the fellow sat Harvard does not wear. spats lofg monecles, but is a soft-colared. two A