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Show mm title GfllEJHURSOAY Oregon Will Meet Harvard at Pasadena in Great Grid Battle. Pacific Coast Thus Far Leads in Annual Inter-sectional Inter-sectional Play. NI-:V YOKK, Dec. 21. Although the iiiUin.'olIr-iate football .season of 19-0 13 mill some nine mouths away, the prospects pros-pects of a record tirUliron season during the euMihiL,' year are clearly indicated by the playing of the IlarvnrU-OreBon game at riLHnde.ua, Cal., on New Year' a day us part of the ltose carnival. In many respects ihls contest 1h the nioet unusual ever Ht;i-d and the breaking down of Ketu-ration-uhl loot b;i 11 trad.uona bears out tin.- fact, ileinonsi rated in the latest H'ht-duh'a, that ihu spurt will rearh a pinnacle ik-'XL weapon never approached in Urn pant. Wiiiie i iif-rn liavo been numerous inter-"(.r'tinnal inter-"(.r'tinnal football saiur.s in other years and i hp p.ayiti'4 of eastern colli?" elevens on I'aeifie coast gridirons Is nor. unprece-d.MUcd, unprece-d.MUcd, the appearance of a team from one ui' the oldest and most famous of A rticrira's univt-rsU ies in this role is a diciiird advance and recognition of the rvor-increasiny scope of the autumn spurt. No championship is at stake and l lie claim is not inado that the two elevens are th; best in their respective sections. They were, however, ranked hmh at the close of their Masons and tan bo accepted as fully representative elevens of the Atlantic and Pacific coast type, uf play. Oregon won five out of fix games played during the 191U schedule and was scored upon in three others. Harvard took part in nine games, won eight and was tied by rrinccou in the other contest. con-test. The total scoring against the Crim-mjii Crim-mjii consisted of two field goals and one touchdown, made in the Yale and Princeton Prince-ton games. There is no way in which to obtain a line upon the respective Mtreugth of Oregon and Harvard, even through the unsatisfactory method of comparative scores, for the institutions a re so widely separated that a mutual opponent was out of the question. West Thus Far Superior. In the few Atlantic vs. Pacific coast Intrcollegiate footlxill games played to date the advantage rests with the Pa-cif Pa-cif He institution elevens. In 1915 Washington Wash-ington defeated Brown, 14 to 0. The following fol-lowing year Oregon defeated Pennsylvania by a similar score. During Syracuse, made a tour of the far went, defeating j Occidental college. liO to 0. and the Oregon Aggies, 2S to 0. Previous to teaching the coast, Montana had tied the Syracuse combination in a ti-to-H game. In PUT and .Syracuse played Nebraska, win ning the first game, 10 to 9, and losing the second, 3 to 0. These games constitute con-stitute a majority of the contests involving in-volving far-western trips hy eastern colleges. col-leges. While Harvard has never made such an extended trip, an Intersectional I game Is not an innovation for the Crim-Mon; Crim-Mon; for Harvard and Michigan, to cite only one case, have met in io.ir games. In 1 SSI the Wolverines were defeated, 4 to 0; in 1883, 3 to 0; in 1835, 4 to 0, and in UiU Harvard completed its quartet of victories hy winning, 7 to 0. Harvard had an easy schedule this year, and until the Princeton game on November No-vember S did not have to extend itself. I Crimson teams are developed physically through a season with the idea solely of having them 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 schedule, is that the Harvard team Is expected to be able to pick up again for the postseason contest much easier than teams which have been trained for several sev-eral special games in a season of hard play. "Pooch" Donovan, trainer of Crimson Crim-son teams for many years, said before he left with the eleven for the coast: "My buys on glit to he in top form by New Year. 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 milder climate help Instead of retard us." The eastern team will outweigh Oregon on tiie line, but will have a lighter back-ficld. back-ficld. Harvard's line advantage in poundage- will be considerable, probably 100 pounds from end to end. or an averare of about, fourteen pounds to a man. In the back field Harvard's shortcomings in weight is represented hy the difference between the lf.5 pounds of Casey, its slight star, and the 170 pounds of Bran-den Bran-den be rg, his Oregon opponent. Upsets in East. The eastern college game this year was a varied one. It included some tiling of the old-time line-bucking attack, some of the more advanced tactics of forward and lateral passing, and a freer use of the punt and kick, both for the -strategy which looks to ultimate advantage and the more .direct scoring action of the field goal. The Harvard team, as developed de-veloped 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 gai ned for the eleven an eastern reputation as an alerf and brainy combination. com-bination. Its line, uncertain in midsea-son. midsea-son. became the proverbial stone wall against Yale, and by close charging and lifting, mastered the heavier and supposedly sup-posedly better Blue line. Harvard's stand one foot from its goal against a Yale assault as-sault which had carried from midfield, was one of the high spots of the season's defensive play. The Crimson's defense against forward and lateral pass attack . is less of a known quantity. Tnnuva-ilons Tnnuva-ilons by Oregon may prove this to be a Harvard weak spot. The Crimson scheme of attack is a wed as soted one, with deception and open play developed as the more brilliant supnlc-meiii of rush and charge. Its open g;ime is built largely around "Eddie" Casey, the scintillating backfield star, choice of Walter Camp for All-American hack tli is year. Case, a slip of a youth by comparison with the he ivier set type of player is expected to flash as brightly in the west as he did through Harvard's campaign in the east. Notwithstanding I hat he was the object of defensive attention at-tention by Several opposing players in each of Harvard's big games, he came through as the star of each. Wh etcher in open running, where his ability to shift and dodge, to change suddenly sud-denly hot h pace and direction, and to protect himself hy warding off opposing tacklers 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 considerable consid-erable advances. Casey proved himself one of the best backs of the east fur all time. Harvard's principal weapon of attack. at-tack. Casey tied the game with Princeton and won the game with Yal'- by receiving forward passes and completing them with elusive runs. In the contest at Pasadena he will be playing ids last game under Crimson colors, as his service in the navy will count toward a degree. ; Records of Contestants. i The P'19 records of the two trains and j the pmbable Harvard-Oregon line-up and statistics follows: Oregon 2.'i. Multnomah 0. . treuun 2n. Idaho 6. Oregon 21, Washington 13. Oregon 0, Washington State 7. Oregon y. Oregon Aggies U. (nagon 15. Multnomah 7. Harvard "2, Rates ft. Harvard 17, Hnston College 0. Harvard Zo. Colby 0. Harvard 7, Bn w-n 0. Harvard 47. Virginia 0. Harvard 20, Springfield 0. Harvard in, Princeton 10. I Harvard 23, Tufts 0. Harvard lu, Talc 0. HARVARD. Name. Age. Height. Weight. Desmond, le 24 (l.uij 200 Sedgwick, It 20 6.04 JS5 1-irown, lg S 6.00 Havemeyer, c 20 (i.oi 3 73 Woods, rg 22 6.02 216 Kane, rt ID 0.01 IsT, Ste.-:e, re 22 (.et, 37;, Murray, qb 23 I 00 Humphrev, rhb 21 K.uu 17 Casey, Dil) ;-.li Horwecn, lb 22 O.lu RG ORF JON. Howard, re 2:1 fi.01 3 70 Williams, rt 27 ;,.h-i 179 Harding, rg 22 F.s 1S5 I-?. Leslie, c 20 C.! is? Mautz, lg 21 t;.'2 I'.'.s Hartlett, It 24 f,.02 '72 Anderson. le 2:! d2 170 S 1 eers, )b 24 f . 02 S'i Ura nd en berg, rhb. . .27) f- .0k 177) V. Jae,.l,er, rhb. ..2'i i.J7 17'! Huntington, fb. " . "' JJ. |
