Coach Paul Brown quickened the pace in preparations for the game with the Iowa Seahawks Saturday as he ran his squad through a long drill on offense last night.

"We're preparing for the two extreme types of defense," Brown noted before practice, "and working more against the five and seven man lies than anything else. We're bringing our passing attack back up to its peak reached last Saturday and we're sharpening the running attack we've set up against the five-man forward wall."

But the real job of the Bucks so far this week has been the problem of setting up a defense to stop the terrific running attack of the sailors. Coach Bernie Bierman's teams were known all over the country for their tremendous land attack during his years at that school. He has carried this system of attack with him to the Iowa City Pre-Flight Training School and manned it with the cream of the collegiate world, seasoned the first team with a sprinkling of veteran professional players, and welded the whole into one of the toughest football teams in the country.

Pecullar Formation
When the sailors come out of the huddle, they line up in a peculiar formation. The line is unbalanced to the right with the ends out wide away from the center of the line. The backs are in the ordinary short punt formation with the men close to the line behind the tackles and two more almost side by side farther back from center.

Then the shift comes and the team goes into its running formation. The line remains in position but the backs shift into a single-wingback formation. The wingback in this setup is either Jimmy Langhurst, former Buckeye captain and fullback, or "Babe" LeVoir, one of Bierman's star players at Minnesota---a quarterback in his collegiate days.

These right halfbacks have two chief duties on the Bierman team. They are ace blockers when the play comes to the strong side of the line and they carry the ball on reverses back to the weak side. But the real offensive threats are the two back men, the fullback and the tailback.

The fullback is the bucking back for Bierman, the most frequently used ball-carrier on the team. And it's there that the Seahawks are especially strong if they are any stronger in one place than in another.

Two Fullbacks
The two fullbacks who have been taking care of the line-crashing for the Green Bay Packers for the past few seasons are in harness for the Navy now. The top man is Ed Jankowski, a five-foot nine-inch, 200-pound barrel who was named on All-American teams while he played for the University of Wisconsin. His stand-in is another great player, George Paskvan, who as a one-man team for the Badgers a couple of seasons back. He too made All-American teams and he too, was with the Packers before joining the Navy. 

The two tailbacks or left halfbacks are the fast men in the Bierman backfield, the men who run the ends and knife the tackles, the men who who threaten to go all the way to the goal whenever they take the ball.

The first-string man at this position is Dick Fisher, left halfback for Ohio State last season. He is a triple-threat man who specializes in running and passing but who can punt the ball when the occasion demands. His substitute is Bob Swisher, one of the fastest, most elusive left halfbacks to graduate from Northwestern University in recent years. He worked with the Chicago Bears before joining the Seahawk team.

The quarterback and blocking back on the Bierman team is Forest Evashevski, Michigan's captain of two season's ago. He is a devastating blocker, a good ball-handler from his position close behind the center, a clever diagnostician of plays, a top-notch signal-caller, a team inspirer (sic) and leader, and is the man-in-motion when the Bierman team has a man in motion.

Another Pro
When Evashevski tires, Johnny Michelosen, one of the Pittsburgh iron men when the Panthers were making history under Jock Sutherland before the de-emphasis came. Michelolsen has been playing with the Brooklyn Dodgers professional team since his graduation and is carrying on without loss of power for the Seahawks.

That's the personnel that will man the offense that the Seahawks will show Buckeye fans this week and gives some idea why Coach Brown is so concerned about his defense.

Pictures of the Bierman offensive system were shown to the squad Monday night and the first plans for the defense were made. Tuesday, a drill on defense took almost the whole evening, and last night a final rehearsal and polish was given to this phase of play.