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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1909)
OREGON EMERALD Pubished Wednesday and Saturday dur ing the college year by students of the UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Application made for second class mail rates. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year.$1.00 Single copy.$ .05 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF W. C. NICHOLAS .’10 ASSISTANT EDITORS Ralph Moores .T2 Fay Clark .’12 C. W. Robison .’ll Calvin Sweek .’ll Dean Collins .’10 MANAGER FRITZ DEAN .’ll assistant manager C. A. OSTERIIOLM .T2 Wednesday, November 24, 1909 Tomorrow’s Game. For the first time in three years, Ore gon comes up to the final game of the season with a chance for the Northwest championship. In 1906, captained by "Weary" Chand ler, and coached by lingo Hczdek, Ore gon was not defeated. O. A. C. held the lemon to a no score game hut, sine they were beaten by teams that lost to Oregon, they had no claim to first place. I wo years ago, Oregon de feated both Washington and Idaho, the latter defeating every other college in the Northwest except O. A. C.. The Agrics then won from Oregon—the only game they played—giving them the championship. Last year Washington defeated every college in the North west except W. S. C. A chance like the present one is not to he considered lightly. The thoughts of every Oregon student will he cen tered in the great contest on Denny Field tomorrow, hoping that victory may come to Clarke and his men. As to the probable result, it is not our province to speculate on that. Whatever is the outcome, however, we will accept it, finding fault with no one and giving full credit where credit is due—to team and coach and trainer. As to the men; enough—they are from Oregon. If none were injured, they would win. \nd the oeaeh and train er, we consider the equals of any in the country. There has been much talk about the contest between Dohie and Forbes; he tween the football methods of the Fast and of the West. We know of anoth er contest. Robert I'orhes is one who can teach men and make them work for him without driving them, lie of ten praises hut never criticises harshly, lie never quarrels, hut quietly goes to work and gets results in the way of a splendidly drilled team that would do anything for him \\ ere the word used less wantonly it would be enough to say be is a gentleman. Of course we know nothing of the coaching methods of Cilmour, Dohie, but we do know that most coaches are not like Robert I'orhes. We would like to see his methods vindicated. As to Interest in Football and Oratory. \ recent editorial in the Morning Oregonian of Portland criticised the modern college and particularly those of Oregon for taking more interest in football than in oratory. This criticism, we believe calls for some consideration. It is true that athletics does receive more vociferous support and arouse more outward enthusiasm than oratory among college students, as it also docs, we are justified >n saying, among lnisi ness men and newspaper editors Hut this is a different thing from saying that it attracts more interest. The interest taken in oratory, as in all mental work, is something less ex citing to the outward emotions and hence less noticeable than that taken in physical competition. But the interest is there nevertheless and there are few college men who would not prefer to have the elements of literary talent in them than those of the physical prodigy, liven such a low standard of physical competition as prize fighting will attract interest, but no one suspects humanity of really preferring it to superior men tality. Moreover, had the Oregonian taken the trouble to look further than in its own incorrect news columns for the facts of the matter, it would have known that its conclusions were un warranted. In the first place, the Uni versity of Oregon has no intention of dropping oratory. The committee in charge was unanimously in favor of re taining it, and in order to do so, they are going as far away as Montana to secure competitors. There tire more men this year trying out in oratory and debate than tried for the football team. The University of Idaho has dropped oratory, but inasmuch as their football team has met with an unbroken list of defeats, it can hardly be charged that such activities are unduly indulged in. The truth of the matter is that Idaho preferred not athletics, but debate to oratory, and this is only a matter of personal preference between two kinds of mental competition. Idaho is not noted for any great prestige in athletics, but she is never at the bottom of the list in forensics. How then can it be charged even there that football is ab sorbing the interest that should go t< mental activities? Washington Keeps Dobie. Seattle, Nov. 20.—Gilmour Dobie, Washington's man of gloom, who has given the State University one cham pion team and what looks like another, was unanimously elected football coach for next year at a greatly increased salary by the faculty committee on athletics last Wednesday. Whether the lanky lighter can be in duced to spend another year bossing Washington's athletics is not known, for he has expressed his intention of quit ting the coaching business for good and all. It is known that his alma mater, Minnesota, would like to have him for her head football instructor next year, but Dobie says that if he quits Wash ington it will be to leave athletics. The students are overjoyed at Dobie's re-election, for it was feared that mem bers of the faculty, some of whom tire radically opposed to his coaching tac tics, might object to having him an other year. The pessimistic coach is one of the most popular men on the faculty. Phis is strange, too, for he is silent, liery, and abusive in his coaching methods. Denver University, which won the football championship of the Southwest, has written to Manager Zednick ask ing for a post season game with Wash ington, provided the varsity wit's the Northwest championship. This game would be for the championship of the entire West. At last night’s board of control meeting it was decided that no game could be played, as the players tlatly refuse to keep in training for the post season game. A contract has just been entered into by Washington and Oregon to engage in co-ed debates this year and next. Phis year’s contest will be held here and next year's in Eugene. Writes for Classical Weekly. 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