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' DEDICATED TO ALUII-NOV. 4 ALL UNIVERSITY WILL BE HOST “Homecoming Day—the Biggest Day in History of U. of 0 ” Is Slogan of Committees in Charge of Arrangements. All *Eugene Will Be at Command of Visitors at This Time of Reunion. Every Franternity, Sorority and Club Is Mailing Invitations to Old Students in Every Part of State. Over 1300 Invita tions Have Gone Out Through Extension Department. Good Time Begins Friday Evening, November 3, When Festivities Start. * “The biggest day in the history of the University, November 4.” This is the slogan of the committees in charge of arrangements for annual Homecoming Day. Doors of fraternities, sororities, and class rooms will be thrown wide open all day Friday, the day before the big game with Washington, and old j graduates from the corners of the state will be welcomed to reunion in the life of the University. It is the ambition of the committees to make NdVember 4 an epoch day in show alumni the old Oregon spirit in all its old glory, but magnified and improved by time and new enthusiasm. Business will be discontinued for the day, stores will decorate in appropriate style, garages will furnish automobiles for conveyance, the commet’cial club will co-operate, and everything in Eu gene will be at the command of the alumni for the day. The Oregon spirit shall reign supreme. Every fraternity, sorority and club on the eampu# is mailing invitations to old students in every part of the state. An swers already received show that the guests will be many. Over 1300 invita tions have gone out through the exten sion department, according to Martin Nelson, chairman of the publicity com mittee. Heads of the houses state that every effort will be made to accommo date the visitors. Impetus is being given to Homecoming by Oregon alumni mem bers in every part of the state. Appropriate stationery has been pro vided by the publicity committee and may be secured at the co-op store on the campus. As the homecoming event is , made known to the outside largely by i correspondence, the use of a uniform sta- j tionery is considered one of the most ad- | vantageous methods of advertising. Pap- , era of the state will be given publicity notices which will help remind the alumni of the big day at their alma mater. Big football posters have been printed and are sent out by the advertising com mittee. As soon as the entire program is completed it will be published in the Emerald and special programs for the festivities will be printed and distribut ed. Friday evening, November 3, the good time begins. The historical pajama parade will begin the demonstration be fore the big game. Festivities will open with this event and proceed with the customary bonfire on Kincaid field and hand concert and speeches. President Pixley of the freshman class declares that the blaze of the bonfire shall eclipse all of the past, if the enthusiasm of the freshman is to be relied on. A rally around the roaring blaze, short, inspired, snappy speeches and patriotic band music are promised. Special trains will be met by delega tions from the fraternities and sorori ties all day Friday and the Iniversity school of music will help enliven the reception through the University band. "I do not know just what plans have been made for music during Homecoming (Continued on page four) Bezdek Is Pesimistic, Declares “We Haven’t a Look-in With California.” Oregon Is Outweighed, Outdoped and Is Fighting Enemy in Their Own Backyard. Eighteen Will Make the Southern Trip. Since Exhibition Saturday Bezdek Works Men Overtime to Correct Most Glaring Fau Its.. Yet Team Leaves Out doped but Fighting. Contest of Southern Oval Bids Fair to Be One of the Classics of 1916 Season. Team Spirit Is Good ,Despite Apparent Superiority of Foe. I I On to Californial The team leaves tomorrow night for the Sunny Southland. Saturday they play the first con ference game of the season. It's going to be a hard pull for the boys to bring the bacon home. California with its student body has a rooting force that can rift the skies. And from all re ports the California team is unbeatable. Husky and coached in Eastern methods it will be a test of the East against the West on the Berkeley gridiron Saturday. Oregon is not sending a rooters’ special South. But the Team leaves tomorrow night. In that Team are centered the hopes of every loyal Oregonian. And to let those football boys know just how loyal every University Student is everyone should be at the train. At 6:45 everybody be ready. When the big parade comes by headed by the band drop in line. The parade goes to the Southern Pacific depot to give the greatest team Old Oregon ever had the greatest send-off any team ever had. NOWl EVERYBODY TO THE TRAIN TOMORROW NIGHT! i Statistician’s Aftermath of the Multnomah Game. Yards gained in rushing: Oregon— Montieth—57 in 8 downs. Parsons—93 in 16 downs. S. Huntington—52 in 11 downs. H. Huntington—36 in 10 downs. Jensen—16 in 2 downs. Bartlett—15 in 2 downs. Beckett—10 in 2 downs. Multnomah—• DeWitt—23 in S downs. Sharpe—9 in 2 downs. Oliver—1 in 5 downs. Paget—14 in 3 downs. Punts— Beckett punted 12 times for an average of 40 yards. DeWett punted 14 times for an average of 31 yards. EXTENSION CLASSES GROW 400 Portland People Have Signed Up for University Extension Work. That the day of Greater Oregon has dawned is evidenced from the fact that over 400 Portland people have signed for extension work from the University this fall. Over 125 appeared in the north gal lery of the library for architecture cours es. according to Roswell l)osch, instruc tor in drawing, who said that 45 or more of that number want drawing and model ing from life. “Many Portland school teachers are among this number al (Continued on page four) “A HARD GAME, CHANCES 50-50”—BILL HAYWARD “I’ve little to say concerning the outcome of the game. Barring a few minor injur es the boys are in great shape and will give a good account of themselves. Tho Californians are a hu:ky lot—they ve shown a o o pun3h in their practice contests. I look for a hard fought game w.th chances about 50-50.” BILL HAYWARD. Join the Parade to Depot; Starts at Dorm at 7 P. M. From Friendly hall to all other houses on the campus and thence to Southern Paclf c depot the human serpent wi II wind. Then a bedlam of yells and songs will speed Bezdek’s squad on its southern Journey. Be at Friendly hall a few minutes before 7 o’clock. C. W. SEVITS. Hurrah for the lemon-yellow, and may she bring home the bacon! hurrah for Bez! Hurrah for Bill! Bah rah! rah! for every man on the team, and glory for Oregon! Let every voice box in the University be ripped open with the articulation of these words tomorrow evening when Coach Bezdek and his warriors leave for California. May every face turn purple with excitement; may lessons be forgot ten for the moment; may pretty person alities be case on the winds. Let the Oregon spirit take possession of your bodies and souls and dismiss everything but the glory of Oiegon; the victory at Berkeley Saturday. Jack Dolph and Nicholas Jaureguy will start the procession at Friendly hall; the band will lead in patriotic songs and time the march. From the dormi tory to Delta Tau house and thence to all the other frats and sorority houses the i human serpent will wind, increasing in bedlam of noise and song and adding numbers beyond all former demonstra tion in the history of the University. “If every student in the University doesn’t get into that parade to the train tomorrow evening and help send the team off with ears ringing and hearts thumping, it will be because some indi j viduals have not learned the meaning of i Oregon spirit,” Thus speaks Jaeok Dolph 1 yell leader. I The train will leave the Southern Paci ^ fic depot at 7:40 p. m. The parade \ probably will begin a few minutes before : Seven in order to insure plenty of time I for “pep” to reach its highest pos ■ sibility. Serpentining and hurrahing will | continue through the down-town section to the depot where the climax will be | reached just before the team pulls out. j Bezdek’a football machine will go 1 against California's at Berkeley Satur- ! day in Oregon’s first conference con test of the season. QUARTET MAY GET TRIPS Women May Bo Sent to Oregon Towns During Year. "Martin” The University of Oregon women’s quartet will hereafter be more than a group of four people who sing one selec tion in the annual program arranged for the girl's glee club, for this year there are to be trips for the women’s quartet. “Many calls have come to me other years for musical numbers or entire progarms in many of the towns in Ore gon which we have been unable to fill. This year I hope to get the women’s quartet in shape to :end to those places that ask for musical representatives of the University, said Prof. Lyman, glee club director. The quartet is composed of the same people as last year: Mumie Gillette, Mar tha Tinker, Iva Wood and Leah Per kins. They will start practices immedi ately so as to be prepared in case a trip should la* possible in the near fu ture. Miss Marian Neil will go with the quartet as accompanist, and in case a whole evenings entertainment ia called for Miss Charlotte Banfield will be taken as reader. The program which Pro fessor Lyman will urrauge will include solos, duetj, and trios besides the regular quartet numbers and be made as inter esting as possible. Eighteen Football Men Will Fly South. J 0 Imny Beckett (capt).L.E Bhy H U ntington .Q.R. Jake R isley . C. F at Snyder .L.(J. M 0 ntieth .L.H. Pars 0 ns .r.h. Teg T egart .R.T. B as Williams .sub. B A rtlett .R.E. Spe L I naan .It.(.5. Ne L son .sub M itcliell .L.T W A rd McKinney.sub. C ouch .. sub. II. H uhtington . B I II Tuerck ...sub. Je N sen .sub. Dud! E y .sub. ACCIDENT EXHIBIT SHOWN Oregon Federation for Industrial Safety Shows Causes and Results Acidents. The Oregon Federation for Industrial safety was organized August .'51, by com bining the State Industrial Accident com mission, the State Bureau of Labor and the University of Oregon extension de partment. This organization bus for its purpose the reducing of industrial accidents in the mills, factories, and other industrial operations in the state of Oregon. The federation aims to accomplish its end by educating the people of the state. To do this it has presented exhibits at the (Continued on page four) What Coaoli Bezdek Has to Say. Coach Bezdek's words to the Ore gon students: “I don’t see where we’ve got a look in with California. We’re out doped, we’re outweighed, and we’re fighting in the enemies backyard. Look at the array of coaches Cali fornia has and consider the size of their student body as compared with ours. They’re betting in the south that we will be beaten by at least two or three touchdowns. That alone shows Jiow they figure us. They’ve had three more weeks practice than wo have and have already played five or six preliminary games. The dope is often upset, but I don’t see where we stand a chance.” Jimmy Sheehy. All-abonrd-let-er-go! When the southbound Shasta Limited train de-luxe, pulls out of Eugene Wed nesday night at 7:41 p. m. it will have as passengers the varsity football squad, primed to the letter to battle the Uni versity of California, on the Berkeley field next Saturday. Coach Hugo Bez dek and Bill Hayward will accompany the boys and Graduate Manager A. R. Tiffany and student manager Roland Geary will handle the purse strings and dish out three squares during the journey. Players making the trip are Captain Johnny Beckett, Ken Bartlett, Monty Montieth, Teg Tegart, Jake Risley, Bill Snyder, Shy Huntington, Brick Mitchell, Hollis Huntington, Johnny Parsons, Bart Spellmun, and substitutes Ray Couch, Glen Dudley, Pete Jensen, Bas Wil liams, Carl Nelson, Bill Tuerck, and Ward McKinney. Every detail of the trip has been carefully planned and ought to go off without a hitch. The team will arrive in Berkeley Thursday night at 0:30 p. m. and will make their headquarters at the Shattuck hotel. Through the court esy of the railroad company a special stop will be made at Berkeley to let the squad off. Saturday’s game bids fair to be one of the classics on the 1016 coast gridiron calendar, It is the first time in years that Oregon has ever met the blue and gold on the turf. Oregon with a stud ent body of 900 or more invades foreign soil with probably one of the best teams in her history, ready to lock horns with the susky Californians backed by some 7500 students. Southern dopesters and Berkeley peo ple are already prophesying a two touchdown victory for the Bear staters. They have great faith in Coach Andy Smith and assistant Eddie Mahan— they believe in and talk California in cessantly. Newspaper reports from the south were loud in their praises of Berkeley’s eleventh hour win over the strong Whittier aggregation. In the face of an almost certain 17 to 14 defeat with but three minutes left to play, the scrappy Cnliforuinns forward passed and (Continued on page four) “LOOKOUT FOR CALIFORNIA”—DEAN WALKER. “I honestly believe California will tr m Oregon next Saturday at Berk eley. They have a big, powerful, scrappy, team with a backfield possess ing a vast amount of punch and drive.. Any team that can run the ball almost the length of the field with de feat near surety, is some eleven. Reports credit them with this feat against the strong Whittier bunch last Saturday.. Look out for Califor nia.’’ DEAN V/ALKER.