VOL. 18. EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1916. NO. 22. TO WASHINGTON ROOTERS—A HANDSHAKE FROM OREGON ® ® s y; 59; y; y; - y; y; m !fi y; ss TO OREGON ALUMNI—A RIGHT ROYAL WELCOME HOME AGAIN SCORES OF Mill ARE IMG FIST Fireworks of Old Oregon’s Most Historic Week-End Start This Noon. LUNCH TO BE SERVED IN GYM. EXPECT 2500 GUESTS Students and Business Men to Unite in Rooting. Many Stores to Close. * l That there will be 400 alumni here today is the opinion of A. R. Tiffany, registrar. A special train from Coos Bay, and two from Portland on the Southern Pacific will arrive between 12 m. and 12:30 p. m. Specials from Seattle and Portland will arrive on the Oregon Electric at about the same time. Mem bers of a reception committee of fifty will meet the trains, and will be desig nated by their yellow ribbons. Students and faculty members who can are asked to entertain the visiting alumni who do not go to fraternity or sorority houses. Jaureguy considers this an opportun ity to give the school a big boost by co operating with the committees. * “Make the alumni feel at home on the campus, by being friendly and considerate of their wishes. Let every student see that no one is lonesome while here,” he says. The first glimpse of Homecoming Day Is on Willamette street, for the poles between the depot and Eleventh avenue are alternately decorated with purple and gold and lemon-yellow and green, stated Jaureguy. Oregon and Washing ton pennants are hanging from wires crossing the street, giving the city a gala day appearance. Jeannette Wheatley, chairman of the refreshment committee, says that from 2000 to 25D0 persons are expected at the campus dinner and band concert in the gym this noon. All freshmen and senior girls are furnishing thirty sandwiches tach, and the sophomore and junior girls two and one-half quarts of salad. The lunch will be served cafeteria ityle from eight booths. Each class will Inanage two booths, and all are to be Jlecorated with yellow bunting and au ijiton leaves. The menu will consist of »»*dwiches, beans, pickles, salad, coffee, '.gnd ice-cream. It is requested that stu |ents eat their lunch between 11 and 12 o’clock, as the floor of the gym will not accommodate both students and alumni at the same time. After luncheon an in formal mix will be in order. All alumni will wear badges: with their names and class numerals on, so the mix will be a good chance to get acquainted, states Ernest Watkins, chairman c- the recep tion committee. Between halves of the game the stu dents will serpentine on the field, accord ing to Jack Dolph, yell leader, forming a large “O,” with a “U” inside. It is de sired that all men wear rooters’ lids, and as a special dispensation freshmen will be allowed to exchange these for their green caps during the game. The hats can be procured at the Co-op store, and to make the color scheme v ork out, every man should wear one. “And all students should be on the bleachers early, for no seats there are reserved,” stated Dolph. The alumni will have a section next to the rooting section and the seating will be arranged so the men form a large “U”, the busi ness men a dash, and the women an “O” (Continued on page six) ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ IF OREGON WJNS TODAY ♦ ♦ She will no doubt be in line for ♦ ♦ the northwest conference cham- ♦ ♦ pionship for 1916. She will also be ♦ ♦ asked to meet the University of ♦ ♦ Pennsylvania on New Years day as ♦ ♦ an attraction at the annual Tourna- ♦ ♦ ment of Roses, at Pasedena. Cali- ♦ ♦ fornia. Pennsylvania has already ♦ ♦ agreed to come to the coast and the ♦ ♦ varsity will possibly be chosen to ^ ♦ meet them if the faculty passes on ♦ ♦ it. A recent letter from the Pasa- ♦ ♦ dena management has asked Man- ♦ ♦ ager Tiffany to keep the date open. ■> ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE AND WHERE YOU WANT TO GO TODAY FRIDAY 7:30 p. m.-Rally starts at Eleventh and Alder streets led by the band. Parade and serpentine of entire Univer sity student-body and home-coming alumni visitors through down-town district. 8:00 p. m.-Huge “pep-fest,” “jaz” rally, and bonfire on Kincaid Field. Snappy speeches by coaches, players, and other important figures. After the rally alumni will be entertained at fraternities and sororities and at private houses or hotels. SATURDAY 8:00 a. m.—-Registration of Alumni begins at Johnson Hall and continues until noon. Tickets for dance in even ing and Alumni “I am” tags secured at Johnsin Hall. 11:00 a. m.-Luncheon at Men’s gymnasium continues to 1:30 p. m. Alumni tickets, tags, and registration at gym after twelve. 11:30 a. m.-Student parade and band starts march to Southern Pacific depot for reception of Washington’s alumni and rooters. 12:00 m. -Special train frim University of Washington arrives. 2:00 p. m.-Oregon rooters assemble on bleachers at north side of Kincaid. 2 ;20 p. ro.-Lemon-Yellow and Purple-Gold elevens enter field and warm up. 2:30 p. m.-Whistle-kickoff; game starts. 7:30 p. m.-Alumni reception at Armory. Reception open to all University and visitors. 8:30 p. m.-Big, annual home-coming dance at Armory. Everybody welcome. SUNDAY 4:00 p. m.-University Y. M. C. A.-Y. W. C. A. vesper services at Villard Hall. Special invitation to alumni and home-coming visitors. Public invited. “EVEN CHANCE”—BEZDEK * « * « “IN FINE SHAPE”—BILL £ * 4? * “MUST FIGHT” —BECKETT _ As Coach Bezdek, Trainer Hayward, Captain Beckett and ex-Captain Parsons view the conflict today: Coach Bezdek: “We’ve got an even chance to win if it doesn’t rain any more. If it does, it will go hard with us— they have the heavier team.” Bill Hayward: “The boys are in fine shape—the best possible. In fact, they’d be sick if they were in any better con dition.” Captain John Beckett: “I’m with Ore gon always. We are in wonderful conr dition and the on'/ bar will be the weather. We’ve got to fight; we’re go ing to fight.” Ex-Captain oJhnny Parsons: “This is my last chance at Washington under lemon-yellow colors and it' is going to be my best. COMMITTEE IS ANNOUNCED Students Who Will Meet Trains and Register Alumni Named. Ernest Watkins, chairman of the re ception committee, announces the follow ing as those who will be found in the registration booths on Saturday. The hour is given after the name. Kate Schaefer, Myrtel Tobey and Wini fred Starbuck, from nine to ten. Helen Withycombe, Erma Kiethly, Eulalie Crosby, Miriam Page, from ten to eleven. Cornelia Heess, Joe Driscoll, Gladys Watkins and Florence Sherman, from eleven to twelve. Emma Wootton, Dorothy Robertson, Jenette McLaren and Mildred Wood ruff, from twelve to one. Mabel Van Zante, Helen Purington and Lurline Brown, from one to two. The names given below are those who will meet the trains. Washington train at 12:00, Percy Boatman, George Colton, Herman Gil filen, Millard Nelson, John Black, and Ed Harwood. Oregon Electric at 12:2o, Jack Mon tague, Frank Beach, Bill Gerretson, Creston Maddock, Walter Grebe and John Bull. Southern Pacific at 12:01, Glenn Macy, Roland Geary, Fred Packwood, Bob Riggs, Larue Blackaby and Glenn Shockley. O. A. C. Special at 2:28, Leland Haines, Walter Kennon, Jesse Witty, Chas. Newcastle, Rose^e Hurd and Wil liam Haseltine. TEAMS EAGERLY AWAIT WHISTLE, OLD SCORES TO BE SETTLED TODAY Washington Puts a Practically New Team on the Field This Year. Dobie Will Bring Long List of Substitutes in Anticipa tion of a Hard Fight. When the Washington team comes on the field today Oregon students will see practically a new eleven. Only two of Dobie’s men have played against Ore gon before, these two being Captain Louis Seagraves and Cyrus Noble. Both cf these players are in their fourth year of conference ball. “Cy” Noble is the only veteran in the backfield but from the reports of Wash ington’s early games he is equal to two ordinary halves. Noble’s forte is carry ing the ball for end runs. He can dodge and twist his way for extra yardage fCbntinned ©s pa#® cw$) Last U. of O.-U. of W. Contest, 1914, Won by Washing ton, 10-0. Varsity Strength Then Depleted Through Injuries; Game Was Not True Indication of Strength. The last contest between the football machines of the University of Oregon and the University of Washington result ed in a 10-0 defeat for the lemon-yellow. The game was played in Seattle, No vember 15, 1914. According to the newspapers on the following day, the game was a good one from the spectators’ standpoint. Hard fighting, clever open field running featuring the play of both teams. The northerners’ line was nearly impenetra ble for the Oregon backfield throughout the contest. Washington also was unable (Continued Oft THE TEAMS AS THEY WILL APPEAR THIS AFTERNOON WITH OREGON CARRYING THE BALL WASHINGTON TV. Q. B. Johnson R. End W. Smith R. H. B. \V. Noble R. Tackle W. Murphy R. Guard W. Capt. Seagravea Center W. Smith L. Guard W. Morrison w. L. H.B I-ogg F. B. W. Halnaworth L. Tackle L. End W. W. Grimm Faulk L. End O. Mitchell L. Tackle O. Capt. Beckett L. Guard O. Snyder Center O. Risley L. H. B. O. Monteith F. B. O. H. Huntington Q. B. O. S. Huntington R. Guard O. Spellman R. H. B. O. Parsons R. Tackle O. Bartlett R. End O. Tcgart OREGON FRIARS Announce the election o£ FRED KIDDLE FRANK SCAIEFE EX-INCUBATOR NOW A HOME ^ ^ TWO DELTS SEEK SOLITUDE “ELYSIUM” NAME OF HOUSE From poultry incubator to “Elysium" is the transformation of a little house in the Delta Tnu Delta back yard, where Milton Stoddard and Fred Pack wood have taken up lodging. The Delt house was too full so the two students “took up their beds and walked" to the quietness of their adopted re treat. Out there they hope to have no disturbance in their study and meditation, but they fear that the boys will be drop ping into the novel Bohemia. Because of this fear, these words of Elbert Hub bard will be inscribed on the door: “If a man write a better book or preach a better sermon or muke a better mouse trap than his neighbor, though he build his cabin in the woods, the World will make a beaten track to his door.” Since the little house was formerly an incubator, the boys pray that they may hatch into geniuses. Stoddard, senior, rejoices that he caf dress in a warm room in the cold morn ings because Pack wood, junior, always has a fire built. 'SIDEWALK BOARDS LOOSE Girls, Fearing Unevor Footing on Thir teenth Street, Driven to Rhyme. In the olden days it was “Jack and Gill, etc.,” but now in this advanced age of learning and culture, suppose we say: Prudence and Antone were students, They go to the library each day. In the evening they trot to the castle, Where Douglas, the iron hand, holds sway. One night while venturing homeward, With heads low and voices subdued, Antone stepped on a loose board in the sidewalk And Prudence! It would be criminal to speak of a co-ed in such a position. Seriously though, there are some seventeen boards loose at either one end or both between the library and the new Educational building. Just imagine what it would mean to the ultimate advancement of the. University if seventeen of our co-eds should have the same experience as Prudence or if each should break a leg, or if each should sue for a “legacy” of $5000. Lemon-Yellow Gridiron Heroes Face Toughest Proposition of 1916 Season. SPECULATION RUNS RIOT OVER SOGGY FIELD’S EFFE Fandom Tensely Awaits Strug* gle. Kincaid Field Will Be Banked With 10,000. .Timmy Sheehy The eventful day has arrived. The stage is set. Everything is in readiness, and the aetors are prepared as the cur tain rv’ses to present what gives promise of being one or the greatest football dramas ever staged in tho northwest. Promptly at 2:30 p. m. Referee George Varnell, after getting the “Ready" sig nal from Captain and left end Johnny Beckett of Oregon and a similar sign from Captain and right guard Louis Seagrave, of Washington, will start hostilities with a blast on his whistle. Gilmore Dobie’s 8 time champion Univer sity or Washington team will bo scon for the first time in two years lined up against Hugo Bezdek’s lemon-yellow wiuriors, with each team doped to have an even chance on grabbing the long end of the score. Fandom can hardly wait for the hour to arrive. Kincaid field gives promise of being banked with a solid mass of humanity if the advance seat sale is any criterion. Graduate Manager Tiffany expects to handle a crowd of 10,000 people—a crowd that will surpass and break all official attendance records of previous Oregon-Washington games—a crowd that will no doubt take up every available foot of seating space in the stands. Eugene is football crazy. Not even the lute activities of old .Tupe Pluvc, which turned Kincaid field into a quag mire, has dampened the ardor of the rooters. 400 Washington students, bear ing their famous purple hook, are due to pull into Eugene at noon today, rendy to back their team to the limit. Viewing with the Seattleites across the field will be 000 lemon-yellow noise makers armed with an equal number of megaphones. Oregon h ready. Every man is primed to the letter save with the possible ex ception of right guard, Bart Spellman, who is suffering from a badly lacerated shoulder. Bart, by virtue of a heavy padded harness, will be able to start the game, with Bns Williams acting in the role of first relief man. Bezdek sends his men into the game today with the knowledge that they are up against the toughest proposition of the 1018 season. Yet they enter the fray for the first time facing Dobie on an even footing— on their home grounds—with the assur ance that the crowd is bucking them to win. Likewise Dobie’s charges are prepared to defend a long string of victories— to uphold the purple and gold’s place on the footbnll map—to bring back the ninth successive conference championship to the Sound city. Speculation is running riot among fans as to the probable effect of the soggy field on the outcome of the game. Wash ington it is believed will reap the benefits (Continued on page six) ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ FACTS ABOUT TODAY’S GAME ♦ ♦ Opposing teams—University of ♦ ♦ Oregon and University of Washing- ♦ ♦ ton. + ♦ Time of game—2:30 p. m. ♦ ♦ Place—Kincaid field. ♦ ♦ Captains — Oregon, Johnny ♦ ♦ Beckett, left end: Washington, ♦ ♦ Louis Seagrace, right guard. ♦ ♦ Officials—referee, George Var- ♦ ♦ nell; Umpire, Plowden Stott; head ♦ ♦ linesman, Sam Dolan. ❖ ♦ W'eights of teams—Oregon, 17S; ♦ ♦ Washington, 180. ♦ ♦ Time of quarters—15 minutes. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦