Oregon
Emerald
EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27. 1917.
NO. 25.
VOL. 19.
Tiffany Receives Reply to His
Inquiry Regarding Cancel
lation of Oregon Game
in Eugene.
WILL ASK CONFERENCE
TO CONSIDER QUESTION
University Delegates Opposed
to Any Change in Ruling
Regarding Freshmen.
The Universtiy of Washington has no
intention to pay its guarantee of $1500
tc the University of Oregon, which was
included in the terms of a football con
tract made at the first of last year
and broken by Washington this year.
This is the substance of a message
received this morning by Graduate Man
ager Tiffany from the athletic manage
ment of the Washington school, in re
sponse to a request recently made by
Mr. Tiffany that Washington comply
with the terms of the contract or give
proof of the contract’s cancellation. The
contract called for two games in two
years. Oregon was to have the choice oi
playing the first game, Washington the
choice of the second, and it was agreed
that this year’s game should be played
at Seattle since Washington played hen
last year.
Oregon Paid Guarantee.
Oregon paid $1500 to Washington las 1
year as the amount guaranteed for tin i
visiting team and by the same terms was
to receive $1500 from the proceeds ol
the game at Seattle this year. It was
expected that after failing to play.
Washington would pay the $1500 guar
anteed, but this she has bluntly refused
to do.
“The question of Washington refus
ing to pay her guarantee,” said l’rof.
H. C. Howe, “will be the principal point
that Oregon will bring up at the Coast
Conference meeting to be held in San
Francisco Monday. The other question
which it is known will be brought up and
in which Oregon is interested, is the
freshman rule which O. A. C. will prob
ably try to have revoked.”
Will Oppose Any Change.
“Oregon’s attitude on the freshman rulej
has not changed.” said Prof. Howe.I
who with Graduate Manager Tiffany, willl
represent Oregon at the conference. |
“We cannot consent to the revoking oil
•♦the freshman rule, for the faculty liasl
consistently held that freshmen wo id a |
not be permitted to play at Oregon,” said
(Continued on page three)
CITY RED CROSS TO HAVE
FOOD SALE TOMORROW
Suggested That Fraternities Buy Thanks
giving Supplies at Headquar
ters Downtown.
A food sate for which all kinds of food
materials are acceptable will be held
by the city chapter of the Red Cross
on Tuesday and Wednesday ,in the old
Caswell and Whitton store on Will
amette street. This plan was made in
order (that the people who have been
nnable to contribute money for Red
Cross work may have an opportunity
to contribute food for the sale. The pro
ceeds of which will be turned into the
fund.
Pies, cakes, cookies, jellies, cooked
meats, raw meat, vegetables, chickens
or turkeys, alive or dead, are all accep
table and will be gladly received.
' An invitation was given to the campus
auxiliary to participate in the sale, but
at a meeting !the girls decided that thej
would patronize and advertise the sale,
but had nothing to contribute toward it.
It was suggested that the fraternities
and sororities buy their Thanksgiving
supplies at the Red Cross market.
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♦ “We are going into the game ♦
♦ under a big handicap. Newman is ♦
♦ out for good and his place is well- ♦
♦ nigh impossible to fill. The team ♦
♦ will fight to the finish but I doubt ♦
♦ whether they can stop Oregon. ♦
♦ "Oregon's victory over California ♦
♦ gives them a big edge. Oregon looks ♦
♦ like the winner t,. me but we will ♦
♦ give them a £"<'d fight for the ❖
♦ honors." Coach I’ipal, ♦
All Oregon Watching Team
With the flnartng days, the whirl of
the leaves and the gobble of the turkey,
"The Eyes of the Pacific Coast” have
[been called from the battlefields of
Europe to a battlefield closer to home—
the white lined mixing grounds known
as Multnomah field--where on turkey
day a “Belgiumized” Oregon eleven
will meet a mass of bone and muscle
with spiked shoes and nailed hands,
known as the Aggie football team.
Who will win? The sport writers of
the const, men who have studied the
two teams from every angle for the
past season, say that-it is impossible
to prediot the winner from the games
played and the scores made by the two
teams during the past two months, and
they point To the laot that the result
of the Oregon-O. A. C. game is always
the one big surprise of the Pacific
Coast football schedule.
Fans Have Waked Up
The bright hope of victory over O. A.
C. which shone to the Oregon students
on the night of that eventful day when
the Golden Bears sought their den with
a load of 21 to 0 bu.-hshot hidden ni their
slothful hides, has dimmed to a certain
extent, for during the past few days the
Oregon fan has waked up to the fact
that Oregon’s victory over California
•vns in many ways u miracle, not likely
to be repeated th;s season. The fact
’■nine to them slowly at first, but soon
* itli a staggering blow, that O. A. C.
his year has one of the best group
>f pigskin-chasers which have ever toss
ed the oval ball on the O. A. C. grid
iron. They began to investigate and
found out that th‘; O. A. C. warriors
have shown a better class of football in
every game than the Oregon gridsters
have played, with the exception of the
California game, than the Oregon grhi
stors have played. They found out that
the Aggies outweigh the Oregon score
makers fully 15 pounds to a man and
that they have a baekfield composed of
big men of the California type, who
m
have a reputation of hitting the line
hard. Then the fa t came to their view
that O. A. C. has seven old players
back in the ranks and that on the Ore
gon eleven, there is not a single man
who has had a year’s experience on the
regular varsity lineup.
Oregon Has Fighting Chance
Then it was that the Oregon man
woke up with a terrible load of care
on his mind; "The odds are that O.
A. C. will win over Oregon.” Gone
was that "sure we'll beat” idea and
instead, the thought became surplanted
in the minds of every student that Ore
gon has but a fighting chance and that
it will be “Oregon fight” that will add
another victory to the Oregon list, in
stead of the list across the page.
The lull which precedes a storm has
come. A hush has fallen over the Aggie
camp. A sort of foreboding, impending
disaster hush. For the past week Coach
Pipal has put the men through the
hardest of practices, with long nights
of blackboard talks and signal practice
in the armory.
Elmer Leader, Sam Dolan, Philbrook,
all men who have officiated in games
which Oregon inis played in. and It. I..
Matthews, coach of the Willamette I'ni
vetrsity eleven, who sat on the Oregon
bench as a guest during the California
game, have made the Aggie headquarters
their home for the past week and have
aided Coach Pipal in the final prepara
tion of his proteges. Reports from
over Corvallis way say that the men
are in 'the prime of condition and that
their morale is at tie top of the therm
mometer .especially since the O. A. C.
'rooks managed to shamble away with
the game from the Oregon babes.
The team received a damaging blow
when Captain Meier Newman received
an injured shoulder in the Washington
tussle. Newman was one of the Aggies’
nose-busting, line-bucking heroes, and
the sport critics of the two teams agree
that his loss was a grc-Tt: one, although
Lee BissePt, the 170 pound Newberg lad.
who hns planted his foot under the var
sity team training table for the past
three years, will fill his place with ease.
Final Plans Behind Closed Doors
The eleated-shoe men of the Univer
sity have made tluir final preparation
behind closed doors for the past week,
and old Kincaid field could have well
been the inner court in an «»Ui feudal
castle, as far as the outside observers’
knowledge of wlmt was going on inside
is concerned.
It will be a crippled lineup which will
greet the Corvallis lads when they trot
onto the white lined level in the rose
city. Carl Nelson, who hurled his lt!4
pounds through the mushy walls of tin'
California line time and time again in
the Oregon.California contest, and ill
doing so upset many a well-planned
attack of a California charger, had Ids
ankle badly sprained and the nerves in
his foot shattered during practice last
week. It is probable that he will strut
the contest, although Stan Anderson has
been filling his place at tackle during
the pnsft week of practice. Stan is just
getting over an attack of blood poison
ing.
Dot Medley Out
The greatest loss, which the team
has suffered during the past season,
comes in the shape of a had injury
which Dot Medley received in 'the final
moments of the California game, when
h<‘ tackled the mammoth Wells, and in
doing so. landed with his shoulder com
ing into a smashing contact with the
big hack’s knee. His shoulder is in
such shape that his arm has been prac
tically paralyzed during 'the past week
and it would bo suicide for him to don
his war togs. Dwight Wilson, Dow’s
140-pound brother. who hns been
out of the latter games of the season
since the Washington state game on
account of injuries has been filling Med
ley’s place in the buckfield.
The pre-contest rumors that ('oaeh
Bezdck is going to spring some “knock
cm dead’ plays in the coming contes1
have as usual been circulated. .lust
what has boon going on bohind those
four pine board walls during the past
wool;, will never h- known mv;il the day
of tli- game- but leave that to "He/."
Steers Best Kicker
There are sure to be some gasps of
wonder spring up from the granstauds
when the educated toes of Hill Steers
and Carl Lodoll swing on that ball. It
is tin' general opinion of the followers
of the oval ball, that Steers will have
the edge in this department, although
I.odell’s boot, lias saved the Aggies many
yards of hard serin mage. Keep yotu
eyes on the yard arms when ever either
team works its way down i-n.to “no man’s
land" for something is likely to go "over
the top."
With their heavy baekfield men tin
Aggies will probably seek to batter the
OVegon line into submission, over and
through it for their points. This was
California's mode of attack, but He/’.
brains and Oregon fight, was more that
Andy Smith's beef and California ooulu
stop, although l iiele Andy says his boys
lost because Hull icplnced llimsen ill
center, and 'that Hull couldn’t throw
straight, which si .wed up the Hears'
attack so that it didn't get away with
the snap, which would have punctured
the On goo line, as would have been .lie
ease if llansen had. been in the center
position.
Bez Can Oi.t-Fox Pipal
Fandom agrees that there is no ques
tion but what Bezdek can out-fox l'ipal
any time, any place and anywhere, and
sport critics arc worrying for fear Ore
gon will not get tin hall enough to show
up the cunning offensive plays which
Be/.dek lias developed for the Oregon at
tack. Should the heavy O. A. C. men
take a lease on the ball, Oregon fans
fear foi the defensive, but still the Ore
gon defensive left i o cause for worry
ill the California game -so there it
goes I
The team will leave Wednesday morn
ing for Portland and will make its head
quarters at the Imperial hotel.
OU MS Wl 13
HKkJffl 81JT3
’Varsity Made Record Score in
1895, Defeating Aggies
to the Tune of
Ifc 44-0.
Histoi'y Shows Lemon-Yellow
Failed But Four Times
to Cross Goal.
Portland will be the meoca for thous
ands of football followers from all parts
of the state next Thursday afternoon,
when Oregon Agricultural College, and
the University of Oregon meet for their
twenty-first battle. When Referee
George Yarnell blows his whistle at
-1:30 p. m., on that afternoon, he will
have set in motion the greatest foot
ball classic to be staged in Portland
this fall.
For twenty years, teams representing
the black and orange, and the lemon
and green, have fought for the honor
of their respective schools.
Oregon Wins 13
Oregon has far outclassed her oppon
ent in past contests. Of the twenty
games that have been played, Oregoi
teams have been victorious 13 times,
while O. A. C. has had to content her
self with three wins. Four times the
two teams have played each other to
tie games. Teams representing the
lemon and green have piled up a total
score of 237 points for the twenty
games, compared with 68 points regis
tered by the “Beavers.” Oregon Las
made an average score of 11.6 points
per 'ume.' compared with 3.4 points
registered by 0. A. C.
The biggest seo>'e piled up by either
of the teams, occurred in 1895. In that
year Oregon's heavy team walked away
with the “Beaver” i cpresentatives to the
tune of 44 to 0. The game as the
t Continued on page four)
Summary Scores From 1894-1916.
Oregon
. 0
Year
1894 .
1895 . 44
1896 . 8
1897 .’. 8
1898 . 38
1899 . 38
1902 . 0
1903 . 5
1904 . 6
1905.
1906.
1907.
1908.
1909.
1910.
1912.
1913.
1914.
1915.
1916.
6
0
0
8
12
12
3
10
3
9
27
0.
A. C.
16
0
4
26
0
0
0
0
5
0
0
4
0
0
0
0
10
3
0
0
TOTALS.237 / 68
Oregon has won 13 games.
O. A. C. has won 3 games.
Four games have resulted in tie counts.
Game will be the 21st contest between the two institu
tions.
Gloom-Dispelling Pepfest
to Rouse Old Oregon Fight
FIGHT 'EM OREGON!
400 howling, cheering rooters are go
ing to parade 'tonight in the last big
gloom-dispelling pey-fest of the football
season and at the same time get their
vocal chords in perfect shape to lead
Oregon on to victory on Multnomah
field. Thanksgiving Iuiy.
Starting at the A. T. O. house at
6:45 sharp, the line with the hand at
its head, will first serpentine through
the streets of Eugene and then march
to Villard hall, where the rally will
reach its climax.
President Campbell, Coach Bezdek,
Bill Hayward and Dave Graham, an old
^Continued on page two)
MTIWW———————
Oregon Professor Placed or
Resolutions Committee of
National Association
at Atlanta.
Relation of Federal and State
Revenue Not to Be Taken
Up During- War.
1 >r. James II. Gilbert, of the depart
ment ef Economies, who returned this
week from attending tile sessions of the
National Tax association and the Coun
cil of States on Taxation at Atlanta, (la.,
brings back word *of very successful
meetings of both organisr-tions. lie was
made a member of the committee on res
olutions of tlie national association.
Dr. Hilbert and State Tax Commis
sioner C. V. Calloway, were appointed
l>.\ Governor Withycombe to represent
tile state of Oregon at the eleventh an
imal conference of the National Tax As
sociation at Atlanta, November 1U- 1C.
At the same time, on the initiative of
Governor Stephens of California, the
Council of States on Taxation was called
to discuss relations between state nnc
federal revenue systems, and to protest
against what was felt to lie the en
cionchment of the federal government on
tlie domain of tin* state in the scope of
fiscal activities. Delegates to the Na
tional Tax Association conference at
tended tiie meeting of Council of States.
When the delegates assembled however
tin spirit of tlie meting was that the war
situation and tlie necessity for federal
revenue made it unwise, if not unpatriot
ic, to take action interfering with tlie
financing of the war.
Clear Field for Government.
“The prevailing sentiment was that
tin* federal government should have an
open field till the war is brought to a
successful conclusion,” said Dr. Gilbert.
(Continued on page three)
BE THERE Hi BOOT,
URGES YELL LEADER
"Slim” Crandall Wants All Uni
versity Students Out for
Thanksgiving Day
Struggle.
"FIGHT’EM OREGON” IS CRY
Stunt to Be Put on Between
Halves Will Be Lemon-Yel
low Rooters’ Surprise.
"Kwrybody go—nikl root for Ore
con!” ~
So says ' Crandall, Oregon's
iffteinl yell lender, in urging University
students to atltond tbe Oregon-O. A. C.
Same in Portland, on Thursday.
‘Kvetyotie must be there to yell ‘Fight
'em Oregon!" he continued. "There will
lie a special section reserved for Oregon
students and backers in the southeast
section of the bleachers. O. A. ('. will
be on tin' north side, and we have to
>ut-yell them every time. Wear a
| outer's list and don’t lie afraid to use
'hi' megaphone we will provide.”
Band Will Load Rally
The band, thirty strong, after its ar
rival in Portland on the Southern Pacific
which leaves Eugene at 1 p. in., will
play on Wednesday evening, and Thurs
day morning from !) to 11. It will lead
a serpentine of rooters who will as
semble at the imperial hot el before ttio
game, and parade up and down Wash
ington street, from 1 ito A ser
pentine, the forming of a yellow block
"<>,” and a stunt, will be put on by
Oregon between halves.
‘We want to keep this staint a secret,”
said t randall. "But 1 don’t mind say
up that ‘.laz’ and ‘pep’ don’t describe
his feature of the rooting. lit will he
; big surprise.
.. Team to Go Tomorrow
"the team leaves tomorrow at 7:.T5
a. ni. on the Oregon Electric,” said
Crandall, bind all Oregon students should
Sc there to show the hoys we’re with
I them. They’ve got ho win and we must
help them do it.”
Wednesday’s assembly hour will see
I’uiversity students united in a big holi- !
day rally. Veils and speeches will bo 1
the feature of 'the program at Villard.
Classes will lie held as usual, until 111
a. m., when the Thanksgiving vacation
will begin.
A. It. Tiffany, graduate manager, says
that the sab> of seats indicates a large
attendance. "Undoubtedly,” said he,
"the game will he a great drawing card.
(Continued on page four)
RECITAL PROCEEDS FOR
CHRISTMAS PACKAGES
Modern Music to Predominate in Faguy
Cote Recital to Be Given in Eu
gene Theatre Tonight.
Christmas packages for the soldiers
in France, will In' bought with the pro
ceeds of the recital <to ho given in the
Kugene Theater tonight by Prof. Fugu.v
Coto of the University School of Music.
In the judgment of Red Cross workers
in Kugene, no worthier cause could have
been selected to benefit from the receipts
of the concert.
On the campus it is considered the
duty of every student to make some
sinai! sacrifice, in order that a little
Christmas spirit muj prevail in some
otherwise bleak ifiot on the west front,
:,i th" holiday season The entire pro
ceeds are to be turned over to the Red
< 'ross.
Mr. Faguy-Co'te has prepared a pro
gram designed to please the most critical
music-lover. Modern music, for which
t lie artiht has a j reference, will pre
dominate.
♦ “I can’t see where we have a ♦
chance. O. A. C. will outweigh us ♦
♦ ten pounds to the man and their ♦
*■ whole team is composed of vet- ♦
♦ crane. They have seven letter men ♦
♦ from last year; we have none. ♦
$ Only one of my men, George Cooke, ♦
♦ ever played against the Aggies ♦
0 before and he played but a few ♦
minutes. ❖
♦ "Oregon is the underdog and we ♦
♦ will have to show more fight than ♦
♦ ever before to make a showing. ♦
♦ Never before were the odds so ♦
♦ heavy against "s. The Californir ♦
♦ game was a miracle, not likely to ♦
♦ happen again.”—Coach liezdek. ♦
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