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HISTORIC BATTLEGROUND TO BE CLEARED FOR BUILDINGS Hayward Field to Include Track and Pits; Practice Gridiron and Diamond to Be Adjacent x When the students return to Oregon in September' historic Kincaid field will be no more. By that time the grandstands will be torn down and the ground cleared and graded away if present plans are carried to comple tion during the summer. In the meantime a new practice gridiron will be laid off on the grounds ad jacent to Hayward Field and dress ing rooms and showers installed be neath the new grandstand. The turf on the new football field will be kept trimmed and watered during the summer by a caretaker, Graduate Manager Marion McClain says, and in the fall will be for match games only. Plans have already been designed by a New York architect for the construction of a modern cinder track around the gridiron on Hayward field. This track will he of gravel or rock base with drainage connec tions and will be covered by 13 inches of cinders, grading from very coarse near the bottom to a fine mixture of cinders and clay on the surface. Space for the shot put, pole vault, broad jump and other field events has been reserved between the grandstand and the football field in order to keep the playing surface free from holes and indentations such as Kincaid now has. If money is available these improvements as well as the construction of a baseball diamond just south of the new foot ball field will be carried out this summer also. With a modern track campleted McClain is quite certain Oregon can secure the Pacific Coast Conference track meet for next spring. At least he is going to make a strong bid for it if he is able to carry out the plans for the comple tion of Hayward Field before tliAt time.* “The Oregon football field will be the prettiest one on the coast this fall”, McClain said in commenting on the appearance of the well set turf after a summer of careful attention. OREGON FIVE’S RECORD GOOD; PROSPECTS BRIGHT (Continued from page 9) Lynn McCready is another one of the old heads at the game. He was unable to make the trip south with the boys owing to the fact that his wife had the flu at the time. Marc Latham, the varsity’s big center from Salem, was a big fighter. He liked to break up passes and mix into dribbles. Captain Lind Lost to Team. Oregon’s outlook for next year is ex ceedingly bright ((according to the retir ing captain and the captain-elect for the coming year. The quintet is only losing one man. Herm Lind has played his allotted time on the squad. Then there are some bright looking pros pects coming from this year’s fresh man team, according to Shy Hunting ton. McEntee, Clarin, and many oth ers of the first year men will make a bid for positions on next year’s five. Too much sickness and a schedule which piled up games too close to gether kept them from duplicating the championship record of last year’s team. Eddie Durno was kept out of several of the games on account of sickness. Oregon’s heavy football schedule, which lasted until the first of January when the eleven played Harvard at Pasadena, kept the hoop ers from getting an early start. Other teams in the conferences had had weeks of practice before Oregon be gan. Defeat Opens Season. Whitman defeated Oregon in the' first game of the season, but the var sity five came back strong in the sec ond game and sent the missionaries home defeated. Wednesday, January 21, Captain Herm Lind, Francis, Beller, Lynn Mc Cready, Eddie Durno, Nish Chapman, Marc Latham and Coach Huntington left Eugene for the Sundodgers* camp. Oregon won a fiercely fought contest ir. the second game hy a score of 29 to 26. Washington went strong in the start and ran up an 8-point lead on the lemon-yellow players, but the Eugen ians came to their own later and suc ceeded in making it anybody’s game for the rest of the game, Oregon scor ing the winning points in the last three minutes- of play. The Sundodgers took the first game from the varsity by a 3S to 26 count. Tt was W-shington’s first conference game of the year and it was charac terzied bv good shooting, speedy foot work and accurate passing. Willamette Falla Victim. January 29, the lemon-yellow five defeated Willamette University 38 to 31. Oregon won the game on a spurt during the last five minutes of play. Durno and Chapman were easily the stars of the game. The Salem club started out strong during the first part of the second contest, but were unable to stand the strain and they went idown to a defeat by a 38 to 22 score. The hardest week-end of the season came the first week in February. It was a chance either to put Oregon well in the lead in the conferences or , drop back to a place from which it j would be very hard to recover. The I University of Washington and Wash I ington State College were here for | three games straight. Pullman was coming from the south where they had battled with the Bears, coming dut on the small end of 28 to 26 score. Thursday night the Cougars nosed out the varsity by two points. The score at the end of the game stood 129 to 27. The Washington staters stopped for only one game. The strain of the battle with the staters had been too much for the Oregon team and Friday evening Washington gave the varsity the small end of a 19 to 23 count. Overtime Game Played. With a great exhibition of Oregon fight the varsity five came back strong J the second game wit^i the Sundodgers i and in an overtime contest of two five minute periods, sent them home with the little end of a 23 to 20 score. The old jinx seemed to be with the Oregon Aggies and the varsity an nexed two games. The Corvallis club seemed to have no special difficulty in taking games from other teams in the conferences, but the old custom beat them at Eugene. The two pames at Corvallis were called off on account of a flu ban, which the city health offi cials had put on the Aggie campus. Oregon dropped two games to Stan ford on their Jaunt south. Oregon di vided honors with the Blue and Gold. Stanford’s two games here were played behind closed doors on account of the flu ban which the city officials had clamped on, and the southerners walked away with both games. Only the subs, game officials and coaches were allowed at the game. 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