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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1924)
of Sport I This Week: Exendine to Re I main; 55th Football Season; I Colorado Lucky Team; Phi 1 Delts Champs. c i-. By Emerald Sports Stafl—— The athletic council of Washing ton State college voted today to retain Albert A. Exendine as foot ball coach for another year. The' salary was not stated. Exendine came to Washington State two years ago on a two-year -contract.. It was anonunced that no contract was entered for next year. No action .was taken on an assistant coach, but it was announ ced that one probably would be em ployed. 'The past interoollegiate football season was the 55th in America. 'The gridiron game in America had its inception in a contest between teams representing Eutgers and Princeton on November 6, 1880. Numbering of baseball players, \ similar to the system used by foot ball players, will become effective in the American association next season, Thomas J. Hickey, president of the organization has announced. These figures will appear on the printed lists in the score cards and will help fans in following the stars and favorites. The lucky team this yeai is the Colorado University football team, champions of the Rocky Mountain conferences which left Tuesday en route to Honolulu to play two games during the Christmas season with the University of Hawaii. The Colorado team is covered with a blanket insurance policy for $90, 000 and will protect the players and coaches in event of accident and from all injuries received on the trip other than in football prac tice or in games. Phi Delta Theta won the cham pionship of the national fraternity division of the intramural basket ball series at the Oregon Agricul tural College. Phi Delta 'fheta will now play the winner of the Achean Omega Upsilon mix for the school championship. The great six-day bicycle race is over, with Reggie McNamara and Pete Van Hempen, a powerful springtime combination, and two men of^ron endurance, the winners. The great classic of the wheel world is unique, and this year was one of the most exciting ever held. After keeping their wheels in motion for six days, the victor was decided in the last hour, when the winning man of the winning pair, forged ahead. Zest was added to the race this year by offering prizes and points for sprint laps. The old race, now a tradition that will last even if the bicycle becomes obsolete, is a gruelling affair. Two man teams man a bicycle continu ously for six days, one rider taking up the task, while the other rests. The' overwhelming defeat of the colored Kid Norfolk by the scrappy Tommy Gibbons did not come as a surprise. Last summer the writer had the privilege of witnessing Tommy slash the British champion, Bloomfield, and incidentally, smash the British hopes for a champion ship. Gibbons is a good fighter, one who fights fair and clsan, and one who will give Dempsey another good battle one of these days. Coach Myron Witham and 16 (Continued on Page Three) FOOTBALL ENDS WITH OLD OREGON FIGHT DOMINANT Underrated Varsity comes From Below and Wins Hard Conference Games Captain Reed Only Man Lost to Team for Next Season; Good Material Coming Up By Wilbur Wester Finishing the grid season in a glow of glory, typical to the for mer successes of mighty Oregon el evens, Coach Haddock’s men have revived the faded grid prestige of the Lemon-Yellow football teams. Pessimistic comment and specu lation by sport critics of the chan ces of Oregon greeted the new var sity mentor, Joe Maddock, when he came this year to take up the coaching reins of the varsity. How ever, Maddock refused to state whether he would be able to whip the Oregon team into a formidable grid contender for the 1924 season —but actions have spoken louder than words, and now Oregon is look ing forward to next year, when the Lemon-Yellow gridsters will no doubt be considered as real possible championship aspirants. Many Veterans Remain Unlike the past season, Maddock is going to have practically a let terman team on which to build up his new eleven. So far the only loss suffered by the team is Dick Reed, captain, who has played three years of conference football. Out side of Reed, from present indica tions, the team will return intact next year to resume further ath letic competition. One of the outstanding victories of the Oregon eleven in the past season is the victory of the varsity over the highly touted Huskies. Fans at this contest were treated to a spectacular and brilliant brand of football. The stonewall defense of the Oregon line, the flashy work of Bob Mautz, end, and Lynn Jones, fullback, were the main features of the Oregon offense. Work Is Spectacular The Oregon-O. A.- d. contest* was practically an exact replica of the Oregon-Huskie game, both in score and the number of thrills per min ute. Again in this tilt, the work of the Lemon-Yellow line proved to be highly spectacular. The only conference games lost by the varsity in the past season were to Stanford, Pacific coast con ference champions and to Idiaho, present Northwest title-holders. The success of the Oregon team in its 1924 chedule is considered remark able, inasmuch as sport dopesters had forecasted a season full of de feats for the varsity. The lottermen that will return to play football for Oregon next year (Continued on Pape Four) HAYWARD IS WELL PLEASED WITH FALL TRACK WORK Intensive Training- for All Candidates Is Plan of Coach for Next Term, It Is Announced By Web Jones Pall track work culminated last week-end in the big competition meet on Hayward Field. A group or more man uu aspirants compet ed in the 10 events run off. Bill Hayward ex pressed himself as being very well pleased with the showing of the men. The track work for the fall has been taken up for the most part by the new men and the f res hmen. Over eighty men have been signed up for fall track and this does not out in full force next term. Prac tically no varsity men competed in the meet last week end. Bainy weather prevented any in tensive training but throughout the fall the men turning out worked regularly on Hayward Field. Bill’s time was taken up with football so that the next two ‘ terms will be the intensive work for track. In side work in the gymnasium and at the end of the term when the weather permits the grind on the oval begins. There is a nucleus of over a dozen lettermen around which Hayward will build his team. Unless ineligibility cuts into the squad, as it did last spring, there is prospects for another Pacific Coast championship. There is sev eral additional meets planned which will make the track season long and varied. Captain to Report Chick Rosenberg, captain of the varsity team, will be back to pole vault and to throw the javelin. Walt Kelsey, star hurdler and sprinter, will compete with all his old form and with a great deal more 'experience. Francis Cleaver, another hurdler {Continued on Page Four) ‘Tiny’s’ Coach Plays in Benefit j m “Shy” Huntington THREE EASTERN TEAMS IRE TIER Yale Takes Championship of Big Three; Undefeated in Two Entire Seasons By Ward Cook Some very good football was play ed in the East during the past sea son with the more important teams more evenly matched than they have been for several years. Three temas finishd the season with their ledger clean of any backsets, and as a re sult Yale, Pennsylvania, and Dart mouth each have a claim for the championship. All three were tied by opposing teams, and they man aged to squeeze through without a defeat. Yale romped through to an easy championship in the big three, which is always the criterion of a success ful year as adjudged by the men of Eli. This marked the second Btraigh^ undefeated season for Yale and would seem To mark the return of the Blue to its greatness of other days. Tad Jones had an abundance of good material and with able coaching welded it into a team which exhibited great strength especially in its last two games. Next year with most of this year’s eleven back intact Yale should have an other successful year. Dartmouth Season Successful Dartmouth finished the most suc cessful season that the Green has had for some time. This powerful eleven swept through an impressive schedule without a thing to mar its Drilliance jxcept a very creditable tie with the formidable Yale elev en. Dartmouth can well afford to claim at least an equal right to the championship. Pennsylvania was kept from a possible undefeated season by rea son of a nothing to nothing tic game with Bezdek’s disappointing Penn. State team. Victories over Columbia, Virginia and Cornell, however, served to make up for this. Pennsylvania will climax the season by playing Andy Smith’s undefeat ed California eleven at Berkeley. Notre Dame holds what is almost universally admitted to be the un defeated championship East of the Rocky Mountains. Notre Dame plays Stanford at Pasadena in the Tour nament of Roses game New Year’s day, and if the Hoosiers win this they will hold an unopposed claim to the championship of the entire country. The Notre Damo team blazed a conquering path through all the opposition in the East, Mid dle West, and South and succeeded (Continued on Page Two) FORMER OREGON GRIDIRON STARS WILL PLAY IAS Tiny Shields Benefit Game Certain to Be Success; Sale of Tickets Is Large 0. A. C. Players Generous In Offers to Help Tiny Recover from His Illness By D. S. The benefit game for “Tiny” Shields is becoming more and more a reality every day. Reports com ing from all over the state and northwest state that a record breaking crowd will attend the game. People who never knew Tiny Shields are rallying to his support. His team mates and other bitter gridiron opponents are all offering their services in order to make this game a success. The city of Port land has done more than its share in donating every available thing in the city. The big game is scheduled to be played on Multnomah field on Christmas Day. The ticket sale so far indicates that the largest amount of money taken in at a football game will be received. The game starts at 1:30, enabling all those who attend a chance to get their Christmas dinner. Many Gridiron Stars The tivo teams that will line up against each other will be one com posed of Oregon alumni and the other Multnomah Club ex-stars. This game will have the biggest array of gridiron stars that have ever performed together in one single game. At a meeting of Oregon Alumni football players, held ah the Mult nomah hotel last Thursday, a cap tain and manager were elected. These two will see that the Oregon Alumni will be thoroughly organ ized and get the necessary amount of practice. Virgil Earl has charge of the Oregon team and was chair man of the meeting that elected captain and manager. Among several of the players who will play on the Oregon Alumni team will be Shy Huntington, who coached the team that Tiny Shields played on. “Shy,” one of the great est quarter-backs ever turned out on the Pacific Coast, played on the famous 1916 team of Oregon’s that won the championship of the United States. It was at the Tour nament of Roses game the Pennsyl vania University team was defeated 14 to 0 by this championship Ore gon team. Bill Steers to Play Bill Steers, the greatest punter ever produced on the coast, will play on the Alumni team. Bill quit football for good several years ago, but has volunteered to come out and help his old team mate. Seeing Steers in action will be well worth the price of admission and (Continued on Page Four1 Famous Star to Play Xmas -O Bill Steers DOUGHNUT HOOP SEASON BRINGS OUT NEW TALENT Kappa Sigma Takes Final Game from Psi Kappas; Many Squads Enter Race Future Varsity Stars May Emerge from Intramural Teams in Pre-season Play (By B. L. G.) One of the most successful dough nut basketball seasons in years was brought to a fitting closo with the game between Kappa Sigma and Psi Kappa quintets last Thursday. The Kappa Sig’s closed the year as the only undefeated five in the jjo unr sum ojnpoqos oqj, -anUtMi on a straight elimination basis, each team losing being automatically dropped from the running. Interest in the return of dough nut sports was manifested in the number of teams entering into the league. A total number of 15 teams started the season and all teams played at least one game. Entrance requirements contained only the facts that all organizations that wished coyild enter a team provid ing they lived up to the rules drawn up by the physical education de partment. The main points in the rules were that no man would re ceive any regard of any kind and that all organizations play only men who have not participated in any freshman or varsity contest. There was one ruling overlooked by tlio majority of teams in regards to challenge games. It read that any team defeated held the right to challenge any team either in or out of the league. Several Play Well Several good men showed up well in the games, some of whom might stand a good chance of making the varsity or freshman squads. It may be well to say that the freshman squads of one year compose the var sity squads of the next. In revlew (Continued on Page Three) FRESHMAN SWIMMERS PRACTICE EVERY DAT Aggie Rooks to "Be Met This Year in Tank Here The freshman swimming squad is now working out daily, preparing for the meet to be held with the Varsity sometime in the middle of January. This first meet will be one of the several schodulod with the Varsity for the coming swim ming season. This plan of Varsity meets was originated last year and proved to be very successful and will be an annual event. The big meet of the year is sche duled with the Oregon Agricultural college Books. The squad this year Is large and probably will increase after the first of the year. The men aro working out in the men’s tank on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and workout in the women’s tank on Wednesday eve ning at 8:15 and on Friday night at 7:30. Some of the men who at this time of the season are showing up good are F. B. Reid, Frank) Biggs i and Jack Fish in the 50-yard dash; I). J. McCook and Robert Washer 1 in the 100 yards; G. Riggs and V. i Fowler in diving. Frank Warner ! is being developed into a back j stroke swimmer and, according to i Coach “Rudy” Fahl, will prove a ’ comer, as he has only been prac ticing this stroke for a week. The members of the squad are: F. B. Reid, Frank Riggs, Jack Fish, .1. G. Wright and C. Humbo, 50-yard | dashes; L. 1>. Reavis, D. J. McCook, 1 11. (’. Benton, Robert Washer, S. D. ! Greenwood, C. 0. Burlingame, F. A. Van Atta, Robert Knight and W. A. Roberts, 100-yard dashes; Phillip Sheriden and J. L. Reynolds, 220 yard dashes; Frank Warner, back | stroke; G. Riggs, V. Fowler, E. A. Koupal, W. F. McGregor, W. Thomas, J. C. Soderstrom, diving; j J. E. Brundage and E. C. Kreiss, l plunge. Basketball Coach Drilling Varsity KrttKtkl > 8U»IS PHOTO Billy Reinhart COACH, STUDENT PIT WITS JAN. 1 Glenn Warner Admits Notre Dame Bids Fair to Take Clash on New Year’s Day Teacher and pupil will match wits when Lou Young, head' coach at Pennsylvania pits his ui^d,efeatod team against Andy Smith’s eleven at Berkeley, New Years day. Smith was head coach at Penn when Young was still a player. Although the two teams will have entirely different plays, their general stylo of play will bo essentially the same. Both Smith and Young play a kicking game, at all times follow ing the ball closely, waiting for a fumble or break of some kind which can be turned into points. Smith, Horrell, Return Smith and his very able captain “Babo” Horrell have returned from their scouting trip east. They saw Penn wallop Carnegie Tech, which to all laws of reasoning should have brought both of thorn home with a look of gloom on their faces. But not so. Smith admits Ponn is stroag, and has tho kind of (Continued on Page Four) VARSITYHOOPERS DRILLING ON FIE POINTS OF GAME Barnstorming Tour Called Off in Favor of Earlier Practice After Vacation Three Lettermen to Be Out for Squad; Former Frosh Players Show Promise By George H. Godfrey With the pigskin safely tucked away, all eyes are turned on the Billy Reinhart’s hoop artists. Nightly now, the Oregon basketeers are hitting the maple, and already the squad is rounding into early season form. The annual barnstorming trip has been called off this year, and here the varsity coach shows a rare bit of wisdom. A few squabbles with minor teams on rough floors may give a team experience, but that is about all, and often, due to poor playing conditions, it does real harm. The Oregon squad is to re turn early from the holidays, and this will be far better than any barnstorming fracas. Just now. the men are going through the fundamentals—passing the ball, pivoting, guarding—with basket shooting to come early in the next session of practice. Billy Reinhart not only has coached baB kotball, but he teaches a class every year, so he thoroughly knows the game from every angle. Lineup Not Picked The first string lineups are hard to pick as yet, but several good men are waiting to be placed. Only three lettormen, Hobson, forward; Gillen water, guard; and Gowans, forward, are left from the squad last year. The chief source of new material for the first string will come from last year’s freshmen. Kiminki is looking good at guard, and he and Westergren will no doubt share the checking positions with Gillenwator. Hobson is sure of his place at forward, for he has one of the surest eyes for the hoop on the coast, while Gowans is a good running mate for him. Chiles, from the frosh last year, will make a strong bid for a for ward berth, while Gunther, utility man, may also get a chance to show his stuff. At center, three men are contesting, with the first choice a toss-up so far. Chuck .Tost, who was used a bit last year, and who understudied the lanky Hunk Latham, is on hand. Oker berger and Flynn, of the yearling squad, both did great work last year, and have been going good in practice. Dozen Players Good Reinhart will have at least a dozen men of nearly equal calibre this year, and instead of develop ing a five-man team, he will prob ably rely on all of the men to fit (Continued on Page Four) CRACK GOLF QUARTET WILL BE PLACED IN FIELD SOON Captain Godfrey Defies “204” Rifle Team to Match But Is Given Cold Shoulder With the grid season gently shoved into the background, golf has stepped to the front and as sumed importance of the first mag nitude. Although the University will not be officially represented with a four man team this year, the honor for upholding the institu tion will rest in a crack team of four golf enthusiasts of a high calibre. The coach for this squad as yet has not been announced, but the necessity for instruction for this team will not be needed, according to several prominent University sport critics. This quartet will be led by George 11. Godfrey, sports editor of the Daily Emerald and correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, Seattle Times, Los Angeles Times and the Ford Dealer Monthly. God frey has made a rather impressive record on the gfeon and is bound to take many of the leading coast golfers down the line. Wilbur Wester will play as second man on the team. Wester writes for tho Fmerald and is corrospond ont for the Eugene Morning Regis ter. TIoo has made a fairly good record with the “Scotch” elubs. One of his victims is a former Astoria high school champion, Ted Diamond. Ward Cook, Emerald sports scribe and correspondent for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, has earned his right to a place on the team by easily defeating Rolph Kleop in a rather one-sided race. “Brute” Osbourne and Dick God frey are fghting it out for the fourth place on the team. Both of these men aro writers for the Emer ald and also are quite efficient at the pasture-game. A challenge defying any four golfer to a tournament has been given out by Captain Godfrey. God frey even has challenged the “204” rifle team to a match, but the Kappas have, refused to pit their team against such a strong aggre gation.
