Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1925)
55 TURN OUT FOR FOOTBALL FALL PRACTICE OPENED BY BIG GANG OF FROSH Large Turn Out of High School Athletes Taking Hard Nightly Taining New Yearling Coach Played on Varsity Teams of Past . Years at Tackle Berth Bean Straub has said annually for fifteen years, “This is the biggest and best class that ever entered the University.” The venerable Bean is not exagerating a bit this year; when one glances over the size of freshmen men, especially those al ready signed up for freshman foot ball. Head Freshman Coach “Spike” Leslie will, without a doubt, have a large number of heavy men out in suits. To offset the slowness bound to come from a number of large heavy men, the coach has also a number of light fast men turning out for the gridiron sport. Leslie is Veteran At the head of the Freshmaln football machine, guiding their des tinies for the coming season is Earl “Spike” Leslie, a new man at the position of freshman football coach but not a new i&an to the greater number of students on the campus. “Spike” Leslie is a former Oregon football man having played on the team that met Harvard in 1919.1 Leslie played frosh football in 1916 but was out of school for two years. These two years were spent in the army and while there “Spike” play ed company football. He returned to his Alma Mater in 1919.and for; the next three years played on the ; varsity. He played on the line at! tackle position and was one of the j scrapiest line man that ever fought for the green and yellow. Leslie played his last game for Oregon against the University of Hawaii; letters in baseball in 1920, ’21, ’22 as catcher. The position of freshman coach | is not Leslie’s first venture in the ; coaching line. Since graduation ! ?rom college he coached athletics at j the McLoughin Union high school at1 Milton-Freewater. For the past j two years he has been head coach i at the Eugene High school where ! he has turned out some champion ship teams. Assisting Leslie at first assistant coach will be Richard ‘.‘Bick” Reed, i captain of last year’s varsity eleven.' Reed played for Oregon for the past three years as tackle and is well versed in the style of football taught at Oregon and should make a valuable assistant to Leslie. It is also planned to have members of the physical education department assisting. The entire number of men turning out will be divided in to individual elevens. According to Ooach Leslie the first few days of practice will be i devoted to teaching the men the j fundamentals of the game. /The j fundamentals cannot be too strongly stressed, he says. The plan of practice this year is somewhat dif ferent than that of former years. With this new plan in vogue every j man going out for frosh football * (continued on page three) OREGON’S NEW COACHING STAFF These six men are guiding the destinies of the varsity and frosh teams. Four are new at their present jobs. From left to right: Bill Hayward, grapd old man of Oregon Athletics and trainer; Dick Smith, in charge of the entire system as head varsity' coach; Biz Williams, former frosh coach and present head line coach; Doc Stegeman, former Chicago player assisting with the line; Spike Leslie, Oregon veteran, as Frosh coach; and Billy Reinhart, developer of powerful backfield who coaches the backs this year. NEW STRUCTURE TO SEAT 4,1 Contruction Being Rushed For Homecoming Clash With O.A.C. in November With the cry “It ain’t gonna rain no more” students of the Uni versity of Oregon and interested football fans of the state will soon be able to go to Hayward field and witness a football game and enjoy it regardless of the weather. With the construction of the new grand stand on Hayward field where once stood the rustic bleachers, the Uni versity will be able to take care of 20,000 football spectators and offering them over 11,000 covered seats. Grandstand Is Unit Work on the new $25,000 grand stnd was started about the 20th of August by A. Pajunnu, contractor of Portland. The work is now being rushed but seats will be provided for spectators who come to witness the Oregon-Idaho game, October 10. Accordig to Jack Benefiel, the structure will be completed for the homecoming game with Oregon Agri culture College on November 14. The new grandstand, will have a seating capacity of 4,300, ahd a thousand more than the old grand stand. The new grandstand is a unit of the large capacity grand stand which it is expected will be built within the next two years. This new unit, being built where the main bleachers once stood is to be 260 feet in length and will contain 30 rows of seats. 'the grandstand is being built in a most safe man ner with six steel post used to sup sort the roof. The completed plans rf the seating space will be 360 'eet long or there are just two and me half more units to go into the itructuro when completed within :he next two years. According to rack Benefiel, secretary of the (continued on page three) Dick Says— “Back in tlie old days every girl in the university turned out to watch the team practice in the pouring rain out on old Kincaid Field. Then the Oregon spirit was high. That same spirit is here, the spirit in the student body that made possible the football glory of Oregon, but that spirit has to be aroused. We want every student out to watch the team; to get behind it; to co-operate with the coaches and with the faculty. We want every faculty member to support the team. The coaches may work forever and the men out there may give everything they have, but Oregon’s football team this year is in the hands of the students. When they “hop up’’ that team, when that old Oregon spirit comes back with added force this year, the team will be on the road to victory. Get be hind and shove! Do your bit bit,, whatever it may be, for the team! ” Hayward Says— The men are still loggy. The beginning of the season with its finds some of them slow and out of condition, hut within two weeks at the most they will be in fine shape. The injuries are cured. The men are beginning the year in comparatvely good physical condition. DR. STEEEMi HELPS WILLIAMS WITH LINE In addition to a new head coach the Univeriity of Oregon football men will have a new as sistant line coach in the person of Dr. Wilson Stegeman, formerly captain and tackle on the Univer sity of Chicago football team. Dr. Stegeman learned his football under Alonzo A .Stagg. Besides playing on the fotball eleven, he was a varsity man in both football and basket ball at the University of Chicago. At the close of the football season .'the Chicago man will become a member of the Uni versity health staff, as he is a gra duate of the Rush Medical college and completed his interneship at Santa Barbara Cottage hospital, California, recently- Stegeman had coaching experience after he com pleted his academic work at Chi cago before he entered Rush College. The new line coach, who will as sist ’“Baz” Williams, head line coach, is big physically and has a pleasing personality. Director Earl said Stegeman was recommended by John L. Griffiths, commissioner of athletics for the Big Ten institu tions in the middle west, for the head coaching position at Oregon two years ago before the appoint ment of Joe Maddock. Stegeman does not intend to be come a professional coach, however,. and will become only an assistant to Dick Smith this year because of a special request of Oregon athletic authorities His career is in the field of medicine. BRICK LESLIE SEES VARSITY SCRIMMAGE Brick Leslie, former center on the Oregon teams in the days of Hugo Bezdec-k in ’17 ’19 and ’20 was an interested spectator at last week’s football practice. He ' is coaching Ooquille high school this Men’s Physical ' Education Department Ready For Increase in Enrollment _ The men’s gymnasium, has been completely renovated and thorough ly put in shaue for the year during the summer months. The swimming pool has been cleaned for one of the most popular gym classes. The eqquipment has been enlarged to take care of the increased enroll ment which is expected according to Harry Scott, physical education director. Four hundred new baskets have been added and shelves erected for them. Fifty dozen new com plete uniforms have been placed in them. Enrollment Large The enrollment in the department is far from completed but it is prob able that it will reach the 1500 mark before the actual work starts. The enrollment this year is expected to exceed that of last by at least 15 or 20 per cent. To date 1285 baskets have been issued. Next year it is the hope of the depart ment that the entire enrollment will be using the university equip ment for it facilitates the working and does away with crowding. The physical ability test has been conducted on a large scale for the past, week for the benefit of the in coming freshmen, and the results have been surprisingly successful. The complete scores were announced Monday. The department finds that approximately 50 per cent of the aspirants fail to pass the test. It will be given again Saturday. The schedule of six tests a year will bo 1 carried out as in the past. Anyone j may take the test as many I times as they wish. As an ! later on. The department en-! added reward the higher score the j better the grade in the department i courages men to take the test as who fails in the first attempts can have ample opportunity to pass i Edwin F. Abercrombie, has been added to the staff as varsity and freshman swimming coach and as : regular assistant in the department. ; Perry Davis, varsity letterman in wrestling, will have charge of box ing and wrestling in the regular j •lasses. He is experienced in both sports. Eugene Richmond, member of the varsity swimming team for two ' rears, will have charge of the pool in the afternoon. Joe Peek major ! in the department, will handle the oool in the forenoon. Another assist int will be named later on. Frank Reinhart and Walter Fen wick, are assistants in the office. Bill Says— “Potentially we have a good team. But it will be thru no small amount of effort that It Is made into a winning team. Prospects mean nothing for it happens that when the prospects are the best the results are the worst... The strength of the squad is potentially great. It is a question now of how we get out of all concerned, squad, stu dent body and the rest.’’ E. R. ABERCROMBIE TO COACH AQUATIC TEAMS Varsitv and freshmen swimmers ' I will be under the supervision of a | new coach this year as Edward F. ' Abercrombie has ben selected to fill the vacancy left by Eudolph Fahl, swimming coach last year. Mr. Abercrombie is a graduate of Springfield College, Springfield, Massachussetts and holds a degree of Bachelor of Physical Education from that institution. While a student at Springfield, Abercrombie was a varsity swim mer for three years and captain of j the team in 1923. He made the I 1922 and 1923 as a fancy diver. He placed fourth in the National Indi vidual Intercollegiate championship at Princeton in 1923. Graduating from Springfield Mr. Abercrombie took advanced work at Columbia University in New York. Because of his varsity participation at Springfield, he was ineligible for! swimming at Columbia but assisted | as freshman baseball coach. While j attending Columbia Mr. Abercromj j bie won the Junior Metropolitan j Fancy Diving championship in 1924. Mr. Abercrombie will act as head ■ swimming coach at Oregon and will have charge of varsity and : freshman swimming teams. SAWDUST FIELD BUILT FOR FROSH PRACTICE A new football field directly south of Hayward Field is under construction and within a month will be in fairly good shape. The new gridiron will be used by the frosh for practice. It faces east and west and is covered with sawdust. Forty loads j of fine sawdust have been placed on the field preparatory to working it down. The varsity bucking ma- ] chine has been placed on it so that Hayward Field will not be torn j up. Dick Smith Takes Helm Of Varsity Squad With Baz and Bill Assisting Successful Football Season Is Anticipated; Twelve Lettermen Draw Uniforms to Battle for Positions By WEB JONES, Sports Editor Dick Smith, taking the helm of the Oregon varsity with the assistance of Baz Williams, line coach, and Bill Reinhart, back field coach on September 15, found 45 men signed up and out in suits with at least ten more signed Up for work later on. The coaches have plenty of material—not 45 green men, but forty-five veterans, more or less, and all three of the coaches are optomistic concerning the prospects for the season. The problem confronting the three coaches is not that of getting men, but of picking the men they have. These first light workouts and scrimmages are merely the preliminaries to harder work later on and the selection of the best men. It will be no easy job to find the best man in each position. The hard scrimmage as the season advances will bring out the true ratine of the men. GALIFORNIK HAS VETERAN TEAAA Stanford Has Husky Line But Need of Able Field General Felt by Coach California Teams Make Coast Stock Rise in Opinion of Experts By W. Ii. Parker When Hughie Fullerton takes his pen in hand and dopes out the sea son 's prospects, it is time for all the doping fraternity to get under way. Hughie makes one nice remark about Coast football in the current Liberty. “Football on the Coast will be the best in the country this year, and the team that wins the Coast title will be the best team in the country.” Quite a change from a few months ago when Coast football was hardly mentioned and the impression was given that the boys out here just kicked the ball around and then hit the showers. Fast Men Out All of which loads to the Cali fornia Bears, the team that put the roast on the football map. There ire those who say, respectfully that the primary cause of Walter Camp’s death was his seeing so much good football in the 1924 Stan ford-California game that he just naturally said, “Great ,God, this must be football and my Heaven.” Golden Bear Wins California is firmly entrenched, this year, with a veteran team. How ever, it looks as if some of the veterans will warm the bench to make room for faster and harder ; hitting men. Left guard* |eft tackle and left end, may see new faces, and quarter Carlson, of Eve- . rett, Wash., might have to step out j for young Dick Blewett, former end, ' ind a much faster man. I recall one game last year when ; California showed the stuff its i cams are made of. It was against : he Olympic Club, a team made up i >f ex-college stars. The club toam i lemoralized the California line with j a cross-buck, inside tackle, from j: tick formation. They made gain , (continued on page three) -trick omith, taking the helm of the Oregon varsity with the assist ance of Baz Williams, line coach, and Bill Reinhart, backfield coach on September 15, found 45 men signed up and out in suits with at least ten more signed up for work later on. The coaches have plenty of material—not 45 green men, but forty five veterans, more or less, and all three of the coaches are optomistic concerning the prospects for the season. The problem confronting the three coaches is not that of getting men, but of picking from the men they have. These first light work outs and scrimmages are merely the preliminaries to harder work later on and the selecti5n of the best men. It will be no easy job to find the best man in each posi tion. The hard scrimmage as the season advanes will bring out the true rating of the men. As the team now stands there is no weak spots in any position. The enthusiasm in the team is .high, rhere is competition, the keenest in many years, and so strong that every man, whether regular or scrub last year, will have to work to hold Iris position. There are from five to 15 men out for each position, ind the best man will get it. The backfield situation is the most certain of the whole team. Bill Reinhart, backfield coach, has ;hree complete and promising back fields working. It is probable that the two, best backfieldB wall be ised. The quarterback position rests be tween Louie Anderson, ttw» year letterman, who piloted the team ast year, and Fred Harrison, stellar punter, passer and field ,ge^ie|ral >f the 1923 frosh. Harrison has leen getting off 55 yard punts ■egularly when he gets his educated ;oe into action in practice. He is m accurate passer. Parley Stod lard with one year’s experience s tho quarterback understudy. Hud llarke and Walt Cushman of last fears ’ Frosh aro out for the poet ilso. At fullback is a crashing power ful human catapult named Lynn rones, tho most consistent yard ;ainer on the varsity last year. He eturned to tho campus weighing .85 pounds and with all of his last fear’s speed. He promises to be he most powerful man in the back ield. Running him a close second s Vic Wetzel, 10 second dash men m the frosh track squad last year, le carries his 185 pounds like a printer. Besides that he can punt ilrnost as well as Harrison. Harry (continued on page two) Baz Says— “The men who play on the Oregon football line this fall are going to get there solely on their football playing ability—not on past work, heighth, weight or anything else. The seven men who play in the line will know they are there because thew have the stuff and if they are on the bench they will know someone who has more on the ball that they have isplaying. The man who gets out on the field and socks ’em hard and shows that he can do some thing is the man who is going to play. It makes no difference whether he is a srub or a letterman. The letterman who played last year have no positions cinched on this team, and they’ll lose their jobs if they fail to show the stuff.”
