VOLUME XXVII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUQENB, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1926
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FootballTeam
for Next Year
Is Promising
Eleven Letter-Men Will
Form Nucleus for
1926 Lineup
“Will Take Time to Drill
Style of Play”—McEwan
Fall Practice Will Start
On September 15
Football in the spring seems a
long way off but the prospects for
the varsity next year rose sky high
with the engagement of Captain
John J. McEwan as head coach. The
six weeks session of spring football
sandwiched in between the trips
which the new coach was compelled
to make throughout the state
brought out some strength in the
turnout with which he will have to
work.
“The turnout shows promise of a
teasonably good year. Of course we
do not expect to win all the games
but we hope for a constant and
steady improvement from the start
of the season,” said Captain Mc
Ewan concerning the work for next
year.
Schedule is Hard
The schedule is the most difficult
one that has been lined up in many
years. The plan of the captain will
years. The plan of the Captain will
try not to fall down on the others.
He will endeavor to bring the team
to a peak for particular games.
“We have a good nucleus to work
with in the many lettermen and the
freshmen Burnell, Gonld, and
Woodie in the backfield and Thomp
son, Slauson, and Flegel in the line.
“The new style of play will take
time to drill into the team. Funda
mentally there is really no great
difference but it differs in the me
chanism of the attack. It will take
it some time to get started.”
The list of lettermen who will be
back is almost a team in itself with
the possibility of ten men out in
suits. A1 Sinclair, captain of the
team, will be back in his position
in the line at tackle to lead the
team for the 1926 season.
Old Crew in Backfield
The rest of the linesmen include
Nick Carter and Johnson at cen
ter who both made letters this year.
A. shift in the lineup will probably
find Beryl Hodgen playing guard for
the season. Bert Kerns, two year
tackle, will be back for his last
year and Homer Dixon, 210 pound
tackle, wil lalso help the forward
wall out. Sherm Smith at end com
pletes the list of veteran linesmen.
In the backfield will be the old
pile driving crew of last season,
Lynn Jones, Vic Wetzel and Otto
Vitus. All have had two years of
experience, with the exception of
Wetzel, and should be finding their
football feet by now.
George Mimnaugh, punter and
quarterback, will probably get the
call behind the line for part of the
season at least.
Klippel and Cadwell, centers from
the frosh squad, are probably the
outstanding new linesmen. The ends
will find Frank Biggs and Bed
Slauson working for the two berths,
with Jamison from the frosh team.
Bay Edwards and Arnie Kiminki
complete the list of aspirants for
the backfield.
Practice begins on September 15,
according to conference ruling and
the season gets under way with the
hard struggle with Washington at
the dedication of the new Mult
nomah stadium in Portland, October
9.
Spring football has given the new
coach and Harry Ellinger, his right
hand man and line coach, a fairly
accurate lineup on the material so
that the team which will play Wash
ington will probably start digging
in on September 15 with practically
the same lineup.
Theta Chi Champions
In Intramural Tennis
The intra-mural tennis tourna
ment, which was under the direc
tion of Edward Abercrombie, swim
ming and tennis eoach, was run off
snappily this year and was featured
by fast, whole-hearted play.
The Theta Chis emerged victor
ious from among the sixteen teams
that started in the contest. In
the finals, Bill Peterson and Ken
Cadwell of Theta Chi, met Arlie
Reid and A1 Veazie, representing
FNendly hall. The hall men were
defeated fl-1, 6-2, 6-4.
Racket Stars to Play at Philadelphia
Boy Okerberg and Harry Coffin, Oregon’s premier varsity tennis
players, who will represent the University in a national meet next month.
The matches are in connection with the Sesqui-Centennial celebration.
Long Contracts
Basis of New
Athletic Policy
McEwan, Benefiel and
Reinhart Get 5-Year
Grants
Permanency is the keynote of the
new athletic policy which has 'been
put in working order this year by
the A. S. U. O. Long term contracts
have secured what promises to be
the best coaching corps ever cor
ralled at the University of Oregon.
Capt. John J. McEwan, the new
football coach, has been retained for
the next five years. This is in direct
opposition to the former short term
contracts granted grid mentors, and
will give McEwan an opportunity to
start at the bottom and build for
future years, and still be in a posi
tion to laugh at whatever wolves
may choose to camp on his trail in
the event of a lean season.
Jack Benefiel, graduate manager,
is another to secure a five year con
tract. Benefiel’s work in the past
has been uniformly satisfactory, and
he is deserving of this trust.
Ed Abercrombie, the new swim
ming and tennis coach who has done
much to put these former obscure
sports on a winning, recognized ba
sis, is signed to a three year con
tract. Billy Reinhart, basketball
and baseball coach, will remain on
the campus for five more years in
recognition of his services in the
past. Harry Ellinger, football line
coach ,and Gene Vidal, the new
back field coach, are working on
three year contracts, as is Sam
Wilderman, director of publicity for
the Associated Students.
Reed to Play Pro
Football with Wilson
Dick Reed, captain of the 1924
football team, has signed to play
professional football with George
Wilson’s team next fall. The man
ager of the team who is the famous
Husky linesman has contracted for
thirteen or fourteen professional
games. Reed was offered the con
tract after his game at Pasadena
where he played in the East-West
contest.
In order to keep in good physical
condition for the fall Reed has been
boxing. Like Sully Montgomery, th«
famous Centre College football play
er who turned pugilist, he has had
marked success in his first bouts.
He has won three by the knockout
route and in his last bout his op
ponent threw in the sponge.
Varsity Tennis
Gains Big Boom;
One Meet Lost
Eight Men Earn Letters;
Okerberg and Coffin
To Go East
Tennis has come into its own this
year at Oregon.
Every meet except one was a vic
tory. The defeat, 6 to 1 at Seattle,
was not as bad as the score would
indicate because the Oregonians
gave the Huskies a real .tussle, three
of the matches going to three sets.
The Oregon Aggies were defeated
twice, 5 to 2 and 6 to 1, and vic
tories were registered over Mult
nomah club, Beed College, and Wil
lamette University.
Boy Okerberg and Harry Coffin,
the pair who are leaving this week
for the east to engage in the na
tional inter-collegiates in June, have
attracted wide interest throughout
the northwest, and present a splen
did doubles combination, capable of
giving any collegiate duo a run for
honors. The experience to be gained
in the east this summer is expected
to polish these players so that they
will sweep through northwest ranks
next spring
The entire tennis squad will be
on hand next year. George Mead,
Tom Cross, Herbert Henton, Bill
Powell, Bill Adams, Hal Hutchin
son, Coffin, and Okerberg have earn
ed sweaters this spring, and an
other man, Melvin Cohn, who has
been playing number three all year,
had the misfortune to confine his
winning to non-conference teams,
and so missed his letter.
Mead, Adams, and Okerberg are
receiving their second award, while
Coffin, Cross, Henton, Powell, and
Hutchinson are new letter wearers.
The 1926 freshman team numbers
several luminaries who will tighten
the competition for varsity places
next year. The frosh squad con
tained Henry Neer, Clarence Hart
man, Edgar Slauson, Boone Hen
dricks, Harry Lee, Chalmers Nooe,
and Ben Souther.
Handball Tournament
Won by Oregon Club
The intra-mural handball tourna
ment this year resulted in the Ore
gon club, Sigma Chi, and the S.
A. E. ’s coming into a round robin
together in the finals.
The Oregon clubbers were suc
cessful in doing their stuff. Neith
er the Sigma Chi or S. A. E. team
could come within the points of them
Past Records
Insure Place
of Basketball
New Pavilion Guaranty
Of Faith in Prospects
For Game’s Future
Jost, Hobson to Leave;
Other Men to Remain
Frosh Squad to Furnish
Varsity Material
By Harold Mangum
JJASKETBALL established its ten
ure as a sport at Oregon through
the exploits of the 1926 team and
bright prospects for the future. The
new basketball pavilion now being
constructed is but one means of
translating Oregon’s interest in the
fastest collegiate game of them all
—.Toe Basketball.
The season of 1926 is history, but
future college generations must
hear how Oregon swamped Mon
tana with Sweet, Kelly, and Illman
in the lineup by a -40 to 19 count,
and romped through the northwest
like a covey, of hurdlers, taking
every barrier on high, and ending
the northern part of the race by
walloping the obstreperous Aggies,
25 to 15, and keeping them from
caging a single field goal during
the last twenty minutes.
Southern Trip Tails
The pianist may play a funeral
march while we speak of that
memorable trip to the southland.
The Bears, raging like a forest fire,
inundated the Oregonians with field
baskets, and left the floor a 32 to
17 winner. The second night was a
bit evener, the bruins only collect
ing 29 markers while Beinhart’s
hearties were tallying 23. If
“Swede” Westergren had been in
the lineup—
But two cogs of the 1926 machine
will be missing when the roll is
called next fall. Howard Hobson,
the clever captain who has been
pictured so often with a basketball
wired to his hand that we have be
gun to think said flipper was mag
netized, and Charles Jost, of the
Jost-Burr feud which divided Bose
burg into hostile camps, are the
men who have completed their ten
ure on the maple court. Needless
to say, Hobson’s speed and floor
work and Jost’s stellar work under
the home basket will be missed.
All-Coast Honors Won
But three other men were award
ed letters last winter, and all three
will be on hand for another whirl
at high scoring honors. Jerry
Gunther, all-coast forward; A1 Wes
tergren, all-coast guard; and Boy
Okerberg, who missed being all
coast center only because Bill Hig
gins was in the conference, will
serve as the nucleus of the 1927
Webfooters. They are the three
high scorers of the Oregon team and
of the Northwest. Arnold Kiminki
and Bay Edwards, varsity subs, aro
well drilled in the rudiments of
the Eeinhart system, and appear
well qualified for positions on the
first five next winter. Kiminki,
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New Pavilion to be
Finished for Hoop
Practice in December
The new Oregon basketball pavi
lion, now under way, will be com
pleted in time for hoop practice
which will start in December. A
busy force of laborers is engaged at
present in leveling the ground and
clearing the way for the new edifice
which will cost in the neighborhood
of $175,000 and seat approximately
9,000 persons.
This building, which is being
erected just south of the R. O. T. C.
headquarters, is the first structure
of its kind to be constructed on the
Pacific slope. In addition to basket
ball games, the floor may be used
for dances and other student activi
ties. A basement is included, which
will house athletic lockers, and other
accommodations for athletes.
This pavilion was necessitated by
the great growth in basketball
throughout the state, and the inade
quacy of the structure being used at
present—the Eugene armory. At the
second O. A. C. game held here,
thousands were turned away, and at
the first contest at Corvallis only a
small proportion of those wishing
seats were accommodated. Only 100
tickets were sent for the entire
Oregon student body, and the O. A.
C. graduate manager is said to have
refused more than 8,000 requests
for seats.
Track Squad
Material for
’27 Surveyed
Graduation Will Take Four
Star Lettermen
From Team
-4
Cross-Country to Aid in
Training Distance Men
Freshmen Brighten Future
For Hayward
rJ'HE _ windup of the 1926 track
season yesterday left Bill Hay
ward to check up on the line-up for
next year. The planning ahead goes
forward with no hesitation for as
soon as one season is completed the
work on the next must begin. Next
fall all distance men and possibly
the quarter milers will be out for
cross country to train for the 1927
season.
The graduation of four lettermen
will make wide gaping holes in the
ranks of the team. Walt Kelsey,
captain of this year’s team, and de
pendable performer in four events,
and who has amassed more points
for Oregon during his three years of
competition than any of the men,
ran his last race yesterday. Francis
Cleaver, hurdler and high jumper
for three years, finished his athletic
work in the meet with O. A. C.
Boland Eby, high jumper, and Paul
Ager, quarter miler, are also pass
ing out of the ranks.
Field Events Weakened
Passing with these men are the
near letter winners, and the men
who have worked hard for three
years and who have made points
but not quite enough, are Tom Hold
er, the hard plugging two-miler, and
Guy Mauney, half-miler. Jerry Gun
ther, a new man in the weights and
javelin, and Eugene Bichmond in
the pole vault are also leaving their
places on the team.
The outlook for 'the coming year,
although the season is far distant
yet,' shows a strong nuclues, which
when augmented by the most prom
ising freshmen, should brighten the
prospects more than for many years.
In the sprints the entire turnout
this year will report again. Jerry
Extra, and Harry Holt leading the
list, with Benshaw, Kuykendall, and
Wetzel to fill in the other places.
Kircher and Cheshire, from the
Frosh team, will swell the iist.
The quarter mile squad losea but
one man in Paul Ager. Joe Price,
Hampton Allen, Don Jeffries, La
Verne Pearson, and Bill Prender
grast will all be back to compete.
Joe Standard is tho most promising
freshman.
Half Mile Good
m tne hair mile the prospects are
brighter than ever, with Bob Over
street as the leader, who is bound
to improve. Thorstenberg, Oehler
and Cook complete the list. McKit
rick looks good on the frosh team.
The distance races will miss the
strength of Tom Holder, and the
bulk of the hard running will be on
the legs of Fern Kelly, varsity
miler, Beuben Boss, John Neider
meier, varsity two miler, Courtney
Kalson and Otto Anderson. Little
and Jensen from the frosh team
show the most promise.
The hurdles are hard places to
fill with two men leaving, and pos
sibly three. Balph Tuck may return
for his last year of competition.
Otherwise Bill Hayward will have
to develop new stick men. Bill Pren
dergrast will probably be made over
from a sprinter into a hurdler for
the season. Burns of the varsity
squad, Foster, Crawford, and Mc
Gee from the freshmen team, com
pletes the list.
uuuook optimistic
In the jumps, Proe Flanagan will
be competing for his third and last
year with Ralph Staley as a second
place winner. The high jump will
rest in Bill Crawford and Balph
McCulloch of the frosh team for
there are no varsity men left after
graduation hits the team.
Ed Crowley will have the pole
vault all to himself and shonld be
doing better with a year’s experi
ence behind him.
In the weight events there is a
surprising wealth of material, more
than has been accumulated for many
years. Vic Wetzel will be back for
all three weight events. And with
the help of Mark Sanderson, fresh
man, in the shot and discus ,and
George Stager, freshman, all the
events the team should be strong
there.
Track Captain
Walter Kelsey, Oregon cinder path
star for the past three years and
captain during the season about to
close.
Ex-Army Star is
Put on Coaching
Staff by McEwan
Gene Vidal Gels Position;
Has Coached West Point
Backfields, Track
The selection of Gene Vidal as
head backfleld coach of the football
team for next fall completes the
coaching staff upon whom will rest
the responsibility of whipping a
team into shape after September 15.
Gene Vidal has a distinguished
and varied athletic record to his
credit. He graduated from the Uni
versity of South Dakota in 1916
after playing three years' of foot
ball there, and entered West Point
in 1916. While at the military
academy he played halfback for two
years and then was graduated with
honors. He was commissioned in the
engineers.
In 1920 he was a member of the
United States decathalon team to
the Olympic games and placed fifth
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Fencing Will Have
Increased Facilities
During Coming Year
Plans are being laid by William
C. Davisson, fencing instructor, for
a coming year of success for fenc
ing. A first and second team, an in
creased number of meets with other
schools, and added equipment will
do their share in reaping laurels.
This year’s team, George Wilhelm,
Edgar Buchanan and John Galey, all
experienced fencers, will return.
Sabre and sword dueling will be
new features of this sport next fall.
Tentative contests have been ar
ranged with O. A. C., Pacific uni
versity, Multnomah club, Beed col
lege, and the University of Wash
ington. The only meets in which
the team participated this year were
with Multnomah club, one of which
was lost and the other won.
The course will remain an elective
for physical ability men as in the
past, and, beginning with the fall
term, it will be inaugurated as an
accredited course for physical edu
cation majors.
Since the introduction of fencing
on the campus, women have been en
thusiastic participants, with more
than a hundred engaged in the sport
thfs year. Fencing exhibitions were
presented this spring at the W. A.
A. meet, and contests will be ar
ranged with women fencers from O.
A. C. and Multnomah club next year.
ThisWeek-end
Marks Finish
of Ball Season
Two Games With Aggies
Remain on Schedule;
Saturday is Last
Great Improvement
Shown by Pitchers
Few Players to Leave;
Prospects Good
After this week-end the varsity
baseball togs will be carefull pack
ed away in moth balls until the
start of the spring season of 1927—
but after completing a successful
season. To date the lemon-yellow
sluggers have won five games and
lost three, all of the latter to the
northwest champions, the Univers
ity pf Washington huskies.
For the first time since the cam
paign of 1924 Oregon took the Ag
gies down the row to a 7 to 3 de
feat. It was a great victory after
losing^for several years. The varsity
won again Tuesday with a 16 to 6
score. Two more games are to be
played with the Aggies, one today
and one tomorrow.
In what started out to be a close
battle, the St. Johns Bears of Port
land, members of the Greater Port
land Valley league, defeated the
lemon-yellow varsity, 5 to 3, in the
first game of the season, April 18.
The score does not show, however,
how close the game really was until
the eighth inning, when McCulloch,
Bear first sacker, lifted one of
Baker’s slants for a home run, scor
ing two men ahead of him. Baker,
who had relieved Ashby in the sev
enth, was pitching good ball until
the unexpected blow. Baker receiv
ed his baptism of varsity fire in this
game. He is the star right hander
from last year’s freshman ball nine.
Bear Pitcher Puzzles
In the Bear contest the varsity
was battling against one of the best
pitchers on the coast. Libke, ex
coast leaguer, worked the full nine
innings for the winners. This was
the first curve ball pitcher facing
the varsity this season and his fast
breaking curve had them fanning
the air a considerable amount of
the time.
In the second oncounter of the
season Coach Billy Reinhart’s var
sity nine faced the Pacific Univers
ity Badgers and gave them a 17 to
8 drubbing. It was a galaxy of
hits, home runs, errors, and stolen
bases, and a little bit of everything
in the baseball curriculum was dem
onstrated.
Baker started on the mound for
the lemon-yellow horse hide chasers
and pitched good ball until relieved
by Williams at the beginning of the
eighth inning. During his stay on
tho mound he struck out eight, al
lowed four hits and one run. Until
j the fourth inning only one man
reached third.
Oregon started well in their half
of the first inning, with three hits
and threo runs. “Plunks” Reinhart
scored Oregon’s first run after get
ting on base on balls. Bliss, Ed
wards- and Adolph, next in line,
poled out nice bingles. Lefty Ran
now, Badger pitcher, was touched
for 15 safe hits
Huskies Take Two
The week-end of April 30 and
May 1 found the Webfoot nine in
Seattle facing the University of
Washington Huskies in two games
of their scheduled four. Oregon
lost both games but not after a
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Swimming Favored
By Men in P. A. Class
Two hundred and seventy-seven
men expressed a preference to
choose the sport in which they
wished to participate by passing the
physical ability test this year. The
larger proportion of these men were
freshmen, taking it for the first
time. In some cases, students have
repeated it wit{i the purpose of rais
ing their grade.
Competitive spirit has been ex
hibited by the race for high-point
man in the scoring of the various
events. Red Slauson accumulated
118; C. F. Orr and Arthur Orr tied
with 87 apiece, and Lloyd McGee
with 84.
As an elective choice swimming
gains the largest number of phys
ical ability men, closely followed
by handball. However, during the
spring term tennis surpasses hand
ball in popularity.