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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1926)
Football What’s What In Colleges Student Drinking on (, Trips Scored; ‘Jinx’ May Affect Huskies By Jack O’Meara The suggestion has been made by the faculties of several mid-western universities that drinking among students be curbed by doing away with traditional games between col leges separated by considerable dis tance. It is their belief that the exodus of students on special trains from one campus to another gives cause for ignoring the edicts of Volstead. To do away with this taint on stu dent morals they advance the plan of keeping the varsity squad on their own campuses and matching them against the second team of the other college. By this theory both first teams of the rival colleges ^ would be in action on the same day, but not against each ohter. Knute Rockne, football coach of Notre Dame, expressing, his opinion of this proposed plan, said. “I feel quite sure that every alumnus and student of Michigan, for instance, would want to go to the game where Friedman is playing. Likewise, the Minnesota cohort will ascertain where Almquist and Joesting cavort. The crowd would all be gathered to watch the stars be it at Ann Arbor or Minneapolis.” An experimental double - header has been planned between Michigan and Minnesota this year, and has probably evolved from a session of ^ Big Ten university presidents re cently. “These would be colorless con tests,” says Rockne in conclusion. “It would be no equal match be tween the first team of one college and the second team of another.’' Speaking of Rockne — how will Notre Dame fare this year? “Clip per” Smith, Gonzaga grid mentor, who recently returned from South Bend, believes that it will be the most powerful and versatile eleven in the country this season. “There will be no ‘four horsemen’ this year,” he says. “Instead the troup has been expanded to eleven. The multitude of brilliant material makes Notre Dame formidable.” Dor a college not in the coast con ference Gonzaga university at Spo kane will have a schedule equally as tough as any conference team. They "play Montana, Washington State and O. A. C., which are all in the conference. In addition there is St. Mary’s, which will be no easy tilt. St. Mary’s had several all coast stars last year and held Cali fornia to a 6-0 score. Mel Ingram, a scintilating back field performer and successor of the mighty Stockton, will be back, and although Smith loses a half-dozen good men, he has Spear, Hardin and Weimer of Mt. Angel and others of no small caliber coming to take their places. When the sun goes down behind the hills back of the new civic stadium in Portland on Saturday, October 9, what will the score board read? Will the wraith of the Oregon “jinx” spread its gossamer mantle over the purple tornado and change it to a harmless zephyr? That is not improbable. This tricky “jinx,” mascot of the lemon-yellow grid camp, has no re spect for dope and has booted the bucket upside down before. The grace of the gods are fickle as a woman’s whim, it is said, and fate may block a winning field goal this year. Who knows? * * * The grid fangs of the Husky were drawn last fall, when George Wilson and Elmer Teserau laid their jerseys aside. Now Louis Tesreau is on the ineligible list. Rapid dentistry must be executed by Bagshaw to replace those fangs and put a scoring quar tet in the purple baekfield by Octo ber 9. Coaches Put New Life In Fall Sports McEwan’s Career as Player Equally Brilliant as Mentor Record Vidal and Ellinber Aid Ex-Array Grid Chief Mautz and Leslie Act As Assistants A new spoeh in Oregon athletic history began last January when the announcement was made that Capt. John J. Mc Ewan, West Point mentor, was se lected as head football coach here under a five year contract. Previously coaches were signed on only a one year contract. Captain M c - Ewan comes with an enviable rec ord as a player and as a coach. From 1923 to McEwan lyzo, while head coach oi the Army, his eleven won 18 games, played six ties, and lost only five. In the tra ditional classics between the Army and Navy he has succeeded in mark ing up two victories and one tie. Luminaries Aplenty His career as a player is equally brilliant. He began under Doc Wil liams at Minnesota in 1911, and while at West Point played center for three years, being captain of the team during his last season. Walter Camp named him all-Amer ican center in 1914. In 1919 and two years following he acted as as sistant coach under Major Daly at the military academy. McEwan is not the only bright star of the Webfoot coaching staff. His contract allowed him freedom to pick his own assistants, so Gene Vidal and Harry Ellinger, who aid ed. him with the Army teams, have followed him to Oregon. Ellinger was once a mainstay of the Army line at guard. Upon him the responsibility is placed to build up a strong and lighting forward wall. Gene Vidal has taken charge of the baekfield. He was a great halfback in his day at West Point and served under McEwan in the same capacity as lie does now after graduation. He had the distinction of being chosen the second best all around American army athlete at the Inter-allied games held in Paris ! after the war. Bill on Job “Spike” Leslie, stellar tackle of Oregon a few years ago, and fresh man football coach last year, is as sisting Ellinger in coaching the line. Robert Theodore Hill Mautz, who completed his football career last year under Oregon colors, is school ing the ends in the fine points of their positions. Mautz was named by Glen S. Warner as all-coast end last year. “Bill” Hayward, track coach here for a quarter-century and veteran athletic trainer, will continue car ing for the bruises of the gridmen. Billy Reinhart, who turns out un beatable hoop teams during the win ter, will exhibit his versatility by putting a guiding hand to the year ling football team. Leslie held this position last year. Campus Riding Club May be Reorganized Xo definite action has been taken toward the re-organization of “Spurs,” campus riding club, ac cording to Katherine Martin, sec retary. Jack Hering, president, John Kelson, treasurer, and Henry Hall, members of the team last year, did not re-enter college this fall. “Spurs” made its appearance on the campus early last spring and won the first northwest inter-col legiate paper chase held at the Portland Hunt club last spring vaca tion, defeating the teams of O. A. C. and the University of Washing ton. Later, a picked squad was en tered in the “gymkhana” steeple chase at the Corvallis institution. Plans had previously been outlin ed for petitioning Boots and Sad dles, national college riding organ ization, which already has several chapters at coast colleges. The re maining members of the squad now on the campus are: Peggy Spencer, Katherine Martin, Dorothy Statter, Leonnie Vial, Roberta Douty, George j Mead and Robert McK.light. Nine Reasons Why Oregon Is A Dark Horse Reinhart Angles For Hawaiian Games in 1927 Bush Teams Claim Oregon Ball Tossers During Vacation Days Baseball suits and grass hula skirts make a pretty good com bination, thinks Billy Beinhart, Billy Reinhart wanan ball clubs for a series of games to be play ed next summer in the land of varsity baseball coach. On the strength of this supressed longing, Billy hais m a d e negotia tions with Ha pearls and pineapples. With only Hobson and Bliss ab sent ‘from the tentative 1927 line up, Oregon will have a galaxy of apple maulers that would give even Walter Johnson a few misgivings. The University of California made the exploration of the Mid Pacific islets not so long ago and returned with 17 scalps, against four losses. = On first blush, this concert tour of ball players should make candi dates for positions put on full steam to make the grade and be on the list to make the trip. Hawaiian trips do not come often to Ore gon teams. The last was when the football team invaded several years ago. Among the aboriginal elans to be played will probably be the Uni versity of Hawaii, All-Japs, Elks, Schofield Barracks (Army), Pearl Harbor (Navy), all-Chinese and others, about 20 games in all. Starting when school is out, a good portion of the summer will probably be used to complete the schedule. Rumor has it that Billy will have half the boys in school trying out for baseball next spring. Toledo Claims Oregonians During the past summer of the Oregon varsity played semi-pro ball somewhere in the sticks. Toledo was the chief offender with Bill Baker, pitcher; Adolph, first base; Kuhn, second base, and Lynn Jones, on its roster. Bill Ashby, the var sity’s star right-hander, played with Salem along with “Plunks” Reinhart, the galloping benedict (Continued on page three) Muscle-Making Job Keeps Dixon in Shape Red Grange may juggle cakes ice and other gridsters swing grain bags in the harvest fields, but Homer Dixon, varsity tackle, lays claim to the most mnsele straining job of them all. “The Deacon” is assigned to carrying the footballs used in practice each day, from the gym to Hayward field in a large can vas bag. He bears out the as sertion of his strenuous labors in a flood of statistics. Twelve pigskins are used, and each is in flated to 30 pounds air pressure making a total of 360 pounds weighing down his shoulders. FROM left to right: Upper row, Bill HayWard, trainer; Harry Ellinger, head line coach; Captain John J. .McEwan, head coach; Gene Vidal, back&eld coach; Robert Mautz, end coach; and Earl “Spike” Leslie, as sistant line coach. Lower row, Ira Woodie, quarterback and forward passer; Lynn Jones, who has aspirations to fill the boots vacated by Ernie Nevers; and Captain Albert Sinclair, two year main-stay at left tackle. Easy Webfoot Victory Over Clawing Willamette Bearcats Good Sendoff Jones, Vitus, Wetzel put “Truck Horse” Power Into McEwan. s Army of Fighting Griilsters By ARTHUR SCHOENI Will Captain John J. McEwan turn the scrapping, losing Oregon football team of 1925 into a scrap ping, winning team of 1926? The answer tc that question re mains for the fates to decide Toward this goal the runaway vie tory over Wil lamette’s clawing Bear-Cats Satur day was a good sendoff in the -win column. McEwan ran in heavy backs, light backs, fast lines Sherm Smith men and slow linesmen until tne Salem ites were groggy. Watch Out for Lynn There is weight and speed in the backfield, beef enough to pierce the heaviest opposing forward wall and fleet-footed halves to outrun the ends. Big Lynn Jones, line-plunger and goal-kicker par excellence, Otto Vitus, fast and yet heavy halfback, and Vic Wetzel, long-range punter and speed-merchant, are the “truck horses” of MeEwan’s “army.” If he wants speed and still more speed to run the opposition ragged, Mac can call on the track flash, •Art Ord, or George Burnell or Milt Green. All three of these are light, shifty halves and fit into McEwan’s style of play admirably. Fred Harrison and Merrill Hagan are two more halfbacks with great potentialities. Harrison is an experienced punter and broken-field runner and Hagan j is the fighting Swede of last year’s i Frosh team. Smith has Competition Four sets of ends are found on the Lemon-Yellow roster. They play 1 fast, hard football while in the I game and are not given a chance to : tire or get slow before a second set j is sent in. Sherm Smith and Red j Slauson will probably be Cap’s first , choice in the coming games with Ted Pope and Frank Riggs, Chet Jamison and Tony Greer, and Bel Monte, Pat Hughes and Merton Folts ready to go in on moment’s notice. Riggs, Monte and Hughes are super-varsity men from last year and Slauson, Pope, Jamison and , Greer were Spike Leslie’s prides. iSherm Smith is a two-letterman and gives promise of a big season this year. Oregon lias a pair of the heaviest tackles in the conference in Captain A1 Sinclair and “Tiny” Dixon, the 200-pound sylph. Both are exper ienced in college football. Honest John Warren, Bob Keeney, Clal De Mott and Bob Byington will be in reserve. Woodic has been the first selec tion so far this year at bawling the signals and piloting the team. Mim naugh has played two years of in ter-collegiate football and knows the football from cover to cover. Two Lads with a Tough Job Cotter Gould and Ellsworth Mor ten are candidates for fullback positions, but will probably get to play only when Lynn .Jones is taken out. Gould is light and fast for a j fullback but fits admirably in the “pony” backfleld with Art Old and George Burnell as halves. | Usually tho boys who take the I most punishment and get the few [ cst plaudits are the centers. Tho | stock market at Oregon is top heavy j with good centers. Carl Klippel, j Nick Carter, Carl Johnson and Kem I mis Cadwell are putting on a battle | royal for the pivot position. The | famed sleuth’s namesake and John son are both experienced men, while Klippel, who got first call in the Willamette game, and Cadwell are ! playing their first varsity football, | Quintet in Guards Scramble A football team without guards ! is no football team. Oregon’s eleven ' has good guards and therefore, ac j cording to the law of averages oi i gravitation or whatever law was i passed, Oregon’s team is a good one, | Certain it is that there are big heavy men out for the jobs. Bert ; Kerns and Beryl “Hoot” Hodgen j form Mac’s diva duet with Harold Wiliams Mangum, the pride of the | journalism shack, and Hal Harder ■ pressing them closer than the traf lb- in Los Angeles on a busy Satur day night. Harold Wiliams and Hal are no; having it all to themselves trying | to" oust Bert and “Hoot” but havi ; Irving Flegel tagging along on thei heels with a grim look on his face | meat on having second shot at : i guard position. i 'Managers for Year Suggest New Features Board of Advisors to Be Innovation of 1926 Season ! _ i “Manager’a work will be more intensive than ever before,” said Paul Slotton, senior athletic imana Sletton ger, j n talking over tho plans a n (1 policies of the managerial staff for the com ing year. ‘ ‘No de tail will be left undone. We are now working out a system that will carry us through the rest of the year. ’ ’ According to Slotton, ono of the plans is to have an advisory coun cil of 12, who are managers and ■ assistants. This board will bo an honorary body which all managers ' and assistant will strive for. Jack 1 Benefiel, graduate manager, and Hugh Biggs, student body presi ! dent, will be ex-officio members j acting in the advisory capacity. The advisory council will have an em blem which, as yet, has not been ! selected. Sletton emphasized the 1 point that a member of the advisory board was pretty sure of stepping into a managers position. This council will form the policy for the managerial staff. Mana gers going on trips with the vari ous athletic teams will make a de tailed report t othc advisory coun cil upon return. In this way, Slet ton said complete files of the vari ous methods used in other schools will always be available. Another plan for this year in ; eludes the inauguration of a mana gerial association made up of all the managers, assistants and frerh man assistants. This association will meet regularly and all grievances will be discussed at this time. Slot ton pointed out that this plan would foster a harmonious working body of managers and assistants. It is the belief of the senior manager that exceptional chances await freshman who turn out for managerial work this year. A ays tern of uniforms is also being worked out. Sophomore assistants will wear gray sweat jackets with , (Continued on page two) U. S. C. May Lead In Coast Grid Circles Oregon to Finish in Sixth Place, According to Experts Many Star Players Missing This Season Huskies and O. A. C. Rated as Strongest Teams in Northwest Football critics on the Pacific coast appear to agree upon the Uni versity of Southern California eleven as conference championship winner this fall. Howard Jones has the most impressive constellation of grid stars of any western college, and this being his second year at the California institution, he has an accurate knowledge of the ability of his material. Washington, pennant winners of 1925, will endeavor to repeat this achievement again. Coach Enoch Bagshaw has much excellent mate rial back this year. His backfield will undoubtedly suffer without the All-American, George Wilson, and his teammate, Tesreau. Glen Warner, head coach of Stanford, stated re cently that the Husky signal-caller, Guttormson, iB by far the best field general in the west. Good-bye, Ernie! Nevers, another All-American, will be absent from the Stanford lineup this fall, as will Armour, guard, and Mitchell and Solomon, alternate Cardinal quarters. The situation is not critical, however, as there is plenty of likely looking candidates on hand. But it cannot be denied that the line plunging, punting and passing ability of Ernie Nevers will not bo missed. Filling this full back’s shoes will be a difficult task. The shell of California’s “won der team” has been the legacy of Nibs Price, who is filling the place of the late Andy Smith at Berkeloy. Imlay, Carey and Bixon are among those lost, but like Stanford, the Bears have a wealth of men on hand and should produce a strong team before the season progresses far. Oregonians May Surprise Oregon mows as tne dark horse in the conference race. The lemon yellow has a complete new coaching staff headed by Capt. John J. Mc Ewati. Fine prospects aro in evi dence and the Washington game on October 9 looms as the first hurdlo to clear. Gene Shields, a peerless guard; Louie Anderson, quarter, and Bob Mautz, honored as all-coast end last year, finished their varsity careers last Thanksgiving day against the Huskies. Bailey and Bert Gooding are also missing from the line. Some grid experts con cede Oregon sixth place in the con ference race, but nevertheless they will remain as a “dark horse.” Behind closed gates Coach Paul Schissier is pounding the Aggie squad into a polished eleven. With a fairly successful year behind them, and Schissier beginning his third year as coach, together with a large percentage of last year’s team back, the Orange cannot be considered lightly. Erb’s Prospects Gloomy With a hard schedule of games this season, the mettle of Charles Erb, who replaced Mathews as head coach at Idaho, will be put to a test. Material constitutes his worry. Ten lettermen, and only two of them regulars, returned this fall. The best freshman prospects are ineligible, so the future depends on Erb’s ability to whip what men he has into a fighting machine. Washington State went into a slump recently which culminated with the resignation of Exendine. “Babe” Hollingbery, former Olym pic club coach, has the job of pull ing them out of it. Seven regulars were lost by the sheepskin route. He will have some good first year men to build around his remaining regu lars. The team will be light and inexperienced. Milburn Replaces Clark Fourteen lettermen reported for practice this fall at Montana. Kelly in the baekfiold is back this year, but the Grizzlies are weak in line material. Major Frank W. Milburn, who is replacing Clark, the previous Montana coach, is faced with the necessity of overcoming these ob stacles to meet a stiff conference schedule.