VOLUME XXVIII
NUMBER 7
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1926
Oregon
Vs.
Washington
Linesman Is Underdog;
Heroes in Backfield
Get too Much Credit
By DICK SYRING
When a football game is won>
who gets the credit? The backfield
men. But when a game is lost the
linesmen are blamed. Sportswriters
eannot be blamed too much for this
sad predicament. It is only natural
that the scribbler’s eyes should
follow the man with the ball.
Everyone admits that the lines*
man is the under-dog of a gridiron
•eleven. He figures in every play and
is usually at the bottom of the pile
when the play stops^ Seldom does
his name appear on the banner head
•of a sporting page as the individual
hero of a*close-drawn football con
test.
* * »
Next Saturday when Coach Enoch
Bagshaw trots his purple-shirted
University of Washington champions
on the field, and Coach John J. Mc
L Ewan lines up the lemon-yellow Ore
gon varsity ready for action, fans
must remember that it is not to be
a punting duel between Captain
George Guttormsen, Husky punter,
and Vic Wetzel, Oregon booter, nor
is it to be a battering contest be
tween Louie Tesreau and Lynn
Jones; it is a game of 22 men of
whom 14 are linesmen. It will be
the linesmen that stops plays, opens
holes for fleet-footed backs.
On paper, the lemon-yellow line
will have a seven or eight pound ad
vantage. No official line up has
been picked for either team. At the
wing positions Oregon will have a
very slight weight advantage. Jud
Cutting., 168, who caught so many
passes during the 1925 campaign, is
practically sure to be at one end
for the Huskies. Don Douglas, 165,
0 from last year’s squad, will prob-(
ably start at the other position.
Coach McEwan will in all prob
ability, unless injuries intervene,
start Sherm Smith and Edgar Slau
aon at ends for Oregon. Smith, 175,
is playing his third season and last
year figured in a number of plays.
Slauson, 170, is a freshman grad
uate, being one of the outstanding
ends from the last yearling squad.
Tackle positions will be of uni
form weight except for Homer
Dixon, 210 pounds. Pat Wilson, 185,
and Bill Wright, 185, are “Baggy’s”
choice for tackles. Both men are
regulars from last year’s champion
ship eleven. Bagshaw will be well
reinforced with substitutes' for these
positions. Herman Brix, 195 pound
regular, will be ready for duty if
called upon. An injury during the
summer will keep him froih the
starting line up.
Captain Sinclair, 185, and Homer
Dixon, 210, will presumably be in
the starting line up. Except for a
slight injury Sinclair should per
form before the Portland fans in the
same manner which won him much
praise in the Oregon-California game
last fall. Dixon is in fit condition.
* * *
Washington seems to be well sup
plied at the guard posts. Bob Shaw,
180 pound letterman, and Les Cook,
195 pounder from last year’s sec
ond string, being on deck. Cook is
the only Oregonian on the Huskies
squad, hailing from eastern Oregon.
Besides being valuable at guard, he
is a sure bet for a kick from place
ment.
Kerns, 190, and Hodgen, 195,
seem to be sure of starting the game
at guard for Oregon. Kejns is play
ing his third year while Hodgen was
shifted to the line this year from a
halfback position at which he play
ed his first year in 1925.
» * •
The center position seems to be
big fight at both Washington and
Oregon. Bagshaw has three men
fighting for first string honors, Bon
amy, 190 pound letterman; Borneo
-Lauzon, 170 pound substitute; and
Harry Schneiderman, 175, from last
year’s freshman. Lauzon has been
showing so much stuff of late that
he will probably be in the starting
line up. »
Coach McEwan is having his own
little war for first string pivot hon
ors. Carl Johnson, 165 pound letter
man for the last two years; Nick
Carter, 180 pound letterman from
last year; and Carl Klippel, 180
pound last year’s freshman center,
are out after the assignement. Car
ter will probably start the game
with possibilities of either Johnson
or Klippel getting in.
Both coaches will have plenty ol
reserves on the bench. At guard,
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Webfoot Has
Support Of
Student Body
Subscribers May Sign up
Today and Pay $1.25
On Monday
Prizes Given for 100
Per Cent Membership
Contribution for Book
Coming in Fast,
Says Editor
<«TT is a potent necessity,” states
A Rolf Klep, editor of the Web
foot, “that each student should sup
port the new campus publication in
order that it become a reality.”
A leniency has been made for
students who do not wish to sub
scribe before they return to the
campus after the football game in
Portland. Such persons may sign the
subscription blanks today and pay
the dollar and a quarter on Monday.
Booths Open Today
Reports will be made early in the
week as to the amount subscribed
in every house. There will be a re
ward given to each organization
which reaches 100 per cent in sub
scriptions.
The booths will be open again to
day, in order that people who do
not live in campus organizations
may subscribe to the Webfoot.
For the past week Rolf Klep has
been receiving material which will
probably comprise a greater portion
of the magazine. Art work of all
types, short stories by various mem
bers of the student body and facul
ty, special articles and a sport page
will also be featured.
Campus Opinions Given
The consensus of opinion on the
campus is highly favorable in re
gard to the publication of the Web
foot.
Hugh Biggs, president of the A.
S. U. O.: “I sincerely believe, be
yond a ( question of a doubt, that
the Webfoot will fill a real need.
It has been decided that we are to
publish this new magazine and for
that reason we should, as a student
body, support it by subscribing.
Each and every student can easily
afford the subscription price. I
highly endorse the Webfoot.”
Mary Jo Shelley, instructor in the
physical education department, and
winner of Edison Marshall prize:
“I think that the University of Ore
gon is of such status that it de
mands a. new publication. It seems
fitting with so many Oregon stu
dents interested in writing, both as
a pleasure and a profession, that
the Webfoot will make possible the
publication of the best of college
writing.”
“Am boosting for anything which
boosts for Oregon,” declared Jack
Seabrook, yell king. “Hope Web
foot is here to roost.”
Pat Morrisette, instructor of Eng
lish, states: “Any school that is so
lame that it cannot even support
the idea of a college magazine needs
another lecture on the value of ex
tracurricular activities. It should
be pointed out that such journals
as ‘Life’ and ‘Judge’ originally
drew their stuff from college funny
sheets, and that popular writers,
such as Eichard Connell, often re
ceived their early training as joke
collectors.”
“The project may not be high or
noble, but it should be practical and
absorbing. I do not believe it is a
question of sehool patriotism, lan
guishing and unrewarded genius,
but plain common sense.”
Frances Morgan, secretary of the
student body, says, “The Webfoot
gives us an opportunity to see the
literary and artistic abilities of the
students of the University and
should, undoubtedly, be an asset to
the school.”
Faculty in Favor
M. H. Douglass, University of
Oregon librarian, “The Webfoot is
a fine thing as an outlet for all
campus productions of verse, re
views, and stories. The magazine
will be especially desirable to de
velop the literary talent of the uni
versity. ”
“Nothing is more delightful,” de
clared Alfons Korn, “than treating
serious things comically and com
ical things seriously. The eternal
comedy of a so-called comic maga
zine, of the abysmal seriousness of
most ‘literary’ magazines should be
minimized in the dual qualities of
the Webfoot.”
Dean Lawrence, of the sehool of
architecture and allied arts, in a let
ter to Eolf Klep congratulates the
student body on this new publica
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Friday Is Deadline
On Tickets for Game
Students must get tickets
for the Oregon- Washington
game before 5 o ’clock Friday
afternoon, is the statement
made by Jack Benefiel, graduate
manager. Tickets are now on sale
at the Co-op and will continue
until the Co-op closes Friday.
Sudents are cautioned to present
their temporary student body
cards, which were issued at re
gistration, when purchasing
tickets for the game.
“It will be impossible to ob
tain tickets elsewhere,” said
Benefiel, “either on the special
train or in Portland.”
Pep Session to
Be Feature of
Assembly Today
Student Attendance Urged
By A. S. U. O. Head;
Band to Play
“The student-assembly to be held
today at 11 o’clock in the Woman’s
building will be both interesting
and practical and we hope that a
large number of students will at
tend.” said Hugh Biggs, president
of the associated students, who will
preside at the first official student
assembly this year.
“It is important that students ac
quaint themselves with the business
policies of the University student
administration as it is only by so
doing that the highest co-operation
can be reached. It is impossible to
carry out plans without the inter
est and enthusiasm of the students
behind them. This assembly wall
also furnish an occasion for a pep
rally which is always of value be
fore a football game,” Biggs de
clared.
The University band, led by W.
L. Ferris, will assemble at the Ad
ministration building just before
eleven o’clock and will play sev
eral selections on the march to the
Woman’s building. They will also
play several numbers at the open
ing of the business meeting.
The pep rally will take place at
the close of the meeting led by Jack
Seabrook, yell king, in preparation
for the Washington-Oregon game to
be held at Portland, Saturday, Octo
ber 9.
The program is as follows:
Selections by the University
band; short talk by Georgia Ben
son; meeting called to order by
president; of student body, Hugh
Biggs; reading of minutes of the
last meeting, by the secretary; com
mittee reports; finance, forensic,
Greater Oregon, rally committees;
pep rally, led by Jack Seabrook;
concluding numbers by the band.
Homecoming Plans
To Be Talked Today
All Homecoming committees will
meet in room 110 Johnson Hall Ad
Bldg, at 5 o’clock today.
Karl W. Ontliank, executive se
cretary of the University; James
H. Gilbert, acting dean of the Col
lege of Literature, Science and the
Arts; Dean H. Walker, dean of men;
and Hugh Biggs, president tof the
associated students, will address
the group oH Homecoming and Semi
Centennial topics.
Phil Bergh, general chairman of
Homecoming, requests that every
member of every committee be pre
sent.
English Examination
Postponed to Oct. 16
The freshman Hlnglish examina
tion has been postponed from Sat
urday, October 9, at 9:00 a. m. un
til October 16, at the same hour.
This will enable all freshman to at
tend the football game at Portland
on Saturday. The Psychological ex
amination for freshmen will be giv
en on Friday, October 15, from 4
to 6 o’clock in Condon hall.
Student Council Names
Yell Staff Assistants
The student council yesterday af
firmed the appointment of two yell
staff assistants, chosen by Hugh
Biggs, Del Oberteuffer, and Jack
Seabrook, yell king, to assist in in
stilling the Oregon spirit into all
rooters, new and old.
Those chosen are Jack Jones and
Bob Warner. Jones, a sophomore,
was yell leader in high school, while
Warner, a junior, was assistant
under Freddie Martin, on last year’s
staff.
Caps, Gowns,
Will Be Worn
Pledge Day
Faculty Votes to Dismiss
All Classes During
Inauguration
Permission to Attend
Symposiums Granted
Students to- Get Excuses
On Previous Day
CAPS !md. gowns will be worn
by the faculty on Thursday,
October 21, pledge day of the Home
coming-Semi-Centennial celebration.
This was voted at the regular fac
ulty meeting held yesterday. At a
previous meeting the faculty agreed
to wear the academic costume on
Inaugural day, Monday, October 18.
Buies were passed yesterday gov
erning, the attendance at classes of
students for the week October 18
to 23.
All classes in the University will
be dismissed Monday, October 18,
Inaugural day, and Saturday, Octo
ber 23, Homecoming, the day of the
Stanford-Oregon football game.
Freshman men will be excused from
Masses Fridav. October
22, in order that they may build the
bonfire.
Ten o’clock classes will be dis
missed ^Thursday, October 21, in
order that everyone may attend the
Pledge day assembly. It is at this
event that the faculty decided to
wear the formal dress.
“Instructors of classes in depart-'
ments and schools whose work is the
subject of, or allied to, a particular
symposium may at their discretion,
dismiss their classes for attendance
at. these exercises. Instructors of
classes in subjects not allied to the
symposium may at their discretion
dismiss individual students who spe
cifically request the privilege of at
tendance,” the faculty agreed. ■
The faculty decided, however, that
where the attendance on a sympo
sium shall cause absences from two
or more classes, the student should
make arrangements for all absences
prior to the day on which the pro
gram occurs. This was arranged in
order that students need not leave
a symposium during the program to
attend a class.
Varsity’s Band
To Be Featured
At Football Tilt
Expect a Good Showing;
Candidates Welcomed
By Director
A University band of more than
80 pieces will accompany the team
to the Washington-Oregon game in
Portland next Saturday, according
to W. L. Ferris, director. Due to
the splendid co-operation which the
members of the band have given
him, Hr. Ferris expects the organ
ization to make a fine showing Sat
urday. The members will all be in
uniform this year, he said
“I wish to thank the band boys
for their co-operation,” he said. “I
feel good about the spirit they show.
They co-operate well. I get good
attention, and they play as they are
asked. That is what gets results.
The attendance is very good, and
we are putting forth every effort
to make the trip to Portland a suc
cess.”
No individual tryouts have yet
been made, Mr. Ferris said. The
band will go to Portland in one
large body, but after the game there
will be individual tryouts and a
first, second, and third band will
be organized, he said.
Ferris requests the members of
the band to get their uniforms as
early as possible and not put it ofl
until the last minute.
“We want every man in the
school who has an instrument and
is interested, to be in the band,”
he said. “Everybody is welcome.”
He requests all those who are in
terested to come and see him at the
school of music. It costs nothing
and all that is necessary is a mu
sieal instrument. Those with no ex
perience are welcome, as there wil
undoubtedly be a place for them ir
the second or third band, he said
Dance After
Game Affair
Of Week-End
Two Orchestras and Acts
To Be Features of
Evening
Players of Both Teams
To Be Guests at Event
Party to Be Held at the
Multnomah Hotel
'T'HROUGH the combined ef
forts of the alumni associa
tions of the Universities of Oregon
and Washington one of the largest
attended dances of the year will be
held in Portland Saturday night at
the Multnomah hotel. The occasion
will celebrate the Oregon-Washing
ton football game and the dedica
tion of the Multnomah civic stad
Teams to Attend
Members of both teams will be
honor guests of the event, as per
mission has been granted by the
coaches that they may be present
the greater part of the evening.
Plans are under way to make
this one of the finest dances of the
year, according to Dudley Clark,
who is manager of the affair. “This
dance will .be the only social event
of the week-end to top-off the game
and the dedication,” said Clark,
“It will also be a method of bring
ing the two schools together on a
more social basis than the grid
iron.”
Large Crowd Expected
The entire mezzanine floor of the
Multnomah hotel will be used, this
includes the Grand Ball roomj the
assembly hall and the adjoining tea
rooms. It is expected that this will
be sufficient for the crowd which
is expected.
“Two well known college orches
tras will play at the dance,” Dud
ley Clark said. They are Oregon
Night Hawks from *the University
of Oregon and the Washington Sun
Dodgers from the University of
Washington.
A number of features are being
planned to take place during the
dance. Ed Chaney of the Oregon
Night Hawks will give a soft shoe
dance, and a quartet will sing.
Darwin Meisnest, graduate mana
ger of the University of Washing
ton, has written that co-operation
is assured with regard to attend
ance of Washington students.
Educational Club Will
Meet Thursday Night
Graduate students and advanced
students interested in the work of
the educational department are urg
ed to attend the initial get-together
meeting of the educational club, ac
cording to Dr. Henry D. Sheldon,
dean of the school of education. The
meeting will be held at the educa
tional building at 7:30 Thursday
evening, and a number of city teach
ers will also be present.
Dr. Homer P. Rainey, professor in
the school of education, will address
the meeting on “The General Out
look in Teaching,” and a number of
the advanced students will discuss
the opportunities for work that are
to be found in their departments.
Dean Sheldon will also speak on
“The History and Achievement of!
the Department.”
Swimmers Needed
For Women’s Teams
Not enough women students have
turned out for class swimming teams
this year and Virginia Lounsbury,
head of swimming, urges that more
I do so at once. Every one turning out
will make a team, and be awarded
points towards a Women’s Athletic
association sweater. One hundred
points are given for the first team,
75 for the second, 50 for the third,
35 for the fourth, and 25 for fifth and
color teams.
Class managers for swimming have
been ajjpointed by Miss E. A. Trcem
el, swimming coach, and Virginia
Lounsbury, and may be consulted by
anyone wishing to turn out. lone
• Garbe is to head the freshmen; Olive
Banks, sophomores; Florence Hurley
juniors; and Margaret Pepoon, se
niors.
Book On Life
Of President
Out Next Week
Printing Cost up to $1000
Financed by Seniors
As Memorial
Fifteen hundred copies of the
book on the life of the late presi
dent, Prince Lucian Campbell, will
be off the press, but not for sale,
next week, according to Ralph Sta
ley, chairman of the senior class
memorial.
The class of ’27 has gone on rec
ord as financing the printing of the
book, up to $1000; and it is the hope
of Mr. Staley that the students will
co-operate and not only insure the
seniors »i the money invested, but
demonstrate to them and to the
friends of late president Campbell
of their sincere tribute and love for
the man that did so much for the
University of Oregon.
A committee of 40 members, who
will be appointed by Earle Chiles,
president of the senior class, will
sell the books during the Semi-Cen
tennial celebration, to faculty, al
umni, visiting educators, and stu
dents.
“I hope each house on the campus
will purchase one copy for their
library—as a lasting memorial to
the late president Campbell, and in
co-operation with the class of ’27,”
stated Ralph Staley.
Dr. Joseph Schafer, eminent his
torian one time head of the Uni
versity of Oregon history depart
ment, and now superintendent of
the Wisconsin Historical society,
is author of the biography, which is
green cloth bound, containing 250
pages, illustrated, and printed by the
University press.
Dean Eric W. Allen and Professor
W. F. G. Thacher sponsored the idea
of writing and marketing the life
history of the president.
Semi-Centennial
Song Practiced
By Men’s'Glee
Underwood Composes
Music for Words by
Irene Stewart
The Semi-Centennial song, the
music of which was written by Rex
Underwood of the school of music
faculty, is now being rehearsed by
tlm men’s glee club. The song,
‘Great Oregon,” will be sung at
the Semi-Centennial pledge day as
sembly, October 21, and according
to John Stark Evans it has a stir
ring swing, is dignified, majestic
and well-suited to become one of
the permanent University songs.
The words of the song were writ
ten by Irene Stewart, ’22, whose
verse has appeared in “The Meas
ure,” “Poetry,” and other maga
zines of verse. The words for the
song wero chosen as best suited to
the occasion by a committee con
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Rally Special
Tickets To Go
On Sale Today
Friday 2 O’clocks Called
Off to Let Students
Take Train
Stunts to Feature
In Friday Assembly
Oregon Rooters to Meet
At Sixth and Pine
>ODAY and tomorrow morning,
tickets for the official Rally
special train will be sold on the
‘campus in a booth in front of the
library, for $3.81. For the conven
ience of students, baggage checking
will be possible on Friday before
two o’clock classes at a booth in
front of Villard, the train leaving
the campus at 3:15 p, m.
At a faculty meeting held yester
day, it was decided that all classes
after 2 o ’clock would be excused On
Friday. However, the committee em
phasized the importance of students
not cutting classes to take an earl
ier train—the penalty for cutting
will be rather severe.
Feature Acts Billed
The features for the rally assem
bly Friday night in front of the
Broadway theater were announced
last night by Bill James, rally
■chairman. They are: A dance ac,t
by Ed Cheney, accompanied by
John Sylvester of Cole McElroy’s
dance orchestra. Madge NormQe
will sing several numbers, and Me
Elroy’s orchestra will be on hand
with some lively musical numibers.
Four short speeches will be given,
among the speakers being: Gens
Vidal, .backfield coach and Bob
Mautz.
The official program for thfe dou
ble rally On Saturday with the
University of Washington rooters
was announced yesterday by F. H.
Young, president of the alumni as
sociation. The route of march is as
follows: The University band ia to
assemble on Sixth street, betweerf
Oak and Pine, and face south to
wards Oak street, Saturday noon,
at 12:15 sharp. The students are to
assemble on Sixth street and Pine,
in the triangular space in front of
the new National Parking garage.
The Oregon delegation will march
ahead of the Washington rooters.
The Oregon band is to fall in be
hind car No. 2, and lead the Oregon
students.
Parade Begins at 12:15
Mr. Young announces the parade
will start sharply at 12:15 all
> rooters failing to appear by this
time will hinder the effectiveness
of Oregon’s appearance. The parade
will disband at 14th and Alder
streets. Students will go individual
ly to the stadium in order not to
crowd and cause confusion at the
gates.
The band will not disorganize at
this point, but, with the five other
bands, will march to the stadium
and enter by the gates designated
on their tickets.
Dean Rebec Gives Graphic Account
Of World Philosophers5 Congress
Representatives From Over 16 Different Nations Hold
Convention at Cambridge, Mass.
A Gorman philosopher’s challenge
to the intellectual forces of the
world, charging them with a share
of responsibility for the World war
was a striking event of the recent
world congress of philosophers, and
is graphically described by an eye
witness, Dr. George Rebec, dean of
the graduate school, and professor, of
philosophy. Dr. Rebec was a mem
ber of the congress during its ses
sions at Cambridge, Mass., Septem
ber 13-17.
“The evening devoted to the func
tion of philosophy in securing right
relations among nations, was indeed
an impressively elevated occasion,”
declared Dr. Rebec in telling the
story of the congress. “During the
whole five days of the conference it
must be conceded that an unusually
large and brilliant delegation from
France made an impression rather
beyond that of any other country,
nor did the French spokesman of
this particular evening fail to repre
sent his country worthily. But the
man who rose most magnificently to
the challenge of the hour was a
German.
“It will be a long time before
those who heard the concluding par
agraph of his eloquent and deeply
thoughtful address will forget the
.. .ri&d
sensation of those two or three
minutes. The speaker, as becometh a
philosopher, had been conducting an
elaborate exposition of the univer
salizing and mediating function of
philosophic thought in the intel
lectual, ethical, and ever-practical
interplay of the nations. This expo
sition had been deeply tinged by
human and moral fervor, yet when
the audience filling the large audi
torium thought he had finished, and
[perhaps he thought so too, he stood
| as under a spell of feeling,
j “After a pause of something like
a minute he began again, somewhat
j as follows: ‘My fatherland is sur
! rounded on every frontier by mil
j lions of small white crosses, under
■ which sleep millions of the choicest
I young men of twenty nations. What
ihas philosophy, what has the vaunt
I ed reason of man, to say in the
presence of this phenomenon f*
“Then he went on to challenge the
philosophic minds of the world to
a sense of their obligation toward
their own character and toward the
weal of mankind. The effect was
too solemn to be measured in mere
terms of thought. It may not have
been professional philosophy, but it
i undoubtedly was tha high-water
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