Webfoot
By RICHARD H. STRING
Sports Editor
A'ot too much lias been said atiout
the University of Oregon’s basket
ball prospects. Coach Billy Rein
hart has been letting other people
blow the horn which hasn’t ren
dered an any too optimistic tune
thus far. According to the pre
season predictors the Webfoot bas
keteers will finish the hoop season
at the bottom or near the last rung
^ of the conference ladder.
Right now it would be folly for
anyone to say that Oregon will have
just as good a basketball team as
last year. A'o one knows. The
Lemon-yellow casaba artists are in
the formative stage right now and
will be so until the middle of the
schedule. It has been pointed out
that Oregon is right where it was
three years ago when the gradua
tion of such basketccrs as Latham,
Shafer, Chapman and others left
Reinhart holding the sack, so to
speak, in regard to experienced
players. It was the season of 1925
that saw Jerry Gunther, Roy Oker
berg and Swede Westergren begin
their varsity careers. Okerberg was
a green, inexperienced player who
had had difficulty in making the
third freshman team. Gunther’s
basketball ability had never exert
ed itself before. Westei'grcn was
the only one of the trio who came
with the reputation of all all-state
player.
•<lf The season of 1925 not only saw
a fairly good team, but Reinhart’s
charges tied the Oregon Aggies for
Northwest honor only to lose by one
.point in the three-game play-off.
The hoop years of 1920 and 1927 saw
the Webfoots win the Northwest
gonfalon only to lose to California
in the coast championship series.
The one joker in the pessimistic
‘ predictors’ forecast is that Coach
Reinhart isn’t dealing with new,
green material. True, he has but
two lettermen to work with but
members of the super-varsity are all
experienced players. All haven’t
had enough varsity experience, but
a good many hours have been used
up in playing basketball. Hoop
artists like Clare Seallon, Ray Ed
uards, Mervyn Chastain, Don Mc
Cormick, Dave Epps, Bernard Ilum
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This year’s quintet will see a
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.nvonk tliaiu last year. The case
of Gunther, Westergren, and Oker
' berg was one that any coach would
overlook. Such stars as these must
be given a starting play but then
| allowed to resort to the style which
made them stars. Thus in summing
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<hat Oregon will have a much bet
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The state of Oregon is found sadly
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