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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1930)
RALLY FOR OREGON COACH, 12:42 Spears Irherits Grid Veterans o .1 V \ces Many Footbal To Be In Doe 8 Deck T'-1 Injury List Big, Broken Bones Bother Forsta, Lillie, Moeller, and Kitztniller on the Hospital List Healthy Crew of Freshmen Graduate to Varsity By JACK BURKE When the glamour of Dr. C. W. Spears’ reception has died away, and the genial doctor gathers his men around him and proceeds tS find out just what he has to make a football team out of, he will find i an imposing array of talent con t fronting him. The noyel, interesting and unique program which the new coach has intimated he will carry j V)ut should prove to try the men j to their limits and should uncover every hidden bit of skill or power that may be latent on the campus. Varsity Men Back From last year's varsity team, which tied with the three Califor nia teams for the Pacific Coast conference title, he will be able to call on the entire first team with but four exceptions. The men who will not be eligible to com pete are, Bob Robinson at quar ter, Dave Mason at half, George Stadleman at center and Mar shall Shields at guard. There is a remote possibility, however, that the last named player may be de- I elated eligible. With these men missing the team will contribute, Woody J Archer and Jack Erdley ends, j George Christensen and Austin! ^ Colbert at tackles, Jerry Lillie, and Sy West at guards, and Eric For sta at center. Of these men, Lil lie and Forsta may be handi capped this spring through injur ies, Lillie having hurt his foot and Forsta having recently undergone an operation for appendicitis. Kitzmiller Candidate In the backfield there will be many veterans returning. First of all is Johnny Kitzmiller who by now is almost fully recovered from his broken angle and who should be able to participate in spring practice. In the fullback position Doc Spears may have the choice as Cap McEwan did be tween Ilal Hatton and Ed Moel ler although the latter will be hampered by a broken elbow re ceived when Eugene resembled an Arctic waste. At halfback there will be John Donahue, Charles Spear and Francis Hill. Another experienced candidate will be Joe Jansa of Texas and West Point. Jansa was in school last semester but was not eligible. He has had a great deal of exper ience at tackle and should prove valuable. Desides these regulars the 1929 varsity roster will contribute Steve Fletcher and A1 Edwards, ends; Pat Lucas, Norman Jesse, Marion Hall, Ralph Bates and Ir vin Schulz, tackles; Ted Park, Henry Heyden and Gilbert French, guards; Shirley Carter and Bill (Continued on page two) Pres. Hall Welcomes New Football Coach ON BEHALF of the Univer sity of Oregon I am glad to welcome Dr. Spears to the large task that awaits him and to the wholehearted hospitality which I am sure the whole com munity will accord him. We welcome him because of his commanding genius in his chosen profession, because of the promise which his leader ship here gives of success in the highest meaning of the term. His personality, his character, his educational ideals, and his splendid sportsmanship will con stitute an invaluable contribu tion to the tremendous achieve ments of University life. ARNOLD BENNETT HALL, President of the University. Sell-out of Ball Ducats Reported At Senior Dance 20-Minute Pony Revue To Be Feature of Annual Formal Affair Foster, Chairman, Avers Surprise in Store With all tickets sold and deco rations to be finished by noon to lay details for the Senior Ball to be held tonight ' at 9 o’clock at Gerlinger hall are ' practically com- : plete, according I to Day Foster, ' general chairman i for the dance. “I feel that a big surprise is in i s t o r e for the ; members of the senior class and all those attend mg uie oau to night,” declared Day Foster Poster. “The fact that all of the 350 lickets, which were our quota, rave been sold, is indicative of ;he interest shown in this year’s Senior Ball. It is my sincere wish ;hat I may be able to present this evening the greatest Senior Ball ever held here.” Hendricks Director A novel idea in the way of lance features has been instituted his year by Boone Hendricks, fea :ures chairman. A 20-minute stage revue, featuring clog danc ers and a vocal trio, with a pony ehorus, and a special stage set ling featuring a stairway idea, .vill be presented. The setting rvas designed by Joan Patterson. The cast for the revue will be: elog dancers, Hal Hatton and Louise Marvin; vocal trio, Maxine Slover, Marjorie Clark, and Slug Palmer; pony chorus, Anne 3tange, Jane Stange, Julia Creech, Dit Blew, Violet Ackerman, Adri enne Ishan, Jane Lyons, Mardie Prey, Ruth Birch, and Virginia (Continued on page five) K Banquet for Grid Mentor Set for 6:30 Oregon’s First Coach To Sit Beside Newest Mentor, Spears Prominent Men of State Will Attend Feast With the tickets all sold, the edi bles ordered, and the entertain ment secured, Lynn McCready, general chairman of the Eugene chamber of commerce banquet in honor of Dr. C. W. Spears, is awaiting the start of the festivi ties, which time is set at 6:30 this evening, the place being the Osburn hotel. Under the direction of C. F. Hyde, chairman in charge of ticket sales, all the available plac es at the banquet have been sold and many applications have been turned down. According to Hyde nearly 200 people are expected at the dinner. Music features Ronald Robnett, who has charge of the entertainment of the eve ning has lined up an interesting program of talent which will bp introduced by Earl Immel, presi dent of the State Bar Associa tion, who has been selected as toastmaster for the affair. Also working under McCready are E. S. Kelty in charge of the banquet and arrangements and Sam Wilderman in charge of pub licity. On the program of the evening will be the University of Oregon Little Symphony orchestra under the direction of Rex Underwood. Another of the campus music or ganizations to appear is the Uni versity quartet which also ap peared at the Spears banquet in Portland. The latter organization will sing several Oregon songs. Old Coach Will Attend An interesting feature of the banquet will be the fact that Ore gon’s first football coach, Cal M. Young will be seated beside the newest, Dr. Clarence Spears. Cal Young coached the Oregon team in 1893, and has been more re cently noted for his work with the Sunset Trail pageant. Speaking at the banquet will be R. Roy Booth, of the Eugene chamber of commerce, who will deliver Eugene’s address of wel come. Thirty-six football letter men will be introduced at the din ner by Dave Mason, captain of the 1929 varsity. The official welcome of the stu dent body will be given by Tom Stoddard who will introduce Presi dent Hall. Dr. Hall will speak on behalf of the University and ten der his welcome to the new coach. Short addresses of welcome will also be made by Governor Nor- j blad and David M. Graham, the latter speaking for the Eugene alumni and the people of Eugene. According to the committee in charge of the banquet all the aforementioned speeches will be short and the main and only long (Continued on page five) Anxious To Meet Webfoots “I am very happy to be here in Oregon. The reception has been very cordial and very pleasing to a stranger. I am looking forward to meeting the faculty and student body and people of Eugene with a great deal of pleasure.” This was I)r. C. W. Spears’ signed state ment of appreciation issued yesterday afternoon. He will arrive in Eugene at 12:42 today where he will be greeted with a huge rally to be staged by University students. Coaching Staff Promises To Be Powerful Group Shields May Be Line Coach But Other Positions Are Undecided Reinhart and Hayward Will Help Spears Though no one will deny that Oregon’s coaching staff will be strengthened by the addition of Dr. Clarence Wiley Spears, it is well known that the University coaching staff as a whole is excel lent. On the football staff with Dr. Spears, although the new coach has not as yet announced any plans as to who his staff will con sist of, will be Gene Shields, as line coach. Gene came to Oregon, or more accurately returned to Oregon, after several successful seasons as head coach at Com merce high school in Portland. He was formerly a Webfoot line star and thereby upheld the tradition of the Shields family. Hayward Trainer Billy Reinhart last season de voted his time to the Lemon and Green backfield while not engaged in some of his more successful coaching activities which include varsity basketball and varsity baseball. He has had remarkable success in these two latter fields. The veteran of the coaching staff at Oregon is Bill Hayward. He officiates as track coach in the spring and during football takes over the responsibility of keeping the football men in shape to play. Although in late years he has had rather questionable success in (Continued on page five) Spears Golf Bug And Good Fellow, Says W.G. Brown Minnesota Fights Hard To, Retain Doctor as Mentor Warner Thinks Him Most Efficient Coach — "With all due respect to Phelan and his Notre Dame technique, far be it from me to fail in the sug gestion that what was Washing ton's loss will be Oregon’s gain.” The above statement, written by Warren G. Brown, sports edi tor of the Chicago Daily News, serves as a straw which shows the 1 way the wind of national opinion blew when Oregon secured the services of Dr. Clarence Wiley Spears as head football coach. Continuing, Brown says, "He is a big leaguer among the big leagues. He has oodles of person- ; ality. He is a most companionable cuss, likes to play golf, can dis cuss fighters and wrestlers, and will. He is a man of family, a physician and surgeon, likely to go as far in that profession as he is in his coaching sideline, and that is plenty far, as his success at Dart mouth, at West Virginia and at Minnesota testifies." Pop Warner, of Stanford, quoted by W. F. Leiser in the columns of the San Francisco Examiner, speaks of Spears as “one of the most efficient coaches.” Warner ought to know, for, according to Warren Brown, he is one of two coaches who has ever beaten Pop Warner's teams two years run ning. Leiser continues with a state (Continued on page five) * Oregon Meets Beaver Quint At Corvallis Game Tonight Against Old Rival Marks End of 4-Game Series TITLE HOPES SLENDER Contest With Washington Huskies Comes Next On Schedule Although football has stolen the spotlight for the moment, with Dr. Spear’s arrival taking precedence in public interest over the sport of basketball more appropriate to the season, even the worthy doc tor must give way, tonight to the Oregon five when they journey to Corvallis to meet the Oregon State Beavers in what has come to be the most crucial game of the year. Contest a Natural It has been often said that any contest between teams represent ing the two institutions is, for no other reason than being such a contest, bound to be a good game. This applies to tonight’s game and' more. Oregon has rapidly come to the fore in basketball, rising in the short span of a week and a half from fourth place to second place. It is however a greater task to surmount the last three hurdles which confront the team at this time than it was to gain second place. Three games remain on the Webfoot schedule. Tonight’s game at Corvallis, and a two game ser ies with the present leaders of the league, the Washington Huskies, will keep the team busy. The Huskies will be met on the Se attle team’s home court, February 28 and March 1. Title Doubtful With this outlook before them Coach Billy Reinhart and his men realize the possibilities of the sit uation. To state a few possibili ties: Should the Oregon team have the good fortune to win the rest of its games it would finish the season with 10 games won and six lost a percentage of .625. On the other hand for a clear title to come to Eugene, Washington must lose one game of the impending Idaho series as well as two games to the Oregon team. This would give them a percentage of .502 or nine games won and seven lost. Perhaps this would be asking too much but it is not too far be yond the bounds of what is pos sible. Idaho took a beating last week at the hands of both the Oregon teams. Men In Shape Oregon’s team survived the northern trip in good shape ac cording to Billy Reinhart and their play improved materially while they were away. All along the circuit, the coach said, It was no ticeable that the team was com pletely outweighed, giving, in his estimation, as much at ten pounds per man to the opposing teams. The men who have been away on the recent trip will again take the road to Corvallis. All of them proved their capabilities against Idaho and Washington State. In all probability the lineup tonight should include Billy Keenan and Henry Levoff forwards, Jean Eb erhart center, and Cliff Horner and Harold Oliger guards, with a reserve list including Windsor Calkins, Kermit Stevens, Steve Fletcher, Roy Hughes, and Vine Dolph. Thunderous Welcome To Be Given Mentor At University Station Band, Cow Bells, Fog Horns, Whistles Aid Celebration Spears To Speak at Student Assembly at Igloo At 1:00; Will Be Guest at Banquet Given by Business Men By WILLIS D UNI WAY QTUDENTS and townspeople will unite today in welcoming to the ^ campus Dr. Clarence W. Spears, who will guide Oregon’s destiny on the gridiron for the next five years. A rally at Vlllard station, a special student body assembly at McArthur court, and a banquet at the Osburn hotel, sponsored by Eugene business men, are on the wel* coming program for the day. Promptly at 12:42 today the southbound Klamath train, which will bring Dr. Spears from Portland, will stop at Villard. Tom Stod* dard, president of the associated students, will be the first to greet Dr. Spears as he steps from the train and will introduce him to the •« Banquet Head When 250 people gather at the banquet at the Osburn hotel to night to honor Dr. Clarence W. Spears, credit for preparations will be due to Lynn McCready, pic tured above, who is chalrtrin of the affair. Who’s Who Lists Name of Oregon’s New Head Coach Spears Freshman Coach At Dartmouth in ’16 Head by 1917 Prominent as a Physician, Got M. D. in 1921 "The names in Who's Who in America are selected not as the best but as an attempt to choose the best known men and women of the country in all lines of useful and reputable achievements.” With this paragraph as a pre face, the large red book known to all America as a standard refer ence work, lists the names of the outstanding personages of the country. Evidently football coaching Is a "reputable” calling, as the name of Dr. Clarence Wiley Spears Is found among those considered worthy of mention in the 1028-20 edition of this work. Perhaps, however, it is his achievement as an M.D. that makes him "useful.” To borrow from Who’s Who: SPEARS, Clarence Wiley, prof. phys. ed; born De Wilt, Ark., July 24, 1804; son of Sam uel Alexander and Harriet Flor ence (Baird); grad, high sch. Kewanee, 111., 1012; student Knox Coll., Galesburg, 111., 1013; B.S. Dartmouth, 1017; M.D. Rush Med. Coll., Chicago, 1921; married Cornelia Egbert McCon nell of Oak Park, 111., Sept. 13, 1917; children — Janet Baird, Joan Adair. Freshman football coach, Dartmouth, 1916; head football coach, same university, (Continued on page five) i crowd gathered at the rally. Spears will say a few words of greeting from a special platform that will be erected opposite VJT- ' lard this morning. Noise To Be Rampant Hal Kelley, varsity yell king, and his staff will be on hand to lead yells and songs at the wel coming celebration. "The rally will be one of many surprises," Jim Raley, head of the rally direc torate, said yesterday in releasing plans for the event. A good share of the noise that will feature the rally will be produced by six stu dents from the local R. O. T. C. unit who will be equipped with army rifles^ and will fire volleys of blanks into, steel oil drums. Bill Knox, in charge 'of noise-making' devices, has issued a call to all v students to bring whistles, fog horns, bells, or similar noise-pro ducers to the rally with them. The Oregon banu\ under the di rection of John Stedin, will play several Oregon songs a£ the rally and will also be at the assembly. Dick Givens and Joe Freck, assist ants on the rally committee, hav'e arranged for the band to tour the., campus in a large truck during tQ$ noon hour as a ballyhoo stunt. Assembly at 1 Speakers chosen by Marjorie Clark will visit all living organi zations at noon today to arouse interest in the welcoming rally. The special assembly will be held at the Igloo at 1 o’clock, im mediately after the welcome at the train. All Oregon football men will be on the stage and will be introduced to Dr. Spears individ ually. Tom Stoddard will officially welcome the new Webfoot grid coach on behalf of the associated students and will in turn introduce President Hall, who will welcome Dr. Spears for the University and the faculty. Dr. Spears, who has been reported to be a clever, en tertaining speaker, is slated for a 30-minute talk at the assembly. To allow all students to attend the assembly, the University ad ministration has dismissed all Sat urday 1 o'clock classes. Radio station KORE will broadcast the program by remote control from the Igloo. S. S. Smith Completes First Section of Book The second section of S. Ste phenson Smith’s new book, which he hopes to complete sometime this year, has just been sent to the mimeographers, and he expects to put about fifty copies of it on sale at the Co-op next week, it was announced yesterday. This section is entitled “Play Reviewing,” and the first section, already completed, is named “Book Reviewing.” Mr. Smith has al ready started on the third and last section, which he calls “Past Mas ters of Criticism,” and in which he deals with twelve of the great critics. The book, when completed, will be used in his class in "Criticism,” as it gives in more detailed form the lectures of this course. Oregon s Football Coach Opens New Era for Webfoot Athletics