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Oregon Football Squad Leaves Today for Contest With U.C.L.A. at Los Angeles Spears Takes 32 Gridsters On Trip South Webfeet To Be at Full Strength for Tilt Two Workouts End Drill For Bill Spaulding’s Aroused Uclans Off on the final road trip of the year, Coach Doc Spears and 32 Oregon football players will leave RICHARD MULHAUPT noon bound for Los A n g e le s, where they meet U. C. L. A. Sat urday in the Olympic stadium. The Webfeet will also meet St. Mary's in San Francisco on Thanksgiving day before returning to the campus. The regular practice session yes terday was augmented by a long drill on the floor of the Igloo after dark. A light scrimmage with the freshmen and signal and skull practice at night wound up the home work for the Ducks. The team will arrive in Los Angeles Friday morning in time to take a workout on the turf field there before facing the Bruins. Ducks in Good Condition Oregon will be at full strength for the Uclan contest. Orville Bailey, With the broken nose, will wear a specially prepared helmet in the two coming games. The headgear covers his entire face, with the exception of holes for iiis eyes. The remainder of the squad is in excellent condition. Doc Spears plans to start the same lineup against the Bruins that he used Saturday against Oregon State. Mark Temple, Leighton Gee, Mike Mikulak and Bill Bowerman in the backfield, and Bailey, Nilsson, Schulz, Forsta, miTiii A Thrillingly New Love Team DOLORES with W. WILLIAM Flying from his lat est screen triumph, “Honor of the Fam ily,” to greater heights of fame! Another Gael Luminary Hughes, Morgan and Wishard on the line. This combination seems to be the most powerful Spears has been able to mold. Bruins Use Passes For almost all the touchdowns they have scored this season, the Bruins have used long forward passes, most of them originating in the long right arm of Leonard Bergdahl. They have not em ployed many line-plungers and their power attack is not all it might be. Mulhaupt and Wellen dorf, guardians of the U. C. L. A. flanks, have been on the receiving terminus cf the majority of the Bruins’ aerial maneuvers. In 1930, when Oregon won, 7 to 0, the Bru ins lost a possible tie when Rich ard Mulhaupt, another end, bob bled a snap pass over the Webfoot goal line. The Bruins never neared touchdown sod after that. The following men will make the trip: Forsta, Swanson, Hey den, Schulz, Clark, Hughes, Nils son, Fury, Morgan, Wilson, Ed wards, Pope, Wingard, Erdley, Bailey, Thompson, Winters, Shep ardson, Moeller, Beard, Bowerman, Pozzo, Rushlow, Mikulak, Watts, Gee, Bobbitt, Temple, DePittard, Rotenberg, and Parke. Bill Rein hart, backfield coach, and Jack Dant, manager, will accompany the team. Former Professor Writes Book About Disarmament Benjamin H. Williams, former professor at the University sum mer session at Portland and now of the University of Pittsburgh, has recently written a book en titled, “The United States and Dis armament.” Dr. John R. Mez, associate pro fessor of economics and political science in the University, has just received a copy of the book from the author himself. Professor Mez says that the book treats of the changing attitude of the world and the United States towards arma ment and sea power. It also dis cusses the forthcoming disarma ment conference and the possibili ties and obstacles to an effective reduction. The author thinks that the time is near when nations will be cooperating for disarmament. TODAY & THURS. 25c COMBINED STAGE and SCREEN SHOW AT REGULAR PRICES Other “Varieties” Acts —Plus— fejejiF. DOWLING LANE - June Collyer Noah Beery * Bargain Mati nee today only —20c— * * i shows tonite 25c Pick of the Circuits V 0 D V I L 5-Act Unit Stage Show RKO-Orpheum Favorites HINES A HAMMILL Blonde “It” Girl of Songland. FRANK EVANS “Free Wheeling” M. C'. honeymoon i The gentleman pictured above is Sill Ahern, who does the signal calling for St. Mary’s and who will be in the lineup when it faces Ore gon in Kezar stadium on Turkey day. Reinhart Orders Hoop Candidates Out for Workout Calkins, Levoff, Roberts, Stevens Only Vets Returning Varsity basketball practice, un der the tutelage of Head Coach Bill Reinhart, made its belated ap pearance on the campus Monday when about 40 candidates reported for the initial session. The 1932 squad for Oregon at the present time is very much undecided in the way of prospects for the coming schedule, although Reinhart in the past has always managed to put a commendable team into the running. Out of the nine men receiving letters last year, only four will report for practice this year: Captain Wind sor Calkins, Henry Levoff, Cap Roberts, and Kerrnit Stevens. Gene Eberhart, Cliff Horner, and Ken Potts, three lettermen, were lost through graduation, and Bill Keenan and Vine Dolp did not re turn to school, although they may register here in time to start the season after the first of the year. Oregon Behind in Drills Basketball at Oregon is any where from two weeks to a month behind that of the other schools in the conference because of Rein hart’s duties as backfield coach in varsity football. In his absence to Los Angeles, the squad will work out under the eye of Captain Calkins and practice will begin in earnest after the Thanksgiving holidays upon Bill’s return. Last year’s crop of freshmen eligibles will be rather sparse, only Olinger, Houghton, Watts, and Mark Temple of the first squad being back at school. From the ineligible list Jack Robertson, Ike Donin and Jim Watts will prob ably be on the preferred grade list by the time the first of the year rolls around. The rest of this year’s varsity will be picked from junior college transfers and last year’s reserves. I JKHli DUNN / TODAY warn* On-the-job enemies — off the-job sweethearts. ... A romance oi a modern news paper. Lett Bergdahl, Star Bruin Quarterback9 Will be Out Of Oregon Tilt Saturday Uclaus Weakened by Loss of Stellar Ball Carrier; Johnny Fletcher To Fill Vacancy By STUART WELLS, Sports Editor, Daily Bruin. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17—(Ex clusive to the Emerald.)—With Lenny Bergdahl, star first string quarterback, confined to the bench for the rest of the season with a chipped ankle bone sustained in the St. Mary's game last week, Coach Bill Spaulding's U. C. L. A. Bruins face "Doc” Spears’ Oregon Webfoots here Saturday in a greatly weakened condition. The Bruins beat St. Mary’s on Bergdahl’s playing. Of that there can be no doubt. The clever Uclan signal caller out-thought and out maneuvered the highly touted Gael backs completely throughout the game. It was he who tossed the two passes which resulted in scores. Bergdahl was just begin ning to find himself in that game, and then the unfortunate injury occurred which may blast West wood grid hopes for the 1931 sea son. Spaulding not only loses an ex cellent quarterback in Bergdahl but an accurate passer. Bergdahl has been on the sending etid of most of the Bruin passes which have played such havoc with the opposing secondaries. The loss of Bergdahl is equal to a reduction of 50 per cent efficiency in the offense of the U. C. L. A. team. All of which makes the Westwood cause a gloomy one. Fletcher To Fill Post Spaulding indicated early this week that he would probably use Johnny Fletcher, reserve quarter back, to fill Bergdahl's shoes. Fletcher is a fiery player with great ball carrying ability, but can neither pass nor punt. He is a daring signal caller and always dangerous. With the winning of the St. Mary's game, a new spirit has come to Westwood. Student inter est is at a high pitch, which, to gether with the fact that the Ore gon battle is the annual home coming game, makes Saturday's tussle the high-water mark of the football season for the Bruins. A crowd as large as that which saw the Bruins defeat the Gaels is ex pected to view the contest, which would place the attendance at be tween forty or fifty thousand. Spaulding Works Team Hard Bill Spaulding is not letting any let-down occur among his men. After giving his men a two-day vacation after the St. Mary’s game, he put the Bruins back to work, preparing for Oregon as hard as he has for any foe this season. That 14-6 triumph of Ore gon over New York U. makes Spaulding uneasy, and the wary head mentor is not taking any chances. He realizes that his team may be a bit cocky after trounc ing St. Mary's, and is doing every thing to make the Bruins realize that in Oregon they have one of the toughest assignments of the year. The game will mark the fourth between the two institutions, Ore gon being the only team in the conference, with the exception of Stanford, to face the Bruins every year. Scores oi: the past games follow: 1928— Oregon, 26; U. C. L. A., 6. 1929— Oregon, 27; U. C. L. A., 0. 1930— Oregon, 7; U. C. L. A., 0. 71 IN THE PRESS BOX - with Walt Baker ===== * HIS afternoon the Webfeet leave on their last quest for football recognition during the coming season— U. C. L. A. this Saturday and St. Mary’s on Thanks giving Day finish out the present season for the University of Oregon as far as football i3 concerned. Neither one of these last two games will be a walk-away for the Northern team, whose sophomore squad is by this time hitting its stride and playing football like a set of veterans. The Uclans pro vided a major upset on Armistice day by downing the Gaels of St. Mary’s and won the reputation of Demg tne only eouegiate team 10 ueieat uie puwuiui squau umi whipped the Trojans of Southern Cal. Here is a fact that can’t he overlooked. While the Gaels have always been before the Bruins on the list of tough teams on Doc Spears’ schedule, their loss just makes the Bruins’ showing that much harder to figure out for the coming game with Oregon. U. C. L. A. EXPECTING TO WIN Stuart Wells, sports ed. of the Daily Bruin down there, writes me that the St. Mary’s game “may have been the best game of the season, but the Bruins have now played four best games of the season—Wash ington State, Northwestern, Stanford, and St. Mary’s. Anyway, we’re cocky enough to think we’re good enough for Oregon. It’s up to you and the Doctor to make U3 see differently.” We echo heartily that Mr. Wells has a firm foundation for his opinion that the Bruins are comers in conference football. They’ve been getting better and better all season and, in their Stanford game, had the powerful Red team tied, with 18 seconds to play, when the Indians completed a pass over the U. C. L. A. goal line to pull the game out of the fire. BRUINS ON THE UPGRADE Washington State beat them in their first conference game this year, and then they put up a tough scrap against Northwestern, to lose 19-0. But these two last games are the ones in which we are interested at the present time. True—it looks like the Bruins have arrived—as the optimistic Mr. Wells predicted in the Emerald yester day. And at that there’s no reason why they shouldn’t. They have a wonderful plant there—better than U. S. C.’s pastures. They have a strong monetary backing—which is just the number for the produc tion of a football team. And, perhaps, the most important of all, they have the backing of Los Angeles, who seems to be turning away from the University of Southern California in favor of the “baby of the conference,” who is having such a struggle getting started. More power to them. WEBFOOT VETERANS WINDING UP CAREERS Getting back to the Oregon-U. C. L. A. game, it would seem that the Webfeet, even with the entire squad in the pink of condition, are going to have their hands full. Full, yes, but not overflowing with a 71-0 score as a Portland paper figured out accord ing to comparative scores of the two teams. Oregon, will win—and for three good reasons, Red Bailey, Captain Irv Schulz, and Eric Forsta, who are going into the home stretch in their performance for Ore gon. These veterans, the big guns on the Oregon forward wall, graduate, and both these final games will see them in a last endeavor to wind up their collegiate careers in a blaze of performance that can not be denied. That's what the Bruins will run into along with 1 the battering of the now-veterans, Gee, Temple, Mik | ulak, and Bowerman, and the performance of Captain Schulz | WUhard, Nilsson, Hughes, and Morgan. Here you have what will likely be the starting lineup, and if the Bruins can put a better aggre gation on the field next Saturday, they’ll deserve everything that they i can take away. U.C.L.A. Backs Two of Bill Spaulding's star ball-carriers. Top, Len Bcrgdaht, quarterback, who was injured in the St. Mary’s game last week and is reported out for the rest of the season. Bottom, Norm Duncan, who does most of the heavy ball carrying for the Bruins. Frosh Finish Season With Clean Record Oregon Yearlings Get 36 Point Average Impressive Showing Made By Cullison’s Men in Schedule The University of Oregon fresh men have completed their sched ule for the football year and can I'l'illk CalllfeUM lay me motesKins aside until next spring, at which time they will be considered varsi ty prospects. The record estab lished this year by the yearlings is the best in many years and Coach Callison deserves a great deal of credit. He molded a real football machine. For the first time in a number of years the Frosh won both en counters from the Oregon State Rooks. Previous to this year the two-game series was divided with out fail. Other games taken in stride were the Washington Babe contest and the Oregon Normal re serves breather. Frosh Average 36 Points The Frosh for the season ran up 144 points to their opponents’ 40 in four games. This is an aver age of 36 points per game, and quite a record when one stops to consider that the freshman foot ball battles are usually close and hard-fought. Callison built a formidable eleven from individual men in the short time allotted. It is no easy task to build a team that will click as the Frosh have clicked all sea son. He has done this in the most satisfactory manner and should be praised highly. The Frosh squad will disband today following the varsity’s de parture for the South. They have stayed out the fore part of the week in order to give the varsity some real competition. Moore To Give illustrated Lecture oil Greece Tonight Dr. A. R. Moore, professor of animal biology, will give a stereop tican lecture on “Greece” tonight at 8 o'clock in room 107 Oregon hall. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have just recently returned from abroad where they spent much of their time in Greece. Anyone interested is invited to attend. Two Days Remain To Enter Choices In Co-ed Contest Free Votes To Be Presented With Tickets Purchased At Colonial Only two days remain for Uni versity students to nominate their favorite co-ed for the popularity contest being sponsored by the Emerald and Colonial theatre in order to determine the most popu lar girl on the Oregon campus. A decided interest in the con test is being displayed by the stu dents, judging by the number of ballots cast yesterday at the box inside the old library. A large num ber of ballots containing the names of many prominent girls on the campus were turned in. The ten co-eds receiving the largest num ber will be selected as contestants, and their names will be announced Friday. The popularity contest will run for four weeks with votes being given out with every ticket pur chased at the Colonial theatre be ginning Friday. The various stores on the campus offering prizes will be announced at a later date. Students will have until 6 p. m. Thursday to cast their choice for the co-eds to enter the contest. Eight Girls Awarded ‘O’ By Athletic Association At the mass meeting of W. A. A. Tuesday night awards were pre sented to the girls who earned suf ficient points in W. A. A. activi ties last semester. The girls who earned 500 points and were awarded the small “O” were: Katherine Leuck, Katherine Bisbee, Helen Dunshee, Gwen La Barre, Doris Payne, and Mildred Marks. Dorothy MacLean, who earned 1000 points received a sweater with a large “O” and Frances Haberlach, wTio had 1600 points received a stripe for her sweater. Reports from the heads of sports were also given. Virginia Hunt, chairman of the health week com mittee discussed the health week program being held November 16 to 20. ========= Close Contest Attraction of Sigma Nu Noses Out Fiji In Overtime, 15-14 Sigma Chi, Phi Delta Theta And Phi Psi Capture Other Tilts TODAY’S SCHEDULE 3:45 P. M. S. A. M. vs. Theta Chi. 4:80 P. M. Zeta hall vs. S. A. E. 5:15 P. M. Sherry Ross hall vs. Chi Psi. One of the best, if not the best, games so far in the intramural basketball tourney was dished up to the fans yesterday when Sigma Nu eked out a victory over the Fiji quintet, 15 to 14, in a game which required an overtime period. The score was knotted at 13 points at the end of the regulation time. Roland Larson sank a Sigma Nu basket from near the center of the floor to give his team a lead of two points in the overtime period, and then a Sigma Nu hoopman fouled Bob Rourke of the Fijis, who was allowed two foul shots. The first went astray, but the sec ond was good. Before the teams could line up again for the tipoff, the game ended. Phi Delt Defeats Gamma Three other games were played. The Phi Delt squad defeated Gam ma hall, 17 to 12. Wes Clausen led the scoring by sinking eight points for the victors. A total of 12 points was scored by both teams in the Phi Psi Alpha Upsilon game, the Phi Psis capturing the contest by a score of 8 to 4. Cliff Potter, Sigma Chi center, featured the Sigma Chi-Sigma hall tilt by registering 20 points, the highest score compiled by a single hoopster in the tournament so far. His spree helped considerably in the defeat of the hall aggregation, 39 to 9. 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