Bronco Nagurski. Doc’s Backs. Cougars Mere. -By DICK NEUBERGEK*_ |F you want to hear about a real ly great football player, get either Doc Spears or Jack O’Brien to tell you about Bronco Nagurski. Both Doc and Jack agree that the big Ukran ian boy who played tackle and fullback for Min nesota deserves to be ranked as ™ me lore most figures in Bronco American foot- Nagurski ball. They never get tired describ ing the exploits of the mighty Bronco, whose deeds on the grid iron thrilled middle-western fans for three years. Bronco was only an awkward high school lad from International Falls, Minn., when he first turned out for football under Doc Spears. He had not even been an excep tional player in high school, but under Doc Spears’ expert guidance he developed not only into a great fullback but also was an All American tackle. Bronco’s first varsity year at the University of Minnesota was 1927. That was the season Doc Spears’ team tied Notre Dame, 7 to 7. Bronco played tackle throughout that historic en counter, and his dynamic perform ance brought praise from even the late Knute Rockne, at that time enjoying one of his greatest sea sons at the head of the Fighting Irish. The next two years, 3928 and ’29, Bronco alternated his time between the line and the back field. He so distinguished him self at both stations that numer ous experts disagreed as to which post he was better suited. He was given All-American honors at both positions. As a line smasher, Bronco Nagurski had few equals. Tireless and power ful, he rolled into the front wall like a compound locomotive. It was nothing out of the ordinary for him to buck as many as 100 yards in one game. When he was playing for the East in the annual East-West Shrine game in San Francisco two years ago, he battered the western wall for a grand total of 188 yards. Thut’s pile-driving in any league. * ■» * Bronco was not the only great backfield performer developed by Doc Spears. There have been many others. Doc has turned out more nnrnrre ENDS TONIGHT! WISE IN WISE-CRACKS WISE TO WISE-GUYS Their Wit Will Shock You With Delight! Fast’ - ,« V' \£M % Fascinating rjg F ILjff JEAN HALLOW MAE CLARKE MARIE PREVOST All Comedy Program Benny Rubin WAR!! is not good for any of us, but TAP DANCING IS! Hal Hatton’s Dance School Beginning and Ad\aaced Tap Dancing. CALL ?320 A k for Hal Hatton. Joe Renner EMERALD SPORTS STAFF Dick Neuberger Sports Editor Bruce Hamby ...Asst. Sports Editor Parks Hitchcock, Joseph Saslavsky, Malcolm Bauer OREGON SPORTS W. S. C.-U. of O. TONIGHT Washington State vs. Oregon at McArthur court tonight at 7:80 o’clock. Only other conference game at Seattle between Idaho and Washington. I ——-— Reinhart Ready for Cougar Attack Tonight at McArthur Huskies To Meet Vandali In Other Conference Clash at Seattle __ (Continued from Page One) The Huskies must win to stay ir the running for the championship | Because they are only one-half f j game ahead of Oregon State, a slipup against Idaho would shove j the Orangemen into second place Oregon State is idle this week-end so can do nothing about improv ing or lowering its conference status. Washington’s chances were ham pered slightly yesterday when Kline Swygaard, veteran forward, was forced to turn in his suit be cause of bad health. His loss leaves a gap that will be hard for Coach Hec Edmundson to fill. ; Idaho gave both Washington | State and Oregon State close bat ! ties, and twice won from Oregon, so the Vandals should be no easy pickings for the Huskies. There will be no southern divi sion games tonight, but all four clubs play tomorrow night. The league-leading Trojans of South ern California will face U. C. L. A. at Los Angeles, and Stanford and California will clash on neutral territory at Oakland. What hap pens between the Trojans and Bruins eventually may decide the championship of the southern divi sion. To date U. S. C. has lost only two games. One was to the second-place California Bears and the other was to U. C. L. A. The latter misfortune took place when the Trojans fizzled away a three point lead by stalling and lost, 18 to 17. Jerry Nemer is the man the Bruins will have to watch tonight. The Trojans will have their eyes on Captain Dick Linthicum, U. C. ('oast Conference Standing's Northern Division W. L. Pet. Washington State .81 .889 Washington . 6 4 .600 Oregon State . 5 5 .500 Oregon . 4 7 .364 Idaho . 2 9 .181 Southern Division W. L. Pet. Southern California.. 7 2 .778 California . 6 3 .667 U. C. L. A. 3 6 .333 Stanford . 2 7 .304 Games This Week Tonight — Washington State vs. Oregon at Eugene; Idaho vs. Washington at Seattle. Saturday—Washington State vs. Oregon at Eugene; Idaho v3. Washington at Seattle; Southern California vs. U. C. L. A. at Los Angeles; Stanford vs. California at Oakland. | L. A.’s ball-hawking floor leader, j California is a heavy favorite to j defeat Stanford. The Cardinals have not won a game for three weeks. Then, too, they have been weakened by injuries. Frenchy La Combe, high-scoring forward, was hurt several days ago, and Phil Moffatt, celebrated football half back, has been bothered repeated ly by injuries sustained on the gridiron last fall. The season is nearing an end in the south. Each team has only three games left to play. UNIVERSITY OF WASHING TON, Seattle, Feb. 12.—(Special). —Announcement was made today that Kline Swygaard would play no more basketball for the Wash ington Huskies this season. He was forced to turn in his suit on the advice of H. J. Green, team physician. i than his share of All-American j tiall-toters. There was Herb Joest i ing at Minnesota, whom many con 1 sider to have been the equal of ; the mighty Nagurski. Others were : Fred Hovde, the brainy quarter j back, and Harold Almquist, bril liant halfback. At West Virginia there was Pete Barnurn, and at Dartmouth Doc Spears developed two of the greatest backs of New England football history — Jim Robertson and John Shellbourne. Robertson and Shellbourne were powerful, elusive runners. Both were about the size of Bobby Gray son, the young Jefferson high school lad whose performances in the Portland interscholastic league' were so sensational last autumn. At Oregon Doc’s foremost achievement was the making of Johnny Kitzmiller into a halfback j cf All-American caliber. There are other lads coming up who may, join these select ranks in the fu ture. This is the night those ferocious Washington State Cougars meet the Webfoots at McArthur court. You’ll get a chance to see one of the greatest basketball teams in the country in action when the Cougars take the floor. The invad ers boast two exceptional scoring threats., in ..Huntly ..Gordon and Claud Holsten and a pair of clever courtmen and ball-hawks in Bobby Cross and Art McLarney. Most of the Cougar basketeers play baseball in the spring, but none of them are football players. Remember a few years ago how many of Babe Hollingberry’s grid iron standbys were members of the basketball squad ? Three reg ular backfield men—Don McDon ald, Teddy Rohwer and little Arch ie Buckley—were on the varsity basketball quintet. TODAY and Saturday WARNER OLAND CHANCE WITH H.B.WARNER LINDA WATKINS JAMES KIRKWOOD . NARION NIXON A •y COLLEGE NIGHT with Abbie Green’s Midnite Sons and Marian Cam'; at 8:30 FOX I’lC'Tl’KE Plus Laurel and Hardy in “ONE GOOD TURN ’ Fox Movietone News Ends Today Saturday Only Paul Lukas-Buddy Rogers "Working Girls” [Matinees. l(Jc. Siini Si'.mmerville-Zasu Pitta] “Unexpected Pather” Evuiiilga, 20cl He Invades His Home Town Today .. ■ ' ••••••••••••••••••*«*• Prince Gary Callison, coach of Oregon’s freshman basketballcrs, who takes his team south to Medford, where he was high school coach for so many successful seasons. The Yearlings will meet the Medford high Friday and Saturday nights. Ducklings Leave for South To Play Medford Hoopsters Callison Takes Ten Men for Ttvo-Game Series With Tiger Fi ve By MALCOLM BAUER Ten strong, the frosh hoopsters leave for the south this morning where they will tangle in two games over the week-end with the Strong Medford high school aggregation. “Prink” Callison, freshman mentor, who before com ing to Eugene coached the Med ford team, has high hopes of re turning with two wihs at the ex pense of his former proteges. The yearlings have been show ing marked improvement in the last few practice sessions, and with Sylvan Campf back in the start ing line-up, they should work wonders. Campf injured his shoulder in the first rook game, but has been in uniform for the past week. He should see plenty of actions against Medfonlites. In the other forward position, Callison will probably use Ralph Terjeson, who has been played both as a forward and as a guard so far this season. The guard berths will undoubt edly be filled by Bill Berg and Roland Rourke. Rourke has been playing regularly all season anu .3 the ranking Duckling sharpshoot er. Berg started his first game against the rooks here last Fri day, and his performances since then have been so outstanding that he has earned a permanent place on the starting five. Miller Improves Bob Miller will start at center. The big fellow has shown a lot of improvement lately, and seems to be coming out of his scoring slump. At the first of the season he was dropping them in from all angles, and always is a dangerous man under the basket. Chuck Clay, who has been filling in for Campf at forward, Wilson Siegmund, J. B. McClain, Bud Thomas, and Arne Lindgren make up the squad of reserves who will make the trip. Following these games only one week remains before the frosh tangle with the O. S. C. rooks in the final games of the season for the ancient rivals. University of Heidelberg scien tists have been studying a man with gill slits in his neck, together with a rudimentary gill, believed to be a “throwback” from the evo lutionary long ago. Everyone Says—Don’t Miss This! // EAST or ^BORNEO // ) r UNIVERSAL PICTURE •iHuntraiiimtmiiiiii'.imttuwunttu'.mi tiiKmuimuniiii!r.:?u