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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1935)
Tom McCall . Editor Don Casciato . Assistant Editor Bill Van Dusen .?„. Sport Features Ben Back . Intramural Editor Reporters: Willie Frager, Porter Frizzell, Bruce Currie, Bill Hanen, Chuck Miller, Howard Skinner, Robert Bauer. Co-ed Reporters: Caroline Hand, Loree Windsor. FOLLOW' THE FEATURES printed daily on the Emerald sports page. Meet the freshmen football players through “Introducing Frosh Pigskin Players.” Learn highlights in nation-wide ath letics from Bruce Currie’s “Spice.” Sport Quacks By Tom McCall The lapping of the azure waters on the beach at Waikiki was much sweeter music to the ears of Keith Cruickshank, than was the whack ing of the icy rain drops on the sidewalks of Eugene. It was just for that reason that the Hawaiian youth sped homeward bound from Oregon last Sunday night. Add to the adversity of the elements, the fact that Cruickshank had a badly pulled muscle which would keep him from football all this season . . . Really not much use to stick around. Incidentally the pulled muscle was worth about $800 to Cruickshank. If he hadn't injured himself he would have been in As toria with the Frosh squad on the day of the Idaho game. It was on that day that 5000 numbered tick et stubs were put into a big box at Hayward. Each represented a chance to win a new Ford. One was drawn out with but two min utes allowed for the owner of the number to put in his appearance. There was a deafening silence as the number was announced. Then a bustle and a growing chatter of excitement from the stands. Heads were turned excitedly, here and there, as a minute passed. Then all eyes focused on the east grand stand where a figure leaped among the crowd, down, across the field, and up to the judges of the draw ing it went, waving the victorious ticket . . . Yes, lit was Keith Cruickshank, and everyone of the 4999 potential winners glowered as he drove “his” or “her” car pos sessively around the track. * * * Next year Cruickshank will be chanting “Aloha” to his native isle. He will be back at Oregon again, kicking those barefooted 60 yard punts and flipping bullet passes in his own inimitable manner . . . Wonder if he’ll bring his Ford with him, or leave it, with expectations of picking another 5000-1 shot? Sign Painting . (Continued front Page One) Omega, Woodrow Everitt; Beta Theta Pi, Jim Hubard; Chi Psi, Dewey Payne; Delta Tau Delta, Doyle Mililgan; Delta Upsilon, Gerald Scott; Kappa Sigma, Don Thomas; Phi Gamma Delta, Dave Maguire; Phi Delta Theta, Dewitt Peats; Phi Kappa Psi, Don Parks; Phi Sigma Kappa, Clarence Woods; Pi Kappa Alpha, Kermit Paulsen; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Gib Schultz; Sigma Alpha Mu, Bertram Schatz; Sigma Chi, Dick Cooley; Sigma Phi Epsilon, Ken neth Hill; Sigma Nu, Maurice Wagenbalst; Theta Chi, Clifford Kamph; Sigma hall, Douglas Pel ton; Alpha hall, Gerald Crissman; Gamma hall, Beryl Holden, Omega hal, Don Casciato; Zeta hall, Bill Thomas. Campus Calendar (Continued from Pape One) Master Dance and Junior Master Dance meet tonight in the dance room of Gerlinger. All members please be ready to dance at 7:30 sharp. The '38-'39 club will meet at Westminster house at 7:30. Bever ly Caverhill will speak on “How to Use the University Libraries.” The Westminster Old Testament study group will meet at West minster house at 9 tonight, with Rev. Herbert Higginbotham lead ing a discussion based on “The Old Testament in the Light of Today.” Chi Psi’s Lose To Phi Delt Mermen, 4-0 Phi Psis Beat Omega Hall, 6-0; Yeomen Aces Trounce Alpha Two rough and tough water pole teams, Phi Delta Theta and Ch Psi, played to a capacity house in last night’s intramurals with th( Phi Delts winning by a 4-0 score “Andy” Anderson was directly re sponsible for three of the counters scored by the Phi Delts and he aisc featured in some stellar guarding Anderson, just before the end ol the game, was kicked out for be ing a little too generous in a duck ing he was administering to ar opponent. McLeod, of Chi Psi, was also banished because of unneces sary roughness. The goalies, Brookes and Mc Call, stopped some spectacula; shots and materially aided in keep ing the score down. Phi Psi Bounces Omega Hall Phi Psi experienced little diffi culty in scoring a 6-0 win ovei Omega hall. The second half fount the dormitory boys contentedlj guarding their goal with three men while the Phi Psi boys were firing away futilely with all theii might. Ringrose, center forward for Ph Psi, was high point man of the game with four counters. Robert son made the other two points. Yeomen Win Easy Game Four Yeomen went on a scoring spree against Alpha hall in the opener and between them thej scored twelve points in the inde pendent 12-0 triumph. Two o) these Yeomen scored eight points while the other two scored four Ogelsby, Levy, Kirby, and Scrog gins put on a real show and had the Alpha hall team dizzy at times trying to fathom their fast pass ing Daily Campus Sports Schedule Water Polo: 4:00—Sigma Nu vs. ATO. 4:30—Theta Chi vs. Delta Tau Delta. 5:00—Phi Gamma Delta vs. Phi Sigma Kappa. Volleyball: 4:00—Chi Psi vs. La Casa Filipina “A”; Yeomen vs. Omega hall “A.” 4:40—Phi Psi vs. Sigma Al pha Mu “A”; Sigma Phi Epsi lon vs. Alpha hall “A.” 5:20—ATO vs. Gamma hall “A”;Beta Theta Pi vs. Kappa Sigma “A.” Libe Assistant Speaks Tonight Beverly Caverhill, library assist ant, will acquaint new students with the use of the library this evening at 7:30, when the West minster ’38-’39 club meets. The talk will follow the regular meeting of the club, and all those interested are invited to attend. Overgard Manages Book Shelf at Y Hut Alvin Overgard will have charge of the newly-organized book shelf at the Y hut, it was announced yesterday. The Yeomen and the YMCA are making arrangements for a book shelf to be obtained from the li Injured i1' Jim Nicholsen, freshman quarterback and outstanding triple threat, who sprained an ankle in scrimmage Monday night. From all reports, he Will be unable to participate in the Washington Babe tussle this Saturday. BIG MOMENTS in the GRIDIRON HISTORY of OREGON FOOTBALLERS (Following; is the first of a series of “most thrilling moments” in the lives of Webfoot football players as told to Bruce Currie, Emerald sports reporter.) KOM'EY DE PITTARD His prep team’s Frank Merriwell finish to victory over their dead liest rivals furnished the biggest thrill in the football career of Romey de Pittard, promising Ore gon halfback. Romey offered blocking protec tion for a teammate who tossed two successive touchdown passes half the length of the field in the closing minutes of play, enabling McMinnville to edge out a 19 to 18 win over her bitter opponents from Hillsboro. McMinnville was trailing the powerful Hillsboro eleven 18 to 7, with only a short time left to play. The game had been a hard fought battle from the starting gun, but the Hillsboro team had piled up what seemed to be a safe lead. With only five minutes remain ing de Pittard and his teammates started their scoring spree. Andy Peterson, flashy McMinnville star, brary on the same terms as living organizations. This is the first year that this has been done. Forty thousand couples are mar ried annually in London. COLLEGE ICE CREAM HALLOWE’EN SPECIALS Brick—Pumpkin, Chocolate, Orange Bulk—Pecan, Krunch Drinks—Mission Dairy Orange, Grapefruit, Cider EUGENE FRUIT GROWERS ASSOCIATION Phone I 480 faded back arid tossed a 40-yard pass, that was completed for a touchdown. But the McMinnville team was not satisfied with the 6 points, and before the gun could end the game, Peterson threw an other long pass for the winning touchdown. The final score was 19 to 18 for McMinnville. The above incident does not stand alone in Romey's football memories, however. Another inci Ducks Forget Uclan Defeat Goodin and Lasselle In Shape for Civil War Casting aside unpleasant thoughts of last Saturday's debacle at Los Angeles, Oregon's gridiron Webfoots yesterday afternoon be gan pointing for the homecoming fray with Oregon State here No vember 9. As no game is slated for this weekend, the Ducks have two weeks in which to prepare for the brilliant young Beavers. Prink Cal lison ordered the lads through a light workout yesterday afternoon, twelve hours after their return from the land where Chuck Chesh ire carries on his mutilating man euvers. The esteemed Mr. Cheshire is be ing ballyhooed for All-American honors by California critics. As far as the Webfoots are concerned, Mr. Cheshire can be all-time All American and a few other things to boot. uooain, i^asseue in snape A cheerful note in the Oregon camp as drill for the “Civil War” begins is the complete recovery of left halfbacks, Bud Goodin and Dale Lasselle. With those two young gentlemen out of the lineup against UCLA, the Webfoot at tack was seriously hampered. Now, however, both Goodin, who has been out since the California game with an ankle injury, and Lasselle, whose ailment was a shoulder bruise received in the Ida ho tilt, are back in shape and both will be ready to harrass the home coming visitors from Corvallis. The return of Goodin and La selle to playing condition means that the Wcbfoots will be in tip top physical fettle for the Beaver battle. Not a single player suf fered the semblance of an injury in the Bruin rout. An interesting duel for the start ing call at right half will be waged by big Bob Braddock and little Ray Lopez during the coming ten days. Lopez’ remarkable showing in Los Angeles gives him a good chance to oust Braddock from the first string berth. While the Ducks are resting Sat urday, Oregon State will take on up-and-coming Portland university in what may develop into a stren uous struggle. dent that he will never forget was the tremendous upset that the University of Oregon team handed the New York university in 1932. At half time the Oregon team had put up such a great game and had completely outplayed the Vio lets, that the Oregon players were almost smothered by the Gotham fans, including NYU supporters, who went among the Oregon play ers patting them on the backs and encouraging them. After the half time almost everybody in the huge crowd was rooting for Oregon. Oregon won 14 to 7. Romey will always remember this great sup port that he and his teammates received in that game so far from Hayward field. Entry Blank—Clip Out BYROM&HOSELTON Football Derby Schedule Saturday, Nov. 2 (Today’s Paper Story) Score Navy . Notre Dame . Gonzaga .' Montana . Portland U. Santa Clara . California . Total . Score l’rincpton . Ohio Slate . W. S. .. I’, of Washington 0. S. C. Stanford . V. ('. Jj. A. Total . A Grayco Shirt and Tie will be presented to the person computing closest to the correct total of the above scores. Congratulations to O. A. \Vhi<e, 74!) E. 13th .St.— Last week’s winner. Leave ballot at llyrom and llo.selton‘s, L. 10th. before Saturday noon. November Name . . Plume . Address Introducing— (The following are the first in a series of minute biog raphies of freshman football players.) * * * Tom Blackman, six-foot, 185 pound halfback from Walla Walla, Washington, played half in the first annual Oregon-Washington game last year and starred for his losing team. Blackman is big and fast and once under way is a hard man to bring down. Henry Nilsen, crashing end from Astoria high, “Handlebar Hank" tips the scales at 180 pounds and stands over six feet. He is a rug ged defensive end and has a knack for diagnosing opponent's plays. Good blocker and accurate pass receiver. Pigskin Players Spice from here and there in sportdom When Minnesota lost to Ne braska in 1913, the soil where the ball rested back of the Gopher goal was dug up after the game and placed in a glass case . . . Fordham has only one jaw breaker name on its team this year, as op posed to 10 or 12 in past years. The present one, a first string center, is Wojciechowiez . . . An Englishman thought up the game of water polo in 1870. Twenty years later it was adopted by the U. S. A. . . . Here’s one that will set you back on your heels; Notre Dame made 1*15 substitutions against Navy in the 1930 grid fray. Notre Dame won 26 to 2 . . . Kicking 103 out of a possible 101 points after touchdown in two seasons of play JACK MANDERS, former all-American, and now a pro grid star, established himself as the greatest place kicker m pro football . . . Gri'dders at Notre Dame, last year, practiced to the tunes of the band in order to obtain proper rhythm . . JACK MEDIC A, the University of Wash ington swimming sensation, was awarded the first Aaron M. Frank trophy for the outstanding athletic achievement during 1935 in the Pacific northwest. Send the Emerald to your friends. Injury Puts Jim Nicholsen On Sidelines Warren to Revamp Backfield Before Washington Tilt Next Saturday With the fleet-footed Jimmy Nicholsen almost a certainty to be on the sidelines with a sprained ankle, "Honest John” Warren is working his frosh charges overtime in an effort to develop a new back field combination for Saturday’s game with the Washington Babes. Warren experimented with sev eral new backfields in yesterday’s practice. Bob Anet takes care of the quarterback post in good shape and Dave Gammon has the full back situation well in hand but the two halfback positions are un filled. “Foghorn’’ LaCau has been shift ed from fullback to blocking back where he seems to fit in nicely. However, he is getting plenty of competition from Tony Veronda and either of the two may start against the Babes. Both are sure to see plenty of action. At left half Tom Blackman, the former Walla Walla flash, and A1 Bogue, former captain of the Prairie City eleven, are staging a battle royal. Both men are play ing good ball and any sort of a let-down by either rhan will assure the other of a starting berth. Bill Chrissman, sturdy center who hails from Santa Barbara, has taken over the center duties of “Doc” Taylor who was injured in the Rook game. Chrissman is learning to handle the ball and will undoubtedly see plenty of service Saturday. Decision 6No’ (Continued from Faye One) he did not represent any organiza tion, but came only as an individ ual, he was not entitled to attend the proceedings. Allen also pre sented a letter in which he report edly asked that the exemption be not granted. Two other communications were also received, but the senders and contents were not divulged. Connelly was questioned by the faculty men principally on his source of inspiration and aid in his determined attempts to be Fallen Leaves From the Past Two years ago today— No paper. Five years ago today— Thirty teams formed into six leagues will open hostilities in the annual intramural basketball tournament beginning Monday. Three independent quintets are en tered, which is a record for non organizational participation. Both the Igloo and the men’s gym will be drafted for use by the contest ants. Ten years ago today— The frosh football squad worked out last night with but one thought in mind, that of defeating the University of Washington babes Saturday. Coach Leslie’s men we:; to practice on Hay ward field yesterday because of the absence of the varsity. freed of drill. Members of the com mittee also questioned him in de tail about his relationship to other students known to be sympathetic. Connelly Replies As in the first hearing Connell}' was asked whether on not he con sidered his orginial reasons for seeking exemption to constitute conscientious objection. Connelly replied that he was conscientiously oposed to war, but not to drill, since it did not involve killing. He said he felt sufifciently inteligent to discount propaganda which the military coutse might dispense. Should Connelly succeed in plac ing his case before the entire fac ulty it will be the third time in as many years that 'ne body has voted on the ROTC drill question. Goodyear Tires Quality Tires at Standard Prices Expert Repair Work CARLSON, HATTON & HAY lOtli ami Oak Phone 1873 !?!l3JS13J3I3I3IBiai3fSI3J31Sf3I3I3l3I3I3l3I31Bll!