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THE Firing Line By PAT FRIZZELL One Bob Wesson, who writes "The Brawn Patrol" in the Daily Californian, takes a few cracks at Oregon’s football team which might put said Mr. Wesson oil crutches were he not five hundred miles away. Says Mr. Wesson: “It is a shame that dirty play ing has cost California the services of three badly needed players for the Big Game. "Ken Cotton, Dave deVarona, and Milt Pollack will probably be sitting on the sidelines while Gene McAteer and Ray Nordstrom at tempt to fill their shoes. Behind McAteer and Nordstrom, neither of which can play a full game, come two eager, willing, but inexperienc ed sophomores, Ray Hanford and Bill Stoll. * * * “While the Brawn Patroller,” continues Wesson, “did not see an Oregon player deliberately twisting anyone’s leg, the whole thing smelleth of a picatorial odor. First, no team in late season condition, and especially against such a weak team as the Ducks, will swist three ankles in one game. “Sceond, three ankles in one game is in itself a suspicious cir cumstance, and more so as the ankles were taped to prevent such a happening.” * * 4 Those, Brother Wesson, are fighting words. Wesson's reasoning “smelleth of piscatorial odor” to this battered snozzola. Why should three twisted ankles in one game be so exceptional ? And why, Mr. Wesson, should it make any difference at all whether the team is “weak” or strong? A team doesn’t have to be good to be dirty. Late season condition shouldn’t mean much either way. Neither should the fact that the ankles were taped “to prevent such a happening.” To charge the other team with foul play isn’t exactly befitting a loser. When such an accusation comes from a 28-to-0 winner, it’s something which demands an apol ogy. Art Colin of the Oakland Tri bune, who delights in taking cruel pokes at every team which doesn’t suit his fancy, quotes Wesson’s col umn in bold face type. And Cohn in his story has WEAK in capital letters. That’s not even an exact quote, for the Californian didn’t have it that way. Weak? Laugh if you wish, but it was bad breaks that beat Ore gon at Berkeley, just as in the Washington, UCLA, and other games. The players aren’t offer ing alibis, for nobody will believe ’em, but the Webfoots to a man are confident that if they’d scored in that first quarter and Arleigh Bentley hadn’t been hurt that they would have won. Why not? Three of the Bear touchdowns were the direct result of breaks. Sure, Oregon State is a favor ite on paper for Saturday. Anyone can see that, so why elaborate on it. Comparative scores, however, don't mean one single thing in this i game. ] It may sound funny, but it’s a i fact that the Webfoots have had i almost every bad break in the book tossed at them this fall, i They’ve lost five conference games, but in only one were they really outplayed. Time and again in the past, Ore (Please turn to page four) Webfoots and Beavers Drill Hard For Annual Classic I ? i 1 Oregon State Team Rapidly Reaching Form for Webfoots Team With Exception Of Speedy Alexandei To Be Ready for UO; Kolberg Back Corvallis, Nov. 19.—(Special to the Emerald) — Although practically all the first string and a good share of the reserves, still are stagger ing under the shocking received in the Stanford game at Portland last week, the Oregon State football squad whipped through a snappy drill tonight in preparation for the Homecoming game with Univer sity of Oregon here Saturday af ternoon. Grimly set on defeating the Webfoots for the first time since 1930, the Orangemen gave every thing they had to last night’s prac tice, the first full day's work of the week. Lon Stiner, Orange head coach, has kept his charges off Bell field in order to have the tap bark surface in as good condition as possible at game time Satur day. Players Bunged Up The Beavers returned from their 20-to-14 beating by Stanford pret ty much bunged up. Most serious ly injured among the regulars are Johnny Alexander, dashing little left halfback, who is suffering from a severely twisted knee, and Elmer Kolberg, big fullback, who is nurs ing a broken-down shoulder. Ac cording to Sultan Stiner it is ex tremely doubtful whether Alexan der will be in condition to play Saturday, but the Orange mentor expressed confidence that Kolberg would be ready. With Alexander out, the chief Drange ball-carrying duties will fall to Joe Gray, whose passes “gainst Washington State two ■veeks ago led to the only Orange conference victory of the season. fJray, a junior, has been troubled "or several weeks by a weak ankle out he is expected to be in first class condition against the Ducks, rhe Beaver attack will center argely around the running and oassing of the Gray Ghost. Joslin at Fullback Fullback duties probably will be mndled by Dick Joslin, reserve etterman of two years ago, if Kol oerg is unable to play. The other two starting backfield oosts will be taken care of by Bill Duncan, quarterback and Beaver ticking star, and Tommy Swanson, iturdy right halfback. Stilj holding down the flank posi iens in the Orange line are those .wo sparkling sophomores, Don Joons and Joe Wendlick, at left ind right ends, respectively. Both hese players have played brilliant tall in the last two games and have successfully staved off all attacks in the starting jobs by reserves. Regulars at Tackles At the tackle spots last night vere the two regulars, John Watts ind Jim Miller. Watts, right cackle, was the only first stringer lot injured in the Indian fray. Mil er alternated with Warren Gillis, ophomore, in last night’s scrim aage. Ed Strack, one of the three sen ors in the Orange lineup, was back n his old right guard post after caking things easy during the first iart of the week. Frank Ramsey, 227-pound left guard, although (Please turn to page four) NEWTON SMITH Owner T BEAT OSC i EAT College Side Hot Mince Pie “It's Terrific" 2 Frosh Golfers In Campus Finals Divot Championship Matol This Weekend W ill Stai Don Coles, Ben Hughe* Two close-fought matches in th« all-campus golf tournament saw a pair of frosh “unknowns” dump opponents in last week’s play tc reach the finals. The victors, Don Coles and Ben Hughes, will clash this weekend in a 36-hole match foi the championship. Coles carved put a win over Dwight “Doc” Near on the Laurel wood course Saturday by a score of 2 up for 18 holes. Coles trailed at the finish of the first nine with an erratic 44, but came back on the second nine with a par 35 to leave Near behind. In the other semi-final match, Bob Speer, No. 3 man on last spring's frosh golf squad, bowed to Hughe’s par-shatering 69 Thurs day by a 2-and-l score. Speer scored a 71, one under par for the 18 holes. The match was played on the Laurelw’ood layout. Civil War Fray Is 40th On List Webf.oots Hold Large Lead Over OSC Since 1894; Win 23, Lose 9 Grid rivalry between Oregon's Webfoots and the Oregon State Beavers will be renewed! for the fortieth time Saturday afternoon when the two traditional foes clash on Bell field in Corvallis. Webfoot elevens have won 23 games from the Orangemen, while losing but nine times, since com petition began in 1894. Seven have been ties. Scores of all contests follow: 1894— Oregon 0; Oregon State 1,6 1895— Oregon 44; Oregon State 4 1896— Oregon 8; Oregon State 4 1897— Oregon 8; Oregon State 26 1898— Oregon 38; Oregon State 0 1899— Oregon 38; Oregon State 0 1900— No game 1901— No game 1902— Oregon 0; Oregon State 0 1903— Oregon 5; Oregon State 0 1904— Oregon 6; Oregon State 5 1905— Oregon 6; Oregon State 0 1906— Oregon 0; Oregon State 0 1907— Oregon 0; Oregon State 4 1908— Oregon 8; Oregon State 0 1909— Oregon 12; Oregon State 0 1910— Oregon 12; Oregon State 0 1911— No game 1912— Oregon 3; Oregon State 0 (Phase turn to pihjc four) Duckling Team Amasses Huge Scoring Total Team Piles Up 88 Tallies In Taking Four Tilts Out of Five; Graybeal Leads Parade I I Led by little Jay Graybeal, who scored a touchdown in every game. Oregon's 1936 frosh football team, under the expert tutelage of John Warren, piled up a total of 88 points against only 26 for oppo nents. The present Ducklings, in tak ing four out of five games over this season's tough schedule, stamped themselves as probably the strongest yearling team to rep resent this school in five years. Numeral awards have not been announced, although a large por tion of the players have already cinched theirs. Participation in the rook games automatically qualifies a player for one. and others may be included. These are to be an nounced later. Graybeal Leads Jay Garybeal, former Pendleton flash, easily paced the season’s point-getting parade, collecting seven touchdowns and three con versions for 45 tallies—over half the team's total. Vic Reginato, rangy pigskin booting end, followed far behind in second place with 12 points to his credit. The five remaining touchdowns were evenly divided. Bob Smith, George Jessee, Stan Kunzman, Frank Emmons, and Dennis Donovan each bagged one. Larry Lance broke into the scor ing column with one point on a conversion. Stars Developed Coach Warren developed an out standing array of stars this year with varsity potentialities, several being considered cinches for future berths on Callison’s Webfoot teams. Duckling followers are counting on them to pull Oregon out of the doldrums of coast football, and per haps make good their mid-season vow of putting a Webfoot team in the Rose Bowl classic. Ends Outstanding In the frosh forward wall War ren developed several first-class players. His wingmen, Vic Regin ato and Larry Lance, outshone any opposing pair they faced all sea son. The Duckling tackles, Ellroy Jensen and Russ Inskeep, were another combination hard to match. In the backfield Jay Graybeal at left half, starred in every game of the schedule, running and passing the Ducklings to victory. Bob Smith, his running mate at right half, was a constant threat and is slated for future action. Rowe, Husk Star Paul Rowe, blonde fullback, took the job of softening opposing lines and did a nice job it it. He is alsp groomed for future varsity duty. Ron Husk, one of the team's lead (Please turn to payc four) GET YOUR MAN and ticket for the NOW AWS HARVEST DANCE GUS MEYER'S ORCHESTRA 9 o’clock .Mi-Arthur Court — Saturday, November 21 1 . Les Wersehkul Wins Ping Pong Singles Tourney Terminating a tournament filled with numerous suprises and up sets, Les Werschkul won the all campus singles ping pong tourna j ment yesterday, winning three out | of four games from Bill McKenna, Scores were 23-21, 17-21, 21-19, and 21-15. Topping a field of 19 men, Wers chkul came out winner in three tilts, dropping Bob Dent, Eddie I Hearn, and McKenna. Varsity Sketches By MORRIE HENDERSON CHAN BERRY Here is an Oregon football play ; er who had to start all over in his senior year and learn a brand new position. After playing his first two years of varsity competition at center, Chan Berry was switched to guard this year but has picked up the ways of playing this posi tion as if he had played it all his life. 1 "I like playing guard a lot bet ter than the center spot,” said Ber ry, “because one gets to move around a little. When you are on offense, the center has his head down all the time and is usually buried at the bottom of every line play. The guard gets to watch his opponent and the backfield to see which way to take them out. He has the jump on them in blocking.” Berry, a soft-spoken, two hun dred pound blonde giant, is from Klamath Falls, like three other guards on the 1936 Webfoot team, Estes, Giovanini, and Pastega. It is pretty hard to move two hundred pounds in any size, shape, or form; and when that two hundred pounds is in the shape of a football play er, it is doubly hard. There have been tiny guards like Metzer and “Clipper” Smith of Notre Dame but on the whole a big man like Chan has the advantage. Berry, using that weight advantage, can be a stonewall on defense and a piledriver on offense. The old say ing still goes that “a good big man is better than a good little man.” When asked which was the bet ter type of football, orthodox or unorthodox, Berry answered, “It all depends on whether you want to give your opponents an even chance at the ball when you are on the defense or not. We all noticed last Sunday in the Santa Clara St. Mary’s game that the Broncos were playing unorthodox football even when there had been no score. In the opening minutes of the first quarter, Santa Clara threw a pass from their own thirty and it was completed. But St. Mary’s had the tPlease turn to pai/c four) Annual Cross Country Race Won by SAEs C_1 TM_ T' I-_ 1... vmt m. mi i ■ uni 11 Yeomen; Kappa Sigs Third; Don Barker Sets New Record Don Barker, SAE, set a new rec ord of 15 minutes, 48,5 seconds on a gruelling three and one-half mile course to win the annual cross country race held yesterday after noon. The Hayward Trophy, awarded annually to the organization scor ing the most points, went to the SAEs with a total of 344. Barker also won the turkey donated to the first place winner by the Babb Hardware Co. The Yeomen, holders of the tro phy from last year, placed second with 314 points. Kappa Sigma was third with 295. Davidson Second Finishing about a minute behind Barker, in 16:42, was Davie David son of Zeta hall. Third position was taken by Eldon Fix, SAE, who finished in 16:46. Following these men were Lyle, Yeomen; Hardisty, SAE; Mackin, ATO; Atwood, Gamma hall; Bell, Theta Chi; Leatherman, Yeomen; and Neese, Zeta hall. A total of fifty men finished un der the time limit of 21 mintues and were given points. McGaughey Leads Sam McGaughey, varsity track captain, paced the whole field and came in first in the race, but his victory was not counted for Mc Gaughey ran to qualify for the Hill Military meet which will be held next Wednesday in Portland. Men taking the first seven posi tions are qualified for this meet, providing they are eligible for var sity competition. Barker is not eligible for this meet for he is a freshman. McCaughey, Davidson, Fix, Lyle, Hardisty, and Leather man will probably make the trip to Portland. Harold Draper, Yeo man, although he did not run yes terday because of an attack of flu, will probably be the seventh man to compete. Team scoring follows: SAEs, 344; Yeomen, 31,4; Kappa Sigs, 295; Betas, 206; ATOs, 193; Phi Delts, 184; Gamma hall, 179; Zeta hall, 169; SPEs, 141; Omega hall, 127; Sigma Chis, 111; Phi Psis, 111; Theta Chi and Chi Psi failed to place any men. The number of intramural points given each organization entered follows: SAEs, 75; Yeomen, 71; Kappa Sigs, 68; Betas, 57; ATOs, 55; Phi Delts, 54; Gamma hall, 53; Zeta hall, 52; SPEs, 48; Omega hall, 46; Sigma Chis, 44; Phi Psis,. 44; Theta Chis, 30; and Chi Psis, 30. SCORECAST WINNERS! Congratulations to . . . JIM VINCENT . . . Winner of 1000 Philip Morris 1VUU CIGARETTES and to CHET ANDERSON . winner of 200 Philip Morris CIGARETTES SCORE CAST ENDS FRIDAY Ballot boxes closed Friday at 6 p.m. SCORECAST NOW ON OREGON vs. OSC and CALIF, vs. STANFORD Oregon Polishing Aerial Attack for Saturday’s Battle Susies Topple Alpha Delta Pi Volleyball Title Taken by Susan Campbell Coeds In 31 to 20 Victory Susan Campbell hall won the girls’ intramural .volleyball cham pionship by trouncing Alpha Delta Pi in the finals last night, 31 to 20. Players: Susan Campbell—Mosh berger, Kurowski, Le Fors, Naka jima, Cohen, Burgess, Onthank, Abfalder, Cattrall. ADPi — Thomas, Overstreet, Heisler, Hopkins, Burnett, Gilihan, Dillon, G. Smith, Plumlee, Conno way. The Green and Gold, women's honorary volleyball teams, play in Gerlinger tonight at 5 o'clock. Interior Design Student Qualifies For Seholarship Thomas Holman, while in Japan during the summer, was chosen by the Society for International Cul tural Relations for a scholarship to study interior design for a year. He was recommended for the hon or by Jiro Harada, authority on Japanese art and curator of the Imperial museum in Tokyo, who taught at the University last year. Last spring when two delegates were chosen from the University of Oregon art department to go to the International Student confer ence in Japan, Holman, senior in interior design, was chosen as an alternate, but later took the place of a University of Washington stu dent as a regular delegate. Holman was forced by illness to return to America this fall, but he plans to go back to Japan next year to study. Meet me ut TAYLOR’S.—adv. Nicholson and Kennedy Show Well in Practice Sessions; Almost Sure Game Starters A grim group of Oregon football players, bent on vindicating them selves in Saturday's classic strug gle with Oregon State at Corval lis, zipped through a vigorous workout in the afternoon fog and under the night lights on Hayward field yesterday. With the zero hour drawing near, Prink Callison and his players are prepared. To save themselves from a completely fruitless conference season, the Webfoots must beat the Beavers. That they are de termined to do. Overhead Work No hard, gruelling scrimmage was the players’ lot last night. Fifteen minutes of sCimmage and then a long and lively session of dummy scrimmage stressing pass defense and offense made up the menu. Jimmy Nicholson, who has been improving rapidly in recent games, is flashing at left half in practice and seems certain to get Callison's starting call at the position. Don Kennedy, hard - working quar terback, is another sure starter in the Webfoot backfield. The other behind-the-line spots are uncer tain. Bob Braddock, Dale Las selle, Dave Gammon, and Jean La cou are all in the running. Pass for Pass The Ducks will probably give the Beavers pass for pass Saturday. All week Callison has drilled the team on an aerial offense designed to penetrate into Oregon State territory. Nicholson, Lasselle, Ken nedy, Braddock, and Gammon are counted upon to do the firing against Lonnie Stiner’s crew. A wide open game seems certain, for the Beavers always fling the pigskin. With Joe Gray and his rifle arm in mind, the Ducks worked on pass defense yesterday. A backfield composed of Kennedy, _ (Please turn to {’age four) WARDS STAGES A •ajjhte • Robe Sale Worth at least 3.98! 3-« 100% Wool Flannel! | Woolen prices are rising— j buy now for yourself and for , gifts. We can’t repeat these values! Small, medium, large.