This Crop of Freshmen, Strongest in Years Here, Promises Future Glory for Oregon Varsity Football
The above men, aided by as many more of almost equal ability,
made up the best Webfoot first-year team since 1931. Under the
expert tutelage of Honest John Warren the Ducklings captured four
wins in five starts, and two of the victories were at the expense of the
Oregon State rooks. Heading from left to right are Ron Husk, guard
and quarterback, Franklin high of Portland: Bill Racli, halfback,
Seattle; Vic Reginato, end, Klamath Falls; Paul Rowe, fullback, Vic
toria, B.C'.; George Jones, guard, Toppenish, Washington; Russ Inskeep,
tackle, Hill Military academy of Portland; Ellroy Jensen, tackle, Uni
verslty high of Eugene; Frank Emmons, fullback, Beaverton; Bob
Smith, halfback, Medford; Lurry Lance, end, Glendale, California;
Steve Anderson, halfback, Raymond, Washington, and Coach Warren.
In the scramble for sectional
championships, national champion
ships, all-American teams, rose
howls, sugar bowls, sun bowls, fin
ger bowls, and all the other late
season fanfare of football, the ap
proach of basketball season has
been little heralded. The hoop
sters, treading on thousands of
rubber soles and pounding thou
sands of maplei courts, have crept
up on us.
Oregon’s hoop season isn't mere
ly approaching now. The approach
is over. At McArthur court Fri
day night we’ll have the real thing.
On that evening Howard Hobson's
1936-37 Webfoots roll into com
petitive action against Wagner’s
Independents of Corvalli^.
Yep, only a few brief hours until
the lads will be out there in the
opener. The Webfoots aren’t quite
as big this season as last, at least
as far as regulars are concerned.
They’re fast and enthusiastic, but
they lack experience. One thing
you can count upon is a colorful
team which plays interesting, spec
tator-pleasing basketball. Hobson
always turns out that kind of a
crew.
.In early games the fast-breaking
Ducks are likely to appear ragged.
By time for their baptism in con
ference play, they’re sure to be
smoother.
* * *
This was to be a sophomore year
in Oregon basketball, and it may
yet turn out that way. But from
present indications the second-year
youngsters will have trouble of 07
varieties in beating out a quartet
of veterans.
Hobson’s lettermen from last
Oregon Basketball Team Plays at Igloo Twice This Week
year are Johnny Lewis, Dave Sil
ver, Ken Purdy, and Bill Courtney.
All four have been impressive
in practice sessions, and, at
least for the early games, they
loom as regulars.
* * s
Silver is the only man returning
who was at any time considered a
first stringer last winter. And
Southpaw Dave didn’t break in as
a regular until the schedule was
near completion. Courtney, Lewis,
and Purdy all flashed brilliantly at
times, however, and they’re likely
to go several places this year.
Lewis and Silver have plenty of
competition at their forward posi
tions. Wally Johansen, Astoria
sophomore, is providing most of it.
The fiery Courtney and the flashy
Purdy are leading at guards, but
another fighting fisher man from
Astoria is making them work.
Bobby Anet is the lad. Anet suf
fered a slight injury ten days ago
and probably won’t see much ac
tion this weekend, but watch him
go in later games.
* * *
Center presents a problem of ma
jor proportions. Laddie Gale of
Oakridge is the best bet at the
tip-off spot, but Laddie will be of
no use until next term, for at pres
ent he’s ineligible.
Ray Jewell, who stands six feet,
seven inches, and Slim Wintermute,
who goes Jewel one better with
six-eight, are duelling for center
duty. Jewell was a reserve last
year and Wintermute a freshman.
$ #
Wayne Scot!, the Silverton long
shot artist, is an improved player,
judging from practice sessions.
Bob Becker, transfer from Pasa
dena junior college, is five feet,
eight inches of style and speed.
Bill Harcombe, six-foot, four-inch
letterman of two seasons back, is
working for a forward spot. Ccm
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Cornell Gives Out
Ticket Price List
For Hoop Season
Easketball is just around the
corner. Anson E. Cornell, Ore
gon’s athletic manager, gave
further proof to the fact yester
day by announcing ticket prices
ASUO members are not con
cerned, for they’will be admitted
upon presentation of their books.
Reserved seats in the west
center balcony will be sold at all
conference games and also for
the big pre-season contest with
UCLA. The reserved ducats are
75 cents. General admission is
55 cents. ,
Admission to pre-season games
with Wagner’s Independents,
Multnomah) club, and Union Oil
will be 40 cents.
Cornell announced that all
games this winter will probably
start at 8 o’clock, in order to
permit business people and out
of-town followers to be on hand
for opening tip-offs.
Callison, Cornell,
Howe Leave for
Pasadena Meet
Three Oregon representatives
will leave today for Pasadena and
the annual winter meeting of the
Pacific coast conference there
Monday and Tuesday.
Making the trip will be Prink
Callison, head football coach; Anse
Cornell, athletic manager, and
Professor H. C. Howe, faculty ath
letic representative. They will also
participate in the meeting of north
ern division managers to be held
Sunday.
Coach Warren
Turns On Heat
With Ducklings
Frosh Hoop Candidates
Rush Through Second
Drill of Season; About
Forty Report
It was more of the same medi
cine as Oregon's frosh hoopers went
through their paces on McArthur
court last night, but the work was
in larger doses.
Coach John Warren intends to
gradually drive his men harder un
til several weeks hence, when they
will be traveling at top speed. Over
forty former preppers were out last
night limbering up.
Men Limber Up
Most of them were boasting
wrinkled and aching leg muscles
acquired in the opening session.
The*Warren system is to develop
quintets capable of running oppos
ing teams ragged, and if past his
tory is accurate, it has been very
successful in that aim.
The former Astoria mentor, in
moulding his four state champion
ship quintets, put his men into
such condiition that they simply
overpowered most opposition. The
secret has been regular drill on
fundamentals, and a large quota
of running.
Uses Fast-Moving Style
Warren's quintets are noted for
their boom-boom style of play, re
lentlessly pounded away through
four quarters of every game. That
final drive has spelled victory in
more than one close blattle.
Actual scrimmaging will not be
Bjork Selected On
UP All-Coast Team
Webfoot Captain Continues
To Receive Honors as
Selections Roll in
Captain Del Bjork, outstanding
Oregon left tackle, had another
honor heaped upon his blond head
yesterday when the annual United
Press all-coast all-star selections
were announced.
Bjork was given a tackle berth
by the polling UP scribes. Five
other northwest stars were named
t on the first team, Bjork being the
only Oregon player to rate. Joe
Gray, Oregon State’s baekfiejd,
threat, was chosen as second
string left half.
Three Webfoot gridders received
honorable mention of the group of
129 players representing six states
which figured in the selection,
John Yerby, end, and Nello Gio
vanini, guard; sophomore stars of
the team, and Tony Amato, veteran
guard, were the players getting
recognition.
The United Press rating was just
one of many honors being piled
upon Oregon’s Del Bjork. He was
recently placed on Washington’s
all-opponent team, and has made
numerous other all-star elevens.
Bjork had previously been placed
on the United Press all-American
third team.
held until the present routine has
taken effect. No cut of the squad
is expected before the Christmas
holidays.
Large Squad
The large number of hoop candi
dates out at present, is expected
to gradually diminish during the
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Readers’All-Star
Football Choices
ToBe Announced
Its picked. The Emerald’s 1936
all-coast, all-star football team
will be announced in tomorrow
morning's paper.
Emerald readers during the
past week have turned then
choices in to the sports staff, and
a final selection has been based
on these.
Three teams are to be pub
lished due to evenness Of rating
handed most of the players for
berths on the team.
Husky Rose Bowl
Foe Not Chosen
Alabama, LSU Remain in
Running; Duquesne to
Play in Orange Bowl
Washington's Rose Bowl oppo
nent was still a question mark late
last night.
Louisiana State and Alabama
are the two leading teams under
consideration by Husky officials
for invitation to the Pasadena New
Year’s day classic. Both of the
southern elevens are undefeated,
but each has one tie to mar its
record. Alabama was deadlocked
by Tennessee and LSU by Texas.
Seattle reports mentioning the
possibility of Yaie or Navy being
invited for the bowl game were
denied in, the East yesterday. At
Annapolis, naval officials said that
no news of possible invitation had
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Webfoots To Open
Hoop Season Friday,
Facing Ail-Stars
Corvallis Indepe n druts
Will Be Opposition;
Play Mulluoniah Club
Quintet Saturday
By JOHN PINK
Basketball, the great American
indoor sport, will be officially
ushered in this Friday and Satur
day night when two of the strong
est independent outfits in the state
invade the Webfoot stronghold to
battle Howard Hobson's lemon and
green clad hoop warriors on Mc
Arthur court.
On Friday night the Webfoots
will tangle with Wagner’s Inde
pendents of Corvallis, a team com
posed mainly of ex-Oregon State
stars, and on Saturday, Multno
mah club of Portland, a quintet of
former college stars from all over
the Northwest, will take to the
Jgloo court.
l’alinhrrg Returns
Wally Palm berg, who set a new
Northern division scoring record
and who was particular poison to
the Webfoots throughout last sea
son Is the spark plug of the Cor
vallis team. Bob Bergstrom, Cliff
Folen, and Wilbur Kidder, former
Beavers, with several other promi
nent independent players make up
the remainder of the Corvallis
lineup.
On Saturday night the Webfoots
face Multnomah club,* a team just
as powerful, just as tough and just |
as rugged as any in the state. As
in past years the clubbers have re
cruited former college players from
many Northwest schools to form
their outfit.
Liebowitz Also
Two members of last year’s
Grenadiers, Sammy Liebowitz and
Charley Patterson, will perform on
their old stamping ground Satur
day night under the banner of the
red and white of Multnomah.
"Snozzle" Liebowitz is a clever ball
handler and a dead howitzer shot,
and his temperamental outbursts—
much like a prima donna on open
ing night—never fail to get a re
action from the crowd, in the form
of cheers, sometimes the Bronx
variety.
Patterson's great agility at cen
ter enables him to outjump men
many inches taller than he.
Teamed with these two ex-Web
focts are Carl Lenehitsky, former
Oregon State luminary, Hal Eus
tis, one of Hec Edmunson’s satel
lites several years ago at the Uni
versity of Washington, Jack Eagle,
a member of last year’s Washing
ton State squad, also a former
Grant high all-star, and Carol
Leach, who has been a member of
the club outfit for several years.
Welifoots Improving
Hobson continued to drill his
men on offensive and defensive
formations, which have been very
ragged in practice play so far, in
order to present a well-polished
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These Web foot Veterans Closed Their Varsity Careers This Season, and Their Loss Leaves Gaping Holes in the Lineup
. .Only five lettermen will be missing when 'he Ducks report again
for drill next September, but every one of the five will leave behind him
a record of outstanding gridiron achievement. On the left is Captain
[ Del BjorU, chosen at tackle on nearly every all-coast team to date,
and mentioned op ,r\trul all American selections. Next is 1’at fury, [
B jerk's tackle uudi rstudy. In the center is John Engstrom, lanky end.
Hob Braildock, peppery halfback and fullback is next, and on the
extreme right is Ld Farrar, lighting center.