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By ELBERT HAWKINS k-J
A cracking good football season is in store for coast follow
ers says Tiny Thornhill, but the Stanford head man won’t be
pinned down to definitely picking a conference champion.
“Hell, I don’t know—not with this year’s setup,” he re
torted when I fired that question yesterday afternoon. “It
looks like California, though, for they have more potential
strength and material than any team on the coast.”
Tiny joins with all other conference mentors in saying that
it will ba hard for any club to march through the present
round-robin slate undefeated. “California has the best pos
sibility, and USC also has a chance if they get over the game
with Washington Saturday. Neither team travels much and
has that advantage.”
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Stanford travels over 15,000 miles this season. Tiny says j
the Eugene trip is one of their shortest. “With the present j
train service it is just, like hopping over to Los Angeles,” he j
grinned. One break for Oregon, the 231-pound Mr. Thornhill— j
you know where the Tiny part comes from—didn't get to see
Oregon against UCLA. You can just bet that the Webfoots
were scouted completely though. Lobby Grayson does a lot of
that.
“What about the present trend of lateral and forward,
passing in football,” I asked Tiny, “are teams moving toward
a more wide-open game, or straight driving?” llis answer was
that they use laterals in easy games, but when it comes to a
tough one they go back to hard football. The lateral, just
comes spontaneously, and consequently nearly cvejry coach
devises a play for the lateral using a man as trailer.
1 noticed that yesterday in Stanford’s signal drill. Besides
using a man in motion, they had trailers working on pass plays.
One look at the carefree Indians yesterday afternoon and you
will believe Grant land Rice, who recently said that there wasn't
a football squad in the country that gets more fun out of a
season than Tiny Thornhill's Stanford outfit.
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When asked if Stanford has played in any rain, Thornhill
answered very emphatically, “No, we just come out of the
heat.’’ It shouldn’t bother any, for Tiny says Stanford is
ready. The amount of passes they use this afternoon depends
entirely upon field conditions at game time.
Tiny knows what mud is from personal experience. I re
marked about Pittsburgh playing hard straight football, with
little emphasis on passing. “Pitt plays in mud—I know—I
played out there. They’re in mud most of the time.’’
“Was your change from last year’s shift caused by the
conference committee's rule change?’’ he was asked. “No, I
could have used mine this season,” Thornhill stated. “It was
perfectly legal. I used my shift enough that teams could expect
it.” (Some shifts were ruled out because they had a tendency
to pull teams offside.)
Mainly because Santa Clara had spilled Stanford last week,
I asked Tiny how the Broncos looked. “Better than last year,”
he answered, and added, “St. Marys isn’t as good.”
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No mystery about it. Prof. Thornhill blushingly admits that
the Indians of 1937 arc stronger this fall. In \'i(i they broke a
run of three consecutive Pacific Coast conference titles by
finishing sixth. It's a ease of more and better veterans, lie has
also altered the Stanford offense quite a bit by using a man
in motion, and not depending so much on Pop Warner’s old
style which called for spinners and reverses.
“What about the conference's .+20,000 a year commission
er?” i had to ask that one. “Coaches don’t have anything to
do about that. All I know is what was announced at the com
mittee meeting. In all probability it will be mapped out like
Major Griffith's job in the big ten,” he replied.
“Will turf help football up here materially?” queried George
l'asero, new Emerald scribe. “If turf holds up, it should help
considerably. The big question of course is whether or not it
holds up. Playing only a couple of games on it like Oregon
does give the turf a much bettor chance.”
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Ducklings and Normal Fight 6 to 6 Deadlock
Wolves Come
From Behind
In Tight Fray
Mabee Tallies on Pass
From Dungey Midway
In First Chapter;
ONS Takes to Air
Battling on a wet muddy field
last night at Independence, John
Warren's Duckling eleven held the
favored Normal team to a hair
raising 6-6 tie.
Sweeping the Wolves off their
feet at the very onset of the game,
the Babes reached the Normal five
yard line by mid-quarter. The ad
vance was featured by passes from
Del Dungey to Bob Hendershott,
and a sweet ten-yard sprint by
Hendershott.
Mabee Tallies
Dungey advanced the ball to the
1 1-2 yard line on two plays where
the Frosh were assessed five yards
for offside. Returned to the six,
Dungey immediately shot a pass
to Don Mabee for the payoff.
The Babes failed to garner the
extra point.
For the remainder of the first
half there were no scoring threats
until the last two minutes of play.
The Wolves suddenly came to life,
and completed three passes in a
row with a 40-yard one from How-1
ard slipping through Granish’s
hands.
In the last eight minutes of play,
McGynn and Howard led the Nor
mal boys on a sustained power
drive to the Frosh 1 1-2, and failed
for a first down by six inches.
Dungey fell back to kick for the
Babes, but received a bad pass from
center. Cagle blocked the kick and
recovered for the Normal touch
down. McGynn’s conversion was
wide.
Starting lineup:
FROSH NORMAL
Conaway .LE. Peterson
Stewart .LT_ .. Walberg
Taylor .1....t.LG....t. Sullens
Samuelson .C. Miller
Reames .RG. Eagle
Creager .RT. Suleby
Hend'ershott . RE Kadow
Haliski .Q. Lundy
Dungey ..LH. Granish
Mabee .RH.. Howard
Stenstrom .F.McGynn
Score by quarters:
Frosh . 6 0 0 0—6
Normal .0 0 0 6-6
Officials:
Swan -Umpire.
Summer Field judge.
Nelson Head Linesman.
Cocky Comets
Cradle Hopes
Of Big Season
A mill scores of photographers
arid a battery of news hounds
intent on getting the latest in
campus athletic dope, Ed Lar
sen and Howard Overbade signed
up Don Caseiato’s Comets for
another year of intramural ath- ;
leties. i
This guarantees that the in- ;
tramural parade will not be de
void of action and thrills simi
lar to those of last year. The
Comets who led the other teams
a merry chase (mostly from be
hind) have lined up a crew of
potential all-stars from North
ern California and the Middle
West.
Outstanding among the new re
cruits are George Shicore from
Palo Alto and Ben Scron, trails- i
fer from Boston university who 1
came all the way from the East
to sign with the Comets. i
Headed for Rose Bowl?
Tiny Thornhill’s Indians, who face Oregon today, are (left to right) line: Stone, Anderson, Zagar,
Calvelli, Walton, Ferito, Clark; backs: Gamier, Paulman, Groves, Coffis.
Webfoots Face
Stanford in
Dedication Tilt
Indians Are Favorites in
Thirteenth Me e t i n g;
Faiilman, Coffis Lead
Invader Backs
(Continued from pat/c otic)
started the UCLA game last week.
John Yerby and Bud Robertson are
holding down the wingposts, leav
ing the punting Vie Reginato in
reserve.
Bill Foskett, one-year letterman,
and Bill Estes, who performed
enough for Mighty Oregon last
year to earn a letter at guard, will
start at tackles. Joe Huston, two
year letterman, and Cece Walden,
practically all of whose playing
experience was last week's game at
UCLA, will start at guards.
Moore Probable Center
Vernon Moore at center rounds
out the probable starting combina
tion. Moore also has two years
experience behind him and is a
good man on both offense and de
fense.
While Stanford's line looks like
a world beater on paper, their per
formance' in last week’s game is
nothing to write home about. Only
20 yards were gained through the
line in last week's skirmish at Palo
Alto, and one kick was blocked,
resulting in one of the Bronc's two
touchdowns. On the other hand,
such a wonderful line is not needed
when one has such a punter and
passer as Bill Paulman and a safe
ty man like Jimmy Coffis, who is
liable to tear loose on a touchdown
dash on any punt return.
Game time is 2 p.m.
Flying Finn
ilank Nilsen, Oregon’s starting
quarterback, performs as blocking
liaek for Mentor 1‘rink (’allison.
Hank was switched from end last
spring.
Stanford Holds Advantage
Over Webfoots in Rivalry
It has been one long drouth for
the University of Oregon in its
football relations with Stanford.
Ever since the two institutions
first matched gridiron‘power back
in 1900 the VVebfoot.-* have failed
to defeat the red-shitted Cardinals
now Indians.
The two schools have taced each
other in grid combat, 12 times in
the intervening years between 1900
and 1937, and the best the Ducks
have been able to do against Stan
ford was the memorable 7-7 tie
achieved by Drink Callisons 1930
aggregation in a contest played in
Stanford's own southland.
Since that tie the Oregon boys
have been hopped with a new idea
that tliey«can spill Claude "Tinv" ,
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Thornhill’s laughing, devil-may
care aggregation, and will be out
to prove it tomorrow.
In 12 games Stanford has rolled
up a total of 280 points while Ore
gon dented scoring territory for
71 counters.
Stanford-Oregon history:
1000 Oregon 0, Stanford 34.
1004— Oregon 0. Stanford 35.
1005— Oregon, 4. Stanford 10.
1920 Oregon 0. Stanford 10.
1023 Oregon 3. Stanford 14.
1024 Oregon 13, Stanford 28.
1025 Oregon 13. Stanford 35.
1026 Oregon 12, Stanford 29.
1027 Oregon 0. Stanford 10.
1028 Oregon 12, Stanford 26.
1020 Oregon 7, Stanford 33.
1035- Oregon 7. Stanford 7.
By GEORGE PASERO
Will the green and yellow reign
supreme over Hayward field to
morrow afternoon when the shad
ows start creeping over the sta
dium and the final gun sounds at
the end of sixty minutes of rough
and tough, razzle-dazzle football
between the gridiron warriors of
the University of Oregon and Stan
ford ?
Vernon Moore, regular center
and bulwark of the center of the
big Webfoot line, won't commit
himself and lead with his chin as
is the way of most prognosticators.
The big boy who hails from Poly
technic high of Long Beach, Cali
fornia, would rather not say what
he thinks the outcome is going to
be not until after the game at
any rate.
The good-looking lad who prob
ably has set feminine hearts aflut
ter just walking down the campus
streets, was mouthing answers to
1 the Emerald interviewer in be
tween acts of pulling on the var
ious paraphernalia so useful to the
gridder.
“How long have you been play
ing football?”
“Oh, about seven years, four in
college, and three in high school.”
"Did you always play center?”
“No, I've played end, but I like
this old center job best.”
“What was your biggest thrill in
varsity ball?”
“I think beating Washington,
7-6, two years ago when I was
a sophomore gave me my biggest
thrill of football.”
“How do you like this round
robin schedule?"
“Fine, I like it. All the games
are tough and everybody is equal.
When you get through you have a
real winner and champion.”
(And from that you might gath
er that Vei n Moore, Beta Theta Pi,
likes football the hard way, and
that is no pipe dream when you
consider the caliber of ball played
in our Pacific coast conference.)
“In the line of other sports I
like golf, although I'm not too good
at it," continued the 21-year-old
"veteran" who is a physical educa
tion major.
Although the raw-boned youth
likes football second to none, he
feels that he has participated in
enough athletics and that it is
time to get. out and go to work.
At any rate pro football wouldn’t
seem at all attractive to him.
Donut Touch
Football Out
For Fall Term
Intramural Calendar Is
Changed by Donut
Board; All - Campus
Sports Listed
Although intramural touch foot
ball has been definitely removed
from the sports calendar for this
year, a heavy schedule of all-cam
pus and intramural activities has
been listed by Paul Washke, in
tramural director, for fall term.
Replacing the grid games will
be A and B class volleyball con
tests which have been moved up
to the fall activities from winter
sports. Touch football was ruled
out by an intramural committee
which decided that the sport was
too dangerous for an intramural
activity, and that its removal
would give the crowded intramural
winter sports a chance for expan
sion.
Donut tennis and golf have been
moved to the fall period from
spring term to provide for a well
balanced year program. The an
nual cross country run will be held
in the latter part of this term as
has been the custom in the past.
In the field of all-campus sports,
singles and doubles for ping pong,
golf, tennis, and handball will com
plete the fall program. Any man
who has not earned a varsity let
ter or frosh numerals in tennis and
golf, is eligible to enter these all
campus and intramural events.
Sign in Men’s Gym
Those desiring to enter these ac
tivities must sign on the intra
mural board in the P.E. building.
In order to prevent any delays in
schedule, all entrants are urged to
put their addresses and telephone
numbers on the registration sheet.
The dead-line for registration has
been set for Wednesday, October
6.
"One more thing, what game
are you looking forward to espe
cially this year."
“USC. You see I live down in
that locality and I’d like nothing
better than to hand them a very
neat little trimming."
So when you football fans see a
six-foot-one husky who tips the
beam around 195 pounds step up
to the ball today a little in advance
of his teammates, and crouch over
the ball, it will be Vein Moore, a
lad with a personality like a mil
lion who has made good in this
evergreen country.
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Vaulter George Varoff
Returns from JouVney
Through Distant Europe
By HUBARD KUOKKA
Again this last summer the name of George Varoff has been flitting
about in various sports pages of the country. This time the musical
minded young blond-haired gent, famous for being Oregon s ace pole
vaulter returns to the old school with the distinction of being a world
traveller.
After over a month of clearing the high spots in all the big time
track meets of the United States, weekend after weekend of strenuous
competition with his old pals irom i
Southern California for the honor j
of being tops in the pole vault |
field, George found himself one day
in late July sailing for London on
the Berengaria as a member of the
ten-man track team that the AAU
was sending to Europe to compete
with the stars over there.
“Great,” is his idea of the trip.
In-as-much as his competition
wasn’t too hard George found that
he could have more time to appre
ciate his travels.
"I enjoyed Switzerland and Mi
lan, Italy the most,” he told his
envious pals in the training room
the other day. “Switzerland was
beautiful with its sparkling lakes
topped by rugged snow-capped
peaks, and Milan was fascinating
with its famous works of art.”
George has well-developed esthe
tic tastes (he plays the bass viol
in the University symphony) and
he was able to give it a hearty diet
from the works of some of the old
masters in the beautiful Italian
city.
“I've got a darn good time ex
posure of the painting ‘The Last
Supper’ by Leonardo De Vinci,” he
proudly declared.
Back the conversation went to
athletics. Save for the first meet,
in London, when the boys were still
stiff and logey from their boat
ride, the team won every meet with
ease. Varoff observed that the
average athletic ability of the
young men in central and southern
Europe does not reach as far to
ward perfection as it does in the
United States.
"It's largely because they don’t
have the chances to keep in train
ing that we have,” he figured.
The highest mark George made
was 14 feet 1 inch, but that was
with little effort because the AAU
did not let the boys press them
selves beyond the effort necessary
to win.
Paris was the headquarters for
the team, and from there the fel
lows went to compete in London,
England, Brussels, Strausbourg,
and Orleans in France; Basel and
Bern in Switzerland; and Milan,
Italy.
George did not like the jumping
pits in those European cities. They
were filled with sand instead of
sawdust. Unfortunately George
turned his ankle in the one in Or- 1 ^
leans, and that kept him from
doing his best. It still bothers him
somewhat.
From the tone of George's con
versation one gathered that even
the cream of Uncle Sam’s track
men are not inclined to keep their
noses too closely to the training
schedule. George had much to say
about Paris.
And beer. “Ever since I tasted
German beer I have had no use f l:
the American stuff. For three
cents you get a large glass and
you want to stay there all day,’’
he explained.
And George is plenty serious
about his training.
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