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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1937)
DUCK TRACKS By ELBERT HAWKINS We’re in the fourth week since Oregon and UCLA opened confer ence football for 19:57, and if Tiny Thornhill, Stub Allison, and sev eral other mentors are correct, you can still figure eight teams with a chance at the Rose Bowl. It all comes from pre-season pre dictions of said Mr. Thornhill and brethren that this season’s cham pionship eleven won't go through undefeated. California’s Golden Bears have swept through two games to lead the pack alone, but each of the seven other clubs has one, and only one, defeat marring its record. There’s no possible way, say the coaches, to keep a team keyed up to a peak for perhaps eight con secutive Saturdays. Somewhere the pressure must fall, and a dif ference of one or two touchdowns in each team’s performance is apt to bring about one of these classic upsets, like—for instance—the one Oregon State provided against Washington last week. * * * “Football is like baseball now,” said California’s Stub Allison re cently, “any team that can win 70 per cent of its games through a hard schedule has turned out a good season. Any team that goes through unbeaten through a hard schedule, I mean has to be lucky.” California is out in front now, and in pre-season gossip was picked to finish in the top three mainly on the basis of good sound material. But, you see what the Golden Bears must face. On five successive Saturday’s beginning next week, California plays USC, UCLA, Washington, Oregon, and Stanford. Three arc met on the road. Squads like Oregon’s booming sophomores are constantly learn ing, anti get more powerful by the game. Wins over Stanford and Gonzaga, in the style Frink’s boys exhibited, will attest to that. Then there is the possibility of injuries which California is bucking. One let-down in that five-game stretch anti the damage is done. Scrimmage plays, not passes, ac counted f o r Oregon’s terrific amount of yardage against Gon zaga Saturday. The Webfoots con nected oil four out of 12 aerial heaves for 75 yards, but running plays amassed 350 yards. You can. also add Nicholson’s 70-yard touch down i nn from an intercepted pass. Eighteen first downs to three was the ratio. Nino boys packed the mail for Oregon against Gonzaga, and five of them averaged over six yards per try. Even more interesting is the fact that the lowest was 2.7 enough to make a first down in every four plays. Speed-boy Jim my Nicholson averaged 17 for three tries, Fullback Paul Howe aver aged eight, while Graybeal and Speetzcn each lugged it once for j seven. Senior Dale Lasselle continued his flashy ball-packing by carrying it 11 times for a -1.3 average. Steve Anderson’s was 0.2 per for eight trips. Arlcigh Bentley was Ore gon’s workhorse for the afternoon, netting 59 yards in 15 shots at the goal line for a 3.0 average. Bob Smith, and Ted Gobhardt averaged four and 2.7 in three and four trips, respectively. Short shots ... In order to pro vide a good double for UCLA's | negro halfback Kenny Washington, ; Stanford coaches used burnt cork on the face of Hen Maguire, Indian halfback . . . Keith Belton, deaf mute who is a recruit for the New York American hockey team, ran ■ into trouble when he broke his thumb . . . Belton talks with his hands. Julie Bescos, former Southern California football luminary, now MK. AAD J1K>. MWl ' Callison Tapers Drill for Coming Trojan Tilt Ducks Polish Aerial Attack For Trojans Two Sets of Backs Are Drilling on Passes; Amato Returns to Starting Lineup Apparently hoping to subdue USC’s vaunted Trojans with an aerial barrage of gigantic propor tions, Coach Prink Callison had Jimmy Nicholson, Steven Ander son, and Jay Graybeal throwing passes for quite some time yester day afternoon. In another move which it is cal culated will help bolster the end situation, Coach Callison kept for mer halfback Don Kennedy at the position he held during part of the Gonzaga game at right end. May Shift Later It was expected by sideline ob servers that upon Bud Robertson’s return, Kennedy would be shifted to the backfield, but the "Grape nuts Kid" showed so much promise in Oregon’s decisive win that it was decided to leave him at end. Callison had two backficlds al ternating in trying to defend against Messrs. Graybeal, Ander son, and Nicholson. The first one was composed of Denny Breaid, Steve Anderson, Dale Lasselle, Paul Rowe, and Hank Nilsen, while Bob Smith, Vern Moore, Denny Donovan, Arleigh Bentley, and Jay Graybeal were in the second. Starters Not Certain It is thought that the first string of backs, with the possible excep tion of Center Denny Breaid in the line, will bo the boys that will be in the starting lineup Saturday, with Oregon’s touchdown twins, Jay Graybeal and Bob Smith, held in reserve. Captain Tony Amato showed up at practice without the trouble some face guard that he has been wearing in sessions to date. The injured member has improved so rapidly that chances are that he may discard the guard permanent iy by game time Saturday. The team will hold its last prac tice this afternoon before leaving tonight for Los Angeles. coaches the Trobabes, yearling eleven . . . Stanford's Bill Paulman, injured in the Oregon game, is ready for action again . . . Oregon State's turf field dedication is set for this Saturday . . . Will they outdraw Oregon? . . . Clint Evan’s California yearling team recently won its twenty-second consecutive game . . . the Bruin Babes over a seven-year period have been vic torious in 42 out of 45 played. Sam McGaughey, miler and cap tain of the Oregon track squad last season is in charge of cross country while Bill Hayward is still tied up with football . . . rumor has it that end Larry Lance may retire from school until next spring while liis Injured shoulder mends . . . op erative Bill Norene warns me that 3amma hall's ever-victorious ath letic teams are out to clean up in volleyball. Is It Pride or ... Coach Jim Crowley seems to be pleased, as he points at his Ford ham Rams. Captain John Uruze stands by. Golfer Clifton Smith Casts Lot at Oregon Frosh Basketeers Work Under Hobby Nearly fifty boys turned out again last night for frosh basket ball where Howard Hobson sent them through another intensive workout in fundemcntals and a few offensive plays. The super-varsity turned out the first day but was dismissed until next Monday. Work yesterday consisted of the fundamentals such as pivoting, footwork, dribbling, passing and shooting. Following these drills Coach Hobson will pick the 15 whom he thinks are the most cap able to scrimmage with the super varsity and form the nucleus of John Warren’s frosh squad. Thus far Hobson has not picked any particular squad although Sandness, Piippo, Marshik, and Rathburn have appeared in good shape. Sandness is the boy who set a now state scoring record last year in the state tournament. Don Mabee another all-district player will turn out after football season as will LeRoy Mason also a high school flash. The squad will be cut probably the middle of next week. Comet Manager Predicts Success For Cocky Cohorts From the Comet News Bureau. (Special to the Oregon Emerald). Following a spirited workout slat ed for tomorrow, Howard Over back, Comet manager, will release his A and B teams for the coming volleyball tourney. Due to the un precedented turnout expected, the Comet manager plans to walk through the tournament with lit tle opposition. The Cornels, who admit that they Even though golf is a long way off, Sid Milligan, captain and coach of the University of Oregon golf ing troupe, can sit down and erase one item from his list of worries concerning the freshman golf team. The reason is the enrollment this year of Clifton “Clint” Smith, one of the lowest shooters in Portland's younger set of divot diggers. Smith, who was raised near the Inverness links in Portland and who learned his golf on the same rolling terrain, carries a handicap of four. Last summer he collected tro phies for winning the Broadmoor and Colwood club championships and pocketed a dozen golf balls as booty for winning medal honors in the Gearhart coast championships played last year over the Astoria club course. Sunday Smith conquered the Laurelwood course of Eugene, post ing a par breaking 69. didn’t win the golf tournament or do so well in tennis besides count less sports held last spring quar ter, plan to go to work starting with volleyball. “Bombing Bob ” Alibi, diminu tive member of last year's squad will also be on hand along with "Terrible Tom” DeFrietas, another firecracker who returns. Rudy I Kappcl, sparkplug transfer from ‘ Oregon State, is another man to watch, although he may be held in reserve. Since taking up football in 1894 University of Oregon teams have! played 307 games with 43 different opponents. Of that total the Web foots have won 178 games, lost1 101 and tied 28 for an all-time av-! erage of .638. Oregon has scored | 4070 points against 2050 for op-; ponents in this time. One man, Allan Finke, partici- j pated in ten different donut sports for 1936-37. Paddy Prefers Points DOSCcXCUIAS A ; SCEA-f QUARTER. BACiC AT Aloj?DMeST^J34.' AMP tATeS-IM TW& PfiPfESSICWAUKlAMhS’ 1 — “wr- _WZ. MNC J^AaAWSjUfc1 , V_' - ' ', C’C r'L AOnI^ AS A&\0 PboTBAUU CCACA A1 •VVAKqOCTt'6, tjAjl\ief?-sny * * pArtnJ rAop-/ ee'uevesl ■uui A Coop Off CaISE IS A *1 CAM’S 6fcSY PCFC/MSEs — ft'ACMES SPEED vmd pecep fipAi Ducklings Prepare For Sons Contest Cripples Returning to Lineup for Game at North Bend With several Ducklings on the casualty list, “Honest John" War ren sent his charges through their last scrimmage session last night prior to the SONS game Friday. Conaway, Stenstrom, and Hank inson have been slightly crippled, however, they should be in condi tion to perform by whistle time. The frosh will run through plays this afternoon and tomorrow. Fri day they will set sail to combat a strong Normal eleven at North Bend. Last year’s tussle saw the Ducklings on the long end of a 26 to 6 tally. This year’s dope gives Warren’s satellites an edge, but it will be a plenty tough battle. Particular attention will be paid to the forward wall’s record, as that was the weak spot in the rook fracas. CIGNALS... JgIKE By GEORGE PASERO On the strong left arm of a guy named Smith may hinge Oregon's chances to upset the wooden horse of Troy next Saturday afternoon when the touchdown-frenzied men of Callison dig their cleats into the greensward of the huge Me- j morial coliseum in Los Angeles j bent on miking Howard Jones’ | Southern California Trojans pay! through the nose, and pay plenty, for a few little matters of the past. Now there have been guys named Smith dotting the football rosters of different teams around the country for years. There have been all-American Smiths, and just dokes named Smith. There was Ernie Smith of South-1 ern California’s regime at the top of the football heap, an all-Ameri can tackle, and there was Riley) Smith, Alabama’s great pass-sling ing quarter of a couple of years back. There were other Smiths, and no doubt there’ll be other guys named Smith around for centuries to come. But to Webfoot fans, there never was another guy like Oregon’s own Smith, christened Robert and called just plain Bob. They like his all-aroun|l play back of that big green forward wall, but what they like best is to see him do is to fade back, pick out his receiver, usually a winged foot little fellow that answers to the moniker of Jay Graybeal, and fire away, right to the spot, you might say. Last year Coach John Warren of the frosh spotted the capabilities of these two aspiring yearlings, and presto . . . you have the fam ous Smith to Graybeal combina tion which rival clubs fear and re spect. ’’We’ve been working for this game,” Smith said, and those feat ures which can tighten up in that bulldog expression, set just a little tighter. “We're playing for keeps Saturday.” The six-foot, 187-pound Kappa Sigma member who played three years at Medford high, waxed en- | thusiastic about Automatic George Karamatic, the big Gonzaga full back who flashed brilliantly even in defeat. “Karamatic, he is good. He’s the best I've ever seen. Why, if he lad a team behind him ...” Coming back to Smith. Beaver ■ ind Duck fans alike are awaiting the passing duel which will be staged two weeks hence on Hay- : vard field when Prinks boy I Hatches passes with Oregon i Take Notice, Hobby! Perhaps when next spring comes, pretty Chi Ojnega Della Root will be around to crowd Bill Sayles out of a job. Daughter of Chicago Pitcher Here; Hobbyrj \May, Get New Hurler Chi Omega Pledge Divides Sports Liking Between Baseball and Football; Cubs Best, Especially When Daddy Pitches By BILL NORENE Imagine a blue-eyed blond, words coming in bursts like a Yankee soldier playing tic-tac-toe with a machine bun, and you have a very good idea of Della Root, daughter of Charlie Root, Chicago Cubs' star pitcher, except that you have left out the part about her hands, which adding a bit of explanation and description, go through the mo tions with the speed of a deaf mute sounding off after a piece of par ticularly tough luck. Miss Root, graduate of Cumnock high in Los Angeles, and a Chi Omega pledge, says that her sports interests are about equally divided between baseball and football. A True Webfoot About football she says, “It took me about five years to get first down and ten to go and all that. Before that I didn’t pay any atten tion to football.” She must have gotten ino the swing of things very quickly, however, for she says that she almost went hoarse, “Fighting on with Oregon" during the Stan ford game. Of course she is a rabid baseball fan, especially when her dad pitch es, although her finger nails take quite a beating when she sees him work on the mound. She also add ed that she saw the all-star game when it was played in Chicago, quickly adding, “But they weren't rs good as the Cubs I” it’s Softball Now Quite a bit of softball is played on the Root home, a 2,500 acre ■anch, which is 130 miles south of 3an Francisco, near Hollister. Yes, ler father gets knocked out of the oox occasionally, but then the ball >ames usually end up with scores ike, 26 to 25. Her 14-year-old brother. Charles 1 r., hoped to be both a football and oaseball playen The parents ve State’s Joe Gray. Maybe another Smith will go tearing by. right nto football’s hall of fame. Hendershott’s Where the Collegian Gets His Sport Equipment We Cater to Oregon Students Physical Education Supplies Athletic Equipment Sporting Goods Lock Repairing and Key Repairing 7*0 Willamette Telephone 151 toed football upon his entering high school this fall, but he pitched his first hardball game this sum mer. The manager of the ball club lifted him after 10 runs had been ' scored on his deliveries in two inn ings. That evening young Charlie was very disgusted with the manager for sending him to the showers so soon. Charlie Grimm, manager of the Cubs, agreed with Root Jr., adding that the manager was lia ble to break down young Charlie’s confidence in removing him from the game so soon. The Phi Defts scored 1008 points in 12 sports of intramural compe tion last year. Tryouts on Tap For Amphibians TomorrowNight Local Organization Is Open to All Women Passing Tests Tryouts for Amphibians, wo men’s local swimming honorary will be held tomorrow evening at 7 o’clock in Gerlinger pool. The main requirement for admis sion is interest in swimming, and in the Amphibians. Other require ments are: one stroke for speed, two strokes for form, some dis tance swimming and a little diving. Anyone interested at all may turn out whether or not one feels she has the required ability, as each girl will be grftded and informed of her weak points for further prac tice. Officers Listed The officers for this year are: Betty Riesch, president; Molly Cunningham, vice-president; Mar garet Van Meter, secretary; and Jean Taylor, treasurer. Several water projects are being planned for the coming year. Roma Theobald is in charge of tryouts. . 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