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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1938)
DUCK TRACKS nmumiuiimiiiiiimiiininniHdimuimiumimimiuiuiumumuiiuiiiiiimiiiiiiin By ELBERT HAWKINS And how . . . A football scout, my friends, earns his dole. Ho sees loss of the ball than the average fan. He can’t always fol low the long runs. And what’s worse he only sees half of the game. He diagrams only one team per game—two would be impos sible — and follows it offensively and defensively. “Divorce yourself from the game,” characterizes Mike Miku lak, then you can scout. And to a lover of competitive football that’s as bad as starving a Boy Scout. Ask Mike. Charting the enemy isn’t just a wild glance at the play, trying to memorize blocking assignments, and writing it down catch-can. As one writer puts it, scouts don’t even fly over the field while the opposition peppers away with anti-aircraft. The gracious enemy even offers tickets to Percy Scout for its press box, and feeds him between halves. Technique of these football spies varies as does actual coaching, but a good sample would be the routine Mike Mikulak pursues in charting for Tex Oliver. Prime requisite for Percy Scout is background. He must be fam iliar with a coach's style, know his players, which usually means to “bone” up on them before a game and memorize their positions ! and numbers. “Iron Mike,” when he’s scouting, picks out two or three players, say the end, tackle, and guard, and for several plays watches them intent ly, ignoring the ball. Sometimes j it goes the other way. After the game starts, nothing is trusted to memory. He writes down every detail. Gradually as the game progresses he recognizes duplications of plays, and if suc cessful is able to diagram the assignments of the key men on each play. If the enemy coach is a Jimmie Phelan, his plays change little from year to year and the scout can use charts of previous times. If he’s a changeable Tiny Thorn hill or Bill Spaulding, the problem is tougher. Percy Scout then can’t rely much upon his files. After scouting a game, Mikulak runs movies of the particular team in action and fills out his diagrams more completely. After scouting a ! team he can tell you just how many plays hit each position. j Coaches oftentimes vary ill the barest fundamentals. Stub Allison’s California Bears, Rose Bowl champs, are known as high blockers. Southern California, contrastingly, makes contact low er, around the knees. There’s two schools of thought on fundament als by two highly successful couches in Allison and Howard •Jones. Both have turned out Coast championship machines. Matty Mathews teaches his Portland Pilots to call plays with out a huddle. Other teams (like Oregon) huddle, and then run plays with nr without a shift. In both cases, the defense—and the perspiring scout—have a headache. Just a contraption . . . Honest John Warren is using a novel means of developing drive in the legs of his Duckling football ers. Here’s what the rig looks like: a leather ring the size of an ath lete's head—or anybody’s head tied between tw'o sticks of wood by two leather strips. Honest John and his assistant stand about eight feet apart, each grasping a stick with both hands. The Duckling athlete then hauls back and sticks his head through the hole while charging, trying to ’pull Honest John and his stooge along with the drive of his legs and shoulders. The contraption is •much easier to use than describe. * * * Oregon hasn’t beaten Southern California in foot hall since their first game in 11115 . . . the Ducks really won it then, 34 to 0 . . . Tex Oliver’s football Wehfoots, in Eugene only a few hours, made bay while it ruined yesterduy, pol ishing plays for Southern ( alifor nia ... if fire and spirit means anything, yesterday’s practice in - dk-ated that Troy is in for trouble Saturday . . . Charlie Molten, ot the school of journalism's facility, xvlio culls ’em as lie really thinks they'll hap|teu, picks Oregon over Southern California by 13 to 7 . . . the Troians have never played Oregon in the Northwest . . . east ern sports authorities generally rate Pittsburgh as the nation's No., 1 loot bull team . . . Rain and Mud Fail to Dampen Oregon Football Spirit Peppy Webfoots Hustle for Tex In Scrimmage Reginato Sustains Sprained Ankle in Fordham Fracas Webfoot fans wouldn't have thought the Ducks lost two games in a 7000-mile cross country jaunt if they could have seen Coach Tex Oliver's men in practice yesterday afternoon. Rain and mud din’t daunt a very determined Duck squad as Oliver sent his gridsters through strenu ous blocking and tackling sessions. Oliver’s crew will have their workouts on the dirt field east of the regular practice turf in order to get used to a little of the good old mother earth which they play on at Multnomah stadium in Port land this Saturday against the mighty Trojans of Southern Cali fornia. Oregon (?), Trojans (?) Can the Webfoots come back to take the Trojans after losing two straight games, by compara tively large scores? Can the Ducks penetrate the powerful forward wall of Howard Jones' eleven ? These arid many other similar questions will be answered this weekend when the Oregon boys meet the steam roller from Sou thern California, at Portland. Coach Oliver stated last night that the men from Troy have one of the most powerful lines on the coast. Few touchdowns have been made against them this year from running plays. Reirinuto Injured Vic Reginato, hard-charging right end, is a doubtful starter Saturday as he suffered a badly sprained ankle in the Fordham tangle which kept him out of most of the second half. Reginato is at present in the infirmary. Jay Graybeal, who has been hobbling around with a wrenched knee, is expected to be ready to go by gun time Saturday. The Webfoot eleven will have two of the top-notch track men of the nation to contend with this week end. Bob Peoples, national prep javelin champ, and Mickey Ander son, 9.6 dash man, are both prob able starters in the Trojan back field. Peoples has been bothered with a bad ankle but is expected to see action in this week's engagement. Oliver’s mighty sophomore bri gade may take up several of the starting spots this Saturday due to showings made in recent skir mishes. Marshall Stenstrom, 200 - pound sophomore fullback from Seattle, may get the starting, nod over Frank Emmons, due to his good line plowing in the Fordham game. VAL CULWELL Up from the southland comes a slashing, snnishing, 225 - pound tackle who blessed Salinas, Cali fornia's high school with the name of Val Culwell. Culwell, another SAE recruit, played guard for three years for his alma mater. He was a four sport lettermun wearer of the "S." He played guard on the bas ketball team, caught behind the plate on the baseball squad, and tossed his opponents on the mat as a wrestler. The 18-year-old transformed guard claimed that his most thrill ing moment came in his sophomore season in his prep life when he blocked a punt, recovered it, and romped twenty yards for another six points. *’lu> Fast 15.111 In Oulwell's .senior year, Salinas had a record of five wins and two losses. They played an excep tionally fast type of ball. Salinas had a very well known team -for four years before the heavyweight guard arrived, the team was undefeated. Mr. Shipkey, Salinas coach dur ing Colwell's high school life, was moved to Stanford university as lrosh mentor because of his line record. The Duckling recruit expressed his approval ot the campus and declared that one of the reasons that he came to the Demon and Green school was because of the swell teammates. Lefty Tickles Bobby Bob Feller, youthful fireballcr of the Cleveland Indians in the Am erican league who recently toured the Northwest, is shown getting a rubdown from Trainer Lefty Weisman. Roving Reportei Releases Reports By ARNIE MILLSTEIN If tlie Oregon football team plays the way a number of students think they will, they shouldn’t have any trouble whatsoever. During the welcoming yesterday, fifteen students cast their opinions concern ing the outcome of the Southern Cal-Oregon game on Saturday. Did you know that . . . Paid Cushing, Theta Chi, picks the Webfoots by two touchdowns. Marjorie Kempter, Alpha Chi Omega, gives Oregon the nod by the score of 13 to 7. > Don Chilcote, independent, says, _______________________ ■southern cal Dy 12 points (no bets accepted).” George Bodner, Sigma Alpha Mu, confesses “Nine out of ten times I'm wrong, so I’ll pick USC. Maxine Hanson, Delta Gamma, said, “Give me a coin and I'll flip it.” Scott Corbett, Phi Delt, picks Oregon by a touchdown—no con version. "Smoky” Whitfield, Zeta hall, chooses Oregon to the tune of 13-6. Jeanette Lewis, Hendricks, re veals, "Southern Cal by a nose” (Jimmy Durante’s?"). Bob Herzog, Sigma Alpha Mu, says to wait until Saturday night. Bill Regner, Beta Theta Pi, puts the Ducks on top by seven points. Jerry Denman, Alpha Phi, said, "Oregon has the better spirit, but the Trojans have the better team.” Dick Williams, Sigma Phi Ep silon, claims, "If we're going right, we’ll beat ’em by six points.” Slim Wintermute, Phi Delt, says Oregon's seven points will be enough to win. Harrison Bergtholdt, Theta Chi, gives Oregon the extra point in his 13-12 selection. Hal Haener. Phi Delt, presents for publication, "The Oregonians will be cheering our 13-7 victory.” As for you reporter, I'll take Pitt as the winner. book \vii>i:l\ i m:i> That a book can travel last and l'ar was proven recently when Dr. Dan Clark received a letter from a school teacher in Logan, West \ itginia, saying she was using his book, “West in American His tory," in her high school Ameri can history classes. She wrote to Dr. Clark asking for an outline of the book to use in her class. WILL HOLD Ul .M.M VUK The Parents’ club of Phi Kappa Psi will hold a rummage sale on Saturday, October 119th, at 1193 Willamette street. NO LVH.ltALD S VILUD VV The paper must come out! But not on Saturday morning with a ( football game in Portland that day and a rally dance Friday night. At least that was the decree of Emerald authorities who last night decided not to publish a Saturday , edition. j Forgotten Men— iiiiiiiiiiiiiiilillliliiiiiiiiiililliiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinl By AIvJNIK MILLSTEIN | A well-balanced team is one that is known to have perfect coordin ation, good plays and a good coach ing staff. The players and the coaching staff. The players and the coaches receive their recogni tion through their spectacular work. However, there is one man that is very seldom seen or heard of, by the average fan, but ask the team or the coach and you’ll learn a lot of interesting and im portant work that the manager en gages in. It is the purpose of this column to give the manager what is com monly known as a "break." His work includes such things as, re sponsibility of all equipment, checking of all apparatus, and handling details on a trip, which are but a few of the tasks the "Forgotten Men" encounter. This initial column will bring to the public's eye, the co-managers of the Oregon frosh football team, namely Dutch Kohwer and Bob Stevenson. Prom Berkeley Dutch, a California boy hailing from .somewhere around Berkeley (he's not sure himself), is now in his junior year. A tall handsome Phi Psi, Dutch has been with the Oregon football squads since his freshman year. He is a jitterbug of the first class, keeping himself under control only because it may look ridiculous to the Oregonians. Dutch thinks the frosh have a really powerful team and with the proper breaks, should sew up the remaining games. Bob Steveuson spends what lit tle time he has. either picking up the remains of the opponents, or of his squad, which has the mis fortune to lose. It seems that Bob is an archeologist anil this sort of work helps him. lie is a product of Lakeview, in eastern Oregon, and has been with the squad as long as Dutch. This dark, good leol;:n0 boy ctauihu ik. feet lts,s STOP! READ! Varsity swimmers attention! Coach Ned Johus has scheduled an opening meeting for Tues day night, November 1. The meeting will be held in room 116 of the school of physical education at 7:30 p.m. Three Golphers Reach Semis in Faculty Play One Quarter-Final Match Remains in Tourney Play With one match of the quarter finals remaining in the faculty golf tournament at the Laurelwood Golf course yet to be played, three players have advanced to semi finals berths. W. P. Riddlesbarger defeated R. H. Ernst to come to the semi finals position: A. L. Morris won from Charles M. Hulten; and R. L. Collins out-pointed Lloyd Ruff; The match between J. O. Lind strom and Waldo Schumacher has not yet been, played. An outstanding match in the quarter finals was between Charles M. Hulten of the school of journal ism and A. L. Morris, assistant professor of military science. Mor ris shot a 79 to win the match. Two Are Played Two out of four consolation matches have been played. R. C. Hall won from K. J. O’Connell, and Kenneth S. Ghent defeated Carl Johnson. The two remaining pairings—Charles G. Howard and W. A. Dahlberg, and H. R. Taylor and Edgar E. DeCou—have not yet been played. The champion will be rewarded with four 75 cent golf balls, and the runner-up will receive two 75 cent balls. Low man in the tour nament gets a pair of 50 cent balls. two inches, agrees with his part ner in their selection of the out standing ball players. They choose Doug Caven, Bill Regner, and Bill Brenner, for the top notchers, and pick Hyman Harris as the most conscientious ball player on the squad. Gimme, Oh Father In Pigskin Heaven, Says Grid Mentor By BUCK BUCHWACH A football coach’s daily prayer to the gridiron god: Oh father in pigskin heaven, take pity on your humble ser vant. Help me produce a win ning combination for our next game, and give me strength for the rest of the 12-game schedule. Please help our Irish fullback, Wocyniizak, recover from his fumblitis attack, which has cost the team its last three games. Let the pulled tendons of our two guards and first string cen ter heal quickly. Help Shizzer Black, our triple threater, pass his psych exam and maintain his 1,6 grade point. Let the hands of those two dumb ends become adhesive, so as to catch those cinch touch Sis? THIS Gangster J \ Labor Rule before it ruins Oregon! CLEAN UR THIS LABOR MESS! VOTE Ad« »«td «•» by *>»•<•«!•« f#rm»n •* Olt|*n u. 1. X-.i This Lady Puts It This British woman shotputter, Miss M. Cooper, is caught by the camera just before she lets fly. She is flexing her muscles in a London meet. • Four Teams Sweep Poosh 'em up' Tilts Six teams of the “poosh ’em up” play drew first “B” league blood yesterday, four taking their matches in two straight games, thus preserving the old volleyball tradition of having plenty of one sided melees. The most lop-eared score was posted by the Betas who took Sig ma hall, 15-2, 15-6. Canard club also took Theta Chi into camp to the tune of 15-4, 15-5. Next in line were the Sig Eps, defeating the Campbell Co-ops, 15-5, 15-10. The SAE tong boys also took their two straight, 15-7, 16-14. Phi Psi netters went three games' before downing the ATOs, 15-11,; 13-15, and finally, 15-13. The Phi Sigs also dropped a game to Ome- [ ga hall, scoring, 16-14, 7-15, 15-12. Remaining “B” league matches will be run off for the first round at 4 o’clock today. down passes they juggled last week. See that our 237-pound left tackle gets enough to eat at that ?Ib?(/r?tb frat house, so he won't lose any more weight. Please, lord, teach those backs that a reverse goes in back, and a plunge off tackle doesn't mean an end run See that we have enough ath letic scholarships to enable some worthy high school graduates to receive college educations. Don’t let me wake up in the middle of the night shouting at my wife to block that punt. And above all, oh god of grid stors, don't let any of those "ex pert” prognosticators pick our team to win. Give us a chance! MR. ami MRS. NEWT -M-M Music School Gets New Phonographs Two RCA-Victor “masterpiece” phonographs have been purchased by the University school of music, it was announced yesterday by Dr. John J. Landsbury, dean. One of the vietrolas will replace the ■ phonograph which has Been in the Carnegie room since its in ception, and the other will be used in a downstairs lecture room at the music building, the dean said. Place your orders for the Emer ald now and' don’t miss an issue. Warren's Frosh Squad Leaves for Seattle Friday Val Culwell Is Left On Shelf; Warren Stresses Timing John Warren's Duckling grid , crew leaves tomorrow at 4:55 for Seattle where they will play their fourth game of the season with the University of Washington freshmen. With one win, one defeat, and a tie as their record so far, the frosh will attempt to break into the win ning column again this weekend. Val Culwell, 225-pound left tac kle, is the only man who will not see action this weekend. Culwell is suffering Trom a stomach disor der v/hich will keep him out of the lineup indefinitely. He may be in condition for the third and final game with Oregon State rooks the following weekend. The Ducklings got their feathers wet last night as Warren sent them through passing and play timing drills. Five Go Home • Five of Warren’s squad may see action in their hometown Satur day. Bob Beckner, 200-pound guard, Hyman Harris, probable end starter, Bill Jensen, backfield, Ray Segale, starting guard, and Robert Tyrrell, sub backfield, are all from Seattle. Big Bill Brenner, punter and fullback, is also from Washington, and will play his first game in his home state since leaving prep school last spring. The frosh have only one other scheduled game for this season af ter the little Husky game and that is with the Rooks which is to be played here November 11. It will be a night game and will be the final chance for Warren and his crew to even the “little civil war" series. Officers Have Pistol Range in Men's Gym l Part of the unfinished area in the new men's gym is now being utilized’ by the Eugene reserve of ficers as a pistol shooting range, according to Carlton E. Spencer, professor of law and member of that group. This is part of the Eugene busi ness men’s civic activities club which meets in the gym every Monday and Thursday night. Instead of playing volleyball, basketball or some other activity the members of the reserve officers corps get their recreation in pistol marksmanship. ON to PORTLAND To 1 rounce the Trojans ASUO Special Train Friday, Oct. 28 Lv. S. P. Station 3:30 p.m. Returning- Special leaves Portland at 6:30 p.m. and arrives in Eugene about 10:00 p.m. Ticket also good on regu lar train until midnight Monday. ONLY *2 .65 ROUNDTR1P Buy tickets now at ticket booth on 13th St., between O r e g o u and Commerce buildings. Sponsored by ASUO RALLY COMMITTEE