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VOLUME XLI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1939
NUMBER 29
‘Babes Up in Arms’ Over Dance Attire Question
Women
Rebel at
Short Silk
Informal Garb Set
For Weekend Hop;
Corsages Out
It wag “Babes Up in Arms’’ yes
terday when the Oregon coeds re
^ belled against the idea of appear
ing at the Homecoming dance
dressed in informal attire. How
ever, going on results of a “what
to wear” poll conducted over the
weekend, the Homecoming direc
torate announced yesterday that
informal garb will be the correct
style for the annual Homecoming
Terpsichorean event.
The Homecoming directorate de
fined “informal garb” as short
silks and high-heeled shoes for the
ladies and suits—either light or
dark ones—for the men. Corsages
are definitely not a part of the
evening's entertainment, the di
rectorate pointed out.
A ballot box was placed in the
College Side at noon Saturday and
| students were asked to state their
preference by placing a ballot in
the box by 12 o’clock yesterday.
The fashion poll produced a
grand total of 24 votes, nine in
favor of formal dress for the dance
and 15 against.
The formal idea al30 met with
the approval of the dean of wo
men’s office.
With campus skies apparently
cleared of the style problem by
the poll, the Homecoming com
mittee settled down to more im
portant problems confronting
them. It was not until mid-after
noon, however, that the storm in
the form of severe critical female
criticism, broke on the weary
shoulders of the committee.
Judging from numerous tele
phone calls from tardy female op
position to the informal style
question and from heated verbal
exchanges between members of
the Homecoming committee and
would-be formal dress wearers, the
campus ladies wished the style
theme of Saturday night’s dance
to be formal.
The coeds protest that they are
only campaigning for long dresses
for the women and dark suits for
the men. According to the
“queens,” flowers in the form of
corsages are not needed to make
them more beautiful in their for
mal gowns.
Not wishing to make a partial
decision regarding the style prob
lem, the Homecoming directorate
requested all men’s living organi
zations to conduct an impromptu
dinner time poll last night. Re
ports from most of the living
groups indicated an overwhelming
vote in favor of informal attire
for the forethcoming “Home to
Honor Oregon” dance.
The male half of the student
^ body gave as their reasons for
favoring an informal mode of
dress:
One, that it is customary to send
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YWCA Plans
Year’s Work
Activity Groups
Will Discuss Plans
At Next Meeting
Activity groups of the YWCA
are on the upbeat this week with
meetings scheduled today, tomor
row, and Thursday at the Y bun
galow.
The Foreign Foods group, whose
k activities include preparing din
ners after the styles of foreign
countries and discussing foreign
eating habits, will meet this af
ternoon at 4:15 with Mary Wright
committee chairman, to plan their
first dinner. Coffee and coffee
cake will be served. Last year Jap
anese, Chinese, Swedish, Spanish
and Mexican dinners were among
those prepared.
The China, Cupboard, and Chest
group, Darlene Warren, chairman
will meet Wednesday afternoon a1
4 o'clock to plan their yearly pro
gram. During the year girls of this
group have various authorities or
china, linen, and service come tc
the Y as guest speakers.
Members of the committee or
religion will meet with Jean Crites
chairman, Tuesday afternoon at ‘
k. o’clock. A review of an interesting
book will be given. All member
are asked to attend.
Emmons Lunges Over for the Second of Six
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(Courtesy the Register-Guard)
Frank Emmons, wlio is obviously enjoying himself, skirts his own right end and plunges over for Oregon’s second touchdown.
UO-OSC
Ticket*’Sale
Hits 17,000
2,200 Available
In Bleachers; Sale
Begins Saturday
NOTICE
All students must exchange
their ASIJO cards for student tick
ets to the U.O..-O.S.O. game at the
ticket office in McArthur court
before Saturday morning.
Largest football crowd ever to
pack in one stadium in Eugene,
19,500 fans, will be on hand Satur
day to watch the annual civil war
battle between the two Oregon
schools, the U. of O. and OSC.
Ed Walker, ASUO ticket man
ager, assured the public this game
will be a sellout when he announced
that only 183 reserved tickets were
left at 4:30 p.m. yesterday. This
is out cf a total of over 17,000 re
serves.
uenerai admission uciteis win oe
available for the general public
Saturday morning at 9 a.m. when
2,200 will go on the block. These
seats are in the south end zone,
and are good seats for seeing the
game, as they are in bleachers
that climb up in the air.
Anse Cornell, Oregon graduate
manager, said that every possible
seat and bench has been transport
ed to the vicinity of Hayward field
for use in seating the fan3. Chairs
and box seats have been temporar
i ily placed in front of the main
bleacher sections, on the cinder
track.
“We did all we could to give ev
eryone a chance to see the game
that wanted to,” said Cornell to
the question of whether there were
plenty of seats available for every
one. Requests were made more
than two months ago for the foot
ball fan to reserve his ducats early.
The 19,500 fans will see two of
the best teams Oregon and Oregon
State have developed in the same
season. Both have been defeated
but once in conference play, and
have won three games each against
the best in the rugged Coast con
ference.
Early predictions on the winner
favor neither team, though OSC
will be somewhat fatigued after a
• strenuous afternoon with Southern
i Cal last Saturday. No one will risk
very much money on either team.
Noise Chairman
Richard Werschkul, chairman of
Friday night’s noise parade com
mittee.
Saturday 38-0
Nothing New
To Webfoots
“Shades of almighty Caesar!
That's against the rules.”
“Well, it has to happen once
in a while. In 1900 they made
43 against Washington."
“Say what you want to, that
sounds like overdoing it a little.”
“Way back in 1898, it was 38
against OSC. But even so there
was a drop from 1895 when the
‘final’ was up to 42. It’s been a
long time since then.”
This may sound slightly
“touched," but it isn't really
quite as crazy as it might seem.
Fact is, the conversation only
represents a few Oregon stu
dents voicing opinion on Satur
day's 38-to-0 victory over Wash
ington State.
The win, believe it or not, was
•Oregon's largest conference tri
umph since “way back” in 1900
when the Webfoots trounced
University of Washington, 43 to
, 0.
Herbertson Honored
Mr. Herbertson was recently
honored by receiving an honorary
membership to the Asklepiad, i
premedic honorary.
Duck Boosters in Eugene
To Portland Caravan Nave
Police Escort on Journey
Eugene Quarterback Club Will Initiate
Governor Sprague on Capitol Steps,
Mayor Carson at Portland Demonstration
Police escort, state-wide radio hookup, and a quintet of pretty Ore
gon welcomers will be the chief features of today’s northward caravan
trek to Portland and by-points, when Promotion Chairman Joe Gurley
and other Webfoot boosters officially invite ex-University student,
home again for this weekend’s homecoming celebration.
Leaving Eugene at 8:30, immediately after the meeting of the
Eugene Quarterback club, the caravan is scheduled to reach Albany al
9:30, where a abort ceremony will
! take place.
In Salem at 1:45, the group will
be met by the Salem police force
who will escort them to the steps
of the capitol where a KSLM hook
up will broadcast their initiation
of Governor Charles A. Sprague
into the Quarterback organization.
Reaching Portland at 12:30, the
caravan will again have police es
cort into the city, after they are
greeted at the west side of Sell
wood bridge by the Oregon Alumni
association and the Oregon Duck
club. At 1:15 they will parade
through downtown Portland to a
reserved space in front of the
Heathman hotel, where they will
initiate Major Joseph P. Carson in
to the Quarterbacks.
Five cars of Eugene Quarter
backs will make the trip, in addi
tion to around 10 student cars,
Gurley said last night. The five
special homecoming w'elcomers,
Betty Anderson, Betty McNiece,
Irene Yturri, Betty Morfitt, and
Eleanor Sw'ift, will take leading
parts in the welcoming programs.
Roy Vernstrom, second vice
president of the student body, and
Burton Barr, homecoming chair
man, are to be the principal speak
ers at the stop-over broadcasts.
Gurley last night still extended
his invitation for interested stu
dents to accompany the caravan to
all Webfoots. They will meet at the
Eugene hotel at 8:30.
Phi Psi Football
Game Postponed
‘ The traditional Chi Psi-Phi Psi
football game usually an event of
the Sunday after homecoming has
’ been postponed this year to the
■ weekend following. The move was
made as equipment is not available
for homecoming weekend.
Sing Sets Chi Omega
And Sigma Chi Next
Members of Chi Omega and Sig
ma Chi will compete in tomorrow
night's third weekly Universitj
sing contest, scheduled for 9 o’
clock at the McDonald theater.
The appearance of one men’s ant
one women's living organization if
a weekly feature at the McDonalc
this winter, with $75 prizes going
to the two top groups at the enc
of the song fest in January.
Webfoots Smear
Cougars 38 to 0
Freshmen
Ready For
Bonfire
Weekend Pyre to
Warm 19th Street;
Lumber Yards Help
Committee heads reported last
night that the frosh activity ma
chine is in high gear setting the
stage for the oncoming weekend,
with material for this year’s fresh
man engineered “swamp fire,”
doomed to construction on the tra
ditional low grounds, spotted for
ready use.
Plans for building their one big
Homecoming contribution on high
j er ground hit a snag when the
powers rejected the proposed site
1 as too dangerous. If all goes well,
, the flames of the towering pile of
: odds and ends will shoot skyward
| as scheduled at the same old loca
i tion out on Nineteenth street.
| Oil, 1500 gallons of it, will go
:' up in smoke when the torch is ap
plied. Lumber from several yards
about town, who constributed un
stintingly to the cause, will be
spirited away to places unknown
when Len Ballif and Bob McGill
head a squad of trucks assigned
to pick up the material today.
Premature conflagration, the
curse of bonfires in former years
i will not be present this time, if
the organization designed to halt
all foul play proves successful.
Oregon upperclassmen as well as
delegates from the enemy camp
j to the north constitute a serious
threat. Details of freshmen will
keep all night vigils when con
struction, delayed till the last pos
sible minute, starts. The rally com
mittee will be on hand to cheer
the matchers through the long
night and any attempt at sabotage
is sure to meet with organized re
sistance.
High atop Skinner’s butte, the
watchers of the “O” will have a
tougher job. A permanent fixture,
it must be guarded throughout the
week and after the game is his
tory. Ugly rumors have drifted
about the campus to the effect
that the big Oregon symbol will be
the object of its second renovation
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Director
Robert Corby, Homecoming sign
chairman, releases final instruc
tions for living organization dis
plays.
Registration
Fee Payment
Due Friday
Student Body and
Non-Resident Fees
Also Coming Due
In order to ease the rush on the
business office staff anil to speed i
up the payment of final install
ment fees due Friday, C. K. Stals
taerg', cashier, urges all students
owing money on their registration
fees, non-resident fees, and stu
dent body fees to come to the bus
iness office at any time between i
now and Friday.
The office is open from 8 to 12
o’clock and from 1 to 3 o'clock. \
Starting Monday morning, a 2b- '
cent late fee will be charged to all
students meeting their final install- \
! ments. This late fee will continue
i in effect until November 18.
If students owing fees have not!
! paid them by November 25 they
will be dropped from the Univer
sity. Reinstatement in the week
from November 18 to 25 may be
had by paying all fees due, pay
ment of the $1.50 late registration
I fee and payment of a $2,00 rein
statement fee.
To Help Homecoming Heads
These students will assist the rally committee in making preparations for the Homecoming weekend.
They are, from left to right, front row, Fat Lynch, Hetty Buchanan, llencl Brugman, Sue Cunningham,
June Justice, Anne Bossinger, .Maxine Hanson, and Fete Lamh. Second row: Martin Itleg, Bill Khrman,
| Jim Carney, Emerson Fuge, Bill Bernard, Bob Hoehuli, chairman.
Olivermen
Score Six
Markers
Berry, Smith, Home,
Anderson, Emmons
Alpaugh All Score
By RAY FOSTER
You’ll have to go back 41
years before you find an Ore
gon team that scored as com
plete a victory over a confer
ence foe as did the 1939 edition
of the Webfoots last Saturday,
as they cooled the Washington
State Cougar, 38 to 0.
So convincing was the tri
umph that the reserves took
things over in the second half
of the game after the regulars had
made two touchdowns in the first
half and romped through the Cou
gars for four more scores. The lone
Cougar threat bogged down on the
Oregon 171 •>.
Bob Smith played the greatest
game of his college career Satur
day, finishing the day as the lead
ing ground gainer, the leading pas
ser, and the best defensive back on
the field. The team could do no
wrong, and Bob spurred on the
Ducks in their “perfect” game.
From the moment that Oregon
started the ball in play on the first
offensive play of the game, till
they tossed over their last touch
down, with four seconds to go, the
Ducks were stamping up and down
Hayward field like a military unit
perfect order. Without letting their
opponent come close to the ball,
they went 65 yards to score after
4 minutes and 54 seconds of play.
The heavy backfield combination
of Donovan, Smith, Berry, and
Emmons, all carried the ball in this
first drive. Smith's 12-yard pass to
Donovan, who romped 13 more to
the Cougar 27, was the longest
single gain. Berry made the score
over right guard from the WSC
three. Vic Reginato failed to con
vert.
Second touchdown in the scoring
parade came after but 4 seconds of
the second period. Frank Emmons
spearheaded through right tackle
from the four, and then Len Is
berg tried but failed to convert.
If the Cougar thought he would
be spared in the second half, he
was mistaken, for he kicked the
ball to the Oregon eight to open
the period, and then never felt
the pigskin again until he received
the Webfoot kick-off after a third
touchdown. Emmons went from
the eight to the 19 on the return
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CAMPUS
CALENDAR
The Foreign Foods group will
meet at the Y bungalow at 4;15
this afternoon to plan their first
foreign dinner.
House agents for the Oregana
must check in their cards tomor
row at the Oregana office between
the hours of 1 and 5.
Phi Delta Phi French table will
meet in the Side at 6 tonight for
dinner. Anyone interested in speak
ing French is welcome, even
though he is not a member of Pi
Della Phi.