f ( l Duck Tracks By BOB FLAVELLE Co-Sports Editor Oregon Dally Emerald It always has been of great In terest to me what the highly pub licized athlete does in his spare time. Jack Dempsey runs a res taurant, Billy Conn plays softball, Joe Louis sleeps and eats, Tony Galento drinks beer, and Lou Nova practices his Yogi. Pepper Martin of the St. Louis Cardinals supposedly spent his winters running footraces with jackrabbits down in the Oklahoma flat lands. Our own Joe Gordon comes back to Oregon every winter to get in a few weeks of hunting and fishing before he heads back to the training camp. But all of these spare time hob bies that have been named are the usual, run-of-the-mill type of di version that any athlete might take up. At the University of Ore gon I found a strange group of husky men that took great inter est in subjects far more intellec tual than rabbit-chasing, hashing, or calling on the Yogi for guid ance. Ducks Discuss Indians On a trip up to the Igloo yester day, near the football players’ dressing room, I heard sounds that gave every indication that a vio lent discussion was in progress. What could be heard through the closed door was jumbled indeed, but by a mere stretch of the imag ination it was no trick to discover that the Webfoot players were dis cussing personalities and problems relating to the coming struggle with Stanford this weekend. Here is how it went: Voice like Val Culwell’s—"Aw, he’s a weak - looking guy that stands up there and wags his head back and forth and confuses every one.” Voice reminding one of Ray Se gale—“Yeah, but from what they tell me after he gets through talk ing he starts action and nothing can stop him.” Hmmm, thought I, that would be Stanford’s quarterback, Frankie Albert. Voice like Elliott Wilson's — "That guy is about 6 feet 2 inches tall and his hair blows all over the place. All he tries to do is knock things down—” His voice trailed off in the dis Departing Webfoots Primed for Stanford Thirty-One Gridders Leave’on Noon Train By JOHNNY KAHANANUI Open up your wigwam, brother Indian. With 31 Duck gridders on the leash, Head Coach Tex Oliver and backfield tutor Mike Mikulak will be Palo Alto bound when the south going Southern Pacific train chugs out of Eugene at noon today, tor Stanford and Oregon will draw beads on each other in the Stanford stadium Saturday when both teams open their 1940 Pacific coast grid tance but I'd heard enough to know that he was talking about Norm Standlee, the hard-hitting fullback on the Indian squad. Tex Oliver Appears At that point Tex Oliver came tripping down the stairs, opened the dressing room door, took three steps into the room and immediate ly there was a deathly silence. Sev eral players sheepishly drifted away from the circle that had been formed around Val Culwell and Erling Jacobsen. Everyone tried to act as if nothing had been going on around that huddle of young giants. But Tex HAD heard—he slowly walked across the floor, his eyes gazing at the ceiling and quietly said, “If you men will kindly leave the political situation alone and let the newspapers argue as to the merits of Roosevelt and Willkie you will have a lot more time to master the job we have to do in Palo Alto this week.’’ Up to yesterday I would have been a supporter of the theory that football players know football and nothing else, but after catching the University of Oregon squad vigor ously discussing {Solitical problems (when they thought they were far from hearing range of anyone that might have been disillusioned by their display of rare intellectual potentialities) I will have to do an about-face. 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Eleventh -hour reconnaisance saw Oliver applying rag and polish to the “wrench”—a smashing de fense — with which he hopes to sabotage Stanford's intricate razzle-dazzle style of football and also saw him opening the valves to turn loose an offensive flood of his own which may engulf the Indians. With his fourth stringers skitter ing about the field in Stanford fashion and done up in red jer seys (maybe to further imitate the c&rdinal-sweatered Indians), Oliver had his first and second squads pound through and try to smother the “carbon copy” of Stanford Mentor Shaughnessy's “aba-daba alley-oop” style of football. Regulars Boom Then turning about, the Oregon coach gave the green light to nis No. 1 eleven. With Marsh Sten strom at full, Len Isberg and Buck Berry at halves, and Chet Haliski at quarter, the Webfoot first string ball-packers barralled through the forward wall of a defense outfit, as Dick Horne and Bill Kegner at ends, Jerry Schmerling and Hoy Johnson at tackles, Ray Segale and Val Culwell, guards, and Erling Jacobsen at center bashed in to open up truck holes. Big Jim Stuart, star regular tackle, was taking it easy with a scratched arm. Gobs and gobs have been scrib bled about Stanford’s effective de ceptive play. Following the USF clash, teletype wires up and down the coast were burning with talk of how the Indians have blossomed into an outfit capable of throwing a crink in the pennant aspirations of any of the Pacific coast confer ence elevens. Coach Clark Shaugh nessy was on the receiving end of orchid upon orchid tossed at him for clamping a new motor on the chassis of Stanford’s football ma chine, which seems a far cry from the 1939 ed'Mon that got belted Frosh Hoopers Start Workout Hobson Centers On Fundamentals In First Drill Following the proverb, ‘‘the early bird gets the worm,” the Oregon freshman basketball can didates, with their eyes trained or. the coming hoop season, have been limbering up daily under the able guidance of Hobby Hobson. Since ‘‘Honest” John Warren, freshman coach, has been occupied with foot ball, Coach Hobson has been pinch hitting until Warren can take over. The daily drills have been sched uled as a regular one-hour course and the thirty-odd aspirants will receive credit for their efforts just as they would for any school course. At present the hoopsters are be ing set straight on their pivoting, passing, defensive footwork, and dribbling — necessary for an out standing squad. They are also re quired to do their daily "duck" walking—something that is hard even for a duck to do. It is much too early at present to determine the outstanding hoop sters, for no one has really had the chance to show their true ability. A little later on when intersquad contests and practice shooting get underway, however, the lads will have their chance to come to the front. The one impressive thing about the frosh turnout is the height. At least six of the boys are over six feet with some of them hitting four and five inches over that mark. into the cellar and had to amble all the way over to Dartmouth to win a game. Oliver Is Wary All this has made Oliver doubly wary of the Indians, having had first-hand experience with their 1940 mode of play while taking in the USF game. However, this has probably made him drill his Duck outfit more gruelingly for their test Saturday. 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John Warren Unimpressed • With Freshmen Graybeal Pleased With Yearling Backfield By LEE FLATBERG Braving an Oregon mist, rain to out-of-staters, Coach Warren’s yearling gridsters started practice on plays yesterday in preparation for their scheduled scrimmage with the varsity third string today. • “Pretty bad,” was the only com ment Warren would give on the nay's practice. Shoddy jobs of blocking were noticeable in the play formations and Warren de clared long hours would be spent on this department. Backfield Coach Graybeal when questioned on his proteges remark ed, "They keep me busy. There are too many good players.” While no first team has been determined, Graybeal gave the fol lowing inside running on the back field berths: quarterback, La Vern James; left half, Jim Newqnist; right half, Inky Boe, Larry Olsen, Charles DeAutremont, and Bob Liday; fullback, Tom Oxman, Frank Emmons, and Brad Eel* lund. 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