Duck
Tracks
By BOB FLAVELLE, Co-Sports Editor
Coach Babe Horrell brings his
victory-hungry University of Cali
fornia at Los Angeles football
into town Saturday in what is
scheduled to be a torrid battle be
tween two teams trying to climb
out of cellar position in the Pacific
coast league standings.
To date, the Uclans have been
defeated on consecutive week
ends by six of the toughest
teams in the country, namely:
Southern Methodist, 9 to 3;
Santa Clara, 9 to 3; Texas A. &
M., 7 to 0: California, 9 to 3;
Oregon State, 7 to 0, and Stan
ford, 20 to 14. All the scores have
been close.
Any other conference school
would shy away from taking on
such difficult early-season hurdles
as Southern Methodist or Texas A.
& M., but Coach Horrell takes his
games from Saturday to Saturday
and figured that a tough series of
“warm-up” games would put the
Bruins right in shape for a rugged
Pacific coast champion. As it has
turned out they are the hard-luck
boys of the circuit.
The Bruins certainly aren't the
team that wound up in a tie for
top spot with Southern California
last season, but they still have one
of the top-notch climax runners
and spark plugs in the business
in the dusky 180-pound streak of
football greased lightning—Jackie
Robinson.
Jackie Robinson
Robinson’s record for the 1939
season is little short of brilliant.
While playing in the right half
position, to make room for the
great Kenny Washington at left
half, Jackie lugged the pigskin a
total of 504 yards from scrimmage
in 42 tries for a fine average of
better than 11 yards a shot.
The Bruin speedster was tops
in the nation in returning punts.
In 14 runbacks, Robinson turned
in a neat average of over 20
yards per try. It was against our
own Webfoots that he was at
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his best last year. Despite the
fact that Oregon piled up a tre
mendous statistical advantage in
yardage gained, Kobinson per
sonally wrecked the Duck hopes
by scampering 83 yards around
end for one tally and then haul
ing in a 43-yard pass from All
American Kenny Washington, to
dash 23 yards for another touch
down.
Robinson has been moved over
to the left half spot this year, now
that Washington has left, and al
though he has not been as effec
tive in long-range scoring, has been
the backbone of the Bruin attack.
Jackie has been out part of the
present campaign with injuries but
is reported to be ready for a full
game against Oregon.
Football is but one of the;
many athletic contests in which
Robinson excels. In winning four
letters last year at UCLA, he be
came the first in the history of
the school to perform the feat.
Jackie led the southern division
basketball league in scoiing and
was chosen all-conference for
ward. In track he took the con
ference broadjump crown with a
leap of 35 feet, 6 f2 inches, while
on leave of absence from the
baseball team, where he played
regularly at the shortstop posi
tion, batting over .400.
It is uncommon to find a man
that performs in more than one or
two sports creditably but it is once
in a lifetime that a lad comes
along that is an outstanding star
in almost any game that he takes a
shot at. Jackie in addition to his
collegiate laurels, went into the
quarterfinals of the national negro
tennis tournament a couple years
back before he was knocked off
and it is said that the first time
he tried his hand at golf, he broke
100—try to match that!
They’re in Order
This is an odd week for coast
football. Take a look at the con
ference standings for instance and
you discover that the teams are
paired off in order. Stanford, who
leads with four victories against
no defeats or ties, meets the second
place Washington squad. Third
place Oregon State meets Wash
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Oregon Grid Drill
Features Defense
Webfoots Buckle Down to Work Against
Uclans' Passing and Running Attack;
Flu Germ Smears Rog Johnson
By JOHNNIE KAHANANUI
How to bag the UCLA Bruins' offense, that is the question. And
Webfoot Coach Tex Oliver spent most of yesterday patching up holes
in the defensive sack his gridders are weaving for the invaders from
down south.
Admitting that his boys would have to improve quite a bit to effec
tively bottle up the “Little Bears’ ” passing and ground attack, Oliver
Duck Swimmers
Step up Tempo
Yearling Mermen
Stand Out in Early
Work, Says Hoy man
Oregon’s varsity and freshmen
swimming aspirants will step up
their training program to 66 laps,
three-quarters of a mile, of contin
uous swimming Thursday as Coach
Mike Hoyman starts the boys otf
on their third week of pre-season
workouts.
Increasing the distance a quarter
of a mile each week, Hoyman plans
to reach the ultimate 88 lap mile
stretch in November.
At present this freestyle swim
is the extent of Mike's required
workouts, although most of the
men are spending considerable
time on their individual events.
Freshmen Strong
Hoyman says he has had no time
for conjecture as to what to ex
pect from either squad. As for the
freshmen, Hoymen maintains “they
have some darn good men.” Sev
eral men have dropped by the way,
but two new men, Bill Lyons, a
sprinter, Dave Ashrow and Hal
Harris, free .stylers, have bolstered
the squad.
Helping Hoyman with the fresh
men is Chuck Wiper, former Stan
ford frosh and University high
swimmer. Wiper, who learned his
swimming from Hoyman in Uni
high four or five years ago, will
not be eligible until next year. A
distance man, Wiper held several
northwest junior records.
—Trek the Oregon Trail—
Sixteen Wrestlers
In Daily Workouts
Oregon's wrestling squad now
has sixteen members, according to
Assistant Coaches Ray Foster and
Lloyd Koehler. The squad is not
yet complete — some wrestlers
won’t be available until the end of
the football season. Prospective
wrestlers can still sign up with
either “Tex” Oliver or Koehler.
Training schedules are now avail
able for squad members in the bas
ket room of the PE building or in
ington State, who is in a tie for
fifth place with Southern Califor
nia. The Trojans scrapple with
sixth place California and UCLA
takes on our last place Oregon
team. . . . Quite a coincidence!
was nevertheless not too gloomy
over pending prospects. He was
certain his players would “give
out" for Homecoming.
Oregon stock was sucked in a
down draft when it was learned
that Rog “Baby Face” Johnson,
huge Duck tackle, is in the in
firmary after being jarred up by a
flu germ. However, there is still a
good chance that the first stringer
will be in there Saturday doing his
flock of good deeds for the Web
foot eleven.
Work on Defense
With his “Golden Nugget" squacl
assuming offensive duties of Rob
inson, Cantor, Overlin, and com
pany, Oliver threw his “Green” and
“Blue” elevens against the make
believe Bruins in an attempt to
halt passes and the deceptive
ground offense employed by UCLA.
In the skirmish, the “Golden” boys
were able to tally three times on
the “Blues” and once on the
“Greens.”
According to the Webfoot coach,
Babe Horrell's crew uses a man-in
motion and also deploys his full
back on the flank ^o either the
strong or weak side, making a
merry jumble of everything in gen
eral. Not only do the Duck backs
on defense have to keep tabs on
this deployed fullback as a possible
pass receiver, but they also have
to be alert anough to ramble up
and crash into ball carriers com
ing through the middle in event
the “spread” man is only a decoy.
Oliphant Hit
Extraordiary on offense for the
“Gold” team were Neal Baumgard
ner, Hal Johnson, Bob Taylor, and
Don Mabee in the backfield, and
Floyd Rhea, Elliot Wilson, and
Steve Bodner on the line.
Kenny Oliphant, halfback who
flashed a pair of tricky feet over
Hayward field last Saturday
against Montana, was knocked a
bit whoozy yesterday while tackl
ing Baumgardner after the latter
had snagged a pass. Not too much
damage was done, incidentally.
Oliver confined offensive man
euvers of his charges to light dum
my scrimmage.
Unable to practice because of an
injury received earlier this season
was End Jim Harris. Also on the
sidelines was Dick Horne, another
wingman, recuperating from a
cold.
—Trek the Oregon Trail—
Koehler’s office, room 204 com
merce building.
Thus far the squad has been
working mainly on the fundament
al holds. Plenty of emphasis is also
being put on calisthenics, road
work (inside the building) and
general loosening up.
Koehler would give no definite
answer as to how the squad looks
but said, “What there is of the
squad has potentialities.”
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Friday Night
Warren Optimistic
Concerning Frosh
Chances of Victory
The frosh football team cTrove
hard in the rain last night in last
minute preparations for their final
game of the season with the Ore
gon State rooks.
In commenting on the Friday
game, Coach John Warren stated
that it would be a close contest,
with the line play probably settling
the final outcome.
“Score first on the rooks,” de
clared Warren, “and we'll beat
them by two touchdowns.”
Staters Ready
The yearling's 7 to 6 win over
the rooks in the Portland game
will carry little weight with re
gards to Friday's contest. The
Staters came out of their victory
over the Portland freshmen Satur
day without serious injuries, and
will be out Friday to reap revenge
for their early defeat at the hands
of the Ducklings.
Judging from previous play the
frosh will enter the contest as fa
vorites, but long experience has
shown that in the “civil war”
games between Oregon and Oregon
State no team rates the top posi
tion.
■—Trek the Oregon Trail—
BRUIN
Bill Ovcrlin, regular fullback in
the UCLA backficld, hits hard and
is one of the team’s most consist
ent punters.
ATO, Phi Psi, Beta, Pi Kap,
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Advance in Volleyball Play
By HOWARD BAN M'S
Six teams walked away from the physical education building yester
day, one step nearer their intramural volleyball league championships.
In all six games the winners had things pretty much their own way.
Starting off the afternoon in which only “A” league games were
scheduled, Alpha Tau Omega swept Sherry Ross hall off their feet.
Both games ended with the count 15 to 2 in favor of the Taus.
Phi Kappa Psi and Beta Theta
Pi conquered their opponents in
two games by considerable mar
gins. Phi Psi took Chi Psi lodge
into camp 15 to 5 and 15 to 12. The
Betas won from Zeta hall by scores
of 15 to 1 and 15 to 12.
Close Game
Closest race of the afternoon
was the Pi Kappa Alpha victory
over Kirkwood coop by 15 to 9 and
15 to 10 scores. Just previous to
that, Delta Upsilon managed to
keep in the running by a win over
Gamma hall 15 to 2 and 15 to 3.
In the final game of the after
noon Phi Delta Theta, touch foot
ball champs, tried to make it two
sports in a row by downing Phi
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Gamma Delta 15 to 4 and 15 to 2.
This afternoon the “A" league
games will continue with Sigma
Chi meeting the Terriers on court
38 and Alpha hall scheduling Sig
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Both games start at 4 p.m.
At 4:40 Sigma hall runs up
against Sigma Nu in 38 and Kappa
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Following these games at 5:20 Sig
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