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Duck Tracks By BOB FLAVELLE Sports Co-editor Oregon Daily Emerald OREGON—20, OSC— 0! As far as I know there was only one person who came near being right in his predictions of the final score. Buck Buckwach, Bruce Hamby's right hand man in the athletic publicity office, hit it on the head when he said, “We'll beat them by three touchdowns.” . . . Three touchdowns it was, but from his actions in the press box during the game, even Buckwach was more than a little surprised at the way the Webfoots plastered the highly touted Beavers. It is a slight injustice lo say the Ducks were "hot.” That im plies they were playing over their heads, and I for one don't believe they were. Their smash ing victories over Montana and UCLA earlier in the season, and brief flashes of offensive power in all the other games indicated that they had the makings of a great team. Last Saturday they finally lived up to their poten tialities and the fans that tra velled to Corvallis and laid $1.10 on the line saw the best team on the coast in action . . . they were that day at least and if this were the beginning of the season and not the close, the University of Oregon would be the big fa vorites to wind up in the Rose Bowl on New Year’s day. The final touchdown play, which saw Roblin start a wide sweep around the right end and then hand the ball to Curt Mecham who was running hell-bent-for-election tow ard the left side lines, was the most spectacular play I have ever seen. It was perfection itself . . . with a horde of Webfoot interferes ap parently breaking the way for Rob lin, the entire Beaver defense was pulled over to make sure the elu sive Cocky Roblin didn’t go far. When Meham took the ball and started out alone around the weak side, there wasn’t a man on the field going in his direction. The Beavers were fooled completely. By the time they knew who had the ball, Mecham had almost reached the goal line. Len Isberg really covered him self with glory with his brilliant broken field running. Not a fast man, Len has been criticized on occasion for his lack of speed. Slow or not, Isberg was the best, back on the field Saturday, and it was his 33-yard return of Kis selburgh’s punt which set the Webfoots in position for their first touchdown. His first score, exactly five minutes and 33 sec onds after the kickoff, took the fight out of the Staters and made Oregon an unbeatable team. Don’t forget the rest of our seniors, namely: Johnny “Buck” Berry, Dick Horne, Jim Stuart, Jim Harris, Chet Haiiski, Marsh Sfcnstrom, Jake Jacobsen, and Don Mabee. . . . They all played their hearts out and had a big band in the ending of Oregon State's four-year domination of Oregon football. QflSSJQiiCilQiiE^LICilCHlGilCLiCHiQilCilCdJGilCllCiiCiiGilGiiCfilHifHi^] 1 Believe It or Not I DON’T GUESS 1 CALL JESS I GODLOVE The Plumber I 31 East 7th Ph. 517 g EhSISlSJ3MSISI3/B®SI3I3I3JSISfSlSIBJ3EI3fEi h ullow the Oreedx^Emerald Advertising this week and next Hobby’s Hoopers Tripped by Rubes, 47-40 Sarpola and Dick Pace Oregonians Jackson's 11-Point Spree in Second Half Leads Webfoot Scorers; Team Leaves Friday on Eastern Tour By KKN CHRISTIANSON Sports Co-Editor, Oregon Daily Emerald Kubenstcin’s Oregonians, captained by Bob Anet of Webfoot fame, sent a badly organized University of Oregon basketball team to defeat Monday night before approximately 800 Eugene fans. It wgs the second defeat in as many pre-season games for the Webfoots and the first win for the Rubes as the opened their campaign for the Oregon AAU title. The Oregonians are 1940 state AAU champions. I he linal score read Kubenstems 47, Oregon 40. During the entire first half, play was listless, shooting erratic, and neither team was coordinated. It was supposedly the second prac tice for the Oregonians. However, experience made up for lack of practice, and the Oregonians scored the points when they were needed and were effective on defense as compared to the Ducks’ defense. ALL-AMERICAN Vic Sears, Oregon State tackle, captained the Beaver team against Oregon Saturday. Sears was named all-American by the New York Sun Sunday. Duck-Rube Summary RUBEN STEINS Sarpola, f . Butterworth.f .. Dick, c . Anet, g . Pavalunas, g .... Danner, f . Robertson . KG FT PF TP 7 0 1 14 ...4 119 .5 0 4 10 .3 0 3 6 ...3 0 2 6 0 0 0 0 ..10 0 2 Totals .23 OREGON FG Anderson, f .4 Taylor, f .5 Borrcvik, c .1 Townsend, g .2 Kirsch, g .0 McNeeley, f .1 Jackson, g .5 Andrews, g .0 Borcher, c ..^.0 Sandness, f .0 1 11 47 FT PF TP 2 2 10 0 0 10 0 2 2 12 5 0 0 0 0 12 1 2 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals ■ .18 4 9 40 Halftime score: Oregonians 23, Oregon 16. Officials: Emil Piluso and Frank Heniges. THROUGH I.<ii Isberg, Oregon halfback, will no longer wear the Webfoot colors. It was he who raised Ore gon’s punting average with the aid of Frankie Boyd and Curt. Mceham. Isberg played the greatest game of his life Saturday against Oregon State. The Beavers lost to Oregon, 20 to 0. DON T MISS THESE! Lu.rn and Abner in ‘Dreaming Out Loud’ with Frances Langford — also —t Newsreel Shots of the 050 Game! Coach Howard Hobson last night named Guard Don Kirscli and Forward Quentin Sidesinger to complete the ten-man traveling squad which leaves on a basketball tour of the East Friday. The other Oregon players making the trip are: Vic Townsend, Hank Anderson, Archie Mar shik, Evert McNeeley, Paul Jackson, George Andrews, Warren Taylor, and Wally Borrevik. Paul Jackson, dynamic little Oregon guard, was the mainspring on offense during the second half for the Wcbfoots. Captain Vic Townsend aided a drowning cause with his ball-hawking. But the Ore gons simply couldn't cope with the experience of the Rubes. The ball handling of Jack Butterworth, the shot-making of Ted Sarpola, and the all-around effectiveness of John Dick was just too much for Hobby Hobson’s team. Sarpola captured high point hon ors for both teams with 14 points. Jackson scored 11 marks. Dick of the Rubes and Oregon's two for wards, Hank Anderson and Warren Taylor, tied for third with JO points each. The Oregonians made a 35.4 percentage on their field goal at tempts. Anet’s hoys shot 65 times and made 33 of their at tempts good. While Oregon could only make 18 of 75 attempts for an ineffective 34 percentage. Oregon started three sophomores and two seniors in the lineup. These sophomores were Don Kirsch, Wally Borrevik, and Tay lor. Borrevik was filling in for Archie Marshik who is slightly ili with a cold, but it is expected that he will be ready for the University of Oklahoma next Monday. Listless Ball Matt Pavalunas started the Rube scoring. Townsend tied up the score. Then came an Oregonian spurt. Oregon settled down and be gan to play listless ball which was matched by Anet's gang. The Ducks slowly forged into the lead like a barge going down a stream. With seven minutes left in the half, the Oregonians tied up the score at 13 to 13. Then the Oregonians kept on rolling slowly. By halftime, the count had reached 33 to 16 in favor of the Oregonians. The Huhcnstein inertia was enough to hold it up during the first part of the second half. Anet’s gang still poured in points and Hobson’s crew showed little in the way of defense which is perhaps natural in preseason games. •laekson Sparks Then Jackson entered the pic lure. He had previously made no points in the second half. He scored them all at this time going liell bcnt-for-election down the side lines or slipping through the Rube defense near the key. Oregon gath ered itself together and pulled to within three points of the Rubes, but the clock was moviDg on tow ard the end of the game. The Rubes began to bring stalling tac tics into play. Time and again Townsend would steal the ball, and an Oregon man would sink a basket. But, it was all to no avail, and the Oregonian lead was lengthened to seven points when the gun sounded. Carefree and Collegiate! “TOO MANY GIRLS” With LUCILLE BALL and EICHAP-D CALLS OH ZIVIC SAMPLES DAVIS' 'TECHNIQUE' a A terrific hook to the groin doubles up Fritzie Zivic, Pittsburgh world's welterweight champ, in the second round of a bout with A1 “Bunnny" Davis in New York. Davis has taken a severe lacing in the first round and then came out in the second swinging leather below the belt. The fight was awarded to Zivic by Referee Cavanagh. Oregon's boxing season will be in full swing during the first part of winter term. Rivals Vie Before 190,000 Over 190,000 fans up ami down the coast saw Oregon, Stanford, Washington, and USC sweep to victory over their ancient rivals in the outstanding Pacific coast games of 1940. Only upset of the afternoon was the charging University of Oregon team’s impressive win over Oregon State 20 to 0. Before a booming crowd of 80,000 people the University of Califor nia in California State's “big game,” vainly strived to take the mighty Stanfords, but succeeded in scoring only one touchdown. Stanford Picks Nebraska It was announced after the game that the undefeated and untied Stanfords were officially selected as the Coast conference Itose Bowl representative. They in turn selected Nebraska to l»e their opponents. The Golden Bears valiantly put their heart and soul into this game but apparently it wasn’t enough, for Stanford, although they had to fight desperately, managed to score twice. There was no individ ual star in the victorious Indian lineup, but as usual that tremen dously speedy backfieid of Frank Albert, Pete Kmetovic, Hugh Gal larneau, and Norm St and lee teamed up for the win. In Seattle a surprisingly small crowd of 25,000 watched Wash HIS BOYS LOST TO ANET'S GANG Howard Hobson’s 1940-41 basketball team lost its second game in as many attempts Monday night to Kubenstein’s Oregonians, a team com posed largely of ex-Oregon players and headed by all-American Hobby Anct. Hobson takes ten players Friday and heads eastward for Madi son Square Garden in the third eastern trip in three year., for the Webfoots. I, Li Vi TWO TOP FEATURES! Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier in “21 Days Together” — plus — “Danger Ahead” ■urjtll .taTnWc'j/il) VDONAIII LAST TIME TODAY! Norma Shearer and Robert Taylor m ‘Escape’ — plus — ‘Dancing on a Dime’ with Grace McDonald and Robert ington Slate and Bill Sewell for three quarters lead the power ful Washington Huskies, and then saw that lead blasted sky high in eight minutes of the fourth period. Sewell Sparks It was all Washington State during the first half as they reg istered a safety and a touchdown, on a 19-yard run by Sewell, to lead at half time, 9 to G. At the end ol the third quarter the score was the same, but within eight minutes of the stupendous fourth ''hie tf ore had changed to 33 to 9, Washington. Ne\er this season had the bril liant Huskies been so hot as In this period when their deter mined liaeks made runs of 6, 38, 87, and 40 yards. Trojans Win Down Los Angeles way, USC finally came to life to slap UCLA’s faltering Bruins, 28 to 12. In the cross-town grudge match, nine-time-loser UCLA, never had a chance as the Trojans, led by Quarterback Bobby Robertson, went to four touchdowns. His ter rific smashes and open field runs dominated USC’s play and even outshone Jackie Robinson, who couldn't do anything against the hard - charging Southern Califor nia linemen. Cards 'Sha ughnessy Is Grid Miracle Man NEW YORK, Dec. 3, 1910.—Stanford’s losers of 1939 have turned into the winners of 1940—and a losing team plus a losing coach have proved that in collegiate football two failures can still make a success. So declares an article published in Look magazine today entitled, “The Coach Who Came Back.” "When he arrived at Stanford,” said Look, “the authorities were amazed. Here was a man who claimed to be a football coach, yet he the dope bucket By TOMMY WRIGHT I Like Napoleon at Waterloo, we (the Bucket and the Dope) took it on the chin when we picked the “Aggie* from the Gowlege’’ to beat the Ducks. The Ducks weren't ready for soup or dinners, and our perfect record of not missing on Oregon this year went by the boards. The Bucket and I didn’t do so bad on Saturday’s games though, picking a out of 4 to keep our average above .750 for the sea son. That last miss was worth it, worth all the games wc missed all year in fact. We are taking our bows now, and maybe we’ll see you next year. BOWLING SCHEDULE Bowling schedule for the com ing week: Tuesday, 4 o’clock—AOPi vs. Sigma Kappa. Wednesday, 0 o’clock—AOPi cs. ADPi Friday, 4:30—Hendricks vs. Chi Omega. All games must be played as schedule. BEAVER Holt Olson, Oregon State half back, played his last game for the Beavers Saturday against Oregon. He muffed a punt from Isberg, and Oregon recovered for a gain. The break helped Oregon score one of its three touchdowns. nan a son protessonal voice and when you talked to him he listened without interrupting." Miracle Man Look's article then proceeds to tell how Clark Shaughnessy, ihc man who twelve months ago was the prize failure and laughing stock of football America, set his team on the road to a national championship, and gave the nation its football miracle for 1940. Some of the ingredients of Shaughnefsy’s success formula included the building of a great hackfield; teaching them more football than they ever knew ex isted; analysis of Stanford's op ponents until they knew every thing there was to be known about them. The offense which Shaughnessy introduced at Stanford, says Look, is based on that used by the Chi cago Bears professional team and is so complicated that enemy scouts laughed at the idea of col legians attempting to master a plan of attack designed for the best pros. But Shaughnessy did his job. Halfback Warren Panushka, a 22-year-old senior at Macalester college who never played football in either high school or college, is in the Macalester starting lineup this year. 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