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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1940)
Webfoots Leave Today on 7,500 Mile Hoop Trek Duck Tracks By KEN CHRISTIANSON, Co-Editor of Sports Hobby Hobson takes his ten slightly flu-infected basketball players plus Trainer Bob Officer and Student Manager Leonard Ruecker today on the third 7500 mile trip through the East in three years. Whether or no the players can hold up under the rigors im posed by such a trip and games < against seven tough eastern and midwest teams is a question. But one thing is sure, that flu or no flu, the opposition will know it’s been up against some thing tough. Oregon has not looked particularly impressive in pre-season drills, but as Hobby pointed out, it is doubtful if the Ducks will meet any team filled with the material with which Signal Oil and the Rubes is com posed. Ex-Oregon and Oregon State stars provide the impetus of both. ‘Super’ Competition It may well be that some of the Ducks’ toughest opposition will come from members of its own squad following the Madison < Square Garden tour. The “super varsity,” the “supers,” or what have you, plans to make things warm for the members of the trav eling squad. “This “super varsity” is com posed of those Webfoots not so fortunate as their teammates. These are staying at home and playing games in their ovvn baelc yard. Games are scheduled Fri day and Saturday against Jean (Eberliart’s hoopers of Southern Oregon College of Education at Ashland. Another game is set for Wednesday against McKee Bakers of Springfield. McKee was runnerup to the Kubes for the state AAU title last year. Bill Borcher, Toivo Piippo, Len Gard, Earl Sandness, Ralph Fuhr man, Walt Reynolds, and Joe Tri ano have set a goal—playing to gether as a unit—and hope to at least show the so-called No. 1 boys some real competition on their return. Alumni Worry Coaches Coast grid coaches are sitting very softly in some places and are very careful of what they say or do. At Oregon State and at UCLA the nightmare of every coach— the wolfing alumni—is rearing its head to taunt those same coaches who, only a year ago, were sitting so securely. Babe Horrell and his Bruins were rated in the first ten teams of the nation last year and is* now praying he ■won’t be booted because of his last place team. Lon Stiner of Oregon State is truly in the dog house. It all dates hack to the Oregon State USC game in Los Angeles. USC tied the Beavers. Following the game, Howard Jones averred that “if I had the material that Stiner has had dur ing the past three years, there wouldn’t be a team in the nation —past present or future—that could beat me.” So, naturally, following the beat ing at Oregon's hands, the Beaver alumni are crying and demanding that Stiner produce or else—most ly, or else. Washington loses lots and lots of key men this year in Dean McAdams, Rudy Mucha, Jay Mc Dowell, Bill Marx, Byng Nixon, Ernie Steele, and so forth, so tab Jim Phelan to sit atop the hot seat following the 1941 season. Short Shots People are beginning to settle back and survey the 1941 season nowr, and everyone is beginning to jump between the Oregon and Stanford bandwagons. But Stan ford loses only Hugh Gallarneau and Norm Standlee, while Oregon loses seven starters from nine se niors, so all is not yet a bowl of roses. More basketball — Hobson’s crew opens its regular confer ence season against Washington State in Eugene as they did when the Ducks copped the na tional crown. But this time, it will be an “Olsonless” VVSC. Lit tle Bud Olson, the clever ball handler and the Cougar with a bad temper, won’t be in the line up. Something happened up Pull man way and Olson suddenly breaks into the lineup with Boe ing Aircraft’s basketball team in , Seattlo. Stanford was one very worried ball club prior to the second half of the Oregon State fracas. The Beavers had been pounding away during the first half and playing havoc with the Indians with a four man line. During the halftime in termission, Clark Shaughnessy gave Frankie Albert a new set of plays and talked to the Stanford players. The rest is old stuff. Stanford ripped the Beaver four-man line to bits and threw the bits back in Stiner’s face. We got it from Bill McFadden who in turn got it from former Grant teammates, Eric Armstrong and Ed Stamm of Stanford sophomoric fame. LOW RAIL FARES For a Merry Xmas Trip Home ON SALE DEC. 18-21 Return Limit, Jan. 7 PORTLAND $2-75 ROUNDTRIP •Special parties being or ganized to Klamath Falls, .Sail Francisco, and Los Angeles at greatly reduced rates. Organize your party and save. NORTHBOUND Trains .northbound leave Eugene, dailv at 12.20 p.M. and 4.20 PM. SOUTHBOUND Leave Eugene (via Klamath Falls) 12.04 PM 1.03 AM ; 1 -24 A M. — To Ashland 11.25 P.M. RETURNING Special train leaves Portland M'ednesdav, Jamiarv 1 at 6:50 P.M. Tickets and information at Booth on Thirteen*!: St,, between Oregon and Commerce Buildings. SDonsored bv U. of O. ASSOCIATED* t-IUDEMS 1940'$ VOLLEYBALL THRONE HOLDERS —Photos by Ted Kenyon, Emerald staff photographer Top, ATO’s “A” league championship team. Front row: Bob Oliver, Ralph Dunn, and Doug Hay. Top row: Fred Harrior, Norm Wiener, Jack Stafford, and Jack Dunn. These ATOs dropped the Phi Sigs for the title. Bottom, front row: Bob Watson, George Olsen, George Arbuckle, and Bud Wimberg. Back row: Les Ready, Bud McDowell, Pete Igoe, and Jim Stevenson. These Phi Delts took the “B" finals from the ATOs. Hoy man Says Ducks Have Title Chance I$,V JEAN SPEAItOW When the Webfoot swimming aggregation enters the dual meet with Washington this coming spring the Ducks will enter with all the grim determination born from being at the short end of the betting. Training Hard Every afternoon Oregon's poten IT tial Tarzans of the tank splash and churn the water in the men's pool in a tireless effort to prepare for this annual feud-battle. “Washington has a better team this year," said Mike Hoyman, soft spoken swimming coach, “but we have a good chance of regaining the championship we lost to them last year." Hoyman's teams have won every dual meet from Washington except the last, which was in 1938, “and we don’t figure on losing this year,” grinned Hoyman. "Not until they get us into the tank, any way ... we don't scare easy.” Star Losses Felt In reviewing Oregon's chances for winning the paddle derby in 1941, Hoyman dwelt mournfully on the loss of many of Oregon's key men. Jerry Macdonald, 50 and 100 yard free style title holder and anchor on the championship medley team is gone, leaving a large, con spicuous, empty hole in the water. Ralph Lafferty, Northwest breast stroke champion in 1938 is also absent. Mobilization of the national guard claimed three more of Ore gon's water-wonders. Dick Smith, 220 and 440 free style man is now toting a gun as are Earl Walrath and Ralph Huestis, two promising point getters from last year's fresh man team. (Please turn to page jour) Tl CHRISTMAS SHOPPING? Pause and Refresh SANDWICHES BEVERAGES ICE CREAM GUSTAFSON’S 'DUTCH GIRL’ 1224 Willamette Rally Send-off Set For Duck Squad Ten Players, "Hobby" Hobson, Trainer Bob Officer, and Manager, to Make Trip; Oklahoma First for Wandering Ducks By JOHNNIE KAHANAXlI There they go! Oregon’s basketball team, model 1940-41, Coach Howard Hobson at the wheel, heads out of Eugene at 12:04 pail, toda.t on the first leg of a winding 7,500-mile “business journey.” In two weeks coach and team will have spanned the Wyoming desert, rolled over fertile Midwest plains, through Oklahoma oil fields, across half the country to New A’ork, up Gotham’s walled streets, down to Pennsylvania and its smokey cities, down further to Baltimore, and doubled back to Peoria, Illinois, on a “play-as-you-go” basis. Squad Completed Captains "Slick" Vic Townsend heads the traveling squad of three seniors., *_Hank Anderson, Evert McNeeley, and himself, three jun iors—Archie Marshik, George An drews, and Paul Jackson; and four sophomores — Wally Borrevik, Don Kirsch, Chuck Taylor, and Quentin Sidesinger. First stop, Norman, Oklahoma, where they take the floor against the University of Oklahoma Soon ers. Two years ago the Sooners and the Webfoots tangled in the NCAA Western playoffs, Hobson's crew conking their rivals and push ing on to cop the National Colle giate hoop title. Open Garden Season A long northeasterly hike will dump the Ducks in Buffalo, New York. There they take on Canisius college, before scraping up their glad rags and heading south for (Please turn to page jour) 'MENTOR' Couch Howard “Hobby” Hobson leaves with his 1940 basketball team today on a barnstorming trip to the east coast. Orides Win Net Title, Tip Hendricks, 37-15 Orides coed volleyball team smashed its way to intramural champion ship by waxing the potential Hendricks girls in a spectacular battle 37 to 15, Thursday at Gerlinger. The fight was not as lopsided as the 37 to 15 score indicates. Orides took the lead in the opening seconds, but Hendricks hall moved in front for a few minutes. The half-time tally conceded Orides a 10-point ad vantage, to 10 s. In the second half Orides in creased its lead, and wound up with the championship, 37 to 15. Beverly Goetz sparked the hall girls’ squad. Orides took full ad vantage of mistakes to pick up needed points. The victors clicked beautifully and continuously set up shots for the front row to spike. Pat Short, Jerry Steddom, and Hazel Oldfield of Orides, and Bcv Goetz and Betty Hccht of Hendricks played out standing ball during the champion ship tilt. Lineups: Orides Hendricks Steddom.Dixon Orwick.Quinn Short.Frizzell Anderson . Hccht DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING at I lie UNIV. CO OP Smith .Rightmicr Oldfield. M. Quinn . 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Those girls chosen to play in the all-star game Tuesday at 5 p.m. are: Kay Thompson, Kappa Kap pa Gamma; Bev Goetz, Hendricks hall; Nancy Lewis, Chi Omega; Marylee Fry, Kappa Kappa Gam ma; Ethel Dixon, Hendricks; Dot Gustafson, Susan Campbell; Pat Short, Orides; Mary Allen, Chi Omega; Marianne Blenkinsop, Su san Campbell; Hazel Oldfield, Ori des. On the opposing team arc: Mary Lou Vincent, Pi Phi; Connie Urquiri, Orides; Mary Ellen Smith, ADP; Doris Ann Shoemaker, ADP; Mary Jane Ford, Susan Campbell; Mary Anderson, Orides; Phyl Cur ry, Co-op; Helen Jane Kerr, Kap pa Alpha Theta; Jane McCurdy, Delta Gamma; Betty Lou Roberts, Kappa Kappa Gamma. "Both scholastic and playing ability were the deciding factors in selecting the teams,” said Miss Persicano, volleyball coach. FOUNTAIN PENS, PIPES, POUCHES, Smokers’ Supplies UNIV. CO-OP ~ Webfoots Rated Third University of Oregon's grid team is rated third on the Pa cific slop*- and rated No. 24 in the nation by Sam Hayes and Mayor L. B. 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