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Duck Tracks By KEN CHRISTIANSON, Co-Editor of Sports Just lots and lots of folks soy Oregon CAN beat Stanford next year ami CAN eventually land in the llo.se Bowl. There is no,doubt that the Webfoots have the weight in the line, the speed is in the backfield, but—look at the schedule. Naturally, Stanford looks good. All the Indians did last year was to walk through the coast conference undefeated, whack Nebraska in the Rose Bowl, and rank third nation ally. They lose three regulars. What can be more natural than to pick them to cop the crown again? 1 Ioward Jones jut doesn’t bring lii.s ESC Trojans through o poor season twice in a row. Stub Allison will have a top notch team at Cal. UCLA will be stronger. Washington will be a surprise. Everyone figures -Jimmy Phelan to end up low. but he has the material to produce a couple of surprises, Wash ington St a I >• has Billy Sewell, the nation’s best passer. Oregon Slat'1 i.s always well grounded in fundamentals. Texas Will Be the Best It’s a most more than a fan can expect of a coach to think he can wade through that list of football opponents. As if that weren't enough, Oregon plays Texas. All Dana X. Bible has at. Texas is one of I ho strongest if not the strongest teams in the nation. Santa Clara is very strong. Idaho is the one breather on the schedule. Everyone else thinks so. too. Francis Schmidt didn't put out typical Idaho teams while he was at Ohio State, so it’s a safe bet that nobody will push the Van dals around. Coach Tex Oliver still insists that Oregon can beat any one of these teams. The Ducks should. There is a quiet sort of confidence and good will that sticks out in Oregon practice sessions like three aces in a poker hand. Part of this “good" feeling is due to the new type of end play which Oliver and Manny Vezie are advocating. Last year the end spent ail afternoon “crashing" through the tackles <d a 4b degree angle or so. This exposes the flank which must he covered by a halfback. This year it's different. The Oregon end strategy will be to “crash and fade," which is the way tS inta Clara. Washington, and several of the other coast teams work it. Rockne's Brain Child This strategy confuses the opposing tackle. Picture the ends and t ickles bobbing back and forth. The opposing tackle tries to figure out what happens and can’t so he finally gives up and waits for the play. The whole scheme was devised by Knute Itockne at Notre Dame, lloekne was just a little fellow—about I GO pounds and played end. lie worked out this type of end pl.av to draw out the defense and thus equalize the difference between a light end and 200-pound opposition. Taken pound for pound, the heavier player will force the light player all over the field. But by using this new iype of end play, the end can catch the opposition at an angle and the weight difference is equalized. The end’s block will be effecitve. With this "crash and fade play" the end makes the tackle on defense much of the time, \ ezi ■ trot this directly from Kook no. Ho played in 1927, ’29, and '29. In 1930, Ve/.ie was freshman ooaoli at Notre Jkuue. h'O as far as the Oregon ends are concerned, they’re learning' it from one who got it first hand from Roekne. This tyj e of end play jd.so develops individual thought on the field, li takes brains to play this ball—Oregon lias it. and will demonstrate it next fall. Hayward's Vaulters ( • hot d Hill Hayward 1 ;i< always eonm through with a pole vuul ' ote. His toj . lit * was th orge Varoff who eame through with a w >rld re >rd or two. Then eame Hod llansen. Hob ii m.lei'shott. for ad i > weight, holds his own. Hayward s » • \ • st prospert is Hnmer Thomas. so say traek enthusiasts. Thomas Hipped hi> frame over 123L' feet yesterday—-llender hot hasn’t yet w; u gl al over 12 feet. Should Sophomore Thomas keep this pace up, he’ll climb i *» 13 cr 131.: feet before the season is dead and gone. Rod Monroe, frosh vaulter, tossed himself over 11 feet in highly unfavorable conditions. The runway was muddy, the pole box was filled with water, and a stiff wind continually brushed the bar off the standards. H d Hrow n. Oivg-w .> ,mvd .• p ■ ! * and joy, is now tossing for the f>ai 1 ■. ub. He 1! still go to school hoi I- and 11\ to v.«" 1 roue >■ o ! *r tin? meets to throw . The t ',\ mp did* w ! p y ! far to and from Eugene. Oregon Nine Bogs Down *Jupe PI twills’ Sabotages Opening DuckBaseballTilts J. Pluvius called old man winter back to Oregon and did a per fect job of spoiling the Webfoots second attempt to get the 11)41 baseball team underway. The Ducks were all set to leave on a 3-game journey to Pacific university and the University of Portland, when wind and rain called an aciivJii tu a nan. Unless a miracle returns the sun to the Willamette valley, to day's game with the University of Portland in the rose city will he postponed. Without these preliminary games, the Wetafoots’ power on the diamond is still a matter of conjecture. Coach Anse Cornell is confident that his sluggers will come through and is fairly sure of his fielders. A lot will depend on the men on the mound and if they don’t get their much-needed practice the skies may still look dark to Duck fans. If It Rains? If they do not play the Port land Pilots today, their first mix will be with Oregon Col lege of Education at Mon mouth. Monroe (Munk) Karter tnan, recently released from the infirmary, will be ready for action as an alternate hurler. The probable starting lineup: Nick Begleries at pitcher. Bill Calvert behind the plate, Chuck Clifford at first, Jack Shimshak at second, Buck Berry at third, Bill Hamel at short. In the out field will be Bill Carney, Dick Whitman, and John Bubalo. Four Join Greeks Added to the ranks of the Greeks this week were Harold Maddren, Sigma Chi, Los Ange les; Frank Boyd, Sigma Chi, Riv erside, California; Douglas Cald well, Phi Sigma Kappa, Los An geles; and Thomas K. Beard, Sigma Nu, Modesta, California. TIES WORLD INDOOR MARK l.es Steers (left) last night became co-holder of the world Indoor high jump record at ti feet 9(4 inches. Coach Bill Hayward gives Steers a few pointers. Les Steers Equals World Indoor Mark Las Steers last night equaled the world indoor high jump record held by Ed Burke, Marquette ace, with a leap of 6 feet 9 1-4 inches. Three AAU officials checked the height of the standards af ter the Oregon jumper went over in the Hili Military academy meet atop Rocky Butte, Portland. Cornelius Johnson's and Dave Albritton’s G feet 9'4 inch outdoor mark still held ut>, but virtually every other one from here to there came tumbling- down. Among them were Steers’ best University of Oregon mark of 6 feet 73s inches, his own best all-time northern division record at the same height, and his national AAU senior outdoor mark of 6 feet 834 inches. Steers will compete in the Portland-Oregon warm-up meet this afternoon. Rain Dings Trackmen Showers and wind proved no help lo frosh cindermen in their first time-trial run Friday, al though several turned in laud able performances. Wilson Stands Out Standouts of the trial runs were Don Wilson, state prep champion miler, and Stanley Ray, 440-yard man. Wilson turned in a very good time for this stage of the season in the mile orgy, while Ray showed up well in his quar termile specialty. After yesterday’s runs Mentor Johns figures that he can depend on two men in the mile besides Wilson. 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