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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1941)
Ducks Hide Again—Vandals Next Foe Pull up a chair, reader, I’ve got a couple of orchids to pass out. I know, the score was 19 to 15 and whether they took us by four points or four touchdowns, it’s all the same—it’s a mark in the loss column. Let’s forget the score, it’s over with anyway, and start dividing honors. One for Tex It was a nice job Coach. With hut a few scant weeks of preparation, you had the task of finding out what the 1941 model T looked like and just how potent it could be. Personally, I have a hunch that several coaches up and down the coast have begun breathing easier after you showed them it could be matched. A Few for the Sophomores Nice going gentlemen. It’s a big jump from high school football to college competition, even if you do knife in a year of freshman ball, and you handled the transposition rather well. Jimmy Newquist, your defensive work was good. Chuck Elliott and Merritt Ku^rman, you did o.k. Tom Oxman, you’ll do. Have an or- ^ fellows. Outstanding, We Thought Elliott Wilson. Over the radio it sounded like “Li’l Abner” had taken a monopoly on tackles, batting down passes, and knocking down aspiring blockers. Every other phrase from the announcer’s lips was, “Wilson made the tackle,” or “Wil son knocked down that pass.” But you can’t write a column like this without mention ing others who did a good job, like Ashcom, Mecham, Eoblin, Iverson and—but still better, just take a look at the team roster and you’ve got the list of boys who did a fine job. The Proverbial "If" I don’t suppose any game is played and lost without some sports writer sitting down at his typewriter afterwards and having a few dreams about what might have happened if—. The column and I don’t deny that the breaks weren’t about even, but we would liked to have seen a few go the other way. For instance, the holding penalty which set the Stanford machine on the Oregon one-yard line with four downs to push it over. Albert did it on the first down with a quarterback sneak. That hurt. Perhaps if Ab Wilson had had just a little longer reach, things might have been different. When Albert fumbled in the last quarter and the ball rolled free in the end zone, lots of things could have happened to change the com plexion of the game. Fawcett curled around it just a few seconds before Wilson so it was two points for Oregon instead of six. Oh well, they’re just dreams anyway. What About the T? The famed T has had its first anniversary under Shaugh nessy. They’ve won the first game but what next. Is it still as potent as last year’s model and will the Stanfordites go through another undefeated season on its strength? Nobody has the answer yet but this column has a few suspicions. It (the column) sticks out its neck and says no to both ques tions. The T that raised so much fear and confusion in the hearts of west coast coaches last year ain’t what it used to be. It was a great offensive weapon last year (the number of teams copying it this year proves that) but something is lacking this year. When everyone went overboax-d on it last year they i*aved about the deception. Too much of this deception, it ap pears, was in Albert, Standlee, Kmetovic, and Gallarneau. Standlee and Gallarneau are gone and “Hoot” Armstrong and Milt Vucinich just aren’t their equal, at least not yet. Time may prove this wrong, but remember, it’s just the column that makes the suggestion anyway. Hymie Harris has finished his football days at Oregon, it is feared. When Tex called the football aspirants for the first days of opening practice this year Hymie was not on hand. Hymie notified Tex from Portland, where he was staying, that he had asked for extended leave from the navy, where he was then classified as a reserve ensign. The national emergency has won. Now Harris is in Chicago awaiting his call to active duty. It looks like his next play ing days will be under the red, white, and blue. Webfoots Shock Coast Experts! As Oliver’s Men Scare Indians Before Dropping Game, 19 to 15 By FRED TREADGOLD While the football world was still trying- to catch its bream after the wild-and-woolly Stanford-Oregon whirlwind of last Saturday, Duck Coach Tex Oliver once more had his boys in “hiding” Monday in the confines of Hayward field, hard at work in preparation for their home opener against Idaho Friday night. However, the thoughts of the game stand made by the Web foots could not be put aside so easily by those fortunate 28,000 ians wno witnessed the bitterly contested battle in the Stanford oval, nor those thousands of fol lowers listening on their radios. It was the story of a heroic little band of underdogs from Oregon who had the courage and forti tude to defy the Rose Bowl cham pions in their own back yard, to twice assume the lead, and to scare the living daylights out of the touted Indians, before finally succumbing before a narrow mar - gin, 19 to 15. Coach Oliver was justly proud of the showing made by his Web foots, who almost succeeded in becoming the first team to crack the heretofore unshakable “T” formation. “We were a little lucky at times, and when our luck did come we were on the wrong part of the field,” the soft-spoken Oregon coach declared. He added that his charges were determined to have a fine season anyway. Oregon had to fight from be hind on two occasions, but the third time wasn’t quite able to counteract the Indians’ touch down, having to be content with a safety—and two points. Albert Sparks All-American Frankie Albert, head tactician of the Stanford machine, who ran the Indian team with unerring canniness, sparked the first drive to pay dirt. In six plays the Shaugh nessymen moved from their own 42 to the one-yard line. An A'bert fumble which he recovered cost them three yards, but on the next play Fleet Frankie took it over. Just five minutes later the sur prising Ducks cancelled the Stan ford score with a bit of fancy doings themselves. With the oval on the 50, Southpaw Curt Me cham snaked a beautiful 34-yard pass to fellow halfback Tommy Roblin who took it behind the Stanford pass defense and gal TOUGH BOY Bruno Banducci, right tackle on the Shaughnessy T team. loped 16 yards to tie up matters. Jimmy Newquist, dependable sophomore fullback, place kicked the all-important conversion to place Oregon in front of the In dians, much to the chagrin of Stanford rooters. After having their lead snatched thusly from them, the 1941 Rose Bowl titleholders got down to business again. They drove to the Oregon one, only to have the staunch Green de fenders hold for downs. Anoth er Stanford “push” carried to the Webfoot ten, where a pen alty for roughing handed the Indians the bail on the one. On the ensuing play Quarterback Albert wiggled over for the six points and slip the lead back into Stanford’s pocket. Ducks Drive Again The Webfoot power shone forth again in the third period when Oliver’s boys pulled a drive of '9t Gan Be 2>ane—f Say 1800 U of 0 Workers “He’s working his way through college” isn’t just a song title at the University of Oregon. For recent surveys show that over half of the student body is more than half self-supporting. These work-your-way students, who earn more than $175,000 each year in part-time jobs are direct proof, says Dean of Personnel Karl W. Onthank, that “the typical Ore gon student has neither the time nor money, if he had the in clination, for ‘country clubbing.’ ” Much From the U Chief source of employment for undergraduates is the $73,655 ex pended by the school itself dur ing 1940-41 to hire students as assistants, janitors, waiters, etc. Greatest friend of working stu dent is Miss Janet Smith, Oregon employment secretary, who main tains in her office in the YMCA a clearing house for those who wish to employ and those who wish to be employed. The value of jobs secured through the employment service in a given year amounts to more than $63,000. NYA Slashed Five hundred Webfoots last year received aid from the National Youth Administration, which provides $40,760 to employ students in University offices and campus work. Dean Onthank, who heads the NYA committee, said this week that there is a possibility that the NYA grant for the coming year may be slightly reduced. “However, stu dents who really need aid will have work again this year,” the personnel dean explained, “for we make a special policy of ex tending at least half of the annual NYA grant to new stu dents trying to get started.” After this beginning assistance, many students find jobs in Eugene stores, offices, and news papers based on the record they make in their University-pro vided jobs. HE WON Clark Shaughnessy, whose T formation celebrated its first an niversary with a win over Or^ gon. their own—78 yards all told. With the ball on the 11, Roblin shoved a pass to Substitute End Tony Crish who covered the five yards to the goal with Pete Kmetovic in hot pursuit. It was still a one point advantage for Oregon when Newquist missed the try for con version. A 12-yard boot by Frank Boyd put the Ducks in a bad hole in the fourth quarter, from which advantage the Cardinals wrung out the winning touchdown. Th«^ punt went out on the 19 where a pass by Albert set the pigskin up on the Oregon 3. Fullback Milt Vucinich punched over the score, while Albert converted. Determined, fighting -mad Oregon threatened in the fourth period, but a Stanford pass interception cut short the drive on the Indian 22. A wild pass from center rolled over the goal, but Buck Fawcett, Stanford half, beat Oregon’s Elliott Wilson to it by a step. This safety which awarded the Ducks but two paltry points, averted a touchdown which might have resulted in an Orfe^* gon victory. A last-second rally for the E^cks which advanced 42 yards had reached the 40 was abruptly cut short by the gun. Lineups: Oregon (15) (19) Stanford Shepard.LE .Meiners Moshofyky .LT . Stamm Segale .LG . Robesky Wilson . C .Lindskog Culwell.RG . Laprade Ashcom .RT . Banducci Regner.RE . Meyer Iverson. Q . Albert Roblin.LH.Kmetovic Mecham .RH .. Armstrong Newquist . F Vucinichjj, Score by quarters: Oregon. 7 0 6 2— 15 Stanford . 6 6 7 0— 19 Oregon scoring — Touchdowns, Roblin, Crish (for Regner). Point after touchdown — Newquist (place kick). Safety on Stanford — (Fawcett for Armstrong). Stanford scoring—Touchdowns —Albert 2, Vucinich. Point /after touchdown—Albert (place kick). Substitutions: Oregon — Ends, Borcher, Crish, Nowling; tackles, Elliott, Kufferman; guards, Rhea, Bodner; center, Patton; half backs, Oxman, Oliphant; quarter back, Surles; fullbacks, Dunlap, Koch. Stanford — End, Norberg, Brubaker; tackles, JohanneserVr McCain; guards, Taylor, Francis; center, Stahle; quarterback, Mit^ chell; halfbacks, Fawcett, Ditiev sen, Mitchell, Cole; fullbacks, Shell, Crane.