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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1941)
Experts Pick Ducks Over USC Comes Friday night and a sport columnist drags his weary frame into the sports room, parks in front of a typewriter and with his fingers questingly tensed on the keys, starts thinking. Of course its easier to think of that tall brunette the Chi 0 house but he‘s got a column to put out. What’s happening tomorrow? Football — advance dope — predictions, ft'hat’s it. : Lots of questions are in the minds of football followers i concerning- the game this afternoon between Stanford and ♦ Oregon State. Most people are asking- if rain would give f the Beavers a chance at tipping the scale. Others are cur r ious about the reported injuries of Hoot Armstrong, or i the touted passing attack of Oregon State, or that Albert 1 lost two teeth in the UCLA game. The rain is good for a ' paragraph later, Armstrong is slated for the bench for most of the game and it is doubted in the highest football i circles that Albert's loss of his molars will affect the T. To Rtuin or Not to Rain Up and down the coast for the last week have been circulat ing reports that a good healthy rain would raise the Beaver stock a good dozen points. 1 even hear that Buchwach has been piaying for moisture. This column would like to see OSC trip the Indians but it doesn’t think the rain will do it. Of course a good sloppy field would put a hook in the T • bat it would also raise havoc with the Oregon State team. I Some scribes have overlooked the fact that Oregon State ; isn’t exactly a power team. Their heaviest offensive ! weapon is their passing attack, which incidentally rates tops on the coast. Also, the top men in their backfield, - Durdon and Dethman, are speed merchants, not power runners as is usually the case over Corvallis way. After the Oregon State-Washington State game last week «nany scribes were paying tribute to the Beaver line in big handfuls. Sure, Lou Stiner has a good front wall and under the guidance of Quentin (Ireenough who directed it defensively last Saturday, it did a good job. But brother, don’t overlook that Stanford line. It’s great. The picture isn’t a glum one for Oregon State however. They li jve the top passing aggregation on the coast and Stanford lias one of the weakest pass defenses. If you’re pulling for the Beavers (and that would be a novelty on this campus) don’t depend too much on the rain but more on a flurry of passes thrown by Durdon and Dethman, and on a little fight. D'wcks Through the Line Oregon takes on their second southern foe today. The Trojan team this year is a novelty for the California school. 1 Year in and year out California has had men three deep * in every position. This year they missed. While they still * luve the power and speed men three deep in the backfield, (and special agent X-13 says that their third string backs 1 could make the first string at Oregon) the middle of their 1 line bears a marked resemblance to a sieve. With a running * offense that has netted some 216 yards to date, Oregon * should pour runners through the middle of the line like a " panzer division going through Russia. 1-ut the ever-present injury bug still hangs heavy. Frank lloyd went south but it is supposed that he will spend most of the afternoon wrapped up in a blanket watching the game, k.onny Oliphant is out for the game as is Yal Culwell. O-n the Limb Fo\\ for a few predictions for the coast. Ilev waiter, a short . aspirin. At Pullman Washington and Washington State meet m classic. Orin Ilollingbery took California last week, but his pet love would be to tip Washington. We think he could and should do it about 13 to 7. Alas, we shall have to take Stanford and the T, rain or no rain to beat OSC. Dry field, 20 to 7, on a wet field about * I t to 0. The Oregon backs should get through the middle * of the Trojan line for about two touchdowns to beat USC 1 13 to 7. Buck Shaw’s Santa Clara team should beat Cali I forma, minus Jurkovich, some 20 to nothin. Another r spirin please. GUARD Webfool “Red" Davis, who'll probably see a wealth of action against ITSC today. Probable Game Starters JRT. De Lauer RE.Hey wood . Q.Anderson .LH.Bundy RH. Robertson* Crish ... Elliot ... Rhea.... Wilson Segale. Ashcom .F.B. Musick Regner .LE. Bledsoe Iverson ..LT. Wilier Roblin.LG. Woods Mecham.C.Danehe Dunlap.RG. Pranevicius KORE will carry a broadcast of the game starting at 2 :15 p.m. today. Tex Oliver Flies to Los Angeles For Session with Oregon Scouts; Trojans’ Taylor Bench-Locked By WALLY HUNTER For the first time in the history of the rivalry between Sou thern California and the University of Oregon, Coach Tex Oliver’s mighty Webfoots found themselves on the long end of the odds, as last-minute preparations were under way for the impending clash today, in Los Angeles. Cagey Tex Oliver, employing fifth columnist tactics, Thurs day swooped into the Trojan stronghold ahead of his ball 'Amphibs’ Hold First Tryouts Eighteen coeds splashed around in the women’s pool Thursday night, as the Amphibian club, campus swimming honorary, staged its initial series of tryouts for the coming year. Girls participating included: Lois Clause, Lorraine Davidson, June Hitchcock, Vesta Miller, Olive Morton, Pat Smith, Lona .McCalley, Jean Kabisius, Marine Foster, Sherry Sheridan, Nancy Harvey, Carol Greening, Peggy Wright, Mario Woodward, Kath erine Ross, Yvonne Umphlette, ’.Verne Gunnison, and Barbara Taylor. Second-half tryouts are sched uled for next Thursday evening in the women’s pool . club—supposedly to receive in side information from Oregon ,scouts. This, coupled with the fact that injuries have been giv ing the Trojans no end of trou ble casts a rosy glow on the Web foot side of things. use Fullback Out Pitchin’ Paul laylor, ace USC fullback, is still out of the lineup, and according to Cal releases wall not be able to play. Tackle Bob DeLauer has also been on the ailing list but nothing definite about his condition is known. On the other hand the Ducks have lost only one first string man to injuries—Val Cuhvell at guard. To replace him Ore gon has husky Dick Ashcom, one of the biggest men on the squad. Things have been a lit tie crimped in the backfield, but everything seems to be un der control. Kenny Oliphant, _INJURED DUCK Val Culwell, regular Webfoot guard, is a doubtful starter against l St', a bum knee being the reason. TEX7 OLIVER IIW—r.MPH-HI. .':~r1 A» YVebfoot boss may knock over“ Trojan “jinx” in Oregcn-USC fray today. Clark Weaver, senior swim ming manager, asks that all sophomore and junior men in terested in trying out for man agerships report to him 4 p.m. Monday at the men's pool. reserve halfback, is the only back that didn’t make the trip. Another halfback, Frank Boyd, was also injured but made the trip—even though it is unlikely that he will see action. To maKe^ up for the deficiency at half, Jimmy N e w q u i s t has been switched from fullback. ,On past performances the Web foots are receiving the finger from the experts as the team to win. While Barry’s boys were looking very dreary in their tete a tete with Ohio State the Docks were giving first class perform ances in losing to Stanford and taking the starch out of Idaho's raz’ ma' dazz. Trojan Power Respected Oregon’s coaching staff has been listening to none of this ballyhoo. They still have plenty of respect for Southern Cal pow er, and they make no bones irf^ telling the world about it. Line Coach Manny Vezie's last words bofore he left to scout the Santa Clara-Califor nia game were words of praise for Sanx Barry’s outfit. Ac cording to Vezie the farther the Trojans go the stronger they will get. Barry’s style of foot ball is naturally different from that of the Head Man’s and it takes time to get the proper coordination between coach and team. Vezie said that the Southern Cal weakness was not at the guards and tackles—as many re ports had it—but at the ends. “Ohio made their gains at the flanks, not at the tackles ancf^ guards. Of course they were weaker at tackle when DeLauer was hurt but that wasn't their main weakness,” said Vezie.