THIRD AND FINAL SCORE
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Webfocts Break Trojan Hex
Ducks Topple Twenty-Six Year
USC Supremacy; Plaster Foes
By Overwhelming 20 to 6 Count
By WALLY HUNTER
Come listen to a story, friend.
It’s a story about a University of Oregon football team that in
a period of 26 years has made ten pilgrimages to the gates of Troy,
in hopes of gaining a victory from the fabulous football teams of
Southern California.
For all of these long years the
victory-starved Webfoots had
only one crumb from the overlad
en table of the Trojans—this by
way of a 7 to 7 tie in 1939. Then
came the day when the USC head
man faded from the picture for
eve'r. At the same time the Ore
gons’ oft-beaten Duck walked
alone. It was again time for the
Webfoot to take his beating—but
the bunch of little guys coached
by Tex Oliver had other ideas.
They went to Troy all right but
instead of waiting on the thresh
old for an engraved invitation—
they bored in and pasted a 20 to
6 licking on the numbed Trojans
that made reverberations all
over the Pacific slope.
USC toppled OSC
It was this same Southern Cal
ifornia that two weeks earlier
had knockedf the props from un
der Oregon State. If this doesn’t
-mean anything in particular re
rnember that it was OSC that
crumbled the mightiest pillar of
football in the coast conference,
in turning back Stanford.
Of course there are those wise
boys who will point to the 33 to 0
beating handed SC by a terrific
Ohio State club and say that the
Oregon victory was nothing to
wire home about. But this kind
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of reasoning leaves a few of the
important facts out. Oregon’s
line coach, Manny Vesiez, is of
the opinion that Paul Brown’s
boys were pointing for the game
and they slipped a “Mickey” to
Barry’s men and from then on
it was clean sailing.
They also forget to remember
that Oregon lost to Stanford on
a tinder dry turf that was ideal
for that T stuff. No one will try
to belittle the Oregon State win
over Stanford, nor will they try
to deny the advantages of damp
grounds when the Cardinals come
to town.
Since 1931 the scores of Ore
gon-Southern California football
games read like the numbers on
a convict’s back. Starting with
the modern era in 1931 and skip
ping 1935 when the teams didn’t
play the scores read: 53-0, 33-0,
26-0, 33-0, 26-0, 34-14, 31-7, and
7-7.
Statistics
Oregon USC
First downs . 7
Yards gained by
rushing . 57
Forward passes
attempted. 15
Forward passes
completed . 7
Yards gained by
forward passes . 64
Yards lost by
forward passes .5
Forward passes inter
cepted by . 6
Yards gained runback
of intercep’d passes 100
Punting average . 37
Total yard kicks
returned . 55
Opponents fumbles
recovered . 2
Yards'lost by fumbles 15
11
78
23
8
104
9
1
10
34
70
0
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Pacific Coast Roundup
It was a great day for the state
of Oregon last Saturday, as the
two football teams representing
the state wrote football history
by winning highly important
games over California powers.
Lon Stiner’s determined Ore
gon State Beavers ended the
reign of the T-formation in the
Pacific Coast conference with a
10 to 0 defeat over the Stanford
Indians, who lost their first game
under the mentorship of Clark
Shaughnessy.
Stanford-OSC
Had any pre-season expert con
ceded the Indians a chance of los
ing a game this year, the Beav
ers would have been the last team
given the possibility of beating
them. But the Orange upset the
dope, and not on a fluke, either.
The inspired Beavers outfought,
outcharged, outmaneuvered, and
outplayed the Indians during the
entire conflict. The respects of
the entire nation were shadowed
on Lon Stiner and his team. It
seems to be a habit with Stiner to
end long victory streaks, for it
was his famous Iron Man eleven
which brought Southern Cal's
string of 26 consecutive victories
to an end in 1933. By virtue of
their win, the Beavers are now
tied for first place with two wins
and one defeat.
The University of Oregon
likewise ended a streak, in this
case a losing streak, as the
Webfoots at long last managed
to beat Southern California, for
the first time since 1915.
Mecham Praised
Tex Oliver’s Ducks whipped
the Trojans decisively by a score
of 20 to 6. Curt Mecham, YVeb
'foot halfback, reaped the praises
of the California newsmen for his
spectacular play against the Tro
jans, as he paced Oregon to its
win.
At Pullman, the University of
Washington and Washington
(State renewed their football feud,
and in a wild and woolly contest
^he Huskies downed their intra
state rivals by a score of 23 to 13.
The Cougars made a game of it
and were leading at the half, but
the “hard luck” Huskies over
came the lead and nabbed their
first victory of the season.
Santa, C ara rests as the only
. major unbeaten team in the
West, after adding California
on their beaten iist, by winning
over the Bears by a 13 to 0
shutout.
U.C.L.A. defeated Montana by
a score of 14 to 7 in a game that
does not count in the conference
standings. University of Idaho
Frosh 'Guinea Pig’
For Tex’s Squad
Oregon’s Ducklings resumed
their role of cannon fodder for the
varsity yesterday as practice
rolled into the last week before
the Oregon State Rook game Fri
day night in Portland.
The frosh first string started
against the varsity in a game
scrimmage. Early in the practice
Tex Oliver sent the first string
to the showers and the yearlings
worked against the second and
third teams for the remainder of
the afternoon.
Almost all of the frosh squad
saw action in the scrimmage The
remainder of the squad worked
on dummy scrimmage plays on
the lower practice field.
Assistant Coach Don Mabee
ran the hacks through an in ten.
sive drill on b’oeking and run
ning assignments. The passers
were heaving the ball from sev
eral formations as the team pre
pared a varied offense for the
opening game.
Bob Donrely, Bill Davis, Bob
Reynolds, and Johnny Garrison
compose the top backfield quartet
Cote, Lyman Glascow, and Jack
Willis form another backfield
unit that has worked well in
scrimmage.
uncovered some of its “razzle
dazzle” and knocked over its tra
ditional rival, Gonzaga, by a score
of 21 to 7, in another non round
robin conflict.
The race for conference cham
pionship now looms as a wide
open affair, since every team has
lost a game, and every team, ex
cept California, has won a con
ference game.
Coast Conference Standings
W L T Pet.
Oregon State . 2 1 0 .667
Stanford .2 1 0 .667
Oregon .1 1 0 .500
Washington .1 1 0 .500
Southern Cal.1 1 0 .500
U.C.L.A.1 1 0 .500
Wash. State .1 2 0 .333
California ..0 1 0 .000
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Tommy Koblin, whose twink.ing toes have made him one of the top
offense men on the coast. Roblin increased his scoring total by
shagging of Mecham’s touchdown passes in the Duck-Trojan game.