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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1941)
Ducks Ease Bears from Bowl Picture Haven Sherman’s pathetic demise amidst the desolation of War-ravaged China may have disillusioned you and may have agitated your heartstrings into a mournful, sonorous tremulo. Cindy, the misanthropic “Incendiary Blonde,’’ may hurry back from Canada, apply the paddle to Cherry's infatuation for Smilin’ Jack, and then herself surrender to the mustaehed pilot s masculinity, evoking a rise here and there. Brazenly voluptuous Sadie Hawkins V may ensnare Li’l Abner on No vember S. Yes, surprise upon surprise may unfurl in the comic strips, hut until December breathes “Finis" on this fall’s Pacific Coast conference football war, the full impact of these trumped up surprises will certainly be diminished by those liable to erupt as pending installments on the hectic grid front unravel. Five Teams on Top After last Saturday's convulsions five teams were left cluteh Sng at the lead. Oregon, Oregon State, Washington. Southern California, and Stanford were the principals, each with two Wins and one defeat. 1 he Heavers and Stanford were there a Weak ago. but while Lon Stiner’s crew loafed, Clark Shaugh nessy, having tinkered with the timing on Stanford’s Model T following the Corvallis debacle, sent the machine clanking over FSF, 42 to 20, in a non-conference affair. Oregon de pelted the California Bear, 19 to 7, and flung the carcass into the cellar to clamp on its hold. Washing ton’s Husky chewed up and disgorged a mangled UCLA Bruin, 14 to 7, establishing its position among the select five. Washington State’s Cougar clawed in vain at “Sad” Sam Barry’s re-armored Trojan, losing 7 to 6, and enabling the faltering USC warrior to struggle up among the leaders. Oregon Hogs Scoring Last Saturdays rain-engulfed Oregon-Califoruia brawl, in «' !it :oji !o gluing up another Oregon win, exploded the Web ■fool.s to the top of the scoring bundle and boosted Duck Half l1 1 a lummy Roblin astride the iudividual-point-getters’ heap. .In ihree league battles, Coach '"Tex Oliver's green giants have amassed f>4 points, a threadbare two more than Stanford. Roblin, whose first-quarter stab-through from the five-yard liii:" and whose thrilling 63-yard splash down the side electri fiud 22,000 screaming spectators in Multnomah stadium, bulged hi* point total to •>{) and squirmed ahead of Stanford's Frankie Albert, whoso four conversions against FSF Saturday swelled bis to 26. Roblin's long jaunt against the Bears Saturday was reminiscent of last year’s Duck-Bear battle in Berkeley. It was early in the second quarter that time. Oregon Half back Len Isberg sifted back to boot one, but instead, flipped a screen pass to Roblin, who was poised about a yard back of his own line of scrimmage and near the sidelines. JJ<»1 >Iim speared the hall and stomping behind mass interfer ence and supei'h blocking of the Oregon team, raced 55 yards (o score, drawing unreserved plaudits from sports scribes there - . . “The neatest play of the year . /. the finest downfield blocking of any team to play in the bay region.’’ That "Boot-leg" Reverse That “boot-leg" reverse via which Curt Mecham galloped yards to open Oregon’s scoring Saturday is as neat a play ;>s anyone Mould hope to see unravel during a football game, ill's a classic in gridiron artistry, a masterpiece of deception, an : a glorious manifestation of a coach's deliberation on paper an! his players’ coordination , and cooperation on the field. Jt’s something thrilling to wat-ch that devastating wave of interference rolling before the ball-carrier and slashing down would-be ladders. In connection, though perhaps a meaningless observa tion, every time that play has worked the field has been soppy, soggy, and rain-drenched—against Oregon State last year, against Idaho and California this fall. The only thue it failed to go the route was against Stanford in the opening tilt this season under a broiling sun in Palo Alto. Roblin’s 63 Yard Sprint Headlights Muddy Fray By WALLY HUNTER A drenched and groggy University of California football team felt the full wrath of a calm confident University of Oregon grid squad in three brief spurts Saturday, and the result was a 19 to 7 shambles that sent Cal into the obscurity of the league cellar and elevated the Webfoots to a five-way tie for the top spot. Mighty Oregon toyed not at all with the luterless Golden Bears, and in the first 12 minutes of the game had rolled up a rather start ling 12 points. The delayed re verse (or bootleg reverse), which Oregon has used so consistently in their scoring forays worked again, on the sea of mud that was Multnomah field, for 35 yards and a touchdown. Lefty Curt Mecham carried the soggy pumpkin after receiving a well covered reverse from Tommy Roblin. About three minutes later tough Tony Crish barreled through the defense set up about Bob Reinhard, to block a punt that set up the next Oregon score. Dick Ashcom, Floyd Rhea, and Ed Moshofsky all received credit fyr recov ering the punt. Big Moe threw a mean block on the most dan gerous Cal man in the play and Rhea and Ashcom both muscled in to take possession of the ball on the California 24. Oregon’s ace extra point ex pert Jim Newquist missed the first two conversions after get ting cooled by three Bear husk ies early in the game. Roblin Stars Cocky Tom Roblin stepped into the hero’s role late in the fourth quarter when he took one of Bob Reinhard’s cloud-scratching punts on the fly and tire wire walked his way down the sidelines for a G4-yard touchdown. While Rob lin had magic in his heels on this little journey there were a cou ple of blocks thrown by guys like Duke Iverson and Bill Regner that helped level the humps that appeared on the route towards the magic six points. Fullback Newquist this time split the up rights for the extra point. The Cal score came when Mecham fumbled the fall and California recovered on the Ducks’ 10-yard line. A flat pass from Zacharias to Half back Gordon was the payoff play. Web foots Swim Half Mile In Conditioninq Workout By DOX RICHARDSON To a trained swimmer 880 yards is a mere drop in tiie bucket, but to the novice it is almost an insurmountable feat, especially when it is a time trial and that little watch is ticking off the seconds. Swimming Coach Mike Hoy man evidently doesn't intend to let any of his swimmers slip into that novice category, because last week he lenthened out last week's 440-yard time trials to Clark Weaver, the senior swimming manager, still needs two more sophomores to assist him. Anyone eligible and inter ested should report immediate ly at the men’s pool, 4 p.m. 880 yards. In early season train ing that distance seems rather long, but every one of the boys proved that they could take it by each turning in good times. Robinson Flashes Again leading the field of free stylers was that flashy sopho more, Jack Robinson, vcho turned in a remarkable early season time. Another up-and-coming Doctor Smith Invited To Science Meeting Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of the geology and geography de pai tments, recently received a letter from the head of the min ing department of the govern ment of the Philippine islands, inviting him to attend the Pa cific Science congress meeting in Manila in 1943. Hosts to the meeting, which will be the seventh in the history of the congress, will be Philip pine scientists. Included in the association are scientists of the whole Pacific area. The mining head expressed the hope in his letter that Dr. Smith would be able to revise his book, Geology and Mineral Resourc es of the Philippine Islands.” pub lished in 1935. second year man by the name of Bob Irvin wasn’t far behind, yet well ahead of veterans Dick Allen and Dick Smith. Comparative times in the backstroke are lacking because veteran Cub “Check” Callis was unable to swim clue to ill ness. However, another sopho more (those guys are every where), Chuck Nelson, splashed his way to a time that was a surprise even to himself. It fell to Jerry Huestis to up hold the honor of the lettermen by taking the best time in the breaststroke for the afternoon, but little brother Ralph followed right in his wake to take second honors. If Mike keeps doubling the dis tance each week, it won’t be long before the boys can train by con voying ships to England, using Hitler’s torpedoes for paddle boards. - TEX WON I Boss Man Oliver, who had a great afternoon Saturday in Portland. There he saw his Ducks blast Cal and jump in with the pack at the top of the heap. Pacific Coast Roundup.. By HARRY CLICK MAX Saturday’s games brought the coast conference football race one week from the halfway mark and produced the following re sults: 1. The Rose Bowl representa tive will not be an undefeated team since all teams have a game chalked up in the loss column. 2. Five teams are now tied for the conference leadership, each with two wins and one defeat. Oregon, Oregon State, U.S.C., Stanford, and Washington are all frthreats for the title, which prob ably will not be decided until the last week of the season. 3. Washington State, the team wi'd game to Washington, and which upset California, lost a has lost two heartbreaking de cisions by identical scores of 7 to G, is definitely out of the race. U.C.L.A. and California, the for mer with one win and the latter with, none, and each with two de feats, are virtually out of the running. 4. As yet there have been no tie games in conference play. In Saturday’s feature game, University of Oregon's powerful Webfoots outclassed the sup posedly strong Ca'ifornia Bears by a score of 19 to 7. Southern California remained in the race by eking out a scant 7 to 6 v ictory over Wash ington State. Huskies Win University of Washington’s strong aggregation proved it was of championship caliber by de feating U.C.L.A. by a score of 14 to 7. Stanford’s defending cham pions, burning from their Ore gon State defeat, routed the San Francisco Dons by a score of 42 to 26, with reserves doing a major share cf the scoring for the Indians. Fans are now eager y awaiting the outcome of next Saturday’s feature attraction which pits Stanford and Washington against each other at Seattle, in a game that will have important bearing in the championship struggle. Favorites Advance In IM Play Close Games Take Spotlight By ART LITCHMAN Intramural football recaptured the athletic spotlight after the weekend Intermission, Pro-game favorites chalked up v ins as the program went into t 3 t lird week of play. Sigma Nus Trample Alpha Hall, 35 0 Powerful Sigma Nu trampled Alpha hall, 35 to 0, to maintain their unbeaten slate. The high scoring juggernaut scored at will after a scoreless first period and ran up their third straight win. The steamroller bogged down in the first period and battled in midfield until the start of the second quarter. Touchdown number one was scored early i:i the second period by Jim Carney after he hauled down a long heave from Dick 'Ti hitman. Whitman circled the end for the extra point. Stan Skilicorn dashed to pay dirt for the second tally late in the same period with another of Whitman's aerials. Jim Car ney converted on a pass to end the half. Alpha rallied in the third period and held the vaunted of fense to one touchdown. Er landson scampered across the goal line with the lone tally af ter snatching Whitman’s pass. Bill Carney converted on an other pass. Two touchdowns in the fourth period ended the rout. Johnny Meade scored number four after catching still another of Whit man's touchdown passes. Palmer Falgren converted. Bubalo took over the passing duties for the final tally and pitched to Whit man for the score. Bill Carney converted. Sigma Nu .0 14 7 14—35 Alpha .0 0 0 0— 0 Phi Delts Edge Zeta Hall, 2 to 0 The Phi Delts, one of the pre season favorites, barely edged out Zeta hall, 2 to 0, to ring up their third victory. The deciding break came in the second period when the Zeta cen ter flipped a low pass that rolled into the end zone for the winning two points. Throughout the remainder of the game the two teams bat tled on even terms. The alert Zeta defense, led by Walt Rey nolds, smothered every phase of the Phi Delt attack. Inter ceptions halted several prom ising drives into Zeta terri tory. Zeta’s offense bogged down af ter crossing the midfield' stripe in the first and third periods. A fourth quarter drive was stopped by Hank Burns’ interception of a pass. Phi Delts .0 2 0 0—2 Zeta .0 0 0 0—0 Sigma Chis Dump Phi Kaps, 12 to 0 Two touchdowns in the fourth period were the winning margin as the Sigma Chis dumped the Pi Kaps, 12 to 0. Southpaw Dick Burns flipped the pigskin into the waiting arms of Pederson in Oregon Smashes Cal Curt Mecham (left) away for touchdown number one on the “bootleg” reverse. (Below) Me cham picks up a sizeable gain over the Cal line. (Courtesy Daily News). Ducklings Throttle Rooks, 6-0j Erikson to McGowan Clicks As Frosh Grab First Game of Little 'Civil War1' By FRANCIS TUCKWILER A smooth Frosh passing- attack flashed briefly in the first quarter to enable the Ducklings to mark up a 6 to 0 win over the OSC Rooks in the first game of their “Little Civil War" series in Multnomah stadium Friday night. After two Oregon drives had been stopped inside the Beaver 20-yard line Oregon State’s Bill Nickaloff tossed a t»ass from deep in Rook territory but Bob Reynolds stepped in and intercepted it on the OSC 43 and went to the xvuuiv ii ut'iure ne was downed. Then Bill Davis was thrown for a three yaid loss back to the 14. It was from there that LeRoy Erikson faded back and tossed a perfect strike to End Long John Mc Gow&n, who had slipped into the end zone behind the Beaver secondary. Atiyeh missed the try for point with just two minutes left in the first quarter. The rugged Frosh line was outstanding in the second half as it turned back a de termined Oregon State drive on the one foot line in the third period. A bad kick by Stan Boyd had gone out of bounds on the Oregon 29 to set the stage for the Frosh goal line stand. Two plays through the line carried the ball to the nine and gave the Rooks a first down. Schweizer made three yards to the six and then an offside penalty against Oregon set them back to the one-yard line. The' Frosh line diTg in aid threw Schweizer for a two-yard loss but on the next play Emanuel drove to the one-foot line. That was as far as the Rooks went, however, as the Ducklings . stopped Emanuel at the line of i scrimmage on the fourth clown j to end Oregon State’s only scor- f ing threat. | Late in the game Oregon f threatened to score again but the | clock stopped the drive on the | Rook 22. Lineups: Frosh (6) (0) Rooks Torchia.LE Hellberg Blatchely .LT . Wilcox Daniels . C Stevens Feldman.RG Senn Stewart .RT . Stiner Dugan ..RE .. Heximer Garrison. Q .Keiser G’asgow.LH Nickaloff Morrison.RH .... Schweizer Davis. F Huffman Scoring:.. Frosh — McGowan (pass from Erickson). University of Minnesota Bach I society presents an annual Bacli I festival. 5 the end zone for the first touch down. Burns unwound again in the final minutes of the game and pitched to Beaver for the sec ond touchdown. Until the final quarter the two squads struggled in midfield, neither team making much head way. Sigma Chi .0 0 0 12—12 Pi Kap .0 0 0 0— 0 Phi Psis Win 1 to 0 Overtime From Chi Psi Interception of an overtime pass stopped the Chi Psi drive and the Phi Psis eked out a tight 1 to 0 win. The winners ended their half of the overtime period one yard in the hole but the Chi Psis lost three yards on their first play and the intercepted pass ended the game. • •Throughout the regular time neither team could gather enough steam for a scoring foray. Phi Psi .0 0 0 0 1—1 Chi Psi .0 0 0 0 0—0 Co-ed Volleyball Schedule Listed The second week of coed vol leyha^i moves into action this afternoon with four games. Fol lowing is the schedule for the week: Tuesday Court 1 indoor: ZTA vs. High land. Court 1 outdoor: U-Co-op vs. Tri Delts. Court 2 indoor: Chi Omega vs. Hendricks. Court 3 indoor: Sigma Kappa vs. Susan. Wednesday Court 1 indoor: Kapps vs. Thetas. Court 2 indoor: Alpha Chi vs. Alpha Gams. Court 3 indoor: Alpha Pis vs. Orides. Thursday Court 1 indoor: AD Pis vs. AOPis. Court 2 indoor: Zeta Tau vs. Alpha Xis. Court 3 indooi;: Sigma Kappa vs. Independents. Assembly Canceled There will be no complete stu dent assembly on Thursday, an nounced Dean of Personnel Karl W. Onthank Monday. The regu lar assembly time, 11 a.m., may be utilized, however, by depart mental heads for smaller group assemblies. New York University will ob serve its centennial next year. « WATCH REPAIRING Fix it NOW! 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