Oregon daily emerald., November 01, 1941, Page 4, Image 4

Tlu*re are three alternatives one can employ in selecting
■winners of football games before the contestants range them
selves along opposite sides of the field and come crashing
pell-mell into each other. One method entails the consuming of
huge amounts of midnight oil while laboriously peeling a ream
of statistics sheet from sheet and comparing Slippery Rock
Teachers with Weehauken Normal pound for pound, uu
erumpling cast-off pieces of paper relegated to the waste
basket in a fit to see how Slippery Rock and Weehauken
emerged against the Fort Hoboken Bulldogs, gulping down
“no-doz” pills by the can, and leaving one’s self bare for an
aggravating headache.
Another method requires a blindfold and agility par excel
lence with a hatpin. With your eyes screened, you jab the pin
up and down the list of teams with reckless abandt n and select
the squads to win by the preponderance of pokes aside each
name. In the same category is that childhood pastime, oeny
meeny-minee-mn, whereby the same is accomplished by a pro
cess of elimination.
Method No. 3
The third method involves simply picking the team one
would like to have win, sympathy and sentiment being the
basis. All three methods are equally impotent and worthless.
About the only thing gained is the inalienable rigid to gloat
and cajole, “11a! 1 told you so!’’ if one chances to predict a
few winners, let alone scores, and the prerogative of writing
another hatch of words after the game bemoaning the fact that
one was grossly wrong in one’s predictions.
Being- one ol that peculiar breed of male animal they
call a sports writer (for lack of a term that would sound
both appropriate and decent), and thereby being afflicted
with that incurable disease which fills one with the mas
• culine effrontery to assume a prophetic status, I will break
out with a few prognostications, using all three methods
of prognosticating mentioned above.
Waxing largest in our eyes this afternoon is tin1 Oregon
"WSO battle to roar up and down Hayward stadium’s turf.
Resorting to one of our sure-fire methods (you guess which
one). I'm betting a borrowed dime to a hole in a stale dough
nut that Oregon twists the Cougar's tail.
Here Comes the Blackout
... All! here comes the blackout 1 -lust to show vou we’re' iust
, • • V>T ’ • . *. *
as efficient in the dark as with the benefit of light, we’ll go
unoart with tho column. . . . The little red dog ate up the big
green frog and scampered all the way home. Jack and Jill
went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down . . .
oil heck,, forgot I10W the rest goes. Eat at Joe’s. . . ’Kay for
Hallowe’en ! This joint smells like the city dump. Pull down the
•tih nles, fellas, someone wants to light a match. Teh. fell, now
We’re typing on the roller, cuz 1 just heard the paper fall off
the machine. Wonder how much money the electric .company is
losing during this thing. Aw pliooev, I give up. Then came
the dawn.
Now, what were we saying before this all happened?
Oh yes, Oregon over WSC, according to one of our meth
ods, and then some. You see, Cougar Guard Sam Doepke,
' who called the shot on Washington State’s bumping off of
•• OSC last Saturday, was equally confident that the Cougars
' would chew up the Ducks . . . anyway, that they’d trundle
up to Pullman with the long end of the scort dangling
from their teeth. He was right last weekend, so vs assume
he's wrong this week for the flimsy reason that no one
guesses right all the time. Anyway, the wishing’s free.
Now for the rush treatment. Clue your collective ears to
fU'A at l:4o p.m. and weep while Oregon State plows Idaho
under, 'JO to 12. Flick your dials to KOIN at 11 a.m. and hear
the grunts resound as the Army Mule bucks off the “Fighting
lri.1i, 12 to i. 1 CliA’s Bruins will pull a David and Goliath
tic* to slap their Bear brothers, 14 to Id. Montana will out-fox
ihe "Washington Huskies, ( to 0. and I'll push a peanut with
my nose, battered as it is, up the side of the Empire State
building.
WSC Leads in Wins
Should Oregon win, today, the Webfoots will have dead
io ked W’sr’s all time record of victories over the Lemon and
Given. Since 1001, the Cougars, have triumphed eight times to
Oregon's seven, four games being tied. Largest Washington
S'ate score was registered in 101d. when the Cougars hacked
P Ducks. 2S to •’>. Li 19d0, the Web foots went the Pullman
X U 10 Iietter, to smash them in Hayward stadium. dS to 0.
TEX
WASHINGTON STATE vs. OREGON
Hayward Field, 2:00
Starting Lineups
Washington State Oregon
38 Susoeff (205)....'.LER(200) Regner 23
24 Woody .(202).LTR (220) .. Ashcom 39
44 Ward .(207).LGR.(202) .... Segale 50
40 Remington ... (183). C (228) .... Wilson 47
46 Doepke .(189).RGL.(218) Rhea 42
30 Beckman .(195).RTL.(215).Elliott 75^
45 Gentry.(208).REL.(185).Crish 53**
48 Small.(208).QB.(200) .... Iverson 73
23 Sewell.(170).LH.(188) Roblin 77
12 Fletcher.(170).RH .(185) Mecham 25
2 Kennedy.(195)..... F (190) Newquist 20
Clairvoyant State Lineman,
Doeplce, Rates WSC Tops
(Continued from page one)
Rugged Right Guard Stan
Doepke who called the turn of
the Oregon State-Cougar affair
last Saturday went into a
trance again and emerged with
a vision of a Cat victory. “I
don’t want to stick my neck
out — hut we’re figuring on
coining out on the long end of
the score. We don’t figure on
any pushover,” said Doepke,
“but we’re out to win.”
Doepke’s words mirrored the
thoughts of the entire WSC team
which was relaxing yesterday af
ternoon after a brief workout on
Hayward field. There was an air
of simple confidence throughout
the Crimson-jacketed crew — not
the confidence if a many times
winner, but that of a team that
has a ball game to play, a game
they want to win. No cockiness
was present in any of the play
ers—and they have some right to
be cocky after blowing the bridge
that led the way to the Rose Bowl
for Oregon States’ Beavers. ‘‘We
didn't underrate Oregon State
and we’re not underrating Ore
gon—anyway we hear that Ore
gon has a pretty good team,”
were further remarks of predict-,
or Doepke.
Hollingbery Spiels
A large-sized frown creased
the brow of genial Babe Holling
bery when thoughts of the wea
ther drifted into the small talk
winging its way around the clust
ered athletes.
‘‘This weather is bound to slow
the game up, but of course both
teams have the same thing to
contend with,” said Hollingbery.
The cougar mentor was little
satisfied with the rice field that
is Hayward turf after supervis
ing the light drill of his squad.
“We’re not figuring on stop- ,
ping just one man out there to
morrow—we have to stop the
whole team,” said Ihe Cougar
boss, “We’ve tried to play the
hot-shots before to stop teams,
but it doesn’t work—the stars
always have a team with them,
and that’s what makes them
click, so the best thing to do
is to stop the team. Oh, yes,
there are some things that
we’ll have to watch out for to
morrow such as Meeham’s
Santa Clara-Stanford Tiff
Top Brawl on the Coast
.... By HARRY GLICKMAN ....
Coast conference teams catch
a breathing spell today after last
Saturday’s terrific round of up
sets, preparatory to the drive
down the home stretch in the last
half of the season. Only two
round-robin games are on top,
with two Kings-X games and one
none-conference clash slated.
The conference game in the
Northwest pits Oregon and
Washington State at Hayward
field. The Webfoots, who had
their championship hopes
knocked for a loop by UCLA,
will l»e seeking revenge against
the Cougars. WSC completed
the ruination of the state’s
football picture by knocking
over Oregon State, and prom
ise to give Oregon plenty of
trouble in its hopes to get back
on the victory trail.
Sewell vs. Mecham
An interesting sidelight of to
day's game will be the battle for
supremacy between Billy Sewell
of WSC and Curt Mecham of
Oregon. Possibly today's skirm
ish will decide the coast’s top
candidate for All-American hon
ors. At present Mecham is the
leading ground gainer on the
coast as well as being the
league's best punter, while Sew
ell leads in the passing depart
ment.
In the other conference game
California and UCLA, who upset
USC and Oregon respectively
last Saturday, go to the post in
a “brother vs. brother” game at
Los Angeles. This promises to be
a close and wild game with neith
er team a favorite.
University of Washington,
knocked out of the race by
Stanford, should have little
trouble with Kings-X Montana
when the two teams meet rjt Se
attle. The Grizzlies have one of
the best teams in years, but are
no match for the strong Wash
ington eleven.
In the other Kings-X game
Oregon State plays host to Ida
ho and its “razzle-dazzle” at Cor
vallis. The rapidly improving
Vandals have improved tremen
dously since the Oregon game,
but still aren’t conceded much of
a chance of beating the Beavers.
Stanford and Santa Clara do
battle at Palo Alto in a non-con
ference game, but one that will
gain much prestige for the win
ner. A crowd of 65,000 is expect
ed to be on hand for the game,
that is billed as the top battle in
the West. If the Indians can get
over Santa Clara, who last week
were upset by Oklahoma and be
came the last undefeated power
in the West, then they would
probably get the Rose Bowl bid
should the unlikely happen and
the league race end in a tie.
However, Oregon’s game with
Santa Clara on Armistice day
will also have much bearing on
the outcome.
BABE
B a l) e MoliingDerv, Cougar
coach who has his cats in town
this afternoon with intent to
pluck some Duck pinfeathers.
passing and punting, hut we’ll
ccncentra te on the w hole
team.”
The PuTman lads emerged
from last week’s fray “in pret
ty fair physical condition.” The
main injuries are a bruised shoul
der sported by Fullback Bob Ken
nedy and a bad leg dragged
around by Tackle Jim VVooddy.
Right Half Felix Fletcher was on
the sick list most of the week but
has fu’ly recovered and will start
the game.
When the two teams s’.osh onto
the field today Oregon will have
a decided advantage in weights
The Webfoots outweigh the Cou
gars in the line 11 pounds to the
man and the backfield outbeefs
the WSC men 9 pounds per pair
of cleats.
LINE BOSS
Vaughn Corley, Webfoot line
coach, will be watching the fruits
of his labor ripen in today’s
\\ SC-Oregon clash—he hopes.
Experiments by Drs. Basile J.
Luyet and M. C. Hartung of St. *
Louis university indicate the vin
egar eel can be kept in a frozen
state of suspended animation