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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1941)
Sit down and join mo for a couple hundred words. If that math class is boring you might browse through the column, (this tabloid is idee for reading in class) not that I guarantee nnything, but you might find a little bit somewhere that you like. The Gripe Department First of all we have tin* gripe department. If you have a jew personal peeves, bring them along, but right now I’ll expound on a few of my own. It \s when a coach, after losing n football game, comes out with the “They’re a great team. I don’t see how they ever got beat before." Those, or words to that effect were voiced b\ Jimmy Phelan after the Ducks de Jtose Howl bound his Huskies. They’re lovely sentiments but .just a little shaHow. Oregon isn't a great team that should have gone through the season undefeated. That’s a harsh statement hut look ' at the record sheet. It says three defeats. That’s not the record of a great team. There’s no stigma of disgrace in the Stanford loss—the T was plenty potent that day and Stanford got a couple of good breaks. But the UCLA loss was a matter of a lack of spirit which is not action of a great team. As for the Washington State setback, well, the column thinks that the Cougars have the best team on the coast. Hut the column doesn’t want to take away any just praises due the team for the Washington victory. The Webfoots were a good team that day. They played heads up hall and showed plenty of drive to come from behind in tin* last half to win. They played brainy football, witness the onside kickoff and Sbc safety. In tiie estimation of the column, it was the best football an Oregon team lias played for several years. Our Amateur Purity Code < I ripe number two is eoneerued with the strict code that is laid down .for amateur athletes. A talented football player <t 11 ends a university and while out for athletics, spends a lot of time and garners a lot of misery filling up the coffers for the Alma Mat civ Then some sorehead shoots his top because tin' school tries to give him a consideration to help him through I'Chool. It’s treading on thin ice to say this—one naturally thinks of the Atherton code—and this code has helped Oregon as much as any team on the coast, if not more. A very recent example of the actions of amateur officials v as witnessed in the suspension of Frank Kovaes by the United ♦states Pawn Tennis association. Kovaes spent several summers playing tennis for the lawn tennis association, pouring plenty of tin into their pants pockets from his showmanship. Now they suspend him because he would like to make a few pennies himself. Kovaes hurled a defiant answer back at the amateur officials when they asked him if ho had accepted money with a “Sure, who hasn't." Later, back in his natural role, he said. “ Amateur tennis is lousy. There isn't any money in it any more." Explode Some Day l>ut watch our amateur code on the coast. (.'>110 of these days muuu team is going to openly violate the Atherton code—blow it up in I'M A face. And as soon as one team does it. the others will follow right in that team's footsteps and your little purity code will end up in the junk heap. There's a solution. Stan tiardi/e your payment of players, giving: each school an equal chance and you'll he all right. Your players will get through .school on their special talent, the school will make money on their football teams, and every school will get the same oppor tunity. Then, even l couldn't kick. A New Conflict Angle This may not be sports, but it's interesting so who cares. 1 O bi 11 games always have their feuds or personal conflicts. I’ve got a new one for the Saturday game. The Battle of the Majorettes. 1 would like to introduce you to Clara Oetjen and Carol Voclkcr, majorettes from Oregon State. The twirl from Oregon may outnumber them but they'll never ontsbow them. When this column saw Oregon State ride rough shod over UCLA, the only thing that kept it from breaking out in a cold sweat of fear was the majorettes. They put on a good show and you'd think they practice mental telepathy the way they always do the same thing at the same time. They not only do a creditable job of twirling and whatever most majorettes do, but also do a good job of leading the band in maneuvers. s \ t m Civil War 1 xt Saturday, tear \our eyes off the gal in gold and her fellow twirlers and*take a good gander at the Farmer Maids. Take my unqualified word for i . they 're good. - FIVE OF A KIND OSC”s top five hackfield men look harmless enough here, but get them in football gear and they’re menacing. Top, left to right. Halfbacks Don Durdan and Bob Deth man, Quarterback George l’eters. Bottom, left to right, Fullbacks “Shock” Shelton and Joe Day. Varsity Drafts Frosh, Plans for Oregon State Heavy Drill Slated For Able Men By WAIJLY HUNTER All hands weren’t on deck yes terday but the University of Ore gon football team had a bristling scrimmage with its freshman gridsters, in preparation for their annual blood battle with Oregon State’s Beavers. It was a rough and tough reg ular scrimmage session with the Ducklings using the OSC plays, and according to Coach Gerald Oliver, the varsity was having trouble stopping the bombarding first year men. Though many of the Oregon regulars are not yet ready for heavy hand-to-hand battle Oliver is pulling no punch es and those that are able have been hard at work. Regner Returns Bill Regner, varsity end who hasn't been in suit for the past two weeks was ready last night and participated in the heavy work. Although Regner re turned. Curt Meeham. A1 Wilson. Hersch Patton. Tony Crish. Duke Iverson. Ray Segale. and Jimmy Xewquist all sat this one out— the majority of this group is ex pected to be ready, even though some of them are still in the doubtful stage. Newest recruit to the Oregon host of injured is tough Tony Crish. left end, who played 5$ minutes of football against Washington and is still paying the penalty with numer ous bruises slowing him up. Oliver last night also spiked the rumor that Cliff Giffen is being moved to the eenter posi tion to help fill up the vacan cies created by the absence of Wilson and Pattor. Oliver said that Giffen might l*e tried at the pivot position later in the week but hasn't been working in that spot as vet. In case that Don O Net! should be injured in the game Saturday it he starts the Oregon brain trust would have to rely on George Van Pelt, and Giffen. They are the only other Ducks that have had experience at this position and will be used there only m case of emergency. Coed V’ Ball In Final Flight Two old volleyball rivals will renew the fight cn Gerlinger floor today when Susan Camp bell and Hendricks hall battle it out for the title at 4:45. In 1934 Susies grabbed the title from its neighbor Hendricks. Last year Hen hall bowed out in the finals to Orides, and in 1935 the Kappa ^girls washed out Susan lasses. The 1940 Orides champions lost out to Hendricks squad last week, but Orides have copped the title in 1938 and 1940. The KKG team held the champion ship in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939. Grad Broadcasts Bill Mudd, Salem, ex-'43. who has been an announcer over KBND, Bend, for the past several months, now broadcasts over KHSL, Chico, California. A jour nalism major while he was at tending the University, Mudd re ceived his training in radio tech nique and production here. Gamma Phi Pledges Sarah Whitton. freshman in so cial science, was pledge to Gam ma Phi Beta yesterday, according to the office of the dean of women. Orides, Chi Os Dominate Coed Donut All-Star, With coed volleyball season drawing to an end, the final game to determine the champs being next on the docket, an all star selection has been drawn up. This selection, which is a year ly practice, is made on a basis of the player’s outstanding perform ance during the regular season. Listed on the Blue team for the 1941 all-star are: Beverly Goetz, Hendricks hall; Kay Thompson, Kappa; Mary Alice Lawson, Orides; Mary Anderson, Orides; Nancy Lewis, Chi O; Ann Shoemake r, ADPi, Frieda Knope, Highland house; J. Griffith, Alpha Chi Omega; Mil dred Thomas, Hilyard house, and Barbara Lee Jacobs, Chi Os. Reds Picked on the Red team are: Dorothy Gustafson, Susan Camp bell; Mary Louis Vincent, Pi Phi; Pat Carson, “Lame Duck"; Eliz abeth Hecht, Hendricks; Mildred McCarthy, ADPi; Hazel Old1/!eld, Orides; Helen J. Kerr, Theta; Jonelle Melvin, AOPi; Pit Short, Susan Campbell, and Jean Brig ham, University house. 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