If basketball comes, can football be far behind? No, and
Oregon Football Coach Gerald A. “Tex” Oliver soon (before
this term’s end) will be rallying prospective gridders into uni
forms for Pacific coast play next fall. Deducing from Mr.
Oliver’s observations, there’ll be plenty of uniforms to go
around ... all sizes, too, unless—“students who didn’t come
to school with any intentions of playing football, who, perhaps,
didn’t even play freshman football, turn out for the varsity
sljnad. ’ ’
Already the country's war effort is vigorously biting into
Oregon's football ranks, and comes next fall, the Webfoot
grid coach expects a “tremendous cut in the University’s
normal football group.” Accordingly, Oliver feels it necessary
that many, who, ordinarily wouldn’t come out for the sport,
do so if Oregon is to roll along the Pacific coast slope with a
minimum of impediment. (What an opportunity—for kids
below 18 and for children above 65.)
Something About Football
There’s something about the competitive tension and the
combative atmosphere in football that grips one. There’s some
thing about the wildly cheering crowd that affects one like
anesthesia . . . one’s down, one’s up. one spits out one’s teeth,
-mie grits his gums, one charges. One’s down, one’s up, one’s
down, one’s out.
In all seriousness, Oliver points out that “this is the
time when competition in football is most needed, for it
develops fighting qualities in conjunction with the highest
degree of teamwork,” and that ‘this would be invaluable
to a young man who will eventually play the game of war.”
lie produced a record of proceedings of the National Colle
giate Athletic association's thirty-sixth annual convention held
at Detroit on December 29, 30. and 31, a little volume harboring
a wealth of material on athletic pursuits and also some sig
nificant phrases by eminent men on the role of athletics in
America’s war program.
Eminent Figures Comment
][. O. Crisler, president of the American Football Coaches’
association, quotes Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox as fol
lows: “From the experiences the navy has had in examining
men for service, it is clear that our educational institutions
have tended to neglect the physical education of American
youth for their intellectual development.
“The two are really interdependent, and it must he em
phasized that the time to build up the health of these young
people is in the school. Only in that way will they be com
pletely fitted to serve their country. Only in that way will
we bring about the national stamina and the national team
work which is the foundation of effective national de
fense.” *
Professor T. N. Metcalf, University of Chicago, bemoans as
a “rather sad commentary on our programs that the naval
training stations have to set up units for the physical develop
ment of at least 30 per cent of the inductees,” and argued
that “the challenge to our colleges is that we ought to make
up our minds that we are going to do ... a good job of phys
ical conditioning.”
Foch Remarks
* Mr. Crisler again. This time he repeats a remark by Field
Marshal Foch uttered after the commander in chief of allied
forces during World war I had witnessed an American foot
ball game, to wit: “No nation which has as its favorite sport
a game such as football need ever fear for its future or its
security.”
Incidentally, perhaps there is no one in Eugene who is
~,jnore interested in the role of athletics in national defense,
in the conditioning of young men for their part in the coun
try’s war effort, and in America’s prosecution of the war
than Oregon Grid Coach Oliver, for he was at West Point
when General MacArthur was there. Mentor Oliver is an
admirer of MacArthur’s, who has repeatedly replied to
Japanese demands to “give up” on Luzon by giving ’em
hell.
Ripping up the backstretch in the 1942 Northern division
basketball sweepstakes, it's Washington running near tlie rail
and pounding 1 y2 games out in front. WSC and OSC are gal
loping whisker-to-whisker behind the Huskies, while Oregon,
having bolted wide and lost ground on the turn, settles down
1 game behind the Beavers and Cougars. Idaho hasn t recov
ered after being stuck in the gate and is puffing away in the
rear.
How They Stack Up
-^According to Oregonian Sports Editor L. II. Gregory s in
fallible rule—“four losses, and you re out —Idaho has already
been erased; Oregon, OSC, and WSC, with 4 losses, are flirting
dangerously with the scythe; while Washington is all by itself.
Frosh Dump Plywood
In Polio Charity, 47-36
Erlandson
Paces Frosh
With 9 Points
Oregon’s freshman casaba team
regained winning form on the
Igloo maple last night and posted
a 47 to 36 triumph over the
Springfield Plywood team.
The Ducklings, leading through
out the entire contest, staved off
a late fourth-quarter Plywood
rally which narrowed a 44-20
third period lead to 10 points.
Royal Denton put the Frosh in
the lead in the first seconds of
play with a lay-in shot, and Ore
gon held a 10-1 lead before
Springfield made a field goal.
Score at the end of the first quar
ter favored the freshmen, 12-7.
This lead was increased to 26-11
at the end of the half, with Bob
Erlandson leading the Frosh at
tack.
A1 Popick, hard driving Frosh
guard who played outstanding
ball offensively and defensive
ly, found the range in the third
quarter and netted four rapid
baskets as the Frosh grabbed
the long end of a 44-20 score at
the end of that period.
Frosh Coach John Warren used
practically every reserve in the
final period, and the Springfield
team staged an uphill rally which
dwindled the large score. A total
of 18 players saw action for Ore
gon in the contests.
Bob Pollard, SpringfieM center,
took scoring honors for the game
with 12 points. Bob Erlandson
dropped in nine for Oregon, fol
lowed by Popick and Seeborg
with eight each.
In a well-played preliminary
the Junior Rubes eked out a 22-21
win over Mohawk high.
Summary:
Oregon (47) (36) Springfield
Seeborg, 8 .F . 2, Beidel
Erlandson, 9 .... F . Dannen
Denton, 4.C.12, Pollard
Popick, 8 .G.2, Dickson
Crowell, 6.G . 4, Smith
Reynolds, 2 .S . 8, Croston
Bloomquist, 3 .. S .4, Koch
Hannam, 3.S . 4, Taylor
Asselstine, 2 .._ S
Floquet, 1 . S
Sidesinger, 1 .... S
The average first-year college
girl spends $108 for room decora
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checkup indicated.
Frosh Splashers Prime
For 'Rook* Swim Meet
Taking a tin from thiir big
brothers, the varsity, the Univer
sity of Oregon freshman swim
ming team is making advances in
their daily workouts that will
help them no end when they do
battle with the Oregon State
BEAVER
warn lyement, iorwarn on tne
OSC clan that the Webfoots tan
gle with next Saturday at Cor
vallis.
Invitation Accepted
Paul B. Means, professor of re
ligion, has been invited to attend
a convention at Stanford univer
sity from February 27 to March
1 on the theme of religion in
higher education. Mr. Means will
speak on religion in state univer
sities.
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remainder of
winter term
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Rooks, in a return meet.
After losing a thrill-filled sea
son opener to the Babes by the
length of a gnats foreleg, the
frosh hit a slump that boded no
good for the Ducklings.
Coming out of this in fine
style the frosh have shown
things that make Coach Mike
Hoyman just a little on the
cheerful side. Hoyman last
night said that the frosh had
a very fine chance of avenging
the early season defeat.
The “young-uns” last Saturday
measured the length of the Uni
versity high school mermen and
looked fairly potent in the doing.
The frosh take the middle of
the stage early Saturday morning
at Corvallis and leave things
cleared up for the show of the
Oregon and Oregon State var
sities in the afternoon.
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