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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1942)
Here’s a tip: Keep your shirt on your back. Don’t wager your month’s allowance on any football game, not even the surest bet. Football is something that you just can’t dope out, nothing is certain. It's safer to slap your wad on “Dog Biscuit” in the third than to take a flier on this crazy, mixed up, head-spinning grid pool. To further convince the unwary of the ruin that lies ahead if they continue to tread the path of the “gambler,” we will enact a fictitious little “drammer" of what might.have 1; pened to a person who plays the “football ponies.” Main character in our makeshift little episode is one Jo seph \Y. Blough, shipyard arc welder par excellence. Now Joe has been a gridiron fan since time immemorial. As soon as lie was old enough to sneak in over the fence he was liv ing, eating, sleeping, and diagnosing football. Joe Goes All-Out As time went on Joe developed a complicated system of grid-doping. Encompassing calculus, logarithms, analytical geometry, long division, weather reports, players’ diets, baro metric pressure, past records, psychological and emotional reactions, Joe’s system didn't miss a thing. After ten years of substituting, revising, analyzing, Joe pronounced the system as infallible—absolutely fool-proof. He was ready to try it out and was so certain he coudn’t fail that he shot his entire savings on the bet. Joe laid it on the line. California couldn’t lose to a supposedly anemic OSC club, his ouiji board calculations ,told him. Sure, UC looked unimpressive in winning 6 to 0 ,^er St. Marys, but the Pacific Coast Prophets Union No. 2189 had declared the Golden Bears prematurely, league champions . . . besides, Joe’s guaranteed predic tion system pointed confidently to a Cal. victory. "What happened? Those upstart Beavers smashed Joe’s prognostication to atoms with a story-book conclusion which saw Oregon State win in the final 20 seconds. Undaunted, Tries Again Our pal Joe, taken aback somewhat, by the miserable fail ure of his system to name the winner, thought, “Oh, well, it can't be right every time.” And just to show that he wasn't faint-hearted Joe was determined to try again, “and this time the old system just couldn't fail” Well, Joe, devoid of cash after the housecleaning, mortgaged the old homestead (isn’t this touching?) in order to get enough of that “green stuff” to back his newest prediction. ^Oregon State had shown Joe plenty against California, he b grudgingly admitted, even though it was the Beaver who had stripped him to the marrow. Joe got out his pencil, ap plied the “infallible, fool-proof" Blough method and came up with the Orangemen as a lead-pipe cinch to shove U.C.L.A. all over the lot. No one but a fool would bet otherwise, so Joe shelled out again. UCLABops Oregon State And what was the result in this unpredictable coast con ference? A ferocious Uclan Grizzly,, who previously had hardly the strength to draw a deep breath, mangled the rosy luied OSC championship hopes with a terrific 30 to 7 mauling. Friend Joe had it doped out to the nth degree. It was as safe as money in the bank—he thought. But you just can’t predict these football elevens. One day they play like a gang of sand-lot kids, the next like champions. But that’s football for you. We haven’t quite figured out what happens now to pal Joe. Maybe he’s still busily pouring over his calculations and s. _ sties, pencil in hand, doping out this Saturday’s winners. Maybe Joe, some of these days, will get tired of flubbing the winners, thanks to those unquenchable upsets, and leave the prognosticating to the gullible sports writers. Anyway, don’t put up pa’s best Sunday-going-to-meeting shoes as stake on a football game, even if you’re positive you have the winning answer . . . cuz anything might (and prob ably will) happen. Koblin Sniffs Orchids Orchids to “Terrible Thomas” Roblin, Oregon's great halfback-quarterback, from Davie Molen, Idaho Argonaut sports scribe. Molen takes his hat off to Roblin with a tribute which declares, “Roblin hits harder than (Bob) Kennedy (Washing tujvState fullback), never stops driving, is terribly elusive, and pafccs offensive threats in his passing and kicking. It-wasn't a flash in the pan, either, for last year we watched Roblin pace his team to a 19-16 triumph over Washington in Seattle. For future all-star selections keep your eyes on Oregon’s Roblin." Sigma Nus Continue Slaughter, Win 53-0 PhiDeltsWin From Zetas By NED HERMAN Sigma Chi 0, Pi Kappa Alpha 1 Behind the dynamic ball play ing of speedy Wally Still, the Pi Kappa Alpha touch-football crew edged out Sigma Chi 1-0 in an exciting overtime game. The game was closely fought throughout with most of the ac tion taking place on midfield. It was only in the last quarter that a drive by either club material ized. Both ball clubs neared their opponents’ goal line, but could not put across a winning tally. The Pi Kaps won the ball game when they chose Wally Still to pass to Ross Wither. This combo clicked for 25 yards and enough yardage to win the game. Still was easily the outstand ing man for the winners while Dick Burns kept the Sigma Chis in the ball game. Lineups: Sigma Chi Pi Kap Bradshaw .C. Smelser Daneschen .RE. Wehe Borrevick .LE. McMullen Baker.Q. Gilbertson Brown .F. Todd Burns .RH. Richmond Ebert .LE. Still Subs: Pi Kappa: Wither, Har risoh. Chi Psi Lodge 1, Phi Kappa Pst 0 In another overtime game, the Chi Psi Lodge edged out the Phi Kappa Psis, making four yards more than their opponents to win the ball game. Both teams threatened con tinually throughout the game, many plays starting inside the ten-yard line. Although each squad turned in a good defen sive game, neither one could get started on the offensive with fumbles and poor block ing featuring the ball game. This, however, was made up by the fight shown by all the players. Numerous players were forced off the field because of in juries. Hancock paced the winners with Frisbie spot-lighting the Phi Psi. Lineups: Phi Psi Chi Psi Noble . C. Gleason Frisbie .RE. Mills Esselstrom .LE. Johns Jackson .F. Kenton Tillson .Q .. Horstou Kennedy .RH. Partneu Khlemet .LH. Hancock Subs: Phi Psis: Kresse, G. Kennedy; Chi Psi—Perry. By SHIRLEY DAVIS Sigma Nu slaughtered the Al pha hall club 53-0 yesterday in a game that lacked even an ele metn of competition for the vic tors. Dick Whitman, with the aid of Johnny Bubalo and Ed Nul ty, displayed an aerial attack that left the Hallmen reeling. It was the second landslide re corded by the Nus. They walloped the Chi Psis, 68 to 0, last week. Lineups: Sigma Nu Alpha Hall Williamson .LE. Frost Skillicorn .C. Bande Crane .RE. Schell Nulty.LH. Begleries Bugalo .Q. Hart Dick .RH. Oswald Whitman .FB. Coffey Subs — Sigma Nu: Johnson, Quinn. On an exceedingly sloppy field, ALL-COAST? . . . . . . Russ Nowling, stellar Duck wingmen. Dale Lasselle Dies In Crash The war struck just a little bit closer to home Tuesday when a brief dispatch from the war department announced the death of Captain Dale Lasselle, whose flying fortress crashed in the British Isles October 3. Relatives and friends mourn the popular young- Portlander, who gained fame on the gridiron while wearing an Emerald' and Gold uniform. Played 1934-36 Lasselle won his letter in freshman football at Oregon, and then starred in three Webfoot campaigns from 1934-36. The former Duck gridder was a tailback and was noted for his broken-field running. He received Ali'-Coast mention in 1936. Upon his graduation from Ore gon, Lasselle worked a year for his father and then enlisted in the army air corps and was trained at Randolph field and Kelly field at San Antonio, Texas. He was then assigned to a bombing squadron at McDill field, Florida, where he re mained until June of this year. He left the United States ten days ago I? a flying fortress. Death came at the height of his air corps career. Dale Lasselle has dropped from our life, but his memory will live on in the minds and hearts of Oregonians. Phi Delta Theta triumphed over Zeta hall 33-7. Phi Delt touch downs were all made on passes thrown by Hank Burns. Respons ible for touchdowns in the muddy brawl were Don Kirsch, who came through with his share of two, and Elliot Wright, Bob Stan berry, and Martin Shedler, each taking credit for one. Lineups: Phi Delts Zeta Hall Wright .LE. Able Stanberry.C.Leslie Shedler .RE. Cartascnga Kirsch .LH. Beck Krieger .Q. Hamilton Olson .RH.Reynolds Burns .FB. Pupke Subs—Phi Delt: Skade, Dyer; Zeta Hall: Reed. Touch Football (Thursday, Oct. 15) 4:00—Field 1—ATO vs. Camp bell club Field 2—Fiji vs. Omega hall 4:45—Field 1—Beta vs. Sig ma hall Field 2—Kappa Sig vs. Sher ry Boss hall WARM WEATHER GONE WET WEATHER HERE So right now is the time to drop down to DeNeffe's for they've got "Everything" in the last thing in rainwear. Alligator stormwind $11.50 Alligator golf jackets $5.75-$6.75 Axel Hydronized coats $13.95 and jackets $7.95$ 10.95 Spectator raincoats $13.50 Rain Hats, Axel Hydronized $3.00 Corduroy $1.95 LOOK OVER our new line of TOP-COATS DeNeffe’s 16 Years of Campus Service 1022 Willamette CLASSIFIED ADS ALPHA DEALTA PI sorority pin. ‘Initials I.M.C. on back. Phone 4350. Reward. WINTER IS COMING And along with winter comes driving problems. Let us tune up your car for the winter months ahead. CLARK BATTERY & ELECTRIC CO. 1042 Oak Ph. 80
