For those who are squinting anxiously these days at th<
handwriting on the wall with the future of sports in mind
we’ll shed the rose-colored glasses for a few minutes and tak<
a quick glance at one particularphase.
Bobby Reynolds
I suppose most people know
that the football team made both
trips to Portland in private cars,
Some may know, too, that for the
trip to Pullman the team had one
car on the train. There were ac
commodations for 33 people and
35 made the trip.
The Ducks head south in
a couple! of weeks to play
California. Housing condi
tions in that district happen
to be so acute that the team
will have to stay in San Fran
cisco and travel out to Berke
ley via busses, if they’re
lucky, and may even have to resort to hitch-hiking.
lwo weeks later they will again trek southward, this
time for USC, and again they will run into difficulties. There
are no busses available and no priorities possible on taxis. The
only means of transportation possible is privately owned
cars. These would cost the wandering Ducks eight bucks a
throw per car and the}* would need seven cars. The Ducks
would have to travel from the depot to the hotel, to the sta
dium for practice, back to the hotel, to the field again for the
(fame, and finally back to the train. You figure out the cost.
Tough on Inland Empire Trip
Before your eyes get too tired from staring at the ominous
scribbling on the wall, here’s some more. Take basketball.
The season opens January 12 when the Ducks start their
Inland Empire trip. This trip covers Idaho, Washington,
and Washington State and depends on some fast getting
around. Just what will the curb on transportation do to these
plans ?
And finally, what with the bill going through for the
drafting of 18 and 19-year-old guys, what will happen
to sports? The draft will then fetch out of the ranks of
college sports the elite who are yet mere youngsters. And
with the army grabbing the youths many o fthe reserves
are going to go to pot as far as keeping a guy in school.
You’d better follow your sports closely this year. You
probably won’t see them for the big scale again till after
the duration.
Of course, to put a clincher on the whole thing, Oregon lost
its football manager over some silly squabble with the schol
arship board. Sprague Carter had things pretty well under
hand and now can’t work any more. It’s no cinch taking
care of the equipment on a trip. At Pullman, for instance, the
team was through on the field at five. Sprague had to take
the dirty togs as the players shed them, get them in trunks,
somehow, and have the stuff down at the train before seven.
That takes a Houdini.
Backfield Combo Looks Good
The switching over of Bobby Reynolds to the running
spot in the Oregon backfield looks like a good “new deal.”
Roblin proved Saturday that he was the best blocker in the
Oregon backfield and blocking is something Oregon can’t
get too much of. It doesn’t kill Roblin as a scoring threat
either, as the pass combo of Reynolds to Roblin looks good.
If you’re really interested in knowing why Washington
State is atop the roost in coast play, figuratively speaking,
fg}st a casual eye at these figures. These figures include only
inference games, that is, Stanford, Oregon, and Montana.
WSC Opponents
First downs . 41 20
Yards gained by rushing (net) .. 750 142
Forward passes attempted . 36 52
Forward passes completed . 16 18
Yards gained by forward passes 185 212
Yards lost, forward passes. 13 16
That's 935 yards the Cougar machine has rambled in crush
ing three coast conference opponents. And up to the Montana,
Oregon was the club that had come closest to scoring, hav
ing managed to sneak up to the Cougar 33-yard line. If there’s
a weakness in the club it’s their pass defense (212 yards in
three games is quite a hunk) but with a scoring juggernaut
Jkke W SC boasts, they don't have to worry about a few com
Pkted passes.
Long Lloyd Jackson Out
Lloyd Jackson, spindly six-footer, six foot seven to be
exact, won't be out for basketball this year. His kidney seems
to have jumped around a bit and is now so situated that Lloyd
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One of the leading expound
ers of the “they shall not pass”
war cry in the Oregon line is big,
husky Ed Moshofsky, veteran
! tackle for the Webfoots.
, The boys on the club call him
, “Moe,” but his home town sup
porters from Beaverton call him
“The Beaverton Buster.” And
for an offense buster, Mr. Mo
shofsky does all right. In fact
he does well enough to rate a
berth on several conference
teams’ all-opponent lists.
Lives His Football
“Moe” lives football while he's
on the field. When he's in the
classroom, he concentrates on his
business administration course
with the same energy and de
light he takes in throwing those
guys that lug the ball for five
yard losses.
As far as women are con
cerned, “Moe” is Mister Bash
ful personified. The feminine
species gives him the jitters,
but definitely.
After the war, he plans to go
into business. He's seen twenty
three falls, and to protect his
civilian status he’s in the ad
vanced unit of the college ROTC.
“Texas Tough1'
“Moe” thinks the 1941 Texas
outfit was the toughest he’s en
countered.* You won’t have any
difficulty in picking Moshofsky
out on the field. Just look in the
middle of the line where the ac
tion's the heaviest and the Bea
verton Buster” will be busting
’em.
Atherton Visits Frosh:
Probes for ‘Phoneys’
Ducklings
OK; Hail
From Oregon
With Edwin G. Atherton in
town the frosh football squad
closed camp for one day to pre
pare eligibility blanks fori the
coast athletic commissioner.
Under the strict conference
rulings for proselyting athletes
most schools tremble at the ap
proach of the athletic “G-Man,”
but Coach Anse Cornell has no
worries about losing any of his
freshman athletes. Almost all the
freshman football aspirants are
entered in Oregon’s outstanding
P.E. school. This should go to
prove that the boys are coming to
schol these days fr an education
and not to play football for the
best jobs available.
Ducklings From Oregon
The majority of the Duckling
team hails from Oregon with a
handful hailing from more distant
points. Of the 67 boys who orig
inally turned out, 53 came from
the various parts of Oregon,
while eight came north from Cali
fornia, three . of the squad trav
eled down from Washington, and
five of the Ducklings came in
from the East. Chuck Vannatta,
a husky tackle of great possibil
ity, came the longest distance.
Vannatta came to the U. S. from
Hawaii last June.
A great majority of the first
and second string boys are
from Portland or eastern Ore
gon. Jefferson high in Portland
has three of the first 22 boys
representing it, while Grant
and Franklin high schools fol
\lovv close behind.
Today the Ducklings harness
up to continue practice for the
first big game with the Oregon
State Rooks Friday night, Octo
ber 23, at Corvallis. The early
part of next week should find the
starting lineup working together
in order to develop coordination
on their plays.
Football Sleuth on Trail
Of Frosh 'Undesirables’
Edwin N. Atherton blew into town yesterday. He didn’t come to
Eugene on a pleasure trip. Hardly. The head commissioner of football
in the Pacific Coast Conference was concerned with business more
serius than a vacation jaunt. In all probability. Miss Big of Coast
football has a little black notebook. And on one of the pages is listed
a number, “three,” with the word “Oregon” written after it.
You see, Atherton, former divisional head of “G-Men” on the
.iraciiie uuasi is just maKmg nis
annual tour of the northwest
schools in the P.C.C. Having al
ready visited Washington State
and Idaho, Atherton’s next stop
proved to be the home of the
Webfoot gridders.
Question Gridders
Almost unnoticed, the pigskin
czar slipped into Eugene, whipped
out to Oregon’s football field' and
began throwing a rapid volley of
questions at confused members
of the freshman football squad.
Atherton’s intentions, of course,
were above board. It's his job to
check on the eligibility of all
football men. Gridders aren’t
supposed to get scholarships and
free tuition and free room and
board in the Pacific Coast con
ference any more.
Atherton cashes fat checks
because he has established him
self as the man that cleaned
up all the “scandalous activi
ties” of our Coastal regions.
On his last trip to Eugene, Ed
declared the following mem
bers of Oregon’s freshman foot
ball team ineligible:
Bert Gianelii, Larry Casper,
Larry Olsen, Inky Boe.
Gianelii wanted to continue
playing ball. So he packed his
bags and moved to Santa Clara,
where he’s wowing Bronco fans
today with his play .at guard;
Casper stayed in the state but
went to Portland university to
continue his ramblings on the
gridiron; Olsen, one of the best
passers to ever hit this campus,
is now in the service; Inky Boe,
a standout ball carrier is lugging
the leather for a Seattle shipyard
outfit.
Koch to Oregon
Of course, Atherton's ax
will have to have an operation before tackling the maple
board game again.
In case you’re interested, we think Washington is
going to end up atop the heap around Rose Bowl time.
Of their remaining seven games, only two are away
from home. They play Stanford at Palo Alto November
7, and then go south two weeks later for UCLA. Those
long trips mean a lot in the outcome of a game between
closely matched teams.
Kappas Thump
Uni, 39-32
Kappa Kappa Gamma over
came a 20-13 first half disad
vantage to upset University
house, 39-32, in the closing min
utes of play yesterday afternoon
in the only coed volleyball game
of the day. In the other scheduled:
contest Alpha Chi Omega de
faulted to Hendricks hall.
Beautiful volleyball was ex
hibited by both teams in spite of
the fact that it was the first
game for both. With Millicent
Besson’s slashing powerful over
arm service and Mary Bush’s
steady, unerring play, the Kap
pas calmly worked together t<J
edge gradually ahead.
Wanda Dimmick and Verda
Jackson played outstanding ball
for University house. Captain
Alyson Hales deserves consider
able credit for her fine all
around play for the Kappas and
for the way in which she got to
gether one of the peppiest and
most skilled teams seen this
year.
spared none of the conference
teams. Bob Koch, who played
freshman football at Stanford
university was guilty of rule in
fractions and, when declared in
eligible to romp in moleskins for
dear old Stanford, came to Ore
gon.
The former ace sleuth does
n’t stop at football, either. He
took two fine basketball pros
pects from the Ducks when he
put the “taboo” sign on Bob
Sheridan and Bill Gissburg.
The former is now at Washing
ton State and the latter goes to
Washington U.
The current football situation,'
is interesting. With congress and
the draft board blowing hot
breaths on their necks, our fresh
man gridders’ futures look dark
enough.
Where will the Atherton ak
fall this time?