The sun sank in the west. Black shadows on the ragged,
disheveled, green turf lengthened into fantastically ludicrous
proportions, resembling something ghost-like. The hazy dusk,
that comes with evening,
crept over the field. The
crowd filed straggely out of
of the stands.
The stadium was almost
empty — a hollow, yawning,
black thing. But penetrating
i this deepening gloom were the
voices of some 2000 Oregon
students. They sang their
school hymn, “Old Oregon.’’
True, the)- had sung it after
I games many a time before.
! The words were the same, but
the spirit was different. They
sang it as if they meant every
word, as if they were proud to
be Oregon Ducks . . . and they
had reason to be.
,, , „ Hadn’t the Webfoot
Buck Baile\r
varsity, their boys, taken
their first victory of the season, ending a scourge of heart
breaking reversals, and hadn t their boys captured the
fancy of the fans with their wide-open, take-a-chance
f brand of ball?
...
\ ictory had finally come to the joyous Ducks and she was
received with open arms.
Newcomers Get the Spirit
A couple of newcomers showed up well for Oregon. “Hon
est Jawn" surprised everyone by leaving in Hal Lloyd, green
sophomore guard, after he booted the opening kickoff. Up till
now Lloyd had the thankless task of kicking-off and then trot
ting over to the bench to roost on the splinter-board for the
duration of the tilt.
This time Jawn left him in, and the 21-year-old strip
ling from Olympia, Washington, fulfilled Warren’s faith
by tackling like a 10-ton Mack truck, and blocking with
the finality of a steam-roller.
Dick Brown, reserve end. was the other neophyte to shine
in the Vandal debacle. Alternating for Big Jim Shephard,
Brown was shoved into the forward wall and immediately
caught on to the scoring idea which was so prevalent in Duck
% iks Saturday. Brownie grabbed one of Roy Erickson’s accu
rate strikes just short of the goal line and lunged across for
the score.
Vandal Assault Misfires
Francis Schmidt’s widely-publicized hipped-dipper attack
was so closely covered by the Ducks that it fizzled on all but a
few attempts. Most effective play developed from the single
and double-reverse formations. Despite Oregon’s knowledge of
these plays before the game, the Ducks were still bothered no
end.
Howie Manson, Vandal triple threat, received rough treat
ment by the blood-thirsty Duck forwards. Time and again he
was flattened after hurriedly getting off his pass. As a result
Hurlin’ Howie and his throwing cohorts could complete just
eight passes out of 29 tries, ’way below their usual average.
Reynolds Rates Plaudits
Bobby Reynolds, Duck colored boy who is rapidly round
ing into one of the best Oregon backs in years, wriggled and
twisted like an eel in the first period as he threaded his way
through the Vandal defense, returning Manson’s quick-kick
from the 10 to the 25. Not only did Reynolds show as a passer
and race horse, but his well-placed punts were grieving to the
Idahoans.
Biggest disappointment: When Reynolds booted from the
35 and the ball just bounced on the goal line before jumping
out of bounds on the six-inch line. It saved Idaho from an em
barrassing situation.
Uay, old, colorlul Buck Bailey, veteran WbL baseball
coach, was in the press box, tabulating data on the Idaho
team. Big Buck was in high spirits as the news of the Cou
gar conquest over Oregon State was announced.
£ Big Buck Bailey, definitely out of character in a dark
brown suit and tan hat looked as big as life, all 240 pounds
of him. He got a big kick out of the interference run by Ref
eree Perry Mitchell for Reynolds when the latter dropped back
to pass in the second half.
BATTLIN’ BILL,
. (Courtesy of the Register-Guard)
AGAIN, PICKING UP SEVEN YARDS ...
. . . on left-end ramble to the 31-yard line. Howie Manson (left), Jack Tewhey (37), Veto Berllus (36),
and Merrill Barnes (22) converge for the tackle. Scotty Deeds (12) and Russ Nowling (20) attempt to
clear path.
Touch Football Clubs
Clash 7"oday In Playoffs
Rain or shine, the play-offs of
the intramural touch football
tournament get under way tomor
row. This was the statement re
leased by chairman in charge of
the athletic event.
Tuesdays’ feature game, of
course, will be the gridiron brawl
between the Sigma Nu power cor
poration and the Phi Delt pig
skinners. That game will start at
5 p.m. on field number one.
TOUCH PLAYOFF GAMES
(Tuesday, Oct. 27)
4:00—Field 1—Betas vs. Kap
pa Sigs.
5:00—Field 1—Sigma Nus vs.
Plii Delts.
It will be preceded one hour by
the Beta-Kappa Sigma clash.
Although the Sigma Nu club
has run roughshod over its oppo
nents during the regular season,
it is not expected to landslide the
Phi Delts by some of the track
and-field scores it has run up on
a series of hapless opponents. Sig
ma Nu will again take to the air
lanes for the majority of their of
fensive movements. Dick Whit
man and Johnny Bubalo being the
pass-and-catch combination that
has thus far penetrated touch
down land with great frequency.
Phi Delt’s Ray Dickson will
be in the thick of the fray, at
tempting to bust up the S.N.
juggeranut’s attack and regis
ter some points for his own out
fit.
Fijis, SAEs Bye
Both the Fijis and SAEs draw
byes tomorrow.
On Wednesday, the Fiji crew
meets the winner of the Sigma
Nu-Phi Delt battle and on the
same day the SAEs trade pigskin
punches with the winner of the
Beta-Kappa Sigma clash.
The two semi-finalists wind
up action on Thursday in a fi
nale.
The championship will be at
stake at field number one, 4 p.m.
Thursday. Come early and be as
sured of standing room.
And don’t forget to watch for
the all-intramural football teams
to be chosen by the Emerald sport
staff.
Music library at the University
of Wisconsin contains more than
$2,500 volumes of a historical,
biographical, critical or scientific
nature, as well as several hundred
miniature scores.
Coast Grid Upsets Mangle
Emerald Scribes’ Prophecies
In a Saturday mixed with sur
prises and expected results, the
members of the Pacific coast
conference football squads went
on their merry touchdown-mak
ing- way.
The “surprise” element was in
troduced In Seattle and San
Francisco, for it was in these
two coastal cities that the pro
verbial dope bucket was kicked
over in no uncertain manner.
Washington Bows
Up north, California’s Golden
Bears mauled a favored Wash
ATTENTION BASKETBALL
PLAYERS
All candidates for varsity
basketball', regardless of past
experience, are urged by
Coach Howard Hobson to re
port to McArthur court at 4
o’clock today in ful gym
equipment.
Frosh Hoop Job
Falls to Gale
Lauren (Laddie) Gale, ex-Ore
gon basketball All - American,
takes over at the frosh basketball
helm this week as Howard Hobson,
head hoop coach, turns to his var
sity charges. The lanky 6 foot 4
inch former Duck sharpshooter
will put the yearlings through two
workouts a week in the evening
at the Igloo.
For over a month now the Duck
lings have been refreshing their
memories on fundamentals under
Hobson and have been galloping
through scrimmages the past
week.
ington Husky eleven, 19-6. “Jolt
in’ ” Jim Jurkovich led the blue
and gold victory parade as the
defeat sent Washington cham
pionship hopes sprawling.
In the city by the Golden
Gate, Stanford’s thrice-beaten
Indians rose to the occasion
and whipped mighty Southern
California, last week’s con
querors of Washington State,
to the tune of 14-6. The House
of Troy’s offense was rudely
halted by a stalwart Cardinal
line.
Feature game of the day was
the Santa Clara-Utah clash, and
a large Coliseum crowd saw the
Bruins of Westwood put the fin
ishing touches on the Broncos,
previously unbeaten, by the score
of 14-6.
Beavers Bounced
vVhile our Ducks were register
ing their initial win of the sea
son over a fighting Idaho squad,
28-0, the Beavers from Corvallis
way were being trampled 26-13
by Kennedy and Stoves, alias the
Washington State Cougars.
Montana was idle as her
scheduled game with Montana
State was cancelled due to the
fact that the Bobcats have
abandoned football for the du
ration.
The Emerald sport staff went
out on the limb, if you recall, and
attempted to forecase the re
sults of the weekend’s games.
Here’s how we wound up:
Cal.-WashJngton: We missed
the boat by picking the Huskies,
but warned of a Cal. upset.
Stanford-USC: Another form
chart reversal.
Idaho-Oregon: “The Webfoots
by three or four touchdowns.”
Those were our words.
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