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Bears Favored Over Webfoots
Husky Win Gives Cal
Nod Over Webfoots
Sports Staff:
Lee Flatberg
Fred Treadgold
Bill Stratton
Fred Beckwith
Ned Liebman
Ace Calise
By FRED TREADGOLD
Co-Sports Editor, the Emerald
BERKELEY, Cal., Oct. 30.—(Special
4.0 the Emerald)—Tension was high in
this Bay city as time grew short prior
to the opening kickoff which would send
Oregon’s big invading juggernaut thun
dering onto the green floor of the Memo
rial Coliseum to loclc’ grips with the up
and-coming California Golden Bears. A
throng, upwards of 30,000, was expected
to witness the battle between these two
oft-defeated clubs.
Boys “in the know” down here were hesi
tant about placing any large bets on the game.
It was considered strictly a toss-up affair,
with perhaps a slight advantage going' to the
Blue and Gold clan on the strength of their
•showing' against the Washington Huskies last
week.
Jurkovich Smooth
Stub Allison, venerable Cal. mentor, was
expected by the rail-birds to loose a power
laden offensive, paced by his ‘‘Big Berthas,"
Joltin' Jim Jurkovich. smooth-functioning
halfback, and Frank Porto, line-cracking full
hack. These two teamed up last week to man
gle Washington 19 to 6.
The Golden Hears, after a sporadic
start, have shown definite signs of shak
ing fheir lethargy and will bo out to clip
MANNY VEZIE . . .
. . . will help “Honest Jawn” wear a path in front
of the Oregon bench .today in Berkeley.
tin* Ducks’ wing's in their hid
for grid fame.
Oregon’s big' Green eleven,
however, had much the same at
titude, that of using the Cali
fornians as a stepping-stone to
regain some of the “face" they
lost because of early conference
• eversals.
Ducks to Pass
The much-discussed weak Cali
fornia pass-defense was expect
ed to receive a thorough trial
by the “pass-happy" Ducks.
This vaunted Oregon air show
features two sophomores Bob
by Reynolds, colored star, and
Roy Erickson, green but promis
ing youngster and was consid
ered the best card which Oregon
Boss John Warren could play.
Both Reynolds and Erickson
have proved their worth under
actual game fire.
With such capable receivers as
Buss Nowling, All-Coast pros
pect, and Big Jim Shephard,
“sticky-fingered" wingman, the
■Thick aerial assault shaped up as
fm even more ominous threat to
the Bears.
Oregon will !>e at full
strength for the first time in
almost u month. Hoy “Tippy"
Dyer, victim of a shoulder in
jury against Washington three
weeks ago, lias shaken his lnlrt
and will open at right' hftlf.
Behemothic Dick Ashcom. a
lower of strength in the Duck
4huo, is slated to open at one of
1 he tackle berths after a siege
ia the hospital ward. With Ash
com's added heft, the Duck for
ward wall will tip the beam close
to the 206-pound mark.
The rest of the Duck starting'
positions will remain static.
Big guns in tlie Golden Bear
front line are Brunei Christen
sen, hulking renter; Bob Her
rero, large blit erafty guard;
and End John Ferguson.
If the Ducks can halt the ram
blings of Jurkovich, Porto, and
cohorts, they will have nipped the
Bear offense in the bud. That is
n huge assignment as any of
^Washington's players will testi
fy. Most of the California plays
me run from an unbalanced line
fcvlth a single wing-back forma
tion as its basis.
Revenge for Cal
California worshippers haven't
Pnahahle
Oregon
Shephard ...
Moshofsky
Rhea
Bodner
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Ashcom
Nowling .... .
Roblin .
Reynolds .
Dyer
Davis .
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California
. Doerr
_ Seaver
. Herrero
Christensen
_ Gentner
_ DeCoudres
.. Ferguson
McCarthy
. Jurkovich
. Graves
. Porto
Professional Football
Functions Despite War
Professional football, the game
of smash for cash, lias undergone
some changes this year. Most no
ticeable at a close-up “bird’s-eye"
view of the situation is the fact
that all the gridders that per
form for “dough-ray-me” are no
doubt married or temoparily de
ferred from military service.
It does net seem likely that a
guy who is strong enough to mix
with the 250-pound behemoths
that grace the average profes
sional team’s forward fall, would
receive a “physically unfit" clas
sification from Uncle Sam. Of
eodrse, the men that have been
in the game for five or ten years
have no doubt acquired a Mrs.
somewhere along the line.
Pursue Luscious Lettuce
Some of the most able-bodied
men in the country are still en
gaged in a civilian pursuit of
luscious lettuce, that green stuff
the banks hoard. Throwing out
forgotten the 19 to 7 humiliation
that their heroes received last
year in Portland by Oregon. It
was in that contest that All
American Tackle Bob Reinhard
was rendered impotent by the fu
rious charging and cagey mouse
trapping of the Duck linemen.
the fact that some of these pig
skinners have dependent wives,
it doesn't seem fair that physi
cally fit men who weekly throw
crashing' blocks, execute vicious
tackles and flip the cowhide half
the length of the greensward,
shouldn’t be- serving our armed
forces abroad or at heme, in the
capacity of physical education in
structors, at least.
Some of the “pros" have gone
into the service; Norm Stand
lee, accepted in many circles
today as the outstanding full
back of his time, left a liigh
saVaried job in the ranks of the
Chicago Bears and enlisted in
the army. Some of his team
mates did likewise.
Even by a stretch of imigin-..
ation. ycu cannot say that play
ing professional football is aiding
the war effort, certainly not
from a public morale standpoint.
Two years ago, the sport scribes
of the nation prophesied that the
sport of playing ball for money
was giving serious competition to
traditional amateur football, col
legiate style. The men that are
playing college football today are
doing everything they can for the
war effort. A great majority of
them are enlisted in military re
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Cal-Oregon Statistics
Oregon and California have played 18 games from 1899 to
1941, and the Bears have quite an edge on the Ducks.
The Bears have won 12 games and Oregon 6. None have
been ties. California has rolled up a total of 240 points to the
Ducks’ 116.
Year
1899 .
1900 .
1904 .
1916 .
1917 .
1918 .
1921 .
1925 .
1926 .
Ore.
. 0
. 4
. 0
. 39
. 21
. 0
0
. 0
. 21
Cal.
12
0
12
14
0
6
39
28
13
Year
1927 .
1928
1935 .
1936
1937 .
1938 .
1939 .
1940 .
1941
Ore.
0
. 0
. 0
. 0
. 0
. 0
. 6
. 6
. 19
Cal
16
13
£
26
20
0
14
7
Four PCC Contests Today;
UCLA-Stanford Top Tilt
King- Football takes another
deep breath of autumn air into
his lungs and limbers up for an
other Saturday of action.
I Here at Eugene, radio sets will
be dialed to the California-Ore
gon game which takes place in
Memorial Stadium, Berkeley,
Cal. According to the gents who
lay cash down on the line for
their favorites, Mister Stub Al
lison’s Bears hold the trump
cards, and thus have been estab
lished as favorites, at 10-8 money.
Duck Chances
Our beloved Webfoots are
banking their chances on:
(1) A new-found spirit, an
nexed in that 28-0 victory at hap
less Idaho's hands last week.
(2) Return to the lineup of
Roy Dyer, veteran right halfback.
(3) A well-conditioned forward
wall, graced with men who have
been riding the splinter circuit
much of this season, due to in
juries.
The University of California,
a notoriously slow - starting
club, usually shakes off the
lethargy in mid-season and
“STUB” ALLISON . . .
. . . Cal mentor who plays host
to Oregon’s Webfoots today.
starts driving along about the
first of November. Mrs. Jurko
vich’s famous son Jim will be
guiding the Blue and Gold des
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