How’s your background on coast football, and particularly
Oregon? Let’s see you test your grid intelligence on a few
of these questions.
When was organized football first played at Oregon?
A Inch two schools in the same state hold the record for the
longest rivalry? How manv trips have Oregon teams made
to the Rose Bowl and what were the results? How many
unbeaten, untied teams has Oregon had?
That’s four of ’em. How many can you answer? Two
out of four would be good, anything better would be ex
ceptional. As for the answers, here they are.
Oregon played it’s first real organized football in 1S94-,
although they fooled around a little with the game in 1893.
A gent by the name of Church coached the team that year.
How Are Ya Doing?
While we bask in the rivalry between Oregon and Ore
gon State and hear a lot about the ancient rivalries in Cali
fornia, Washington State and Washington hold the record.
They were the first two coast teams to play regular football.
They tangled first in 1890. A good many years ago.
Oregon has made two trips to the Rose Bowl. They
played in the second Rose Bowl game and beat Pennsyl
vania 10 to 0. They returned three years later and dropped
a close one to Harvard 7 to 6. It’s interesting to note that
no California team made the Rose Bowl trip till 1921 when
Cal bumped Ohio State 28 to 0. That game was a mile
stone of a sort because it established the Pacific Coast
as a real football country.
Oregon's one and only unbeaten, untied year came in 1895
when they beat Willamette twice, nicked Portland Univer
0\y. and thoroughly trounced Oregon State, then called the
Oregon Agricultural College.
Tried Rugby for a While
Here's one more oddity from the past. At the start of the
20th century football began to bear a resemblance to justified
manslaughter. Colleges started worrying about it and finally
in 1905 it came to a head on the coast and Oregon, along with
the other teams, changed over to Rugby. The following year
the National Intercollegiate Football Conference was formed
and the difficulties were ironed out.
We hadn’t given much thought to All-Americans.
Then in the mail today came a letter from Robert S. Kud
kel of the National Intercollegiate Sports Writers asso
ciation asking for our selection of an All-American team.
Quite a job. The coast has plenty of good players this year
and yet we’ll be surprised if any of them make the sacred cir
cle. Walt Harrison, Husky center, might turn the trick.
Chuck Taylor is probably one of the best guards in the coun
try and he also might make it.
•.Il-American Trouble
Outside of those we don't know of any who will make the
grade. Bob Kennedy should and yet probably won’t. The
last backfield man from the northwest to make the team was
John Carroll of Washington back in 1928.
Jurkovich might make it but we think he’s had more
publicity than he’s worth. Some of the best ends in the
country cavort on the turfs of the coast. Beals, Fergu
son, Suseoff, Nowling, Shephard, and Milt Smith.
And there’s our own Tommy Roblin. He’s probably one
of the most versatile backs in the country. In the last two
years he’s played every position in the backfield and well. It
would be a tough job to pick an All-Coast, leave alone an
All-American.
We'll Try It
But we are crazy so we’ll suggest one. Looking back on
the season it could add up to about this. Ends: John Fergu
son, California, and Russ Nowling, Oregon; tackles: Ed
4Aam, Stanford and Sanchez. USE; guards: Chuck Taylor,
Stanford and Floyd Rhea, Oregon; center: Walt Harrison,
Washington*
We’ll stick along with Gregory on the backfield. Bob
Waterfield, UCLA, at quarter; Jim Jurkovich, California,
at left half; Tommy Roblin, Oregon, at right half; and
Bob Kennedy, WSC, at fullback.
I don’t blame you for whistling through your teeth when
you see that. Sure, a lot were left out. But that would be a
whale of a team. We’ll try again when the season is over,
Latest rumor has it that the Thanksgiving game is
off. The Sigma Nus don’t want to play with Johnny Bu
balo on the sidelines.
Freshman Fools Coeds
(Continued from page one)
Jfc’riday night Pauline was
ready to swing her shift to a wo
man. Garbed in feminine frills
and fancies, he /she easily passed
by the diligent eyes of coed cops.
Once inside Gerlinger, Pauline
settled down for an exclusive
glimpse of the life and leisure of
the Oregon Coed.
But, at intermission, suspicious
cops, following a tip-off, scrutin
ized Pauline for several minutes,
saw through his her wig, yanked
it off, and Pauline was kicked
out.
Frosh Gridders Slate
Game With Army ‘11’
Its head coach, Anse Cornell',
in the south drumming- up pub
licity for the varsity fracas with
the Southern California Trojans,
the Oregon freshmen went
through a fundamental drill yes
terday under the guiding hand
of Dick Ashcom, varsity tackle,
who did not make the Coliseum
trip due to a leg injury.
The freshmen were looking
ahead' to their newly scheduled
ball game with a Medford army
eleven, to be played on Hayward
field this Saturday.
Medford is known to have
three different army units, the
Engineers, the Quartermasters
and the Artillery. It was not def
inite last night as to which of
the three divisions the freshmen
were to engage in the pigskin
opus.
Although a full turnout was
not present yesterday afternoon,
Ashcom sent the gridders
through the extensive “a-b-c’s”
of the gridiron sport.
The Medford teams have not
competed in any scheduled games
thus far this season, being con
tent to play intersquad games.
The Engineers are purported to
be the best of the three military
outfits, thanks to the efforts of
a 135-pound scat back.
As they have been lining up
this week, the following eleven
should be fielded for action Sat
urday :
Barnewalt, Abelson, ends; Stan
ton, Terry, tackles; Hanna, Mur
phy, guards; Olson, center; Por
ter, quarterback; Bodner, right
half; Holcomb, left half, and
Wheeler, fullback.
Unofficially, the game will
start at 2 p.m.
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I-M Slate
4:00 Court 40—Omega Hall “B”
vs. Beta Theta Pi “B”.
Court 66—Phi Sigs “B” vs.
Yeoman “B”
4:40 Court 40—Pi Kappa Alpha
“B” vs. Delts “B”
Court 66—DU “B” vs. Phi Delt
“B”
5:20 Court 40—Kappa Sigs “B”
vs. Sigma Alpha Mu “B”
Court 66—Zeta hall “B” vs.
Sherry Ross “B”
Oregana Staff Pushes
Yearbook Production
Spring term section of the
1943 Oregana has bettered its
production schedule by a full ten
days, Editor Wes Sullivan an
nounced yesterday.
Twenty-eight pages of spring
sports, Junior Weekend', “Of
Thee I Sing,” and campus poli
tics have been laid out, trimmed,
pasted, captioned, and delivered
to the printers.
The section features a- com
plete, detailed pictorial record of
all major events on last spring’s
campus calendar.
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"ATLANTIC
CONVOY"
RUTH BENNETT
VIRGINIA FIELD
"FOOTLIGHT
i SERENADE"
JOHN PAYNE
BETTY GRABLE
VICTOR MATURE
nymid
Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre
in
"The Boogie Man
Will Get You"
and
Chief Tonto Thundercloud
“King of the
Stallions"
Air Thriller ! !
JOHN WAYNE
FLYING TIGERS
With John Carroll and
Anna Lee
pius
Private Smith of
the U. S. A.
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