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Webfoot Mermen Dominate All-Coast Tank Aggregation By DOUG DONAHUE It may have been a long time sinee the yellow and green of Oregon has flown at the top of the coast football standings, but when it comes to swimming the story is slightly altered. For instance, in tlie 1942 swimming guide was listed the 1942 i-tl! Northern Division tank team. Out of twelve possible placements, take a guess at the number of Oregon men on the squad. Exactly possible, from Oregon earned the honors. Jack Robinson led his teammates in not only taking the 220 and 440 yard free style spots, tout also in breaking' all distance records on the coast by paddling' ' the 440 in exactly 5 minutes and G seconds. Took Everything The 300 yard medley relay went unanimously to Oregon tankmen, with Chuck Weitzel, Ralph Huestis, and Chuck Nelson proving far superior to any op ponents in sight. Webfoot John ny Mead nabbed the 60 yard nprint spot, while Ox Wilson took nil honors in the diving'. Chuck Nelson took the back stroke title, while the Huestis boys, Gerry and Ralph teamed up to make it almost a unani mous Duck team by respec tively taking the 100 yard free style and 200 yard breast Stroke crow ns. Somehow a couple of boys from Washington, Barr and Denning, managed to sneak by the judges end break the Oregon monopoly by placing on the 400 yard relay team. Johnny Mead and Gerry Huestis “saved’' Oregon’s face by taking the other spots on the re lay team. A Record There they are. Add 'em up. Oregon, represented by seven men, took ten out of a possible twelve spots. Records show that .no other team in any spoil in the history of the Pacific Coast Con ference has ever so thoroughly dominated the all-star selections. Since the above mentioned Swimming Guide failed to pick a team for (lie entire confer ence, Jack Dallas, former All American Webfoot tanker, and Mr. Mike Hoyinan, currently meting as eoaeli for the mer men, took il upon themselves to select an All-Pacific Coast conference team. “Their opin ions are naturally biased,” you say. No, the selections are based on actual times register ed in competition. Of a total of 21 possible points, Oregon registered 9, USC 6, Stanford 3, and UCLA 3. Again paced by Jack Robinson, who nabbed firsts in both of his fa \ mite races, the 440 and 220. our Frosh Thump Army, 19-0 By FRED BECWITH After sloshing around on a mud-caked turf for four periods, the University of Oregon fresh man football team was rewarded for its efforts with a 19-0 triumph over the Camp White Engineers of Medford last Saturday. The game, played at Hayward field, was attended by only a handfull of students, most of whom were by radio sets listen ing- to the varsity tangle with the use Trojans. Ashcom Coaches The victory was registered by the frosh under the tutelage of acting coach Dick Ashcom, who spelled Anse Cornell, when the latter went south in advance of the varsity caravan, to drum up publicity for the Oregon-USC ruckus. Stocky Benny Holcomb again led the Duckling attack from his left halfback post. Before five minutes had elapsed in the hall game, Boomin' Benny was off to the races. Spotting a big hole off tackle, Holcomb darted forth like a bul let from a gun. Before you could (Please turn to page seven') SPORTS STAFF Fred Beckwith Si Sidesinger Reid Ferrall Boh Caviness Bill Stratton Harry Glickman Ace Calise Doug Donahue Ned Leibman Dan Gassner Mary Alderson Ducks placed 7 out of a possible 15 men on the team. Other records show that on flic basis of times achieved, Oregon ranks at the top of a long list of swimming teams west of the Mississippi, and among the first ten in the country. JOHN KARAMANOS . . . . . . crashing Rook fullback. (Photo courtesy Oregonian). KenneyHolds Scoring Lead Bob Kennedy had little to wor ry about over the weekend con cerning his scoring lead. While the bruising Cougar full shoved only one score over on the Van days he hoisted his total to 69 points. Jim Jurkovich, of California, jumped up in the standings with his total of 39 points, to take over second place. Buck Fawcett, Stanford fullback, holds down third spot with 36 points. G Td Pat Pts Kennedy, WSC .7 11 3 69 Jurkovich, Cal.8 6 3 39 Fawcett, St.8 6 0 36 *Snelling, UCLA 7 3 10 31 Day, Ore. St. .8 5 0 30 McCardle, CSC .7 4 1 25 Hardy, CSC .7 4 1 25 Sheller, St. ..8 4 0 24 *Snelling kicked field goal. G. games; Td, touchdown; Pat, point after touchdown. 'House Of Troy’ Falls—On Ducks; And The Score Was 40-0; Nuff Said Tlu> house of Troy foil, and nothing but hard—right sniaoh dah on fop of a clan of injury td riokon l)nok griddors in Iho Coliseum at Los Angelo- Satur day h\ the lop-sided and embar rassing soore of 10 toO. This is not the first time the Oregons have boon waxed by the Trojans, however. The two squads have mot 12 times since 1015, and Oregon has only re folded two victories and tied one. Oregon won 35 to 0 in 1915 and 20 to 0 last year. The tie was in 1939. Jinv Business Maybe there is something to this jinx business. UCLA tum bled from the top of the ladder at the hands of the lowly Ducks, being; cursed with a jinx, and the Oregons were jinxed when they met the Trojans and look what happened. Jinx, curses or what have you. Warren made no excuses for the trouncing'. About all he is interested in now, is prim ing for the Beavers at Corval lis Saturday in the “civil war.” About the only good news that comes from the weary Webfoots, is the fact that there were no casualties encountered and that Tommy Roblin and Russ Nowling still have a good chance to gain all-coast honors. Line Hit Hard Although the Webfoots were stricken with injuries before the Trojan tilt, and four first string linemen were useless, there are no further casualties and the Ducks are expected to be in good shape for the Beavers come Sat urday. Warren also announced that Koblin and Xowling turned in sparkling performances for the \\ ebfoots, d(i .pito the score and their chances for all-coast honors shouldn’t he marred. Now ling snagged some nice passes and stood out defensively. Koblin carried the ball 15 times fora total gain of 3S yards, form ing the spearhead of the Oregon attack, what there was of it. | V'lllz'fbnll ... ^ . Coed Playoff on Tap [ By MARY ALDERSON The championship of girls’ in tramural volleybail for 1942 is at stake this afternoon as the semi final victors, Susan Campbell and Highland house match wares at 5. Highland', an underdog at the first of the season, has defeated such contenders as Hendricks hall, last year’s champions and Kappa Alpha Theta’s outstand ing squad. They have an extreme ly well-balanced team that spe cialized in team play. Doris Craig Doris Craig, tall center for ward, is the spearhead of their offensive attack. She is one of the top spikers on the campus and has been given brilliant sup port by her team mates, especial ly the center line combination of Gertrude Kay and Audrey Holli day. Captain Gertrude Kay has chosen to play one period of ro tation and one non-rotation half in previous games and predic tions are to the effect that this game will be played on that basis. Susan Campbell is the surprise outfit of the year. Confronted with a lack of material, they were not expected to go far. But by defeating Orides in the upset of the season in the semi-finals, Susies convinced observers that they had' a lot of power. Good Defensively h The teamwork cf Susie is good and was a big factor in the Ori des upset. The Susie eight showed a lot of skill in recovering smasher and may be able to stop Highland’s Craig. Dorothy Gus tafson plays a very nice all around game for the dorm girls, both at the net and in ’setting them up. Helen Gilson is the cap tain. Officials for this game are Margaret Shipler and Anna Ban nich. TOMMY OXMAN . . . . . . is back in the Duck fold as a quarterback. Canard ClubTipsSigma Chis In IM Volleyball Thriller Forfeits seemed to be the fea ture in today’s volleyball games as only three of the scheduled six matches were played. In the ser ies that were played Canard club eked out a win over Sigma Chi, the ATO's defeated the Pi Kaps, and the Fiji's put down a sturdy Phi Sig team in their closest match of the year. In the first set which was eas ily one of the best contests of the year, Canard club squeezed by Sigma Chi in a three game thriller, 8-15, 15-12, and 15-10. The leads varied back and forth through all the games, but after the fraternity men won the open er the Canard players had ev erything under control. Weiden starred for the winners while Stover sparked the losing team. ATO’s Win The ATO sextet beat the Pi Kaps handily 15-7, 15-11 in a^ other good match. The winnee?/ had the lead all the time except for a few brief moments at the start of the second game. Bob Albord was the Ivey man for the ATO's while Moore anil Gilbert led the winners. Although the scores were 15-6 and 15-8 the Fijis had a rather tough time putting down the Phi Sigs. Fijis Extended Bryce Sidesinger was the main stay of the Fijis while six-foot eight-inch Royal Denton who played his last game before go ing into the army led the Phi Sigs. §) Sigma Alpha Mu, Phi Sis and the Phi Delts won by default; the losers were Zeta hall, the Yeomen and Sigma Hall in that order.