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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1942)
to 2! (Ooops! Say there, Mr. Printer, not so large with the type. Can't we get that abominable score in a little smaller size ?) 39 to 2! (Say, now that's more like it. Mr Printer. Though it still glares up at you pretty boldly). M ell. by tnis time all of you Oregon fans have had a chance to dry your eyes, stabilize that quivering lip, straighten } mu hair, and are able to face the world again with a strong, ^ive heart. It was disastrous to say the least. Those dawggone Beavers played as if they were headed for Rose Bowl land again. They tackled ferociously, blocked unmercifully, run unerringly, and passed perfectly. In other words, Ore gon State was “HOT!” Here's a tip: One thing that you never want to do is to lay a bet on the visiting club when the hometowners are putting on a homecoming performance. Regardless of the odds the fast-talkers will give you, stear clear of these bets as you would a week-old doughnut. "Taint no good". Uclans Had Pasadena Tickets Almost Bought Remember the Oregon homecoming? UCLA, cocky, con fident. and classy, stormed into town, suffering from grandi ose delusions of New Years Day, Pasadena, Arroyo Secco, Rose Bowl, honor, fame, et cetera. Honest Jawn yawned, turned from his drafting' board ttheie he had been dissecting the Uclan system of football py i otechnics, fashioned a paper airplane of the diagrammed ma ftial, tossed it to his boys, and sat back. There was joy in Ms heai t as he watched his Duck mechanics following' the insti notions, handle themselves in a first class manner, dis mantling the supposedly impregnaable Bruin machine with gleeful, lustful finality. Complete and Total Destruction I'u-st. the Webfoot “grease-monkeys” ripped off the hood, ruining the Uke defense system, then looted the buggy of its engine, nullifying the famed \Vaterfield-tQ»jBaldwin passing combine, and finally pilfered the tires to completely sterilize the Bruin running attack. What was left of the smooth-roll ing, yard-devouring Uke juggernaut? A rubble of scrap, left in a mangled heap under the UCLA goal post, nothing else. Saturday’s fiasco was almost a photostatic copy of the Uke-Duck rumpus. Whereas Oregon was content to merely incapacitate their Los Angelican visitors, those arrogant, haughty Beavers ran the gauntlet, to completely dismember Oregon’s struggling, sinking eleven. A Meicy heie for the hapless Ducks was about as remote in nie avenging Beavers’ minds as diplomatic discourse is with Hitler’s hoodlums. Lonnie Stiner kept mumbling in his boys eais, Pour it on, pour it on!" It really wasn't necessary, they had no other thought. Let's Try to Forget Enough about the distasteful past. Oregon s grid season is now bound up and relegated to the ancient history shelf with a myriad of other musty old volumes, to collect dust and provide a “teething post” for rampant mice. \\ hen some resourceful young reporter, many years from now, gets the yen for a little sports archaeological research, concerning, say the year 1942, hell find it an erratic season, one of prosperous harvests, reaped by joyous gridiron war riors. and faminelike depressions, when life in the body could scai cel_\ be detected. But sadly to say, the musty, filth-be smeaied cellai, dark and dank, was the scuffling grounds of the 1942 A ebfoot legions much of the time. % W hen the team was brilliant, it was untouchable. Take the UCLA game; not a better outfit on these green old Pa cific slopes. But then the roving eye scans other pages of the team ledger, smarting under the baldness of the defeats. Seems that’s the way of this crazy, and at times idiotic, football game —someone’s got to drop ’em. Beavers Pluck (Continued from page four) the time Joe Day and other Ore gon State backs would break clear of a cinch tackle. At no time during the game, did Oregon’s offense show any fire. Besides the fact that the Oregons were off, there was evi c^pe that the Ducks were well .-Wated. Especially Tommy Rob lin and his off tackle drives that had netted so much yardage be fore. The alleged holes were plug ged by a host of Beavers every time. Brecon ®Emerald Lee Flatberg, co-sports editor Fred Treadgold, co-sports editor Bill Stratton Fred Beckwith Doug Donahue “Ace” Calise Ned Liebman Dan Gassner Mary Alderson Northwestern university has compulsory PE for male students. Cagers Open Season TO SHOW STUFF . . . . . . Warren Taylor, lanky Duck forward, will bow in before hoop fans tonight at the Igloo when Hobby Hobson presents an intra-squad scuffle open to the public. Coming down the home stretch of football action in the Pacific Coast conference the collegiate members of that august body were not content to abide with the prognostications of the leading sport scribes up and down these fertile slopes this past weekend. The country cousins from Corvallis way staged a homecoming Saturday afternoon and invited our beloved varsity to take part in a pigsKin smncug. wnen rne stad ium dust had cleared the affair read: OSC, 39; Oregon, 2! Such is life! Down in Berkeley’s Memorial Stadium, 50,000 people of the San Francisco Bay region paid $4.40 to see a cowhide clambake be tween Stanford and California, traditionally captioned the “Big Game.” The Indian T-Party kids toyed with the Golden Bears, scoring in every period to emerge victors by a margin of 26-7. Bruins Triumph The UCLA Bruins had trouble, and plenty of it, before they sub dued a stubborn Washington Husky eleven, 14-10 in their own Los Angeles stamping grounds, the Coliseum. Those were the three confer ence issues of note. In non-con ference, (King’s-X affairs) Washington State was held to a 6-6 deadlock with the 2nd Air Force boys from Spokane, and Idaho pulled a garrison finish to out-nip Portland, 20-14. Sunday’s standout affair was the Naval Pre-flight’s men of St. Mary’s, California, win over Santa Clara, 13-6. Old Troy and Montana were inactive. VOLLEYBALL Tuesday, Ncv. 24 4:00 Court 40—SAE’s “B” vs. Omega hall “B” Court 43—ATOs vs. Phi Sigs’ “B” 4:40 Court 40—Alpha hall “B” vs. .Pi Kaps’ “B” Court 43—Sig Eps’ “A” vs. Yeomen “A" Gamma Court 43—Delts vs. Beta The ta Pi “A” CRUISER IN DRYDOCK . . . . . . Dick Ashcom saw liis last game Saturday, can now recu perate from season’s hurts. Intra-Squad Scrimmage Set For Igloo Restless sports fans, who have been standing first on one foot and then on the other, anxiously waiting for King Basketball to usurp the tiara of his predeces sor, King Football, see their wishes bear fruit and flourish to night. For at 7:30 on the mirror-like surface of McArthur court How ard Hobson, producer of Duck basketball fives, has set a formal intrasquad scrimmage. This or deal is to give local fans a pre mature “peep" of just what Hob son has had working out behind the heavy wooden gates of the Igloo for nearly a month. Certain to see action in the curtain raiser will be such veter ans as Don Kirsch, pint-sized captain; Warren Taylor, veteran backboard man; Rolph Fuhrman, “smooth-as-silk” forward; Bob Wren, the rough-and-rugged slot man; Bob Newland, long-shot hot shot; and Wally Borrevik, long drink o’ water center, who tow ers 6 feet 8% inches “up there." Many Soph Stars Hobson will also uncover for spectator consumption several of his choice sophomore morsels, namely Sammy Crowell, classy hoop craftsman; Roy Seeborg, talented forward from Astoria; A1 Popick, clever though small guard; Jack Hannum, towering 6 foot 5 inch center, and others. Thanksgiving; vacation, spent on the camps, will have a dis tinct basketball flavor for those so inclined. Tactician Hobson will parade his hoop hombres in their first regulation game Friday against the point-laden Bruno Studio platoon from Portland. Formerly Bradford Clothiers, the Brunos claim ex-collegiate stars aplenty. Saturday eve, once again the field on his father’s hacienda in casaba addict will wend his way to McArthur’s spacious cage arena for an appraisal of the Van couver Rambler quinet. Bulging from the Rambler’s lineup are former OSC greats, John Mandic, Sam Dement, and Jack Mulder. The last two games are booked for an 8 o'clock release. Betas Annex (Continued from page four) 15-3 and 15-9. Gamma hall threatened in the last game but were unable to keep up the pace. Bergen and and Harrison pacing the winners. Chi Psi and Sigma Phi Epsilon won by forfeit from Yeomen and Omega hall, respectively. 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