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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1943)
The ODT (Office of Defense Transportation, for you read ers who haven’t received your governmental alphabet decipher ing code) may affect the speed on our highways with stringent regulations, but as yet it hasn’t reached its long authoritative arm in to halter the speed of basketball gallopers. Nope, those racehorse hoopers can still run just as much and just as fast as they choose. So, you casaba fans who get a kick out of watch ing the good old run-’em-ragged stuff, plan on taking in the ^|fashington-Oregon series come Friday and Saturday. ^ When these two arch-rivals cross hoop offensives, defenses are litterally tossed to the wind. The object is running and still more running. Running Is Edmundson's By-word Clarence C. (Hec) Edmundson, the Huskies’ grand old man of coachmanship, has doted on running ever since he first be gan tutoring Washington hoop clubs back in post World War I days, 1920. And Hec’s little speed idiosyncrasy has born the most luscious fruit imaginable, in the form of conference titles -weight of ’em in fact! Of course, during that coaching span of well over two decades, “Hec” didn’t always have the best in hoop mate rial. No coach can turn out with machine-like monotony one corking good club after another. And, in fact, since Howard Hobson put in an appearance as Oregon’s boss in 1936, the Edmundson-coached clubs haven't even had a look-see in on the championship goings-on. • But Seattle fanatics now have reason to rejoice and expel their pent-up “lnizzahs” of enthusiasm. For the little pack of Husk}-•hoop-hounds which the wily Washington.mentor has on leash this year is, in the opinion of most Puget Sound sports scribes, the most potential outfit since Edmundson pieced to gether his last league championship group in 1936. This 1943 Outfit Likes to Run Furthermore, this 1943 edition fits into the run-run style as comfortably as a tired foot does into an old pair of saddle shoes. "Hec” can flash the Huskies the go-ahead signal and they really know how to move. Prior to the Harlem Globe Trotters game, the Husky hoop prompter declared the only chance they had to upset the col ored professional group, which had won 1165.games and drop ped but 162 in 15 years, was to "out run them early.” And that was just exactly what those fleet Huskies did. Score: 49-30, Washington. You can draw your own conclusions. But our own Coach Hobson has a few ideas of his own •on this fire-engine type of basketball. He too, likes to have his boys get out and go. So when these two high-powered, fast-breaking clubs col lide in the Igloo Friday, the explosion thereof should be well worth seeing. New League Leader? Still sitting pretty atop the five-club league after venturing into the treacherous Inland Empire, our Ducks will have to move over and make room for a new bed-partner. Oregon State's defending titlists, looking more formidable with every start, and these same reckless Huskies are doing battle in Cor vallis,, the two-game series way, this week. One club is bound to win ipas-t statistics show that!) and the victor will auto matically be propelled into first over our Webfoots. One advantage which should weigh pretty heavily to Oregon’s side when Washington invades this weekend, is that Coach Hobson will have the benefit of scouting the Huskies twice. His notes will give him something "tangible to work on in trying to formulate a means of stop ping Washington. Benefit number two coming from the Beaver-Husky brawls, is that Washington is bound to have some of the wind taken out of its sails by the Staters. The four-games-in-five-nights can lower the defeat-resistance of even the best club. Oregon found this out on their recent trek northward. Secretaries Are Needed "War work has created a special demand for good office workers. Enroll now! Shorthand, Typing, Office Machines P New Term Just Opened University Business College 860 Willamette Phone 2761-M _ Fresh Smother Rubes Under Point Landslide —Courtesy Journal BASKET BRIGADIERS . . . . . . Two of Oregon State's big nopes m conference chase, Mickey Brophy (left) and Erland Anderson (right). Both are sopho mores who hare come along famously, Anderson nailing down the starting center post. Coach Hoyman Dopes Out Conference Swim Squads By ROLLIE GABEL January 30 is the date set on the official swimming schedule for the defending champions, Oregon, to meet the 25 strong contingent from Oregon State. The outcome of the schedule has been respectfully predicted by Coach Mike Hoyman, even includ ing the “new” champions. Here’s the way in which Ore gon’s coach has doped it out: *. In first place, University of Washington; in second place, University of Oregon; in third place, Oregon State; in fourth place, Washington State; In fifth By delving into the facts and figures of these respective teams, the reasons, theoretically are found, placing the University of Washington at the head of the list, why University of Oregon has- the respective position of second place, and why Oregon State drops her respective aquat ic head into third position. Although the University of Washington lost, under the rule of ineligibility, her three Hawai ian boys, Clem Akina, John De Guair, and Duke Kumeiraki, and Bob Magnusson, a freestyle let terman, A1 Kristoferson, Chuck Brockway, and Hunter Sneed, the latter three being squad mem bers, she still has an impressive list of names on the eligible list, a list that Coach Mike Hoyman believes will give her first place in the Northwest conference meets. Great Hopes Coach Buckley, who is tutor ing the Washington boys, has great hopes for the team, even though seven of them are gone from the team, and evidently Ore gon’s coach, Mike Hovman, has still greater respect for them as he has given them the honor of a potential championship holder. However, it’s all up to the Oregon boy from hereonin. The outlook on Oregon State’s prospects are definitely good from what appears on the sur face. The northern institution had a turnout of 25 men, and all have been working out regularly since early fall. Swimming holds the rank of a major sport down Oregon State way this winter with only bas ketball to crowd it off the front pages. The coach this season will be Walt Adrion, assistant profes sor of physical education, and will mark his first season of coaching a varsity swimming team. The team has lost four of its very good men, including Cap tain Jack Stark, but in all of the other events Oregon State is very well represented. Coach Mike Hoyman has put his team in second place, due mostly to the unsatisfactory re sults that ensued from last Sat urday’s time trials. There still re mains, however, some time be fore actual conflict begins, which will sand off the rough edges that are tarnishing the luster that previous Oregon swim teams have had. The climax of»'the season will be at Pullman, .Washington, Feb ruary 27, where the Northwest championship meet will be held, and the predictions that Coach Mike Hoyman has set forth, will be either confirmed or refuted. OSC Whips Huskies (Continued from page four) “naught” in the scoring column. Gilbertson, 8. .. F. 8, Cecil Ford.F. 4, Warren Gilmur, 9.C. 12, Anderson Leask, 4.G. 3, Beck Morris, 12.G. 9, Durdan Reserves: Washington, Taylor 6, Bird, Gissberg, Shaefer; OSC, Jeffries 3, Howard 2, Brown 1. By MART POND With an unlimited ration book on baskets, the Oregon Ducklings rolled over the Junior Rubensteins tipping them from their undefeat ed status in the Eugene area by a score of 70-51 Tuesday evening' in McArthur court. The jubilant Frosh, eager to play ball after a ten-day fast with no games except inter-squad and varsity play, harried a fast, but cautious, Rube team. The game was almost decided in the first part of the game, be cause of the Freshmen’s accurate and the apparent little desire on the part of the visiting team to take a shot at the hoop during the first half. In the last half of the contest the »Rubensteins opened their full-scale attack, and the margin dividing the two teams was narrowed considerably. Agile Ken Hume, forward for the Frosh, was the high point man for the Freshmen with 13 poirts, following closely behind the as tute antics of two Rubensteins, Stump and Kramer, who each counted 14 tallies for the visit.ng Rubensteins. During the last half of p ay when the Rubes were trailing bad ly, said Stump counted eight points in succession on four Swish er shots to keep the Reubens te ins in the running. The first half ended with the Frosh holding a lead of 32-20. Most Squad Used Although the Freshmen started with a tall and experienced team who have borne the biggest share of the lead so far for the squad, most of the large squad were sent into the fray by their mentor, “Sandy” Sandness, before the end of the game. Two of the starters, Bob Cavi ness and John Miller at the guard positions, had considerable diffi culty in hitting the hoop in the opening minutes, and it was only in the last half that these two threats began sinking shots after an infiltration through the Rube line-up. At the start of the second half, the- Rubinsteins began to climb within striking distance of Frosh, because of the lofty shots of For ward Stump, who was evidently urged on to score by some vita min substance, and the Rubes con tinued to set the ball up for him to shoot through the basket. Joe Coenenberg, who had not made his usual high average for the evening, started the Frosh back on the road uphill with a hook shot from the corner of the back court. i earn mates or tms lanKy rrcsh man continued the scoring with Pupke, Hodgins, Hamilton, Sim mons, and Crockett augmenting the Duckling’s score in the rough last quarter of the contest, which turned into a track meet with uie high scoring Kramer hitting the basket for the Rubensteins. This contest leaves the Freshmen with an unblemished record so far-in four games. The line-ups: Frosh Rubensteins Devaney (3) .F....(3) Williams Hume (13) .F .... (14) Stump Coenenberg (4) C. (12) Mould Caviness (8) .G.(7) Hagg Miller (7).G.Blais Pupke (6).S ..(1) Weinstein Crockett (2) .S....(14) Kramer Sempert (4) .S. (3) King Hodgins (7) .S Hamilton (4) .... S Simmons (4) .S Officials: Ray Heidenreich, and Barney Koch. College students today are two inches taller on the average than students 10 years ago.