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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1943)
By WILL LINDLEY To the minds of several score athletic promoters, there’s no better way to get over a New Year's day hangover than screaming your head off at a football game, and hence the crowning glory of American grid clashes, the Rose Bowl, not to mention the Sugar Bowl, the Cotton Bowl, the Orange Bowl, and perhaps even the Soup Bowl, for all we know. Last rear it was OSC at the Rose Bowl, which is the big gest dish of them all, but this year, for some obscure reason, there will be no Stiner students on the field. Instead there will be the Southern California Trojans and the Washington hus kies battling it out. Washington was one of the six teams in the nation which remained undefeated this season, although this is probably partially due to the fact that Washington plat ed otdv four games, and none of these with teams tough enough (o cause them any-pre-game worry. Trojans Take It Easy sort of propaganda. However the fact remains that it's nothing I'trt'S one hour per day practice routine for the Trojans'. That's confidence for yon! The USG team will go hack into uniform practice next- Monday: Speaking of the six undefeated teams as we were a para graph ago, it might he interesling'to list them here. Thev ar'e fhe hoys who had what it takes on the gridiron this year: Team— No. Games Pts. For Pts. Against Purdue 9 214 55 Bainbridge Naval 7 31,3 7 Colorado College 7 199 27 Back to Bowl Brawls W hisking hack to the Rose-Sitgar-Rice-Orahge-Cotton f>oup- Nuts Hi)\\ 1 pichire again, we give' out with the howl games slated tii date. 1 n addition to the Rose -How l titer are : Sugar Bowl at New Orleans, Georgia Tech vs. Tulsa University; Orange Bowl at Miami, Louisiana State vs. Texas A. & M.; Cotton Bowl at Dallas, Texas vs. Randolph Field Flyers; Sugar Bowl at New Orleans, cancelled. Now tn dribble over to the basketball department, where we find Idaho opening the season with a 53-43. win over Lewis Ion Normal. Then we see that W ashington State has games scheduled against W hitman for December 1 and 2. Tn fact, we would like to keep on seeing copy like that about everv other leant in the country until we wouldn't have room to mention a certain local aggregation which was defeated here last week end 57-3() and (>0 4S In Albina llellships. famished Silver Lining Ol course there* a good side to the picture. The Ducks are showing Mead\ improvement. In fact, given several months to improve they might heat all their opponents of the next few weeks. I ntortunatcly we will not he able to postpone games (hat Jong. But reports are that the team does look promising ... if I lie boys can get in long practice hours during the crucial final week.-.of thi' term which lie ahead. It seems that even year we have t" look farther hack before we can sav "we were the champ* in those days.” Bunker Hill Naval Pittsburg Teachers Washington 6 6 4 171 165 150 37 27 32 Don't be TIRED down this Christmas . . . We'll REPAIR your way. Come in during the holidays and see us . . . Our dealers wish you all a... MERRY CHRISTMAS Soldiers and Co-eds! Firestone Stores 1 1 til X: IVarl Green but Game Webfoots Take and Give Hard Knocks By NORRIS YATES • Well, with four pre-season games gone by, it might be a good idea to take stock of the team that Hobby’s putting out this year and see what’s what. At first glance you might say it doesn’t look too hot—only one game won and three lost against independent teams. But you’d be wrong. In the first place you’ve got to remember that the inde pendent teams the Ducks have met have provided the strong est pre-season opposition seen here in years. The Oregon medi cal school five contained fellows who formerly were the delight cf their various college coaches' hearts, and who have added sev eral years' semi-pro experience to their score since their rah-rah days. Ditto for the Albina quintet, which contained two former first string Oregonians, one an all American big Urgel “Slim” Wintermute, 6-foct 8-inch center. The other was Lloyd Jackson, speedy forward. Hobson sent a team of fresh men, transfers, and 4-Fs against these aggregations' of college all stars and semi-professional speed sters. And what happened^ In the first Albina game, after trailing 32-14 at the half, the Webfoots, led by Baccelleii and Hamilton, who incidentally took high-point honors that night with 18 counters, put on a scoring splurge and dominated the play entirely, scoring two points to their towering opponents’ one for the remainder of the game. In the second game of that same series, they again put on a second-half comeback that nearly tied the score. They were stopped only af ter Baccelleii and Bray, the lead ing sparks of the Duck offense, went out of the game cn personal fouls with only a few minutes left to go. Then Wintermute went wild, and the tussle ended in with the final total, 60-48 in the Hell shippers' favor. Hobson declared afterward that Wintermute had played “the best game of his ca reer" in this tilt. That's how it’s gone so far, with Hobby’s boys gaining in ex perience almost day by day. Four games of the 14 on the pre-con ference list have given them a Merry Christmas to the I'niversity Students and Soldiers Jgvtelru 4^^-^ tosjg. Eugene, Ore. 927 Willamette certain amount of polish they’ll need to face the Huskies, Van dals, et al, taut they have a lot yet to learn. Conversely, however, they have ten more games in which to do it. And it’s the pri vate opinion of your Emerald scribe that they will—with bells. Thus does the wisdom of Hobson in insisting on such a long list of pre-season encounters come out. The Ducks may take a few more on the chin before the sea son starts—out of ten games you can expect even the best of out fits to lose a few, and Hobson will no doubt work his second stringers wherever practicable in order to give them as much expe rience as possible. But when the regular season starts, you can bet that it won't be the same team by a jugful that took the floor against Fee's Music Mak ers in the opening non-confer ence tilt November 19. And I don't mean by that that it'll be a worse bunch, either. Beaver Hoopmen~ Drill Intensively For UO Enemies As the University of Oregon’s basketball squad progresses steadily toward proper condition, ominous gurglings and tail whackings are heard from over Corvallis way as 'the Oregon State beaver likewise goes through his paces in preparation for the coming conference sea son which opens January 7 for both teams. Oregon’s arch enemy, Slats Gill, is reported pleased with the progress made in recent days by his rather inexperienced squad. The biggest handicap he has" to face is the lack of height among the boys—only two men on the first five even hit six feet, and one is only five feet five. The Beavers have used man for-man defense exclusively so far, but Gill, who is famed for his zone defense, will almost cer tainly work his squad hard on it, and is probably doing so even now with ar, eye to slowing up Howard Hobson’s “fast-break” style of basketball. -«r Frank Marshik, the tallest man on the team at 6 feet, 6 inches, is a brother of Archie Marshik, who played for Oregon last season. 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