CAMPUS WELCOMES ALUMNI
Ducks Ready To End It All
Oregon Whet Knives
For Pelting Staters
By LEONARD TURNBULL
Famished from a five year victory drought, the mud-caked
Oregon Ducks will flap away in a close-scaled grid formation
today on Hayward field at 2 p. m. against OSC Beavers in the
49th renewal of a 51-year-old rivalry that puts the Hatfields and
McCoys on the shady side of the covered stands.
Spirit runs higher than any top of the mark on the rain
soaked Webfoots campus. Homecoming signs ranging from
Crowd Increases
As Homecoming
Shifts Into High
Alum Business Slated
For Morning; First Vote
On New Officers Looms
Homecoming celebrations get
into full swing today with the
arrival of growing crowds of
alums, who are being welcomed at
every living organization on the
campus, and in every capacity
filled hotel in Eugene.
Last night’s enthusiastically re
*-GOved Homecoming Revival show,
the starting point of Homecoming
weekend, will be followed today by
a completely-filled day of special
events.
Alumni business will be settled
early in the day, with nomination
of officers at an 11 a.m. meeting
in the Guild theater. Election
ballots will be mailed by the end
of the month, when alums can clip
their ballots from the December
issue of Old Oregon magazine.
Cafeteria Lunch
For the convenience of alums and
- other visitors, a cafeteria luncheon
will be served on the sunpcrch of
Gerlinger hall, where celebrants
can arrange an extra get-together.
Tickets may be purchased at the
door for 75 cents, and the alumni
committee urges all visitors to feel
welcome. •
The no-host alumni reception, in
past years a favorite reunion
place, will be at- the Eugene arm
ory, seventh and Pearl streets. The
lively informal gathering is ex
pected to draw many state and
alumni officials.
The Order-of-O banquet at the
Side will honor at least thirty ex
Order-of-O men, replies from invi
tations indicated. However, the
grads will not parade on the foot
ball field wearing their lettermen’s
sweaters this year.
Registration of alums at John
son hall will show which classes
and living organizations drew the
most grads.
Registration Service
Schedules of events, and tags
bearing the slogan, “Ducks Revive
in Forty-five,” will go to the regis
trants.
The all-important football game
will be preceded by a dedication
ceremony honoring Oregon’s World
War II dead. The ROTC will fire a
„ 21-gun salute and the Oregon band
will sound taps.
The Homecoming dance, for Ore
gon and Oregon State students, and
-•-those alums who are still young in
spirit, will begin at 9 p.m., featur
ing Eddie Miller.
Students who will assist in regis
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“Cleaver the Beaver” to “Ducks
Revive in ’45” were uncovered last
night to greet returning students
of the old days.
Migrations Over
Ducks are well-rested and prep
ped for the collision after com
pletion of round-trip migrations to
all points on the compass two
weeks ago. Tapering-off drills oc-!
eupied the lemon and green wear
ers yesterday afternoon and a
clean injury sheet was turned in by
Trainer Bob Officer to mentor Tex
Oliver.
Feathers and fur will fly today
but no one will notice. Subter
ranean passages at Hayward field
are filled with water from dousing
rains and the top is brimming over
the blades of grass. Footballers
turning incognito under mud packs
will stress power plays and the
beef and brawn will count.
Digging in Webfoots are build
ing defensive fortifications for the
power reknowned Beavers. Line
busting tactics of fullback Bob
Stevens have been well-analyzed
and the 200-pound Duck forward
wall is set for quick stoppages,
quarterback Bob Hamblin, half
back Dick Gray are also noted for
sparking OSC power plays.
On Line—The Outcome
Today’s fiasco will bring many
chips flying off the granite in the
lines. In the first duel of the home
and-home series, the field was dry,
but the Ducks were off. Time after
time the Beaver linemen out
charged the Webfoots, grabbed
ball-toting speed merchants Leicht
and Reynolds, pulled them down for
yardage in the lost column.
A sell-out crowd of 20,000 is ex
pected to jam the stands at Hay
ward field today. All of the 16,000
reserved seat tickets have been
sold out as early as Wednesday
noon. General admission ticket
booths are expected to hang SRO
signs soon after opening sales to
day.
Power That Is Beavers
The heaviest scrimmages of the
season have occupied the splatter
ing Ducks this week. Scouting re
ports on the Beavers have stressed
the power that tripled the net
yardage and doubled the first
downs of the Webfoots in the first
setto at Corvallis. Against WSC
two weeks ago, the Beavers rolled
up an overwhelming statistical ad
vantage, and in losing to the Tro
jans six touchdowns to one last
week, OSC marked up 11 first
downs and gained more than 200
net yards.
Head Coach Oliver has been
working the reserve weak line
lcng and hard this week for the
crucial clash. Star end Bob Ander
son, guard and captain John Kauff
man and 242-pounder Harry Reiton
top the list of body-bruisers in top
condition of the year. The question
of who has the quickest fire on
charges will settle the score at the
MARY 1,0 U HILL . . . .1
“Named the Girl You Want Most to Come Home T the blonde, smiling freshman will welcome. *"
returning alumni and visitors to Homecoming acli ities today.
final gun of the scorekeeper. i
Duck Scoring Punch
Pay-dirt happy Walt Donovan is I
pronounced ready for additions to
his conference leading mark. De- I
fensive expert Dean Bond and hard
driving DeWayne Johnson have
muscles geared for high calibre
play. Jake Leicht is ready to close
an All-American season.
Oregon's last win over the
Beavers was a smashing 20 to 0
victory in 1940. Ducks hold a 25 to
16 won-lost advantage over the
Orangemen in the civil war classics
extending Back to 1894.
No MORE RUSHING
No sorority rushing or pledg
ing (nay be scheduled after Sat
urday, Mickey McCandless, Pan
Hellenic president, announced
Thursday.