By LEONARD TURNBULL
Rehashing usually comes at the end of a term for all columns
(college) of this type—this one is mostly preview. Football is
considered a fall sport, but this spring promises to give the
interested Webfoot followers just as much as in a regular
season of play. Night intra-squad games at Hayward Field are
on deck for all students.
Coach Gerald A. “Tex” Oliver is starting a new trend
of thought with the spring games that are open to all
students. Previous years have found the mentor striving
for an all-important secrecy in workouts so new plays
could be evolved that would prove puzzling to opponents.
Few students understood this necessary policy, leading to
claims that Oliver wasn’t “in” with campus followers of
the pigskin. Maybe these open sessions will help a lot in
disclaiming this unproved theory.
FOOTBALL QUANTITY MAY TURN INTO QUALITY
"We’ll have the largest quantity of football prospects this
spring that we've ever had at the University of Oregon,”
Oliver stated. “The quality is unproven in competition of this
calibre, however, and we have a lot of work ahead of us this
spring to find out just where we stand."
This plays on the returning veterans to a great extent.
The roster of men who will turn out for spring workouts
lists numerous former lettermen of pre-war days here at
Oregon. Duty on aircraft carriers in the Pacific and with
the infantry in Europe is a far cry from torrid-paced col
legiate football scraps of the calibre of the Pacific Coast
conference.
These men will have a lot of kinks to work out this spring
in preparation for the battles of turf fearers next fall. It may be
figuratively stated that the workouts will make or break the
men as far as further competition on collegiate gridirons is
concerned. Coach Oliver sides with a lot of prominent football
authorities in the assumption that college football will not
(rgjhirn to a pre-war status until the fall season of 1948. It will
take that long for the service kinks to wear off, and for a few
more youngsters to be relieved of worries on possible service
status.
VETS BALANCE LOSS OF '45 LETTERMEN
Returning veterans arc barely edging over the draft loss
of young players of the 1945 season. Bill Anderson, center. Bill
Morin, tackle, Bob Anderson, end, and Dean Bond, all letter
men in 1945, will be lost to the Webfoots next fall due to a
service call. The pre-war returnees balance this off. with
several in school now and prospects of others who will enter
school spring term.
Many top-notch players are in school at present who
have not signed up for spring workouts. A good example is
Jack Munro, a 200-pound talented guard, who could easily
be turned into a first string player. Munro is called to
mind because I know him personally, and the guy is a
natural in football. There is a need of players like Jack. If
we could only get a few blockers in front of runners like
Jake Leicht and Jimmy Newquist, then the stage would
1 —4>e set for trampling a few opponents next fall.
NO PREDICTIONS BUT POSSIBILITIES ARE GOOD
Predictions on the possibilities of the Webfoots football
fortunes at the present time would be a literary farce. The line
may be weak and the backfield strong,-but that is a conclusion
to be drawn only after watching many workouts. The center
position at present looks as if it may he a weak spot in the
forward wall. This is drawn on the fact that Bill Anderson,
regular last year, has left for the service, and the candidates are
of unknown quality.
Fine high school players may find out that college competi
tion is several grades above their range. Even men that per
formed on all-star sendee elevens may find the going a little
rough, but the fact remains—we have the makings of a good
i gridiron machine here on the University of Oregon campus.
BULL WITH BULL
Reports state that ITymie Harris, letterman end in '39, is
advised against football by the little woman—the Oregon State
Golf Championship and the State Junior tournament are back
on the sports activities list with June 10-15 set as the dates,
but no site yet—Nete Young’s brother, Rennie, topped off a
-Jligh school career recently with a second year of averaging
15 points a game with the Roseburg high quintet—need that
guv here—on the subject of relations. Bill Craig, brother of
Jack Craig, is one of the standout candidates for an end position
on the 1946 varsity football team (just had to do it, Bill).
Vanda! ‘Cindereifas’ Retell Bears
Crown Fable of 23 Years Ago
MIKE RESIGNS
Oregon's former backfield coach, i
“Iron Mike” Mikulak, recently re
turned from overseas service in
Africa and Italy where he was in
charge of Military Police battal
lions. Mike will not be on hand for
the opening of spring practice
next term since he recently ten
dered his resignation to head coach
Tex Oliver and intends to enter
private business after his discharge
from the army.
Eastern Coach
Eyes Grsdders
Seattle, Wash. — (UP) — Ray
Flaherty, coach of the New York
Yankees of the new All-American
pro-gridiron league, left here Tues
day for Spokane after discussions
with Marvin Tommervick and
Marv Harshman, former Pacific
Lutheran grid stars.
Flaherty indicated' that the two
Marvs wanted to stay in the North
west. possibly to play with Seattle
pros if the city put out a team,
but still expressed the feeling that
he might yet get them in the New
York lineup.
Flaherty said other grid talent
in this area had caught his eye,
but neglected to specify any play
ers by name. Former Washington
Redskin coach, he went over to the
rival football circuit for the com
ing season.
Turf Pilot Pockets
Cash for 64 Wins
Arcadia, Cal., —(UP)—L. B.
Mayer and Ted Atkinson held their
positions as leading owner and
jockey at Santa Anita race track,
according to statistics released to
day.
Mayer’s lead over Maine Chance i
farm was cut to less than $8,000- 1
The motion picture magnate had
pocketed $140,445 in the first 45 i
days of the 55-day meeting to
$132,835 for Maine Chance. C. S.
Howard was third with $81,480.
Atkinson, with 64 winners, was
21 ahead of runner-up Johnny
Longden, and Ralph Neves trailed
in third with 28.
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We wonder why it is that a girl
who screams at the sight of a
mouse thinks nothing of dating a
wolf. Annapolis Log j
Dear Old Lady: Are you a little
boy or a little girl?
Junior: Look, lady, just what
I else could I be?
—Tadcen Topics
Idaho Meets California Today in Berkeley
For Pacific Coast Championship Series
Duffers Shot
Analyzed By
Camera Eye
Divot Digger Invents
Golf Contraption
By United Press
If you’re a golf duffer, you’ve
probably often wondered what you
did wrong when your ball went
into the rough.
Art Stevenson believes he
enn supply the answer by
means of a contraption he lias
rigged up. He promises to do
it with mirrors anti a specially
equipped movie camera that
will take 100 pictures of a golf
er taking a swing at a bail.
Ever since the motion picture
camera was invented, golfers have
been trying to get pictures to show
how to smack the pill down the
fairway.
Camera Story
But Stevenson has added two
new things: two pictures taken
simultaneously by means of mir
rors to show the golfer from dif
ferent angles, and special lenses
and shutters to mqke the camera
fast enough to stop the fast-mov
ing club or ball and give distinct
pictures instead of just a blur of
what happened.
Results of liis gadgets have
been good enough to win the
approval of Joe Novak, chair
man of the national' PGA com
mittee on teaching, and the
Southern California PGA. Ste
venson believes the national
PGA may give its OK.
A golf club is traveling 100
miles an hour when it hits the ball,
which zips along at 300 miles an
hour for the first 10 yards after
being whammed. Stevenson’s mir
rors and camera catch the club
through its swing and keep the
ball in range for 50 yard's. It takes
a good golfer a second and a quar
ter to make his swing.
Pro Checks Pictures
With a set of the 100 pictures,
the photographed golfer can go to
his pro to learn what he is doing
wrong. Stevenson has arranged for
free pro consultation.
If any golfer will get into
tlie fundamental position of a
good swing within a second
and a quarter, he’ll hit the bail
like Byron Nelson,” Steven
son believes. A middle 90's
golfer himself, - he has clipped
strokes off his own game after
correcting mistakes he saw in
the pictures.
A film cutter in a laboratory,
Stevenson has monkeyed around
with cameras for years. The spe
cial devices to take the golf pic
tures can be made by any camera
manufacturer.
Diving Course Offered
Women Spring Term
A women’s physical education
course in diving, being offered the
first time on the campus, has be.en
scheduled spring term at 10 o’clock
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Requirements, according to the de
partment notice, include body co
ordination, ability to Swim in deep
water, and courage. All those in
terested in taking the course are
asked to report to the sun porch,
Gerlinger, in shorts March 12 at
4 o’clock.
By United Press
One of the strangest parallels
in basketball history comes from
the Falouse country, home of the
University of Idaho Vandals, who
have won their first Northern Di
vision Pacific Coast conference
title in 23 long years.
Idaho started its conference
history with a bang in 192S
when it handed with Washing
ton, Washington State, Ore
gon and Oregon State to form
the Northern conference. Pre
viously the group played in
what was called the North
western conference, and the
Vandal's, who had won the
Northwestern crown in 1922,
went on to take the first title
of the new conference and then
riiet the University of Cali
fornia and won two straight
■ games, 28-20 and 29-25 for the
coast title.
Sheepskins Cause Decline
The entire team then was gradu
ated in a body, and Idaho has lan
guished in or near the cellar until
coming up with this year's “Cin
derella” squad.
Beginning today, the Van
dals from Moscow, named by
homesick It u s si a n s who
brought hard wheat into the
country, will again meet Cali
fornia at Berkeley, California,
for the best two out of three
games.
The 1923 squad consisted of A1
Fox, Adrian Nelson, Oz Thomp
son, Ecn Keane, Harold Pelford
and Bill Gartin, a six-foot iron
man team that had played togeth
er since high school. Fox and Pel
ford, named to the All-Coast team
that year, were famous fdt1 'shoot
ing the ball over the gymitksium
rafters, which were low in those
days. The rules called for one man
to shoot all the free throw's and
Fox was “death” on these, potting
18 out of 19 in one game.
Falter Then Streak
Twenty-three years later Coach
James A. (Babe) Brown, who was
the Idaho wrestling coach in the
early 20’s, has conjured up another
Idaho iron-man team fathered
from the neighborhood. It began
the season as the ’23 team did, with
three defeats, but suddenly began
cutting down the opposition and
won the next 11 out of 13 games.
This year’s Vandals are
again a low-scoring squad,
having the worst offensive
record in the division. They
squeezed out their last five
games by scoring only IS
points more than the opposi
tion, and the difference al
ways seemed to be their ability
to sink those free throws.
Jack Phoenix, six-foot nine-inch
center from American Falls, Ida
ho, is a freshman who likes to hog
the ball off the backboard; his
height makes up for the little
guards—Captain Len Pyne, a sen
ior, and Bill Carbaugh, a, junior,
both of Spokane, Washington, who
are a full foot shorter, but score
just as often as forwards Fred
Quinn, a junior from Pocatello and
Grant Mortenson from Sugar City,
Idaho. Four of this band will be
back next year to continue Idaho’s
sports renaissance.
Hobby Met ’em
The similarity between the old
and new Vandals has been noted
by the coaches of the Northern
conference, all of whom were eith
er coaching or playing against Ida
ho in the old days. Hec Edmund
son was beginning his basketball
coaching career at the University
of Washington and is still there;
Jack Friel of Washington State,
Slats Gill of Oregon State and
Howard Hobson of Oregon all saw
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