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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1946)
Razzle-Dazzle Assured n Webfoot-Tiger Tilt i When the University of Oregon and College of Pacific meet on Hay ward field September 28 in the grid season opener spectators can rest assured that a wide-open, razzle dazzle brand of football will be in the offing. Both Oregon’s Tex Oliver and Pa cific’s Alonzo Stagg ares coaches that believe in a type of ball played the spectators’ way—Oliver with his combination of the farm-famed “T” and Oliver Twist, and Stagg with his flanker offense, tricky reverses, and all-around fool-the-defense ball. The Pacific line will average ap proximately 210, according to the starting line-up released by the COP publicity department.. The starting Tiger backfield will aver age 178 pounds. Meanwhile Coach Oliver herd ed his horde of athletes to the lower confines of Hayward field where the Webfoot varsity worked out without benefit of spectators. Though no official first or second s/rings have been designated by the Oregon head mail, reports from the Duck camp reveal that Fullback Bob Sanders is fast developing into one of the more powerful runners pound lad is slated for plenty of action at the tailback post if he on the squad. Sanders, a 193 can develop a quicker start—his main weakness at present. As a result of the injury of Jim Berwick in the Saturday scrim mage session, peppery Tony No vacic, 182-pound left guard transfer from Idaho is working out at both left and right guard. To further re lieve the critical situation at guard, Ti ckle Bob Roberts has been shift ed to left Eruard. Taking No Cimnoes Though the Oregon-Pacific bat tle is not doped out as a tight scor ing contest, Oregon’s wily Oliver is taking no chances on losing a close decision by virtue of a single, point deficit. Working out regularly in the conversion kicking depart ment are both Jake Leicht and Jim Newquist. Leicht, the all around handy man in the Oregon backfield already has a reputation f.h a passer, punter and runner and is now fast becoming a master in the painstaking art of drop-kick ing. Newquist, on the other hand, is sailing them between the uprights * from placement. At present five Oregon ball players are still on the sidelines with injuries. Right guard Jim Berwick, and left ends Jim O’Neil nnd l»an Garza are still out of uni form because of injuries received in the Saturday Intersquad battle. In the backfield quarterback Bill Abbey is still favoring an injured shoulder as is halfback Glen Best wick. Order O to Meet ( There will be an important - meeting of the Order of the O at the College Side Inn Thursday at 7 p.m. Both old and new mem bers are urged to attend. IM Applications Due AH applications for organiza tions planning to enter the tall term intramural' football and volleyball program must be turned in to LeRoy Erickson at the physical education building by tonight. Schedules will be drawn up this week and the sea son will begin Otcober 1. Cougars Loom As "If* Team By LARRY LAU During this past month of pre season press releases, four teams have been consistently named for upper-division honors. One team, because of the divergence of opin ion, has come to be known as the "if” team of the conference; we’re speaking of Washington State. The Cougars open with the high ly favored Trojans in a night game at the Coliseum September 27. The showings of these two teams have an important bearing upon the en tire Rose Bowl race, and you may rest assured that the calculating eyes scouting the OSC-UCLA tilt Saturday will have measured these two the night before. The Cougar’s successful 1945 team that ran a close second to the Trojans of USC returned vir tually intact. In head coach Phil Sorboe’s first string backfield are the familiar names of Lippincott, Abrams and Eggers. In the line, Andy I>a/.or, who is being boomed as a second Mel Hine, holds down the center position. Laurie Niemi, who played sensational ball for the Cougars in 1945 as a fresh man holds one tackle position, and 6-foot 3-inch, 215-pound Elmo Bond, who played for the power ful Second Air Force team dur ing the war, has been assigned the other. The best of the ends is Francis Bacoka, one of the stars of their 1945 team. Looking like a championship team in some spots . . . looking weak in others, it is no wonder they’ve been dubbed the “if” team. If Sorboe has whipped the inexpe rienced members of the squad into shape, the Trojans are in for a rough evening; if not, the game may well go as predicted. Oregon fans must realize that the Cougar team that plays here Octo ber 19 will have had the benefit of two tough games, USC and Wash ington, with a breather with Idaho stuck in between, and the Cougars have long had the reputation for getting tougher as the season grows older. Sports staff for this issue: Bernie Hammerbeck Wally Hunter Bill Stratton A1 Pietschman Commercial freezing of food be gan in the United States in 1870. The Grand Old Man of Football, Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, took action to bolster his passing and running attack yesterday when he moved Wayne Hardin, 165-pound veteran of the 1944 COP team, into the left half slot. Hardin had been working in the right half position commonly used as the flanker in Stagg’s system. The change was necessitated over the weekend when Eddie Le Baron, sensational sixteen year-old passing find, was knocked out of 1946 competition with an emer gency appendectomy. LeBaron has been tabbed by Stagg as the young est first-string halfback in the nation. Nineteen year-old Hardin, who played at College of Pacific pre viously under the navy V-12 pro gram, will vie with Bruce Orvis, “Jumping” Joe Valencia, and Ralph Johnston for the starting nod at the left half or tailback post. Scheduled to take over duties at right half are Frank Zboran, a 9.9 100-yard dash man, and Bob Heck, another sprinter who hit the cen tury in 9.8 this spring. With these two men at the flanker position, the Stagg system of P-dings, sling bings, and whing-dings becomes in creasingly dangerous. Mainstay of the COP Tiger line is Tiny Campora, a 255-pound giant, scheduled to start at one of the guard posts. Probable starter at hte other guard will be Bob Francis chini. Other outstanding linemen on the Stagg eleven include George Ker, a 230-pound tackle, ends Jack Rohde and George Brumm, and pivot man Lydon Mothorn. Stagg and his squad are expected to arrive in Eu’gene sometime Fri day. Hayward Calls Distance Men Long distance runners begin their training this week for the an nual cross-country season that gets underway in a few weeks, according to Bill Hayward, Oregon’s track coach. Little competition is slated at present for the Duck team as only one meet, the Northern Divi sion finals is scheduled. Coach Hayward hopes that all men intending to turn out for the running events in spring track, be sides potential distance runners, will turn out to limber up their legs and get them in condition before the spring workouts begin. That veter ans who have not participated in track for several years and expect to make a bid for the 1947 Oregon track team should begin getting their war-weary legs in condition now, is Hayward’s opinion. General prospects for the fall track team are fair, although the previous outlook for having a top team has tumbled with the news that George Hammock, Walt Mc (Fleasc turn to page six) DUKE IVERSEN . . . slated to start in the quarterback slot against A. A. Stagg’s “Whing-dingers” Saturday. Oregon’s running and blocking combination of Leicht and Iversen has been compared to the great Michi* gan pair, Harmon and Evashevski. Web foot Head Trainer Is Scholar, All-American Oregon dipped into the pro ranks this year to sign up a new head trainer to replace Bob Officer. Tom Hughes turned from tackle for the Los Angeles Dons to head trainer at the University of Oregon shortly before the season opened Septem ber 3. According to Hughes, this is his first job as a head trainer, but his training has certainly been of the highest caliber. During the one year he attended the University of Mis souri he worked for Ollie J. Victor, and later studied under Lon Mann at Purdue. A person must be versatile to be a trainer, Tom claims. “You have to be doctor, lawyer, Indian, chief—and even use a little psy chology.” Aii award presented to Hughes when he graduated from Purdue in 1945 should qualify him for the post he holds if versatility is a prerequi site. When he received his sheep skin, he was also awarded the Big Ten medal for combined proficien cy in scholarship and athletics. While winning three, letters in foot ball, two major letters and one min or letter in basketball, he managed to maintain a high scholastic aver age. Named All-American He was named on seyeral all American teams as a tackle in 1945 and during the three years he played at Purdue, the Boilermakers lost only five Big Ten games. Tom has played a lot of football —both pro and college—and like all athletes, he has had his big thrill. It came in 1945 when Purdue upset Ohio State, 35 to 13. He said the game was the most thrilling he has ever participated in, but the pay-off came after the game when his team TOM HUGHES mates presented him the game ball for a job well done. After Hughes left Purdue he turned pro and signed with the Los Angeles Dons to hold down a tackle slot. There is a marked difference between professional and college football, Tom be lieves. “When I was playing col lege football, it was more for fui^a but pro ball is strictly business,” he said. “In pro ball, if you fumble or miss a block it might cost you 10 bucks, while if you intercept Another difference he has noted a pass you might get a $50 bonus.” is that pro teams use Unit substitu tions more than college teams. Th? secret to the unit substitution meth od is having plenty of reserve pow er, he explained. The usual method is to use different units for offense (Please turn to page six)