UO, WSC Bog Down In Mud
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Webfoots, Bruins Remain"[Only
Undefeated Teams in'Conference
Coach Phil Sorboe’s doughty Washington State Cougars
held the University of Oregon’s Webfoots to a 0-0 tie Saturday
on Hayward field in the annual Homecoming tilt, but the Web
foots remain, along with UCLA, at the top of the undefeated list
in the Pacific Coast Conference.
Hampered by a soggy gridiron that held offense to a mini
mum, both teams slopped their way to a scoreless tie that was not
without its tense moments. Time
after time both ball clubs made 01
received breaks that should have
meant surei touchdowns, only tc
have them bog down dismally 01
end with heartbreaking tumbles
when the payoff line was in sight.
For the first time this season, the
talented place-kicking of Jim New
quist did not pull the Webfoots oul
of the hole. Handy Jim, who added
the extra points that beat California
11 to 13, made one first quartei
placement attempt from the Wash
ington State 10 yard line. This one
try sailed erratically wide of the
uprights.
On the statistical side, the Ore
gon team had a slight advantage
over the lads from the Pai'ouse
hills. Oregon’s total yardage from
rushing was 82 yards, while the
Cougars were aide to make only
31. In spite of the soupy field con
ditions, both the Cougars and
Webfoots made liberal use of the
airlanes on offensive thrusts.
Oregon tried 13 passes, one of
which was complete for eight yards.
Coach Sorboe’s lads made 12 pass
ing attempts, and managed to con
nect with three for 30 yards. •
Coach Tex Oliver's Webfoots held
the net yardage tile from rushing
and passing, having 90 yards to the
WSC 64. In the first down depart
ment, both clubs had a rather mea
ger total of five each.
Punting averages were surpris
ingly good considering the muddy
terrain over which the battle was
fought. Oregon punts averaged 39.4
yards per kick, which is considered
good on a dry field. Cougar punts
averaged 33.0 yards per try.
mained one of the top punters in the
Oregon Fullback Bob Koch re
mained one of the top punters in the
nation. After booting 11 times
against the Cougars, Koch's aver
age hovers near the 40 yard aver
age mark.
The Wetofoots came out of the
game with relatively few injuries.
Quarterback Duke Iverseu in
jureit a leg- but is expected to be
ready for the Idaho battle next
Saturday. Guard Bill' Murpliy and
reserve Quarterback Bill Abbey,
both pre-game casualties, are ex
pected to share in the Idaho-Ore
gou festivities.
Oregon's All - American Jake
Lelcht saw his first action since the
season opener, and is improving
rapidly enough that he will prob
ably see action in Oregon’s remain
ing games. lUght Guard Jim Ber
wick. another early season casualty,
saw his first varsity duty against
the Cougars.
Last night, Oregon Coach Tcv
Oliver gave riie varsity a reprieve
from the muddy practice field and
gave t!u> Wehfoots a short chalk
talk. The Wehfoots begin practice
sessions in earnest for the Satur
day tiff with Idaho today.
Hogan Leads Field
PINEHURST, N. C.. Oct. 21—
(AD Ben Hogan, who holds the
competitive record on the number
2 course here, heads a field of pro
fessional golfers who will compete
in the 45th annual north and south
open tournament here November
5-7. The tourney was won last year
for the first time by an amateur,
Cary Middlecoff,
Local Grid Aces
Get Sound Beating
The Emerald’s pigskin experts
took another beating during the
weekend when a pair of ties and a
wild rampage by the Ramblin’
Wreck from Georgia Tech threw all
hands for a loss.
Tie games which the lads failed
to predict were the 0-0 tie between
Oregon and Washington State and
a 14-14 Michigan-Northwestern
final. Louisiana State had been es
tablished a solid favorite by all six
of the self-styled experts but fell
before a Georgia Tech, 26-7 in a
Saturday night contest.
Best score of the week was turned
in by “Wild Bill” Stratton, closely
followed by Tommy Wright. Still
leading for the season’s totals is
burlap-vested Larry Lau, even
though he picked but four winners
out of ten Saturday contests.
Saturday’s Results:
Hit
Stratton . 6
Wright. 6
Hammcrbeck . 5
Consensus . 5
Hunter . 5
Kahananui . 5
Lau . 4
Seasons totals:
Hit
Lau . 28
Wright . 26
Stratton . 23
Kahananui . 25
Consensus . 22
Hunter. 22
Hammer beck . 21
Miss
4
4
5
5
5
5
6
Pts.
325
354
388
390
391
416
461
Miss
12
14
17
15
18
18
19
Pts.
1331
1359
1493
1544
1546
1613
1640
Beaten Jayvees
Claim Standouts
Late Friday night the Oregon
Jayvees returned to Eugene a beat
en, and in some respects, outclassed
football team. Many observers came
to the conclusion that as a whole,
the team lacked experience and co
ordination.
There were, however, standouts
in the line such as Lou Robinson
who time and again broke through
from tackle position to drop his
man from behind. He also gave the
Ducklings their chance for their one
and only touchdown when he recov
ered an OSC fumble on the one foot
line.
George Murphy and Bob Sher
wood, playing the flanks, turned in
a good defensive game, forcing the
Orange back to skirt wide of their
territory ami allowing the second
ary defense a clear target.
Bay loss Looked Good
Fullback Bill Bayless did his
chore in the kicking slot by getting
off one boot that traveled 53 yards
before being downed. Bayless also
plunged the ball over the tally line
after Robinson set it up in the
The OSC forward wall was big,
The OSC forwar dwall was big,
fast, and played an alert game.
They seldom gave the Duckling
backs a chance to get by the line
of scrimmage, having at least two
men dogging the runners’ cleats at
I all times.
HALFBACK BOB REYNOLDS ... is shown being clawed in the Homecoming game against Washington
State that ended in a 0-0 deadlock on Hayward field Saturday. Reynolds was brought down by Cougar Jerry
Williams on the WSC 41-yard line after a seven-yard gain that gave the Ducks one of their five downs.
Also shown are Andy Lazor, WSC center, and Referee Harry Brubacker. (Courtesy the Register-Guard.
PiaiJzUt Qeuieia. . . .
Cjeantje Hell
Freshmen don't very often make'
a varsity football team, much less
see much action when there are a
host of stars on the club. Frosh half
back George Bell broke the usual
custom on the Oregon team this
year when he made the team and
became one of the outstanding re
serve backs on the club. Bell lugged
the ball across California’s goal for
Oregon’s first score three weeks
ago.
“Scoring that touchdown was the
biggest thrill I’ve ever had in foot
ball,” he said. “Berkeley is my
home town, and the idea of scoring
against them, and then having the
team go on to win the game, was
just about all a fellow could ask to
happen in a game,” he added.
Although he has not had any pre
vious varsity experience in college,
he has two years of high school foot
ball to his credit. As a freshman in
high school he broke his leg, but
later went on to play ball for Uni
versity high school in Oakland, Cal
ifornia and Acalanes in Lafayette,
California.
A hip injury in the Montana game
forced him to the sidelines after
playing brilliant ball. With the aid
of Colonel Bill Hayward’s gadgets
he was able to play in the mud
against WSC.
UCLA is the only team in the
conference that will have a major
chance of knocking over the Ducks,
Bell thinks. He said, however, “If
we meet the Bi’uins on a muddy
field and play heads up ball, we^can
go on to the Rose Bowl.” Rose Bowl
ideas are not shouted too loud yet,
but Bell figures that there is a good
chance that Oregon could make the
grade.
The Eighth Air Force claimed
George as one of its members dur
ing the war. With the Eighth, he
served in Africa, France and Eng
land. He was discharged January
2, 1946 and entered school January
3.
Flying is still one of his favorite
pastimes as he claims it as his num
ber one hobby. He has no definite
plans scheduled for after gradua
tion but hopes that he can use his
commercial pilot’s license to aid
him in obtaining a possible job in
the flying world.
Twelve Unbeaten Teams
Remain After 4th Week
By LARRY L YU
”With the 194G football season
roaring towards its fifth week, only
twelve teams throughout the na
tion remain on the undefeated list,
and three of these twelve have ties
to dull their records. Army still
heads the list, with Notre Dame,
Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, Penn
sylvania, Harvard, UCLA, and
North Carolina State close behind.
The remaining three teams who are
undefeated, but who have been tied,
are Oregon, Northwestern, and
North Carolina.
There's always at least one top
sy-turvy football weekend during
ihe season and we’ve had it. Upset
victories and ties were the order of
the day. Michigan and Oregon, both
favored to win, were held to ties by
Northwestern and Washington
State respectively. Bo McMillan’s
hot and cold Hoosiers had a bad
day, Iowa dumping Indiana, 13-0.
. . . Jeff Cravath’s under-dog Tro
jans turned the heat on the visiting
Huskies to walk away with the con
test, 28-0 ... North Carolina slapped
an inept Navy eleven, 21-14 . . . j
Brown upset a favored Dartmouth
eleven, 20-13, while an inspired
Cornell team fought to a bitter 6-6
deadlock with the heavily favored
Yale Bulldogs.
Vols Thump Tide
Down South, it was the same
story. Tennessee thumped Ala
bama, 12-0, to keep alive their hopes
of the 1946 Rose Bowl bid . . . Tiny
Louisiana Tech, awed not a whit,
stepped up and handed Mississippi a
7-6 defeat. North Carolina State
handed an unbeaten Wake Forest
eleven its first setback, 21-14, Syra
cuse rose to the heights to upset
Holy Cross, 21-12, while in the
Rocky Mountain league, Denver up
set the dope books by slapping Utah,
20-14.
Army had little trouble in knock
ing Columbia from the ranks of the
unbeaten, 48-14 . . . Texas did like
wise to a gallant Arkansas, eleven,
20-0. Pennsylvanian steamrollered
over the Coast Guard, 69-0.
The UCLA Bruins notched
their fourth conference victory
in edging a surprisingly strong
California steam, 13-6 . . . Geor
gia moved ponderously along,
grinding a game Oklahoma A &
M team, 33-13 ... St. Mary’s
made their eastern dehut in real
western style, smashing the Ford
ham eleven, 33-2 . . . Pitt came
back to win a game, edging a
tough Marquette team, 7-6.
Michigan State managed to
squeeze past the Penn. State team,
19-16 . . . Princeton beat a rug^pd
Rutgers eleven, 14-7 . . . Texas A
& M walloped TCU, 14-0 . . . The
very rough Texas Tech team
dumped a dogged Baylor squad,
13-6 and Rice handed SMU a 21-7
pasting . . . Duke, meeting Army
next week, had a good workout,
thumping Richmond, 41-0 . . . The
Green Wave of Tulane gleamed
brighter after their 33-0 shellack
ing of Auburn . . . Kentucky edged
Vanderbilt, 10-7, Mississippi State
beat the San Francisco eleven, 48
20 in a wide open contest and Geor
gia Tech handed Louisiana State a
a 26-7 beating.
In the Midwest, Illinois beat
Wisconsin, 28-21, in a bitterly
fought contest . . . Purdue, com
ing back after being slaughtered
by Not re Dame, fought to a 14-14
tie with Ohio State ... Minnesota
found Wyoming easy piekins,
dumping the Cowboys, 46-0 . . •
Oklahoma Bent Kansas State, 28
7 . . . Missouri strengthened thtSf"
Big Six record with a 33-13 win
over Iowa State.