Webfoot Hopes Up as Lightnin' Leicht
Joins Workouts for Vandal Skirmish
Oregon Scout Claims Idaho Aerials
By Hammond, Munson May Be Threat
University of Oregon’s All-American Left Halfback Lightnin’
Jake Leicht made his first practice appearance in full uniform
since his early season injury in the COP-Oregon game last night
as the Webfoots buckled down to practice sessions in preparation
for their Saturday tilt with the University of Idaho. Coach Tex
Oliver's diminutive speed merchant has almost fully recovered
from the leg injury that he received
in the season opener and is expected
to be on deck Saturday. The pres
ence of Leicht on the gridiron bodes
nothing but evil for the Vandals
from Idaho who have had little luck
in the season thus far.
Though Idaho has been taking its
lumps with regularity from oppos
ing teams this season, Oregon Back
field Coach Ben Winkelman figures
that the Vandals will be a hard team
to stop. The men from Moscow have
been improving, and Saturday in
losing to San Jose State 26-14 made
their strongest showing to date.
According to Winkelman, the im
provement that the Idaho team has
shown, coupled with the fact that
they will be playing before an an
nual Homecoming crowd, will make
them show more than in previous
games. Winkelman’s belief is that
ttie Idaho team this year has been
long on material and short on spirit.
Vandal Passing Strong
After scouting the Idaho-San Jose
State game Saturday, Coach Win
kelman figures that the Vandal
passing attack is one of their more
potent scoring threats. The Van
dals can field a fair of better than
average passers in Jim Hammond
and Carl Munson. Finest Vandal re
ceiver in the eyes of the Oregon
scout is Carl Kilsgaard, a 210 pound
left end. Another receiver listed by
Winkelman is Willard Beitz, a re
serve halfbark.
In last night’s session they had
a fairly light time of it. Coach
To\ Oliver has had the Webfoots
concentrating on bringing pre
cision to their offensive plays and
work on hall handling.
Though Oregon received rela
tively few injuries in the Saturday
battle with Washington State Col
lege, the Webfoots ace blocking
back Duke Iverson is still hampered
by a pulled muscle. Big Duke, who
clears the way for the ball handlers,
may possibly be ready for the Sat
urday clash, but bis condition is un
certain.
Murphy and Ahhey Keady
Only other Webfoots still on the
isjured list are Quarterback Bill
.A bbey and Guard Bill Murphy. Both
Murphy and Abbey, however, are
expected to be on tap for the Van
dal-Welifoot serap.
While the Idnlin squad will he
»iuitid^' for its first win of the
season in Saturday’s encounter,
the Webfoots will be striving to
Keep their season record clear of
losses.
So far this season the Webfoots
have toppled College of Pacific, Uni
versity o' California, University of
Montana, but were held to a score
less tie by Washington State.
Coed QJalley hall
Sigma Kappa 41', Alpha Omicrop
Pi 14.
Alpha Gamma Delta 37, Hen
dricks hall 35.
Kappa Kappa Gamma 311, Zet-a
hull 32.
Gamma Phi 32, University house
29.
The school of physical education
w as created in 1920,
Hoop Turnout
Being Trimmed
Basketball Coach Howard Hob
son’s big worry after the second day
of the 1946 practice season was con
densing a turnout of 122 prospective
squad men Into three workable
units.
Because of the record turnout,
only the tentative varsity is work
ing out in the afternoon, and the
Frosh under the direction of Ted
Schopf and the junior varsity under
Hobson are practicing during the
evenings. Schopf is faced with the
problem of cutting a squad of 60
freshmen, while Hobson is evaluat
ing the 40 man junior varsity.
Hobson said yesterday that the
present varsity squad is not perma
nent and that changes might be
made in the present personnel be
fore he adds enough men to boost
the squad to 18. At present, the var
sity consists of eleven lettermen
and one freshman.
The fetter winners include Cen
ter Roger Wiley; Forwards Ed
Dick, Marv Rasmussen, Boh
Wren, and Ken Hays—who also
plays center; Guards Stan Wil
liamson, Al I’opiek, Sam Crowell,
Reedy Berg, l)iek Wilkins, and
Roy Seeborg. Wilkins and See
berg also double at the forward
slot. The lone freshman on the
varsity is 6-foot 8-inch Bob Ama
clier who reinforces the center
position.
Four other lettermen guards —
Frank Hoffine, Bill Phillips, Norm
Henwood, and Lee Wimberly—are
working with the Jayvees, although
they are expected to press the other
lettermen for a varsity berth.
The Duck courtmen tee off
against the General Grocers of
Portland here November 27, and
meet University of British Colum
bia in McArthur court November
20-30. Also on the pre-season agen
da are Bobby Anet’s Oregon Lumber
Sales “Firs” here December 3.
The Webfoots take their tradi
tional trip east again this year for
a two-game schedule against Niag
ara, University at Buffalo and NYU
in Madison Square Garden late in
December.
Ducks Nineteenth
NEW YORK, Oct. 22— (AP) —
Army, which gained added pres
tige by its 18-14 thumping of Co
lumbia, was installed more firm
ly than ever as the nation's out
standing collegiate gridiron pow
er today by writers who voted in
the Associated Press’ weekly poll
to select the ten top teams.
Notre Dame and Texas re
tained their respective second and
third positions in the balloting as
Alabama skidded out of the first
ten to be replaced in the select
circle by North Carolina.
Tennessee moved up from
ninth place to fourth, while
PCI.A. hard-pressed to beat Cali
fornia slipped from fourth to fifth.
Only Pacific Northwest team to
THE IDAHO VANDALS play host to the University of Oregon Webfoots Saturday in their annual Homecom
ing game, and shown above checking equipment are Japies Huntback, equipment manager; Babe Brown,
head coach; and Gale Mix, graduate manager. The Vandals bowed to San Jose State, 26 to 14, last week but
are pointing lor an upset of Tex Oliver’s Webfoots and the first Idaho win of the year. 4
Duke-Army Contest Saturday
Heads Nation’s Grid Menu
After the games this weekend,
King Football will be halfway home.
The question in most sports fans’
minds is how many of the thirteen
as yet undefeated teams will still
be tagged with that magic nom de
plume after Saturday’s forthcoming
gridiron battles.
A fabulous Army team will seek
its 24th consecutive victory when
the Cadets meet the Duke Blue
Devils in what promises to be a bat
tle royal. The nation’s No. 2 team,
Texas, tangles with a powerful Rice
team that has only a 7-6 loss to
LSU marring its record. The Fight
ing Irish of Notre Dame, ranked No.
3, meet Iowa. Save for a one touch
down loss to Michigan, Iowa is un
defeated.
The UCLA Bruins, undefeated in
four straight Pacific Coast Confer
ence games, step outside the confer
ence to play a tough Santa Clara
eleven that dropped a close decision
to Stanford last week. With the
Bruins’ star halfback, Cal Rossi,
out of the lineup, the contest can
hardly be called a breather.
Pennsylvania-Navy
In the East, the undefeated Penn
aggregation meets Navy in their
annual tussle. Although Navy has
lost its last three games, the tradi
tions involved make the game a
hard one to pick. Harvard, another
of the magic thirteen, meets a Holy
Cross team( upset last week 12-12
by an underdog Syracuse squad.
Tennessee, fresh from a sweet 12-0
triumph over Alabama, meets stub
born, once-beaten Wake Forest.
Oregon, still indignant over the
mud that slowed her to a tie with
WSO, travels to Moscow to meet
Idaho. The Wildcats of North
western, who clawed out a 14-14
tie with a favored Michigan eleven
receive recognition by the sports
writers was Oregon, which was
listed 19th.
last week, meet Amos Alonzo
Stagg’s tricky College of Pacific
team in an intersectional contest.
Michigan, once defeated and tied,
will seek revenge when it mixes
things up with the Golden Gophers
of Minnesota. A valiant Oklahoma
team, that has lost by one touch
down to the No. 1 and No. 2 teams
in the nation, Army and Texas, gets
a well deserved breather when they
meet Iowa State.
Denver-Texas Tech
Denver, the team that has the
Rocky Mountain League rocking,
after an upset victory over a fa
vored Utah aggregation, faces an
even tougher game in its forthcom
ing tilt with the powerful Red Raid
ers from Texas Tech. Alabama and
LSU, both with one defeat, meet in
a game that promises to be a thrill
er. A solid, stubborn Arkansas
eleven, that has lost only to Texas,
tangles with a Mississippi club, still
blinking after the 7-6 spanking it
received at the hands of unheralded
Louisiana Tech.
On the coast, Oregon State
travels to Pullman after a week’s
rest to meet a Washington State
team that pulled a 0-0 tie out of a
game that was supposed to have
been alt Webfoot. After two
straight defeats, Jeff Cravat h*s
Trojans came to life and wal
loped a hapless Washington Hus
ky team 28-0. Whether the spark
is to last or not will be decided
when USC meets the once-beaten
Stanford Indians this coming Sat
urday.
The Golden Bears of California,
who surprised most experts with
their narrow 13-6 loss to UCLA,
travel north to Seattle to tangle
with ths-off again, on again Wash
ington Huskies. Twice-beaten Wis
consin meets a Purdue team that
surprised the experts in garnering
a 14-14 tie with Ohio State last
week.
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Bernie Hammerbeck
Bill Stratton
Wally Hunter
Larry Lau
A1 Fietschman
Don Fair
Fred Taylor
Elwin Paxson
JV Boss Schopf
Has 70 Cagers
“From a group of 70 condidates, I
plan to have the Frosh basketball
squad pruned down to about 15 men
at the end of this week,” stated
newly appointed coach Ted Schopf
yesterday. Practice for the first
year men is slated to begin in ear
nest next week, with only scrim
maging and fundamentals being
drilled on now.
Schopf added that the cream of
the freshman crop was still work
ing out under Howard Plobson on^
the varsity team, but that several
promising men have been found on
the regular Frosh group. No sched
ule has been officially drawn up for
the Frosh squad but tentative se
ries are planned with the Portland
prep teams and with high schools in
central and southern Oregon.
The recently appointed Schopf at
tended college and played basket
ball at Southern Oregon College of
Education.
After graduating he went to
Chiloquin, Oregon, where he men
tored for five years. From there
he moved to Washington High of
Portland where, in two years, he
coached two league champions,
one a state titlist while the other
quintet captured a third in state
competition.
Following this, Schopf coached
baseball at Benson High in Port
land for one season, joining the
Navy in June 1945. He was in the*,
service 11 months, most of the time
at Great Lakes, where he tutored
the service schools in basketball.