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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1946)
Webfoots Hit Moscow; Will Work Out Today Leicht Ready. First Time Since COP; Three Quarterbacks on Injured List A slightly lame University of Oregon football team trundles into Moscow, Idaho, early this morning. Tomorrow afternoon the Webfoots buck heads with University of Idaho’s Vandals in a Pacific Coast conference game, Oregon’s fifth start of the season. Chris “The Duke” Iverson, regular Duck quarterback, re mained in Eucrene to nurse a leg muscle gone awry. Don Shaffer, his understudy, is afflicted with an infection of the cheek and neck. Bill Abbey, another quarter, is having a raunchy time of it with a bad leg. Jake Leieht, all-American left halfback, chaffing under the strain of having to log so much bench time this season, made the trip and will play. A wrenched knee, the cause of all his discom fiture, has nearly returned to nor mal'. Oregon will prance onto the field Saturday heavy favorites to win. If you like Idaho, refugees from “Money and Banking” will smile and casually give you 26 points. The Oucks, in fact, have been favorites in all their starts but one. Against California the lads who range Powell street flipped a coin—heads Oregon, tails California. The Webfoots have clobbered, in order, College of the Pacific, Cali fornia, and Montana. Last Satur day they slopped, slid, and tied a fine Washington State college team, 0-0. This overall performance for the season gained them an Associ ated Press rating of 19th in the na tion. With UCLA’s rampaging Bruins, the Webfoots remain one of the two undefeated teams on the Pacific coast. lit Portland, on route to Mos cow, the I)ucIts debarked and scrambled through a light drill. At 1:15 p. m. today they are scheduled to go through a final unkinking session, this in the Vandal camp. Coach Babe Brown Wants Good Weather MOSCOW, Oct. 24 (AP)—The University of Idaho Vandals could use continued rain Saturday to help slow down the power of University of Oregon drives, but Coach Babe Brown apparently isn’t doing any rain dances to get it. “We want good weather for Homecoming,” he grinned.. Washington State college last week held Oregon to a scoreless tie on a slippery field. In the process, Oregon made only 90 yards from running and passing compared with 729 yards for three previous games. Weather forecasts indicated that skies might clear here by game time Saturday. AP Names All-Stars NF1W YORK, Oct. 24 (API World Series performers dominated the I94G major league All-Star team chosen for the Associated Press by 122 baseball writers on the big league circuit. The All-Star team: Outfielders Ted Williams and Dom DiMaggio, Red Sox; Enos Slaughter, Cardinals. First base Stan Musial, Cardi nals. Second base—Bobby Doerr, Red Sox. Third base — George Kurowski, Cardinals. Shortstop—Johnny Pesky, Red Sox. Catcher—Aaron Robinson, Yan kees. Pitchers—Hal Newhouser, Ti gers, and Bob Feller, Indians. la.-ND Upset? Army Favored By LARKY LAU Newspapers and radios all over the nation will be blaring the news, should it happen, so here’s jumping the gun a bit to predict the season’s biggest upset, Iowa to beat Notre Dame Saturday! Iowa, in five games, has been defeated once, No tre Dame has played only three games, Illinois, Pitt and Purdue. It is reported that the Iowa line looks something like the Chicago Bears, and Frank Leahy’s Irish have never yet beaten Doc Ander son’s Iowa team in Iowa City. On a hunch then . . . Iowa by 7 points! A fabulous, plunging, machine like Army team will seek its 24th consecutive victory Saturday when it clashes with the Blue Devils from Duke university. Duke has shown a great deal of improvement in the last two games and figures to give the Cadets a tough battle. There may be a team this year that will stop Army, but Duke just isn’t it . . . Army by 20 points. xiic Texas Longhorns, rated the No. 1 team in the nation by the un canny Williamson system, tangle with their Southwestern conference rivals, Rice, in a game that promis es an abundance of fireworks. The Owl brigade, fresh from walloping Southern Methodist, figures to make it tough, but Arkansas was tough too . . . Texas by 20 points. In the Southeastern conference, the Vols from Tennessee, fairly bursting their galluses after trip ping a vaunted Alabama squad, 12-0, meet a stubborn Wake Forest eleven that has been defeated only once this season. The game is by no means a breather, but... Tennessee by 20 points. In the Big Nine, top billing goes to the Michigan-Illinois game. Illi nois slapped a good Wisconsin team down last week while Michigan was fighting to a 14-14 deadlock with Northwestern. Michigan power should more than offset the mini’s star-studded bac'kfield . . . Michigan by 13 points. Indiana, beaten 13-0 by Iowa last week, tangles with a fairly strong Nebraska eleven. Indiana has been running alternately cold and hot, so if we’ve kept things straight, this should be one of their good weekends . . . Indiana by 13 points. In the Pacific Coast conference the rejuvenated California Bears, who came close to bumping the high-flying Bruins last week, travel north to Seattle to meet the much wounded Washington Huskies. If Cal plays the brand of ball they did last Saturday against UCLA the is sue is not much in doubt . . . Cali fornia by 13 points. The Beavers from Oregon State, well-rested, after a two-week lay-1 off, travel to Pullman to meet the ; always tough Washington State Cougars. With the OSC 6-0 defeat of Southern Cal firmly in mind, it looks like a Beaver day at Pullman . . . Oregon State by 7 points. The high-riding UCLA Bruins] SPORT STAFF THIS ISSUE Bernie Hammerbeck Bill Stratton Wally Hunter Larry Lau A1 Pietschman Fred Taylor Theo Feikert Bob Whitely step outside the conference for the first time this season when they meet a tough little Santa Clara eleveno. For the Bruins, the garc^ should be a breather, although San ta Clara gave a powerful Stanford squad a real battle last week . . . %CLA by 20 points. The Oregon Webfoots, still miffed over the tie that spoiled their per fect record, travel to Moscow to meet Idaho in a game which should go only one way, despite the injur ies that have hit the Oregon team in the quarterback slot . . , Oregon by 33 points. At Palo Alto, those amazing Stanford Indians, with only one de feat against them, have a hard test indeed when they meet the sudden ly vicious Trojans from USC. El Trojan turned on the confident Huskies last week and sent them limping northward on the short end of a 28-0 score. It looks like a rough go for the Indians . . . USC by 13 points. | Step, /liide, PleaAe!... [‘Experts’ Come Forward; [With More Predictions? ■*■ It’s prediction time again, as the six Emerald crystal ball gazers come up with their current favorites. The “Oracle from Nineteenth Street,” Wally Hunter, was reluct ant to give his opinion on the Duck-Vandal game. Wally, who figures he knows Tex Oliver’s boys pretty well inasmuch as he'covers them daily for the Emerald, demanded a weather report before giving with his dope. He claims that Jake Leicht on snowshoes in a Moscow blizzard would be unstoppable. Johnny Kahananui, more interested in the Poi Bowl than the local scene, shouted “Herman Wedemeyer” ten times when he was awakened and asked for his ten predictions. Finally the situation was explained to him, however, and he came up with ten ‘ sure winners. The weekend predictions: _ John Tom Bernie Bill Larry Wally Comp. Ore.-Ida. 35- 0 28- 0 35- 6 34- 6 33- 0 27- 0 32- 2 S.C.-Stan. .:.....21- 6 20-13 19-14 19-13 13- 0 21-19 19-11 Cal.-Wash.:. 13- 0 13- 0 7-0 13- 7 13- 0 14- 7 12- 2 OSC-WSC . 6-14 0- 7 14- 7 6- 7 13- 6 7-14 8- 9 Tex. A & M-Baylor.. 6- 0 14- 0 3-7 13- 0 14- 0 19- 7 11- 2 Princ.-Cornell . 0-14 7- 0 6-12 0-13 13-19 12- 7 6-9 111.-Mich. 14- 7 14-20 16-20 7-13 7-20 14-21 12-17 Iowa-N. Dame . 0-21 0-14 7-21 6-20 14- 7 0-20 5-17 Army-Duke . 35- 6 27- 0 20- 6 35- 0 20- 0 34-14 29- 4 Ala.-Ken. 14- 0 7-0 13- 6 14- 6 14- 0 13- 0 13- 2 o PiCf'Uzin Reuieuj .... Qa/itlialemif, By AL PIETSCHMAN Twenty-five year old Wayne Bar tholemy is one of Tex Oliver’s smooth ends on this year’s grid club. Bart is ideally built for the pass catching position, checking in at 190 pounds and six foot one. He was all set for the Idaho game when he was queried at the train depot yes terday, and kept wondering where everybody was for the rally that didn’t come off. Most men on the 1946 Webfoot club have had a wealth of football experience behind them, but not so with Bartholemy. In fact his only experience was at Jefferson high in Portland and frosh ball at Ore gon in 1939. It didn’t take Bart long to pick up the technique of football here at Oregon. Ends have a rugged assignment, one that requires speed when out for passes and an ability to diagnose plays when the opponents have the ball. Barthol erny has mastered both these fun damentals and is on his way to becoming one ow the boys to watch. Bart served almost four years in the Army Air force as an ATC pi lot, flying out of England, where he ferried planes in from Africa, the Mediterranean area, and later out of the Indian theater. He was awarded two Distinguished Flying Crosses and three Air Medals while in the air force and was discharged almost a year ago, October 22, 1945. Brother a Yale Star The Bartholemy name is nothing new to the football world as Wayne’s brother Alan, is also a grid iron great. Alan played end for Yale and was one of the outstand ing players in that sector, being chosen captain his senior year. As a business administration ma jor, Wayne hopes to join his broth er in the insurance business in Portland after graduation in 1948. Hunting and fishing are his pre dominate interests off the campus. So far he has not made use of the fish traps on the McKenzie for fish ing, but his eyes lit up when he was informed of the easy way to catch the big boys up the river. Bart and Guard John Kauff man took to the woods right af ter the Montana game to see if they could bring down a deer but came back to the campus empty handed, leaving their fraternity brothers without the anticipated venison steaks. Football conversation turned to Saturday’s Idaho game, and Bart committed himself saying that he expected to see Oregon win. We’re not in too good shape with Iversen, S.chaffer and several other hoys in jured, but we should win anyway,” he added. Williamson All Wet When Paul Williamson was brought into the picture along with his famous system of rating the na tion’s teams, Bart commented, ‘Williamson doesn’t know any thing about football. He rates Ore gon State 43rd and then puts us 49th. I think that we can take OSC.” “We’ll take UCLA, rain or no rain,” was his comment on the November 9 game in Portland. He pointed out that the Bruins have lost Cal Rossi while the Ducks will have Jake Leicht back in pre-season form. He figures the coming USC tiff of next week to be Oregon’s big battle and is not selling the Tro jans short. “They are like Califor nia—improving all the time. They showed that in the lopsided win over Washington last week. They have a lot of lettermen and just had a hard time finding the right com bination.” HEY, DUCKS IT'S DRIVE IN TIME! Treat your date to real delicious foods. 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