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DUCK TRACKS By BILL STRATTON Assistant Sports Editor A note of thanks today to all the good people who waited for the second section of No. 19 to bring the Ducks home Sunday from Moscow. There was a large turnout at 11:50 when the first section arrived, but there were an estimated 500 fans present to welcome home the victorious Webfoots when they finally arrived on the second-section at 1:20. Last j week we were of the opinion that! it couldri’thappen here, but we are | glad to be proven wrong. Just one 1 more request. Don’t stop now. The! last four will be plenty rough, and! you can’t muster too much sup-1 '• port. Yell King Tom Hazzard an-| nounced at the station Sunday that | tentative arrangements are being | made to have a caravan escort the ? team to the airport Friday morn-1 ing, and although the majority of | the students probably will be in * classes at that time, there should JEFF CRAVATH be a record turnout. You proved Sunday that it could be done. The plan, as announced by Hazzard, is to muster all the available transportation on the campus Friday morning and to escort the players’ bus to the airport where they will take off to tangle with El Trojan. The field of undefeated teams in the nation has been narrowed down to nine. Army, Pennsylvania, Harvard, Notre Dame, UCLA, and Georgia are undefeated, while North Carolina, Northwestern, and Oregon are undefeated but once tied. Last week the Webfoots were rated 19th in the nation, and it will be interesting to see where the AP poll puts them this week. Webtoots Probable Underdogs Saturday When Oregon meets USC in the Coliseum Saturday they probably will be underdogs although they have not been beaten. The Trojans dropped one to Oregon State in the conference and lost to Ohio State in an intersectional contest, but with their wealth of experience are still rated strong contenders for a Rose Bowl bid along with UCLA. The Webfoots have been riding along on top of the PCC with UCLA but no one has given them the nod yet. The USC game will be a crucial test for both clubs, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone if USC is given the pre-game nod on the strength of their material, pre-season rating, and their wins over supposedly tougher teams than Oregon has beaten. Although the Webfoots have beaten COP, California, Mon tana, and Idaho, and have been tied by WSC, those opponents have not been rated as high as USC's victims. El Trojan has rolled over Washington State who held Oregon scoreless, gained a decisive win over Washington who beat WSC, and edged past Stanford who has been the surprise team of the circuit this season. Therefore, by a system of comparative scores, expert might give the Trojans the edge over Oregon. 1930 Team Also Undefeated for Five Games This is the first time since 1930 that an Oregon team has gone through five games undefeated, and they are not about to show up Saturday with a defeatist attitude. Although Jeff Cravath’s charges have shown vast improvement as the season has pro gressed, so have the Ducks, and it could be anybody’s ball game. Except for Tony Crish who has a broken leg and the possible ex ception of Duke Iversen who pulled a leg muscle in the WSC fray, Oregon should be in top shape. It would not be wise to underestimate the strength of the enemy, however. Although Cravath has mourned over the loss of Ted Tannehill who broke his collarbone shortly before the Oregon State game, he has ample reserve power and should field a very strong team. Reserve power might be an important factor. Football games are won on the gridiron and not on a type writer, however, and when the blast of the timekeeper’s gun an nounces the end of the game Saturday we will know who is still in the running for a Rose Borvl bid. Halfback Bob Reynolds receives this column’s nomina tion for the hard luck player of the year so far on the grounds that he has made two touchdowns this season that haven t counted. The first was against California in the third quarter when he ran 59 yards into the end zone and the play was nul lified by a backfield in motion penalty against Oregon. The second episode was in Moscow last Saturday. Reynolds went out on the flank as a sleeper and took Newquist s pass in the end zone unmolested . . . bijt the officials said the Oregon backfield was in motion and the play was called back. On the next play, Newquist ran 29 yards for a touchdown that counted. Although Oregon State managed to squeeze past the Cougars Saturday, they were plagued with the same trouble that Oregon was in the Homecoming game. Namely, Phil Sorboe s pair of SAEs Blank Omega; Chi Psis Trip Pi Kaps Donut Volleyball Starts Tomorrow Intramural volleyball gets under way tomorrow afternoon when six teams square away in the 1946 Fall opener. All games are scheduled for the Physical Education courts. According to rules released by the P. E. department no postpone ments will be permitted, and any team not arriving within ten minutes of game time may be required to forfeit. Six players will constitute a team but fewer players may be used in getting a contest started promptly. The best two out of three games will decide the winner in each con test. Special attention has been called to the regulation allowing players to move from “B” teams up to “A” teams. This procedure will be al lowed at any time, but once a play er has played on an “A” team he will no longer be eligible for “B” play. Spectators will be allowed at the contests but must remain seated. The first week’s playing schedule follows with time, court number, and teams participating: Wednesday, October 30 3:50—40 Dorm C (A) vs. Omega hall (A) 3:50—43—Betas (A) vs. Dorm EE (A) '4:35—40 Dorm B (A) vs. Sherry Ross (A) 4:35—43 Fijis (A) vs. Dorm DD (A) 5:15—40 Dorm A (A) vs. Camp bell Club (A) 5:15—43 Pi Kaps (A) vs. Dorm C C(A) Thursday, October 31 3:50—40 Sigma hall (A) vs. Phi Delts (A) 3:50—43 Phi Psi (A) vs. Dorm BB (A) 4:35—40 Legal Eagles (A) vs. Sigma Chi (A) 4:35—43 Chi Psi (A) vs. Dorm AA (A) 5:15—40 DU (A) vs. Sig Eps (A) 5:15—43 Dorm E (A) vs. Yeomen (A) Friday, November 1 3:50—40 Theta Chi (A) vs. SAE (A) 3:50—43 Dorm D (A) vs. Villard hall (A) 4:35—40 Dorm C (A) vs. Sigma Nu (A) 4:35—43 Dorm B (A) vs. Kappa Sigma (A) 5:15—40 Dorm A (A) vs. ATO (A) 5:15—43 Sigma hall (A) vs. SAM (A) Monday, November 4 3:50—40 Legal Eagles (A) Delts (A) 3:50—43 Delts (B) vs. Sigma Chi (B) 4:35—40 Dorm EE (B) vs. Phi Psi (B) 4:35—43 SAE (B) vs. Dorm B (B) 5:15—40 Phi Delts (B) vs. Dorm BB (B) 5:15—43 Sig Eps (B) vs. Dorm A (B) beckner Kegisters Winning SAE Tally Sparked by two fleet-footed ball handlers, Jim Popp and Herb Beck ner, the SAE gridders virtually clinched their league championship yesterday by edging out a hard fighting Omega hall squad, 6-0. The game was anything but a walk-away for the SAE boys, though they pos sessed a slight bulge in first downs and yardage gained from scrim mage. At the half the score-sheet showed a 0-0 deadlock although the winners did penetrate deep into enemjr terri tory in the opening minutes of the second quarter. Just as the initial frame ended a pass from Beckncr to Popp picked up 10 yards, placing the ball on the Omega 22. Two successive end runs, one by Popp and one by Beckner, picked up an other 10, but the scoring threat died when a short pass to Helm failed to pick up the necessary yardage for a first dow.n. Early in the final half the SAEs unleashed a determined offensive that provided them with the vic tory margin and boosted their season’s record to three consecu tive wins. An Omega aerial was intercepted on the 31 to set up the touchdown thrust, and then the speedy Popp raced around left end for 12 yards. Wilson picked up a first down via the same maneuver, and then Popp repeated his performance and notched up another five. With the pigskin resting on the five yard stripe a defensive offside put the SAEs within a yard of the goal line. Beckner galloped across the line around end to tally the lone score of the contest. The try for point failed. ^ In the same canto Becwner re ceived an Omega punt from the two yard line and sprinted along the sidelines to cross the white stripe again only to have a clipping penalty nullify his TD jaunt. Chi Psis Win The Chi Psis and the Pi Kaps battled to a scoreless tie in the sec ond gridiron struggle, a playoff to determine the winner of another stalemate earlier in the season. But the t'sis received credit lor a win in the overtime heat that was em ployed after the final whistle had sounded. Each team was given possession of the ball on the 50 yard line and alloted four downs to rack up as much yardage from scrimmage as possible. With darkness already settling on Howe field neither club could supply any offensive punch, and each backfield fumbled twice. The Chi Psis, who were given their first opportunity to attack picked up five yards on a short pass thrown from the 45 with three downs already wasted. Eventually this short gain proved to be the vital factor in the Chi Psi triumph as the Pi Kaps fumbled the ball, heaved an incomplete pass, lost several yards on a futile end run, and then saw their victory chance vanish when their fullback, barely able to see the center, dropped the ball on the fourth down while still behind the scrimmage mark. Lineups: SAE (6) Omega (0) Helm .C. Horstman Hertzig .R G. Olts Wilson .LG. Christianson Wallace.R E. Bradley Sharpe.LE. Moorhead Beckner .F. Van Vactor Popp.Q. Pickens Chi Psi (6) Pi Kaps (0) Neiderholzer ....C. Richmond Ruble.R G. Smelzer Taylor ...'..L G.. Belknap Ellison .R E. Gibertson Gleason.L E.Still Ruffner .F. Coffey Rein .Q. Klobas IM GAMES TODAY 3:50 Pi Kaps-Dorm C 4:45 Theta Chi-SAM Distance Men to Run The University of Oregon will send a cross country team to the Lake Washington distance meet during the Thanksgiving holi days, it was revealed by McAr thur court authorities late yes terday. The meet, sponsored by the University of Washington, is the only cross country event planned for the fall season. Hobson Has 33 Men Drilling On Varsity Basketball Squad Basketball Coach Howard Hob son yesterday combined his varsity and junior varsity cage squads into a 33-man unit from which will ulti mately be chosen the regular first line squad and the junior varsity. Hobson said that he will work with different combinations from the 33-man group until he finally finds the ideal combinations. He backed up his earlier statement that all positions will be wide open, when he said that there will be a chance for advancement to the varsity at mid-season if the player’s per formance on the frosh or jayvee squads is of high enough caliber. He also urged all those players who have been cut from either the varsity or freshman squads to par ticipate in intramural games, as fine ends, Wally Kramer and Dave Swanson. They were instru mental in breaking up the Beaver passing attack, but final scores count in the record books. Backfield Coach Ben Winkelman, who hasn’t seen Oregon play this year, scouted the Trojans Saturday and said Marchie Schwartz’ Indians were shoving El Trojan all over the gridiron. Although Stanford held a 20 to 14 lead going into the final canto, 1 USC’s final drive in the fourth exposed Stanford’s apparent lack of reserve power. they will be closely observed and there will be an opportunity for anyone to advance that proves himself in IM play. Hobson has advised against par ticipation in the city league by those who want to move up, how ever. There are conference rules that frown upon such participation, and Hobby added that chances of playing on University teams might be ruirfcd by participating in outside leagues. The present varsity includes the following lettermen: Marv Ras mussen, Ken Hays, Roger Wiley, Stan Williamson, Dick Wilkins, Roy Seeborg, Ed Dick, A1 Popick, , Bob Wren, Reedy Berg, Sam Crowell, Frank Hoffine, Bill Phil lips, and Norm Henwood. Holdover reserves and former nu-’ meral winners are: Luke Baccelleri, Walt Kirsch, Lyle Pettyjohn, and Ron Pupke. Eighteen freshmen now on the varsity are Bob Amacher, Paul Sow ers, Ty Lovelace, Bob Don, Jack Loomis, Bob Lavey, Jim Bocchi, Dan Ducich, Dick Howell, Jerry Switzer, Bob Henderson, Perry Hol loman, Ed Devaney, Ken Seeborg, and Bill Wang.