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Ducks, Trojans Vie on Coliseum Turf Today in Crucial PCC Game Webfoots 14|/2 Point Underdogs; Injuries Plague Harris, Iversen By WALLY HUNTER University of Oregon's Webfoots, led by Whippet-back Jake Leicht, hold an undefeated record up for the inspection of a dubious horde of Southern California Trojans today in Los Angeles’ Coliseum in one of the key games of the Pacific Coast Conference. Oregon’s Tex Oliver coached eleven will hit the LA turf with a five game record marred only by a 0-0 tie with Washing ton State College. The much ballyhooed Trojan trundles into battle with a large dent in his war gear placed there by a win happy Oregon State Beaver. In spite of Oregon’s victory stuffed ledger, the men of Troy are given a l-P/2 point advantage over the Ducks by the bookies and prognosticators. Basis for the two-touchdown plus margin handed the Trojans by the “experts” are the slim margins by which the Webfoots have rolled to victory, and the lack of top flight competition in the backwash of the Oregon schedule. Coach Oliver’s machine has thus far in the season greased the skids for College of Pacific, California, Montana and Idaho. COP and California held the Ducks to one point victory mar gins. Idaho and Montana on the other hand were badly clob bered by the Webfoots. This has not added much to Duck famp. however, because this pair has I fame, however, because this pair has been consistent league cellar dwell ers. Washington State made a sad Homecoming for the Ducks when they held Oliver’s men scoreless on muddy Hayward field. Coach Jeff Cravath’s Trojan hordfes—picked by early season guessing as the team to beat for Rose Bowl honors—has just begun to roll in predicted fashion. Though rocked and socked by Ohio State, the Trojans have bowed only to OSC in the Coast conference. Ore gon Backfield Coach Ben Winkel man scouted the USC-Stanford game and came home with healthy respect for anything labeled SC. Winkelman calls them a team that “has everything.’’ Dependent on Leicht Oregon’s hope for a win today will ride on the shirt-tails of mer cury-footed Jake Leicht. Tabbed as one of the fastest men on the coast, Leicht has been bothered by a leg Injury that has held him bench bound most of the season. Along with his varied talents Leicht has, of late been assigned a new role as pass catcher. Leicht’s fine condi tion coupled with the fact that Coach Tex Oliver has been working overtime on developing some brand new strategy to pitch at the Tro jans may give the underdog Web foots a new lease on life. Two Webfoot injuries cast the only shadows on the Oregon picture today. Quarterback Duke Iversen was classed as having “an outside chance” of seeing action today. Should this be the case, Coach Oli ver will run reserve blockers Don Shaffer and Bill Abbey into the gap. First string Left End Hymie Harris is also ailing from a practice injury. In a scrimmage against the junior varsity, venerable Hymie in jured a leg seriously enough to make it doubtful as to how much he w ill be able to play today. Radio Today's football broadcasts: 10:45 a. m.—Army vs. West Vir ginia. KUGN, 1400 Kc. (ABC) 1:45 p. m.—OSC vs. Stanford, KALE, 1300 Kc. (ABC) 2:00 p. m.—Oregon vs. TJSC, KEX, 1190 Kc. and KUGN, 1400 Kc. i( ABC) The “Mole” was a University sen-> sation in 1941. Oregon vs. USC Starting Lineups OREGON USC Dick Brown.L E.Doug Essick Chuck Elliott .LT.John Ferraro Ted Meland.L G. Johnny Rea Brad Ecklund .C.Russ Antles Bill Murphy .R G.1 Don Clark 'Don Stanton.R T.Bob Hendren W. Bartholomey .R E.Jim Callanan Duke Iversen.Q B.Mickey McCardle Jake Leicht.L H.Johnny Naumu Jim Newquist.R H.Art Battle Bob Koch.F B. Bob Musick GUARD TED .VIELAND . . . »is slated to start in the left guard spot against Southern Cal in the Coliseum at Los Angeles today. The former Bend prep st^r has been one of the stalwarts of Tex Oliver’s forward wall and is being looked upon for greater performance in the next three years. Meland was declared ineligible shortly before the COP game, but regained his eligibility in time to aid in the defeat of California’s Golden Bear. PiaMtitt Review Qe&iae. jbaaa+t By AL, PIETSCHMAN End George Dugan is one of the mainstays in the Oregon line this year ,and is another of the pre-war lettermen adding power to the yet undefeated' Webfoot team. Dugan played Frosh football in 1941 and earned his letter under John War ren in 1942. George has three years of high school ball behind him, but not at the end position. At Cottage Grove he played tackle, but he • was switched to end when he came to Oregon. During the war, Dugan served in the Army Air forces as a B-29 pilot in the Pacific. He served for three and one-half years before he was discharged February 1 of this year. Dugan heartily approves of trans porting the football team by air. He mentioned that it would have been just the thing for the Idaho trip, and wishfully said that he hoped the Ducks would be able to get more flying time in the future. Former air force men are abun dant on the Oregon varsity this year and George said that he is not tlie only one who would like to take over the controls on the trip south. The lanky end Is a pre-dental major, but he says it is not his in tention to chip his opponent's teeth in order to drum up future business, although his front teeth have taken a beating this year. His mouth was the recipient of a cleated foot in scrimmage several weeks ago, and as a result he has gold tips on his front teeth. After next year Dugan hopes to enter the Oregon dental school in Portland to polish off his training. He will play one more year for the Webfoots before entering the north ern branch in Portland. Good Oregonian George appears to be a true-blue Oregonian. Although he doesn’t know exactly where he will practice dentistry, he is convinced that it will be in the state of Oregon. “Southern Cal has a terrific club and is loaded with lettermen,” George remarked, “but nevertheless I think we can take them by putting into practice the improvements and lessons we have learned in the past five games. According to Dugan, the USC game should be a low-scoring af fair, but he opined that if the field is dry there should be an abun i dance of passing. George’s pri mary ambition tomorrow is to snag as many Oregon—and USC —passes as possible. Oregon teams have always been plagued by the Southern California sunshine, but Dugan thinks it will have little effect upon the Webfoots today. Idaho Inspired He said the Idaho team became surprisingly inspired in the last quarter last week and showed more fire than most observers gave them credit for having. Though Oregon did not play up to par against the Vandals, Dugan thinks they will have the proper mental attitude to day. “I expect to see a real show ing when we hit the Coliseum turf,” he said. The 200-pound end thinks Ore gon showed more strength in ev ery department against Montana. As for UCLA, George thinks there is a good chance of beating the Bruins in Portland next week. It is Dugan’s opinion that if Leicht can be turned loose against the Trojans today, Tex Oliver will display before the critical Los An geles crowd the top post-war ball club of the west. Bruins Wallop Gaels, 46 to 20 By BILL BECKER LOS ANGELES, Nov 1—(AP)—< The power-packed Bruins of the University of California at Los An* geles rolled to a 46-20 victory to night over St. Mary’s Gaels from Moraga, California, in a thrill-min ute football game in Memorial coli seum before 92,976 spectators, largest crowd of the season any where. The Bruins’ great passing com bination of Ernie Case and Burr Baldwin far overshadowed All America Herman Wedemeyer, al though the versatile Hawaiian and his mates never stopped battling. Baldwin, brilliant end, scored three touchdowns, two. of them on tosses by Case, covering 49 and 23 yards, including runs. The Bruins, using Wedemeyer as the goat for their first four touch downs, scored in every period. The Gaels gathered steam only in the fourth quarter against UCLA re serves. It was the Bruins’ sixth straight win, but a nonconference clash with no bearing on their Rose Bowl (Please turn to page si.v)