DUCK TRACKS
By BILL STRATTON
Assistant Sports Editor
Attempting to draw the line between the varsity and junior
varsity basketball teams this year has become no small prob
lem. Hobby is carrying a “No. 1” group composed of 20 men,
but part of that group is being p '
entered in the city basketball j
league along with part of the
“No. 2" squad under the direc
tion of Ted Scliopf.
Hobby made the state
ment early in the season that
all positions on all squads
would be wide open this year
and he certainly has stood
by his statement. When the
team travels this year it will
be composed of 10 or 12 men
and the remainder ot trie j. F 4 l
squad will stay in Eugene to ROGER WILEY
participate in the independent loop. Hobby said yesterday
that the squad will not be static until the season is well under
way and that in itself should give the managers of indepen
dent teams something to moan about. They certainly won t
know what to expect until they see the lineup on the floor.
'['lie Jayvee squad that clobbered the Outdoor Store five
Tuesday night was predominately freshmen. The squad made
a very impressive showing and looms as the strongest con
tender for the city league title. That includes Bobby Anet's
Lumber Sales "J'irs,” also. Although Anet has a host of stars
on his squad, they are not spring chickens anymore, and if the
Duck Jayvees cannot beat them by holding them down with
their defensive tactics, they should be able to run them into the
ground. Hobson is one of the nation’s best known advocates
of the fast break and we are sure that Schopf will employ the
Hobson system in the independent league.
Conditioning Scrimmage Rugged
Tuesday afternoon Hobby ran a 13 man squad through one
of the toughest scrimmage sessions of the season. The session
was divided into two 25 minute periods and when the session
was over, there were 13 mighty tired men heading for the show
ers. Hobby said the conditioning workouts would be held
about twice a week. If future scrimmages resemble Tuesday's
workout, the men should be separated from the boys in short
order.
The squad Hobby worked with Tuesday included 11 let
termen, one holdover reserve, and one freshman. The mono
gram winners have formed the nucleus of the squad thus
far, but they have not been able to rest on their laurels. They
have been pressed for their positions by holdover reserves
and the rapidly-improving freshmen. Six-foot eight-inch Bob
Amacher has appeared to be one of the outstanding freshmen
since the season started and he showed very well in the long
scrimmage Tuesday. Letterman Ed Dick had a field day,
however, and stole the show.
Who Will Be the First Fiv e?
From the spectator’s point of view, Stan Williamson has been
the foremost candidate for a driving- guard post recently, but
• A1 I’opick turned in an outstanding performance in the con
ditioning scrimmage. The remainder of the lettermen—Roger
Y\ iley, Ken Mays, Marv Rasstuussen, Dick Wilkins, Reedy
Berg, Sam Crowell, Roy Seeborg, and Bob Wren—have played
good ball during the practice sessions and unless we miss our
.guess, 1 lobby will have a difficult time choosing the best five
i from that crew.
Everybody is loaded with material this year and the strug
gle for Northern Division honors should be tough, but we are
not only being patriotic when we say that Oregon has a very
good chance of bringing home the conference flag. The ma
terial on hand this season is comparable to the 1937 squad
that eventually wound up as NCAA champs in 1939, and the
■ other schools in the conference have good reason for wonder
ing how much damage the Ducks will do during the 1947
season. Hobson’s teams at Oregon have never ended up out
of the first division and this column is optimistic enough to
say that the Webfoots will definitely be in the running for
the Northern Division championship this year—and the
actual potency of the other ND teams is not known.
Oily Four Seniors on the Team
Four seniors -Bob \\ ren, Roy Seeborg, I,vie Pettijobn and
Km Hayes—will be missing next season but the remainder of
the squad should be intact. The men who are plaving frosh and
Jawce ball this season will be vicing-for a starting nod-on the
varsitx along with the returning lettermen.' Competition for
varsitv berths will be keen both this year and in 1948 and when
the starting teams are announced they should be good for any
league.
Jayvees Down Eagles
With Late Rally> 37-32
Oregon-OSC 0o Saturday
Is 50th in Schools History
Saturday’s "Civil War” between
the Ducks and Beavers will round
out an even fifty clashes between
the two schools—fifty years that
have seen Oregon win 25, Oregon
State 17, and seven ties.
The statistics do not show the
true spirit and intense rivalary of
the clash, however. The intra-state
“Bowl” game means a successful
season to the winner, even though
the rest of the year’s contests were
losses.
Big1 guns of both teams are
loaded for the rival fraeas this
week—but no more than in sea
son’s gone by. The underdog has
always been the one to watch, fa
vorites habitually biting the dust.
“Iron Mike” Mikulak led the Web
foot 1933 eleven to an immortal 13
3 victory over a highly-touted Bea
ver. This team rose to new heights
in their stopping of a mighty “iron
man” Beaver eleven that had
knocked Southern California’s rec
ord of twenty-five straight wins.
Oregon’s grid warriors smashed
everything the Beavers could toss
at them, then started their own
show that left the Corvallis eleven
limp, weak, and “ironless.” “Iron
Mike’s” performance that day was
heralded by scribes as one of the
sagas in the annals of football and
Mike was later named on several
All-American squads. The only
game the Ducks did lose that year
was to the Trojans.
Poor Record Since
Since that memorable game the
Ducks have been on the Beaver’s a
la carte menu more times than a
good Duck cares to admit, winning
three and losing seven.
Coach Prink Callison's 1934
eleven dumped the Beavers by a
close 9-6 count. Oregon out
downed and outgained the Bea
vers who scored in a last minute
desperation pass play.
Hayward field’s huge scoreboard
recorded a 13-0 Oregon win in the
1935 Homecoming classic. The Em
erald bannered the Ducks’ fourth
straight win over the beaten Bea
vers that year, pointing out that it
was the first time that either team
had run up four eonsecuive victor
ies. If OSC should win Saturday
this record will be crushed as the
Beavers now have four straight
wins notched in their Duck hunting
shotgun.
A revived and determined OSC
club led by Joe Gray handed the
Ducks a 18-0 pasting in 1936 before
a yowling Orange crowd at Bell
field. Del Bjork and Jimmy Nichol
son paced Oregon’s offensive
charge which fell short on several
tries.
Grey Ghost Again
State’s "Gray Ghost” again led
his team to a blanking of the Ducks
in ■ 1937, scoring two touchdowns
and converting twice while the
Ducks collected the sad-looking
Easy, Beavers....
PORTLAND, Nov. 20— (AF)— A
heavily financed sports and business
group here tonight announced plans
were, underway to invite the West
Point Cadets to play Oregon State
college in a game at Multnomah
stadium here on New Year’s day.
Headed by Aaron M. Frank, pres
i ident of the big Meier and Frank
department store, the committlee
j of prominent Portland civic leaders
| said the game would he staged as
j a benefit for the Sliriners hospital
| for crippled children in Portland.
BOB KEIMAN . . . letterman quar
terback, will'see a lot of action for
the Beavers Saturday.
goose-egg. Jay Graybeal, the Pen
dleton Jackrabbit, skirted 69 yards
on a punt return in the final seconds
of the tiff, but the run was nulli
fied by a clipping penalty.
Oregon spirit was not throttled
l»y this blanking, however, as the
students raced out of classes to
thwart a Beaver “invasion” of
the campus Monday following
the game. An alert Oregon alum
spotted the Beaver caravan at
Junction City, phoned in their
movement, and the Ducks pre
pared their special “welcome”
mat for the mechanized army
from Corvallis.
Effective blockades hemmed the
unsuspecting Orange students into
the campus area and a royal riot
ensued' with more than 200 befud
dled Beavers tossed into the mill
race.
Other Beavers were barricaded in
Seymour’s Cafe, grabbed as they
were finally evicted, and treated
to Duck hospitality. Oregon’s “O”
on Skinner’s Butte received a fresh
coat of paint from some of the
captives who were forced to slide
down the slab atired in their full
wardrobe.
Bevos Again in ’88
Rioting in ’37 didn’t duM the
Beavers—they thumped the Duck
again in ’38, 14-0. State’s fullback
Jim Kisselburgh turned the tide in
an evenly fought contest. He
sparked off on a 32 yard jaunt tcf
the seven in the final minutes of
the third quarter and seconds later
pounded over the first score. He
pushed another TD across in the
fourth canto to end the Beaver
scoring for the day.
Tex Oliver’s second year at Ore
gon saw his team again lose to the
rampaging Stiner team, 19-14. A
thrilling game, Oregon fans saw
the Ducks try to get back in the
game after two Beaver touch
downs with Bob Smith and Jay
Giaybeal working an effective
passing attack. The Orange line
was the difference in the game,
and Leonard Younce was the con
stant sore spot for Oliver's prote
ges.
Duck Win in 1940
“The Muddingest team in the
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Baccelleri Suffers
Possible Fracture
By FRED TAYLOR
Oregon’s junior varsity hoop
team managed to pull its game out
of the fire in the last four minutes,
outlasting the Eagles Lodge quin
tet 37-32, in the second of a series
of city league games played on
McArthur court last night.
The Jayvees lay off of the
courts over the weekend, meet
ing Coos Bay Pirates next Mon- ^
day at 7 p. m.
The junior team was getting
rather frantic as the close of hos
tilities neared and they remained
The Oregon Lumber quintet re
mained tied for the league leader
ship with the Jayvees when they
dropped the Outdoor Store 36-42
last night. The Richfield Oilers
downed the Coos Bay Pirates 46
24 in the evening finale.
trailing last night, and a lay-in
by Jerry Switzer that gave the lads
a tiny 33-32 lead was the spark
that sent them on to win.
Eagle Try Fails
The Eagles tried to get back in
the game, but the JVs effectively
handcuffed them, from then on,
and scored a gift toss and two field
goals of their own to take the
contest.
The last basket, a long, loop
ing one-hander by Forward Ed
Devaney, who was high man for
the game with ten counters, put
the game on ice. 4
Employing the fast break, the
green-clad Jayvees, who weren’t
clicking as smoothly as the night
before, kept right on the tails, of
the Eagles throughout the game,
although always trailing by a few
points, and when the pace finally
caught up with the less-conditioned
Eagles it took only a few minutes
of fast action to take the tilt.
Two Injured
Two players were injured in the
game, as Chuck Taylor, one of the
leading Eaglites, was helped off
the floor with a twisted ankle, and
Luke Baccelleri, Jayvee guard,
suffered a possible broken wrist
when he fell in a tussle for the ball.
Lineups:
Eagles (32) Jayvees (37)
Stillwell (8) .F.Devaney (10)
Taylor (6) .F. Holloman
Caviness, H .C.Switzer (8)
Caviness, B (8) G. Phillips
Lavey .G. Seeborg (6)
Subs for Eagles: Applegate (8),
Hannam (2). For Jayvees: Hamil
ton (5), Baccelleri (1), Henderson,
Howell, Sowers (7).
IM Volleyball
YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
A League
Campbell club over Min turn (C)
15-7, 15-17, and 15-9.
Belts over Stan Ray (BB) 10-15,
15-1, and 15-6.
Chi Psis, Pi Kaps, Sigma Chi, and
Phi Psi all won by forfeit.
Games Today
A League
3:50 — Court 40, Delt Upsilon vs.
Vets' Dorm A;
Court 43 — Sigma Phi Epsilon
vs. Yeomen.
4:35 — Court 40, Theta Chi vs.
Vets’ Dorm (D);
Court 43, Sigma Alpha Epsilon
vs. Villard.
5:15 — Court 40, Delta Tau Delta
vs. Vets’ Dorm EE;
Court 43, Sigma Chi vs. Phi Kap
pa Psi.
The Emerald got its name be
cause Joaquin Miller called Oregon
the Emerald state.