Final Game Has Webfoots
On Short End of 3-1 Odds
(Continued from page one)
early but paled as the season grew into maturity. Today the
Ducks will ride on the short end of 3 to 1 odds and are doped
to get the seamy side of the score by at least 13 points.
Coach Gerald “Tex” Oliver, who coaches his last Oregon
team today, led the Ducks through the first half of their sched
ule with only fallen opponents to mark the path the Webfoots
trod. Taking their lumps dished out the Webfoot way were
College of Pacific 7-6, California 14-13, Montana 34-0 and Idaho
26-13. First indication of things to come was a 0-0 tie with
Washington State college in a muddy Homecoming fracas.
The Duck pot his first taste ot
the bitter pill of defeat when
Coach Jeff Cravat h loosed his
Trojan hordes and the Olivermen
absorbed a resounded 43-0 puin
meling.
Next in line came Bert La Bru
cherie and the league - leading
UCLA Bruins. Playing their best
ball of the season, and looking for
the first time as pre-season dope
said they would, the Webfoots held
the Bruins to a 14-0 score, and
came within an ace of trekking off
with the honors.
Lose to Huskies
Following the Uclan battle the
Webfoots headed north to Seattle
where an alert band of Washington
Huskies dumped the inept Ducks 16
to 0.
Over in Aggieville Coach Lon
Stiner has groomed a surprising
Oregon State team that has a firm
grip on third place in Paciifc Coast
conference standings. Starting the
season like a gang of high school
athletes, the Beavers traveled to
Los Angeles hopeful and returned
bearing bruises collected in a 50-7
thumping handed out by UCLA.
The Beavers since that time
have plugged along the come
back road in championship style
—taking time, on the way to
punish Southern Cal 6-0, slip past
Washington State 13-12, lambast
Idaho 34-0, and powerhouse over
California 28-7. Only a strong
Stanford team was able to hold
the Beavers down 0-0.
Expected to lead the Wcbfoots
offensively in the tradition rich
battle will be 1945 All-American
mention Halfback Jake Leicht.
The fastest man ever to don an
Oregon football uniform, Leicht is
loaded with talent. A break-away
back deluxe, the diminutive speed
merchant shines as a passer, pass
receiver, and kicker. It was Light
nin’ Jake’s timely drop-kick that
gave the Ducks their one point win
ning margin over COP in the sea
son opener.
Iversen’s Last Call
At Quarterback Coach Oliver
will be able to start Duke Iversen,
who is one of the classiest blocking
backs on the Coast. Big Duke, a
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Ten Battle Beavers for Last Time
Six Complete Third
Grid Season Today
Today’s annual battle with the
Oregon State Beavers will be the
last for many Webfoots. Some have
completed their varsity eligibility.
Others will graduate because of
credits accumulated during military
service.
Among those who have com
pleted their three years of var
sity eligibility are Duke Iversen
and Don Shaffer, quarterbacks;
Bob Reynolds, halfback; Tony
Crish, end; and Chuok Elliott and
Cliff Giffin, tackles.
Big Duke Iversen was on hand
in 1940 to dump the Beavers 20-0
and was around again the next year.
Shaffer is a transfer having played
previously at Fresno State and
Long Beach J. C.
Reynolds saw action against
the Orangemen in 1942 and twice
in 1945. Crish, Elliott and Giffin
battled the Corvallis team in 1941
and 1942.
Included among those who still
have varsity eligibility but who are
expected to graduate are End Hy
mie Harris, Fullback Bob Koch,
and Jim Newquist, and Jake Leicht,
halfbacks.
Sports staff this issue:
Bernie Hammerbeck
Bill Stratton
Wally Hunter
A1 Pietschman
Elwin Paxson
Fred Taylor
Don Tykeson
Finale Today for Oliver as Webfoot. Coach
Head Coach Gerald A. (Tex) Oli
ver will direct from the Oregon
bench for the last time in today’s
game at Corvallis. Nationally
recognized as a mentor of con
siderable merit, Oliver came to
Oregon in 1938 and this year ties
a record, becoming the fourth
coach in the University’s history
to direct a Webfoot team for six
years.
Oliver came to Oregon from the
University of Arizona where his
teams had posted 32 wins as
against 11 defeats during a five
year period. Tex was the only pre
war head football coach in the con
ference who served with the armed
forces. His was the gigantic task
of setting up a physical training
program for 70,000 enlisted men
and officers in the Atlantic Fleet
Air Force.
At St. Mary’s Pre-Flight
In 1942, Oliver coached the St.
Mary’s Pre-Flight j u ggerna u t.
While in Honolulu in 1944, Tex
set up an eight-team football
league and at the end of the sea
son coached the Navy All-Stars to
a 14-0 win over the Army in the
Poi Bowl. Oliver attended both
West Point and Stanford before
winning a Phi Beta Kappa key and
a BA degree at USC.
Oliver’s record at Oregon has
been good. His Webfoot teams have
beaten California four times in
five games, Idaho three times in
as many games, Montana in the
two games they’ve played, USC
once in five times, with one tie,
UCLA twice in six games, and
Washington twice in seven games.
Beavers Have Edge
Oregon State has the best record
against Oliver, the Beavers having
won five out of the six contests.
When the civil war is resumed at
2 p. m. this afternoon, the Web
Tex Oliver
foots will trot out onto the field
three touchdown underdogs. It
will be the last game for many of
Oregon's outstanding players as
well as Tex Oliver. The spirit that
will pervade the Oregon bench
should be great enough to give the
Orangemen a real surprise.
Whatever the outcome, Oregon
is playing its last game for Coach
Oliver. So long, and good luck,
Tex!
BOB BEVNOLDS, halfback,
(above) and Duke Iversen, quar
terback (below) are playing the
last game of their college careers
when they meet the Orange
men at Bell Field today.
Army to Disband
After Navy Game
WEST POINT, Nov 22— (AP) —
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, superin
tendent of the U. S. military acad
emy, said today that the Army foot
ball season would end and the team
disband after the Navy game in
Philadelphia on November 30.
The statement definitely ends
the possibility that Army will play
any post season game, anywhere,
either in the Sugar Bowl, to which
it was invited, or in Los Angeles,
where the city council wanted the
Cadets and Notre Dame to play off
Fheir scoreless tie of two weeks ago,
in a charity game.
“Following a discussion of post
season competition with the athlet
ic council and the football squad,”
General Taylor's announcement
said, “The superintendent an
nounced today that the Army foot
ball season will end and the squad
disband following the Navy game
on November 30 in Philadelphia.
“At the same time, the Military
academy authorities wish to express
their gratitude for the post-season
invitations which have come from
various parts of the country, and
the nation-wide interest shown in
the 1946 football team.”
Greek Tilt Sunday
Two fighting- elevens will slosh
through knee-deep mud on the
varsity practice field Sunday af
ternoon at 2:30 in the first Phi
Psi-Chi Psi game since t942. Us
ing regular equipment borrowed
from the PE department, the
game is expected to be as hard
fought a contest as has been
Pre-War Days
Saw Rooters
In Action Too _
Post-war football days aren’t
like the pre-war ones when it comes
to “Civil .War” spirit—spirit that
showed itself in the form of battles,
invasions, and riots after the big
game.
The Oregon vets, a'nd their
younger coeds, aren’t likely to
storm Corvallis in any exhibition
reminiscent of years gone by.
Somewhere the students have left
the urge for blood behind them, and
the administration sighs in relief.
They only hope they won’t have to
batten down hatches and prepare
for a crash dive if the Ducks upset
the dope bucket today.
“What so,” cries a green frosh,
“what dya mean by riots, battle
and invasions?”
Old Men Know
The old men around the school
can tell any bewildered lower term
er of the “good ole days” when
minor maneuvers and encircle
ments were planned to outsmart'
the Beaver rooters.
Several fanatic Ducks fought
practically the entire Beavdff
rooting section after Oregon’s
upset of the Beavers 20-0 in 1940.
These eager fans, and some of
them are on the campus today,
dashed opto Bell Field just as the
game sounded finish to Oregon’s ■
great triumph, and started bat
ting away at the goal post. Be
fore fellow Webfoot rooters could
come to their aid, surging Bea
vers surrounded the small band,
and proceeded to try and pummel
them.
It was the radio’s heyday. One
Duck was tossed to the relative
safety of the goalpost crossbars by
his buddies. He tromped on hands
that tried to knock him off, but
finally was left to the winds as his
clothes were pulled off piece by
I piece. Broken noses, battered faces
and smashed fists kept the infir
mary busy the next day—ah . . .
Oregon spirit!
Then there was the Beaver in
vasion of the mid ’30’s. The Ducks
had lost 14-0 and the Orangemen
decided to invade the campus.
Shrewd maneuvering by Ducks
penned the Beavers in like cattle^
and off went the invaders to an
icy dip in the Millrace, painting
parties ‘sans brushes’ of the “O”
and other menial tasks relegated
to Beavers.
Maybe the “rip em apart” days
are gone forever—if not—where's
the nearest manhole ?
seen in these parts all year. This
wilt be the last time UO students
will have a chance to witness a
hangup tackle session on an Ore
gon field.
It will be speed and deception
versus power, as the Phi Psi
eleven stacks up nearly 30 pounds
per man heavier than the Chi
Psi squad. The Chi Psi squad is
one of the two finalists in the
intramural touch football pro
gram.
The game Sunday, however, is
not touch football, and whether
the offensive formations that
have swept them to the finals iif^
intramural play will serve them
as well in a rough and tumble
game where the boys play for
keeps, is a matter of conjecture.