DUCK TRACKS By BERNIE HAMMERBECIv Sports Editor Conspicuously absent last night when the Webfoots took to the court for their conference opener with Washington State was big Marv Rasmussen. For big Rass will spend the season on the sidelines, the victim of a bad knee injury. This has been a year of bad luck for Marv. Shortly after the fall term started he broke a bone in his wrist. That bothered him little, however, as lie was giyen a sturdy cast and ^the green light on playing bas ketball. He did well despite the cast, reaching high on the boards for rebounds and shooting fairly well, the in Hwaaaaa8 Coach Howard Hobson jury being to the left wrist. In fact the solid cast was almost an advantage when play got rough under the boards. lie caused a bit of concern during one practice session when Center Roger Wiley came roaring out of a mixup in agonizing pain. All hands feared the worst, but it proved nothing seri ous. Wiley had bumped his elbow against the cast and struck a nerve, and he was as good as ever a short time later. Big Rass Strong on Backboards Rass was mighty close to a first string berth when the pre season schedule started, being Hobby’s number one replace ment in the front line. His entry into the game hurt the Web foot backboard strength not at all—his pair of rubber legs put ting him as high in the air as most men of 6-6. His knee injury came in the third pre-season tilt and was in part duetto the broken wrist. He fell while going for a pass, and as he went down he tried to protect his wrist and in 4so doing twisted his knee instead. He was taken to the in firmary where a cast from ankle to hip was found necessary. j\Iarv was still in the infirmary as the Christmas season ap proached and his fraternity brothers (Phi Delta Theta) decided he should^ attend their Christmas party. So Rass was hauled to the house for the evening’s festivities in, of all things—a hearse! The vehicle precursed no further ill, however, and Rass is still on the campus, hobbling about with both bad wrist and knee. Oregon Still Shy Two Foo tball Games Still unfilled are two games on Oregon’s 1947 football schedule, but expect an announcement on them soon. The open dates are October 4 and three weeks later October 25. The Web foots open September 27 against the Texas Long horns in Portland. Oregon has only five conference games on tap for this fall plus a tilt with the Idaho Vandals. This situation drew a few critical remarks in regards to Anse Cornell, athletic manager, but actually Cornell did well. The Webfoots will not play California and USC. It was impossible to arrange the game with the Golden Bears from Berkeley because of the conflicting schedules. Oregon and USC both had open dates on October 5, but South ern Cal in “big school” .style refused to come north. Cornell in return said “no dice” on a trip to Los Angeles as the week previous the Webfoots meet Texas in Portland and the week following travel to Los Angeles for a game with UCLA. A trip to LA in between for a battle with the Trojan would have been just too much. There is still no definite indication as to who wdl fdl the other dates, but the big independent schools to the south are reported as being quite interested. Basketball Court in Lemon and Green The basketball-floor at McArthur court is well trimmed at present,' but not nearly what Coach Hobby Hobson would have liked to present; the-Oregon fans-. When the flooi uas le finished last summer, a really light finish was desired, but the painters thought otherwise and came up with a dishwater blonde. During the Christmas holidays, the court was relined in lemon and green. It was planned to paint the entire key hole area green with the foul line in lemon, but again the ^painters did otherwise. That would really have made a colorful playing court. The new finish has its practical as well as glamorous aspect too. Movies are taken of conference games, and a light co orec floor makes much better pictures.: 1 Frosh Win Two Hayward Calls Duck Runners All aspirants for the Oregon 1947 track and field team should sign up for winter track as a regular course, according to Colonel Bill Hayward, track coach. One hour of credit is given for this course where each trackman is assigned a special muscle coordinating and devel oping routine. Hayward is especially anxious to meet all men who plan to turn out for the spring sport as soon as pos sible and have them start a mild training program.. In the past, many athletes have neglected to sign up for the course offered, de priving themselves of an extra hour of credit. One of the main reasons that Colonel Hayward wants to check on his potential runners and field men this early is to determine ex actly the spots on the team that are going to be weak and those that will be strong. The Duck harriers lost all their dual meets last year but came within 9/10 of a point of winning the division meet. If ade quate manpower had been at hand in the Seattle title tilt, Oregon could have possibly eked out a win. Prospects Good Prospects point to one of the best teams in Oregon’s history for this year. Besides almost the team from last year, Hayward has added several strong men who will be bringing in needed points. Bill Kydd, division champion in the javelin, is the only member of the point garnering squad from last year that is lost via graduation. One of the new men added to the track roster and counted on for stellar performances by the Colonel is George Rasmussen, 18 year old pole vaulter who placed third in the national AAU meet last summer. Rasmussen has hit better than thirteen feet in the event, and pulled his third out of the best national amateurs. Champ to Hurdle Jack Doyle, state champion hurdler has enrolled at Oregon and will be one of the top hurdlers for the Ducks. Still in his teens, Doyle shows promise of becoming one of the best hurdlers at Oregon before he graduates. Besides Doyle, Hayward has Wyn Wright for the stick topping event. Wright copped third in the di vision meet last year and will again be one of the top men in the conference. Wright and Doyle should give the Ducks a one-two punch in the hurdles. Don Pickens, Springfield’s ace pole vaulter, and number two man in the high school state meet last year, will give Hayward added strength in the vault. Jake Leicht and Carl Maxey took care of the sprints with ease for the Ducks last season. Jake will be burning the cinders again. Maxey will probably be switched to the 440 yard dash, where he will show his speed. In the number one position in the division finals last year, Maxiey clipped off the fastest 440 of the day—faster than the regular quarter mile race with all the individual stars perform ing, and although he took second in the 220 yard dash, Hayward First Year Men Topple Battleground; Benson Teams to Continue Win Streak By LARRY LAU Webfoots can still proudly say, “No Oregon basketball team, has been beaten this season!”. Just to keep the Lemon and Green record clean, and refusing to be outdone by th Varsity and JV squads, Orgon’s red-hot Ducklings racked up their fifth and sixth consecutive victories Thursday afternoon. Playing a double-header they drubbed a highly regarded Benson Tech team, 40-27, in the first game and came roaring back to swamp a formidable Battleground quintet, 65-29, in the final tilt. The first game, with Benson Tech, was a furiously fought con test with the Ducklings grinding out, point by heard-earned point, their victory margin. At the end of the first quarter the score was 6-3. Halftime score posted under the big clock read 16-7, Oregon, tarily early in the second half and The Ducklings faltered momen tarily early in the second half and the determined Techmen came to within five points of tying the score; they never got any closer. The Frosh ran wild in the latter half of the third quarter, and once led 36-20, their longest lead of the game. The fourth quarter was a dogged, evenly fought contest, which saw the boys from Benson Two Sports On IM Winter Sked “A” and "B" basketball leagues plus a handball elimination tour nament will comprise the winter term intramural program accord ing to the IM sports office spokes man, Paul R. Washke. Both basketball “A” and "B” will be played on a round-robin league basis. If more than five “B” clubs are entered in the com petition, in addition to the first division squad, a tournament will also be carried' on in that loop. Handball will be conducted on an elimination basis with two single and one doubles composing a four man team. Both sports will award points on the all-year IM point system. Ap plication blanks must be turned in to the men’s gymnasium before the January 7 dead-line. has his eye on him for quarter mile duty this spring. Still Backs Leicht Wally Still, speedster from Mil ton-Freewater, and numeral win ner at Oregon before the war will back Jake Leicht up in the sprints and will take over Jake’s, chores next year. Hayward is set nicely in the quarter mile. He has a group of eager and speedy quarter milers. Andy Swan is the top man as far as past performances go. Swan was the number one man in 1946 and placed second to Oregon State’s O. B. Hughes in a tight race in the Division final. Swan developed fast and should knock additional (Please turn to />nr/r feven) Cross Country Oregana pictures of the Ore gon cross country team will be taken on Hayward field at 3 p. m. Monday. Members of the team, George Watkins, A1 Pietschman, Dale Harlan, Hugh Stapleton and Rob Dreisner are asked to be ready for Mr. French, university photographer. SPOBTS STAFF THIS ISSUE Wally Hunter Bernie Hammerbeck Bill Stratton A1 Pietchman Larry Lau Elwin Paxson. outscoring the Ducklings three points. Ed Gudgel, chunky guard, and the oldest man on the team, captured scoring honors for the Ducklings by accounting for 11 points. Benson came to Mac court with a record of eight wins as against only two defeats. They had beaten such highly regarded quintets as Vancouver, Lincoln, Salem, Hood River, and Long view. With the floor scarcely cooled off from the last game, the tilt with Battleground got under way. The Ducklings swept to a 14-11 first quarter lead with Bid Green, sharpshooting redhead from .Ashland accounting for 6 points in the first eight minutes ♦of play. At the half it was Ore gon 31-14 with Elton l.an(7. blaz ing the way with three unerring shots and a. free throw. At the end of the third quarter the scoreboards read 44-21, Oregon. Playing the fourth quarter of their second ball game in less than 90 minutes, the Ducklings seemed only to gather more steam, scoring twenty points in the final period. Don Kimball, ex-B-team All-State, and Bill Green, shared scoring honors for the game with ten. points each. Elton Lantz, four year letterman from Molalla, fol lowed closely behind with nine. High point man for the losing Battleground quintet was Curt Mitchem, lanky forward, who accounted for 12 of their 29 points. Fifteen year old, six foot three inch Harold Storey, playing center, tallied nine. Battleground had journeye d down from Southwest Washing ton with a record of eight wins and four defeats. Boy Seeborg . . . Ex-Astoria high school all-stater who helped last night as the undefeated Webfoots rolled to victory. Seeborg, one of the few seniors on the squad was a for mer teammate of Guard Stan Wil liamson. He is a two-year letterman. Seeborg first saw action on a Hob son squad in 1943, and then came back from the service last season, to make his second letter.