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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1947)
DUCK TRACKS By WALLY HUNTER Assistant Sports Editor If you want a rumor, good old Duckville is full of them this time of year, and it will be a long, cold day before the pickings will he more choice. There’s a nice variety, with a special three getting top billing.- No. 1 has the University of Oregon Ath letic Board resigning in a body i* to make way for a proposed Director of Athletics at the University. No. 2 has junior varsity football Coach John Warren replacing Virgil D. Earl as Dean of Men. No. 3 *• bas recently resigned football | Coach “Tex” Oliver continuing | his stay on the Webfoot cam- 1 pus as the . new Director of I Athletics. . Number 3 can be labled as something out of a bad AL SIMPSON dream. We’ve had enough of Tex. As for John Warren and the Dean of Men job, more can be told about that a little later in the season. The resignation of the athletic board is still an unconfirmed and undenied rumor. Members of the board are staying discreetly mum on the subject and according to the latest word the whole situation will be, or can be cleared up, upon the return of President Harry New bum. The chances of tin's whole affair being a mere rumor are on the short side. The story even though unconfirmed has been carried by the wire services and is a good bet to be the McCoy. If not, a lot of people have gone over the deep end for no reason. Most people don’t care for that sort of thing— so we'll string along with them until they sink. Wehfoots Signed With Nevada, USF The Webfoots’ 1947 football schedule troubles have finally ^>een ironed out with the signing of the University of Nevada and the University of San Francisco to fill the previously open dates on the Oregon schedule. Both are happy choices. Nevada and San Francisco are rated as top-flight competition. Neither team was a world-beater in the 1946 season, but they played a rugged nine game schedule and as things stand now Oregon’s lads won’t be ready to take on world-beaters in 1947. A new coach, and a good rousing- shake-up will help things, but Ore gon still has a long pull ahead before they will be hogging the gridiron limelight. Here’s how Nevada and San Francisc’o stacked up last season: Nevada 14 San Francisco University 26 21 Denver 13 14 Wichita 7 24 Iowa State 8 14 Nebraska 16 0 Tulsa 56 14 Oklahoma A & M 13 34 Kansas State 0 20 Missouri 0 San Francisco Univerity 26 Nevada 14 7 Stanford 33 6 Detroit 18 20 Mississippi State 6 13 Santa Clara 19 38 Kansas State 6 13 Utah 21 39 Wyoming 7 0 St. Mary’s 6 There’s still conjecture as to the new coaching- choice but a fairly fat list of unofficial applicants can be counted. Some of these are: Ben Winkelman, present Oregon backfield coach; A1 Simpson, coach at Southern Oregon College; John Londahl, -"’now at Central Washington college; Pooley Hubert, Virginia Military Institute coach; Bernie Masterson, Nebraska; Jerry Lillie, formerly of Grant high school now coaching a private school in Honolulu; Marshall “Dutch” Shields, Vancouver (Wash.) high school coach; Duke Trotter, formerly assistant at UCLA and wartime coach at Willamette; and Jack Danilovich of Antioch (Cal.) high school. Wilkinson Well-Liked in Midwest One coach not mentioned in releases thus far who may be under consideration is Charles Bud Wilkinson who is present backfield coach at Oklahoma. Wilkinson is a former Minnesota football player who is highly regarded by mid-westerners. Though Wilkinson would undoubtedly be a fine coach it might prove a tough job to lure him away from Oklahoma. His job there is, in all probability, as lucrative a position as is the job here at Oregon. With Wilkenson’s present set-up he escapes manv of the responsibilities of a head coach and has little or nothing to fear from the ever-present “Hatchet Men” in the alumni who stand ready to cut and swing at any coach dropping a couple more than they figure is necessary. —*- Though naming any one man as having the inside track for the Oregon job is a matter of conjecture many a fine young coach would consider such things before accepting the head man's job here. The case of Wilkinson .merely being an example. IM Patter The Phi Delts, 1945 IM basketball cBamps, have billed two games to night ("A" and "B”) with the Pleas ant Hill high school, last year’s state “B” school champs. The prep pers have several veterans back from last year's championship team including high-scoring John Dow dy On tap in the near future for the ATOs is a playoff between their “A” and “B” volleyball teams. Both teams won the championships in their divisions of the intramural volleyball program during the fall season. UBC DOWNS PACIFIC FOREST GROVE, Jan. 7 — (AP) —The University of British Colum bia Thunderbirds knocked over Pa cific university, 55 to 41, tonight to sweep both games of their North western conference series here. BRUCE HOFFINE . . . lettermaan guard last year, is this season as sisting Freshman and Jayvee Coach Ted Sehopf. Hoffine is not com peting this year because of injur ies. Frosh Hoopers Bill Pair for Weekend Riding the crest of a seven game winning streak, the unbeaten Frosh cagers go on their first of ficial road trip this weekend to Oregon City and Medford for games Friday and Saturday nights. The Ducklings opened the sea son by walloping Franklin of Portland 34-17, and St. Mary’s of Eugene 34-17. During the holiday vacation the Frosh added another win by edging Grants Pass 43-33. Last week Ted Schopf’s crew hit their peak by notching four wins in two days, taking Ben son 40-27, Battle Ground, Wash ington 63-29, Marshfield 42-40, and Roosevelt of Portland 50-39. Scoring for the season has been well spaced among the team mem bers, and with the opening of the new term, several other promising candidates are expected' to turn out. Pacing the team in points is fleet-footed forward Don Kim ball with 60 points. Other scorers include: Bill Green 43, Roger Mockford 37. Pat Woh lers 34, Fred Wilson 24, Ed Gud gel 23, Kenny Johnson 22, Elton. Lantz 20, Rod Downey 19, Chuck Rufner 17, Tom Patton 15, Arnette Johnson 7, and Jerry Sherwood 6. Frosh schedule for the remainder of the season: Jan. 10—Oregon City, there. Jan.11—Medford1, there. Jan. 17—Salem, here. Jan. 18—Grants Pass, there. Jan. 24 and 25—open. Jan. 31—Marshfield, there Feb. 1—open. Feb. 3—J unction City and Klamath Falla here. Jan. 11—Medford, there. Feb. 4—Oregon City, here. Feb. 7—Klamath Falls, there. 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