Sports Head BGasts
Impressive Record
Leo Harris, new athletic director and professor at the
University' of Oregon, represents an outstanding choice from
both educational and athletic points-of-view President Harry
K. Newburn said as he announced the appointment yesterday.
Harris brings with him a record of 20 years outstanding serv
ice as coach, professor, principal, school superintendent, and
Pacific Coast conference football official.
Harris was graduated from Stanford in 1927 after earning
two letters in football under Pop \\ arner, three letters in
basketball, and experience on the swimming team as well.
He was a lineman on the 1926 Stanford team that played a
7-7 tie with Alabama in the 1927 Rose Bowl game.
In high school at Santa Cruz,
California he lettered in four
sports—football, basketball, base
ball, and track.
Following graduation from col
lege he assumed the role of di
rector of athletics at Fresno high
school. Harris remained there for
five years, handling football, bas
ketball, baseball, and some social
studies.
Head Coach at Fresno
In 1932 he moved to Fresno
State as head football coach, and
associate professor of physical
euucation. During his four-year
stay Harris won one conference
football championship and tied for
another.
He then assumed the position of
vice-principal at Edison technical
high school in Fresno for one
year. In 1937 he accepted the
principalship of Fresno h i g h
school. He remained there for
five years when he was granted
leave in 1942 to accept a com
mission in the navy.
Harris was given a mecucal ais-,
charge eight months later, and
then accepted a captaincy in the
National guard, serving for two
years as field director for the
California high school cadets.
Upon returning to civilian
stains lie became the district
superintendent of schools at
Carmel, California, his present
position. He will complete the
school year at his Carmel of
fice, hut is expected to spend
sufficient time on the Oregon
campus this spring to play an
important part in drawing the
1947-48 athletic budget.
In June Harris will represent
the University of Oregon, along
with Dean Orlando Hollis at the
semi-annual meeting of the Pacific
Coast conference. __
Harris has remained active ui
athletic circles the last seven
years by officiating PCC football
games, and included in his 1946
officiating schedule was the Ore
gon-Washington game in Seattle.
He is married; has one son
Keith, 11; and one daughter,
Lorraine, 18. He was born in
August, 1901.
He continued his college
studies at Stanford following his
graduation, and earned an M.
A. degree in 1930. He also has
additional study at Stanford
beyond his Master’s degree.
LYNN WALDORF . . . newly ap
pointed head football mentor at the
University of California, succeeding
Frank Wickhorst, is the 19th coach
to serve there since the Golden
Bears abandoned Rugby football for
the American variety in 1883. Wal
dorf, 44, resigned as football coach
at Northwestern where he has been
the past 12 years to sign a three
year contract at an undisclosed sal
ary. The Bears won but two games
of their schedule last year.
Listless Ducks Clout
Idaho Vandals 60-49
A listless AYebfoot cage team staggered to a 60-49 win
over the winless Idaho quintet last Saturday night at Mc
Arthur court, pushing the Vandals deeper into the Northern
Division cellar. As Washington measured AY SC 59-40 the
same evening, the victory kept the Ducks still a half-game
behind the third place Huskies.
In planting the 13th consecutive league loss on the Inland
Empire invaders, Coach Howard Hobson s team was far be*
low its performance of the previous night. This, combined
with some extremely close calling by the referees, slowed the
game at times almost to a walk.
The Vandals, contrary to their opening night's play, refused*
to run with the Webfoots, and
from the start, they took the
opening tip, going into a de
liberate, set-play offensive. After
a minute had elapsed, Idaho fi
nally cracked the scoring ledger
as Norm Fredekind dropped a
free throw.
Vandals Take Lead
The visitors held on to the lead
for the first seven minutes until
Bob Lavey knotted the score 8-8
with a charity toss. At this
Oregon Paddlers Submerge
Cougars in Final Home Clash
NI) CONFERENCE STANDINGS
W L Pet.
Washington .— 5 0 1.000
Oregon . 4 1 -800
W. S. C. 3 2 .600
Oregon State . 1 4 .200
Idaho . 0 5 .000
By ELWIN I*ANSON
Oregon’s paddlers clinched
runner-up honors in the 1947
Northern Division title race
Saturday afternoon as they
edged out a potent Washington
State squad, 44-31, before a ca
pacity crowd in the final home
meet of the year.
The outcome of the crucial meet
was not decided until the last
event on the program, the 400
yard free-style relay. With the
score 31-37 in Oregon's favor and
a fat seven points to be awarded
to the victor in the four heat con
test, Oregon battled desperately to
preserve her slim margin, and the
Cougars fought to annex the meet
by a one point advantage. Wash
ington- State crept into the lead in
first three heats, but the final
State contestant became excited
and dived into the pool before his
teammate had completed his re
quired number of laps. The boys
collided, touched the bottom of the
pool, and were disqualified with
victory virtually within their
grasp.
Relay Team Gets Lead
The first race of the afternoon
saw the Oregon medley relayers,
Earl Walters, Ralph Huestis, and
Alden Sundlie enable the Ducks to
forge into an early lead. Big Bob
Hiatt pushed Oregon still further
ahead in the 220 free-style. as he
staged a thrilling duel with Cou
gar Byron Canning in the home
stretch, after trailing the field
for a large part of the race. Hiatt
was less than a stroke ahead of
the small but powerful Canning
when he touched the end of the
tank.
Another nip-and-tuck affair
was the 60 yard sprint with
George Moorhead, Duck ace,
nosing out Washington Stater
Don CampUell, after the pair
stroked shoulder-to-shoulder the
entire three lengths.
Diving was entirely Oregon
dominated as veteran Tom Corbett
squeezed ahead of Benny Hol
comb by a fraction of a point to
grab first-spot laurels.
The northern squad finally
Duckling Cagers Rack Up 23rd Win
Against University High Five, 52-23
Experience and maturity came in
handy for the Duckling basketball
squad in McArthur court last Sat
urday when they ran into difficulty
in subduing the well-coached Uni
versity high Golden Tide 52-33 for
their 23rd victory.
In the first two quarters, the vis
itors. playing without substitutions,
displayed a well-balanced ball club.
They checked close and followed
plays, which nettled the Frosh no
end. On top of that they could shoot.
In the final two periods, the more
experienced Frosh had things their
own way by finally wearing the
younger team down with their speed
and stamina. The Ducklings led 38
28 at the end of the third quarter.
University high nabbed tin*
lead at the beginning, with two
free throws by Howie Burks, and
, u one-handed push shot by Jerry
Mclnroe. Center Elton Lantz
countered for the Frosh with a
jump shot from the key. Back
came Burks with a basket and
Lantz, not to he outdone, drib
bled the length of the floor for a
lay-in with the Frosh still trail
ing 6-4.
Roger Pitchford plopped in a gift
shot for the Golden Tide and he was
followed by Duckling Don Kimball
with a field goal. Pitchford was
fouled again and made the toss good.
Tom Patton set the Frosh ahead
briefly 9-8 with a lay-in, after
Lantz had canned a foul shot.
University high, hawking the
backboards, captured the lead again
12-9 with a basket by Burks and
two free throws by Lloyd Brown as
the first quarter ended.
The Frosh finally got under way
with two foul shots by Pat Woh
lers, a lay-in by Rod Downey, and
a basket on a hook shot by Ken
Johnson to put the Ducklings
ahead 15-12. Pitchford narrowed
the lead with a hook shot but the
frosh were never behind again.
The half ended 21-19 for the
Ducklings, the margin provided by
Chuck Rufner with a lay-in from a
pass by Ed Gudgel.
Lineups:
Frosh (52) (33) Uni High
Green, 5 .F.6, Mclnroe
Kimball, 5.F.7, Burks
Lantz, 10.C.3, Brown
Gudgel, 5 .G..8, Pitchford
Rufner. 11 .G.6, Dwyer
Substitutions: Frosh — Downey
6, Wohlers 5, Johnson 3, Patton 2,
Sherwood. University — Chapmar^
Gould, Torrey, Newburn, Lynch,
Williams, Countryman 1, Anawalt
o
broke into the win column in the
100 yard free-style as Bob De
Vlemming and Chuck Rohrs
slipped past George Moorhead to
push their club back into the run
ning.
Earl Walters and Johnny Miller
bounced back and finished in their
usual one-two order, to aid the
Webfoot cause. Their aqua-op
ponents wasted no time in nulli
fying this gain, however, as Doc
Fuller and Jim Nelson outdis
(Plcase turn to paye six)
juncture, Oregon’s backboard ace
Ken Hays went on a one-man
scoring spree.
First Hays broke the deadlock
by smacking in a rebound, and
followed this up with two gift
shots. He caged another tip-in
for six consecutive points in less
than two minutes to put the
Ducks safely in front 14-8.
Although Oregon never trailed
from that point, the Vandals per
sisted' and several times inched
to within a few points of tieing
the count. Late in the period, the
Lemon and Green spurted to a
30-18 margin, only to have tha
Idaho squad close the gap to 34
26 at intermission.
Guy Wick’s team came back
strong at the start of the second
half and with 10 minutes remain
ing had cut Oregon’s lead to two
points, 43-41. The Vandals dumped
shots from all parts of the floor
and ran a hot streak at the free
throw line. j
For Oregon, the win kept^
them in the running for third
place in the final standings.
They travel to Seattle this
weekend to meet the Huskies
in the final two games between
the teams which will in all
probability decide the coveted
third slot.
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