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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1947)
IM 'A'League Champs Above are pictured the Theta Chi intramural “A” League basketball champions. Left to right they are: Bob Hodgins, Roy Baughman, Gene Hebrard, Bill Harber, and Captain Bill Hutchinson. In taking the crown the Theta Chi team won four regular league games and defeated Beta Theta Pi in the quarter-finals, Kappa Sigma in the semi-finals and won going away from Sigma Chi in the final tilt. ND Title Meet To be Rugged Test for Ducks Every time recorded in the ND swimming finals held at Corvallis last year was topped in the WSC Oregon meet Saturday, yet both clubs were soundly defeated by the power - packed Washington Huskies during the regular sea son, a good indication of the cali bre of paddling competition that will hit the pool in the finals. Already the powerhouse Hus kies have shattered the Pacific Coast conference records in the 150 backstroke, the 800 yard medley and the 400 yard free style relays. In addition to this impressive pile of statistics, the Washington frees^lers in the individual contests have chalked up times that are among the top in the nation. A large share ol' responsibility rests on the shoulders of Oregon’s freestylers, both sprint and dis tance, if Oregon has designs on a first or second spot in the title meet held at Seattle. In the 220 and 440 Bob Hiatt will probably be the title con tender for the Ducks by virtue of his performance against Washing ton State. Hiatt copped the 220 by. a stroke from the highly-touted Byron Canning, and finished strong in the 440. Don Rush, an other top marathon man, will press Hiatt for first spot if he re gains the smooth-stroking form he displayed at the beginning of the season. With Washington’s Pete Pow linson burning up the lanes in the sprints, Oregon short dis tance men are settling down in earnest to crack at least 56 sec onds in the 100 freestyle and 30 in the three lap dash. George Moorhead and Alden Sundlie are shouldering Oregon’s stroking burden in those events. Both ehurners appear to be showing marked improvement over pre vious clockings, although their times still are far less speedy than Powlinson's. Idaho Slates Four Football Tilts at Home MOSCOW, Feb. 20 (AP)—The ! University of Idaho will play four j of its eight football games next | season ii) Moscow and a fifth “home game’’ in Boise. I Announcing a schedule described | as “The best we’ve ever had,” ! athletic officials said three of the Vandals’ five Pacific Coast con ference games would be played away from home. The schedule: Sept. 20 — College of Puget Sound at Moscow. Sept. 27—Stanford University at Palo Alto.* Oct. 4—Washington State Col lege at Moscow.* Oct. 11—Oregon State College at Corvallis.* Oct. 18—University of Portland at Moscow. Oct. 25—Open. Nov. 1—University of Oregon at Eugene.* Nov. 7 (Friday)—University of Montana at Moscow.* (*) Denotes conference games. 1 Swimtnitta Review.RalrUt JlueiUi One of the mainstays on Coach John Warren’s swimming team is Captain Ralph Huestis. He is a vet eran on many swimming' contests and this is his fourth year with the splashing Ducks. Ralph's events are the breaststroke and medley races. He has been swimming a long time. At least if you consider 20 years a long time. Since he was five years old, he has been swimming at ■ some time or other. As a member of the varsity scpiad. Huestis gets in plenty of swimming during the win ter months. Last summer he worked for the Red Cross as a swimming instructor. Huskies Should Win The Northern Division meet in Seattle next weekend will be his last performance for Oregon, and the agile swimmer frankly con cedes that the University of Wash., ington team will walk off with top , | honors. “Washington has the best team • in the school’s history, ami there , is no doubt that they will win. In fact it will be a pretty lopsided meet,” the noted Huestis said. “Oregon is going to have a bat tle on its hand to knock oft' the • WSC team, that we barely beat last weekend, too,” claims Hues tis. “We will have to fight all the way and it will be close. We should win but you never can tell in these big meets,” he added. Like most of the other athletes jn the campus today, Ralph served n the military forces. He was in .he army and served in France. He :ias been out of the khaki for a little iver a year now, as his discharge j reads January 25, 1946. Dental Work Planned When not swimming Ralph is studying pre-dental courses. He will graduate this year from this cam pus but will immediately enroll in .lie Oregon Dental school in Port-' and. So far he hasn’t definite plans* formulated for the day when he is \ full-fledged dentist. 1 According to Ralph the Ore gon team can go places in the fu ture. All that is ueeded is a little more enthusiasm on the part of some of the fellows on the cam pus. “There are a lot of men around here who could have made the team, but they didn’t turn out or quit before really giving It a try,” he said. Two bouquets were tossed by Huestis. One was toward Coach John Warren who took over the team on a last minute request, and Earl Walters, a teammate. Ralph mentioned that Warren has set up some sound long-range policies for the team. Walters has done a lot of hard work with the team when Warren has been called away for other business. Swimmers of Huestis' caliber aren't found every day, and there is going to be a big hole on the team to fill when he graduates this spring. Duck Quint to Roll At Seattle Tonight Edmundson Team Heavy Favorites University of Oregon’s deter mined VVebfoots and the Uni versity of Washington Huskies square off tonight in Seattle in the first of a two game series that will decide the third place team in Northern Division stand ings. Though neither Oregon nor Washington is in top shape for the meeting, the Huskies are heavy favorites to run away with the series. Coach Howard Hobson’s squad will operate without the services of Center Roger Wiley and Forward Ed Dick, both of whom have been benched with in juries. Dick is suffering from a leg infection and Wiley is having foot trouble. Expected to be the big gun in the Webfoot attack is lanky Ken Hays who operates from either forward or center. Hays is the leading Duck scorer and is expect ed to give the Washington center Jack Nichols a battle for honors. Washington now hold's a half game edge over the Ducks by vir tue of seven wins and seven losses, while the Webfoots have won six and lost seven. Huskies Schedule Garden Games SEATTLE, Feb. 20—(AP)—On an eastern trip next winter for bas ketball games with Ohio State and Minnesota, the University of Wash ington team will also play in Madi son Square Garden at New York against an opponent not yet named, Coach Clarence S. (Hec) Edmund son said today. The game was proposed by Ned Irish, Madison Square Garden di rector of Intercollegiate Basketball, and accepted by Harvey Cassill, Washington’s graduate manager. The trip is expected during the Christmas holidays. -- ESI! Ping Pong Dope All players entered in the YMCA ping pong tournament are remind ed that the first round of the sched ule must be played off before the February 25 deadline or the con tests will be forfeited. Players should contact the YMCA office be fore Tuesday and arrange their game. Grim Indians Await Bruins Southern Division Standings W. L. Pet. UCLA . 6 2 .750 California . 5 3 .625 Stanford . 4 4 .500 USC ...^. 1 7 -125 The darkhorse of the southern division conference, the Stanford Indians, stand in the way of the pennant-bound UCLA Bruins this weekend as the two teams tangle at Palo Alto Friday and Satur day. The third-place Indians are out to drop UCLA in both games and possibly gain a share of the con ference crown. Although Stanford has been an in-and-out team all season they still carry a terrific punch which can—and might—< knock the high-flying Uclans right out of the race. These encounters will be the west’s top cage battles over the weekend. The second place Bears, who are by no means out of the title race, take on the cellar dwelling Southern California crew Friday and Saturday in Los Angeles. The Trojans are currently wallowing in the trough of a five game losing streak, which started two weeks ago when they lost thi'ee non-con ference games in quick succession. They were unable to make a come back the following week as th(^ bowed twice to UCLA. The Bears hope to cop both games from the Trojans and keep in the race. As a result of the 51 points he scored in two games against Cali fornia last weekend, Don Barks dale of UCLA has risen to the top spot in the scoring with a total of 124 points. Johnny Stanich, Barksdale’s teammate, is' second with 97 points. - The Scoring Leaders: FG FT PF TP Barksdale, UCLA 51 22 23 124 Stanich (UCLA) 44 9 15 . 97 Stephenson (S) .. 33 28 23 94 Rocker, (C) . 36 21 11 93 Hanger (C) . 33 26 20 92 Physics and elementary Latin were requirements for entrance to the University of Oregon medi cal school in 1901. FISH IS BRAIN FOOD! WHY NOT GET EDUCATED? 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