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.
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