Aiken Drills Ducks'
On Pass Defense
By FRED TAYLOR
Coach Jim Aiken sent his Webfoot gridders through the
only scrimmage session scheduled for the week, Tuesday after
noon, still trying to tighten the pass defense that again proved
to be the weak spot in Oregon’s game.
Manpower of the Duck squad is spread too thin, Aiken feels,
to risk any injuries with more than one scrimmage a week.
Workouts today and Thursday will
toe held without pads, although
dummy scrimmages will be run.
Oregon came through the tough
Longhorn battle in good physical
condition, with only Quarterback
Bill Abbey suffering. Abbey was
out of practice yesterday nursing
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Aiken was not discouraged over
the results of Saturday’s fray,
and spoke highly of a number of
Webfoot players. He was especial
ly pleased over the performance
of Norm Van Brocklin, key man
in the Duck passing attack.
Passing (iood
Against his first big-time op
position Van Brocklin reacted
favorably, and his passing stacked
up with the touted Bobby Layne’s.
After a short scrimmage Tues
day Aiken sent his first-stringers
and top reserves to the showers,
and spent an hour drilling the rest
of the squad members. A rough
scrimmage between the varsity re
serves and the Frosh gridders was
run off.
Frosh Tough
The Ducklings were fired for
their first contact with the varsity
players, and gave the latter a bad
hour. The freshman line repeated
ly out-charged their opponents
nailing the ball-carriers behind the
line.
After two games right halfback
.Tim Newquist is leading ground
gainer for the Oregon Webfoots.
Newquist has packed the ball 15
times for a total yardage gain of
105 yards, an average of 7.0 yards
per carry. Jake Leiclit, who the
Texans kept bottled in the week
end contest, is second in the stand
ings with an average pack of 5.76
yards yer try.
Good Average
Van Brocklin has completed 18
passes out of 42 attempts in tVe
two games played, to gain 202
yards from his aerial attack. He
has also been the only Webfoot to
do any punting, and has a two
game average of 39.3 yard's per
boot.
Despite the lopsided score of the
Texas game the Ducks first-down
ed the winners, 12 to 9. On the
opposite side, in the opener against
Montana the Ducks were out
downed 18 to 16.
University of North Dakota has
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Football Briefs
Indians Gloomy
PALO ALTO, Cal., Sept. 30 —A
squad of 37 Stanford football play
ers entrained for Ann Arbor, Mich.,
today to play University of Michi
gan there Saturday. Coach Marchie
Schwartz, gloomy after the In
dians' upset defeat at the hands of
Idaho last week, said he could only
“hope for the best.”
Vandals Practice
MOSCOW, Ida., Sept. 30—Idaho
varsity gridders concentrated on
defensive tactics today in a rough
scrimmage with freshmen employ
ing Washington State “T” forma
tion plays. The up-and-coming
Vandals meet the Cougars here
Saturday with a good chance of
Idaho’s beating WSC for the first
time since 1925.
Cougars Cagy
! PULLMAN, Wash., Sept. 30—
l Football Coach Phil Sorboe sent
I his Washington State Cougars
through a strenuous workout to
day behind locked gates at Rogers
field. Fullback Gordy Brunswick,
who received lime burns on his leg
in the USC game, was on the mend
and expected to see action in the
Idaho scrap at Moscow next Sat
urday.
UCLANS Sweat
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30—
UCLA’s Bruins today went through
their heaviest scrimmage of the
week in preparation for thehir
game with Northwestern univer
sity at Evanston.
Coach Bert LaBrucherie an
nounced Benny Reiges, Skip Row
land, and Cal Rossi were definite
backfield starters. He added that
Jack Meyers, who showed well
against Iowa last week, may get
the initial call over Jerry Shipkey,
however.
Line-Backer
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DeWayne Johnson, backfield man on defense for Oregon, will b<
depended upon by Coach Jim Aiken to help stem the attack of hi!
former school, Nevada, this Saturday on Hayivard field.
Frosh Drill for First Tilt
Against Rook Gridmen
Oregon’s Duckling gridders have
spent the past two nights applying
the finishing touches to their of
fense and defense before they
tackle the Oregon State Rooks in
the opening freshman game next
Saturday. Game time is 2 p.m.
Lemon and Green jerseys were
drawn earlier in the week for the
game by 60 Frosh hopefuls, but
Coach Carl Heldt revealed that only
about 33 of the first-year men will
make the Corvallis trek this week
end. He hesitated to name the com
plete traveling squad roster until
all the positions have been defin
itely filled.
The past two days have seen the
Frosh put in the longest practices
of the season. Three hours of drill
and scrimmage filled their after
noons.
Blocking Bad
Coach Heldt has been dissatis
L£S ANGELES, Sept. 30—Coach
Newell (Jeff) Cravath today
stressed pass defense in preparing
his University of Southern Califor
nia Trojans for their Saturday
game against Rice institute of the
southwest conference, the “cradle
of razzle-dazzle football.”
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fied with the blocking tactics em
ployed by his backfield men, par
ticularly on end assignments, and
a major share of the workouts have
been spent covering that phase of
the offensive contact work.
Held't sent his freshmen through
an hour of scrimmage with the re
serves of the varsity Tuesday af
ternoon, and the Frosh showed up
well. Two complete strings of the
yearlings were used, as they out
battled the heavier varsity candi
dates.
The Duckling line outcharged
the reserves numerous times to
spill the ball-carriers behind the
line of scrimmage and ruin the
play. On the offensive the Frosh
also ran wild several times, as a
variety of ball-carriers performed.
Several positions on the team
are still wide open, and competi
tion is hot for a starting berth in
the opener Saturday.
Nevada Star
Suffers Injury
The Nevada football squad’s
chances of felling the Oregon
Ducks next Saturday, received a
setback when it was learned that
scatback Tommy Kalmanir, Ne
vada’s top running threat, will be
on the sidelines during the game,
Kalmanir suffered a fractured
hand shortly after scoring the
opening touchdown against the
University of San Francisco Sun
day. Coach Ted Sheeketski tabbed
Ted Kondel as his probable re
placement.
The Wolfpack has been going
through stiff workouts in prepara
tion for their first battle with the
Ducks in the history of the two
schools. Added impetus for the Ne
vada crew is the fact that they will
be up against their old mentor,
Jim Aiken, and it would be quite
a feather in their cap if they could
beat their former coach and take
one of the members of the tough
Pacific Coast conference into camp
at the same time.
YMCA to Hear Dean
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4 p.m. in the lounge. Dr. Vergil S
Fogdall, assistant dean of men
will speak. All members are urgec
to be present.
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