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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1947)
Oregon Passing Rates High; Leicht Named Game Captain Ducks Fly To Grid Tilt Jake Leicht, Oregon’s fleet-foot ed left halfback, has been named to captain the Webfoot gxid squad Saturday against UCLA in the first conference game for both teams. It is the second time this season that Leicht has been made game leader. Aiken gave the flashy senior the honor of captaining the Ducks in the season opener against Montana State university. He realy led his mates in that contest, as he broke loose to score two touch downs. The 165 pound scatback, who Was named on two 1945 All-American teams, is expected to carry a big part of the Webfoot offexi^ive load against the Brains. A fast turf, which is much to his liking, is fore cats for the weekend tilt. Oregon’s football team leaves at 10:15 a.m. today from the Eugene airpoi't for Los Angeles. A 36-man travelling squad was named after q hursday’s practice for the jaunt. Accompanying the squad besides head coach Jim Aiken and line coach Dick Miller will be John War ren, assistant coach; Tom Hughes, trainer; Dr. George Guldager, team physician; and Charles McDonald, student manager. Abbey Goes Bill Abbey, rugged defensive quarterback for the Ducks, made the trip. Abbey has been troubled since the Texas game with a bad leg, but is expected to play against the Uclans. Thursday’s workout was driven indoors because of the l'ain. A light practice session was run off by Aiken and his charges on McArthur court. Aiken drilled the -squad on of fensive assignments, giving con siderable attention to action of the linemen. Lineup Same It appeal's certain that the same lineup that has started the past three games will again be named for opening action. However, the head man has promised that more reserves are going to play this Saturday than have befoxe. Brickfield Coach Frank Zazula will travel to Seattle' this weekend to scout the Washington-St.Mary's game Saturday. Zazula has already turned in a report on the Webfoot’s next opponent, the San Francisco Dons. Ends—Dan Gax'za, Lou Robinson, Oregon W Emerald SPORTS Wally Hunter, Editor Don Fair, Fred Taylor, Assistant Editors Bruin Coach Without Service Of Three Key Back field Men By DICK MASK Coach Bert LaBrucherie was suffering from backfield miseries yesterday as his UCLA Bruins practiced sans their first two left halfbacks and number one fullback. Kerry Shipkey, who handles the fullbacking duties, is a doubtful starter against the Ducks because of a dislocated thumb. Left half Johnny Roesch came down with the flu, while Gene Rowland, top ground gainer for last year’s tJCLANS, was nursing a shoulder injury. Little 155-pound Ernie Johnson filled in for the ailing Row land. The news wasn’t all bad from the Darrell Robinson, Pete Miller, J. D. McCowan, Wayne Bartholemy, Pete Torchia, Bob Thomson, and Larry Steven; Tackles — Steve Dotur, Don Stanton, Bob Roberts, Harry Ed wards, and Sam Garbacz; Guards—Ed Ch robot, Ted Me land, Jim Berwick, Larry Thomp son, John Kauffman, and Jim Kitsch; Centers — Brad Ecklund and Clark Stokes; Backs—Norm Van Brocklin, Bill Abbey, A. Johnson, Bob Koch, Bob Sanders, Deane Bond, DeWayne, Johnson, Jake Leicht, George Bell, Bob Oas, Wally Still, Ben Holcomb, Jim Newquist, and Keith DeCour cey. Sports Staff: Eddie Artzt Elwin Paxson Dick Mase Wally Hunter Fred Taylor Bill Stratton > Don Fair Bob Reinhart FLY INTO THE "BIRD" Anytime you arc looking for delicious food — short orders and dinners. Served by Wayne Roecker open on SUNDAYS now ' he Falcon 1426 Onyx ' ' Phone 18W Bruin camp, however, as cai kos si, ace right half, was in suit for practice. Even if Rossi has just a mediocre season he can break the Coast’s four-year ball-carrying record. In his last three years he has compiled an amazing average of 5.48 yards per carry. The old mark of slightly more than four yards a try is held by ex-Bruin Kenny Washington. The Coast champs went through a long drill designed to polish up both offense and defense for Sat urday’s meeting with the Oregon Webfoots at the Coliseum. At the end of the workout La Brucherie said he felt most of the mistakes the Bruins made last Sat urday against Northwestern had been eliminated. Tomorrow’s Coliseum clash will be the first conference game for both schools. The Bruins have had two Big 9 tilts under their belts. They swamped Iowa 22-7, and then were nicked by Northwestern’s Wildcats, 27-26. Although LaBrueherie’s boys are odds-on favorites, they will be wary of an upset at the hands of the Oregonians. Last season an under dog Webfoot clan gave the confer ence kingpins a bad scare while going down to defeat, 14-0. Aerial Ace Leads PCC Norm Van Brocklin, Oregon’s head man in the passing depart ment and the main cog in the Web foot’s T-formation, ranks fourth in the nation with his passing prow ess, according to National Collegi ate statistics released yesterday from New York City. He is top passer in the Pacific Coast confer ence. The bullet-armed quarterback has a passing average of .394 in three games this season. His toss es have also directly resulted in four touchdowns. He has racked up 368 yards from the aerial attack. In total offense, a combination of ground gains and yardage in the air, Van Brocklin ranks sixth in the country with a total of 384 yards. He is also rated 15th in the nation on his punting average, with an average boot of 40.5 yards, on (Please turn to page six) Frosh Travel To Pendleton For Next Fray Carl Heldt’s frosh football squad will attempt to break into the win column for the first time this sea son when they line up against the Eastern Oregon College of Educa tion in Pendleton Saturday at 8 p.m. Heldt ran the team through a light drill yesterday afternoon,con sisting mainly of practice on punt ing formations and a short dummy scrimmage. Three bruising scrim mages were held during the week, and many of the minor mistakes committed in the OSC battle were corrected. Pass defense was also given special atention, for tha£ weakness resulted' in the defeat last Saturday. The game otherwise was Duckling-dominated. Heldt said yesterday that at times in the last few- practice ses sions the frosh offense functioned smoothly, but there was still rough edges in the attack that needed smoothing. Passing will probably be a major factor in the yearling offense, with Earl Stelle at the quarterback post doing most of the flinging. Heldt’s probable starting line-up will be substantially the same as the one that lined up against the Rooks Saturday, and will consist (Please turn to page five) torJiGHf! -Hear Spike Jones V/Mj his Cffy Sucker anp <0 DoKOTHY S«AY/: ;:Anotl ight l&vue \ C8S VefctvorJc KOIN 7:30 every "Friday —mmmmmmmmm— ©^1~^7» TFie C6ca-"Co7a Company I MORRISON —HENNING * and WILLIAM G. ROHLFFS announce the re-opening of the UNIVERSITY SPORT SHOP 881 East loth "Beside the Side" Believing, as we do, that the best is the cheapest in the long run, we will endeavor to enhance our already existing reputation for quality and service.