Webfoots Upset Washington
For Initial Conference Win
By FRED TAYLOR
A fired-up band of Oregon grid- ^
ders, entering the game as under
dogs, made monkeys of the ex
perts as they unleashed a crushing
combination of ground power and
27 Candidates
Greet Warren
In New Job
By DON FAIR
Twenty - seven candidates, in
cluding seven lettermen, greeted
coach John Warren’s opening prac
tice whistle, for the coming ’47-’48
basketball campaign.
In addition to numeral-winners,
there were three from last year’s
JVs, six from the Frosh, i four
transfers, and seven who turned
out for the first time. The letter
men were: Stan Williamson, A1
Popick, Reedy Berg, and Bob
Lavey. guards; Roger Wiley, cen
ter; and Marv Rassmussen and
Jim Bartelt, forwards.
Former JVs Listed
Up from the JVs are Jim Bocchi,
guard, and Bob Don and Lynn
Hamilton, forwards. The former
Frosh cagers trying for the var
sity include Kenny Johnson, Jack
Costello, Bill Green, Bill Burgher,
Roger Moclcford, and Jerry Sher
wood. Costella, from Los Angeles,
played for the Ducklings in the
’45-’46 season.
Harold Poort, Bud Carpenter,
Paul Cooper, and Archie Gacek
comprise the transfer candidates.
Poort played for Weber J.C. in
Ogden, Utah, while Carpenter per
formed for Everett, Washington,
J.C. last season. Cooper comes
from the Sacramento Junior Col
lege, and Gacek played frosh ball
for Washington State last year.
The final seven aspirants are
Loren “Red” Kerns, a city-league
performer; Hal Mink and Dick
Unis from Portland; Don Noel,
Klamath Falls; A1 Rieble, Grants
Pass; and Wally Turnridge and
Bob Charlton.
Yesterday’s hour and a half prac
tice was confined mainly to run
ning, running, and more running,
as Warren had his men cavorting
*.he length of the floor while pass
ing, dribbling, and performing cal
isthenics. Tiie newly - appointed
mind' that this year’s Oregon quint
was going to be another speed-em
phasized outfit.
Team Wins
But Ed Cries
Fd McKeever, head coach at the
University of San Francisco, got
Out the crying towel again after
last Saturday’s game with Mar
nuette. His squad licked tlie pre
viously unbeaten Marquette elev
en 34-13.
The USF mentor made the fol
lowing comments after the fray:
' For the first time this year, the
Hons played good ball during the
first half. They, were ragged again
in the second half. I’m hoping this
year they'll put a whole game to
gether. We expect a lot of trouble
against Oregon. We can be
knocked off very easily.”
After the brilliant Forrest Hall
..cored on a 24-yard reverse early
in the first period, Marquette was
never in the ball game. The Don
pass-combo of .ftu Ryan to Joe
Scott tallied a pair of touchdowns
in the second quarter. Scott caught
both aerials on about the Marquette
40 and romped to pay-dirt.’
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A diving catch by Left half Jake Leicht above of Norm Van Brock
lin’s long pass that bounced out of his arms made it possible for
the W'ebfoots to gain a 6-0 upset over the favored Washington
Huskies in Multnomah stadium last Saturday.
Oregon Frosh Tied 7-7
By Washington Babes
Outdowned, outgained, but not
outscored, the Washington Babes
came from behind in the last half
of Saturday’s Pup-Duckling grid
battle to eke out a 7-7 stalemate
with the Oregon Frosh.
Oregon dominated the entire
first-half, but could only muster
one touchdown drive. From the
Washington 45, rifle-armed Earl
Stelle, frosh quarter, and big Doug
Coghill, stellar end, sparked an
aerial march to the Washington
eight-yard stripe, as they teamed
together and completed three con
secutive passes.
Right end Dick Mobley made a
great catch of Stelle’s paydirt
heave from the eight, juggling the
ball three times before he finally
tucked the ball securely under his
arm in the opponent’s end zone.
Stelle smashed his way across
the goal-line on a quarterback
sneak to boost the Duckling’s
half-time lead to seven points.
The see-saw battle, played under
a steady downpour, was knotted
by the Pups when a punt from in
side their own ten bounced off the
back of an Oregon Frash secon
dary man on the 44 and an alert
Washington end pounced on it.
Babes Move
On the next play a 40 yard pass
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aerial sharpshooting to pound out
a 6-0 decision over the University
of a Washington, on a wet Multno
mah stadium turf.
The scoreboard revealed little
evidence of the overwhelming vic
tory by the determined Webfoots
ran over the squad rated two
touchdowns better. The Eugene
club crossed the goal line three
times before it got credit for the
one touchdown, as officials detec
ted illegal actions by the Ducks
on each paydirt trip.
Ducks Fifth
It was the first conference vic
tory for the Webfoots in two starts
and ended a three game losing
streak. The Oregon club now re
sides in fifth place in the ten
team Coast conference standings.
Despite a week’s rain preceeding
the game the stadium sod was in
remarkably fast condition, and
little hindered the Oregon passing
and ground game. No rain fell
during the tilt, and 25,000 fans who
viewed the upset sat in compara
tive warmth.
The Ducks so completely bottled
up the Huskies’ highly touted
backfield aces, the northerners
were unable to penetrate enemy
territory, except for three yards
until late in the last period. This
lone attack carried to the Oregon
29 yard line, but died when the
Huskies were assessed 30 yards
on two consecutive penalties.
Huskies Jumble
Oregon’s first offensive opera
tion of the day set the stage for
the whole afternoon’s action. Jake
Leicht flashed around end and
raced 34 yards to the Washington
22, after Bob Sanders had pounced
upon a Husky fumble. This one
play gave indication that the
Seattle squad was in for a rough
afternoon.
”'7ne"Ducks kept right on moving
as they powered down to the 9,
but here the attack was killed as
a pass in the end zone was inter
cepted by a Washington defense
man.
Jake Leicht, running like the
All-American he was tabbed in
1943, set off the Oregon attack
again later in the same period
as he returned a Washington
punt 16 yards to the Washington
36. On the next play Leicht cut
through left tackle on the stut
ter play, and moving like greas
ed-“Leichtning” went all the way
to paydirt.
Here the officials stepped in,
and called an offensive use of
hands penalty against the Ducks
and moved the ball back to the 19
yard line.
TD NULLED
The inspired Aikenmen im
mediately began working for an
other touchdown. After a running
play lost ground Norm Van Brock
lin lobbed two short passes to
fullback Bob Koch out in the flat
for seven yards. Then Van Brock
lin rifled a long high aerial into
the end zone to end Larry Stoeven,
for what looked like a sure-fire
TD.
Again the officials ruled illegal
use of the hands, and the Eugene
eleven was penalized 15 yards to
kill that hope. ■
Late in the first quarter a
pass from Leicht sailed into the
arms of another Oregon end,
Wayne Bartholemy, in 6-point
territory, but bounded out of
his arms.
The second quarter passed with
out the Ducks making a serious
penetration although the canto
was played mostly in Washington
territory. The game began to
shape up as a repetition of the
Nevada battle, when the Webfoots
shoved the opposition all over the
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