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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1947)
DUCK TRACKS By DON FAIR Assistant Sports Editor This Saturday, the Oregon gridders tackle the San Fran cisco Dons, rated as the top independent eleven on the Coast thi s season. Comparative scores to base this week’s contest on are the Nevada contests. While the Ducks were being upset 13-6 by the Wolt'pack, oan rrancisco humbled the Reno squad 37-13 in a power ful display of running and passing. Lone loss suffered by the Bay city team was at the hands of Mississippi State in a 21-14 reversal. Last week, the Dons overwhelmed Marquette 34-14, rolling up 229 yards on the ground and 225 more in the air for a grand total of 454 yards. That’s some traveling! Late this summer, the San Francisco team, coached by Ed McKeever, was right in the JAKE LE1CHT middle of a minor football scandal, when Boston College mentor Denny Myers accused the Coast squad of trying to bribe some of his players away from him. Myers leashed a verbal attack against the Dons which intimated that some quite enticing sums had been offered to promising Boston College players to make a trip out west. Don Panciera, incidentally, was one of the more promising Eagle frosh backs, until he turned up at San Francisco this season. Dons Fast and Cocky Offensively the Dons are fast—they get the jump on the other team, .and keep pressing until the end of the game. The team is big, rangy, and from all reports, very cocky. No mercy is spared, for if they get a chance to roll up a big score, they will throw everything but the book in an attempt to pile up the count. In the lone setback suffered from Mississippi State, the southerners got the jump on San Francisco, and rode to the win on this advantage. Therefore it will be up to the Web foots to drive their punches home from the opening whistle, and keep forcing SFU all the way. If Oregon can maintain the standard set in last Saturday’s Washington tilt, the Ducks will stand a good chance to throw the dope bucket out the window. But it’s a big IF! Again the Aikenmen will have to match a bulky, speedy, hard-hitting squad, with a minimum of reserves. San hran c^sco, on the other hand, has plenty of beef, and is long on good assistance from the bench. McKeever, an ex-Notie Dame and Cornell coach, will no doubt have his men primed for this O'e. especially after the manner in which the Webfoots per ched against the Huskies. Nant>s Are Tongue-Twisters A qrhk look-see at the San Francisco line-up reveals such startling names as Gastineau and Krsak ends; Clerico and \\ estenkir<qner tackles; Prowell and Psarnas guards; Sabuco center; Buk^r and Mocha halfbacks; Matisi fullback; and low and behold, there’s a boy named Ryan at quarter. Oregon will have enough trouble pronouncing the names, let alone playing against them. We noted, with seme satisfaction, that Alex bhults, who threw some of those tasty remarks at the Oregon team fol lowing the Texas gamt, didn’t write up the Husky battle for his Seattle Times newspaper. However, he was sufficiently impressed to ask for some further dope on Norm Van Brock lin, which means that he has finally recognized Oregon as a team which bears watching. George Varnell, an ex-official, wrote up the game for the Puget Sound paper, and gave the Webfoots some good words, but seemed to be a little perturbed at the way Aiken was jump ing up and down on the player’s pencil. Varnell cites the rule that the coach must remain seated instead of running out to greet his boys, as bull-voiced Jim did when the men were com ing off or going on the field. Leicht Rambles Again Against the Huskies, Jake Leicht once more projected him self into the spotlight by picking up 128 yards to increase his average to 4.9 yards per try. The winged-foot halfback will probably have plenty of chances to ramble this Saturday, but the Dons will offer him no soft touches. Down in Palo Alto, things aren’t going so smoothly for Marchie Schwartz and his Stanford team. After dropping four straight, the Indians find themselves in a crippled, weakened condition, with no better outlook in store. Bill Leiser of the San Francisco Chronicle remarked, after a 13-7 loss to Santa Clara, that “a Stanford man has yet to block a Santa Clara man out of a play.” Varsity Reserves Scrimmage As Ducks Prepare for Dons Zazula Tells Team About USF Speed By FRED TAYLOR Giving his top gridders another reprieve from heavy practice Tues day, Coach Jim Aiken spent most of the afternoon practice session concentrating on the performance of his reserves. After a short dummy scrim mage, the first eleven and the number one substitutes spent the workout period running through offensive plays. The first-string ers worked without pads, as Aiken rewarded his charges for the Saturday performance against Washington. Only 22 men saw action against the Huskies last week. The serious shortage of capable replacements, both in the line and the backfield, has already cost the Webfoots at least one game, and probably more. California writers who saw the Oregon-UCLA battle in Los An geles two weeks ago voiced strong opinions on the superiority of the Duck crew. But the Oregon club wasn’t able to stand the pace against the many fresh reserves the Bruins threw into the fray, and in the last quarter the Uclans sim ply outran them. Dons Next This week the Webfoots face the San Francisco Dons. Backfield Coach Frank Zazula, head scout for Aiken, reports they compare favorably with the Texas Long horns. The Longhorns are rated as the fastest team in the coun try, so this means that again the Ducks will have the chore of at tempting to keep up a fast pace for the whole game with only One j top-notch eleven and a few re- ' placements. And they will have to do this while the Dons alter nate three or more teams into the game. With one exception the Webfoots came out of the hard-fought Hus kies battle in good physical condi tion. Bill Abbey, hard-tackling de fensive quarterback, and one of the mainstays of the secondary defense this year, suffered a recurrence of an old high school injury, and may be sidelined until late in the season. George Bell, who has developed into a rugged ball-carrier and has shown plenty of talent on defense, will take Abbey’s position on de fense plus sharing ground-gaining duties. Oregon’s other gridder on the sick list, Art Milne, was in uni form Tuesday, although taking it easy. Milne, a pass-snagging substitute end, has missed the j last two games because of ill Noon Lunches J\ Out in One Hour jj 65c and up Dining Room Open 11 :30 - 2:00 5 :30 - 8:00 the An&h&icufe on the Millrace 997 Franklin Phone 30 '_____:_i OCTOBER FOOD SPECIALS ELLIOTT’S ONE-STOP GROCERY 13th & Patterson Phone 95 ness, but may be able to play against the Dons this Saturday. Vail Boosts Record Norm Van Brocklin, the man who makes the Oregon aerial at tack click boosted his passing av erage in last week's tilt. Van Brocklin connected for an amaz ing 10 completions out of 17 at tempts. This makes his sea son’s record of 48 completes in 111 attempts for 647 yards. Dan Garza, leading target for Van's passes and number one receiver in the nation last week, grabbed another toss to push his record to 12 catches for 265 yards. Jake Leicht took over first place in the ground-gaining department for the VVebfoots, re placing Jim Newquist. He has packed the ball 63 times for 308 yards, for a 4.9 per carry aver age. Leicht has also scored the most points, 19. Aiken sent the reserves against the Frosh gridders yesterday as he labored to improve the offensive tactics of the line and backfield. Little Bob Oas, halfback speed merchant, showed up well as he re peatedly scampered through the secondary. By AL PIETSCHMAN SPORTS Take it from Brat! Ek liintl, he was mighty tired after those sixty straight minutes against Washington. Brad pulled the “Iron Man” trick but admitted that the last three or four minutes were rough. CAMPUS: Our secret spies tell us that the name of the “Big Name”-band coming for the Wis kerino is Bob Summers. At $2.40 that is some band, it must be. Maybe you are wondering if there is any validity in the paying off—take it from the United Press. They are the ones that released the story that has set off the search for platters. SPORTS: The Kappa Sigs pulled a “goodie” on the Oregon-Washing ton announcer when they wired him that they didn’t like his broad cast. There have been worse broad casts, but few and far between. Oregon didn’t sound sharp over the loudspeaker at all. Jake Leicht, Bell, Newquist and company sound ed just like a bunch of ole men thanks to the announcer. One of the avid Oregon fans at the game was CARL GREVE. Carl is an ex-Duck himself and if you want the straight goods on gifts for Christmas make it a point to talk to him at his modern jewelry store in Portland. Modern, and how! CAMPUS: Contests are floating all over the place, lovely lassies in Homecoming Hostess and Betty Coed contests and sophomore men in Joe College finals. Zeta, Joan, Sally, Gladys, and Carol are all lively candidates for the Homecom ing honor. And the sophomore men—Jim, Bob, Carl, Perry and Joe are in there for the final nod Saturday. No, we didn’t forget Harry. Just a bit partial, however. His collec tion of pipes is something to see. Strictly Joe College. It is going to be hard to decide on one gal from the six up for Bet ty Coed. Here is wishing each one of them luck—Jackie, Carol, Mari lyn, Ann, Phyllis and Annie.