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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1947)
Webfoots Face Cougar Gridders; Frosh Meet Portland Here Today Aikenmen Go For Fourth Straight Win By FRED TAYLOR Oregon’s victory-minded grid M|luid tackles its fourth con ference foe at 2 ]).m. when the Ducks tangle with the \\ asli ington State Cougars on the Pullman turf. The Kugene eleven will 1>c gunning for their f o u r t li straight victory, the third over a league opponent. Present season’s record for Oregon stands at four triumphs against three defeats. For the second consecutive week tire Webfoots are favored to cop the tilt. Dopesters are giving the club at least a two touchdown ad vantage over the often-beaten, Cougars in light of the superior Oregon record and weight edge. Ducks Have Beef Jim Ailten’s men will go into the Cray with a decided advantage in bulk. The Oregon forward wftll weighs an average 208 pounds to the Pullman team’s 193, while in the backfield the Ducks outweigh the Cougars, 180 to 174. Weather conditions for the Palouse battle, which have great hearing upon the style of offense that the Ducks will use, are still unsettled. Flurries of snow have been fulling Intermittently for three days, and a frozen field is expected for the tilt. If conditions permit the Web foots will unleash the^r potent aerial attack early iii an attempt to score quickly. The passing Norm Van Brocklin, rifle armed quarter who makes Oregon’s ‘T’ boil, has been practically unused in the past two contests, after the groundmen had shown ability to score from a power attack. Power Will he Used If Van Brocklin is unable to con nect consistently the Green ma chine will switch over to the im proved ground offensive, and at tempt to grind out ft victory on running plays. The two sets of backfield chore-boys who have starred in recent games will again perform as ball-carriers. Jake Leicht, who ran’practically unhindered through the Vandals last week, will again pack the mail from the left half spot. Leicht displayed pre-war form in sensa tional fashion last week when he galloped 73 yards for a touchdown. At. the right half will be Jim New qwisi, veteran Oregon ace who has been crashing through the defense lor sizeable gains. Alternating ha 11-carrying duties with him will tie George Bell, hard-running soph omore 190-pounder. Koch Starts at Full Starting at fullback will be big Bob Koch, husky line-blaster who broke loose for long gains against the Vandals. Behind him will be Bob Sanders. North Bend power house. Phil Sorboe’s hard-luclt Cougars * have dropped five games this year while eking out a 7-0 victory over Idaho, and running over the Port land university Pilots, 30-0. The crushing blow of an undistin giushedseason was the 13-12 defeat at the hands of Montana State uni versity two weeks ago. In spite of their poor showing (Please turn In pane six) I Oregon 1$ Emerald SPORTS Wally Hunter, Editor Don Fair, Fred Taylor, Assistant Editors Co-captain Today Burly Ted Meland, Oregon offensive guard, with the aid of the other Co-Captain .Jins Berwick, will call the toss before the kickoff of the Webfoot-VVashington State game today at Pullman. tynatn dele te O'icuufe.... Bowl Picture at a Glance By UNITED PRESS ROSE BOWL, Pasadena, Cal.—A ‘‘closed shop” between the Pacific conference champion, probably Southern California, and the Big Nine winner, probably Michigan. COTTON BOWL, Dallas, Tex. - Southwest conference winner, prob ably Southern Methodist, commit ted to play as host team. Opponent probably will be a major eastern in- \ dependent or strong southeastern team. SUGAR BOWL. New Orleans, La. Sam Corenswet, president of the Sugar Bowl association, is in South Bend. Ind., presumably to see the Notre Dame-Army game, but he is expected to make one last appeal to get the Fightin’ Irish to go south. Notre Dame, long op posed to post-season games isn’t expected to change its policy now so the Sugar Bowl probably will line up Georgia Tech or the South eastern conference champion against Texas, a Southwest “toughie.” ORANGE BOWL, Miami, Fla.— With seating capacity expanded to 60,000 the committee definitely would like to land the southeastern conference champion with the op ponent likely to be Virginia, Boston college or Wake Forest. In recent experiments conducted by the University of Chicago, it has been found that practically all people born in 1921 are at least 26 years old now. Duckling Tilt Starts at 2 On South Hayward Field By EL WIN PAXSON Oregon football fans will get their first opportunity to see the Frosh team in. action this afternoon as they open a two-game home stand against the Portland University Babes at 2 p.m. on the practice field south of Hayward. Gates 16 and i7 will be opened at 1 p.m. to admit spectators and bleachers have been erected on^he eastern side of the field to accom modate the expected crowd. The Frosh, who ran through a padless skull and signal practice yes terday afternoon, appeared in top physical condition for today s tilt, going through the tapering-off session yesterday with plenty of zip and-zest. Babes Use Single-Wing It will be the “T” versus the single-wing when the two yearling squads line up for the opening kick-off, according to word received from the Portland camp. The Oregon frosh, with Earl Stelle in the slot, will operate from a T-forma'tion, while the Portlanders place main emphasis on the bone-crushing single wing formations, with a Notre Dame shift. Portland's attack is paced by a pair of versatile halfbacks, Phil Pappalardo and Larry Wisbaum, both of whom were instrumental in downing the Oregon State Rooks and Vanport college. Pappalardo Does Passing Pappalardo, who hails from New Jersey, is responsible for the suc cess of his club’s passing offense and is also an excellent punter. Wis baum is the team’s leading ground gainer, and the former Jefferson high ace is tops defensively as well. Records show that the Portland Babes have two wins to their credit with a single loss chalked up against them, while the Ducklings have been forced to settle for a victory, a loss and a tie in the past three encounters. One of the Babe triumphs was over the OSC Rooks, the same eleven that out-scored the Oregon Frosh 27-19 in the final minutes of play. An indication of the potency of their offense is the fact that Portland managed to engineer one scoring drive against the Southern Oregon College of Education club, one of the few undefeated, untied teams left in the nation, although the Red Raiders drubbed them, 33-6. * Babe Coach Phil Loprinzi’s 32-man traveling squad will arrive in Eu gene today for the encounter. Loprinzi was a former Portland univer sity standout lineman before taking over the freshman reins. Probable Starting Lineup Oregon Pos. Portland Doug Coghill.LER.Marv Diercks Bill Marker.LTR. Babe Costello Chet Daniels.LGR..... Bill Carroll Dave Gibson.C.John O’Donnell Art Harris. RGL. Jake Sweeney Hank Cedros..RTL. Bill Smith Dick Mobley.REL.Barney Currigan Earle Stelle. QB. Bill O’Connell Dick Morrison.LHR... Larry Wisbaum Dennis Sullivan.RHL. Phil Pappalardo John Parsons.FB. Pete Petros Good Luck, Ducks IN TODAY'S FOOTBALL GAME LET'S MAKE IT ANOTHER WIN! 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