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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1947)
! Oregon Emerald SPORTS : < Wally Hunter, Editor • Don Fair, Fred Taylor, Assistant Editors W/ley Tops Scorers in Friday Practice As Caaers Prepare for Opening Tilt With big center Roger Wiley showing flashes of prewar form, the varsity basketball candidates held stiff 20-minute scrimmage sessions last Friday in prepara tion for the opening game with Ducks Outlast Cougars 12-6 __ i-—-—-i Webfoots Stop Belated Last. Quarter Drive By FRED TAYEOR Oregon’s Webfoots scored in the first and third quarters ,and then Jiung on grimly in the face of a re surging Cougar eleven and bitter cold weather, to defeat Washing ton State 12-6, in a conference o’clock Saturday in Pullman. It was the fourth straight vic tory for the rejuvenated Eugene club, and put Oregon in a tie for third place in the coast race with California and UCLA, with a league record of three triumphs against one defeat. The season’s record, including non-conference battles, stands at five victories and three losses. Dan Garza was Oregon’s fair liaired boy of the gridiron in the blustery-weather tilt that saw a minor blizzard hamper third pe riod activities. Garza crossed the goal line twice to give the Web foots their only tallies. Garza Displays Abilities Appropriately enough, both of Lire All-Coast candidate’s scores came as a result of his gridiron strong points- pass catching and defensive charging, The first touchdowns came midway in the opening period, when Garza clamped onto an aerial from Norm Van Brocklin. Dangerous Dan's second tally came after the Cougars had been forced deep into their own terri tory on a Van Brocklin kick. Half back Don Paul went back to punt from his own five yard line, but just as he booted the oval Garza, followed by three other Oregon linemen, crashed through the de fense. The sticky-fingered end Knocked down the ball, scooped it up, and raced across the goal line. In the light of the terrible play ing conditions Oregon's two touch down margin at the start of the fourth quarter, seemed sufficient, but the 12 points proved just bare ly enough. Washington State, in stead of conceding defeat, struck back for one score in the last pe riod, and came within 14 yards of n second. use Passes Click A potent passing combination of liuss Miller and Jerry Williams al most proved disastrous to Oregon Hopes. Miller alternated running (he pigskin and throwing strikes to Williams, and pushed the ball to the Oregon seven. From there Wil liams took a short pass behind the scrimmage line and powered his way into paydirt for six points. Twice more before the final gun the Staters threatened to upset the invaders. Again the red-hot pass ing combination did the work, with Williams making a spectacular leaping catch on Duck 13. Cut the Oregon defensive machine stif fened, and held the Cougars, tak ing the ball on downs. Oregon couldn’t get out of the hole and Van Brocklin punted with the ball being returned to the 34. Point-Maker Thorn in Washington State’s side all Saturday afternoon was Duck flankman Dan Gar/.a, who nahhed one pass for a score, and then blocked a kick to tally the second touchdown. These points provided the mar gin of victory for Oregon. i Sig Eps Maintain Unbeaten Record in Broomball League After the brooms were all broken and the fights had quieted down to a mild roar, a look at the scoreboard revealed that for the second week in a row the Sig Eps had succeeded in trouncing their advesaries in broomball. This time the D Z Daredevils and the Pirates of Phi Kappa Psi were the de feated ones, losing 5-3, and 8-0 respectively. In the first broomball contest at the local rink Friday night the 1) Z's led by Nancy Hore line, pul up a determined strug gle hut were still two goals down at the final whistle. Bud Barnum was the wheel behind the All Stars scoring as he pushed through three tallies. In the finale the Phi Psis were handicapped by a lack of skating ability as they were whitewashed 8-0.Their determined broom swing ing kept the score from going even higher and the stellar per formance of goalie Bob Reed also aided the Pirates greatly. Vic I Selman and Cal Smith provided the offense for the Fhi Psis while Rog Newton was the cog in the Sig Ep sextet as. he scored five tallies. Bud Smith, Wayne Roeker, With only 30 seconds left in the tilt Miller cut loose with a long aerial, but booming Bob Koch swept under the ball, and pulled Oregon out of danger. The Web (Please turn re paeje free) and Dick Runyard also tallied for the victors. Colonel Watt of the R.O.T.C. department refereed both games and did an excellent job. This Friday the All Stars and the Skyhavvks will tangle with two tough millrace clubs, the Gamma Phi Gremlins and the Loggers of Chi Psi Lodge. The Gamma Phi game will be at six and the one with the highly touted Chi Psis at seven. University of British Columbia November 28. Yesterday, with head coach John Warren out of town, assistant Don Kirsch took over the squad, and ran them through their exercises, and finished off with a 15-minute practice game. In Friday’s session, the squad was divided into four teams. The A team defeated' the B quint 31-24, while the C group downed the D squad 34-26. All men participating ran through the 20-minute games with no stops. On the A team were Stan Wil liamson, Reedy Berg, Wiley, Marv Rassmussen, and Jim Bar telt. Wiley hit 8 out of 15 field shots, and added a free toss for a total of 17 points. Most of his buckets were made on tip-ins and pivot shots. Berg scored six, Williamson four, and Rasmussen and Bartelt two. On the opposing B team were A1 Popick, Bob Lavey, Bob Amacher, Lynn Hamilton, and Archie Gacek. Hamilton caged five baskets for 10 points, while Lavey scored five, Gacek four, Amacher three, and Popick two. In the second 20-minute con test, 6’5” Bob Don paced the winning C squad with 12 points. Kenny Seeborg hit four shots from the field for eight, AI Reible and Bill Green scored six, and Dick Unis two. Scoring was pretty evenly di vided on the D quint, with Don Kimball, and Freddie Wilson scor ing six; Roger Mockford, Jerry Sherwood, and Hawes four, and Bob Charlton two. Portland Babes Defeat Duckling Gridders, 15-0 By ELWIN PAXSON A spiritless Oregon frosh foot ball squad lost their second game in four starts Saturday on the Uni versity practice field, as the Port land university Babes filled the air with passes after finding Oregon’s defense filled with holes, to fash ion a 15-0 victory. A small, thoroughly - chilled crowd saw the Ducklings stage two first-period drives to within the enemy 10-yard line, only to lack the necessary scoring punch and lose the ball on downs. A 30-yard pass from quarterback Earl Stelle to Doug Coghill, stellar left end, climaxed the first Frosh drive and gave them a first down on the 13. The attack bogged down and Port land booted safely out of danger. A few minutes later, paced by the running of Dick Maudlin, hard hitting Oregon scatback, the locals appeared on their way to pay-dirt, but the enemy defense stiffened. Portland’s first score came early in the third quarter. A series of three completed passes by Phil Pappalardo, versatile lefthalf, gave the winners a first and ten on the Oregon 17. After the Ducklings successfully batted down two Pap palardo aerials, a brilliantly exe cuted screen pass caught the losers flat-footed, and the entire Portland line mowed down the Oregon sec ondary enabling Bill Connell to go the distance untouched. Bab Cos tello’s kick split the uprights to give the vistors a 7-0 lead at half time. Portland made the score 9-0 in the third period when an alert line man pounced on a blocked kick in the end-zone, after Oregon recov ered Pappalardo’s fumble on the 14, and Jim Hanns attempted to punt from his own 5. Portland chalked up their final tally late in the fourth period, when an alert Babe secondary man inter cepted an Oregon desperation heave on the Duckling’s 14 and ran behind good interference to the 3. Two plays later, right-half Larry Wisbaum plunged into the end zone to give Portland their 15-point vic tory margin. Sigma Kappa, DG, Delta Zeta Capture Girls V-Ball Tilts By CORALIE THOMSON Tri-Delts and Sigma Kappa played a close game ins girls intra mural volleyball last evening. The SK’s built up an 18-10 lead at half time on the non-rotation game with Jackie Tetz in the center-front po sition. In the second half rotation they continued to build their lead up and went on to win 36-15. Mary Day piled up 13 points for the SK octet. The DGs walloped the Pi Phis via Barbara Borrevik’s spiking 43-19 after holding a 26-1 advan tage at halftime. Ruth Mihnos scored 13 for the Delta Gamma team. In the outside gym the Delta Zeta team took the measure of the Gerlinger girls 51-22. Barbara Kirsch of the DZs was high point with 12 to her credit. @>ie<f,a*i ottoA. 'Sacked Seventeen'... Stanford Coach Rates Michigan Over USC By UNITED PRESS If Michigan and the University of Southern California meet in the Rose Bowl on New Year's day, as now appears probable, the Wolver ines will win in a walk, says Mar chie Schwartz, head coach of the Stanford Indians. Schwarts is qualified to speak on the subject because his teams have met - and been defeated—by both clubs. Michigan walloped the In dians 49-13: USC won, 14-0. USC Lacks Speed “USC probably will put up a fine battle,” says Marchie, “but they do not compare with the Michigan squad. The Trojans haven't a pass er to compare with Bob Chappuis of the Wolverines. The Michigan ends are too fast for the Trojan defense. And on top of all that, while the Trojan backs are good, they are not in the speed category with the ball carriers from Michi gan.” Schwartz, speaking to the North ern California Football Writers’ regular Monday luncheon, said the best tackle he saw on the Trojans’ squad during Saturday’s battle was not John Ferraro, but a lad named Swope. “The Trojans have a fine running back in Don Doll; Verl Lillywhite is good; and Jim Powers, a sopho more, can pass and run exception ally well. But this array won’t stack up with the speed that the Michigan backfield showed us in our game earlier in the season.” Schwartz singled out end Paul Cleary of USC as a bonafide candi date for All-Coast and All-Ameri can honors. “He can do everything —and do it well,” said Marchie. Other comments of the day: Art Pitchman, University of Ore gon—“We have a 17-man football team—the “Sacred Seventeen,” we call ’em. And we’ll be gunning for our fiftli consecutive win against Stanford.” Lynn Waldorf, California— “Don Seaver, our fifth string right tac kle was the best lineman on the field against Washington. Loss of Johnny Graves, who is out for the season, is a serious blow to the Bears because he was an inspira tional leader. Montana is bound to give us trouble.”