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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
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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.
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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.
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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.”