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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1947)
DUCK TRACKS By WALLY HUNTER Sports Editor Today on Hayward field before the Oregon and Oregon State teams engage in the tradition-rife battle for state grid suprem acy Colonel Bill Hayward is to be honored. That in itself is not news. . . reams have been written about that. But there has never been enough said concerning Bill Hayward as a man. Perennially modest, he has thwarted the efforts of scores of writers in their ef forts to tell the whole story of his life and accomplishments. Sbme of the finest feature writers in the nation have made untold efforts to gather information for use in articles that would go on the market as would free loaves of bread in Europe. Motion picture con MIKE MiKULAK cerns such as Metro-Golchvyn-Mayer have offered many times to pay well for the rights to tell his life story on the screen, the latest attempt being made last year. But, always they receive a gentle-but firm “no" for their efforts. Publicity Has Never Been His Goal Hayward is the inventor of many athletic contrivances in general use today. . . but on not one of them does he have a patent. His mind has been, down through the years, a veri table fountain of ideas that have resulted in equipment and tips for athletes that have enabled them to make new assaults on existing records. But he has repeatedly refused notoriety, or monetary return from these inventions, because of his fetish for obscurity. Though writers and picture producers have met with no suc cess in gathering information, the scores of present and past University of Oregon athletes know him well. And they further realize that he is truly a great man. Only to a very.few close friends has Colonel Bill ever told his Varied experiences. There are at best .only a. handful who know the story of his life. But some of the Things he did here as a trainer and track coach he could not hide, because too many people were involved. There Was Bree Cuppoletti . . . Take the case of Bree Cuppoletti,who was left guard on one of the greatest Oregon teams ever—the 1933 ball club that tied for the Pacific Coast championship. Cuppoletti had a bad arm that would pop out of joint, and this pointed the way to his early retirement as a football player. That was, until Bill fixed a special brace for the arm that insured its staying in place. That brace and shoulder pad combination is now stand ard equipment in athletic dressing rooms. Then there was fullback Alike Alikulak. . . a promising lad who was handicapped by a peculiar breast bone formation. His chest was, to put it briefly, soft. Hayward constructed a special pair of shoulder pads that protected his chest and as writer Dick Johnson put it on the day Hayward retired as Oregon trainer. “. . . . there are slap-happy ex-atldetes all over the Pacific slope who will tell you they ran headlong into Alike's weak chest . . Another example is the case of tackle Bill Alorgan who played a full game against Washington with both hands broken. And he could do this because Hayward fixed hint dp with special braces. He Helped Boyd Brown He made Boyd Brown a national A.A.U. javelin champion by a special gadget that allowed him to throw the spear record distances though a thumb was missing on his throwing hand. And there are many other instances of this type. But that isn’t all he has done. He's developed numerous in dividual track champions. This includes guys like Ralph Hill . . Bob Parke . . . Carson Shoemake . . . George Varoff .... Alack Robinson. . . Les, Steers and Boyd Brown. That, however is far from a complete list of the great ones who have received their -training from canny old Bill. Bill Has Been More Than a Coach Admittedly his accomplishments as a trainer and coach are outstanding. But he is also outstanding as a human being. The old-time athletes in attendance at Homecoming this year can remember when Bill in his lighter moments chal lenged them to ear-pulling, or ncse-pushing contests in the lower confines of Mac court. Or his many times retold story of when he foiled a “bank robbery.” Those are incidents that only the athletes will remember but they are a part of the living Hayward legend. If he appears today at Hayward field it will be in direct disobediance of his doctors orders. But, in person or not, at the field . . all Oregon will be saluting not Bill Hayward the trainer or track coach. . . but Bill Hayward the man. __*_ o UO-OSC Feudin’ Started in 1894 With 18-0 Beaver Skinnin’ Party By EL.WIN PAXSON In 1804 the comparatively un known sport of football was intro duced to the University of Oregon :ampus with a three-game sched ule climaxed by a grid contest igainst Oregon Agricultural col ege. The moleskinners from Cor vallis emerged victorious by an L8-0 count. That first Beaver-Duck battle in augurated an epic feud that will be -ekindled for the 51st time this af ernoon on Hayward field. It took World War II to term inate the annual struggle in 1944 and 1945. The hostilities had barely ceased on the battlefield before plans were being laid to resume one of the oldest rival ries on the Pacific coast. In the initial post-war season of 1945, the Ducks fell twice to their half century-old foe, 19-6 and 13-12. 10 Lean Years The past 10 years have been lean Dnes for Oregon. Only in 1940 were they able to break into the wir :olumn against OSC, when the jreat Curt Meecham and Len Is berg paced the Ducks to a rousing 20-0 win. The following season, the Beavers were Rose-bowl bound, and ; the Webfoots’ heart-breaking ef fort to ruin the Aggies’ season's record fell short by a score of 12 7. The Corvallis gang went on tc write grid history with their thrill ing 20-16 bowl upset over vaunted Duke university. Oregon State continued their winning streak over the Lemon and : Green in 1942 by administering a I 39-2 drubbing, the worst ever ab j sorbed by either club at the hands of their ancient rivals. They ex j tended Oregon's strrng of losses to Sports Staff this Issue Glenn Gillespie Wally Hunter Fred Taylor Elwin Paxson Don Fair Wally Adams Night Staff: Jim White Joyce Good Carolyn Withycombe Bob Hemingway, night editor The Indians may have originatec war paint, but it takes the coed t< massacre it. "I’ve always been a pert off your telephone service "You'll find my name on your Bell telephone—you see it on' reels of cable being £pd into manholes or strung on poles —you’d find it, too, on the complex equipment in your tele phone exchange. "As the supply member of the Bell Telephone team, I manufacture equipment, purchase supplies, distribute both to the telephone companies, and install central office equipment. "Y ear in, year out, I help my Bell Telephone teammates to give you the world’s best telephone service at the lowest possible cost. "Remember my name—it’s W estern Electric." Western Electric A UNIT OF THE BELL SYSTEM SINCE 1882 six straight with the pair of tri umphs in 1945 and another last year by a score of 13-0. A glance at tlie total won-lost record, however, reveals a far brighter picture. Oregon has coine out on the long end of the count in 25 contests while the Staters have been able to amass 18 victories, 10 of them since 1935. Seven of the classics have ended in tics. Clip the Beaver EUGENE HOTEL BARBER SHOP By AL PIETSCHMAN I ENTERTAINMENT: “Forever Amber” is now featured at the McDonald theater and most peo ple who have seen it have com mented that it is much better than the adverse panning by so-called critics. CAMPUS: The rhyme below ap peared in the Southern Cal humor mag and for some reason or other seems to fit in with Homecoming. Party Party People grasping Cocktail glasses Stand in gasping, Teeming masses. People smoking, People drinking, Coughing, choking Getting stinking. Some discreetly, Boiled or fried: Some completely Ossified. Liquor spilling, Trousers sopping, Steady swilling. Bodies dropping. Glasses falling On the floor, People calling, “Drop some more,” Bodies steaming, Morals stretching, Women screaming, Freshman retching, Heavy smoking Air gets thicker. Someone croaking “No more liquor,” . . . What? What??? No . . . more . . . liquor . . . People snicker Unbelieving, No more liquor? . Let's be leaving. No more drinking? Groans and hisses! What a stinking Party this is. ENTERTAINMENT:: Want to know what is on at the Mayflow er ? Ask Barbara Twiford. But now playing is “Bachelor and The Bob bysox” with Cary Grant and Shir ley Temple. Comedy? You bet. i Twiford was even laughing at the previews. ALUMS: You’re back and we are glad to see you. Don’t forget the • BILL HAYWARD FISH FRY at 11:45 today. And for bites to eat and full course dinners, we have Renells. Right on the campus. Hun gry for the old coffee—drop in for your java there. (Pd. Adv.)