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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1948)
Oregon Awaits PCC Race DUCK TRACKS J By CARL CLUFF The battle is on! It oil started several weeks ago with a dis patch from Corvallis by Coach Lonnie Stiner and his Orange coaching staff predicting the University of Oregon Webfoot squad is the team to beat for the Pocific Coost conference foot ball championship this fall, and g placing his own burly Beavers 1 , in a second division finish. § This, we predict, is a hit of Stin- | er skullduggery which has been f used by the Aggie mentor on I numerous occasions for the ad- | .vantage of gaining his coveted | underdog rating ot the outset f of the seoson. Genial Jim Aiken, for one, | isn’t taking the Oregon State f grid machine lightly. “Stiner I will have one of the strongest | teams this fall he has ever had,” | -Aiken replied when reminded | of the favorite role placed on | his Ducks by the Corvallis ’ coaches. “We're on the spot,” Aiken continued, “our oppon , ents are building us up hoping to knock us over.” Oregon’s position as one of the favorites has grown steadi ly since a Seattle sports writer JIM AIKEN quoted Aiken last winter saying tne tv eMoots were Dowi-Douna this fall. What Aiken really said was, “Sure we’re interested in the Rose bowl, we’re one of the 10 teams in the Coast conference, ■ aren’t we ?” One thing is certain, and that is Aiken no longer will have * to depend upon the “Sacred Seventeen” to toil on the gridiron every Saturday. He has added depth in every position and un doubtedly will he able to field a complete offensive ond defensive team throughout the ten game schedule. The Lemon and Green gridders will be in the national spot light on the afternoon of October 2 when Aiken sends his team against last year’s national champions and Rose Bowl victors, the Michigan Wolverines. This will be Michigan’s first home game since walloping Southern California 4S-0 last January at • Pasedena. There is little doubt but what the Ann Arbor stadium will be fill to its 86,000 copocity by fons looking for a succes sor to the smooth-functioning 1947 grid machine. Many of the top sports writers in the nation will be on hand , to chronicle the contest, which also will be the first home ap pearance of Coach Benny Oosterban, who succeeds Fritz Crisler at the Michigan helm. A victory over the power-laden Wolver ines, perennial Western conference title contenders, would bring a great deal of prestige to the Pacific coast conference which has suffered immesurably in intersectional competition the last few years. Aiken expects to leave Aug. 8 for the east where he will be the guest of Paul Brown, head coach of the Cleveland Browns professional team, at the summer training camp being conducted at Bowling Green, Ohio. Brown and Aiken were rival prep school coaches in Ohio not so many years ago. Jim’s McKinley high 1 school of Canton, O., and Massillon high, where Brown held the grid reins, were arch-rivals and produced many top collegi , ate athletes. Before returning to Oregon Aiken plans to attend the Ohio high school coaching clinic at Canton. He will have a part in the program which is expected to attract 1,000 prep coaches from Ohio schools. Large mprovements Slated For Oregon Athletic Plants Increased seating capacity for McArthur court and Hayward field was approved recently by the state board of higher education. The board approved preliminary ' plans costing $250,000 to construct a balcony in McArthur court seat ing 3000 spectators, and new con , Crete stands at Hayward field which will increase seating capac ity by 7000. These additions would boost the .seating capacity of McArthur court to 10,000 and Hayward field to 27, 500. Leo Harris, Oregon athletic r director, said the balcony of Mc Arthur court would include ten rows of seats entirely around the pavilion. Plans call for completion by January 29, when Oregon meets Long Island university. Proposed plans for the Hayward field stands call for construction to start following the final 1948 home football game. The addition will be completed by the fall of 1949. Con crete stands are to be built at the south end of the field, completing the present wooden grandstand into an oval. The north curve wiil be re constructed to make additional seating possible. I Bill Bowerman CompletsDuck Coaching Staff Appointment of Bill Bowerman to U.e position of head track and field coach and freshman grid men tor at the University of Oregon last June completed the. Webfoot coach ing staff for the 1948-49 school year. Bowerman succeeds John Warren as track coach and takes over frosh grid duties from Carl Heldt who resigned after one year as Duckling mentor. Selection of Bowerman to the Oregon athletic staff was made by Athletic Director Leo Harris, Foot ball Coach Jim Aiken, Basketball Coach John Warren, and Baseball Coach Don Kirsch. The former prep mentor is the second coach from the Southern Oregon city cho sen for a head coaching position at at the University. Followed Callison Bowerman’s own prep coach, Prink Callison, graduated from the prep ranks at Medford to guide the grid destinies at Oregon in the early 30s. Bowerman followed Cal lison to the University and starred in football and track for the Lemon and Green. After graduation Bowerman coached a year at Franklin high school in Portland before return ing to his home town as grid and track mentor from- 1936 to 1941, and from 1946 until last spring. He saw extensive service with the army in Europe during world war II as an officer. Seven times Bowerman entered his Black Tornado track and field squad in the Hayward relays and on each occasion his team walked off with the class “A” crown. His teams also brought Medford three state track championships—1940, 1941, and 1948. Bowerman’s football record also is impressive. During his nine years at the Medford helm his teams won 64, lost 8, and tied 4 games. His 1935 and 1939 Medford teams were undefeated and only his 1937 and 1941 teams lost as many as two games. Webfoots Face Ten Grid Foes During1948 Season football enthusiasm in the Oregin campus is expected to reach a new high this fall when wluit looks to be one of the best grid iron machines ever turned out in Eugene awaits the starting gun for the opening of the 1948 football season. Sports writers along the Pacific coast have picked California’s Golden Pears and the Ducks as preseason fovorites to cop th0 Pacific Coast conference flag won last year by Southern Calif Ties Course Record irniJimUMlMIM IUNI IIHUUIU11LM1I—■ ■ Lou Stafford, Oregon’s Northern Division golf champion, fired a 32 on the first nine of the Stanford university course during the NCAA tournament this summer to tie the course record. Stafford lost in the quarter-finals to Ed Hopkins of Texas. Advance Ticket Sales Expected Havy demands for 1948 season football tickets are expected, Leo Harris, athletic director, stated. Oregon supporters are contem plating a good season for the Ducks in the gridiron this fall and want to be in on the action. Harris de clared it will be “first come, first served on the good seats.” ornia. Oregon gleaned its favorite role from the whirlwind finish last year when the Ducks won thef^M, 1948 FOOTBALL, SCHEDULE Sept. 18—Santa Barbara at Eit* gene. Sept. 25—Stanford at Palo Alto. Oct. 2—Michigan at Ann Arbor. Oct. 9—Idaho at Moscow. Oct. 16—U.S.C. at Portland. Oct. 28—W.S.C. at Eugene. ' Oct. 80—St. Mary’s at Eugene. Nov. 6—Washington at Seattle. Nov. 12—U.C.L.A. at Los Ange les (night). Nov. 20—O.S.C. at, Corvallis. six games of the season and ended in a second place tie with Califor nia. Oddly enough, the two favorites do not meet on the gridiron this year because of the scheduling pro cedure adopted by the conference several years ago whereby northern schools play only three of the four southern schools each yean Opening practice session is scheduled for September 1 on Hay ward field. Aiken declared he will conduct two practices a day for the first two weeks and then tapnr off for the opening game Septem ber 18 against Stanta Barbara. Ho said he has advised the squad to re port in good physical condition be cause he intends to lose no time in. getting down to serious work. “We have a rough schedule this season,” Aiken commented, “but with a few breaks we may go plac es. There’s a lot of talk about Ore gon going to the Rose Bowl but that will be determined at the end of the season. In the meantime we’ll tackle the schedule one game at a time as they come up each Satur day.” Bill Bowerman, newly appointed U O track coach, is shown here with the late Bill Hayward.
