DUCK TRACKS
Glenn Gillespie, Bob Reed, Co-Sports Editors
Co-Sports Editor
Why is it that after all these years, Stanford, through the
school's graduate manager A1 Masters, objects unofficially to
Oregon’s summer football coaching class?
Masters voiced his opinions at a recent meeting of the con
ference graduate managers with the Pacific Coast Conference
Commissioner. He claims that Oregon fudged on the opening
date for football practices to begin this fall, and adds that Jim
Aiken pulled this shady stunt to give Oregon a fast start in this
coming season.
This graduate manager literally stuck his foot in his mouth
with just those few words, and we think this is an excellent op
portunity to ram that foot down permanetly. Especially since our
friend from Stanford is lacking the correct facts on which to
base his objections.
Ducks Naturally Under Pressure
With Oregon a pre-season co-favorite along with California
to top all other teams on the coast, naturally the Ducks will be
under a lot of pressure. But it is hard to believe that Stanford
would have accused Oregon of the same trick if it was known
up and down the Coast and throughout the nation that football
prospects here were not very rosy. It’s granted that a situation
like this can and have confronted Oregon in past years. In fact,
it was back in the ’20's that Oregon was last well heeled in a
wealth of football material pervious to this year.
But, Mr. Masters, what are the facts? The odds seem to be
against a decision in favor of the protesting school when the
facts are presented as they appear below.
This course, PE 190, is no newcomer to the curriculum of
the physical education school. Football coachng has been offered
for many years in the past. Tex Oliver, when he was head coach
between the years ’38 and ’45, took part in this class instruction.
The course is not required for PE majors, but it is obvious
how handy a study of coaching methods would be for one who
plans to make coaching a career. And contrary to most theories
about this class, pads were donned for demonstration purposes
only.
Aiken a Member of PE Staff
A question may be raised also as to the legality of Jim Aiken
as a teacher for this course. In addition to the job as head foot
ball coach, Jim Aiken is also a member of the physical education
staff, thus earning himself the place as an instructor in the
school’s program.
The fact remains that other intercollegiate sports are re
garded just as highly by the physical education school. They
offer coaching courses, exactly along the lines of PE 190, in
swimming, basketball, baseball, and others. Not only Oregon,
but most of the other conference schools. Look at the schedule
of classes for some other conference school sometime.
It all boils down to the fact that the so called “Big Four” in
the Pacific Coast conference are being pushed right of of their
plush chair. And we would hate to see any California school take
a tumble. That is, if Oregon was not doing the pushing.
An added argument, and one we think to be the clincher, re
fers to the action taken by Dean Orlando J. Hollis, faculty ath
letic representative. Dean Hollis has been noted as one who
follows the legally right method, strictly. If you look closely,
you will see that no action was taken or has been taken in the
past to curb this alledgedly illegal football summer session.
Coach Aiken has not taken this criticism lightly, and in all
fairness to Stanford, a small warning should be offered to watch
what happens in Palo Alto come September 25.
Oregon Football Fortunes Rise, Fall During Summer
(Continued from page four)
George Bell, End Don Garza and
Center Brad Ecklund as among the
stars of the coast.
Pic magazine throws their entire
support behind California and prac
tically ignores the rest of the con
ference. They do list Southern Cali
fornia, UCLA, and Oregon as possi
support behind California and prac
ble champions.
So far, the strongest Oregon
backer has been the Dell Football
Book, which has come out 100 per
cent for the Webfoots, and picked
them to be in the Roise Bowl come
next January 1. Dell stated that the
big veteran line, the mainly veteran
line, and especially the quarter
backing of Norm Van Brocklin
would be enough to carry the Ducks
to the title.
Both the Football Annual and
College Football Illustrated list
Oregon and California as the two
top teams, but lean a little towards
Cal. They seem to feel that it would
be nice if Oregon came through,
but it just doesn’t seem likely.
One of the big reasons for the
reluctance to pick Oregon for the
top spot despite their fine showing
last year and a top squad this sea
son is a good look at the record
book. The Ducks have not been in a
Rose Bowl game since 1920 and
they have not been at the top of the
heap since 1933 when they tied with
Stanford. They come from the
Northwest, last represented in the
“Bowl of Bowls” by Washington in
1944, and that game was against
USC and did little more than settle
who had the best team on the Coast
that year.
Excluding that game, the only
Northwest teams in the Rose Bowl
since 1930 have been Washington
State in 1931, Washington in 1937
and Oregon State in 1942. The big
four in California have taken care
of the rest of the Bowl appearances,
and they’ll be gunning to keep the
conference crown in the southland
again this year.
Frosh Begin Work
Under Bowerman
Bill Bowerman opened his initial
season as Frosh football coach at
Oregon yesterday, greeting 78 for
mer prep players with a light work
out on the upper practice field.
Bowerman stressed to his new
Ducklings that only light practice
and conditioning will be on the
slate for the remainder of the week.
Registration for classes must take
preference over anything else until
school starts, the mentor stated.
Opening the season with calis
thenics, Bowerman followed with a
lesson touching on the fundamen
tals of Head Coach Jim Aiken’s
football styles. The ex-Medford
high coach emphasized that the
style of play may be entirely new
to some of the frosh, but that they
must get used to it if they expect
to play for Aiken in the years to
come.
Bowerman set up a team at ran
dom from the candidates, and lec
tured on the Aiken type of T for
mation, using the 11 men as dum
mies for the demonstration. Wind
sprints and a snappy pass practice
were also included in the opening
session.
Daily practices will begin at 3:30
every afternoon and, for the rest
of the week, will be on the order of
yesterday’s workout. Bowerman
Gauchos to Arrive
(Continued from page Jour)
pass defense which was found lack
ing at times last season. Woodley
Lewis, Ben Holcomb, George Bell,
Dick Wilkins, Jim Aiken Jr., and
Tommy Hines all alternated in de
fensive positions, with Norm Van
Brocklin tossing the passes.
Elsewhere in the Pacific Coast
conference picture this Saturday:
Stanford meets San Jose State at
Palo Alto, Oregon State entertains
the Idaho Vandals, WSC plays
UCLA at Los Angeles, and Calif
ornia mixes with Santa Clara at
Berkeley. Washington has an open
date, while Southern Cal takes on
Utah Friday night at Los Angeles.
Sports Staff:
Bob Reed
John Barton
promised the Ducklings he will
start bearing down next week.
Beside many high school stars
from out of state, the new mentor
has some star-laden material from
the Oregon prep circles to draw
upon. Fresh from the Shrine All
Star game are Chuck Bafaro and
Don Muller of Portland, and Jerry
Leslie, Lewis Langer, Ashland, Bob
Wilcox of University high, Tommy
Edwards of Klamath Falls, Emile
Holeman, Pendleton, Jim Calder
wood, Baker, and Don Neveau, St.
Helens. Reported coming to Oregon
for frosh ball is huge Ed Sarsefield
of The Dalles.
A few of yesterday’s candidates
were participants of last term’s
spring practice sessions. Among
these is Tony Geremia, star quar
terback from McClatchy high in
Sacramento, who looked good in
last spring’s intersquad game.
The Frosh will open their active
season with a night game against
the Washington Pups in Multnomah
stadium, October 8. Four games
will follow, thus filling the five
game limit set by conference rules.
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. By AL PIETSCHMAN .
Students are booming back tt>
the quad after a tranquil summer
—it's good to see all the cheery
faces again, even though the Cal
ifornians do have deep tans and
we Oregonians just a pale-white
complexion.
First off, congratulations to all
the pledges. Rush week is over
and you are now sporting pledge
ribbons or pledge pins. Right here
and now, we state that rush week
should be abolished or at least
modified. There must be some sys
tem that would work better than
the present one we have. If, in
any way, we can help change the
present system, we will work for
that end.
The DGs and Pi Phis are look
ing askance at their interior dec
orator. Seems the two houses are
now almost the same color inside!
The deecorat.or for both sororities
was the same person and liked the
same colors with the result that
there is a striking similarity be
tween them.
Has anyone ever kept tab on
the number of meetings they at
tended in one term while at Ore
gon ? Already, the meetings are
beginning to pile up and the green
frosh are looking bewildered.
Won’t some kindly upperclassman
take them aside and tell them that
without meeting the U. of O.
wouldn't function?
There are a lot of new people
on the campus; it’s easy to tell
because they are still consulting
the maps of the campus. To each
of you, a hearty “hello” and we
know you will like this thriving
campus. It isn’t all work by a long
ways, you’ll learn both from the
books and in other ways—but in
any case, it is up to you.
At the end of last yeear we
were printing- some of the items
that appeared in various college
humor magazines. This year we
are going to subscribe to several
of the best ones, including the
Michigan Gargoyle, Stanford Chap
arall, Ohio State Sundial, and the
Harvard Lampoon. Here are a few
from the summer issues:
A pink elephant, a green rat, and
a yellow snake walked into a cock
tail bar.
“You’re a little early boys,” said
the bartender, “he ain’t been here
yet.”
—Chaparall
And then there’s the one about
the Oregon student who transferred
to Oregon State and raised the I.Q.
of both schools.
Bud: “Why didn’t I get a hundred
on my history test?”
Prof.: You remember the ques
tion: “Why did the pioneers go into
the wilderness ?”
Marv: “Yes.”
Prof.: “Well, your answer, though
very interesting, was incorrect.”
—Gargoyle
Freshman: “Why do the janitors
at college wear uniforms?”
Soph: “So we can tell them front
the English professors.”
There were so many weddings
this summer that we ran out of
ideas for gifts, but friend Carl
Greve, Jeweler, came to our aid and
showed us his fine array of silver1
gifts for the just-to-be-marrieed.
For your presents, remember, in
Portland, it’s Carl Greve, Jewelerv
Marv Rasmussen still sports that
happy look of spring term. Reason:
Ginny is back on the campus. Sorry
to say, though, she is leaving soon
to make her home in Santa Bar
bara.
The Duck gridders are shaping
up—there were roses at the Jant
zen picnic and we hope to see more
of the same come January —Pd.
Adv.