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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1948)
DUCK TRACKS By BOB REED Co-Sports Editor Jim Aiken's Webfoots gave us a merry preview of Oregon’s new football edition with a rousing victory over Santa Barbara Saturday. The hopeful uncertainty which has enveloped most Oregon rooters throughout the summer has been somewhat cleared. The tilt with Santa Barbara gave everyone a heartening picture of the terrific punch wrapped up in the Oregon eleven. At the first, and at the last, Oregon played cat and mouse with tne mucn-Datterea uaucnos. But there was more material or perhaps evidence in between tire first and the last from which to fit together piece by piece some well-rounded conclusions. We saw Saturday that Aiken j has two backfield men, one Johnny McKay and Bob Eas ter, who in all likelihood will make the fans forget that Jake jj Leight no longer plays for Oregon. Both ball carriers i showed considerable skill in broken field running, McKay deftly finding scoring territory * three times. Elaster, although not participating in the scoring-, • '' ^ wMi s' V o3& NORM VAN BROCKLIN showed his ability in the third quarter, breaking the SB second ary and wiggling his way for fifteen yards, leaving many would be tacklers with only a handful of turf. Backfield Foursome Looks Good We saw too, that the backfield combination of Bell, Van Brocklin, McKay, and Sanders gives the Ducks all-around scor ing power. Sanders proved he was a handy man to have around. He is a fast starter and op four plays through the middle aver aged over six yards per try. Joe Tom, 160 pound quarterback who would rather scrub opponents than laundry, proved he could make an able subsit tute for Van Brocklin. His signal calling and ball handling, as well as his passing, could be considered good in the light that he has had no previous varsity experience. The Aiken theory that his eleven must be shaken up with changes any time the other team gains more than five yards on any play was followed strictly'by the head mentor. The practice, along with other Aiken habits, such as allowing no water on the field for the players, has definite merits. Penalties Could Hurt Oregon In a lop-sided game, penalties were given little considera tion, but Oregon lost 115 yards via this route. The boys were accused of illegal use of hands four times. As we said before, it didn’t matter in the Santa Barbara game, but in an encounter with a team like Michigan a fifteen yard setback could be very costly. Jim Aiken will undoubtedly do a lot to remedy this habit. We saw lastly, and with a sinking heart, that the Duck re serves could do no better than hold their own against Santa Barbara. Saturday’s game gave the reserves ample opportunity to play, and future games, promise better reserve performance. Maybe you can call it irony, maybe it is something else, but things can never be as rosy as possible pictured above when you stop and ask yourself, "Just how good is this Oregon football squad,” or, “Which back is the better of them all.” Against a team such as Santa Barbara it is hard to take the impressive results Oregon manufactured and from them try to rate the Ducks alongside any other team in the country. After the Michigan game will be time enough to get out the pencils and start figuring. New Ratings Confusing ‘Football “Prevues” the latest publication to hit the stands with a pre-season football round-up seems to contradict itself over just where Oregon will finish in the Pacific Coast confer ence standings. Emmons Byrne, sports writer of the Oakland Tribune handles the job of previewing the coast football season. The correspondent rated the conference teams, placing California at the top, and giving the runner-up spot to Oregon. Yet, when you get near the back of the magazine and run across their weekly forecasts for the 1948 football season, you have to thumb back quickly to the spot where Oregon rated second and see if they said what you thought they said. For here, under weekly forecasts, the experts pick Oregon to lose six ball games. According to ‘Football “Prevues,” ’ the Ducks will bow to Stanford, Michigan, Southern California, Wash ington, UCLA, and Oregon State. A note of appreciation should be tacked on here for Wayne’s flower shop for providing corsages for the Rally Squad girls to wear at the downtown rally last Friday, and for providing seven more fresh corsages for the girls to wear at the game on Saturday. AAA Advice: Don't Take Car To Stanford Tilt Many Oregon students planning to drive to Palo Alto for the Oregon Stanford grid contest Saturday may be forced to cancel plans, ac cording to word received from the American Automobile Association. Athletic Business Manager How ard Lemons said Monday that the AAA had advised against motoring to the game because of gas short ages—a situation which will likely affect a sizeable number of Uni versity pigskin fans. Lemons said, however, that the Southern Pacific railroad will ar range for ample space to accommo date students wishing to make the trip. Bus companies will also pro vide space for the jaunt. The Athletic bureau will refund ticket prices to those students forc ed to cancel plans. Game Statistics TC Gillies . 1 Cuffel . 1 Bell . 9 Lewis . 2 Sanders. 4 McKay .11 Oas . 2 Aiken . 2 DeCourcey 6 Hines. 2 Easter. 4 Boqua . 3 Tom . 1 Maine . 2 Moore . 1 Total .51 YG 0 3 72 32 25 114 1 22 22 5 67 14 0 24 0 401 YL NT AV 0 0 0 3 3.0 72 8.0 32 16.0 25 6.3 0 0 114 10.4 0 1 0.5 22 11.0 22 3.7 6 , 3.0 67 16.8 14 '4.7 0 0 24 12.0 1 —1 —1.0 12 389 7.63 Webfoots To Leave For Game Thursday Jim Aiken’s high-flying Duck gridsters will entrain early Thurs day morning for their clash with the Stanford Indians, slated Satur day afternoon at the Stanford sta dium. The Ducks will leave Eugene shortly after 7 a.m. Thursday and will arrive in Palo Alto late that evening. The return trip will begin soon after the game Saturday, with the team expected to arrive back in Eugene at 8:15 Sunday morning. The Webfoots will be housed at the Old Hearst ranch in Pleasanton, Calif., during their stay in the Gold en state. Coach Aiken will put the boys through their practice paces on the estate’s golf course. Aiken Calls (Continued from page jour) but the receivers dropped four of them.” The battle for left half is still wide open, as evidenced by the fine showings of Johnny McKay and Bob Easter. Easter, leading scorer in the nation last year, averaged over 16 yards per carry, while Mc Kay picked up 114 yards in his rushing attempts and scored three touchdowns. Lewis Ready Woodley Lewis, who started at left half for the Webfoots, only car ried the ball twice before receiving a slight elbow injury, but he ram bled 14 and 18 yards on those two attempts. The quarterbacks looked well, with Brocklin adding points after touchdowns to his other abilities. Van booted seven out of eight and would have had a perfect day ex cept for a holding penalty. Little Joe Tom, the Hawaiian star, showed he could come through, handling the ball well and com pleting three out of seven passes. His average would have been high er had his receivers, like Van’s been able to hold onto the ball. Oregon tf Emerald SPORTS Glenn,Gillespie, Bob Reed, Co-Sports Editors Dick Cramer Fred Taylor SPORTS STAFF THIS ISSUE Ron Brown Tom King Ducklings Continue Work For Opening UW Pup Tiff With the days of practice left before their opener dwindling, Ore gon’s Duckling football squad con tinued their work yesterday under Coach Bill Bowerman and assist ants Steve Mezerra and Bill Abbey. Mezerra is helping Bowerman with Frosh linemen, while Abbey has charge of the backfield men. The Yearlings have been work ing out daily with pads, and should be in good shape for their first game with the University of Wash ington Pups, set for the night of October 8 at Portland’s Multnomah stadium. Frosh Work on Plays After a conditioning drill yester day, the Frosh concentrated on straight offensive fundamentals. Linemen worked hard on blocking, while the backs got to work learn ing plays based on the Aiken T formation. The whole squad was given their plays after the workout. Bowerman has not done any cut ting as yet, and has not made any set decisions as to his first two or three teams. There are still more than 80 candidates suiting up for every practice. A scrimmage with the varsity is scheduled in the near future. Ducklings Eager Work so far has been limited to plain and fancy conditioning, plus a steady drilling in football funda mentals. The boys seem eager to learn, exhibiting plenty of spirit and fire during their drills. After the Washington game in Portland, the Ducklings face an al ways tough Oregon State Rook game October 23 at Corvallis. I-M Touch Ball DeadlineToday Men’s living organizations in terested in entering a touch foot ball team in this year’s intramural program have been requested to turn in entrance blanks to the in tramural office or to the physioal education office by 4 o’clock this afternoon. Intramural director Paul R. Washke emphasized that this is the absolute deadline to turn in blanks, since the touch football schedule has to be made out and mailed to organization athletic managers in a week’s time. Intra mural football play begins Septem ber 28. Washke also announced that any one interested in officiating in touch ball play should contact Jim Vitti, intramural manager, at the I-M office. 1948-49 copies of the annual in tramural handbook are also avail able at the office. J The Perfect Sports Shirt— for ^£2 BOWLING OR 11 I ' \ ' \ Y\ STROLLING 95.95 "GABANARO” by ARROW Just received—a grand gabardine sports shirt—good looking, long-wearing, and completely washable. 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