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DUCK TRACKS By GLENN GILLESPIE Co-Sports Editor Of the nine Pacific Coast Conference member teams which * will play football games this weekend, only four of the teams, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, and Southern Cal., will see _ action in a counting conference contest. Oregon, of course, will engage the Stanford Indians Saturday at Palo Alto, while the up state Aggies tackle a favored USC team Friday night at Los Angeles. Three “big” intersectional battles are on the books this ' weekend for PCC teams. Howie Odell’s University of Washing ton Huskies will entertain the .Minnesota Gophers at Seattle, f Lynn Waldorf's California Bears, reputed to be a coast power, travel to Baltimore, Maryland, to play the Middies from Navy, . and UCLA plays host to another Big Nine squad, Bob Voigts’ Northwestern Wildcats. The Idaho Vandals, coached by Dixie Howell, and Montana will take on Big Seven opponents in their games. Idaho travels to Salt Lake City for a game with Utah, while Montana enter tains Utah State at Missoula. Washington State draws an open date this weekend. " As far as predictions go, why not? Everybody else does, so we shall attempt to add our nominations to the many, sticking < our neck out only on games PCC teams play. All set? ' How Many Out of Seven? OREGON vs. STANFORD—School loyalties or no, we shall stick with Jim Aiken’s Ducks on this one. The Indians will - he fighting for an upset, but not this week. Wouldn’t care to say how many points. , OREGON STATE vs. SOUTHERN CAL—We’ve read plenty of copy on how Lon Stiner’s Beavers freeze up on their southern trips, and the 48-6 drubbing they took last year from USC seems to indicate this is true. Jeff Cravath’s Trojans, miffed over the pre-season snubbing they received, should ~ wallop the Aggies. WASHINGTON vs. MINNESOTA—Looking over past - records, we find the Gophers have triumphed over the Seattle team five years in a row. It was just a bare 7-6 margin last season, but Minnesota should do better Saturday. CALIFORNIA vs. NAVY—The Golden Bears will help rehabilitate the reputation of West Coast football when they tip Navy. Big money says this will be close, and it could go either way. UCLA vs. NORTHWESTERN—After a slow start, the Wildcats started rolling at the end of last season and may con - tinue this year. Since the game will be played in the Coliseum, we think the Uclans will whip Northwestern. This is another „ game that rates a coin flip. IDAHO vs. UTAH*—Idaho may have improved since last season, but we’ll stick with Utah, leader in the Big Seven last year and always a tough team to beat. MONTANA vs. UTAH STATE—A clean sweep for the Utah schools this week, since we figure Montana will fall before another Big Seven squad. So much for the predictions, and we'll be one of the first to grab the sports page Sunday morning to figure out the average. - (jria Predictions Starting Tomorrow As a regular weekly feature for Oregon football fanatics, the . Emerald sports page will publish a list of predictions covering the major grid games over the nation. First edition of “Grid Guesses” will run in Saturday’s issue, although we plan to con tinue these PCC predictions each week in the column. Any opin ions on the subject ? Let us know .... If these rains keep up, and there’s no question about that here in Oregon, Jim Aiken’s Ducks will be playing football in the mud - sooner or later. We’re anxious to see how the Aiken “T” operates on a wet field, since most of last year’s games were played on a „ dry field. Improved drainage facilities on conference fields, notably Oregon State’s Bell field and Multnomah stadium in Portland, should help to solve the mud bugaboo that has plagued Northwest football teams in the past. The lush turf that carpeted Hayward field's playing surface was in fine condition for the Santa Barbara game, but will take a beating when a game is played on a rainy day. Aiken's no-practice policy in the stadium really helps the turf to take hold between games. * Only One Plane Trip This Year Of the six football games that the Webfoots play away from home this season, only one airplane trip is scheduled. That one, of course, is the necessary flight back to Michigan for the game J October 2 at Ann Arbor. If the Ducks didn’t take a plane for thi one. they would face a lengthy train journey, a dreaded affair around football dressing rooms. The remaining Oregon games away are close enough that a reasonably short train ride will turn the trick. Jim Aiken and his 37-man traveling squad of Stanford-bound Ducks are on their way by now, carrying with them hopes of . the entire student body. — BEAT STANFORD !!! Ducklings Work Hard For Berths Oregon football weather greeted Bill Bowerman’s Ducklings yester day when the neophytes turned to for their afternoon practice session on the upper field. Bowerman fol lowed his usual rigorous schedule despite the heavy rainfall, and the frosh took to it “like ducks to wa ter.’’ Assistant Coach Seve Mezzera sent his line charges through a brushing-up period, working out in detail the complications of line duty for every plav. Bill Abbey led the backs and ends in a passing prac tice designed to familiarize the frosh with Aiken’s pass plays. Winding up the session, Bower man sent his candidates through an hour and a half of sloppy scrim mage. Despite the muddy turf and wet ball, the offensive squad made impressive gains, although the de fensive set made it clear they were in the game. No definite teams have been st up as yet, and Bowerman alternat ed his players, giving everyone a chance to show. At the offensive quarterback spot, big Jim Calder wood of Baker flipped some accur ate passes to ends Chuck Bafaro and Jerry Leslie, who played against each other in the August Shrine classic in Portland. Word came from Seattle yester day that the Washington Pups, the Ducklings’ first opponents this sea son, have 76 grid stars donning blue and gold colors for Freshman Coach Johnny Cherberg. The Pups have an impressive list of Washington and out-of-state ex high school stars. A name familiar to prep followers of last year is Len Heston, from Klamath Falls. Hes ton, at 215 pounds, played fullback at Klamath. Heston’s running mate at Klam ath high, little Tommy Edwards, is a top contender for the left half spot on the frosh team at Oregon, and may be seen in action against Heston on October 8. Another frosh candidate at Washington is Kenny Dunn, from Camas, Washington. Dunn was a first-string left half for the Paper makers three years, giving north ern Oregon schools headaches every season. Kenny plays on the style of ex-Camasite Jim Newquist, right half for the Ducks last year. Leo Gilnett, frosh quarterback (Pleas; turn to page seven) 17 7l NOW COLUMBIA L P RECORDS Hear them Today 45 MINUTES OF CONTINUOUS RECORDED MUSIC ON ONE RECORD GRAVES MUSIC ART 1198 Willamette Ph. 4407 Beaver Tackle BILL. AUSTIN, VETERAN BEAVER right tackle and rated as one of the best in the PCC, will be out to thwart Trojan line thrusts when the Staters meet Southern Cal in the Coliseum this Saturday. OMLID’S Golf School & Practice Range— Sheltered trees — lights for nite practice Open 12:00 noon to 10:00 p.m. (lessons if desired) 32nd and Hilyard — 6784-J SPALDING 5 tm <ssm!j 1NTHE1Q24 ILLINOIS-) MICHIGAN GAME RED GRANGE "PUT ON TOOTBAlLS) GREATEST ONE-MAN DEMONSTRATION... 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