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DUCK TRACKS) By GLENN GILLESPIE Emerald Sports Editor „ Eight of the ten games we predicted turned out the right way last Saturday, for an even .800 week and a season’s total of 42 right, eleven wrong, and one tie. That brings the total percentage to .792, and it looks like a perfect week is necessary to lioosi us over .800. Naturally we missed the Stanford-Washington game, and by ciuite a margin at that. No matter what team the Indians - play, we manage to call the game wrong. Stanford won . 20-0, to hand the Huskies their third straight shutout. With Coach Howie Odell back in har ness, Washington is due for a win sooner or later. UCLA students and alumni will be soothed for a while by the Bruin win over Nebraska. The Cornhuskers lost 27-15 in a weird contest, which we called the other way. Bert LaBruch ' erie's boys meet the California Golden Bears this Saturday, * and the Uclans have another chance to surprise. The other eight teams turn ed out right as far as winning teams go, but the scores gave us a bad time. Especially the Oregon-St. Mary’s final result: HOWIE ODELL We were surprised, proven wrong, and disappointed for 58 minutes of the ball game, and then elated and relieved in the final two minutes, when Norm Van Brocklin finally start ed throwing the ball to Dick WilMns. That isn’t exactly right, since Wilkins caught other passes, but they were all in the second half. Of the six passes Van Brocklin completed, four of them went to Wilkins. Never again will we make the same mistake. Even if the enemy boasts that 25 ten-year-olds make up their squad, we won’t underrate them. The St. Mary’s game turned out to be - anything but a breather, and the Gael squad was not crossing football class lines. - '1 That Duck 'Cycle' Has Started Again • It WAS a flat Oregon team on the field Saturday. No question about that, and nobody knows why. The hot-cold, . sharp-flat, good-bad Oregon cycle is again on the go, and let the sport writers’ adjectives fall where they may. Such is the fate of a PCC football power. Every team on „ the coast would love to give the Webfoots the axe, and every team on the Duck schedule has tried to do just that. They can lose every other game they play, but against Oregon the opposition is fired to the skies for the upset chance of the year. This is certainly true of those red-shirted Gaels, and Coach Joe Verducci must be given credit for a St. Mary’s miracle and a near-distaster for the Webfoots. Oregon Spirit Means a Lot - Oregon’s rally squad and the majority of Oregon students at the game" are to be praised for the loyal display of their spirit Saturday, but a few rooters almost spoiled the fine show with their misguided loyalty. Nevertheless, Duck rooter-spirit at the St. Mary's game was the best we’ve seen this year, and is the way things should be. It's Washington next week in Seattle, and those Huskies are tough on their home grounds. As Coach Odell has said, all the Washington team needs is a few touchdowns to get them going. Husky Results Not Too Bright Of six games played, the Huskies have defeated UCLA 27-6 for their only conference win. A 14-14 tie with OSC is the other bright spot on the 1948 Husky record. Minnesota defeated them 20-0 in the opening game, and WSC, California, arftl Stan ford have won over Washington in conference games. When the break comes, those Huskies should really roll. On paper, Odell has a potentially strong squad, but they haven’t shown yet. Jim Aiken’s Webfoots fly to Los Angeles the following week for the UCLA game Friday night, November 12. La Brucherie’s team has been the PCC question mark so far, but can be counted upon to give Oregon a bad time. The always-tough OAC Aggies are slated for Oregon’s final game November 20 at Corvallis, and if any team will be primed for an upset, the Orangemen will, with a 14-6 Duck win last year to think about. This year’s Civil War will be a thriller, and a lot may be decided by the outcome. There it is, and it’s squarely up to the Oregon team. No - more “squeaks” or the California Bears are in for sure. 'Hot Dog' Shines in Scrimmage As Duck Cagers Prep for Opener If “Hot Dog” Roger Wiley keeps on rolling up the points in North ern Division action like he did yes terday in practice, the 6-foot, 8 inch pivotman could well put all conference scoring records in jeop ardy. In the first scrimmages of the third week of basketball practice, Wiley was far and away the out standing performer. He dropped in buckets from all over the court, pulled in rebounds under both bas kets, and even fast broke the op position at least three times. In the first scrimmage of the day, Wiley, Bob Don, Lynn Ham ilton, Bob Lavey and Kenney See borg defeated Jerry Switzer, Jim Bocchi, Rod Slade, Dale Warburg, and Leroy Coleman 12-4. Lavey Scores Six For the only time during the af ternoon, Wiley was outscored, with Lavey dropping in six. Wiley dumped in four to take second honors, with Switzer and Bocchi getting two each for the losars. With Sowers taking Hamilton’s place and Neeley taking over for Lavey, the same team downed Paul Cooper, Don Peterson, Will Urban, Jack Keller, and Dick Unis 14-2. Wiley hit for eight and Seeborg four, with Cooper’s bucket being the only score for the opposition. Wiley Leads Mates In the third tilt, Wiley garnered six points while leading Bob Ama cher, Sowers, Hamilton and Lavey to a 14-8 win over Cooper, Peter son, Roger Mockford, Darrell Hawes and Bill Hutchinson. Pe terson’s six was tops for the losers. In the final game of the day, Le roy Coleman and Johnny Neeley both hit for six with Coleman’s team winning out, 16-8. Bocchi and Slade contributed four points each to the winning total, with Seeborg hitting the only other two-pointer for the losers. Another Caood Week (Continued from page four) Cornell 20, Columbia 13 Temple 20, Bucknell 0 Villanova 27, Detroit 6 Arkansas 28, Texas A&M 6 SMU 21, Texas 6 Wichita 14, Tulsa 14 Stanford 20, Washington 0 San Jose 14, Col. of Pacific 7 Florida 39, Furman 14 N C State 13, Wake Forest 34 Tulane 9, Miss. State 0 Brig. Young 26, Montana 20 Iowa 19, Wisconsin 13 N. Carolina 14, Tennessee 7 UCLA 27, Nebraska 15 Duquesne 13, Ohio U 14 Lehigh 20, NYU 21 Maryland 27, Miami (Fla) 13 S. Carolina 12, W. Virginia 35 New Mexico 14, Fresno State 20 California 13, USC 7 Mont. State 14, Idaho State 20 Wm & Mary 14, Richmond 6 Georgia 35, Alabama 0 Rutgers 6, Brown 20 Willamette 13, Lewis & Clark 14 Penn State 32, Colgate 13 Harvard 20, Holy Cross 13 Princeton 55, Virginia 14 Mich. State 46, Ore. State 21 Vanderbilt 47, Auburn 0 Mississippi 49, LSU 19 Geo. Tech 19, Duke 7 Kentucky 28, Cincinnati 7 Santa Clara 25, USF 13 Lafayette 33, Geo. Wash. 14 Bonaventure 20, St. Louis 0 Utah 14, Colorado 12 Penn 40, Wash. & Lee 7 Oklahoma 33, Iowa State 6 Minnesota 30, Indiana 7 Notre Dame 41, Navy 7 Oregon 14, St. Mary’s 13 Purdue 14, Marquette 9 Nevada 79, Okla. City 13 Colo. A&M 33, Colo. Mines 0 Pitt 20, W. Reserve 0 Six V-Ball Squads Win l-M Contests TODAY’S SCHEDULE 3:50 Beta Theta Pi A vs. Sig Ep A Sherry Ross A vs. Yeoman A 4:35 Lambda Chi A vs. Pi Kappa Al pha A Legal Eagles A vs. Delts A 5:15 Cherney A vs. Hunter A Teke A vs. SAE A Twelve "B” intramural volley ball teams took over the activity courts yesterday, in the sixth day of I-M action. Sigma Alpha Epsilon defeated Campbell club 15-3 and 15-4, Sigma Chi downed Phi Kappa Psi 15-6 and 15-3, Delta Tau Delta beat Lambda Chi Alpha 15-0 and 15-10, and Phi Delta Theta dropped Sig ma Phi Epsilon 15-6 and 15-4. Alpha Tau Omega won over Chi Psi 15-0 and 15-6, and Phi Gamma Delta whipped Theta Chi 15-2 and 15-12. All volleyball players have been asked to wear gym shoes, to pre vent the spread of disease. Basket ball and handball application blanks are now available, and can be obtained at the intramural of fice. Nearly 30 per cent of the farms in the United States are rented and operated by tenants. Change in Rules Sought for Bowl PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 2 (AP) —The Tournament of Roses Asso ciation unofficially started an ef fort yesterday to bring the No. 1 football team of the Midwest’s Big Nine conference into the Rose Bowl New Year's day against the Pacific Coast Conference champion. That probably would be Michigan versus California. But under the Big Nine-Coast. Conference agreement, a Big Nine team may not appear in the Rose Bowl oftener than once in three years. Lathrop K. Leishman, chairman of the association’s football com mittee, said he understood but hadn’t been officially informed yet that his own executive committee wants him to take up the matter with the Coast Conference. Harold C. Shaffer, president of the association and chairman of the executive committee ,is out of town. It’s debatable whether the rules could be changed in time for the forthcoming Rose Bowl classic, ev en if both conferences were agree able. And several Chicago sports writers attending today’s meeting of the Southern California football writers unanimously quoted Big Nine commissioner Tug Wilson as saying “there isn’t a chance.” ARE YOU COLD? Is the RAIN getting you down? • • • . Come to jbel'4, 9tut FOR THE BEST COFFEE IN TOWN Across from Sigma Nu Free Cords! To D. Osburn for his close prediction of the Oregon-St. Mary’s game in our weekly contest. Osburn wins a pair of Roughrider cords. 2nd prize to Harry Daley. A Lord Jeff Sweater. 3rd prize to William Leabo. A bottle of shaving lotion. Enter this week’s contest— Oregon vs Washington. No ob ligation.