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.
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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.”
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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
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3rd prize to William Leabo.
A bottle of shaving lotion.
Enter this week’s contest—
Oregon vs Washington. No ob
ligation.