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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1948)
Contact Session Sharpens Webfoots for Husky Contest Possible Quagmire Might be Factor In Conference Tilt Contact scrimmage with pads was Coach Jim Aiken’s pre scription for the Oregon foot hall team yesterday afternoon, as the Ducks worked out on a wet and sloppy practice field. The third string varsity scrimmaged with the Frosh team, while the two first varsi ty lines ran plays against each other. With November rains falling all over the Northwest, there’s a good chance that Saturday’s game with the Washingeon Huskies will be played on a muddy field. Drilling for Mud The Webfoots are drilling for that possibility, with Quarterback Norm Van Brocklin throwing a wet ball in practice, and Oregon runners going through their plays on a muddy field. This week’s game with the Husk ies in Seattle will be well on the home stretch in the 1948 Pacific Coast Conference championship race. Only three more games re main on Oregon’s schedule, all away from home. Three Wins Necessary Each game is becoming more crucial, and the Ducks need wins over Washington, UCLA, and Ore gon State to finish the season un defeated. Aiken expects his team to be sharper this week than it was in the last game against St. Mary's, and has planned a heavy practice schedule until the team entrains Thursday night for Seattle. The game could develop into an aerial battle, if weather permits, since both teams use an offense with many pass plays included. Atise McCullough handles Husky passing duty, while Van Brocklin throws for the Ducks. Ducklings to Meet OSC Here Oregon’s Frosh gridsters will take the local sports spotlight this weekend while the Ducks are on the road for their tiff with the Uni versity of Washington outfit, meeting the Oregon State Kooks in their only homo appearance of the season. Coach Bill Bowerman’s Ducklings will be out to avenge the 34-14 lacing tended them by the Staters in a previous tilt at Corvallis. A heavier State eleven outcharged the Ducklings in the previous en gagement, but Bowerman is apparently relying on speed and finesse to counterbalance the Kooks’ weight advantage. Bowerman’s charges average slightly over 180 pounds in the line, and are slill lighter in the backfield. Besides proficiency in the speed department, the Ducklings also boast an effective passer in Jim Calderwood, whose aerial performances have been responsible for the two Frosh victories this season. Norm's in Form r 3. NORM VAN BKOCKLIN Oregon’s ace quarterback, increased his passing percentage last week against St. Mary’s, and expects to do tin' same this Saturday in Seattle, when the Ducks play the Wash ington Huskies. Intramural Volleyball Goes into Second Week TODAY SCHEDULE 8:50 1*1 Kappa Phi vs. ATO Wesley house vs. Merrick hall 4:35 Fizzed* vs. Kappa Sigma Nestor hall vs. Dir 5:15 Stitzer vs. Phi Kappa Sigma Minturn vs. SAM Intramural volleyball moved sol idly into its second week of action as six teams notched wins in their victory columns. Results of the day’s play were: Sigma Phi Epsilon downed the Betas in two rounds; Pi Kappa Al oha rolled over Lambda Chi Al pha; the Dolts smothered the Legal Eagles; SAE drubbed the Tekes; Hunter hall dropped Cherney hall; ■■ind Sherry Ross was handed a for feit win when the Yeomen failed to appear at game time. Sig Eps Sweep In the Spee-Beta battle, the Sig Eps took the opening game easily by a 15-10 count. However, in the ■econd heat, the Betas boomed out into the lead and it looked like they had it cinched to send the contest mto a third round. Then with the ncoro, 11 to 4, Beta's favor, the Sig Eps came to life, pushed the con test into a duce game, and annexed the second frame 16 to 14. Delta Tau Delta's setup combin ation of Pete Hill and Bob Kelirli were too much for the unnder manned Legal Eagle six as the Delts took the two rounds 15-3 and 15-4. Although the score was over whelmingly in favor of Pi Kappa Alpha, it had no soft touch de feating Lambda Chi 15-2 and 15-9. Sigma Alpha Epsilon never was in danger as it downed Tau Kappa Epsilon handily, 15-3 and 15-11. In the only contest of the after noon that was forced into three rounds, a hot-and-cold Hunter hall squad chalked up a win over Cher ney hall six. Scores were 15-6, 14 16, and 15-1.. Brooks Biddle will captain Wash ington at Seattle Saturday. -Superior that's our pressing service Remember: We satisfy • CLEANING • PRESSING 643 E. 13th Phone 317 Odell to Leave Bed For Saturday Fracas Though he hasn’t seen his boys in varsity action \ et, \\ ash ington’s Coach, Howie Odell, will be on the sidelines when the Huskies clash with the University of Oregon this Saturda}. Odell, ill since August, has been taking in the season so far either from a hospital bed or his home. But Saturday he plans to watch his hot-and-cold griclders battle the W ebfoots from the Husky Bench. The youthful head man was hired to try and bring Washing ton grid fortunes out of the doldrums where they had fallen under Ralph “Pest” Welch, who last year could bring home only three wins in nine games. Odell so far, has left the handling of the team up to Reg Root, line coach, while he has been recovering from his illness. Using a unique form of the popu lar “T” formation, Odell, who is only 37 years old, built up a-.700 winning average at Yale. Under his system, the halfbacks do the bucking with the fullback the speedster in the backfield. Huskies Unpredictable Under Root’s direction the Husk ies have been a strictly up and down club, but mostly down. With nine teen lettermen in hand, they have the nucleus for a strong team, but have so far failed to live up to their potentialities. Their most impres sive game so far has been the solid trouncing they gave an even more up-and-down team, UCLA. In Anse McCullough, Washing ton has one of the highest-touted passers on the Coast, but so far, he hasn’t lived up to his press clippings with any consistency. However, when he is hot, he is very effective. Kirby Paces Attack At the halfbacks are Brooks Bid dle, playing his fifth year of college football, and 193-pound Marshall Dallas, a two-year regular at full back. Roland Kirby at fullback has been the biggest ground-gainer for the Huskies so far. Washington grid followers have proclaimed' since the begining of the season that they had one of the outstanding wingmen on the Coast in Ernie Stein, a two-year veteran. A 200-pound junior, Stein is rated the best of the Husky ends. Other outstanding linemen are Doug Vickery and John Prechek, top-ranking tackles, Alf Hemstad, All-Coast guard in 1945, Bob Leven hagen, All-Coast guard last year, and Bill McGovern center in 1945 and now in his fifth year at Wash ington. This past weekend the not-so Husky Huskies ran into a revital ized Stanford eleven and came out on the short end by a 20-point mar gin. Previously they had dropped the nod to Minnesota, in the close sea sonal opener, as well as to Wash ington State and California. They did, however, come through with a tie against Oregon State. 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