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By Tom King
Emerald Sports Editor
After watching the Green and \\ bites go at it in 60 minutes of
unmitigated mayhem last Saturday afternoon, one is left with
the impression that Oregon will field a pretty solid football team
next fall, one that won't have to take any deep salaams before
anybody.
The boys went out there and put on an exceptionally good
show before an audience that was exceptional (6,700), consider
ing it was Memorial weekend.
The result created something of a surprise, because Earl
Stelle, playing with eleven supposed defensive specialists, pulled
his club together and completely outclassed the first string. And
it seems that the big difference was Stelle himself.
We can't cjuite go overboard and say that Stelle (or Jim
Calderwood or Joe Tom, either, for that matter) is ready to step
right in and make the citizenry forget all about one Norm Van
Brocklin, as did some writers. That takes a goodly bit, of step
ping.
Stelle Looks Like He Has the Goods to Deliver
Nevertheless, the very fact
that he performed in a rather
clever manner out there on Hay
ward Field is sufficient. For our
money, Stelle has earned his first
string berth. Coach Jim Aiken
has been giving the nod to Calder
wood, and, admittedly, the young
freshman looks pretty sharp at
times. In fact, during practice
sessions he seemed to be throw
ing t ^'better ball.
This wap hot the case Satur
day. Stelle’s pitches resem
bled sling shots—and they were
accurate. Calderwood wasn’t get
ting his pegs off smoothly as he
has been, and he was further
handicapping himself by repeat
edly drifting back out of the cup
formed to protect him.
However, one must bear in
mind that the sling-beany lad
from Baker has three years of
football ahead of him, and that
it’s asking a lot—maybe too
much—to expect him to take
charge of a college ball club with
so little seasoning behind him.
Tom, the Dark-Horse Candidate; Has Know-How
Of course, we could be wrong. There's roughly three months
between 11OW and the opening of next season—and a number of
things could happen. One of which might be that Tom. who has
the know-how, will sneak in the back entrance and make that
starting eleven.
One striking feature was the amount of ball carrying done by
the quarterbacks. Those bootleg plays clicked for healthy gains
virtually every time. Here again, however, we must sound a note
of caution. Shch chicanery is usually good once or twice a ball
game. Calderwood and Stelle were able to capitalize on it Satur
day because they were working against the third and fo.urth
strings. Still, Oregon couldn’t pull this play effectively last year,
but it is quite obvious that such won’t be the case in ’49.
The bone-rattling line-backer job turned in by Dick Daugherty
bore out what Line Coach Bob Sullivan had said about this big
Colgate transfer at the Spring Football Clinic banquet given the
night previous. Sullivan minced no words in praising Daugherty
and Dick Patrick, and claimed he wouldn’t swap them for any
line-backing team he’s seen.
Daugherty, Patrick, Johnson Highly Rated
He concluded with the state
ment that “in Daugherty, Patrick
and Dewayne Johnson, Oregon
has three of the best that can be
found anywhere.”
Ail in all, it was a top-notch
ball game played a group of boys
who are going to be pretty top
notch next fall. Chances are they
won’t retain that co-PCC cham
pionship they won in ’48, but then
that’s a pretty big order.
All-America Jack Jensen’s de
cision to take a flyer at profes
sional baseball leaves a mighty
big gap on Lyn Waldorf’s Califor
nia eleven, and any visions he had
about taking another trip to Pas
adena may have vanished forth
with. Anybody who saw the Gold
en Bears last autumn will tell you
that—Swaner or no Swaner and
Franz or no Franz—it was the
very capable “Blonde Bombshell”
who carried them through unde
feated.
Southern Cal Pre-season Favorite
Anyway, pre-season oracles have already assigned the P.CC
title to Southern California, with Berkley second. It’s “take your
pick" from there on down.
With Oregon State and UCLA starting anew after coaching
shakeups, with Washington bothered a bit by reports of internal
dissention, with Stanford depending on a flock of strong but
green freshmen, and with WSC and Idaho as futile as ever, the
Webfoots have a dandy opportunity to make hay.
Because, for the reasons just cited, the sun is shining.
Stelle, Cuffel Lead Greens
To Upset Win Over Whites
Oregon’s Ducks put on a pretty
fancy show last Saturday when
the Greens upset the Whites 31-26
in the annual intrasquad football
game.
And between the opening whis
tle and the final gun, Webfoot fol
lowers got a look-see at a few new
faces who are apt to turn in a lot
of playing time come next fall.
Halfback Hal Cuffel, a little fel
low who can twist and turn with
some of the best of ’em, registered
a four-star performance with some
tricky running and good pass re
ceiving. Young Jerry Leslie, who
was on the Frosh last autumn,
pitched in with an 18-yard field
goal and four successful conver
sions.
Defensively, Dick Daugherty
did a bang-up linebacking job for
the Greens. He’ll see plenty of
action during the ’49 campaign.
The game was an interesting
one, and was highlighted by the
sterling quarterbacking perform
ance of Earl Stelle. The Greens
were a fire-up bunch of boys and
they simply outclassed the first
stringers, who struck often—but
not quite often enough.
It was strictly an offensive'
show, with wide open passing
and a sprinkling of broken field
gallops. One significant aspect of
the tilt was that the passer was
nailed for a loss more often than
usual under the Jim Aiken sys
tem of protection at all costs.
The game brought to a close the
third annual coaching clinic, which
was attended by coaches from all
over the region. The clinic itself
was adjudged a success by most
observers. The one critical com
ment was that the lectures dealt
more with the fundamental rather
than the technical details of the
game, and that they too closely ap
proached a beginner’s level, even
for a high school mentor.
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