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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1949)
DUCK TRACKS By Sam Fidman Assistant Sports Editor Mark this day on your calendar. It is the beginning of a great new era; one which may well spell down for the Oregon Daily Emerald, but one which is at least new. Prognostication—spelled a-s-p-i-r-i-n—has now gained a foothold within the shack. Con sequently, and without further ado, we plunge headlong into the maddening whirl of football predictions (or the snake pit) with naught at stake but life, limb, reputation and G.I. check. Please —oh puh-leeze DON’T QUOTE US—but to those poor souls who must indulge in the fine art of football parlay sheets, we offer condolescences, sympathy, pity and free shots of adrenalin. The South—Deep, That Is * TULANE will pick Alabama’s cotton down at Mobile—the Green Wave isn’t green this year. MISSISSIPPI to dump Au burn—just in case anybody really cares. BAYLOR’S Bear to trample South Carolina at Waco, and unless DUKE’S gridders contract malaria while being individually crushed by two-ton trucks, the Blue Devils shouldn't have much trouble with Rich mond at Durham. Rapidly improving MARYLAND should dis member Virginia Tech, while flashy John Papit will be instru 1 mental in a VIRGINIA triumph over George Washington (and ten other players). Here’s where the trouble starts—the rest of the world— including Radio Moscow says that VANDERBILT will mash a “too-light-up-front” Georgia Tech—with the aid of God, a few marines and a slippery turf—we say GEORGIA TECH. And furthermore—TCU over Oklahoma A&M ; TEXAS U. way over Temple’s Owl’s; TENNESSEE over Mississippi State (by less than you may think); GEORGIA over Chatta nooga; TEXAS A&M over Texas Tech by the flip of a coin; I SOUTHERN METHODIST over tough Wake Forest and—go | ing against the grain—LOUISIANA STATE over Kentucky. NORTH CAROLINA over North Carolina State and RICE ov er Clemson. East Is East And ARMY to toss up a Davidson salad; despite the cross-coun try hop, OKLAHOMA’S rugged Sooners should bake Boston College’s beans (by better than two TDs.). Once again mighty CORNELL to crush Niagara U. (this one’s good for our aver age) ; COLUMBIA over Amherst (wanna bet); COLGATE ov er Buffalo (which is different -than won a bet). HOLY CROSS (Notre Dame’s weak old mater) over Georgetown; PENN STATE in a tough one over Villanova; PITT over Wm. and Mary (not by much); YALE over Conneticut (which is not dif ferent than by not very much). BOSTON U just fiarely over Syracuse; PRINCETON to pulverize pore Lafayette, and—just in case you are interested—MAINE over Rhode Island State. A There's Corn on Every Hand... MINNESOTA’S glittering Golden Gophers gung gat good ’gainst Washington (at Minneapolis). Although it is against our better judgment, the coin says UCLA over Iowa; KANSAS over Colorado; NORTHWESTERN over Purdue (says who); WIS CONSIN by two TDs over Marquette (says us); ILLIONIS over the doormat of the Big Sevemlowa State—; NOTRE DAME over the po' Hoosiers of Clyde Smith (for sure) ; OHIO STATE Buckeyes over Missouri (not so sure); Michigan State over Michigan—oops—we mean MICHIGAN over M-State— ride with the top man till he isn’t—but then where are you—. WICHITA over Miami (O.)—goodie; W. VIRGINIA over Ohio; NEBRASKA over South Dakota (the world is shocked) ; KANSAS STATE over Fort Mays (so's the wheat); DETROIT over Tulsa (so what) ; CINCINNATI over Hardin-Simmins (sew wheat); DRAKE over Emporia State (oh-). But There's Twains on the Coast OREGON STATE to nick Utah (John loves Mary); STAN FORD to depress Hahvud teddibly (Mary loves John) ; rejuve nated SOUTHERN CAL over the hornless Navy goat (but John loves Abigale); WASHINGTON STATE over Montana (bet ter than Abigale loves Louie). SANTA CLARA over San Jose State (but where does that leave Linda) ; CALIFORNIA over St. Mary’s (who loves Filbert); NEVADA over Portland (who sews wheat) ; ST. BONAVENTURE over San Francisco (so’s what); E. WASH. COLLEGE over Montana State (sews wl^fcat); OREGON 27 . .. Idaho 6 (oh-). Beavers Ready for Utes Contest; Seek To Avenge Previous Week's Trouncing PROBABLE OREGON Bob Anderson . Sam Nevills . Ed Chrobot. Dave Gibson . Chet Daniels. Steve Dotur . Darrell Robinson. Earl Stelle . George Bell. Woody Lewis. Bob Sanders. STARTING LINEUP IDAHO .EE.George Gallew ' .RT. Carl Kiilsgaard , RG.Wilbur Ruleman - C. Vern Baxter LG. Ray Colquitt LT.Will Overgaard LE.John Beach - Q.Ted Diehl RH.Glen Christian LH. John Brogan FB.A1 Schireman Oregon> Gaels Ink Two-Year Game Contract Leo Harris, Athletic Director of the University, made the announce ment yesterday that the Webfoots have scheduled football games with the St. Mary’s Gaels for 1951 and 1952. The announcement of the inking of the contract came short ly after a conference held between Harris and head football coach Jim Aiken. The previous contract called for the 1950 game to be played here on October 21, which will remain in effect. The new inking states that the 1951 game will be played at Kezar stadium in San Francisco, the night of October 5 and the 1952 tussle will be either the second or the fifth game of the season. It looks like we have the makings of a permanent gridiron classic here, with the inter-state teams battling it out for the “Governor's Trophy.” Since relations between the Gaels and Oregon have been resumed last season, mighty Jim’s Webfoots have vanquished the Frisco boys by scores of 14-13, and 24-7. Be fore mighty Jim took over the reins here at Oregon, however, the Gaels took the first four con tests, 31-6 in 1929, 7-6 in 1930, 16 0 in 1931 and 7-0 in 1932. The Web foots won their first and only game in 1933 by a score of 13-7, but the Saints came back to win in 1934 by a score of 13-7 and irf 1935, 18-0. Kiner Hits 51st, 52nd Home Run Ralph Kiner, Pittsburgh’s bust ling homerun slugger, belted out his 51st and 52nd circuit clout of the season yesterday as the Pirates lost 9-7 to the Boston Braves. Kiner is two games ahead of the National league record pace of Hack Wilson in 1930, but is five games behind the swatting of Babe Ruth who established the Major league record of 60 homers in 1927 while with the New York Yankees. Sex Life on the Campus It is a proven fact that corduroy shirts are good looking and warm during the fall months. They are ideal for football games and other outdoor occasions. At Dix’s 99 store, 605 Willamette they cost only $5.95. Because this is such a hot item and we wanted to bring it to your attention we put this head ing on it thanks for reading this paid advertisement. (Paid advt.) Frosh Inaugurate Season Next Sat. Oregon’s Athletic News Bureau, last night, released the forth coming game schedule for the 1949 Frosh football season. The Ducklings start a torrid October season on the local field, Saturday, October 8 against Port land University’s Frosh. Games to follow will be an Oc tober 14 contest with Oregon State’s Baby Beavers on Hayward Field and a Seattle battle set for October 22 with the University of Washington Frosh. Vanport College’s J. C.’s will make the trek to the local camp for an October 28 battle with the “little quackers.’’ Fifth and last game of the fall series will be a return tussle with the Beaver set at Corvallis,^November 11. During Thursday’s evening prac tice session Frosh coach Bill Bow erman continued to stress passing and offensive action. The team ap pears to be rounding out in fine shape and should be red hot in this year's gridiron supremacy picture. me uregon state tootoaii team vill board a chartered DC-6 at Sa em this morning bound for Salt -ake City, where the Beavers will neet Utah in an inter-sectional dash Saturday night. The Redskins undoubtedly will go nto the contest a slight favorite on he basis of their strong showing n losing 14-7 to Washington at Se ittle last weekend, while Oregon State was absorbing a 35-13 lick ng from UCLA in its opener at Los \ngeles. But the Beavers, disgusted with :heir performance against the Bruins, have put in long hours of practice this week in an all-out ef fort to correct their weaknesses and -'an be expected to make a strong :omeback. Whether this will be ?nough to turn back the Utes on their home lot is a question. Coach Kip Taylor has stressed fundamentals all week because it was in this department the Orange were lacking most in their initial start. At the same time the squad has drilled on ways of stopping Utah’s potent T formation attack which packs a strong aerial game along with a dangerous running at MANY VETERANS BACK No drastic changes have been made in the OSC lineup. Walt Kelly, junior letterman who played left half last year, has moved into the top spot at quarterback. Dick Gray, three-year letterman, apparently has clinched the starting nod at right half, although Don Mast and Bill Sheffold are still very much in the picture. Other probable starters against Utah are Craig McMicken, left end; Arvid Niemi, left tackle; Ed Car michael, left guard; A1 Gray, cen ter; Capt. Tom DeSylvia, right guard; Jay Simon, right tackle; Rudy Ruppe, right end; Ken Car penter, left half; and Dick Twenge, fullback. 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