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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1949)
Ducks Leave For UCLA Tilt Head Coach Jim Aiken kept his offensive and defensive plans to he used against UCLA secret yesterday when he sent his Web foot gridders through a closed practice session. Caldervvood took over a great share of the passing chores in yesterday’s closed shop practice. His aerials to ends Darrell Rob inson and Art Milne who, has been seeing a great deal'of activity at right end beside gathering know how on his regtdai left-end position, and halt-DacK jonnny me Kay were right in the receiver’s arms. The Ducks will leave the cam pus at 2 p.m. today via a chart ered plane which should get them into Los Angeles hy 5 p.m. An evening workout under the Coliseum lights is planned to night. THIRTY-SEVEN MEN GO Aiken will take a thirty-seven man squad with him on the Los Angeles trip. Only member missing from the suad will be pass nabbing left end Les Hagen, who broke his leg last week. Otherwise the Web foots are reported to be in top physical condition. A list of the Webfoot traveling squad is as follows: Ends— Bob Anderson, Dick Sal ter, Art Milne, Hale Paxton, Dar rell Robinson, Lou Robinson. Tack leH_Steve' Dotur, Gus Knickrehm, Sam Nevills, Dean Sheldon, Bob Roberts, Jerry Moshofsky. Guards —Ed Chrobot, Dick Daugherty, Lorry Hull, Chester Daniels, Os car Lemiere, Ray Lung. Centers— Dave Gibson, Dick Patrick, Dick Caulden. Quarterbacks—Earl Stelle, Jim Calderwood, Joe Tom. Halfbacks— Johnny McKay, Woodley Lewis, Jack Gibilisco, Tommy Hines, Bob (Easter, George Bell, Bill Fell, Chuck Missfeldt, Ray Karnofsky. Fullbacks—Bob Sanders, Bud Bo quo, DeWayne Johnson, Hal Cuffel. The UCLA Bruins went through stiff offensive and de fensive dummy drills yesterday it* preparation for their Pacific Coast Conference game Friday night with Oregon. Coach Red Sanders said that his undefeated team was in good shape except for injured tackle, Roy Jenson. Sanders named three new starters in the UCLA line-up be cause of good showings against Iowa last week. They are right halfback Howard Hansen, left end Bob Wilkinson and quarterback Jim Buchanan. Sanders Leads Coast Scorers Jim Aiken’s Ducks are well rep resented this week in the Pacific Coast Conference individual scor ing race. Several Webfoots includ ing Bob Sanders, Earl Stelle, George Bell, Woodley Lewis, and Darrell Robinson are in the top flight according to statistics re leased by the P.C.C. Commission er’s office. Bob Sanders is currently the pride of the local camp. Thus far the bruising Duck fullback leads the coast in scoring with 24 points, is second in rushing with 199 yards averaging 7.7 yards per carry and is seventh in total offense. San der’s record is the best on the coast, followed closely by Idaho’s Johnny Brogan who is also main taining some very healthy aver ages. Other Ducks showing up well are George Bell who ranks eighth in rushing, and Woodley Lewis who takes first honors in pass intercep tions followed by Earl "Stelle who ranks second. Darell Robinson ranks eleventh in the pass receiv ing department. WithjThe Greatest of Ease ED CHROBOT, diminutive right guard of the Oregon forward wall, is scheduled to carry the majority of the offensive line duties Friday night when the Ducks invade the Los Angeles Coliseum to take on the Bruins of UCLA. Chrobot, only 181 pounds, makes up for his size with game knowhow. Yankees Surge Back to League Lead As Lowly Nats Bamboozle Bosox New York Boston. W L Pet. 95 56 .629 95 56 .629 By the United Press A wild pitch sent careening b> the pitcher with the best record ir major league baseball sent the Bos ton Red Sox down to defeat at th« hands of the lowly Washington Sen Greeks Had a Word for It But With No Holds Barred By Bob Karolevitz The Oregon Webfoots—plus thousands of preps, pros, collegi ans and sandlotters are banging beads on the gridirons all over the country. Before next January mil lions of fans will sit on hal’d seats, ■wear mums, wave pennants, and lose bucketsful of quarters on parlays and pools. But where did this game of football come from? Historians aren’t exactly sure about the whole thing. It’s like the alphabet, pottery and the wheel. Everybody gets blamed for it including the Eskimos. dead head sport One sports researcher delicately placed his tongue in cheek and re ported that football goes back to barbarian times when a victorious army would behead a captured general and let the populace kick bis unfortunate cranium around in the streets. Supposedly, then, the people realized that kicking something was good sport thus football. But the most legitimate story seems to indicate that the Athen ians, Spartans and Corinthians were playing an ancestor of the present-day game as far back as 750 B.C. The game was to keep the Greek soldiers tough when not in battle, so there was a lot of kick ing, eye-gouging and hair-pulling with little attention given the ball. During the next 250 years the Greeks developed the game until It became similar to modern rug by. They called the various ver sions of this game Phenindra, Kpiskyros, Epikoinos and Harp aston. By 300 B.C. the Romans had a “football' game called Harpastum which they also used for military recreation. It was unlike actual warfare in that you didn’t come out of Harpastum dead just half dead ! When the Romans invided Brit ain, they took their game along. It wasn’t long before the Jutes, Angles, Saxons, Vikings, and Danes had picked it up or had de veloped their own versions. GAME SPREAD Came the dawn of Christianity and the Chinese turned up with a form of the game. So did the Ma oris, Faroe Islanders, Polynesians and the Aztecs. The Esltimoes were also kicking around a bag of moss but in their case, probably to keep warm. Then the sport took a popularity nose dive for the next thousand years or so until it was restored to favor in England during the reign of Charles II. From 1700 to 1800 Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Win chester, Shrewsbury, and Charter house got together for inter-school competition. Finally it happened. On day in November of 1823 s Rugby student named Williarr Webb Ellis became the great-great grandaddy of American football In a moment of excitement, he picked up the ball and started tc collegiate fracas. Then in 18G9 the first inter collegiate contest in history was played between Princeton and Rutgers. Rutgers won 6 to 4. Little by little the game was standardized. At a football con vention in 1880 Walter Camp ol run with it. Rugby football was born, and from that moment foot ball became a running game in stead of a kicking one. In the U. S. football—of the lawn-scrimmage variety — was played at Harvard as early as 1827. By' 1840 Princeton had ta ken it up, and a few years later so did Brown and Yale. This was strictly an impromptu and unorganized brand of ball. A team could consist of almost any number of players .The more the merrier—or bloodier—-as the case may be. In 1862 Gerrit Smith Miller or ganized the Oneida Football Club of Boston. This was America’s first organized team, and it played reg ularly for four years without a (Please turn to page six) ators, 2 to 1, and tied up the Ameri can League pennant race once again. It was a tragic way to lose a ball game, but tragedy or no, the Red Sox are tied for first place with the New York Yankees for the second time within a week. Lefty Mel Parnell, a 25-game winner, was called into action to stem the rising tide of a Washing ton rally in the last half of the ninth. The score was tied at 1 to 1. There were two out. A1 Kozar was on third base, and there was a man on first. It was up to Parnell to get out aging Buddy Lewis and send the game into extra innings, where the Red Sox would at least have a fight ing chance. But on a two and one pitch the ball got away from Parnell and soared past catcher Birdie Tebbetts. Kozar scooted in home, and there was the ball game. Meanwhile the New York Yankees, down and nearly out in the feverish pennant race, cash ed in yesterday on the failure of the Philadelphia Athletics to com plete a routine double play, and scored a 7 to 5 victory, keeping their hopes alive. It looked like hail and farewell :or the DiMaggio-less Bronx Bomb ers when the Athletics sped from Dehind in the seventh inning to put Dn a stirring five run rally and take i 5 to 4 lead. And when Alex Kellner, the big rookie left hander who has been Philadelphia’s most dependable pitcher this season, came in to handle the relief chores it looked sven darker. But the Yankees, often down but never disorganized or dis pirited, rose to the occasion and came back with three quick runs in their half of the seventh—with the help of a very lucky break. With the league lead tied, the Bosox play Washington tomorrow .vhile the Yankees meet the Ath :etics again. After that the league pace setters close their season ,vith games against one another at Yankee Stadium Saturday and Sunday. ui Mag Kerurns New York, Sept. 28.—(UP)—Joe Di Maggio returned to uniform for :he first time since Sept. 18 and :ook practice with the New York S ankees yesterday prior to the ?ame against the Philadelphia athletics. THANKS YVE WISH TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR OVERWHELMING RESPONSE TO OUR NEW SNACK SERVICE. PLEASE ACCEPT OUR APOL 1GIES FOR THE SLOW SERVICE AT TIMES DURING THE FIRST TYVO DAYS. YOUR RESPONSE HAS MADE IT NECESSARY FOR US TO HIRE MORE HELP SO THAT YY E CAN INSURE YOU A FASTER AND MORE EFFICIENT SERVICE. QUICK SNACK SERVICE Dick Hatfield Dial 5-900S Paul Thalhofer
