Webfoots Scrimmage,
Work on Ground Play
Several tons of gridiron-wise beef went through two hours of
vicious scrimmage Monday afternoon at the Varsity practice
field, as Coach Jim Aiken launched the task of preparing Ore
gon, both mentally and physically, for Saturday s Pacific Coast
Conference tussle against Washington State.
Although there was a generous sprinkling of passes, Aiken
and Jerry Lillie drummed their troops on ground offense. The
defensive squad, clad in Cougar-red jerseys bore the brunt of
the punishment as the offensive
squad ripped through their razzle
dazzle T-formation attack.
Twenty minutes of calesthenics
Started off the grueling drill sched
ule as Coach Aiken oiled his Green
machine for the unpredictable
Cougars. This afternoon’s practice
session will feature the final scrim
mage of the week. Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday are reserved
for light drills and plays.
Aiken plans to leave for Pull
man Friday, via the airlanes, ar
riving at the Cougar stronghold
in time for limbering up drills
that afternoon.
Once under way, the ground at
tack sparkled, with the offensive
line splitting the “Cougar” forward
wall time and time again as Wood
ley Lewis, George Bell, Bob Sand
ers, Jack Gibilisco, and company
took turns parading through the
go ping holes.
The iron pocket received plen
ty of attention from the meticul
ous Aiken who held the aerial
offense to a minimum.
While the Webfoots reported no
serious injury as a result of Friday
night’s UCLA game, Coach Phil
Sarboe of Washington State does
not expect to use Tackle Landy
James Saturday. James came up
with a sprained foot after the
Southern California game, which
the Cougars dropped, 35 to 7.
However, Halfback Don Paul,
Cougar mainstay, will be ready for
action against Oregon despite rib
injuries and bruises suffered in the
Trojan encounter.
Paul scored the only WSC touch
down against the Webfoots a year
ago when he blazed some 65 yards
off the Cougar T-formation attack.
Oregon won the game, a homecom
ing attraction, by a score of 33 to 7.
Leahy Hits Officiating
At Irish-Husky Tussle
SOUTH BEND, Indiana, Oct. 3
— (UP)—Coach Frank Leahy of
Notre Dame charged today that
not only were the officials who
\vorked the Irish game against
Washington Saturday “Incompe
tent, but also they seemed preju
diced against our team.”
Leahy, who previously had
Ikm'ii quoted that he wouldn’t
want any one of the officials in
volved to handle another Notre
l>ame game, said that he would
accept Umpire Bill Corhus of
Stanford.
“But the other three," he said,
“C wouldn’t want any part of
them.”
The other officials at the game
y ete Referee Thomas D. Wilson,
College of Pacific, Field Judge E.
T Starbuck, Chicago, and Lines
man W. H. Frazier, Gonzaga.
“I’m sorry the whole situation
has arisen,” he said. “It’s been un
pleasant to all concerned.”
Leahy said he felt obliged to
speak in defense of his palyers.
“If any team is penalized 18!)
yards, as we were,” he said,
“All the people in the stadium
v ill think it was an illegal, «n
ethical and dirty team.
“We didn’t play any different
than we ever played, but if I didn’t
apeak up the people who saw the
game would think we were dirty.
“Our captain kept trying to find
out what the trouble was," he said.
“We wanted to play it their way,
p t they wouldn’t tell him what
was wrong.”
Leahy said charges that the
officials saw the movies of last
year's Washington game, played
at South Bend, on Saturday
morning had been confirmed by
one of the officials to a South
Bend writer in a telephone con
versation today.
“it’s slightly irregular,” lie said.
“[ never heard of it before. If you
take the officials into a room and
sliow them a moving picture and
p nt things out, it’s bound to in
fluence their judgment.
’’Anybody that wants to point
out faults can find a lot of little
things to show officials. 1 think the
moving picture affected the offi
cials’ judgment a lot.”
Leahy said it was the first
time his team had had any diffi
culties with officiating on the
West Coast, although his club
plays Southern California each
year and plays on the Coast in
alternate years.
“Why, last year in the South
ern California game,” he said, “and
we didn’t win that one, I thought
the officials did a wonderful job.
Referee Jim Cain was fine and so
was Bill Corbus. The officials out
that way have always been fine.”
Officials for the Washington
game, as for past Southern Cal
ifornia games .were assigned by
the Pacific Coast Conference..
“I regret it all very much,”
Leahy said. "I’ve never made any
public complaints about officiating
before, but I felt I had to speak
put on this one to protect the repu
tation of Notre Dame.”
Hollingberry Denies
YAKIMA, Wash., October 3 —
(UP) -The four officials who
handled the Notre Dame-Universi
ty of Washington football game at
Seattle Saturday were “extremely
competent” and “if anything, leni
ent toward Notre Dame,” Orin
‘'Babe" Hollingberry, one of col
lege football's all-time great coach
es, said tonight.
“Conch Frank Leahy should
consider himself fortunate that
his team was not called four or
five times for unnecessary rough
ness in addition to the eight ma
jor penalties that certainly were
called right,” Hollingberry said.
The former head coach of Wash
ington State College, who witnes
sed the game from the press box,
said he was “amazed” that Leahy
charged the officials with incom
petence and prejudice.
“All four officials were extreme
ly competent," Hollingberry said.
“It takes courage to call penalties
as you see them and I am positive
that they did. Most of those penal
ties were for fundamental infrac
tions of the rules.”
Frosh Ready
For Portland
Yearlings
With a team that is three deep
in all positions, Bill Bowerman’s
Frosh grid squad tangles with the
yearling eleven from the Univer
sity of Portland, Saturday at 2
p.m. on the turf of Hayward Field
in the initial tilt of a five-game
schedule.
A line weighing on the average
of 186 lbs. and twenty-three back
field candidates provide the Duck
lings with plenty of power for their
clash against the Pilot Freshmen.
Bowerman hasn’t assigned start
ing positions yet, but those who
will possibly get the nod for end
berths are Jack Lust of Klamath
Falls, Monte Brethauer, Emery
Barnes, and Phil Cosgrove, Port
land, and a Boys Town, Nebraska
lad, Jake Williams. Tackle slots
are apt to be filled by Don Botte
miller, Albany; Emil Brandaw,
Hillsboro, and two Portland line
men, Bill Lees and Jerry Shaw.
STATERS BATTLE
Out-of-staters are neck-and-neck
with natives for the guard spots.
Californians Ron Brown and John
Laird along with Clark Engelmeir
from Springfield, Ohio are battling
with Oregonians Fitz Brewer, Med
ford, Tug Franks, Gresham, and
John Schneider from Newport. Bob
Rudolph, Portland and Bill Mills
of Medford are striving for the
center position.
Shrine all-star Don Sloan from
Portland is fighting for right half
back slot with Jack Cook, Dallas,
and Delmar Clemens of Burns. Top
contenders for left halfback hon
ors are Phil Turner, The Dalles and
Jerry Mock of San Diego.
Yankees Favored
In World Series
NEW YORK, Oct. 3 — (UP) —
Those mountain - climbing New
York Yankees who got to tap with
out asking the odds, were installed
today as stout favorites to go with
their stout hearts against the
Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1949
World Series which begins Wednes
day in Yankee Stadium.
Except for what the Yankees
managed to do despite more than
70 lost time accidents and ail
ments, plus being a ball club that
any paper didn’t figure to win, it
looked like the odds were a little
out of line.
But the bookies who were quot
ing them in some quarters at as
high as 2 to 1, weren’t looking at a
paper lineup. They were going
along with a team that won all sea
son when it wasn’t supposed to and
which grimly adopted "another in
jury, another victory” as its rally
ing cry.
The happy Yanks, some of
whom looked a little bleary-eyed
from last night’s into-the-small
hours victory celebration, worked
out for a couple of hours this af
ternoon and Manager Casey Sten
gel said it was a notable drill “be
cause nobody got hurt.”
After posing for the official team
picture they went briskly into their
field drill and it was most hearten
ing that their big fellow, Joe Di
Maggio, seemed to be in better
shape than at any time since he was
stricken with virus pneumonia two
weeks before the season ended.
Although Stengal said he would
not announce his lineup until to
morrow, it was figured pretty
definite that he would start a left
hander, heady Eddie Copat, who
won 15 games, a lot of them blue
chip jobs this season in the series
opener.
At the same time Dodger Boss
Burt Shotten was expected to start
his stopper hurler, Lefty Preacher
Roe, who also won 15 games and
who most of the season was the
man wh(5 won the games Brooklyn
just had to have.
The lefty duel, which could be
a honey, figured to have a stadium
setting rather than in Ebbets
Field, because southpaw pitchers
will force both managers to pack
their lineups with righthanded
batters. Yankee Stadium is a left
handed hitters’ paradise with its
296-foot foul line and with its low
barriers that permit home runs on
sofe flies or wind blown balls.
The Dodgers will get their first
look at the Stadium since the
spring exhibition series with the
Yankees at 10 a.m. tomorrow at
which time Shotton definitely will
decide on his starter.
One thing that worried the
Brooks and could hurt them badly
was the possible loss or at least re
duced efficiency of their best hitter
in the final month, Right Fielder
Carl Furillo. Furillo has been suf
fering from a pulled groin muscle
and instead of joining his team
mates in celebrating that attended
their clinching of the pennant in
Philadelphia yesterday, he went
home to Reading, Pennsylvania, for -v,
medical treatment.
Sacramento Manager
Tenatively Quits
SACRAMENTO, Cal., October 3
(UP)—Del Baker, manager of the
third place Pacific Coast League
Sacramento Solons, quit today, but
it may not be permanent.
Baker said he had resigned in or
der to “clarify the situation” fol
lowing the firing last week of Sol
on General Manager Victor (Cook
ie) Devincenzi. Baker was secured
as manager of the club last winter
through the efforts of Devincenzi.
His contract still had one year to
run.
The former Detroit Tiger mana
ger said, however, he would “glad
ly entertain any future proposi
tion” from the owners of the Sac
ramento club.
George Klumpp and Ed Sparks,
principal Sacramento stockholders,
said they would do everything they
could to get Baker back next year.
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