Webfoots Prepare
For Buff's Invasion
Oregon’s Webfoots, those who
saw action against Washington
State College Saturday, went
through light drills Monday after
noon at the varsity practice field.
The top stringers ran a dozen
laps, passed, punted and limbered
up to get some of the kinks out of
their kinesthetic systems. Coach
Jim Aiken then ordered them to
tiie showers, while the reserves
•went to work.
The subs dug into line and block
ing chores, the ulterior motive be
ing to season up reserves, thus
strengthening the squad’s immu
nity to serious loss from injury.
Oregon’s Frosh played the defen
sive goat for a quarter of an hour
as the varsity reserves ran off
plays and polished their offensive
line play.
TAKE NO CHANCES
Oregon’s coaching staff, con
cerned with the possibility of mid
season injuries, are playing it close
to the chest from here on in. A
complete pad scrimmage is in line
for this afternoon, but rough-house
drills will be held to an absolute
minimum for the remainder of the
season, according to Jerry Lillie,
backfield coach.
Lady Luck remained with the
Webfoots at the Cougar game, as
Ai ken’s conditioning methods paid
off again in another “no injuries”
report. Hale Paxton, 23-year-old
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BILL SIMONS, center
University of Colorado
sophomore right end is completely
recovered from the “line burns” he
suffered in pre-WSC practice.
Apparently not too well pleased
with the Oregon performance in the
21 to 0 rout of Washington State,
Lillie reported that the Ducks will
make the most of their brief pad
drills before taekling the Universi
ty of Colorado Buffalos, Saturday.
Little pointed out that despite the
convincing margin of victory, the
Ducks did not make scoring oppor
tunities pay off, and might not have
fared so well against a stronger
Club.
BUFFS WOKK HARD
Meanwhile, former Oregon Stat
er Oal Ward, head coach of the Uni
versity of Colorado, was working
bis squad overtime in preparation
for their toughest game of the sea
son at Eugene. Before joining the
Buffs, Ward assisted at the Univer
sity of Minnesota, and when he ar
rived at Boulder. Colo., lie brought
along the Minnesota-type crunch
cnmch football tactics.
The Rocky Mountaineers receiv
ed a rude 13 to 0 brush-off from the
Iowa State Cyclones last weekend.
Iowa State, it will be remembered,
is undefeated this season, having
worked their V-formation magic
for a tie with Illinois and an impres
sive 19 to U win over Kansas’ Jay
liawkers.
Coast Loop
Coaches Cry
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10 (UP)
Coach Joe Kuharich of the Univer
sity of San Francisco, who sent his
players to Detroit to be “sacrificed”
against the Titans last. Friday, re
ported today his Dons came out of
the scrap without so much as a
scratch.
The USF club, which won by a 35
14 count, “just played well in the
clutch,” said Kuhar;ich.
“As a matter of fact, we consider
our victory over that 250-pound
per-man line as the eighth wonder
of the world.”
COACH HAPPY
Kuharich had filled the local
sports writers with a lot of words
about how badly his team would be
beaten before he left here for the
motor city. He was happy to eat his
words today.
“All I can say further,” he replied
when told that futurely he would
not be allowed to talk about fu
ture opponents when speaking to
the Northern California Football
Writers’ association, “is that San
Jose State will be very tough on
Friday night.”
Other quotes from the meeting:
Marchie Schwartz, Stanford —
“we played well against UCLA, but
we beat ourselves. I see a lot of
promise in this sophomore club. I
plan to use halfback Rupe Andrews
and quarterback Dick Horne more
in the game against Washington on
Saturday.”
CAL CRIPPLED
Lynn (Pappy) Waldorf, Califor
nia “we are badly crippled for the
game with USC. Charley Sarver is
lost for the season; I don't know
when Jack Swaner Will be back.
Our backfield is mighty thin. How
ever, we’ll show up for the game.”
Bob Smith, USC—“we’ll enter
the game against California with at
least five of our first stringers on
the sidelines with injuries. Included
are our two best break-away backs,
Jay Roundy and Bill Bowers.”
Harry (the Horse) Wright, Port
land University —• “Portland Uni
versity leaders are very desirous of
building up a good football team.
We have the nucleus in one of the
finest backs I’ve ever seen. His
name is Johnny Freeman, a Negro,
who can run the 100-yard dash in
9.8, and who leads the coast in yard
age per carry at around 12 yards
for every time.”
Carroll Doty, College of Pacific—
“we played our best game in years
against Nevada and Eddie Lebanon
was the most brilliant of his great
career. We couldn’t do anything
wrong.”
PASSER CLICKS
Danny Hill, San Jose State—
“Gene Menges, our passing quarter
back, threw three passes the first
half against Pepperdine and they
all went for touchdowns. He com
pleted seven out of eight passes
during the night, four going for
touchdowns. For the season he has
61 per cent completions, including
eight for touchdowns.”
Joe Verducci, St. Mary’s—“we
have improved with every game
this year and should have beaten
Villanova. If Villanova played
against California like they did
against us, Cal would murder ’em.”
Eddie Forrest, Santa Clara—“we
are having trouble getting our team
’up’ for games. Despite all our sen
iors, it took a sophomore guard,
Ben Brown, to spark us to victory
over Portland. If we aren't 'up' for
the UCLA game they’ll beat us by
75 points.”
Colorado Flanker
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO end Joe Nix will see action when
the Buffaloes invade Hayward Field this wek-end to play the
Ducks.
Ducklings Ground
P.U. Baby Pilots
By John Barton
Oregon’s highly rated Frosh
team opened its season here Sat
urday with a 26-7 victory over the
freshmen from the University of
Portland.
Standout on offense for the
Ducklings was quarterback Hal
Dunham of Walla Walla. Dunham
took to the air for theree touch
downs, two to big left end Jake
Williams and one to halfback Jack
Cook.
Halfback Ron Lyman, a power
house on offense all afternoon,
punched the other Frosh score
across in the second quarter.
Portland’s only counter came
late in the game when the Baby
Pilots discovered a lad by the
name of Rocco Di Ponzio, a stam
peding rocket in human form. Af
ter teammate Vince DiGaspari
grabbed a Frosh fumble on the
Oregon 15, DiPonzio took just
three line smashes to tumble into
paydirt.
WILLIAMS GRABS PASSES
Looking like Dick Wilkins in
freshman green, Jake Williams of
Boystown, Neb., played a whale of
a game at the Frosh left end post.
Williams repeatedly snagged pas
ses which looked impossible to
catch, and was no slouch at pack
ing the ball once he got it.
Portland line buckers found
that a lad named Bob Rudolph was
anything but easy to get past
when he DaeKea up tne line as ue
fensive center and signal caller
for Oregon. Rudolph repeatedly
stopped the Baby Pilot line bucks
with vicious tackles.
Wayne Parsons put in time at
the quarterback role during the
game, but looked better in the de
fensive backfield, where he inter
cepted passes and made things gen
erally unhappy for Jack Owens,
Portland’s quarter.
DUCKLINGS SCORE EARLY
The first Frosh score came early
in the game after Portland fum
bled fullback Carl Ervin’s punt on
its own 7. After that, Ervin crack
ed the line for one yard and Dun
ham looped the ball to Cook for the
score. Parsons missed the extra
score. Parsons missed the extra
point, but made two out of four for
the day.
The next counter came after
halfback Don Sloan returned a
punt to the Portland 33. From
there, two passes and two line
plays put the ball on the Portland
10 just as the quarter closed.
Lyman smashed the center of
the line and crossed the goal line
standing up. The play was run at
the exact moment radios in the
stands were broadcasting the Ore
gon varsity’s first score against
WSC at Pullman. The two conver
sions were kicked at the same mo
ment.
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Fliers End
Long Hop
YUMA, Ariz., Oct. 10 — (UP) —
Two weary endurance fliers
brought their little cabin plane
back to the ground today after
shattering all world records for
staying in the air.
Ex-Navy pilots Woody Jonge
ward and Bob Woodhouse set the
wheels of their Aeronca on the run
way of Yuma county airport at
3:32.05 P. M„ MST, after having
been in the air for 1,124 hours, 14
minutes and five seconds. The old
record was 1,1008 hours.
An estimated 10,000 townspeople
jammed the airport to give the two
local businessmen a fitting wel
come. Jongeward was at the con
trols as the plane landed. Wood
house leaped from the plane and
was greeted by his mother, Mrs.
Harold Woodhouse.
Jongeward and Woodhouse were
unsteady on their feet as they
touched ground for the first time in
46 days and they held onto the arms
of friends as the crowd surged in on
them.
The two pilots had hoped to stay
in the air but a burned-out magneto
forced then to land five days after
they broke the record set last
spring by Bill Barris anl Dick Ried
el of Fullerton, Cal.
Originally they had planned to
land on Columbus day, next Wed
nesday, but felt so good the day
after breaking the record, they an
nounced they would stay aloft to
set a record “no one will equal.”
The defective magneto was dis
covered late last night and the fliers
radioed that rather than take a
chance of remaining in the air an
other two days, they were, coming
down this afternoon.
Fire engines and rescue crews
stayed at the airport all night to
help the two pilots in event they
were forced to make an emergency
landing.
To lighten the load of the plane
during the last 12 hours, the little
ship was refueled every three hours.
The celebration staged by this
California-Arizona border city was
the biggest in Yuma’s history.
Children were given a half-hoiiday
so they might take part in the cele
bration. Virtually all businesses
were closed down at 2 p. m. to per
mit merchants to join in the wel
come.
Jongeward and Woodhouse made
the flight under the sponsorship of
the Yuma Junior chamber of coni'*
merce and for every day the pair
remained in the air a member of the
chamber had his head shaved. The
businessmen with their shaved pat
es formed an honor guard for their
heroes at the airport.
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