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DUCK TRACKS By DICK CRAMER Emerald Sports Writer UCJ./A s upset by banta Llara was one of those things that was due to happen sooner or later. Not that it was any fluke, the Broncos having gotten a lot of pre-season support as being one of the best outfits on the Coast. The narrow margin, considering the opposition, by which they downed Portland University the week before makes it look strongly as if they were pointing for the Bruin game and just wanted to get by until then. The loss should help Red Sanders get his boys in shape for their invasion of the Palouse country this Saturday. The Bruins should snap out of their slump and down Washington State handily, if they are the team they have been rated. Of course, the Cougars are one of the toughest teams in the PCC on their home field, and they could make the trip a gloomy one for the Bruins if they gff to Pullman a little too overcon fident. Sanders has so far followed the UCLA pattern of getting off to a roaring start, as Bert LaBrucherie did. LaBrucherie couldn’t hold his boys up to their early peak, or perhaps couldn’t get them to improve while the other teams did. Anyway, they always fad ed in the stretch. If Sanders can keep his boys up the rest of the way, even if they don’t win them all, he will have a major accom plishment to his credit. Schwartz May be on Alum Hot Seat The Bruin win over Stanford may have put Marchie Schwartz on the hot seat. Old man rumor has it that the alumni and team are still behind him, but that quite a few of the students are get ting a little irritated. They were expecting a lot from a predomi nantly Sophomore squad lacking PCC experience. When the kids failed to come through against Michigan and UCLA, the student Wolves began to howl. Not that Stanford is like Cal, where the student body can drum the coach out if he doesn’t win. But anywhere the student feeling can make it hot on the coach, and it doesn’t take long for their feelings to seep up to the alums, especially when a highly rated team is only breaking even. I he Indians haven t done badly this year, everything con sidered. They lost to Michigan when the Wolverines still had everyone in good shape by a creditable 27-7 margin. UCLA has had a potentially good team for a couple of years but just never arrived until this season. They had a huge edge in that invalu able quality, experience, that won the game for them. It was er rors of their own that beat Stanford, and even that was only by a 14-7 margin. A few years ago they would have been overjoyed to have come so close. Odell Possibly on Same Spot Maybe Schwartz won’t be the only Coast coach to have angry alums and students looking down their respective noses at him. Howie Odell at Washington is in the same boat, with a sopho more-clominated team that has failed to burn up the PCC. Schwartz is in a better spot than Odell, however. The Huskies have beaten only mediocre Utah and that on a last quarter dash. From then on (they beat the Utes in the season opener) it’s been near misses and not even close ones. Minnesota beat them , up, Notre Dame followed suit though the Huskies made more of a game of it than anyone expected, they pushed Oregon State all over the field and wound up on the short end of a 7-3 score, and then Schwartzs’ boys clicked for 40 points to build his stock a little and drop Odell’s. No one is going to argue the plain fact that the one-time Yale mentor has had some bad breaks since he got to Seattle. All last year sickness and poor health hounded him, and he had to leave the team in the hands of Reg Root. This year his two big stars, quarterback Don Heinrich and fullback Hugh McElhennv, have been on the bench with injuries most of the time. Taylor Doing a Good Job at OSC But little Don O’Leary has filled in capably for the former and Odell has a large-stock of good, though not as brilliant as McElhennv, backs who could handle the fullback spot. But still the Huskies couldn't stop Oregon State’s one drive, or generate any scoring punch of their own against the Beavers. Speaking of the Beavers, Kip Taylor has done a good job in Corvallis. Oregon State won’t go to the Rose Bowl this year, they might not do more than break even. They have a tough schedule left, Stanford, Washington State, Idaho, Michigan State and Oregon. Of those, OSC played all but Stanford last year and had a one won, one tied, two lost record. If they win two of these five they will be doing well. Taylor’s offense is built around one of the most reliable backs on the Coast, husky Ken Carpenter. Carpenter, who has been al most as good in his three previous seasons, has always been over looked by sportswriters in favor of someone else. Don Samuel grabbed oft" the big share of newsprint in those years, through in Oregon-OSC games ( the only ones Ave saw southpaw Don per form in) it always looked like he “shoulda stood in bed.” 40 Frosh Grace Hoopster Tryouts Oregon's Frosh basketballers worked out yesterday with John Warren’s varsity hoopsters at 4 p. m. and will continue practices for at least another week in MacArthur court. Until the P. E. basketball courts are cleared of practicing volley ball teams, Don Kirsch’s yearlings will continue working out with the var sity. Forty-three freshmen have ap peared on the maple so far to try for a berth on the Duckling quint. The men and their high schools are as follows: Guards—Jack Boyers, Astoria; Tom Brown, Elmira; Don Christen sen, Portland (Roosevelt); Bud Al len, Pendleton; Bud Covey, Port land (Jefferson); Tom Elliott, Port land, (Grant); Sam Couchetti, Co vina, Cal.; Mike Kittredge, San Francisco (Polytechnic); Dick Haseman, Detroit; Ted Johnson, Springfield. Don Hoy, Newburg; Michael Lal ly, Visalia, Cal; Dewey Keller, Port land (Grant); Royce Chadwick, Nyssa; Eddie Hansen, Marcola (Mohawk); Maynard Meadows, Eu gene; Terry McCullough, Marsh field; Clarence Schmer, Portland Aiken, Fell Talk On 'Huddle Time' Jim Aiken was recently guest speaker on the “Webfoot Huddle Time,” KOAC program, along with Jack Gibilisco, rookie back for Aiken’s Webfoots. The coach sub mitted himself to fifteen minutes of interview by Bob Roberts, an other of his charges. After briefly reviewing his coaching background, Aiken spoke of the season’s play thus far, ex pressing satisfaction with all re sults except the game against U.C. L. A. “The team seemed a little flat,” he said, “they didn’t seem to have it. Everything we did went wrong.” Intense scouting programs, now in use throughout the Pacific Coast, have brought about defens ive measures on his part, Aiken added. “We keep our same style of attack, but vary out pattern of play.” A new twist to the platoon-foot ball controversy was brought into focus, when the coach expressed favor in that system because it aided the small school. “Years ago the big teams could wear you down in the late quarters, but now by frequent changes you can keep your squad fairly well rested,” he added. Hitherto most opinion has been that the wholesale substi tution ruling has been detrimental to the smaller schools. Asked how the coming game with U.S.C. will fare, Aiken re plied, “I don’t know how it will come out, but I know how I’d like to see it come out.” Jack Gibilisco spoke briefly on h s background at Compton J. C„ where he played in the backfield with another Oregon newcomer, Bill Fell. He and Fell were friendly enemies on two occasions. They ran against each other in the 100 yd. sprints. “I didn’t do so well,” added Jack. A 440 man at Comp ton, Gibilisco expressed desire to compete in that event this spring. We could not fill this space, so | why read it ? More than 5,000,000 postcards [ and stamped envelopes are sold each year in the U. S. Of these, about half serve as pocket linings of forgetful husbands. (Jefferson); Dick Norse, Astoria; Jack Sherman, Dayton; Connie Smith, Hood River; Bob Taylor, Baker; Marvin Flitcroft, Marsh field. Centers—Henry Bonnemann, Hu ron S. D,; Clinton Agee, Roseburg; Chet Noe, Los Angeles (Washing ton); Dick Young, Portland (Wash ington). Forwards — curt Barclay, Mis soula, Mont.; Lloyd Bergman, Port land (Roosevelt) Delbert Coursey, Elmira; Keith Farnam, Salem; Bill Frye, Portland (Parkrose); George Guldager, Seattle, Wash. (Roose velt ). Dan Hendrickson, Eugene; Ron Haddock, Mattoon, 111.; Ben John son, Portland (Roosevelt); Jim Jol ly, Gresham; Jim Livesay, Port land (Jefferson); Tom Matthews, Tracy; Jim McKay, Junction City; Harlan Mickey, Cottage Grove; Tom Paulus, Salem; Ken Torger son, Klamath Falls. i age 16 Squads Meet In Campus Cross Country Races Intra-organizational cross coun try races will take place on the ath letic field tomorrow, track Coach Bill Bowerman announced yester day. Other races will be run Oct. 27 and Nov. 3, with the final day see ing the original field of 16 teams cut to six squads. The first event tomorrow will b« run at 4:45 p. m. with eight teams competing, and the other eight will vie for the tape at 5 p. m. The final winning organization will be awarded the Ralph Hill tro phy. Hill, said Bowerman, is con sidered to be Oregon’s greatest track man, and once represented Duck colors in the Olympic games. The 16 teams will be made up off four men each. 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