Football Special Ducks vs. Huskies 16-Page Edition Fifty-First Year of Publication and Service to the University UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER!, 1949 Football Special Ducks vs. Huskies 16-Page Edition NUMBER S3 VOLUME LI P TOMORROW/ Ducks vs. Huskies 'Good Time' Ducks Headed for Big City The general exodus from Eugene begins today as eager Web foots start rolling north for their annual Portland weekend. Rallies, alumni parties, and dances are scheduled for the ac tion-packed two days in the Rose City, climaxed by Saturday’s Oregon-Washington game at Multnomah Stadium. Railroad and bus lines are pressing extra equipment into service to take care of the mass migration. Tonight’s pregame rally, slated for the Paramount Theater at 8 p. m., will uncork the week end’s festivities. Oregon root ers will see 45 minutes of camp us talent entertainment plus a top Hollywood hit, “Pinky.” For early arrivals, a half hour of football shorts will go on the Paramount screen at 7:30. This year’s Homecoming Hostess will be introduced at the rally by program chairman Gay Baldwin. Tickets to the rally, at 85 cents ^each, will be on sale until 10 a.m. today. Twenty per cent of the net take on all tickets sold on the cam pus will be refunded to the rally board for use in a flashcard fund. Free passes to a later Paramount attraction will be given to each member of the living organization buying the highest percentage of tickets. POMPOMS BY BERG White-uniformed Kwamas will hand out free pompoms and mega phones at Charles F. Berg's in Portland Saturday from 9:30 a.m. till noon. Last year’s 1000 pompoms do nated by the Portland merchant went so fast that the firm plans Showers Predicted For Portland Game Light showers for the Portland game. That’s the Weather Bureau’s prediction for Saturday. A storm headed toward Portland is moving slowly, so that heavy rain is not likely, forecasters said yesterday. But game-goers can expect clouds and a little dampness at Multnomah Stadium, when the Ducks meet the University of Washington. to give out more this year, accord ing to Berg College Board member Mildred Chetty. BAND AX BERG’S Director John Stehn and the University of Oregon band will play at Berg’s between 10 and 10:30 a.m. Yell King Jim Crismon and the rally squad will lead yells to add spirit. Halftime entertainment at the game will include drills by the Ore gon band, and the Homecoming Hostess will be reintroduced. Leading off the weekend’s rally dances will be a celebration with reduced student prices at Mc Elroy’s Ballroom . after tonight's rally, beginning at 9 p.m. ANOTHER STOMP Saturday night an Oregon rally dance is scheduled for the Palais Royal and another after-game ral ly dance at Jantzen Beach. Oregon and Washington students may at tend the Jantzen affair for SI a couple to dance to the music of Freddie Keller and his band. Alum activities will get under way with a pre-game party at the Multnomah Hotel Assembly Room tonight, 6 to 10 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Portland Alumni Club, with Morris Rotenberg, '35, chairman. All Oregon alumni are invited. Early-rising alums will attend the annual Duck Club breakfast at the Multnomah Hotel, 8:30 Satur day morning. Open to all alumni, the meal is put on by the Duck Club, a Portland athletic booster organization. To accomodate the rush of stu dents descending on Portland for the weekend, local bus links and the Southern Pacific have extra equipment waiting for the rush. King-Size Emerald First of Term's Three Today’s 16-page issue of the Emerald is the first of three special editions planned for fall term, 1949. No Emerald will be published tomorrow morning due to the general student exodus to Portland. In addition, the new Oregon Daily Emerald nameplate is be ing used for the first time on today’s edition. Webfoots, Huskies To Clash Tomorrow Two keyed-up football machines, both also-rans in the PCC title race but determined to win tomorrow, swing into action Saturday at 2 p.m. in Portland's Multnomah Stadium. Jim Aiken s Oregon \\ ebfoots and the University of Wash ington Huskies meet in what may be a high-scoring offensive. snow, .wore man au.uuu lans are exjjected lo fill the ancient sta dium. After three defeats this sea son. including two conference set-backs, the Ducks aren’t rated as heavy favorites. Oregon won last year's Washington game, 13-7 in Seattle. HUSKIES LEAD SERIES The two teams have played 41 games, with Washington holding a 20-17 win edge. Four contests ended in a tie score. Total points scored favor the Huskies 401 to 368. Several Oregon first-stringers, including Guard Ed Chrobot, are on the doubtful list because of in juries. Aiken’s starting lineup will not be known until game time. DUCK BACKFIELD Earl Stelle and Jim Calderwood will alternate at quarterback, with Bob Sanders, George Bell, John McKay and Woodley Lewis all slated for backfield action. Husky Coach Howie Odell dir-, ects a dangerous ball team, built around Fullback Hugh McElhenny and Don Heinrich at quarterback. Washington has won only one Tomorrow in Portland Hostess Winner Revealed Tonight Votes for Homecoming; Host ess were counted Thursday night. The Hostess will be announced tonight at the rally in the Para mount Theater. Her introduction by Gay Baldwin, master of cere monies, will be first event of the rally, which starts at 8. The Hostess will also be intro duced to spectators at halftime of the Oregon-Washington game Saturday in Multnomah Stadi um. Ticket Pick-up Today Unsold Paramount rally tick ets and money for those sold will be picked up at living organiza tions today between 8 and 10 a.m. game so far this season, and may concentrate on passes to win Sat urday. This will be Oregon’s first game in home territory since losing two straight to USC in Los Angeles and to Iowa at Iowa City. The Duck squad* entrains for Portland Saturday morning, arriv ing a few hours before game time. Portland Rally Entertainers Set “Portland Extravaganza" Chair man Gay Baldwin Thursday re leased the complete list of enter tainers for tonight's rally at tie Paramount Theater, 8 p.m. Campus talent will include a bat tery of ukeleles, Gay Norton, Fred Schneiter, Jerry Crary, and A1 Harder, and violinist Con Sheffer, furnishing background music. Joy Grimstad will sing, “I’fn Just a Girl Who Can't Say No,” hit from the show “Oklahoma.” Crary and Sheffer will present one of their uke-fiddle routines; Dick Barber and Jack Dalk will sing “I’m Forever Blowing Bub bles,” bop style. College life will be kidded by Alpha Chi Omegas Judy Rowe, Helen Hyche, Rosie Vaught, Betty Jo Bucklin, Marian Brown, Jean ette Houf, Marilyn Mitchell, and Lela Dejarnctte. Delta Ducklings Margot Spang ler, Elizabeth Erlandson, Phyllis Higginbotham, and Barbara Hen ton will join Kappa Sigmas Hass Haight, Dick Shirley, Harry Ges ter, and ATO Bill Monroe in bar bershop harmony. Presenting a song and dance routine will be Kappa Kappa Gam mas Georgie Balaam, Mary Dun son, Joanne Gary, Betty and Mari lyn Hillman, Barbara Needham, Emily West, and Eva Moore. “Hellzapoppin” describes the do ings of Bob Nelson, Bill Lance, Bill Harber, and Rod Bright. Puddles and Donald Old Friends PUDDLES THE DUCK and his more-famous counterpart Donald, of the comic strip Ducks, seem to be getting along famously after formal introduction. The Oregon mascot will be in Portland Saturday, when the YVebfoots meet the Washington Huskies in Portland.