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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1949)
DUCK TRACKS By JOHN BARTON Emerald Assistant Sports Editor Now that All-Coast and All-American Bob Sanders is gradu ating', who will wear the only decent-looking helmet which the Oregon football team apparently owns? The point was brought to our attention after the homecoming game when two alums were discussing the appearance of the team (how they were dressed, that is). One oldtimer mentioned that the white suits looked pretty snappy. The other agreed, gr 1 hen they got around to the subject of the headgear and alum No. 1 asked us why in heck the athletic department couldn’t buy all the boys the same kind of helmet. After confessing complete ig norance along these lines, we were told that the only good looking helmet on the field was worn by Bob Sanders. And the old guy was right. Sanders has been wearing the only head gear with any taste to it. JOHN WARREN But It's Unique It is right enough to say simply that the object of a helmet is to protect the head and its contents. However, other teams ap pear on the turf with their heads looking alike, so why can't the Ducks? One consolation is that spotting players from the press box during action in a game is made easier when they all wear different helmets. For instance, a new telegraph man in the pressbox who hasn’t watched Oregon play before will say, “Who was it just made that tackle?” He will be answered by a spotter who says something like this: “That must be Gleek, left halfback. Yeah, that's Gleek, all right—he's got the helmet with the criss-cross stripes on it.” Maybe Gleek is a die-hard and likes that helmet . . . even takes it to bed with him at night. Just the same, the team would look bet ter if the}- all wore the same helmet style. Ducks Ready on Maple John Warren’s varsity Duck hoopers are heading into a two game series with Utah State and University of Utah this weekend. Utah State finished fifth in their conference of six teams last season, but indications of how they will do this year are nonexistent in these quarters. The Skyline Six Conference, incidently, includes, besides Utah State, Wyoming, University of Utah, Denver Univer sity, Brigham Young University, and Colorado A. and M. Only the last team finished behind the Utah State Aggies last season. According to the Aggie dope book on winter sports, the Blue and White from Salt Lake City will be stronger this year. Take it from there. John Warren’s platoon system, which will prob ably get at least a try out in these two contests, was used to some extent last year. Is the Platoon System Good? The one fault of this system, as seen here, was that Coach Warren would replace one unit as soon as it got to going good. Then, it seemed, the other unit would enter the game while still fairly cold and the team on the floor, which was just getting warmed up, would rest. Our contention is that the first team did not need the rest. Sure, the fresli team had a chance to run the opposition into the ground because of said freshness. But, on the other hand, the op position wasn’t any more tired than the Webfoots. In fact, they too were just getting warm. If any Oregon lead existed at the time the new squad went in, it usually dwindled. This is certainly no indication that the reserve team didn’t have just as much ability, but that isn’t the question here. The point is that a warm team, which usually was doing all right for itself, was replaced by a cold team. We say that’s not good basketball, but then we aren’t the coach. That’s just an opin ion. Maybe the platoon system will work and grind the other team into the hardwood. We hope so. Against most of the early season opposition, it will probably be Will Urban, Paul Sowers, newcomer Mel Streeter, Bob Ama cher, Johnny Neeley, Bob Lavey, and some of the other regulars. Later in the season, we predict that Warren will give some of the other men a chance to show. We also hopefully predict that some of those new men will work into a regular berth before the end of the season. Will Ur ban did just that last year. Warren has the commendable ability to shove his prospective stars into action in some mighty tight places during games. This makes a man show anything and ev erything he has. That, from the standpoint of fundamentals, is good basketball. Minturn Teams Meet Chi Psi, SAE in 'A' 'B' Volleyball Finals Two volleyball teams from Min turn hall will enter the V-ball final playoffs today. Sigma Alpha Epsi lon will be the opponents in the “B" league and Chi Psi will battle the hallmen in the “A” league. Minturn will be heavy favorites over the Chi Psi squad in the “A” event, but Minturn star Louie San tos said yesterday he will feel con fident only when the game is over. SANTOS NOT OVER CONFIDENT Santos pointed to the high scores by which Chi Psi has beaten its op ponents all season, saying that there is no cause of over-optimism. The “A” contest is figured to be a battle between Santos and big Dick Alguire of SAE. Santos is noted' for his all around play, especially for saves of hard balls in the back court. Alguire, while particularly noted for his vic ious spiking, is also a fair setter and recovery man. PHI BELTS, FIJIS FALL In the ‘‘B” games yesterday, Al guire led SAE to 15-13 and 15-9 wins over Phi Delta Theta to gain the final berth. In the other “B” game, Phi Gamma Delta fell to the powerful Minturn squad, 15-1 and 17-15. For Minturn in yesterday’s game it was Gene Hamby and T. D. Brown who stood out. Brown did the setting and Hamby did the spik ing for many a point in the rapid first game and enough points in the second game to win. Dick Stout and Hank Voderberg put up a stout game for the Fiji team, but there was too much Ham by and Brown for them. —-_ Gamma Leading Bowling League League standings remained rela tively unchanged in Tuesday night bowling as both Gamma and Ome ga dropped 3-1 decisions to Stan Ray and Sherry Ross respectively. Merrick advanced to a second place tie with Omega by defeating Sederstrom 4-0. Hunter out-bowled Sigma 3-1. Individual bowling was some what lower than the previous week as Ted Takasumi of Gamma had high single game with a 183 while Jack Mockley of Merrick had high series of 488 as compared to his previous record of 593. Merrick had both high team single game and series honors with scores of 498 and 1377. League standings: Team YV. Gamma .17 Merrick .13 Omega .13 Sherry Ross .12 Stan Ray .12 Hunter.11 Sederstrom . 9 Sigma. 8 L. 7 11 11 12 12 13 15 16 Paris police are working on a subway murder and likely hope to solve it with underground inform ation. WATCH THIS PAPER FOR PHILIP MORRIS SCORECAST WINNERS! Today’s predictions by the Emerald Intramural Staff: Mint urn Hall will win both contests, but neither will be a pushover. They will beat Chi Psi in two games. But the scores of these games will be fairly close. Chi Psi should pass 10 points in each before Minturn goes over the top with 15. In the “B” game, Minturn will beat Sigma Alpha Epsilon, but this also will certainly not be a pushover. Possibly, the Hallmen "ill take it in two games, but it may stretcii to three. Don’t be surprised to see a hard fighting, fired up SAE team putting up tough competition. SAE could win, but the possibility is slight. Minturn will be the “A” and “B” champs by suppertime. U House Girls V-Ball Champs In a tight tussle yesterday which featured the two top teams of in tramural volleyball, University House defeated the Ann Judson team 36-27 to become the 1949 champions. The Judson squad built an im pressive lead in the first few min utes of the game, and by half-time they led the Co-op team, 20-11. Be hind the brilliant net play of Ann and Virginia Thompson, the Uni versity House team quickly tied the score during the second half. Out standing in defensive play for the losing team were Orla Dudson and Marian Arthur. Individual high scorers for the champions were Virginia Thomp son with 10 points, and Jane God knect Frances with seven counters each. Sparking the champions to victory were Corla Albee who scor ed eight points, and Elbe Mathews who accounted for seven markers. SPORTS STAFF Dave Taylor John Barton Lorna Davis Jack Faust A robber in Oregon who used hook and line to fish money from never throws back the small ones. LIKE IT. Our Smorgasbord is ‘de veloping’. The first 2 weeks we served it in booths on beautiful 3 decker platters. We shall continue this to those who would prefer that service, but now we are proud to announce that we also ‘have the things on the table’, for you to enjoy and ‘come back for more’. We shall be featuring gen uine Danish pastries and other home-made products. DANISH HOME BAKERY So. Willamette across from Drive In Theatre. P.S. Customers reserving Smorgasbord table are fur nished with cigarettes and mints. MR. DIXIELAND "NAPPY" LAMARE AND THE "BOB" CATS DIXIELAND BAND present a DIXIELAND JAZZ CONCERT sponsored by STUDENT UNION BOARD Nine Artists and Miss Patty O'Conner When Monday, Dec. 5 Time 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Where McArthur Court Price 60c gen. adm. Hear Nappy Lamare Banjo and Guitar Zutti Singleton Drums Brad Gowans Valve Trombone Pub Brown Tenor Sax^ Stew Fletcher Trumpet Johnny Costello Clarinet Budd Hatch Bass Horn Harry Gillingham # Piano Miss Patty O'Conner Vocalist