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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1950)
i USL -T Omaon Daily , _ EMERALD SPORTS Set McGuire-Corvallis Memorial Scholarship A Stan McGuire-Bill Corvallis memorial fund will be established in honor of the two popular Ore gon State athletes who died of in juries received in a toboggan-auto accident in Corvallis last week. Exact manner in which the fund Will be utilized will not be decided ■until those in charge have con ferred with Mr. and Mrs. James 1m McGuire, parents of the 1950 Beaver football captain-elect; and Mrs. Pauline Corvallis, mother of the 'other victim. Some sort of ath letic scholarship has been sug gested. Lloyd Carter of Portland, presi dent of the Oregon State Alumni association, has announced that E»r. A. L. Strand, OSC president; Jitn Hanker, OSC student body president; Kip Taylor, head foot ball coach; and Ralph Coleman, baseball coach, will serve on the committee. Those wishing to make contri btitions may do so through Presi dent Strand’s office on the college campus. ii-E. — . “ Stan McGuire Grid Fatalities Held Down For 2nd Year LOS ANGELES—(UP)—Ameri can colleges completed a football season for the second year in a row without a single death resulting di rectly from play, Dr. Floyd R. East wood reported Wednesday. Nineteen players died in non eoliege competition from football injuries and seven persons were killed indirectly in 1941) by grid iron play, he said. Eastwood, dean of men at Los Angeles State College, is chairriian of the Injury and Fatality Commit tee of the American Football Coaches Association. Its report will be presented to the association in New York today. Nine of last year’s direct football fatalities were in high schools, seven in sandlot games and three in athletic club competition. One college death was ascribed indirectly to football, two in pro games, three in sandlot and one in high school. The committee said it would rec commend remodeling headgear and making knee pads standard equip ment in hopes of cutting down fu ture deaths. Friel and Brumblay Washington State College has two former coaches of Washington prep championship teams on the staff. Coach Jack Friel won the state prep crown for North Central high school of Spokane in 1928 and athletic director Robert C. Brum blay coached North Central high school to tthe 1948 state prep title. -r_- m—utty, I * I No Other Commodity Is Measured So Accurately As Electricity. I Ji ll r y Your electric meters are TRIPLE-TESTED to assure accuracy • The first tests are made at the factory ( ■ ■ and all meters are given these tests before shipment. T* ! • The second test is made in the meter laboratory of the Eugene Water and Electric Board ... before the meters are installed. [ • After installation, meters are periodically field-tested. The Eugene Water 8c Electric Board maintains a mobile meter-testing unit.. • * and makes periodic checks of meters in service. j Occasional complaints about "high bills" usually can be traced to: 1. Heavy use of electrical appliances such as air-space heaters or water heaters. 2. Leaky hot-water faucets which waste water plus the electric energy that went into heating of the water. 3. Poorly installed plumbing with long runs of exposed hot-water pipe. 4. Lack of insulalton on hot-water tanks. 5. Failure to turn oil unused lights or appliances. A __'_sSJfeStf CEGENE WATEPMSf ELECTRIC BOARD MU MIC I P A L UTUItlll Gill Respects Him By SAUL ZAIK A raging blizzard ushered in the 1950 racing season at Mt. Hood with the traditional Portland Day Trial Race. Under the new system, Class C men ran the course on Jan. 7, the Class A and B men raced on the 8th. Dave Hayes of Portland Univer sity won the Class C men’s crown, while Ken Van Dyke, ex-Webfoot racer, now at Vanport College for Winter term,won the coveted class B first slot against an overwhelm ing field. Another ex-Webfoot, also at Vanport for Winter term ski team, Larry Black, claimed a fifth position. Because of the poor weather the women’s divi sion voted against racing. Oregon and O.S.C. will hold a combined team tryout at Hoodoo Bowl on Jan. 21. Although many of the new Oregon hopefuls transfer red to Vanport where the Athletic Department favors skiing, a nearly complete 1949 squad will return. The first intercollegiate tangle will be combined downhill and slalom which will take place in the Tom, Dick and Harry Ski Bowl at Government Camp. The Downhill race will be run over the new course, especially built for the National Championships, to take place there this spring. We dropped over to Sun Valley and Bogus Basin during the vaca tion only to find a laxity of snow. What snow there was, however, was excellent, and the snow and good weather made up for it. Here in the Northwest there is certainly no lack of snowr and all areas are operating. Willamette, Santiam, and Mt. Hood all boast excellent skiing, just be sure and have a waterproof parka with you. At timberline a new lift is in op eration. It is called a ‘'Platterpull,” and combines the rope tow with a (Please turn to page five) By JOHN BARTON Oregon and Oregon State Col lege will perform before the first sellout crowd in the short history of the new Gill Coliseum in their Fri da ynight battle in Corvallis. OSC officals announced yester day night battle in Corvallis, room only for spectators, even after extra bleachers are moved in from the old men’s gym. Beaver officials have allotted 500 tickets to Webfoot fans. Other general admission tickets will go on sale in Corvallis at 6:30 p.m. before the game. The big question hovering in Ore gon State quarters is whether Coach Slats Gill will use a zone or man-to-man defense against the Webfoots. A zone defense is the more effective of the two in stop ping a fast break, which John War ren’s team will surely attempt to use. If the fast break fails and the Ducks are forced to resort to plays to work the ball in, the man-to-man will be tried by the Beavers, it is expected. Paul Sowers and Will Urban are two big guns in the Oregon offense whom Gill must stop if he wants to win the game. Opin ion in Aggieland yesterday was that Gill will use George Cran dall, the Beavers’ best defensive player, on Sowers. Who will play under the basket on defense and offense for OSC is anyone’s guess. Big Ray Snider, who has been clicking well so far this season, Len Rinearson, and several other tall Beavers have been under the bucket at various times during the year. Gill has continued to either show discontent or want of experiment as he shifts his tall men in position. Sophomore Jim Xau has been showing up well in Aggie work outs this week, according to re ports from Corvallis, and he may see action tomorrow night. Glenn Kinney, junior letterman, may also see some floor play for OSC. 1