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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1950)
Shows Against Huskies BOB AMACHEK, who “found” himself Friday night against the Uni versity of Washington Huskies. Amaeher dumped in two timely field goals and helped Oregon’s power under the .backboards when it was needed most. He is playing his last season for Oregon. Ducks Make It Two; Drop Washington Huskies, 63-60 Frosh Trip Vanport JC In Tight Tilt By JACK LANDRUD In the most thrilling contest that Frosh hoop fans have witnessed this year, the Oregon yearling bas ketball quintet outraced the Van port Junior College five, 54-52, be fore an eager Dad's Day crowd in McArthur Court Saturday evening as a preliminary to the Oregon Washington varsity clash. Frosh Alternate Brillance The Freshmen looked alternately brilliant and sloppy, as they allow ed themselves to trail 34-29 at the halftime intermission, only to have the Junior College Vikings increase this margin to 42-31 with eight and one-half minutes remaining in the second half. Both sides began to exchange tal lies, and a Duckling spurt cut their deficit to 45-37 with six minutes to play. At this point a pair of giants named Chet Noe and Hank Bonne man caught on fire and charged up the whole team. First Not potted three quick buckets to make it 45-43, and then Bonneman, the tip-in specialist, added three more to allow the Frosh to surge in a 49-45 lead. The guard twosome of Bud Covey and Nick Schmer provided the two (Please turn to page five) Mixed Squad Beats Varsily; Van Dijk Stars Pete Van Dijk collected two .firsts and was a member of the -re tty team that captured another as J'c led the Oregon Frosh and ineli uibles to a 39-33 win over the Var i rty swimming team Saturday af ternoon. Coach John Borchardt’s Varsity men held a slim 33-32 lend at the beginning of the final event, the 400-yard freestyle relay. Jim Allen, George Balch, and Don Pyeatt combined to give the Freshmen a quick advantage in lfiat event, and Captain Pete Van Dyke clinched the race and the meet by finishing slightly ahead of Jim Stanley, despite the latter's rapid finish. Another freshman, Gordon Ed vards/1 furthered the Yearlings' cause and broke an all-time Oregon freshman record by capturing the 4-10-yard freestyle with a time of 5 minutes and 9.3 seconds. The smooth-swimming Edwards clip ped 10.7 seconds from the old rec ord of 5:20. set by Jack Robinson in 1941. The Varsity splashers were hand icapped by the temporary loss of four regulars who did not take part in the meet because they were in jured or sick. However, Joe Nislrimoto recover ed from an attack of influenza in time to enter the meet and take fiist place in the 200-yard breast stroke. He nl-o was a member of the Varsity trio that won the 300 \ ard medley relay to give the regu 1 its an early 5-0 lead in the meet. However, the Frosh-Ineligibles bounced right back when Van Dijk streaked to first place in the 200 card freestyle with a time of 2:15.1, ; tui George Balch of the Freshmen edged Louis Santos by a mere frac tion of a second in the 60-yard free style. (H.-ase turn to pa>ie five) Van Brocklin On Campus For Master's Degree By PETE CORNACCHIA Old timers around the campus like to tell about the autumn way back in 1948. Seems as though the University of Oregon had an un defeated football team in Pacific Coast Conference play. Records surprisingly support those rumors. They also show that the arm of a quarterback, name of Norm Van Brocklin, had a big IS’OHM VAN BKOC’KUN finger in the successful pie. Thai arm, along with tlie rest of the Van Brocklin assembly, went on to finer tilings finer things being' the professional Los Angeles Rams. Vim Works for Master’s Van Brocklin has returned to the campus, but not with the purpose of making fans forget about last year. The All-American is work ing for a master’s degree in physi cal education. He reports to the Rams at the end of spring term for a lengthy summer drill before next fall’s campaign. One of the surprises Norm found in pro football is the absence of very much dirty play. Seems as though the boys are so busy with being good halfbacks or ends that they don’t have time for the rough stuff. Another thing he noted was the seriousness of every man who is still on the 32-man squad when the first game comes along. You don’t work—pretty soon there's no mon ey to buy such bare essentials as champagne and sirloins, and no more beer in the locker room after the game. Shaugltnessy Tops Norm didn't win much acclaim as a sixty-minute man in his first year in the pay loop, for Ram Coach Clark Shaughnessy likes to develop his freshmen slowly. Van Brocklin shares the opinion of many when he says that the T mentor is one of the greatest men ever to sit at the head of a players’ bench. Shaughnessy’s Stanford model T ran out of gas shortly before the war, but you can’t hear a knock in his new Ram Super-eleven. Waterfield’s Tops, Too Bob Waterfield also came in for a lot of praise from the man who would like to have his job. The job referred to here is that of being the Rams number one quarterback not the husband of Jane Russell. “She has very pretty teeth,” was Norm’s comment on the girl. Getting back to Van Brocklin, and there’s certainly no big bust on that subject, lie’s relying upon handball to prevent his shape from geting uncomplimentary attention during the winter. Come spring time, he, Dan Garza, and a few other ex-Oregon gridmen plan to have a few workouts. Family to Expand Norm and wife Gloria expect a chip off the ol’ arm along about April. Boy or girl, you can bet there’s going to be a football bouncing around in the living room. Norm, by the way, is quite pleased with the job Lucille Swee I (Please hint la page fire) The magic gift of accuracy that suddenly descended upon Oregon’s basketball team Friday night, w as still present on Sat urday as the deadly Ducks outshot Washington 63-60. It was a little harder this time. Seven times the lead changed hands-, and at the end of the first half it looked as if the Huskies had nailed down the Northern Division title right in our back vnrd Behind at one stage 13-3, the Huskies crept up to tie at 26-26, and went to their dresing room with a 33-26 halftime advan tage. Outside and Inside The Ducks were making good use of their two-pronged offense. When they weren’t hitting with sharp shooter-like precision from the out side, they were cutting in close for handoffs from the pivot. Keller, Sowers, and the long dormant Mel Krause boosted Oregon to a .367 percentage with one handers from the key and the corners. Oregon centers had their troubles guarding big Duane Enochs. Vran izan picked up three quick fouls, and Bob Amacher, Friday’s angel child came in. Bob finished out the half. Streeter Stars Vranizan started the second half, as Oregon began their comeback. 'B' IM Action Slow Friday; Mid-Point Hit Today’s Schedule Basketball 3:30 Phi Delta Theta B vs. French B 4:35 Campbell Club B vs. Sigma Nu B 5:15 Phi Kappa Sigma B vs. Delta Upsilon B Handball 4:00 Sherry Ross Hall vs. Sigma Chi The “B” schedule reached the half-way point as a result of Fri day’s Intramural basketball match es. Winners in the all “junior var sity” games were Lambda Chi Al pha, Omega, Delta Tau Delta, Pi Kappa Alpha, Chi Psi, and Min turn. Lambda Chi Rolls A nip and tuck curtain raiser was the feature attraction as Lambda Chi squeezed out a 12-11 win over Cherney Hall. The half-time score read 5-5. “Tip it as you go” was the theme of basketball a la east court as Omega toppled Phi Sigma Kappa 18-14. Pi Kappa Alpha followed up with a 17-5 stemming of Nestor. The Pi Kaps led 11-3 at half-time. The Delts won “2-0” when Alpha Hall failed to floor a five. Chi Psi Wins Chi Psi, led by Charles Streader, who dumped in twelve points, solid ly whacked McChesney 29-5. Minturn kept up their winning ways with a decisive 20-12 victory over Pi Kappa Phi. Plalf-time score read 12-6 for the winners. A pat on the back costs nothing, yet it is often worth an untold amount to one who receives it. When a man tries to get out of jury duty you can almost bet that there is no depression. Summer Courses University of Madrid Study and Travel A rare opportunity to enjoy me morable experiences in learning and living. For students, teach ers, others yet to discover fasci nating. historical Spain. Courses include Spanish language, art and culture. Interesting recre ational ptogram included. For details, write now to Spanish Student Tours 500 Fifth Av„ New York 18.N.Y. After fouling Guisness early in the half, he was replaced by Mel Street er who inherited the discovery-of the night'award. Hard luck Mel, who has been hampered by personal fouls and a weak shooting percentage, came in to his own. The agile forward-like pivot man came up with seven timely points, played a. feeder role as few Oregon centers have played it, and gave the Webfoot backboard ace Will Urban some sadly needed support. Missing few of their scoring op portunities, Oregon paced by Sow ers and Keller drove to a 46-46 tie. One minute later, with nine min utes and ten sceonds gone, John-, Neeley drove in, took a pass from Jack Keller, and sent Oregon ahead 51-48. From then on the Webfoots were never headed. Soriano Flubs Up Louie Soriano, who dunked 22 counters, attempted' to play villain in the last minutes. Twice he fired long one handers to put Washing ton one point down. With but 20 seconds to go, he left Jack Keller alone under the basket, only to see the Oregon guard take a pass from John Neeley and can the basket that muzzled the Huskies. Between halves, George Rasmus sen vaulting under several handi caps in field conditions, pole vault ed 14 feet. Three tries at 14-6 fail ed. He was to have appeared in New York at the Millrose games, but was held back by bad weather. MON.—TUE.—WED. Jan. 30-31—Feb. 1 3 Performances 2:00 p.m., 6:45 p.m., 9:45 p.m. IMAGINATION ...Finesse ..;a'Musti” | -HEDDA HOPPER ' . ty VILLI AM SHAKESPEARE VI'ITH JEAN SIMMONS A UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL RElEA$F • PRICES • MATINEE EVENING I Adults . 90c Adults . $1-20 | Stud. . 74c Stud. 74c Children .. 50c SPECIAL MATINEE PRICES Line Parties or Groups Attending 2:00 p.m. Showings i STUDENTS, Line Party .50c . ADULTS Line Party ..74c AFTERNOONS ONLY