DUCK TRACKS
By SAM FIDMAN
Emerald Sports Editor
The so-called minor sports that dot some university athletic
programs, and are conspicuously absent from others, have come
in for scads of discussion on or about the University of Oregon
campus in recent weeks. Even campus peanut politicians have
taken an interest in the possibility of injecting these sports into
Oregon’s athletic bloodstream.
The platform—or at least one of the boards that went to
comprise that platform—of several of our local ward-healers
cries out to the public that they will push the planning for an
Oregon boxing, wrestling, and possibly skiing program.
All this is indeed a bone for public contention—. “Looka Un
ca Aggie—hims got skiing; hints got wrestling.” Even in pore
little Idaho where potatoes grow so well, they have managed to
sport a noteworthy boxing squad.
In addition to local belly-aching over the small sports pro
gram which Oregon does not sponsor, there has been some evi
dence to prove that the outside has taken notice also.
"Oregon—Get Hot"
In a letter addressed to this writer, a member of the Univer
sity of Washington ski team (skiing is a major sport at Seattle),
wno also serves with his team s
publicity department had this
to say:
“The U of W has another
great ski team this year; it
should be either number one
or two in the country. I don’t
see Oregon listed in any of
the Northern Division meets.
I don’t know how they treat
skiing down there, but Ore
gon seenis to be the only
school in the Northwest that
isn’t entered. It is a major
sport at both Washington
and WSC now, and other
LEO HARRIS
schools are giving it more and more support. Oregon ought to
get hot. There are a lot of good men in that area and most of
them are coming to Washington or OSC now.”
We will be happy to provide verification of the authenticity of
the letter to any party that might suspect a home-made, brew-in
the-bathtub job. With all the clamor, then, in favor of putting
Oregon on the smaller sports map, it seemed within the confines
of logic to investigate the situation.
The One-Man Team
Also logically, the one man who says so, as far as people who
have the say-so, is Athletic Director Leo Harris. We have un
earthed the athletic department’s stand on the subject for the
benefit of participants on the present unofficial Oregon ski team,
for those who aspire to guard their alma'mater on and on with
their mitts, and for the peanut politik body.
In the year 1947, when Leo I stepped to the throne of Oregon
athletics, there was an almost immediate plan to form a Web
foot varsity ski team, with official sanction from the head de
partment. A budget had been set aside for the purpose—and a
squad of ten men had met to form the nucleus of the uotfit.
Then what happened—why doesn’t Oregon have a ski team?
Because nine of those ten students proved ineligible to compete.
The lone remaining soul did not feel capable of collecting all the
sitz marks—so everything went up in a cloud. As a matter of
fact, it is all still in that cloud—and that which goes up must
come down?
Harris further pointed out, as far as skiing is concerned, the
Oregon campus is not ideally suited for access to the snowy
slopes—Leo himself enjoys skiing—and especially there are no
practically accessible points where jumping might be practiced.
To march even deeper into the cold night—where can Leo find a
man to handle ski coaching—? There is a world of difficulty in
landing able men to coach Oregon sports.
Dig for Your Coaches
Leo has had to dig into a downtown law office for his golf
coach—and he got a darned good one in Sid Milligan. How
ever, in order to find a coach for Oregon varsity tennis, to re
place last year’s player-coach Saal Lesser, the Athletic chief
has run into a wall which has only recently shown signs of giv
ing away. A member of the Oregon faculty at present is the
leading candidate to fill that vacancy.
Harris, who carried the Stanford colors into the ring, light
heavyweight division, in his own collegiate days, would be most
receptive to a boxing program. It is the only one of three pro
posed sports that can pay for itself—or more than pay for itself
. . . But here there are more problems. Who can coach boxing?
How can the athletic department go about keeping gambling
away from the sport if it is introduced here? How long is a piece
of string, etc.
Eugene Lieutenant
Gets Promotion
First Lt. Eugene M. Stahl, Eu
gene, has been promoted to the
rank of captain in the Air Re
serve, according to an announce
ment from the Portland Air Force
Reserve Training Center. .
Captain Stahl is assigned to the
66th Troop Carrier Squadron of
the 403rd Group, stationed at the
Portland Airport.
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