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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1950)
| DUCKTRACKS By Charles Peterson The business of picking one game a week went sour last Satur day so this week we retired to.scorers’ corner, fully armed with four-leaf clovers, horse shoes, and rabbits’ feet, and came up with the following gems of forecasting folly.If you break the bank with these selections, remember where you read it first; if you lose the family jewels, don't say we didn’t warn you. Starting out at home, we’ll take on first the St. Marys-Oregon tussle. This stacks up as a case of who has least of what, and when the chips are down we look for the Duck line to swing the balance in Oregon’s favor. The Webfoots will also be on their home grounds, but count on John Henry Johnson and the Gaels to keep it close. Oregon. Kip Taylor’s legions set sail for the southland this week to do battle with Cal’s burly Bears. Gene Morrow will be back in there for the Beavers, but it would take three more like him to serious ly trouble Lynn Waldorf’s crew. The Bears had their squeeker last week and should add another win to their record-breaking string of conference victories. California. Now or Never Stanford, too, puts on its traveling clothes and heads into hot rod-heaven to knock heads with UCLA. This is put-up-or-shut up week for the highly-touted Indians, who must win here or step aside to Cal and Washington in the Rose Bowl chase. Red Sand ej$ will have his boys up for this one, and we’ll string with the Bruins in an upset. UCLA. Washington ventures into the always dangerous Big Ten for a skirmish with Illinois, victor over UCLA last week. It is the first of three stiff tests for the Huskies, wrho face Stanford and Cal after the Illini. A combination of Pacific Coast pride and con fidence in the Heinrich-McElhenny scoring punch makes us string with the Huskies by a nose. Washington. The Trojans of USC go all the way to Baltimore for an engage ment with Navy and another effort to get into the win column. The seasons when the men of Troy get to the middle of October without a victory are few and far between, but they should right themselves here, though Navy gave Princeton a scare in its last outing before bowing 20-14. USC. With Idaho and Washington State enjoying an idle weekend, that pretty well takes care of the coast. Elsewhere around the na tion,they look like this: . Army Again Army should have little trouble in extending its defeatless streak to 24 in its skirmish with twice-beaten Harvard. With one Blaik running things on the bench and another directing field operations, its double trouble for the opposition. Ad sophomore A1 Pollard, the lad who is making ’em forget Doc Blanchard, and it starts looking like another all-conquering year for the Black Knights. Army. Oklahoma’s Sooners, second to the Cadets in the weekly AP college football poll and with a winning streak of 24 straight, should do handsomely against Kansas State. After edging Texas last week, the Sooners may let down, but not far enough for the K Staters. Oklahoma. Third-ranked Southern Methodist takes on undefeated Rice in a tussle which has the whole state of Texas on its ear. The Owls are always rough and particularly so on SMU. Anything can hap pen here, but we’ll stick with Benners, Rote & Co. SMU. Notre Dame, finally taking its lump after living high for so los^g, won’t be able to relax against Indiana in a Hoosier state squabble. The Irish will have to stop passer Lou D’Achille, who tied the conference completion mark with 20 out of 38 against Ohio State. Notre Dame. Michigan? Iii the Big Ten, the biggest question mark is Michigan. The Wolverines, losers in two out of three, now must face unbeaten Wisconsin. It’s a must for both teams, but if Michigan can come back after that tragic last quarter against Army they should squeeze in. Michigan. Ohio State mixes with Minnesota in another Western Confer ence highlight. The Golden Gophers are a pretty tarnished out fit after three losses in as many tries, and should fare no better with the Buckeyes. Ohio State. Collecting the other big and little games of the week in one fell swoop, we’ll give you Santa Clara over Nevada, COP over Loy ola, USF over San Jose, Lewis & Clark over Willamette, Mary land over North Carolina State, Tennessee over Alabama, Clern son over South Carolina, Georgia over Louisiana State, Duke over Richmond, Tulane over Mississippi, Princeton over Brown, Penn over Columbia, Cornell over Yale, Syracuse over Holy Cross. Kentucky over Villanova, Wyoming over Utah, Colorado over Arizona. Texas A&M over Texas Christian, Nebraska over Penn State. Purdue over Iowa, Northwestern over Pitt, Oklahoma A&M over Kansas, Texas over Arkansas, and W ake h orest over G^ferge Washington. That, at least is the way they look to us. We could be looking from the wrong spot. Campus ‘TtteWUf At Phi Kappa Sigma. . . Congratulations and the usual dozen roses for the engagement of Bob Pearce, senior class vice prexy, to Dixie Whitaker of Eu gene. Committee members appointed for Homecoming were: Noise Par ade, Jim Anthony; Homecoming sign, Gary Haynes, Keith Rey nolds and Larry Goldade. Officers elected for the coming year at the “Skull House” are: Ron Phillips, president; James Anthony, vice president; Bill Marshall, secretary; Martel Scrog gin, rushing chairman; and Mil lard Kinney, social chairman. At Gamma Phi Beta. . . A fireside was held last Thurs day evening at the Gamma Phi house in honor of the Eugene chapter of Gamma Phi Beta alum nae. Entertainment and refresh ments were featured. Summer weddings included Jane Carson and Jim Shaw (Pi Kappa Phi), and Harriet Howes and Jack Lescher (Chi Psi). Barbara Buddenhagen announc ed her engagement to Ramsey Fendell, ATO, this summer, with the wedding date set for Nov. 21. Sunday, Oct. 14, a tea was given honoring Mrs. Wilber, Gamma Phi’s new housemother. At Kappa Alpha Theta. . Judy Bailey surprised everyone recently by announcing her en gagement to Sim Chapman of Grants Pass. The wedding date has been set for December. Donna Mary Brennan is now wearing the Fiji pin of Vince Dulcich. Doris Purvine was re cently pinned to Lee Reeves, a transfer this year from Univer sity of Redlands. Two Theta summer weddings in cluded Nancy Lausmann to Bill Tassock, and Janet Rilea to Don Farnam. At Sig Ep.. . Mel Leighton dropped a line from Fort Ord, Calif. Mel says he is not alone, as he has the com pany of two other UO students, Norm Weekly and Ed Anderson. A constant visitor at the Sig Ep house is “Aj^ty” Richardson, who is now attending Oregon State. At Pi Kappa Phi. .. Last Friday the campus was in troduced to the Pi Kaps’ locomo-4 tive bell. It was ringing out the news that one of the Pi Kaps, Fred Decker, had made the finals for the Joe College contest. Sunday Manager Appointed for SU The appointment of Gerald A. Davidson as Sunday manager of the Student Union was announced Thursday by Dick Williams, SU director. Davidson s duties will include the general supervision and re sponsibility for the building on Sundays, beginning this week. A graduate student of the School of Education, Davidson is now working for his master of educa tion degree. Shower Proofing for RAINY WEATHER PROTECTION ► INSTANT PRESSING-/ PUDDLES SAYS Tonight is the Night! CURT FINCH AND HIS ORCHESTRA Door prize and intermission entertainment Take Your Date To WILLAMETTE PARK Admission 74c Dancing 9:30-12:30 PHONE 7-3484 FOR RESERVATIONS CLASS OF '53 PRESENTS 9 O’CLOCK SHADOW WALLY HEIDER'S ORCHESTRA Student Union Ball Room Short Silks 9—12:15 Saturday 1.75 Per Couple