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They'll be stowing away the moleskins again this week after
the least successful grid season in Oregon history. But before the
1950 campaign is written off as a total disaster—a 100 percent
catastroscope as Jimmy Durante might say—let’s glance past
those nine losses for a minute or two and take a final look at the
bright spots before the curtain rings down. Sure, there were mis
takes ; there were losses to teams which should have been beaten,
but without plunging into pathos here are some of the things
which it won’t hurt to remember.
There was the fine play of the individual stars like Ray Lung,
Earl Stelle, Dick Daugherty, Tommy Edwards, Dick Patrick,
Monte Brethauer, and Hal Dunham. Week in and week, out,
Lung was on the bottom of the piles more often than the low
man on the totem pole. He and Stelle, Patrick, and Daugherty at
times seemed to be carrying the whole defensive burden. Stelle
did everything for Oregon but carry the water bucket, and prob
ably would have done that had he been asked. In a day of spe
cialists, he stood out in all departments. Brethauer hung up a
U&w Webfoot pass catching record as he blossomed into a poten
tially great wingman, while the Dunham-Edwards combination
proved the most explosive punch the Ducks manufactured all
year.
Something Wasn't Lost
And we won’t soon forget Jim Aiken and his coaching staff
which never gave up on its team. Jim hung up an enviable mark
in his first three seasons at the helm of the Webfoots, and it is a
tribute to this record that the wolves who all too often start to
howl at the first sign of adversity have been conspiciously silent
this fall. This corner takes its hat off to a guy who not once of
fered an alibi for a losing effort though the temptation at times
must have been strong.
Last but not least, there was something the Ducks had which
you don’t often,find in a losing team. Call it spirit, call it will-to
win, call it starry-eyed sophomorism, or what you will, this ball
club had it when the campaign opened and it had it when it
closed. At times it even looked as though the Ducks were stub
bing their toes trying too hard.
What More Could You Want?
We don’t claim that the above includes all the noteworthy ac
complishments of the 1950 Ducks, but they are a few items some
body might like to recall ten years from now when the memory
of those losses has dimmed. And after all, with all the teapot tem
pests -around Oregon this fall, who’s had time to worry about
football? What with deferred living and, if you’ll pardon the ex
pression, beer probes, Hallowe’en merry-making and Howe Field
hostilities, even Van Brocklin would have had a tough time stay
ing in the center ring.
Turning our attention elsewhere, let’s take a gander at how
the big bowl chase came out this year. Cal, yaawwnn, sewed up
its third straight PCC title by tying Stanford, and at this writing
is the best bet to carry the faded conference colors into the Rose
Etowl. This time, though, Pappy’s Bears are in the unenviable po
sition of having everything to lose and nothing to gain as they go
into the pit against thrice-beaten Michigan on New Year’s Day.
A Rose by Any Other Name—?
The Wolverines barely stayed within shouting distance of
first place in the Big Nine until Saturday when they combined
forces with Mother Nature to upset Ohio State while Illinois
obligingly lost to Northwestern. Michigan’s overall record this
season is only fifth best in the Big Nine, being topped by Illinois,
Ohio State, Wisconsin and Northwestern, but its conference
mark of 4-1-1 stacks up as the best in the circuit. A Cal win over
this Michigan team would have all the efifect of Joe Louis in his
prime belting out a tank town bum. But if the Bears lose, they’ll
start calling the annual tilt the Schmoes Bowl, and renew the cry
for the PCC to find itself a new playmate.
One more note on bowls before winding this up. Lewis and
Clark up in Portland has set its sights on two bowl games in one
season. Not satisfied with polishing off San Francisco State
(don’t confuse with USF) in Medford’s Pear Bowl, the Pioneers
are aiming for a bid to play in Honolulu’s Pineapple Bowl. If they
succeed in getting to Hawaii, next season they’ll probably be
known as the Carmen Mirandas of football.
Asklepiads Tap Six New Members Monday
Six new members were tapped
ISacnday noon by Asklepiads, pre
medical honorary.
The new members are Albert
Brauer, James Harber, Hugh Kaf
ton, Herbert Spady, Ralph E.
Thompson, and Forrest Tohpam,
These men may be recognized by
the traditional bone suspended
from their necks.
Initiation of those tapped will
be held next Tuesday.
UOfString[Guariet
To Present Show
The University String Quartet
will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday in
the SU ballroom, giving its second
appearance of the school year here
on campus.
Numbers to be presented are
Beethoven’s Quartet, Opus 74 in
E flat, sometimes called the Harp
Quartet, and Mozart’s Quintet in
G minor, K. No. 516. The latter
will be assisted by Larry .Maves,
violinist and freshman in music.
The regular members of the
quartet are George Boughton, as
sistant professor of violin; Mary
Kapp Allton, sceond violin; Ed
mund Cykler, associate professor
of music (viola); and Milton Die
terich, assistant professor of music,
violoncello.
SU Doughnuts Rise
Inflation has hit the lowly
doughnut!
Coffee-drinkers who take their
cup with a sinker or two will be
confronted with an 8-cent variety
of the latter when they order
them at the Student Union soda
bar starting today.
According to SU Director Dick
Williams, doughnuts have taken
a jump up the price ladder due
to the recent wage equalization
authorized for state employees.
The wage raises, he said, are
costing the SU an additional
$1,000 a month.
The raise in price of dough
nuts is a partial offset of the
increased costs, Williams said.
With doughnuts costing the SU
8 and 8/4 cents apiece it was con
sidered necessary to elevate the
cost of one from 5 cents to 8
cents or two for 15 cents.
Dec. Grads Should
Register For Job Aid
December graduates who are
not yet registered with the gradu
ate placement service and who
wish help in obtaining jobs after
graduation, should register irrl
mediately with the office, Mrs.
Marian Scheckler, placement sec
retary, announced Monday.
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