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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1951)
DucWs for rte4Bro»» By Bill Gurney It’s a rough weekend ahead tor the faltering Oregon Web foots, and Coach l.en Casanova drove his men hard to ready them for the UCLA Bruins at the Los Angeles Coliseum Sat urday afternoon. Practice Tuesday night included extensive passing, blocking, offen sive, and defensive drills. Line Coach Gene Harlow put his c.har .ges through an extensive rock-em sock-em drill on the charging ma chine. two-on-one blocking, and basic line maneuvers. Passes Practiced Backfield Coach John McKay ind Assistant Coach Jack Roche supervised the backs and ends in an extensive passing drill. Quar terbacks Hal Dunham, George Shaw, and Barney Holland took turns handling the passing chores; while ends Leroy Campbell. Dick Davenport; and backs Bill Fell and Ted Anderson were among targets for their tosses. Junior varsity coach Bill Bow crman ran dummy plays and scri— maged with his men, who meet the OSC JV’s Friday on Hayward, Field. Head Coach Casanova instruc-1 ted his varsity in defensive man euvers against a unit running UCLA single wing plays. Scrimmage Kun Highlight of the evening was an offensive scrimmage by the varsity offensive platoon against the defensive unit. In one back field for the offensive club were George Shaw at quarterback. Bob Ashworth and Ted Anderson at } halfbacks, and Cecil Hodges at full back. Ashworth is apparently in shape again after an injury in the Stanford game, in which he "aught a touchdown pass. Quarterback Hal Dunham brew ed the “T" for the other outfit, which included Don Sloan and Tommy Edwards and the halves, and Bunny Easter at fullback. Sophomore quarterback Barney Holland traded off at the helm of both units. As to the physical condition of the Oregon team, Baekfield Coach John McKay remarked: “We’re crippled perhaps, but our feelings are hurt more than anything else.” Nevertheless, several vital cogs in the Duck machine may miss seeing action against the Uclans Tom Novikoff, fullback who Novikoff Injure J leads the team in rushing with 190 yards net, is on the doubtful list with combination of back and leu injuries. Monte Brethauer. Junior end who holds the all-time Duck pass re ceiving: record, reinjured his bro ken rib against the Huskies, and is also likely to be out of the starting lineup Saturday. Dick Davenport, Desman pass receiving phenom from tlrant High was out for practice Tuesday after missing Monday’s workout as a result of hard blow In the stom ach received In the Washington tilt. He was discharged with a clean bill of health from the Gnod Samaritan hospital In Tort land, and will probably see action a gainst H LA, Hon Lyman fullback, is nursing a game ankle, and may not oper ate at full effectiveness Saturday. Harry Mondale, 5 feet, 6 incchs and 193 pounds of watcharm guard sustained an injury to his left leg Saturday, but is responding well to treatment and may be ready to go Saturday. Despite a broken nose, end Dick Stout will definitely see action in the UCLA fracas. Hay Karnofski and Tom Lyon are still out of action. EL PRONTO DRIVE-IN Bring your gal in for a wonderful Snack — Sandwiches and Drinks -of All Kinds 17th and Willamette YOU WANT REAL RESULTS USE EMERALD CLASSIFIEDS Place your classified ads at the Main desk Student Union or the Emerald "Shack" Rates-4c per word-First Insertion. 2c per word-Every Insertion thereafter. Borcher Drills Squad Big On Fundamentals, Speed Having begun practice two days, ago, 68 aspirants for varsity and j V. posts are learning basketball a la Borcher. Concentrating main ly on the fundamentals the new coach is working his charges three hours a day in an attempt to find extensive data about all of them before the first cut which is on Friday. After that day there will be 25 men for Borcher to build his 1951 squad. That figure will include both the varsity and duckling squads, In charge of the juniors will be Don Kirsh, regular basebnll coach. The practice sessions for Mon day and Tuesday included work on the fast break, one of Borcher's specialiest, and half-court scrim mages. in which both coaches took part. When interviewed after one of these fast scrimmages, the head coach said that the U of O would stress speed and defense this year with accent placed on teamwork. Those who saw his high school teams in action will readily agree with his theory that teamwork pays off better in the long run than individual stars. Those who arc trying out tor ih« squad Include: K;'.c Baldlnl, Kmcry IJurnen, Hunk Bonneman, Hon Hoitltr, I’aiil Byhrc, Boh Carlson, 1 -arry Chamberlain, Bill C'hoat, iiulph Clement*, Sam Conchettl, Bud Co vey, Harold Craig, Ken Duughtr. ty, Hex Davis, Sam Duncan, K<*Uh Karnum, Norm Forbes, But Fora Bob Oocxlwln, Gordon Green, Fred Gustafson, Dennis Holdeman, K<1 llulb.rg, Bill Haney, Jim Harding Jim Har per, John Hart, Boh Hawes, Bill Heath, Don Hill, Ken Hunt. Dick Johnson, Jim Johnson. Dick Kof ford, Jim Llveeay, Neal Mm I,-it, Hugh Marxer, Tom M attii.-wi, Dick McConnell, Harlan Mickey, Hon Morgan, Fred Mueller, Al lan Murray, Jack Murray, Dirk Nix, Chet Noe, Howard Page Bob Peterson, Ron Phillips, Swede Ra mos, Don Richetts, Doug Rogers, Drug Huhlmun, Tony Sakefleld, Robert Schegel, Jim Schroedcr, Don Siegmund, John Skow, Mel Streeter, Ken Tor geraon, Jim Tennyson, Jim Vrasr, Stan, Bob Wagner, Ken Wegner, A Wherry, and Fred Willson. PCC Figures Tell Leaders California's Johnny Olszewski has piled up an impressive aver age of 7.8 yards per play to take the lead in rushing in the Pacific Coast Conference. Statistics released yesterday by the PCC Commissioner's office gave Olszewski 549 yards from scrimmage for a 137.3 per game average in the first four weeks of play. The California fullback has almost a 200 yard lead over the No. 2 rusher, Frank Gifford of Southern California. Gary Kerkorian, of Stanford, has overtaken the injured Sam Mit chell, Washington, in passing. Ker korian has completed 37 of 48 passes for 581 yards, three touch downs and a .638 completion mark Mitchell, who did not play last week, is second. Paul Cameron, UCLA sophomore holds a good lead over Kerkorian in total offense with Olszewski third. Cameron has gained 319 yeards rushing and 405 passing for a 724 total. Doug McClary, Washington, has received 18 passes for 232 yards to lead that department, followed by Bill McColl, Stanford, Ernie Stockert, UCLA, and John Thomas Oregon State, with 16 each. Mc Coll has the most yards, 286, and McColl and Stockert each have scored three times. George Shaw, of Oregon, has intercepted six passes and return ed them 65 yards. He is followed by Bill Albrecht, Washington, with five. Pete Dailey, UCLA, has the most punt return yards, 212, for a 21.2 average and one touchdown in 10 runbacks. Tom Novikoff, a... . __— Oregon, leads In kickoff return with 208 yards In nine runbnek* He In followed by John William* Southern California. Hugh McKIhenny, Washington, holds a big lead In acortng witi 54 points on several touchdowns and 12 conversions in 10 attempt* Four punters top the 40 yar! mark. Dave Mann, Oregon State leuds with a 46 5 average, follows by Bob Moore, UCLA, 11 Sin# Baker. 40.9, and De» Koch, South ern Cal. 40.2 Koch made his aver age despite two blocked kicks Ins Saturday. Order of “0" to Meet Order of the "O” will meet at noon today at the Sigma Alpha Kpsilon house. President Tom my Kdwards requests that all members please lie present. Inter-Fraternity Bowling Inter-Frat. PI Kappa Alpha over Hlgina < h 3 to 1. Iauubda C'hl Alpha over Sigma Alpha Kpsilon 4 to 0. Kappa Sigma over 1*1 Kappa! Phi 4 to 0. Theta Chi over Sigma Phi sllon 3 to 1. Troeth of Sigma Pill Epsilon high game with 191. Koppe of Theta Chi had series with 519. SPORTS STAff v Desk editor, Herb Voremberg,, assistant, Gene Henry: staff, Kee Briggs, Doug White, Bill Gunny. Coach Len Casanova's Santa Clara football elevens w o n 21 games, lost 13, andf tied 4. Oregon Fullback Tom Novikoffj is the brother of Lou Novikoffj former diomond star. __—Ti Fur-lined STADIUM BOOTS for girls Regular *12.95 Special *5.85 ABE BEAN Fs, SHOES 668 Willamette—Next to the Heilig Theater—4-1350 r :i ' ■ '