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In this space yesterday, Brother Bill Gurney pointed out
Jiat come Saturday Ben Casanova's Wehfoot legions will have
► \ far their best chance to win another game this season. At
this writing, Boston, Cal and OSC would appear to have a
lefinite edge on the Ducks, but Idaho—that's a different story.
Looking back through the record books, we find solid his
orical precedent for a victory Saturday. Reason number one,
laturally, is the umpteen to almost nil (exacf figures not at
land) edge Oregon has over the years, and the fact that the
/andals have never been able to win two in a row over Oregon
teams.
I'veil better, the Ducks will be performing on their home
turf, which brings u> to the core of why Peterson's Peerless
Prediction Service picks the Ducks this week. How many
people realize that during the last three dismal seasons of
Oregon football the Ducks have a winning record on Hayward
Field? Yessir, it's a fact.
| * Dark Ages Set In
Going back to 1949, when the Dark Ages of Oregon football
set in, and working forward from tl ere. we found that the
\\ ebfoots’ overall record is six w ins and 20 defeats. And of the
glorious six, four were recorded right over there on Mike
Steddom'.x gridiron. One of them, surprisingly enough, was a
4! 0 thrashing handed out to you guessed it Idaho, in the
second game of the 1949 campaign.
That was the first of the four. The next came when Jim
Aiken’s men won their last game of any consequence for
Genial Jim, whomping Colorado 42-14. That was the afternoon
that Woodley Lewis romped 102 yards on a kickoff return and
Oregon ran up 525 net yards passing and running.
But on with our tale. It wasn’t until Ted Shipkey's Montana
Brizzlics came down from their lair last < >ct. 7 that the \Ycb
rbots got into the win column again, here or anywhere else.
At that, it was a narrow squeek as Tommy Kingsford bid fair
to run the locals out of their own yard with his passing. But
ive won, 20-1.4, and then proceeded to lose eight more before
Oniing from behind to whip Arizona this year. In the mean
tfme, OSC in '49 and St. Marys and Washington State in '50
tbok undue advantage of Oregon hospitality to score victories.
Home Record Impressive
'iSoiiic purists Viiay argue that the Dark Ages didn’t really
.•eminence dntil midway through the ’49 season, wlien Idaho
in<l Colorado victories had already been won. That is possible
rue, since through the Colorado game Oregon had won 19 of
t* last 22 encounters. Hut in that case, the home record is even
nore impressive, despite being lowered to a two won. three lost
njfuk. When the first five games of the ’49 season are thrown
ifit. that leaves an overall record of two wins, 18 losses. The
400 batting average at home i- awfully impressive alongside
h*'rQ00 mark in 16 games on fftre’gn soil.
Those 16 road losses in a row must be verging on some sort j
>f a record. The fact that four of them—Washington in ’49 and
51. Cal in ’50. and Stanford in ’51—were at the home-away
rom-home, Multnomah Stadium, does not make them any the
ess road games as far as we’re concerned.
So there it is, friends. Don’t say we didn’t tell ya. but rfn the
ithcr hand, don’t hock the family jewels. 'This corner says
JjTegon by a touchdown, say 27-20. They can’t hang you for
lOping, we’re told.
|And while Oregon has been taking her lumps regularly this
esfison, everybody had more or less expected it. Not so at
ieattlc and Corvallis, two of our northern neighbors, where in
he first spot, rose scents were in the air early, and, in the
econd, hopes of a dark horse Rose Howl candidate were seri
ns!}’ entertained.
Huskies and Beavers Losers
Now everybody’s unhappy, with the Huskies losers of three
tit of their last four and the Beavers short-enders three times
it a row. Barring a tie, though, one of these will have its
pirits bolstered Saturday when the two clubs lock horns at
cattle.
While everybody was looking the other way, Forest Iivashcv
ki seems to have put together one of the really fine offensive
.“ims on the coast. The Cougars have evidently discovered the
el ret to scoring which Oregon had back in early ’49 games,
n six games they have tallied 27 touchdowns, and have kept
kings interesting by allowing the opposition 18. Their stiffest
ygPfrsince the USC opener comes Saturday when they take on
Hanford, if :
Minturn fB’ Sweeps
Gamma 15-1, 15-2,
In IM Volleyball.
By Chuck Plummer
Mlnturn hall'H "B” team kept up
the example net by the “A" team
In Monday's intramural sports ac
tion, as they soundly walloped
Gumma hall, 15-1 and 15-2. It took
them only 15 minutes.
Plenty of action was furnished
spectators, as three of the six
Karnes played went the full limit
of two out of three sets.
The most exciting of these long
battles was the game between
Nestor hall and Cherney hall. Only
four men showed up from Nestor,
but they beat Chemey's six 15-10
in the first set. Cherney easily won
the second, 15-7, but Nestor made
it hard for them in the final set
as the Cherneymen eked out a
16-H win. These two freshman
dorms started out with a complete
lack of fundamentals, but with
coaching along the line by referee
Edward Perry they improved
gnutly and the final set was well
played.
Another three-set battle took
place between Campbell Club and
Hunter hall. Campbell Club took
the first set Hi-14, but Hunter
came hack to win the last two, 15
0 and 15-8.
The third full-set contest wras
between Alpha Tau Omega and
Theta Chi, with Theta Chi win
ning 15-9, 11-15, 15-4.
In the final game. Beta Theta
Pi edged the first set from Sigma
Alpha Mu, 16-14, but walloped the
Sammies 15-0 in the second.
In the sixth scheduled battle,
Sherry Ross hall failed to show up
and forfeited to McChesney hall.
LINEUPS
McChesney hall: Lilienthal, Aull,
Kincaid.
Alpha Tau Omega: Ward, Lem
mon, Moshofsky, Bentley, Bell,
I Crockett, Onthank, Hanson.
Theta Chi: Zupan, Becker, Babb,
I Goldsmith, Hutchinson, Joseph.
Minturn hall: Fase, Muirhead,
Wakinekona, Hanaike, Isugawa,
Oyama, Godfrey, Wong, Mathis.
Gamma hall: Graham, Takasumi,
Glass, Dolphin, Rarr.
Cherney hall: Bowles, Rottem
burg, Milne, Hamilton, Johnson,
Richardson.
Nestor hall: Pollock, Caldwell,
Danielson, Ricketts.
Campbell Club: Jacobson, Lang,
Jones. Yost, Roser, Wallace, Ells
worth, Simons, Erickson.
Hunter hall: King, Benson, Glass.
Stonehead, Neer, Davis, Toyama.
Beta Theta PI: Atkinson, Moore,
Wolford, Pyle, Hutchone, Borst
! ing, Myers.
.Sigma Alpha Mu: Cohen, Davis.
! Gotten, Friedman, Wolf, Golden
j berg, Zauin.
Today's IM
Schedule
3:50 court 40—Sigma Alpha Ep
silon B vs. Sigma Chi B ~
3:50 court 43—Lambda Chi Alpha
B vs. Kappa Sigma B
1:35 court 40—Delta Tau Delta B
vs. Phi Sigma Kappa B
4:35 court 43—Beta Theta Pi B vs.
Delta I'psilon B
•>:15 court 40—Campbell Club B vs.
French Hall B
5:15 court 43—Minturn Hall B vs.
Stan Bay Hall B
SPORTS STAFF
Desk Editor, Kee Briggs: Assist
ant, Scott Chandler; Staff, John
" hitty, Chuck Plummer, Larry
Lavelle, Charlie Peterson, Bill
Gurney.
I Heinrich Ouf
(Continued from page four)
tering any Rose Bowl hopes the
Huskies might have nourished.
Heinrich’s loss to the team even
before the first game of the season
was blamed as the primary reason
for Washington’s poor showing in
Pacific Coast conference competi
tion.
As a junior last year he set two
national passing records. He corti
pleted 134 passes for a 60.9 per
centage and he led all other col
legiate passes by gaining 1,846
yards through the air.
Harry S. Truman is the 33rd
man to occupy the office of Presi
dent of the United States since
1789.
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