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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1951)
Novikoff on Shelf As Idaho Tilt Nears; Four JVs Called Up By John Whitty Van Brocklin Leads Pro Loop Passers PHILADELPHIA (U P.' - The IjOs Angeles Rams have been bumped out of first place in the National Football League's nation al division, but the Rams are still the best offensive outfit in pro ball. The Rams have chalked up a -total of 2,353 yards 1,480 of those toy passing to lead in this depart ment. too. Ram quarterback Norm Van Brocklin leads the individual j>assers with 54 completions for 1,013 yards and 10 touchdowns. The Chicago Bears have the best ■rushing mark with 935 yards on ■the ground. The Bears lead the national division. * ..I ■ j Cal Tickets Available In Athletic Office Students planning to attend the California game in Berkeley Nov. 17 should obtain their tickets be fore Wednesday. Nov. 7. the ath letic business office announced. Tickets are available at the ath letic ticket office in McArthur court and cost $1.50. SPORTS STAFF Desk Editor, Bill Gurney, Asst. Jock Dennon, Staff, John Whltty, Doug White, Garry Lavelle, Leu ven Loveland. .-~ "~ri MAKE IT A SPECIAL TREAT SPECIAL DINNERS • Chicken a Sea Food • Steaks SPECIAL LI NCHEON a Salads a Sandwiches • Soups and Stews Bring your family in for extra enjoyment. The kids will love it. SO WILL YOU. *7he Neuj JhjstwxuuH Ga^e 736 Highway 99 North Ph. 5-9064—4-0814 A fellow gets plenty of these up here when lies got plenty of these down here! Arrow Dart, with Arrow Par, Wide* Arrow Gordon Dover, Medium points $3.95 spread soft coliar $3.95 Button-Down $4.50 ARROW SHIRTS • TIES • SPORTS SHIRTS • UNDERWEAR • HANDKERCHIEFS 4 39 \V 10th On Shelf TOM NOVIKOFF Oregon Fullback Borcher's Hoopsters 'Win or Run' By Douci White “Three laps around the court ! you guys and fust.” These words ! rang in the ears of the Oregon basketball squad more than a few times on Tuesday. The scene was McArthur court and the exercise • was a maneuver called "gains, and losses.” in which two teams en gaged in a half-court scrimmage. Every time the offensive team scored a basket, they chalked up i a point while, on the other hand, ! every time the defensive unit suc j needed in breaking up a play or getting control of the ball they scored a tally. T|iis is what edu cators would call the "incentive system,” for whenever one squad managed to get five points, the other had to run several fast laps. One can’t imagine the glee dis played by the victors when their buddies were huffing and puffing around the court. Varied Drills Aside from ‘‘gains and losses" Coach Bill Borcher and Don Kitsch put their charges through individ ual offense and defense, foul shot matches and scrimmages. By watching these full court scrimmages the fan can readily see the improvement in the brand of ball Oregon's Ducks are dis playing compared to several weeks ago. In the first tilt which lasted about ten minutes, Chet Noe, Mel Streeter, Ken Hunt, Bolt Hawes, Keith Farnum were pitted against Bill Cheat, Ron Philips, Ken "Weg ner, Dick Kofford and Lefty Page. For that first squad Hunt, who is a senior guard from Marshfield and Farnum, who hails from Salem, stood out in their play making, while Streeter dominated the backboards. One tiling partic ularly outstanding was thq im provement shown in the ‘‘Borcher fast break.” Time and iime again Hawes or Fainum would break lose and score after taking passes from Noe or Hunt. Covey Looks Good Besides those players already mentioned, Bud Covey and Larry Chamberlain displayed heads up, aggressive ball. There are only four weeks left until “D” Day when the Ducks take on Portland university at Portland, and if the Borcher charges display as much spir it and drive as they have shown so far this year, Oregon will provide ample competition for the highly touted Pilots. Reds Bagnell of Pennsylvania tossed 88 consecutive aerials with out an interception during the 1950 campaign for a new all-time major college record. Coach I,en Casanova ran his Oregon squad through am.tinr light' workout Wednesday afternoon as tin- injury-riddled Wei.foots prepared for their tilt with the Idaho \ andals on Saturday. . . ... v. The latest addition to the siek and injured list is lout Novi koff. who spent yesterday ill the infirmary, and wlnyvill not bo uble to play in tins wee* s ™u tost because of a back Injury. Others who will miss the Vandal game are Dick Davonport, freah man ond. quarterback Hal Dun ham. ami Junior tackle Len Dio ilcrichs. To strengthen the team, fullback Bob Wilcox, center Jim Slover, end Don Hedgepeth, and halfback Merritt Barber have been moved up from the Junior varsity. In Wednesday's practice session, the Ducks opened with the usual calisthenics. Following this, the backfleld men and the ends spent a few minutes on the tackling dummy, then Is-gan to work on^ perfecting pass plays. Quarterbacks working out were George Shaw. Wally Bussell, and j Barney Holland. Shaw’s passing was especially sharp, as he con nected on several bullseye passes. Meanwhile, the Webfoot linemen were taking turns at pushing the blocking machine from end to end, of the practice turf. Coach Casanova ncxi mrecieu the defensive platoon ns they! woiked to stop Idaho play* which the junior varsity team was dem- . onstrnting. The Duck attacking unit spent the time in no-contact work with the reserve defenders The workout was ended after a : number of wind sprints. The Webfoots have only one day of practice left before their! contest with Babe Curfman's Van- j dal eleven. Sparking the Idaho at- i tack will be Glen Christian. 186j pound halfbuek from Talent, Ore- j gon. A senior, Christian is the fastest man on the squad. He ran ; the hundred yard dash in 9.7 last ^ spring, and does that distance in ^ under 10 seconds in a football suit ; In the last Vandal game. Chirsttan scored three times as the men from Moscow rolled to a 40-7 rout of San Jose State. Wayrie Anderson, junior quarter back, is an excellent passer and punter, and he will find good tar gets for his throws in George Maeinko and Jerry Ogle, two vet eran 61" ends. Yunduln Use Split-T This year the Idaho offensive style lias been changed from the Notre Dame box to the Spllt-T. j This system Is particularly adapt- : able to the Vandals’ small, speedy j backs. Evidently the IT of I boys had trouble making the change- ! over to the new style, for their early season scores indicate that they had some trouble getting started. They lost their first three games liy large margins, falling before Wyoming 28-0, strong San Francisco 28-7, and Oregon State 81-6. The Vandals hit their stride against Montana State, defeating the Grizzlies by a score of 12-9. then rolled on to the aforemen tioned 40-7 crushing of San Jose Slate. I/IH IV!* lit 4111 •** * »« r» In previous years, the Ducks have the edge on their opponents. Oregon has won 29 of the games, Idaho lias won 3, and 3 of the con tests have ended in ties. The Web foots will be out to avenge last year’s 11-0 beating at the hands of the Vandals, and a hard-fought game is expected. The game will be played at 1:30 on Hayward field. Ralph Hill Trophy Taken by Beta Team Beta Theta 1*1 captured first place and possession of the Ralph Hill trophy in an organizational one and one-half mile cross coun try run Wednesday. Second place was won by Camp bell Club. Sigma Alpha Epsilon placed third. Wayne Reiser was first among individual runners. Crippled / HAL DUNHAM Oregon Quarterback Indian's Taylor Dubbed Grid Mastermind STANFORD (ll.R) Without even donning Hallowe'en masks, a good-looking young band of foot ball players from Stanford Um versity today Ih scaring the day lights out of Pacific Coast Confer ence competition. Chuck Taylor, at 32 the young est major league coach in the west, has clone what many thought only a magician could do take the In dians through their first six i undefeated. ■***'“' But there they aie with victo ries over three teams that wen favored to whip them: Michigan, UCLA and .Washington; plus wins over Oregon, San Jose State and Santa Clara. “No Hose Bowl" Even the most optimistic of the Stanford hackers can't see the In dians going to the Rose Bowl. The schedule ahead is too tough. And the Stanford squad isn’t deep enough. It may he that Taylor is doing it with mirrors. In any event, he has predicted correctly the outcome of every game the club has played this year. Ho has a lot of optimism and he has three of the most opti mistic assistants any man ever had in line coach Joe Reutz; backfield coach George Lynn and assistant Coach Dutch Fehring. These fel lows are ready to go to the Rose Bowl l ight now. And in some way they have transmitted this opti mism and will-to-win to the squad. “Cougars Tougher Than Cal” “But I'll go only so far as to say we'll whip Washington State this week,” says Taylor. “I rate the Cougars tougher to stop than either Southern California or Cal ifornia. But we should lick them.” Taylor has practically the same squad as last year—with one more season of experience. In 1950 the club lost there and tied could easily lose all four remairiCQ tilts.