Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1952)
don't you hanker for an evening snack? STOCK UP... on tidbits for those study breaks. Call us for that handy FREE delivery serv ice! • BAKERY GOODS • CANNED GOODS • FRUITS • VEGETABLES • MEATS Hogan's Grocery & Wayne's Mkt Borcher, New Hoop Mentor, Played for Oregon in 1941 By Bill Gurney A new coach has been added to the Oregon basketball scene since Dad’s day last year. Bill Borcher, familiar to sports fol lowers of the 1941 Duck basket ball team as a varsity forward, re turned to take over the reigns from John Warren, former head basketball coach who resigned to enter business. Borcher learned his basketball i fundamentals from Howard Hob son, who had coached the Ducks to the NCAA title in 1939. He came to Oregon from Marshfield high school where he compiled an outstanding won-loss record in his six years there. Always Favored Sports He has always liked sports best, | especially basketball, but his coaching career has been enlivened by an interest in music, notably by : Dixieland jazz. His dressing room I pep talks are short and to the | point, with plenty of time allotted ! for the playing of soothing num SPECIAL! Fraternity and sorority stationery on SALE.89c Hurry! while we still have your crest. FENNELL'S CAMPUS STORE 860 E. 13th hors like the "Muskrat Ramble.'' Born in 1919, Borchcr played football and basketball in Ever ett, Washington, until his junior year in high sehool, when he moved to North Bend, Oregon, just BILI. BOKCHER K. stone's throw from Marshfield. There he finished his prep career and headed for Sacramento JC in search of higher education. Nearly a .Journalist A leaning toward journalism cropped out there, and he rose to be sports editor of the school paper. "I quit when they promoted me to managing editor and I couldn't write sports,'' stated Borcher with a grm. At Sacramento he was marked, ironically enough, as a top foot ball prospect, but only fairHuTTne hoop sport. But the persuasive SOPHISTICATED FIELD FLO WEDS IN EXQUISITE COLOR . . . EXCLUSIVE FLUTED EDGE ... i ii wimi^iiiii ■ mm asm! ( lie delicate field flowers in orange, yellow, sienna and blue... the band of 24 karat gold ... the gracefully fluted edge and line, translucent china... all blend to form a dinner service of rare beauty. When you choose Rutledge by Leno\, you choose the same fine china as the official White 1 louse service, and the dinner services of American Embassies abroad.. .Rutledge place setting, $ 2 3 • 2 ^ LENOX fH CHINA America’s world famous china Visit our LENOX ROOM — largest display of LENOX on the Pacific Coast HOFFMANS JEWELERS 873 Willamette Eugene, Ore. MAIL ORDERS INVITED manner of Hobson In red him to Oregon to play basketball. In his two Duck varsity seasons he was never a star: always a capable workman on the back boards, excelling as a feeder for teammate Hank Andersen, now coach at Gonzaga university. He Got Mad "It makes me mad, too ' says the tall, bespectacled mentor." be cause I read in a basketball book by Hobson that my shooting av erage was higher than Hank's.’’ Borcher earned ar. Oregon foot ball letter in 1941 for Tex Oliver, and joined the navy after gradua tion that fall. He says that during his navy hitch he really learned to play basketball; also he hart his first coaching experience while work ing for I’ncle Sam. He coached an<t played at the Jacksonville, Fla., Naval Air Station, netting a spot on the all-Southern team. Other navy duty included a period as as sistant recreation director of the Hawaiian Islands, and a tour of the Pacific aboard the aircraft carrier Wasp, where he coached the basketball team. Unemployed for Awhile After VJ day, Borcher was an unemployed veteran, so he had a talk with genial John Warren, whom he was later to replace at Oregon. Warren smoothed the way for him to take the basketball job at Marshfield high. For his six seasons there he compiled a fine record of 358-38, and was in the state tournament every year. Highlights o: Marsh field s tournament competition were a state championship in 1947, and a second-place finish m 1948. Current Duck Captain Ken Hunt was an all-state choice for the Pirates in 1848 as was Guard Barney Holland now a sophomore on the Oregcn varsity in 1949. Played Cornet While in Coos Bay. Borcher was also the cornet-playing leader of a Dixieland ja7.2. band. Not the outdoor sportsman type music is second only to basketball among his interests. As to his basketball system, he says it is based on constant screening to break men loose for good shots, with extensive use of the traditional Duck fast break. At this writing the Webfoots sport a Northern Division record of two wins and two losses Their standing changed as a result of last night's Washington tilt, and they are all set for tonight's cru cial finale. One thing is certain; their new coach, who is certainly a talka tive, confident optimist will be pulling out all the stop tc win. Losing just isn't in his blood. Read and use Emerald classi fieds. How abouf a delicious soda ... NOW? THE LEMON 'O' "Doc" Ireland 13th & Alder
