Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, February 13, 1953, Page Four, Image 4

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    Ducks Now in Cougar Hunting Land
Eleven Players
Hope To Protect
Second Place
By Sam Vahey
Emerald Sports Editor
Kit'ven members of tire Ore
gon basketball team left Hu
ge ne early Thursday morning,
bound for a two game, week
end basketball engagement
with the cellar dwelling Wash
ington State college Cougars.
The Oregons, firmly en
trenched in second place in the
Northern Division of the Pa
cific Coast conference, spent last
night at Spokane amt will journey
To the WSC campus at Pullman
this afternoon.
Making the trip were four for
wards. Keith Farnarn. Ed Hal
!>erg. Bob Stout and Harlan
ECekey: two centers, Chet Xoe and
COACH BILE BOKCHKK
Oregon Fast Break vs. . . .
Hank Bonr.eman; and five guards.
Barney Holland, Bob Hawes, Ken
Wegner, Bud Covey and Howard
Page. A twelfth man on the squad
Wayne Johnson, was left in Eu
gene with the flu.
Tlit> invasion of tin' l’alouse
' Hills will bo of prime importance
to tiio Webfoots in their oflort
to widen tile sap between them
selves ami the three Nl) teams
below tiiem in the standings.
Two wins would virtually wrap
up the runner-up position for Ore
gon as they have lost only four
games to Idaho's seven and OSCs
six.
At Washington State, the Ducks
will run into a team that has
been dropped deep into the base
ment of the division. Although the
Cougars have lost nine of theii
ten gaipes, they have, neverthe
less, given all opponents a ran for
their money.
Last weekend the liuplc. . bays
of Jack ITiel stayed ahead of
Washington's high riding Hus
kies for three periods before fi
nally succumbing in the last
frame, (>!> to .">*».
A recent acquisition to the WSC
roster is towering Howard Mc
Car.t.G' 8", 25a pound center who
played end on the Cougar football
Squad.
McCant, a junior, played high
COACH JACK KRIKI,
WSC Two Platoon System
school basketball but didn’t turn
out for the college team until the
last few weeks* He made his first
appearance in the WSC lineup
last weekend against the Univer
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Edwards Tries
For 1500 Meter
Water Record
Gordon Edwards*, one of Oregon's
top .diet ant e swimmer a v . ii i ry t o
break the national collegiate rec
ord of 20:41.8 in thi• jr.oo-meter
event again't Idaho I'l'lday. The
existing record is held by Biyon
Canning.
According to Coach John Bor
chnrdt. Edwards lias been pressing
Canning's time in timl held at II).'
pool this week. However, he made
no comment as to how close Ed
wards came to tile mark.
Borchardt also stated that if
Edwards did crack tin* limi*, it
would lie the first time an Ore
gon athlete lias established a na
tional eolleglate record since
World War II.
The meets this weekend open
Northern Division play. Friday, the
Ducks compete against Idaho at
2:30 and Saturday me. t tlm Wa-h
ington State team at 2:00. The
meets will lie held in the nr j- >ol
and are open to the public.
Houbrogs Raises
Havoc With HD
Casaba Records
LOS ANGELES Washington
Center Bob Houbregs, who broke
the old Northern Division .•■••firing
record with six games still to be
played, has also snapped a season
record and is a near cinch to crack
four others, statistics from the Pa
cific Coast Conference Commis
sioner’s office showed.
Houbregs boosted his total for
the first 10 games to 27!> points
Saturday night against Washing
ton State, breaking the old record
of 265 sot in 19*8 by Jack Nichols
of Washington, flis 28-point per
formance that night also boosted
his field goal total to 103, top
ping the old mark of 98 set by
Vince HansOn, Washington State,
in 1945.
In addition to scoring, Hou
bregs also leads the Division in
field goal marksmanship, 55.4
per cent, and rebounds, 134,
while teammate Charlie Koon Is
the No. 1 free throw shooter
with a perfect mark on l(i at
tempts.
Houbregs, W
Kruger, I
Noe.O
Vlastelica, OS
Wegner, O
Cipripno, . >V
Halberg, O
Jdorrison, I
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