SIX LOCAL GAMES
Gridders Drill for Big Fall Schedule
For Those
WARM SPRING DAYS
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By John Whitty
Emerald Sporttwriter
With approximately forty-five
candidates on hand, Head Football
Coach Len Casanova has been
holding daily spring grid drills on
the practice field in an effort to
prepare for the 1953 football sea
son, which brings the Webfoots up
against some of the same tough
competition they have faced in
recent years.
Due largely to the efforts of Leo
Harris, Director of Athletics, Ore-1
gon will have a full home slate of
six tilts, two of which arc to be !
played in Multnomah Stadium in '
Portland. Perhaps the most signi- i
ficant of Harris's accomplishments
is the scheduling of a contest with
UCLA in Eugene, the first meet
ing of the two elevens on Hayward
field in a number of years.
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The season opener brings the
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of Nebraska on September 19 at
the latter's home stadium, followed
the next weekend by a fray with
the Stanford Indians at Pulo Alto.
Last, season the Webfoots upset
the Tribe, and the Indians will be
out for blood. •
The above mentioned struggle
with UCLA Is the next on the
list. It Is sehcduled for October
3, and will he the first home
gume for the Webfoots. The Ore
gon eleven takes to the road
again the following weekend for
a tilt with the Cougars of WSC
ut Pullman.
Beginning with the October 17
game against Washington at Port
land, the Webfoots play four
straight home contests. They meet
San Jose State at Eugene on Oc
tober 31, and-Idaho on Hayward
field on November 7.
Then to Berkeley
Coach Len Casanova and his
crew then travel to Berkeley for
a tilt with California and return
to Eugene for the season windup,
the annual civil war game with
the Beavers of Oregon State.
The 1953 Webfoots should have
considerably more depth than last
year's squad, especially in the
center of the line. The Ducks
should be particularly strong at
the tackle positions, with veterans
Jack Patera and Hal Reeve head
ing a strong group of candidates.
The ends look weak at present,
but should be strengthened by
transfers and men moved from
other positions. All in all, things
look rosier this spring for the Web
foots than has been the case for
the last three or four years.
MAY 16
Events Fill
Sport Day
Oregon's athletic squads go
all out for the home fans next
Saturday when the big Spring
Sports Day packs a football
scrimmage, an Oregon-Oregon
State track meet, and a Duck
Beaver contest into one after
noon of action.
First athletic event on the
slate will be the football scrim
mage—a dress rehearsal of next
fall’s Oregon gridiron entry in the
Pacific Coast Conference. The
mock battle will begin at 10:30.
So far this season the spring
gridders have been hampered by
drizzly weather, but are shaping
up well under the guidance of Head
Coach Len Cananova.
Civil War Track Meet
After a lunch time recess, Ore
gon’s next competition will be a
Civil War track engagement with
the Ducks' cross-state rivals, the
Beavers from Corvallis. Oregon
will have a definite edge over the
Aggies, who lost to the Wcbfoots
earlier in the season in the not-too
publicized Oregon-Oregon State
Relays.
OSC'n top contender is Merv
Brock, 100- and 220-dash special
ist. Another bright star on the
cloudy Beaver team is Ralph
Sutton, last year’s Northern Di
vision javelin champion.
Oregon has a host of top indi
vidual performers in Ted Ander
son, sprints and hurdles, Doug
Clement, middle distance special
ist, and Fred Turner, and A1
Martin, milers. Ray Packwood,
who was indefinitely dropped from
the team in a disciplinary measure,
is the top pole vaulter in the
Northwest.
To end the afternoon, Oregon
will engage OSC at Howe field at
3:00 p.m. in the first of a four
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