High Flying Ducks Prepare
To Meet Stanford Saturday
by Jim White
Emerald Sports Writer
Coach Len Casanova sent his
Charges through heavy defensive
and conditioning drills today in a
closed practice in preparation for
Saturday’s big game at Palo Alto
With the Stanford Indians.
The Ducks, who defeated Neb
raska last weekend, are one of the
three PCC teams still unbeaten
after a rash of upsets that saw
every conference team save USC,
UCLA and Oregon go down on
their first outing.
Stanford, whom the Webfoots
defeated last year by a score of
21-20 at Palo Alto, lost to the Col
leg.* of Pacific 25-20. Stanford
showed a weak defense, which
COP cracked almost at will ,and
a very spotty offense. The Indians
will enter the Oregon contest with
out such stars as Bob Mathias,
Skip Crist, and Chuck Essegian.
Stanford's big gun is Bob Garrett,
one of the top passers on the coast.
Garrett has very able targets in
Sam Morley and John Steinberg,
both regular on last year’s team
and very much improved.
Cards on Weak Ground
Stanford is much weaker on the
ground. The only returnee that
was a regular ground gainer last
year is Ron Cook, a two year let
terman. The Indians lost a good
deal of the center of their line and
have had a bad time filling in the
holes.
Bob Mathias, their star fullback,
got soured on college football and
Gunning for Stanford
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OREGON’S BACKFIELD A-bomb,, Tod Anderson, right, and Far
rell Albright, left, head into a hard week of practice before meet
ing the Stanford Indians at I'alto Alto, this Saturday. Anderson
broke away for a 56-yard touchdown sprint against the Nebraska
team last weekend, and Albright averaged more than four yards
a try from his halfback spot.
quit with one more year of eligi
bility. The Olympic declathon
champion got off to a bad start
last year and earned himself the
title of “Mr. Fumbles.” Later,
however, he developed into Stan
ford's leading scorer and ground
gainer and his absence will be very
definitely felt during the current
season.
Cece Hodges, Oregon’s starting
fullback turned up on the injured
list today and is out of action for
an undetermined length of time
with a neck injury. Dick Mobley,
a reserve end will also be out of
action for several days.
Len Casanova, the Oregon coach
said that he had no idea as to
how the ducks would do against
Stanford, but “we are certainly
not going down there to lose.”
'Cas' Conducts Grid Clinics
“The Far Eastern Command of
the armed forces is doing a tre
mendous job of furnishing sports
and recreation to the service men
in the Oriental area," was the re
port brought back by Head Foot
ball Coach Lon Casanova, who
conducted a three week football
clinic in Japan during the sum
mer.
Casanova was one of three
United States coaches who were
selected by the FEC to travel
throughout Japan and Hawaii, lec
turing and giving advise to the
coaches of armed forces teams and
also the coaches of Japanese and
Hawaiian universities. Casanova’s
traveling mates were Ray Elliot,
head coach, University of Illinois,
and Rusty Russell, who mentored
Southern Methodist university last
year.
Casanova left this country on
July 8, and was hack in the
states by July SI. On the way
over, he stopped at Honolulu
and Wake island. On his way
back from three weeks in Ja- ;
pan, he conducted a short clinic
in Hawaii.
Coaches Lecture
“Cas" lectured for five days in !
Tokyo and then spent a week in
Yokohama. Each coach lectured i
and answered questions on his
particular system of football. At
tending the talks were the armed
forces coaches and also represen
tatives from Japanese schools.
Casanova spoke highly of the
FEC’s job in providing recrea
tion for the service men. He said
there are seventeen sports of
fered to the GI's, the year
round.
He also remarked that the Japa
nese people have rapidly accepted
all American sports, especially
baseball. He added, however, that
football and basketball, introduced
to • the people only 15 years ago,
have taken a strong hold.
There are 99 armed forces foot
ball teams in Japan alone. They
are divided into leagues and also
have exhibition games with the
Japanese colleges.
Softball Teams Numerous
The sports program continues
the year around, with basketball,
softball and swimming coming in
rapid order. A point that impres
sed “Cas” was the fact that there
COACH LEN CASANOVA
. . . Tours Japan, Hawaii
i were 710 softball teams in South
Korea alone.
The genial Oregon coach was
also impressed with the job of re
construction that the Japanese
are doing to clean up their World
War II torn land. He stated the
people were very friendly and
eager to learn.
The service team coaches held
a big dinner in honor of the
three visiting mentors from the
States. Casanova smilingly told
how he was doing “just fine”
with his chopsticks on the Japa
nese food, and couldn't under
stand why a waiter gave him a
regular fork about halfway
through the meal.
During his stay at Hawaii,
Casanova had a chance to talk to
Wally Russell, who played varsity
ball at Oregon two years ago. Rus
sell is currently coaching one of
the service clubs.
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Not later than 12 Noon Friday
Kirsch Runs Varsity,
Frosh Through Drills
Head Easeball Coach Don
Kirsch posted a list of six varsity i
baseball players and also called
the prospective freshman diamond !
team for two weeks of fall base
ball practice, weather permitting.
Last spring the Webfoots
nabbed the Northern Division
baseball crown with only two sen
iors on the squad.
Four of the varsity men who
worked out Monday afternoon;
were Pete Williams, infield, Neal j
Marlett, catcher, Johnny Keller,
infield, and Duane Reeves, out
fielder.
Manager Needed
“There is still one vacancy
open for the job of foot bail
manager,” says Jim Schroeder,
head football student manager.
Any interested applicants can
get information by calling
Schroeder at campus extensions
281 or 285.
Deadline Set
For IM Entries
Today at 3 p.m. is the dead
line for all intramural entries for
fall term to be turned into the
Intramural office in Men's gym
nasium. There are three fall
sports, touch football, and “A’
and “B” volleyball.
A meeting of all intramural
managers will be held Thursday,
Sept. 24, in the Men’s P.E. build
ing. The order of the day calls for
the making of a football schedule
and orientation of IM manager .1
with the fall grid rules.
If everything goes right, tho
first football game will be played
next Monday.
Points are awarded for each
sport, which are compiled at tho
end of the year to pick an All
Sport champion. Hale Kane, inde
pendent men’s dorm, has won the
football and the All-Sport cham
pionship for the last two years.
Student director for the intra
mural program this year is Earl
Ferguson, senior in physical ed
ucation. The faculty director is
Paul Pv. Washke, professor cf
physical education.
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..Jim White
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