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by Sam Vahey
Emerald Sports Editor
Although the Pacific Coast con
ference football scramble is bare
ly two weeks old, it's beginning to
look like the nine grid powers
have learned well the role assigned
them at the beginning of the cur
rent campaign, at least at the top
and bottom of the ladder.
UCLA, picked in a coaches’ poll
ns the top team in the conference,
has followed its script to a letter,
winning easily from Oregon State
and Kansas. Southern Cal, tabbed
as the runner-up, has also won
two, although not as impressively,
from Washington State and Minn
PACIF1C COAST CONFERENCE
W
UCLA . 1
Stanford . 1
California . 1
USC . 1
Washington . 0
Idaho . 0
Oregon . 0
WSC . 0
Oregon State . 0
L Pet.
0 1.000
0 1.000
0 1.000
0 1.000
0 .000
0 .000
1 .000
1 .000
2 .000
esota. And California, number
three team, lost to Baylor, but
came back Saturday to crunch
he hapless Oregon Staters, 26-0.
But here’s where the race tight
ns up. At the beginning of the
reason, the next four, in order,
i’ere Washington, Stanford, Ore
ion and Washington State.
Washington, under a new coach,
still trying to make the change
one platoon-football. The Husk
’s have lost badly in their first
o outings. Stanford looked bad
le first week against College of
acific, but upset the Oregon
cbfoots Saturday. Oregon got
f to a good start against Neb
ika. but then ran aground down
Palo Alto. WSC dropped to
1C, as expected, and tipped COP
days ago.
his creates quite a phenomen
on in • the middle of the ladder.
College of Pacific defeated Stan
ford, but then lost to the WSC
Cougars. And Oregon fell before
Stanford. According to compara
tive scores, this would rate WSC
two spots ahead of the Ducks, and
Just behind the California Bears.
What all this adds up to is that
the final standings are hard to
pick at the beginning of the sea
son, especially fourth through sev
enth place. It does look, however,
like WSC is destined for a higher
finish than a lot of people
thought; and Washington is going
to be a lot lower.
The bottom two rungs have Just
about been conceded to Oregon
State and Idaho. From the looks
of things, though, it'll be a tie.
Neither has shown any scoring
punch; yet on the other hand,
neither has shown any defense.
Al Misses Bag,
Loses Bat Title
CLEVELAND WP)—AI Rosen
failed to touch first base In his
last time at bat Sunday and It
cost the Cleveland inflelder a
"pot among baseball’s elite.
It was in the ninth Inning and
Kosen beat out a grounder to
third. However, in sprinting to
first base, Kosen missed the
bag. Had he touched the bag, it
would have been a single and
Rosen would have won the
American League batting title
by the fraction of a point from
Washington’s Mickey Vernon.
Rosen won the league homer
title with 43 and the runs
batted-in crown with 145. Had
he added the hitting mark, he
would have been the seventh
player in big league history to
win all three important batting
I titles.
NO BREAKS SATURDAY
Oregon Ducks Lack Power
In Clutch; Indians Win. 7-0
by Rodney Morrison
Emerald Sports Writer
University of Oregon showed
plenty of power—but none in the
clutch—Saturday at Palo Alto,
and dropped its 1953 Pacific
Coast conference grid debut, 7-0
to a tribe of Stanford Indians,
who just wouldn’t move when
they were backed into the shad
ows of their own goal posts.
Five times during the contest
the Webfoots launched attacks
which carried deep into Indian
territory—and five times the
Stanfords met these attackss with
a stalwart defense that wouldn’t
fold under a passing or running
onslaught.
Both teams almost reversed
their previous Saturday’s per
formances. Stanford had fallen
to College of Pacific a week be
fore. The Indians had showed a
polka-dotted defense that melted
when the heat was on.
Oregon Had Won
Oregon, on the other hand, had
won its grid opener a week earlier
from the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
In their first contest, the Ducks
had showed a nation full of tele
vision viewers a crushing ground
offense that seemed almost un
stoppable. The Webfoots had also
taken advantage of two early
Husker mistakes.
Down at Palo Alto, the Stanford
crew made no errors for the Green
and Yellow team to take advan
tage of. Instead it was Oregon’s
miscues that slowed its own at
tack.
James Fumbles
Behind, 7-0, late in the second
quarter, the Webfoots began a
drive on their own 24. The march
came to an abrupt halt just five
yards short of a touchdown when
Halfback Dick James fumbled
and Stanford’s Len Doster re
covered.
The Oregons were on the move
again in the second half after
taking the Indian kickoff. George
Shaw, quarterback, plotted the
course for the Ducks, mostly on
the ground.
Pa** Incomplete
It took 14 plays for the visitors
to hack their way to the enemy
two yard marker. On third down,
James was thrown back to the
five by Indian End Marv Tenne
foss. The fourth down pass from
Shaw to Oregon Captain Emery
Barnes was just a little too high
for the 6 feet, 5 inch end to
handle.
The game was all wrapped up,
as far as scoring, early in the
first quarter. With Quarterback
Bob Garrett calling on the plays
Stanford marched 65 yards, with
Garrett going over from the four
Team Statistics
First Downs .
J.ards gained rushing
* ards lost rushing .
Net yards rushing ....
Passes attempted .
Passes completed .
Parses intercepted hy ...
Net yards passing .
Net yards gained .
Vards penalized ..
Fumbles .
Ball lost on fumbles .
Punting average.
ORE. STAN.
16 12
..234
. 7
.227
.. 11
. 2
.. 1
. 35
.262
.. 20
. 3
230
22
208
3
1
3
9
217
70
2
30.3 37.4
Individual Statistics
Oregon
Rose ..
Van Leuven .
Shaw .
Albright ..
Anderson .
Gaffney .
Holland .
Stanford
Cook .
Dorn .
Tarr .
Watson ..
Wentworth
Rogers .
Sorenson .
Garrett .
Tries Yds. Ave.
. 1 9 9.0
. 1 6 6.0
------ 8 43 5.4
16 70 4.4
. 2 8 4.0
.19 72 3.6
. 5 18 3.6
. 2 1 0.5
-- 9 56 6.2
~~ 9 47 5.2
4 18 4.5
~~ 9 38 4.2
—- 4 16 4.0
-11 38 3.5
.... 3 -2 -0.7
.... 4 -3 -0.8
r —
on a bootleg play around his own
left end.
This was all the score the home
team needed, as they set up a de
fense which wouldn’t hold too
tight in midfield, but which
couldn’t be cracked inside theii*
own twenty.
Stanford Lacks Pash
With the exception of the early
Stanford push, Oregon had the
ball in Card territory the whole
afternoon. Only once, after the first
frame, did the Indians penetrate
to the Oregon 45, and only twice
did they cross the midfield stripe.
Coach Len Casanova, whose
gridders had defeated Stanford
last year, 21-20, was disappointed
with his team’s lack of scoring
punch; although he commended,
his boys on their powerful ground
game.
The Ducks remain in good
physical shape, after two games.
Cece Hodges, whose ^absence was
sorely felt in the Duck ground at
tack, still has an injured neck,
but could be in shape for this
Saturday’s first home game with
UCLA. Barnes showed the effects
of a mid-week ankle injury, and
Halfback Ted Anderson has taken
out of the fray in the second pe
riod, with a sprained ankle.
Monday, Sept. 28
Touch Football
3 :50 p.m.
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hie d 2: Nestor hall vs. Susan Campbell II
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