Hoopsfers Face
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Slate Cal Swing
Bill Borcher’s Ducks, with a per
fect record of four wins and no
fosses, take on the tough luck
-Portland Pilots at Portland to
night in the Oregons' last casaba
contest until after final exams.
The Ducks, with two wins over
San Jose State and single tri
umphs over the Pilots and Gon
zaga, will again be favored against
a Portland quintet that has drop
ped a pair to Utah State and lost
"97-63 to Wichita and 79-72 in the
season's opener with Oregon.
Resuming their hoop schedule
with finals out of the way, Ore
gon will play Nebraska at Cor
vallis Dec. 21 and then meet the
Cornhuskers the next night at Eu
gene. Both games are parts of
doubleheader, with OSC and In
diana clashing in the other tilts.
On Dec. 26-28 the Ducks start
a four game tour of California,
opening with a two game series
against the powerful UCLA
Bruins at Westwood. They move
over to Stanford Dec. SO and
wind up the swing Dec. SI at
Sacramento State.
The games the fans in this area
are waiting for are the two doub
leheaders of Dec. 21-22. Of es
pecial interest should be the battle
between 7’3 Wade Hallbrook of
the Aggies and 6’ 10 All-American
Don Schulndt of Branch McCrack
en’s Indianans.
Also back for the Hoosiers is
last year’s entire starting lineup
—which won the NCAA champion
ship and is favored to repeat this
year—and the top five reserves
plus another 6’10 center who was
-ineligible most of last season. In
diana lost only three games last
year in sweeping to national hon
ors.
Nebraska also comes to the
Northwest with a highly touted
aggregation. The Cornhuskers
have four two-year regulars on
the starting lineup and are rated
as distinct title threats in the Big
Seven.
UCLA, one of the Duck’s op
ponents over the holidays, has
great potential in Johnny Moore,
Dick Ridgeway, Ron Bane and
a host of other good hoopsters.
Two time winners over the
Washington Huskies this season,
-Stanford is also figured as a
troublesome entry in what could
IJ>e a wide open Southern Divis
ion race. Oregon fans saw many
—of the Indians when they played
in Eugene last year. Stanford stars
-are Ron Tomsic, forward who
.^played guard on last year’s quint,
-and backcourtman Oleg Suzdaleff.
The Ducks wind up their tour
against Sacramento State. The
Hornets rolled, up a 22-6 mark in
1952-53 and are reported to be
•onsiderably stronger this season.
Quack—Final exams!
Most of the ducks seem to be
feeling pretty blue this week at
tbe thought of all 'the exams
coming up. Besides that, moth
er duck has been quacking her
head off lately about grades
and other such bothersome non
sense.
Most ducklings are looking
forward to flying back to their
own little nests over the vaca
tion. Speaking of nes'ts, there
is a real comfortable one out
across the river. This one is
equipped with television, shuf
fleboard, and some real gone re
freshments. You’ll find lots of
pre-Christmas cheer at
ROD
TAYLOR'S
on the
Glenwood Strip
Ducks Wallop lags, 82r53;
Five Tally in Double Figures
Oregon’s Ducks, fast breaking |
with smooth and accurate passes,
completely outclassed Gonzaga
university Wednesday evening, 82
53, at McArthur court.
For the Webfoots’ head coach.
Bill Borcher, it was a sweet vic
tory indeed. Hank Anderson. Zag
head man, was an old basketball
teammate of Borcher's when the
two were playing in college a few
years back. Both men like nothing
better than beating each other and
on this occasion Borcher definitely
had the last laugh.
Oregon started very fast and
never let up until the game was
far out of recall for the visiting
five. The Ducks sported a 38-29
lead at halftime and by the end of
third quarter were well on their
way to victory with a 61-42
margin.
Oregon’s scoring was well dis
tributed in this game between six
different players. Forward Ed
Halberg led the starters with 15
points but was closely followed
BOB HAWES
Pots 12
by center Max Anderson with 12
and guards Ken Wegner and
Barney Holland with 12 and 11
markers respectively.
Hawes, Page Score
Subs Bob Hawes and Howard
Page also were instrumental in
the Duck pointmaking. Hawes
contributed 12 points and Page
added nine more.
Forward Harry Watson and
guard Tom Mulcahy were the only
Gonzagnas who could find the net
with any consistency for Ander
son's quint. Mulcahy. who came
into the game in the middle of the
first period, led his team in scor
ing with 14 tallies.
Actually, the Zags stayed in
the game pretty well until mid
way in the third quarter. Dur
ing the first half, although be
hind all the time, the visitors
remained close on the heels of
the Ducks.
Oregon jumped to a 19-10 lead
after seven minutes of play but
3aw their margin dwindle to 20-15
by the end of the stanza, due
mainly to some nice long shoot
ing by Mulcahy.
With Holland, Halberg, Ander
son, and Wegner all taking part in
a lighting break down the floor,
the Webfoots pushed to a 29-20
lead with five minutes gone in
ihe second quarter. Again, how
ever, the Zags roared back and
in a couple of minutes they were
mly trailing by a 31-28 score,
rhis was as close as they ever
jot.
Holland came through with
three baskets and Anderson hit on
JV's Take Loss
In a prelim to the varsity game
last Friday night, the Oregon JV'9
dropped a close 67-64 encounter to
McChord Air Force base.
The score by quarters showed
Oregon leading at the first and
third quarters, but trailing at the
half, 31-28.
Highlight of the game was the
‘Football Team” five, straight
from Len Casanova’s grid team.
It took over just before the half
and provided thrills and laughs
for the spectators while turning in
a creditable performance.
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a pair of deuces in the third chap
ter and before long it was only
a matter of how high the Web
foots would run the score.
With the score resting at 75-45
and about half the last period re
maining, Borcher removed all his
regulars from the line-up and
gave his reserves a chance to see
some extensive action.
Oregon—
KG FT F TP
Hallterg 0 3 1 If)
Hell 1 I) 3 2
Anderson 5 2 2 12
Wegllcr 4 4 2 12
Holland 4 3 0 11
Stout 2 13 5
McMnus 10 12
Hawes 5 2 0 12
Glaves 10 5 2
Sherman 0 0 0 0
Wthrfod 0 0 0 0
Page 4 10 9
33 16 17 82
Gonzaga—
KG KT K TP
Hthingtu 4 2 1 10
Watson 5 3 1 13
Wells 0 4 4 4
Schable 0 0 0 0
llelierley 2 2 2 6
Murphy 2 0 14
Muleahy 5 4 3 14
Richnlsn I 0 2 2
Costello 0 0 0 0
19 IS 14 53
JV s Toppled ;
By AAU Quint ;
Everybody’s Drug of Eugene ‘
lolled over the University of Ore- '
gon Junior Varsity 53-35 Wednes
day night In the preliminary to the T
Oregon-Gonzaga game.
The AAU quintet Jumped off to \
a strong first quarter lead and.
continued to widen their margin *
as the game progressed. Five con
secutive points late in the first pe- .
riod by Dale Warberg, a former /
Oregon hoop star, gave the Drug-- .
men a 13-7 lead at the end of the *
first stanza. ♦
The JV's dropped behind 29-11 -
at halftime trailed 42-21 at the -
end of the third period. Warberg' '
led all scorers with 13 points for .
the game, followed by Brad Fuller- «
ton with 11. Bill Blodgett led the' ’
JV’s with eight for the evening.- *.
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