We have heard so many complaints lately concerning the
Coaching of Oregon State’s Slats toll that we cannot help hut
enter in on the argument, also.
Most of the digs at the greying OSC mentor concern hi
juggling of players during the past season and the Beavers
failure to win the l'CC championship from Southern Cal ovei
the past weekend.
We have heard such comments as, ‘‘lie’s old-fashioned, 01
“he doesn’t play the right players.” Another statement has been
“with all that material how could he help but win the champion
ship?”
We are inclined to agree with the second comment hut not
necessarily with the other two.
Nobody Sure of Starting Berth
Our reasons for falling in with those people Who say C'.il
didu’t use his players right are rather presutnative hut wt
think they are very apparent.
In the first place, outside of center Swede Ilalhrook, not a
single Oregon State player was assured of a starting positior
on any given night. Even in the championship series with L’SC
Gill used three different combinations in the trio of games.
Many people will argue that this system is good in that it in
creases competition among the players for positions on tin
learn but we believe that this theory is all wet.
Players Lose Confidence
It is probably true to a certain extent that Gill's substituting
procedure increased rivalry for the starting jobs but looking at
the situation from another angle one begins to wonder if it
didn't do more harm than good. When, players are shuffled
around in the way that the Beaver cagers were during their
j*ist completed schedule we can’t possibly see how any of them
could loosen up while they were on the playing floor.
A mistake or two on the part of one of the Orangemen would
bring on a reserve from the ‘’loaded’’ OSC bench and the poor
offender would be doomed to spend the rest of the evening
picking up slivers on the sidelines. Sometimes the" same has
keteer would miss the next couple of games because of his mis
cue.
It is interesting to note that such outstanding stars as Ron
Ivobins, Bill Toole, John Jarboe, Tony Vlastelica, and Jav Dean
all had evenings on which they never had a chance to remove
their warm-up jackets.
It is our belief that this fear of not getting to play definitely
liad an effect on the way in which the Beavers performed while
♦hey were in action. No player can be completely relaxed when
be has the thought in his mind that one slip is going to bring
on'a replacement.
Great- Teams are Constant
In the past it has been proved that almost all the champion
ship teams of the Pacific Coast have been those in which the
coach found one player combination and stuck with it during
♦lie entire season.
A good, example of this is last year’s University of Washing
ion powerhouse. Coach Tippy Dye picked Doug McClary, Mike
McCutcheon, Bob Houbregs, Joe Cipriano, and Charlie Koon
ior his opening five and then banked all his hopes on them £pr
yeomen duties. They responded with a third place finish in the
JCC.A.A. tourney.
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Webfoot Nine
Set 30 Tilts
The University of Oregon base
ball team will open their 19.r>4 sea
son Thursday afternoon, April 1,
when they take on,Oregon Stute at'
Howe field.
For the Ducks this will bo only 1
the beginning of a 30 game sched-1
ule that will pit Don Kirsch’s
Webfoots against some of the top
diamoftd outfits in the Pacific
northwest.
After their opening contest the
Ducks will face Portland U., Lewis
& Clark. Willamette, and Linfteld
! before opening defense of their
| Northern Division championship
with a home series against the
Washington State Cougars on
April 16-17. *\
Two of the top games on the
Oregon schedule are set for April
23-24 when the Duck nine plays
a home and home set with the
Salem Senators of the Western In
ternational League.
Kirsch has had his team work
ing out for several weeks now
and hopes to have them in pretty
| good shape for their first tussle.
The Oregon baseball schedule
i follows:
April 1 Oregon St., Eugene
2 Portland V., Portland
3 Lewis & Clark, Portland
6 Lewis & Clark, Eugene
8 Oregon St., Corvallis
9 Portland U., Eugene
*10 Willamette, Eugene
*13 Linfield, Eugene
16 Wash. St., Eugene
17 Wash. St., Eugene
21 Idaho, Eugene
22 Idaho, Eugene
23 Salem Senators, Salem
24 Salem Senators, Eugene
26 Washington, Eugene
27 Washington, Eugene
30 Seattle U., Eugene
May 1 Alumni, Eugene
5 Idaho, Moscow
6 Idaho, Moscow
7 Wash. St., Pullman
8 Wash. St., Pullman
10 Washington, Seattle
11 Washington, Seattle
13 Oregon St., Corvallis
17 Oregon St., Eugene
21 Oregon St., Corvallis
22 Oregon St., Eugene
* Doubleheaders
Frosh Wrestlers
Given Numerals
Assistant wrestling coach, Bill
Denman, announced Wednesday
the freshmen wrestlers who will
be awarded numerals for this
year's competition.
Denman stated that Don Lovett,
Dick Nice, Neil Butler, Dave New
land, Jerry Jones, Cecil Enman,
Steve Danchok, Ken Kesey, Jack
Hendrickson, and Gerald Dixon
will be presented with numerals.
The Frosh finished with a one
won and six lost record for their
first season of competition.
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USC Plays Idaho St.
In Western Regional
Southern California will meet
Idaho State and Santa Clara will |
tangle with Colorado A&M In the
Western Regional N.C.A.A. bas
ketball playoffs scheduled for Gill
Coliseum this Friday and Satur
day nights.
Tuesday night the surprisingly
powerful Idaho State entry upset
highly favored Seattle university
77-75 in an overtime thriller at
Corvallis and the hard-working
Santa Clara Broncs downed Texas
Tech 73-64 as the two winning
fives gained spots in the tourney.
Colorado A&M won their place a
couple of weeks back when they
won the Rocky Mountain crown
and Southern Cal earned their
berth the hard way when they
clipped Oregon State 48-45 in a
third game playoff for the Pacific
Coast Conference title, Monday
night.
The Trojans will take on the
Idahoans in the first game Friday
night at 7:30 p.m. Forrest Two
good’s upset-minded crew will be
a strong favorite to knock over
Idaho State, which at the present
time is n team of somewhat un
known ability.
The second game of the eve
ning between the Broncs and the
Aggies is considered to be a toss
up and could very easily be w’on
by the breaks of the game. Santa
Clara will no doubt be given a
slight edge in'before game rat
ings because of their past tourna
ment experience.
The Broncs finished second In
the Western Regional tourney last
year and almost all of the players
Holland Gets
Baker Award
Barney Holland, senior from
Coos Bay, was awarded the "Bill
Baker Mens Shop" trophy as the
outstanding player on this year’s
Oregon basketball team. Baker
made the presentation himself at
the annual Duck Club luncheon
held in the Multnomah hotel in
Portland Wednesday noon.
Holland was the choice of his
teammates, who did the voting.
Other seniors on the squad who
were eligible for the award were
Ken Wegner, Ed Halberg, Bob
Hawes and Bob Stout.
on this year's team were also
members of last season’s power
bnlen quintet which gave the
Washington Huskies such a tough
battle for the championship be
fore going down to defeat.
Say, Dad! Dig
This Crazy
Numbers Racket
It seems these Ducks all like
to get together about this time
every term to see who can get
the most. They all pay through
the hill to get In the game, and
the winners don't seem to get
any more than u quack of ac
clamation.
Don't sweat ft kid — It's not
for knowledge that we go to
college, but to meet llod Taylor
while we’re here.
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