Oregon Runners Seek Third Consecutive Win In Vandal Track Meet Bill Bowernian’s O r e g o n •track and f«*!eon able to find a consistent runner in this par ticular race and It is anybody's guess just who will be running the quarter for each Saturday. In the field events Oregon par ticipants will have their best chances of the season to take some first places. The Duck discus throwers, who have fared so mis erably thus far. will finally get an j opportunity to show themselves. J Idaho has shown very little: strength in this event and should not be too hard to beat. Fieldnien Have Chance In the shot put Ben Lloyd and Jim Jones of Oregon will have to be classed as the favorites over the Vandal shotters. who failed to place against OSC. Bob Faucett and Emery Barnes will have first' and second place within their grasp in the high jump if they can come up with a top perform ance. Ken Hickenbottom and Bob Reid in the pole vault and Ben Johnson and Don Sullivan in the broad jump could give the Ducks some more top places. Doyle Higdon appears to be far and away the best of the javelin throwers. Higdon's 205’ 8” toss against WSC is more than 20 feet better than any of the Vandal marks. Idaho could come up with a win in the mile relay which the Ducks have been very weak in this sea son. Bowerman Revives Cinder Sport in Five Years at UO "One of the best." These are about the only words that can truly describe head track and field coach. Bill Bowerman. Bowerman has proved in his last five seasons us mentor of the Oregon Ducks that he has that magic touch that converts normal ly just good track men into great ones. In his first five years at Oregon Bowerman did a brilliant job of rebuilding Oregon's track and field squad to the point where it has produced some of the Nor thern Division's best team and in dividual performances. The VVebfoot coach is a firm be liever in large squads and has had considerable success in interesting inexperienced track material in joining the Ducks to help solve the problem of depth which norm ally plagues VVebfoot teams. Started in 1948 Bowerman joined the Oregon staff in 1948 and his first team lost only one dual meet and fin ished second in the Northern Di vision championship meet. A year later his squad swept through the conference schedule without a loss and then captured the division title with one of the highest point totals in history. In 1951 the Ducks were hit heavily by graduation losses and injuries, but still finished second in the division meet and twelfth in the NCAA finals. In 1952 Ore gon was undefeated in dual meet action and finished ninth in the NCAA. During the past five years the Ducks have been strengthened by more than a handful of “un knowns" who first were discovered in the broad intramural program ■■■II t >*/ V -- BILL BOWKRMAN, <» r c g « n track am! field coach, started his coaching career at the Duck school In 1918 and In (he past five years has made Oregon one of the most highly recorded track powers on the Pacific Coast. which Bo we mi an inaugurated and still supervises. Successful at Medford Bowerman's “track for every body" program had brought him considerable success before he joined the Oregon staff. He began his coaching career in 1935 at Franklin high school in Portland and a year later went to Medford. In the next nine seasons his teams won eight Hayward Relays and three state championships. In addition to fine track teams. Medford also had one of the state's better football teams under Bow erman. In seven years his grid clubs won 64 games, lost eight and tied three. Thls^ record produced three state championship* and three undefeated leant*. An Oregon Oru