By GORDON RICE
Ema.-ald Sporti Editor
One of the better known stories about the University of
( >regon basketball trip to the f'ar Cast fl,iis sutnnier is the epi
sode of the tied game at 'J'aipeh, Formosa.
I ndefeated after three ('antes of the tour, the Ducks moved
into I aipeh from Korea to meet a team of Chinese Nationalist
All-Stars. 1 be Nationalists, who were surprisingly tough, and
' >rogon, slightly below par be
cause- the team was unused ti
tilt* loud and climate, fough
each other down to the wire.
I lit* two teams were tied a
the end of regulation time, an<
the referees and the Chines*
officials wanted to call tin
game at that point. Coach llil
Jiorchcr, however, stuck ii|
for his rights, and insisted that
the regular overtime period In
played.
The Chinese finally agreed
and Oregon won the game ii
the overtime period. At tin
time a number of comments
pro, con, and in-between- ap
peared in papers in this conn
try.
We thought that one of tin
hest was an editorial written
for the August 17, 1954, edi
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letter Than CJf.
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< itiit*. \\ ith the permission of tlie Republic we are reprinting
that editorial
The Embattled Webfoots
' The lemon and emerald flag of the University of Oregon
may yet fly over China, if the embattled Webfoot basketball
team continues to show the moxie it sported at Taipeh.
"Tied 42 to 42 at the end of play with the Chinese All
Stars, Oregon’s Ducks refused to take a tie. The Chinese
wanted to call it even, but the Ducks insisted on playing into
overtime. Oregon came off with a 47-46 victory.
‘‘Well, that is better than the United Nations did in Korea.
It is better than the French did in Indochina. In an area in
which splitting in halves and the drawing of stalemate lines
is in vogue, the Webfoots, like General MacArthur, insist on
playing it win or lose.
‘‘We admire them, just as we admired the courage of Mac
Arthur. Maybe it isn’t mere coincidence that the name of the
Webfoots’ basketball pavillion is MacArthur Court.”
Touch Football
Program Opens
Men's intramural touch foot
ball begins this afternoon with a
schedule of eight games on tap
for the 30 competing living or
ganizations.
Intramural Director Paul
Waahke has urged that all teams
be prompt in reporting to the
proper field for their games. In
addition, each entrant is re
quired to furnish a time-keeper
and score-keeper.
Wrestling Not Added
Wrestling will not be added to
the fall program this year. Dis
cussion on the adoption of the
mat sport was to have been held
by the intramural board, but no
action was taken by the group at
its meeting last week.
The 7-man touch teams will
play contests of four 8-minute
periods on the intramural and
lower fields. Games will be de
clared forfeited if one team is
more than five minutes late, and
no games may be postponed,
Washke stated.
New Kntrles Listed
New squad entries tiiis year
are from Cherney Hall, Hunter
Hall, Gamma Hall and the Straub
Fresh. The team total is seven
less than the 37 teams of 1953.
Games slated for today are:
3:50 p.m., intramural field,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon vs. Beta
Theta Pi; field one, Delta Up
bilon vs. Lambda Chi Alpha; field
two. Phi Delta Theta vs. Chi Psi:
field three. Pi Kappa Phi vs.
Sigma Phi Epsilon.
4:45 p.m., intramural field,
Phi Gamma Delta vs. Delta Tau
Delta; field one, Sigma Chi vs.
Alpha Tau Omega; field two. Phi
Kappa Psi vs. Theta Chi; field
three. Phi Kappa Sigma vs. Pi
Kappa Alpha.
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Makeup editor: Gordon Rice.
Staff: Jerry Olson, Chuck
Mitchelmore, Rich L’rie.
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Ducks Lose Second
To Fired-up Redskins
crregon ran its siring of frus
trations to two straight games
Saturday afternoon as the Ducks
dropped a 7-0 decision to a fired
up band of Utah Redskins.
Lou Mele and Herb Nakken, a
pair ot hard-running Ute backs i
led the visitors to the win, but!
once again it was the Jack of an j
Oregon scoring punch which cost »
the Webfoota the bail game.
Oregon controlled the ball j
j most of the time after the first!
! quarter, and pushed the red-!
! shifted Utes from one end of the*
1 field to the other, only to bog
| down a few yards from the goal.
Fumbles and penalties stopped
four budding Oregon drives in
! Utah territory, a pass intercep
i tion kilted another, and a sixth
I drive ended with Oregon losing:
the ball on downs on the Utah
11 yard line.
Utah Drives tor TD
Utah got its touchdown late in
the first period after Halfback
Max Pierce ran an Oregon punt
back to his own 48 yard line.
Four plays carried the ball to the
Oregon 37, where a personal foul
on Oregon End Hal Reeve re
sulted in Reeve's disqualification
and gave the Utes a first down
on the Oregon 22.
Nakken went off tackle for
Three Even
In PCC Race
Washington and Stanford are j
currently tied for first place with :
one of the top contenders for the >
Hose Bowl, U8C, after three
weeks of Pacific Coast Confer
ence football action.
The conference play was rela- j
tively light this weekend as the
only game between Pacific Coast
teams was the Washington-Ore-j
gon State encounter won by the I
Huskies 17-7. All other confer-1
cnce teams played intersectional;
foes, losing four while winning
three. Northwest teams account
ed for three of the four losses.
PCC Standings:
Team
Washington
Stanford
use
California
UCLA
Oregon State
Oregon
wsc
Idaho
W L TPF
1 0 0 17
1 0 0 18
1 0 0 39
9 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
1 1 0 20
1 1 0 54
0 10 0
0 2 0 0
PA
7
13
0
0
0
17
18
39
54
Caines last weekend:
Washington 17, Oregon State 7
Utah 7, Oregon 6
Stanford 12, Illinois* 2
San .lose St. 38, Idaho 7
Ohio State 21, California 13
USC 12, Northwestern 7
UCLA 12, Maryland 7
Texas 40. WSC 14
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17 yards to the Oregon five, and
then Mcle carried over left guard
for the touchdown. Mcle was met
by three Oregon defenders at the
three yard line, bounced off, and
went into the end zone. Melc
then kicked the extra pomt that
eventually won the game for
Utah.
Oregon finally steered only 35
second* before tire end of the
game, after a drive from the Ore
OAME STATISTICS
N<* .aril* gaim-rf rar.ii.riK 179 J2f;
I';,***. ac-mpi**) 2s )1
cpmpklcd 7 4
!' • ( ' had intercepted .1 1
Vardt aained pa<*ir.t; SI JO
Tntal nffentc .210 ISC
h irM difwrn, J7 0
humUr« 4 3
Tumble* U.-1 2 2
gon 47, but as was the case
against Stanford, the week be
fore, the rally started too late
and fell short.
Dick James went over for the
touchdown from the Utah one
yard line after Oregon had moved
52 yards in 17 plays. Dick Pav
let’s conversion attempt was
wide to the left and Utah was
home free.
In justice to Pavlat, that
missed point shouldn’t have been
the difference in the ball game.
Just as against Stanford, fum
bles, penalties and bad breaks
stopped the Webfoots every time
their offense started to move.
Utah played good, hard foot
ball all the way, but spent most
of the afternoon bottled up in
its own territory. Nakken and
i Mele, in addit inn to scoring all
(the Utah points, personally ac
icounted for 98 out of the 320
yards gained hy tne Utah ground
attach.
Only one Oregon player, Guard
Don Jacobs, mimed the game
because of injuries. Jacoos hurt
his fcack n a scrimmage last
week. Only two Oregon players
were injured ;n the game, tut
what a parr they were.
Shaw Hurt Again
George Shaw aggravated a
pulled leg muscle for the second
straight week and could hardly
move his leg after the game.
Center Ron Fherster pinched a
nerve in his shoulder for the
fourth time in a week and was
removed from the game, but
later got back in the game.
Seven Utah players were
helped off the field during the
contest, hut none were believed
to be injured seriously, and at
least three of them were back
in the game at the end,
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