By Jerry Claussen
mEmarcld Sportt Writer ■■
Although the Pacific C oast conference, along with several
other football leagues in the nation, lias notably "de:empha
sized" football to keep it from being too "mercenary,” the
caliber of ball has not gone down.
A big lift was given to the game with the return to one
platoon football after NCAA officials found that the fans,
plus some of the schools, did not favor the dull and highly
specialized two-platoon system installed to give more players
a chance to play. Decreasing attendance convinced the grid
iron big-wigs that the rule was making football a dull me
rhanif.ll game with the differ
ences between the “have" and
"have-not" schools greater
than ever.
The PCC has weathered
all of the various controver
sies with the best of them
and perhaps is a better bal
anced circuit this season
than at any time since the
war.
Coast conference teams have
faced some of the nation’s top
teams thi- season and in only
one contest, W ashington State
agai'iht powerful Texas at
Austin, was a PCC team real
ly walked over. It’s true that
CSC got upset by TCU last*
week, but perhaps that wasn’t
much of an upset at all. con
FOKKKST F.VASIIKVSKI
111* School Smallest
MMcrmjf the Horned Frogs’ strong showing so far this season.
Coast Teams Win Big Ones
California put up terrific fights before succumbing to Okla
homa and Ohio State in intersectional battles with two of
the top ten teams in the nation. Washington showed surpris
ing strength in bowing to Michigan, conquerors of Iowa last
week, bv only 14 points.
On the win side of the coast’s ledger so far has been UCLA's
walloping of Kansa- ami its win over Maryland, the No. 1
team in the nation last year and very strong again this season.
’I he sc phi' l SC s lacing of Pittsburgh and Northwestern and
Stanford's victory over Illinois makes the coa>t look like one
of the best balanced leagues in the country.
Considering enrollments of colleges across the nation,
one wonders how the coast schools do as well as they do
with what they have to work with. In comparison with the
Big Ten schools, which sponsor the coast's Rose Bowl
opponent each year, the differences in size are startling
Tlii* year's enrollment figures tentatively give the 10 West
ern Conference schools an enrollment of about 133,600 in
cluding 94.800 men for team prospects, an average of over
13,000 and 9,000 respectively. The coast teams, meanwhile,
have about 82.700 students, including 60,000 men, an average
of about 9200 and 7300 for each school.
Cal Teams Raise Average
The averages show the coast to be about two-thirds as large
as their big ten rivals on the whole, but still don’t show the
true picture. Most of the coast's population is concentrated
in the South where the three big California schools of USC,
UCLA, and California have 16,500, 13,500, and 15,500 students
respectively. Washington, in the metropolitan center of Se
attle. has 13,d00 students, but WSC. Idaho, Oregon, and OSC
have only about 17,500 students between them, making them
some of the smaller major conference schools in the country.
The Big Ten, on the other hand, has as its smallest school
the University of Iowa, coached by former WSC’er Forrest
Evashevski, and a top power this year, with 7700 students.
Every other school except Northwestern has over 10,000
students, ranging all the way up to Minnesota’s staggering
total of 19,000.
A lot of complaints have been heard the past few seasons
about the Pacific Coast conference's record compared to other
schools in the nation, and a lot of wolves have howled at the
coast's seeming inability to win the Rose Bowl. But we be
lieve that Oregon, OSC, Stanford, and the rest of them have
nothing to be ashamed of in athletics. They're a lot better than
the critics think.
Conference Games
Feature Weekend
Of Action on Coast
Three Pacific Coast confer
ence clashes highlight this Sat
, urday's football schedule as all
nine teams get Into action.
The three counters are Wash
ington State vs. UCLA at Los
Angeles and Southern California
against Oregon in Portland.
Washington State, gathering
momentum with a 34-6 drubbing
of Oregon State last week, runs
head on Into a tough California
team smarting from three losses
received by Texas, Oklahoma and
Oregon.
Stanford, after being
knocked rudely from the un
defeated ranks last week by
Navy 25-0, will attempt to get
back on its feet against highly
respected UCLA, which weath
ered a stormy final half to
squeak out a 21-20 win from
the University of Washington
last Saturday.
In the "Game of the Week" to
be televised natiflhally, Oregon
takes on Southern California,
which was tripped up last week
end by TCU. 21-6. Oregon, fresh
j from a close win from California
will attempt to duplicate last
year's 13-7 upset win over USC.
In Intersectional clashes, Ore
gon Mtate college travels to
the Midwest to meet Nebras
ka, which loVt a tight game to
Kansas State 7-3 last-week.
Baylor and the University of
Washington, who both lost by
| identical 21-20 scores, Baylor to
Arkansas and Washington to
UCLA.—meet at Waco. Tex.
Idaho, which has yet to win
a game, takes on Arizona at Tuc
son. Arizona recently walloped
Utah 54-20, which in turn
dumped Oregon 7-6, but lost to
Colorado last week.
Oregon Runner
Named to Team
Ralph Hill, a one-time distance
runner for the University of Ore
gon, was named to the all-time
American Olympic games team
Tuesday night at a banquet of
U.S. Olympians at the Waldorf
Astoria hotel in New York.
Hill placed second by just one
foot to Finland’s Lauri Lehtinen
in the 1932 games in Los An
geles. Lehtinen's winning time of
13:30 was a new record at that
time.
Awards Presented
The presentation of bronze vic
tory awards was made by Col.
Edward F. P. Egan, New York
lawyer and ex-Olympic bobsled
der and boxer at a banquet at
tended by 1000 New York civic
and sports notables.
The selections of the 22 ath
letes was made by representa
tives of the press, radio, and
television, along with the Olym
pians, an organization of one
time athletes.
Others Listed
The 21 others were: Eddie To
land, 100 meter dash, 1932; Mel
Patton, 200 meter dash, 1948;
William Carr, 400 meter dash,
1932; Mai Whitfield, 800 meter
run, 1948-52; Mel Sheppard,
1,500 meter run, 1908, 1912;
Louis Tewanima, 10,000 meter
run, 1912; John J. Hayes, mara
r
thon run, 1908; Harrison Dillard,
100 meter hurdles, 1948-52;
Charles Moore, 400 meter
hurdles, 1952; Horace Ashen
felter, steeplechase, 1952.
Joseph B. Pearman, 10,000
meter walk, 1920; Ernest Croa
bie, 50,000 meter walk, 1948;
Walter Davis, high jump, 1952;
Jesse Owen3, broad jump, 1936;
Myer Prinstein, hop, step, and
jump, 1900-04; Bob Richards,
pole vault, 1952; Parry O'Brien,
shot-put, 1952; Sim Iness, dis
cus, 1952; John J. Flanagan,
hammer throw, 1900-04; Cy
Young, javelin, 1952; Bob Math
ias, decathlon, 1948-52.
USC Looking
For UO Star
LOS ANGELES-(AP) -Hamp
ered by a leg injury or not.
Quarterback George Shaw will
be a marked man on the Oregon
team when the Trojans of South
ern California meet the Web
foots at Portland Saturday.
USC Coach Jess Hill calls
Shaw the best back and the best
passer in the Pacific Coast con
ference.
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