OSC Furnished
First Opposition
By Elliot Carlson
Emerald Sports Writer
The year was 1902. Oregon’s
opponent was Oregon State col
lege. The event was Dad’s Day.
which was to become better
known as Homecoming Week
end.
It was the first Homecoming
the University of Oregon had
and it was celebrated with a 0-0
deadlock with OSC which key
noted the long and bitter rivalry
between the two schools.
In 1915 the official title was
changed from Dad's Day to
Homecoming. Again the oppo
nent was OSC, and a partisan
crowd of 12,000 students and
alumni were not disappointed
this time, as Oregon blanked
the co-operating Beavers 9-0.
Today, in 1954, 52 years after
the first Homecoming game, the
Ducks will be searching for their
first Homecoming victory in five
years. Not since 1948. the year
Norman Van Brocklin led Oregon
to the Cotton Bowl, has Oregon
been the elated victor of a Home
coming clash.
Today Washington State’s
Cougars will be the guests as
Coach Lcn Casanova and Com
pany attempt to break the
streak whk'h has plagued them
since they conquered UCLA in
1948 by a score of 26-7. The
Webfoots also faced WSC in
the 1952 Homecoming which
saw the visitors win 19-6.
This is the 32nd meeting of
the two teams and Oregon will
be supplied with an incentive to
humble the Cougars after they
have won 15 of the contests
against 11 for Oregon and five
ties.
In last year’s Homecoming
event 18,500 fans, one of the
largest crowds to attend a Hay
ward field game, saw’ an inspired
Oregon State eleven upset the
Webfoots 7-0.
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Emerald Sport* Editor ^
i lie horrendous whipping taken by two Northwest teams
at the hands of intersectional opponents last Saturday may
be only the beginning of a long series of such defeats begin- !
ning in 1956, if the Pacific Coast .conference doesn’t change
its attitude toward spring football practice.
The present regulation allowing 20 days of spring practice
over a 30-day period has been adequate, but not much more
than that. Xow comes the proposal passed last year to abolish
spring practice completely beginning in 1956.
The Pacific Coast conference teams have won only six
out of 16 major intersectional games this year, even with
the benefits of spring practice. And four of them have been
won by the great teams of UCLA and USC.
ORLANDO HOLLIS
Faculty Representative
\\ hat would happen to a
Coast team like Oregon, or
even like USC, trying to
play a major college inter
sectional schedule without
spring practice against teams
which have had the practice?
W e can give you an exam
ple. Take the case of Penn
sylvania, up until a few years
ago a major football power.
But this year Penn is play
ing without spring practice,
because she is part of the Ivy
league, which abolished it.
Penn has played six games
this season against schools
which have spring practice.
Penn has lost those -i.x games
by.scores of 32-27.27-7.35-13,
42-7, 52-6 and 52-0.
Add to this another fac
tor. There are a number of
excellent sophomores play
ing on Coast teams this year, Jon Arnett of USC, Bob Cox
of Washington, and Jasper McGee of Oregon, to name a
few. But under PCC regulations, freshmen are allowed
only five weeks of practice and three games. This means
that without spring workouts a sophomore has had only
this much practice and opportunity to learn the system in
two years from the time of his high school graduation.
What are the reasons given for abolishing spring practice?
The faculty representatives of the nine member schools,
through which these regulations are passed, give these !
reasons:
First, spring practice puts the sport away from the playing
season, something that occurs in no other sport. Second, it
prevents football players from going out for spring sports.
Third, added to the intensive fall practice, it is too big a burden ,
physically and academically on the players.
Just how valid are these arguments? In the first place
the conference athletic directors and coaches are unanimous
ly in favor of-continuing spring practice under the present
regulations, which should carry some weight.
Oregon Athletic Director Leo Harris denies that the prac-!
tice interferes with spring sports. He points out that the
athletes have a chance to go out for spring sports if they wish,!
and that the spring practice is entirely voluntary on the part 1
of the players.
The coaches also point to the fact that the results of ques
tionnaires handed out last spring showed Coast players to be
overwhelmingly in favor of spring practice. This was appar- >
ently the first time anyone had though of asking the players, I
who are the ones most directly concerned, how they felt.
But Dean Orlando Hollis of the law school, Oregon’s
faculty representative, and other representatives have ques
tioned the validity of these questionnaires. They contend
that they were administered in an “unscientific manner,”
and that there is no way of determining the circumstances
under which they were administered.
And so the controversy continues. But Oregon 1ms games I
with Miami and Oklahoma scheduled for 1958. We hope the
Ducks will be able to go into those games on an even footing j
with their opponents. I
Blanks Wanted
House athletic maimers have
been requested by the intra
mural office to turn in their
entry blanks for winter term as
soon as possible. Although the
blanks are not due until Jan. 4.
the office has requested the co
operation of the managers In
speeding up the program.
Competition in bowling, hand
ball, "A” basketball and “U”
basketball will Im« offered during
I he term.
Thi* office has also asked ujj
managers whose teams are in
the volleyball playoffs to meet
In the IM office Monday at 3:3o
p.m. to draw for positions in the
tournament playoff games
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