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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1955)
Trio of ND Squads Set Opening Action Northern Division basketball teams swing into their first full weekend of play Friday and Sat urday nights with Washington State playing Oregon State at Corvallis and Washington host ing Idaho at Seattle. Three of the four conference clubs will be tasting their first action of the young 1955 \D season with only the Cougars having already played counting games. Coach Jack Frlel's team split with Oregon in a two-game series at Pullman Monday and Tuesday nights. Oregon State will be favored in the pair of games against WSC on the strength of its 68-48 pre-conference win over the Cou gars last week in the ND classic at Seattle. Washington State was far off form in its shooting that night, however, and came back to lick Idaho the second night of the holiday tourney. The Cougars have a much bet ter season’s record than the Bea vers going into the weekend's clashes. Splitting the pair with Oregon this week gave the Cou gars a 7-4 won-lost mark against a so-so 4-6 record posted by Slats Gill's Orangemen in pre-confer ence play. Beavers Top Defenders Oregon State will have the edge of playing on its home court, however, and the Cougars will be facing the nation’s num ber one team in defense accord ing to last week’s NCAA figures which place the Beavers at the top of country's teams in points allowed per game. Even with the return of tow ering Center Wade Halbrook to the Beaver squad after the big Swede solved his scholastic difficulties, Gili is expected to start sophomore Phil Shadoin at center. The 1’ Corvallis boy looked good in starting roles in late December and will hold down the post position for OSC at least until Halbrook has time to get in shape, with the big All-Coaster slated to see some action this weekend. The rest of the Beaver line up is expected to consist of top re bounder Jay Dean and hook shot artist Tony Vlastelica at the forward spots with Ron Robins and sophomore Bob Allord at guards. With Shadoin, this quin tet will average a staggering 6’ 5”. Priel is expected to counter with his usual first platoon of Ron Bennink and Larry Beck at forwards, Bill Rehder at center, and Bob Klock and A1 Perry at the guard posts. His second pla toon of Doug King, Bruce Olson, A1 Kamps, Jack Garton and Ron r RON BENN'INK, Washington State’s all-Northern Division for ward, will play four games in the next five days in the Willamette Y'alley as the Cougars start their annual “suicide swing” against Oregon State and Oregon. Foisy will probably also see plen ty of action. WSC Lacks Height All-Conference Bennink was the main factor in the Cougars’ play Monday and Tuesday as he scored 33 points in the two games. He and Rehder will be primary WSC threats against the Beavers. Lack of a big man, even though only Foisy of the first ten stands under 6’, might hurt the Washington State club against the tall Beavers. In Seattle, Idaho’s inconsistent but hard-working Vandals square off against a highly-touted Washington Husky team that is tabbed as a possible successor to OBC’s ND crown. Idaho has both a new coach, Harlan Hodges, and a new spirit, but so far have won only three games in nine t,ries this season as against the Huskies' 6-3 record. Washington will be heavily favored because of its 77-57 lac Welcome Back DUCKS! Remember it's the New Lynwood for • Dinner dates • Parties • Banquets # Most Complete Restaurant in Eugene Plenty of Free Parking For Reservations Phone 5-9044 Open Daily 6 a.m. to 11 p m THE NEW LYNWOOD CAFE 796 Hiway 99 North ing of Idaho in the ND classic, ] a home-court advantage, the bet- j ter record so far this season and a definite height advantage. A lack of Idaho depth may also play a big part in the series since the Vandal starting five has had to carry the scoring load in every game so far. •Even though the Vandals broke their own school scoring record three games in a row, topping the performance with a 100-70 win over Montana last month, they will be facing the highest scoring team in the league. Washington, led by the play of Dean Parsons at center, has averaged 70.1 points per game | in nine contests. Both starting lineups have a lot of scoring potential plus speed and wide-open, high scoring games will probably be seen by onlookers at Washing ton’s Edmundsen pavilion. Fans will also be treated to a meeting of the conference’s two highest-scoring players, Parsons and Idaho’s Harlan Melton, both averaging over 18 points per game. Husky Coach Tippy Dye will probably string along on his us | ual five of Parsons, Jim Coshow and Karl Voegtlin at forwards, and Doyle Perkins and Jerry i Johnson at guards. Hodges will i likely counter with Jim Sather at | center. Jay Buhler and Melton at forwards, and Bill Bauscher and Bob Falash at guards. Following the weekend’s activ ity, Washington State comes to j Eugene Monday and Tuesday to play its sixth game in eight nights, the final pair with Ore gon for the regular conference season. The other ND clubs take ; a week's rest until next weekend when Oregon goes to Moscow to play the Vandals in a pair and Washington visits OSC at Cor vallis in what could be a big factor in deciding the title chase. Merger of Hoop Loops Set on Coast in 1956 Northern Division basketball will come to the end of a 33-year split with California in confer ence competition next year when the two divisions combine for a round-robin hoop schedule. After informal competition for almost 20 years between the five Northwest schools, they com bined into a Northern Division lii 1923. with Idaho winning the first championship with Wash ington. In 1928 the four major California schools started their own Southern Division with USC beating Washington for the first Coast championship. The merging of the Northern and Southern Divisions for bas ketball is in keeping with a new PCC policy of round-robin com petition between all nine schools on the coast. A complete round robin schedule will also be in Loscutoff On Top In Division Scoring Oregon's Jim Loscutoff, who alternates at center and for ward, jumped into the Northern Division scoring lead after the Ducks' games with Washington State last weekend. With only two ND games played, Loscutoff has scored 34 points, one more than Ron Ben nink of WSC, and two more than Howard Page of Oregon. The top 10 scorers follow: G Pg Ft Pf Tp Ave I^owulofi. Oregon 2 1.1 S 8 34 17.0 Bcmunk. WSC 2 10 13 7 33 16.5 Page. Oregon 2 12 8 4 22 16.0 Rehder, WSC :... .> 8 6 8 22 11 0 Heck. WSC J 4 7 0 15 7 5 Kampi. WSC 2 6 3 2 15 7.5 Anderson, Oregon 2 5 4 7 14 7.0 McHugh. Oregon .... .2 6 0 1 12 6.0 Hell. Oregon . 2 4 3 7 11 5.5 Ron*. Oregon 2 3 4 6 10 5.0 itiated In Coast football In 1956. Coast Interest Nought The move wax made In the hope of getting more Interest coaat-wlae In basketball. Sohno! athletic repreacntativea felt that the Coast's split Into two divi sions was old-fashioned since it was the only league in the coun try so divided. A tentative schedule calls for eight of the nine Coast clubs to play a 16-game schedule, the same number as in the present ND schedule. Teams will play a seven-nine home and away sched ule in alternate years except for Washington, which will always play a balanced eight-eight schedule. All teams except Washington will play a honie-and-home ser ies with their nearest rival each year while playing home-and nway-series with their other ri vals in alternate years. Thus Oregon will play two games at home each with California, USC and WSC, while traveling to Idaho, Stanford. Washington and UCLA. Rivalries to Continue Oregon will continue to play a home-and-home series with Oregon State as will Idaho with WSC. California with Stanford, and USC with UCLA. Traveling time for the Ducks will stilt be the same, since they will fly in trips to California schools. With the advent of the new coast schedule, old division rec ords will be a thing of the past. So. too, will be records of divi sion champions which has been led by California in the Southern Division and Washington In the North. Oregon Prepares For WSC Series Oregon's improved basketball, team was busy preparing for their second Northern Division hoop series today. Coach Bill Borcher readied his squad for the invasion of Washington State Monday and Tuesday. By a quirk in the ND sched ule, Oregon will have to face the Cougars for their second pair of Conference games within eight days. The Ducks split with Coach Jack Friel’s team in Pullman last Monday and Tuesday in the di vision opener. Transfer Guard Welcomed Borcher welcomed the addition of transfer LeRoy Nelson to the squad this week and the 6’ soph omore may be just the man the lanky Webfoot coach needs to replace injured Guard Dick James, who was lost to the squad for the season last week with a recurrence of a wrist injury. Nelson was an all-stater dur ing his high school days in Wash ington and the fine shooting of the newcomer drew praise from Borcher in Wednesday’s work outs. After taking a rest Wed nesday, Oregon’s front line play ers were back in harness Thurs day drilling on mistakes exhibit* ed earlier in the week. Sports Staff Desk Editor: Chuck Mitchel more. Staff; Gordon Rice, Jerry Claussen, Jack Marsh. Borcher reported that the Ducks showed a lot of improve ment in Tuesday's game when Guard Howard Page led the team to a convincing 69-55 victory over W3C. The team had better control of the backboards and their fine .371 shooting average was a big improvement over Monday night's loss to the Cou gars. Also pleasing Borcher was the fine defensive play of big Kay Bell at forward during the se ries. The Klamath Falls junior held Ron Bennink, all-Conference Cougar forward, virtually score less during the time he was checking WSC's scoring star. Both Jim Loscutoff and Page outscored Bennink in the series. A sore spot in the Oregon W3C series was the ragged ball handling sometimes exhibited by the Webfoots. Borcher said his style of play featuring fast breaks and rapid passing con tributed to several ball losses from poor passing by the com paratively inexperienced Oregon team. ItA d 'BIG&EzQ Job Nou>! Jpu> 'Ju: . MARCH OF DIMES ,T '/ Ol i' urn j mm I
