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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1955)
Halas to Quit Coaching Bears After '55 Season CHI ("AGO (A I’) George Ha las of the Chicago Bears, a Na tional Football league pioneer and one of the shrewdest and moat popular coaches In football, announced Monday he will quit coaching after the 1955 aeason, Halas, 57, will continue as president of the Bears, a team he coached for 29 seasons. Bears Rebuild “I made the decision to retire from coaching two years ago,” Halas said In an Interview. "At that time we started rebuilding with rookies and I felt the team would be strong enough by 1956 to turn it over to someone else. "Our rebuilding has been go ing along fairly well and I think the Bears can now be considered among the contenders for the title in 1955. It would be sweet to leave coaching with another championship. But If the cham pionship came in 19.56 it would be just as sweet.” Ray Hickok Award Received by Mays ROCHESTER, N. Y. (APi — The New York Giants "Say Hay" kid, Willie Mays, received the Hay Hickok $10,000 diamond studded belt as professional ath lete of the year Monday night at the annual Rochester Press and Radio club dinner. Mays Is the fifth winner of the gold buckled belt, which he will keep. Other belt winners were ITill Kliuito, Allle Rey nolds, Rocky Marciano and Ben Hogan. The Giants centerfielder. Na tional league batting champion and recipient of many awards for his play in helping New York win the pennant and World Se ries victory over Cleveland, amassed a total of 214 points. He got 57 ballots for his first place In the nationwide poll of sports writers and sports casters. This put him far ahead of Otto Graham, quarterback sparkplug of the football world champion Cleveland Browns who had 10 first place votes and 75 points. Johnny Antonelll, New' York Giants pitcher, had 13 firsts and 67 points, and champion jockey Willie Shoemaker had 4 first and 53 points. Bowling Topped By Hunter, Nestor Hunter and Nestor halls reg istered wins Monday in fresh man intramural bowling com petition. Hunter hall rollers humbled the Sederstrom “five” 2.523 points to 2397. Kerry Livingston was instrumental in the win by com piling 482 pins. Rolling the high est game was Ron Larson with 180. Leading the Sederstrom at tack was J. D. Griffith, who totaled 494 plus 190 for the high est game. The French "B" quintet suc cumbed to Nestor 2661 to 2094. Christenson compiled the after noon's most impressive series with a 641. His high game was 234. The outstanding perform ance on the French “B” team was turned in by Bob Smith, who totaled 376. 'Order off O' Meets The Order of the O will have its Oregana picture taken at 12 noon Wednesday at Phi Delta Theta. Members should wear their letterman’s sweater. Nom inations for new officers will also be made. Emerald Photograph by L. Spauhling HAL Dl'KFV, 6’6” Orfgon Frosh center, hooks over the fjuard of 6’8” Wayne Moss of the Oregon State Kooks In Friday’s contest at Eur -ne. Others are Paul Tuchardt (26) of the Frosh and Itave Oamhcc (10) of OSC. Kooks won 61-47 and 66-53. SDX Five Edges Aggie Club, 42-41 By Jerry Claussen SOX Publicity Man A valiant band of out-of-shape | journalists from Oregon's chap I ter of Sigma Delta Chi upheld the University's honor against the Brass Rail Five from OSC's SDX chapter Saturday to win a thrilling 42-41 game at the men’s gym in Corvallis. It was the only win for Oregon over OSC for the weekend and p”oved that journalists are truly versatile people. A huge crowd of five wives and girl friends of the iron-man Shacrat aggrega tion were on hand to keep the score and time so their heroes wouldn't lose. Brass Hallers Dead Shocked by the announcement that scoring leader Gordon Rice ■ had gotten married the night be fore without telling his team mates about it, the Shacrats couldn't.hit the broadside of a barn in the first quarter. The Brass Railer’s, playing without the services of "Dimples” Dick Coyner, didn't miss him a bit and took an early 7-0 lead with free throws on fouls by Bob Robin son adding to the score. But the Shacrats bounced hack when they realized the : scorekeeper wasn't going to rheat for them and caught up at the quarter. The second quarter was about even with the Brass Bailer's holding a slim 10-18 lead, and it ap peared that the Aggie five might give the star-studded Oregon team a real battle. In the second half thg, zone Odense put up by the Brass Rail team proved a tough nut to crack but the fine shooting of Rice and Gordon Jones kept the Shacrats in the game. At the third-quarter mark, the score stood 34-30 for the Brass Rail lean and it appeared that all was lost lor the sterling bard of Shaerats. They began to show the effects of loo much night life working for a local dope sheet and the cheering crowd of fe males tried vainly to think up some way to give their boys more points. Shaerats Rally With less than a minute to go, the Shaerats were trailing; by three points when a guard who is too modest to mention his name stole the ball and went the length of the floor for a lay in. He had previously missed 101 straight. The Brass Railers then tried to stall it out but a wild scramble saw the Jones boy get the ball and race down for the winning basket just as the timer called the game. Even the obvious partiality of the home-town referees was not enough to offset the Shao rats' control of the timing and scorekeeping. The two whistle tootera delighted in calling the ! shaerats down for every time they tripped or kicked a Brass Rail man and then showed their authority by calling a few technicals when they couldn't see any fouls. The game was played under i experimental rules which the ; teams Irom Corvallis delight in using. The game was divided into four 15-minute quarters with no timeouts or stopping of the clock for foul shots. Forward Sad Sam Vahey was a tower of strength under the boards for the Shaerats and got nine points, Rice getting 11. Vahey was assisted very little in getting rebounds by Rice, who seemed to be up in the clouds from his ordeal of the day be fore. Neither Vahey nor Robin son were worth much on defense as their men got 38 of the Brass Rail’s 41 points. Larson Signs Contract To Play With Chicago SAN’ FRANCISCO (AP)—Paul Larson, University of California : quarterback who was the na tion's leading passer last season, has signed his contract to play professional football with the Chicago Cardinals of the Na tional Football league. Larson said Thursday he mailed the contract to the Cardinals Wednesday night and will report next July 1. The one-year contract report edly is for $13,000. Sports Staff Desk Editor: Buzz Nelson. Staff: Jack Marsh. NCAA Group Starts Football Television Study CHICAGO (AP)—The new NCAA television committee, meeting for the first time Tues day, will start spadework of formulating a 1955 football vi deo program and at least one month will be needed to finish the delicate task. The 12-man committee will strive for a compromise tele vision plan that will be accept able to all factions. By Wednesday night, the com mittee will have elected a chair man, set a timetable for delevop ing the 1955 program and start ed discussions of possibilities in volved for mapping such a pro gram. “Two or three meetings are expected to be held in the process of developing a plan,” said Walter Byers, executive director of the National Col legiate Athletic association. “By early March, the commit tee hopes to have a plan finally approved by the NCAA member ship in a mail referendum.” The committee knows it is in for one of the toughest jobs ever faced by the NCAA. The pres sure comes from many divergent viewpoints. Want Regional TV The Big Ten and Pacific Coast conferences present a powerful allied force for nationally con trolled regional television and have threatened to telecast their games independently on this ba sis if the NCAA continues its restricted game-of-the-week pol icy of the last four year& The strong Eastern College Athletic conference of 101 members wants national TV continued but has offered a somewhat liberalized plan than the one last year. The South had indicated the belief that the less television the better to guard attendance and prefers a national “Game of the Week." Smaller colleges in the East and on the West coast also make this stand. Notre Dame, Pennsylvania and several other NCAA members want unrestricted television. Baseballers Meet All freshmen baseball players are urged to attend an important organization meeting at 5 p.m. today in room 101 PE. 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