Oregon Statens new choice for head football coach. Tommy Prothro. is beiivg looked to by Beaver supporters as the one who can perform a miracle next fall at the state's largest col lege. This young bachelor of 34 is highly rated as a potential great in the coaching ranks and it will be interesting to see just what kind of results he will get at the Beaver camp. Prothro was one of a quartet of finalists in the race for the OSC grid post vacated the Monday after Oregon beat OSC last fall by Kip Taylor, for six years holder of the grid reins at Corvallis. It took nearly two months for Oregon State officials to even get their choice narrowed down to four with Beaver alums and downtown quarterbacks squirming in the meantime wondering who the next whip ping boy would be. The four candidates that came to Corvallis for interviews with Glenn Holcomb. OSC's Pacific Coast Conference faculty representative, included two popular head coaches as well as a pair of assistant coaches unknown as far as Northwest fans were concerned. Buck Shaw, the recently-fired mentor of the San Francisco 49'ers, was in the race as was Skip Stahley, Idaho miracle-man of 1954. Herm Meister, California line coach, and Prothro, backtield coach for Red Sanders at UCLA and with him also at Vanderbilt before that. Prothro Favors Single-Wing Three of the four were strictly T-furmation coaches with Prothro being a solid advocate of the single wing that gave UCLA the national championship in an flndefeated 1954 season. This undoubtedly was a big factor in Prothro being chosen with Oregon State officials reluctant to cliange the traditional Beaver sty le of play begun by Lonnie Stiner back in 1933. Taylor was a graduate of Michigan State's single wing when'he came to Beaverville in 1949 and kept the forma tion which last year netted Oregon State one win and eight straight losses. But there were other factors involved also. First there was the usual money problem. Stahley withdrew from the race the night before the final decision was announced be cause OSC was offering $2000 less than the $11000 he got at Idaho last year when he brought the Vandal gridders out of the football doldrums. That also quite probably let out Shaw who was used to the fancy salaries of the pro leagues that are double and triple those offered to most college coaches. Another thing that favored an unknown coach for the job was the hope by Beaver officials that the college would hire a coach who wotdd stay and build up OSC teams rather than just use the post as a steppingstone to a. bigger job. And this, together with Prothro’s single-wing favoritism,- diis ability with backfield men as demonstrated at UCLA and the fine recommendation given Prothro by Sanders, pretty well cinched the job for Tommy. Assignment Ahead Tough But now comes the tough road ahead. Fans at Oregon State are inclined to forget their bad seasons and hope for future miracles, just like any other sports fans. But Tommy will find that the pressure is terrific at Corvallis, especially if and when OSC loses to Oregon. That's what undoubtedly forced Taylor to resign after the worst season in history in football at Ore gon State. For five years the Beavers had beaten Oregon and Taylor was retained, but in 1954 the end was inevitable. Prothro is going to have to start with a squad that lost eight out of its first 22 men from the 1954 team. On top of this he inherits a freshman team that was twice beaten by Oregon’s Frosh last fall and had very few outstanding players in the bunch. Sanders says he owes much of UCLA’s success in football to Prothro’s great work with Bruin backfield men but Tommy is going to need some good material to work with before he gets anywhere. Tommy is a hard worker and a perfectionist and will make the Beavers pant plenty during spring workouts, something they didn’t do much of under the easy-going Tavlor. Un questionably, Oregon State has the spirit that good a team needs, but it will be a long time before OSC hits the list df top football powers as predicted by some optimists. But the Beavers can’t go anywhere but up unless they lose to Idaho as well as their other eight opponents next fall. We wish Tommy Prothro luck (except against Oregon), because he will certainly need it. Frosh Paced By Tuchardt Paul Tuchardt has upped his scoring lend and Bob Ayre has moved up from seventh to fourth in latest Frosh basketbull sta tistics. Tuchardt has railed in 146 tal lies in nine games, while Ayre found the net for 27 points over the weekend to bring his total to 57. Lanky Paul also edged into the three-fig'ure column in rebounds. The big forward-ren ter is six above his nearest com petitor. Hal Duffy, with 101 re coveries. Wendy Rasor has moved into second place with 79 points, and Dave Wanaka stayed in the top three with 71. Tuchards, Rasor and Ayre led (he scoring as the Frosh rolled over Marion Motors of Salem and Clark Junior college last week end by 68-50 and 6756 scores. Next on the Ducklings schedule are two AAU squads from Port land. On Friday they meet Post land Air Force Base, and on Saturday they collide with a strong Dehl-Penne Co. five. Scoring through nine games: FG FT PF TP RB 61 24 22 140 101 Player Tuchardt Kasor Wanaka Ayre 1 lasting * Unity Paris . . Swan Hellion Slick Diddock William’* i.indland 26 29 22 21 21 12 10 9 6 .. 2 2 0 1 0 12 11 8 8 4 2 2 5 1 0 4 1 0 18 20 18 18 21 10 9 12 5 6 5 79 71 57 50 $0 20 21 17 7 6 4 2 0 19 82 10 16 95 20 26 22 1 8 4 20 1 0 Total> 236 91 183 563 437 Practice Aids Eye, But WSC Freshmen Fined, Lose Game Three Washington State col lege freshmen basketball play ers were arrested in Spokane Monday after they broke into one of the trio's old high school gym to practice. Bobby Reichert, an All-City guard at North Central high in Spokane last year, Richard Pask of Portland and Ed Steele of Pullman Were released on $50 bonds after police charged them with disorderly conduct in break ing and entering the gymnasium to practive with two friends Sun day afternoon. All three were in action Mon day night when the Cougar Babes played the Conzaga fresh men. Steele poured through 32 points and Reichert 18, but Gon zaga won, 83-78. Stall Pays Off As Fans Boo BALDWIN, Kan. (AP)—A bas ketball player stood motionless with the ball for a full five min utes in Baker’s game with the College of Emporia Tuesday night. Charley Dehlinger, College of Emporia star, started the weird shenanigan by stalling on the back line after his team got a two point 35-33 lead in the first min ute of the second half. Baker players tried to tie his up or get the ball. They succeeded only in fouling Dehlinger. He sank the two free throws and as soon as his team got the ball he retreated again to the back line. Baker ignored him but the crowd didn’t. They booed and stormed for five minutes until Baker went after the ball. Baker fouled Dehlinger again and he sank another pair of free throws. When C of E got possession, Dehlinger crawled into his shell again and waited. That was practically the only offense C of E used in the second half, but it worked. They won, 65-55, as Dehlinger dropped in 19 free throws. C of E made 16 field goals but only four came in the second half. HALBROOK OF THE EAST Offers Pondered By Prep Hooper PHILADELPHIA (APt Wilt the Stilt, America's most promi nent high school basketball play er, definitely is going to college. The big question is. which one ? Wilt the Stilt Is Wilton Cham berlain, a seven foot Negro lad who scores on a basketball court at a point a minute clip. The 18 year-old giant plays for Over brook high school in Philadel phia. At last count, Chamberlain said, he has received close to ISO bids to attend higher In stitutions of learning and, of course, to play a little basket ball. Wilt says he has not made up his mind where he’ll go and won't until May or June. ”1 want to select a top-rated school from a scholastic stand point as well as one that plays Medford Still Tops Weekly Prep Pool By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Medford, which defeated a strong Marshfield team twice last week, continues to lead the pack in the Associated Press poll on high school basketball. It was the third consecutive week that Medford, with a 15-1 record, has earned the No. 1 spot. Medford got 10 first place votes from among the 12 sports writ ers taking part in the poll. There was considerable shuf fling fur the other nine posi tions, however, as six of the leaders suffered defeats last week. Eugene, which won a pair, climbed to second place. They overtook defending champion Milwaukte which dropped to third after defeating South Sa lem but then losing to Central Catholic of Portland. Eugene got one first place vote. St. Helens, the only undefeat ed major team in the state, also got one first place vote and re mained in fifth place, behind North Bend. After St. Helens came As toria, Jefferson of Portland, Albany, Cleveland of Portland and Pendleton. It was Jeffer son’s first appearance on the list. Franklin of Portland dropped from No. 6 in last week's poll into the also-rans after losing to Lincoln. Beaverton and South Salem, tied for 10th last week, also dropped outrafter suffering defeats. The poll with the season rec ord listed for each team. 1. Medford .15-1 ns 2. Eugene .14-2 94 3. Milwaukie .14-3 91 4. North Bend .17-2 82 5. St. Helens .15-0 76 6. Astoria .17-2 47 7. Jefferson .10-5 44 8. Albany .12-4 35 9. Cleveland .11-4 22 10. Pendleton .12-5 n Others: Corvallis 8, South Sa lem 7, Beaverton 6, Central Cath olic and Grant of Portland 5, 9 ranklin of Portland, Lakeview and Harrisburg 2, Powers, Mil ton-Freewater and Seaside 1. r biff time basketball," said the B-plus average student. He’s In terested In studying business ad ministration, possibly going on to law school. Ah a high school basketImti er, the Htllt has scored 11*12 points, lie hus seven games to play and. If he continues at his 4(*-plus-per-g»me average, can eclipse the thrre-year scoring record set by LaMalk-’s great All-Amerleh, Toni (iola. The latter netted 2322 points In three seasons at La.Hallr high. Wilt's one game high Is 74, scored earlier this season. Chamberlain's coach. Cecil Monenson, says the Stilt should become even greater than Cola, who has been mentioned by many experts as one of the top play ers of all-time. Cola Is 6-7. *‘