As was obvious to all w ho knew anything about the Idaho
\ andals the Northern Division’s cellar'dwcllers play ed their
best game of the season in beating Oregon Friday. This was
affirmed by Vandal Coach Harlan Hodges who had nothing
but praise for his well balanced team after they walked over
< >regon in the 65-50 series opener.
But Saturday night it was a different story and a look
at the statistics will bear out the reversal of form shown
by both clubs in the second game won by the Ducks, 70-44.
Primarily it was a matter of shooting eyes being lost and
found.
Oregon took a tremendous total of 50 shots in Friday's
first half and made only nine for a .180 average. Nine for 45
in the second half gave the Ducks an anemic .167 for the con
test which won't win in any league, much less the tough
Northern Division. Saturday they came out with a different
slant on the hoop, especially in the second half. The Ducks
shot .410 in the third and fourth periods and finished w ith a
.325 mark.
Idaho's Shooting Cold
Idaho was a little better Friday than the Ducks were Sat
urday with a .370 average including a .437 average in the
second half. But the second night they were as cold as their
hosts were Friday as they missed IK straight shots for a ri
diculously low .105 first-half shooting percentage and fin
ished w ith a .194 mark.
Individaully it was a series of contrasts also. Jim Loscu
toff shot .219 Friday and .320 Saturday, Max Anderson hit
.191 Friday and .333 Saturday. Idaho's Harlan Melton shot
.35C Friday and .071 Saturday. Jay Buhler had .421 Friday
and .182 Saturday and Bill Bauscher hit .545 Friday and
.125 Saturday. That just about tells the story.
The most notable performance of the weekend, of course,
was Jim l.oscutoffs new Northern Division rebound record
of 26 set Saturday night. This broke the old record of 26
held jointly hv Oregon's Chet Noe and Bob Peterson. This
also gave Jim 46 rebounds for the series and left him onl\
13 shy of ,Noe's Nl) season's record of 226 with Oregon still
hating four games remaining.
Ducks Threaten Record
Anderson gave a fine performance off the boards also, as
the frowning Dane recorded 42 rebounds to complete Ore
gon > one-two punch in swipes. The Ducks came within one
rebound of equaling the conference team mark for one game.
Oregon now is threatening its own season’s rebound rec
ord of 757 made in 1951 when Loscutoff and Peterson were
in Duck spangles. The Webfoots now have 622, an average
or about five more per game than in 1951.
Higgest improvement shown bv Oregon was in the free
throw department, the old bugaboo, where the Ducks cashed
in on 18 out of 2d tries Saturday night for their best foul
shouting of the season. Anderson got six for seven anti none
missed more than one.
Nelson Bats 1.000
Nomination for the best shooting eye: LeRov Nelson, sub
guard, who came into Saturday’s game with five minutes left
and shot three times from the floor and once from the free
throw line—he made them all.
Idaho Coach Harlan Hodges certainly deserves credit
for at least one noticeable improvement in Idaho basket
ball—the bright new red and white uniforms with gold
numbers. For years Vandal teams have been the poor boys
of the league with their tee-shirt-type of uniform in nause
ating gold with black trim.
Incidentally, the Vandals' Jim Sather was supposed to be
their tallest first stringer at b'5“. Hodges told us Sather is
really only 6’3", which emphasizes Idaho’s terrific handicap
in height. Hut the Idaho mentor says he will be ready for the
new I’CC schedule next year with a tew big boys of his own.
It happens that the Idaho Freshman team has a lineup com
posed of boys standing 6 6’6", 6’5", 6'4" and 6 even. It
sounds good, anyway.
OSC Wrestlers
Top Ducks, 25-3
In Return Match
Oregon State’s varsity wrest
ling team swept to its sixth
straight win of the season Sat
urday by defeating the Oregon
grapplers for the second week in
a row by a 25-3 score.
The Beavers swept the first
six matches before the Ducks
managed to post their first win.
Ken Kesey of Oregon decisioned
Ron Hicks of the Beaver squad
by a 9-4 win for the only Oregon
victory. Melvin Lehman and
George Meyers had the only pins
for the Staters.
McLain Remains Unbeaten
In the first contest. Gary Mc
Lain kept his record clean and
posted a close 6-4 decision over
Oregon's Roy Schlesser in the
123-pound class. In the second
round Melvin Lehman of the OSC
squad pinned Darrell Klampe of
the Ducks in 1:32 of the second
round. In the 137-pound weight
Bob Williams lost on a decision
to Orville Swindler of the Bea
vers in another close duel.
In the 147-pound class PCC
champion Art Keith of the Bea
vers proved his prowess when he
decisioned Dave Newland of the
Oregon team by a 9-0 score. It
was a much different match
than last Saturday's when Keith
beat Newland by only four
points.
OSC Victories Continue
Lou Taucher turned in another
win for the Beavers by decision
ing Roland Wilson of the Duck
team by a 13-5 margin. Ore
gon’s John Woyat and OSC's Bud
Gienger fought a close match, the
Beaver winning by a 6-3 score.
Ken Kesey broke the Beaver's
individual win string when he
scored Oregon's only points in
winning a 9:4 decision over Ron
Hicks of the Beavers.
In the last match of the day,
George Meyers of OSC turned in
the second five-point victory by
pinning Oregon's Dick Barker
in 1:57 of the second round to
end the day’s match.
HoopPlayoffs
Break IM Tie
Kappa Sigma waltzed through
its second playoff game in two
days in intramural basketball
Friday as they beat Sigma Alpha
Mu for a place in the A league
tournament beginning Tuesday.
The win gave the Kappa Sig’s
the A-IV title after the league
had wound up in a three-way tie
in regular-season play. Thurs
day the Kappa Sigma downed
the Pi Kappa Alpha team, 44-16,
to eliminate them from the race
and then beat the Sammies to
complete the sweep.
Kappa Sigma begins tourna
ment action against Phi Delta
Theta Tuesday for a berth
against Alpha Tau Omega in the
tourney’s semi-finals. The ATO’s
drew a bye.
Ducks Place 2nd
In Handball Meet
The University of Washington
topped the University of Oregon.
15-12, in a playoff to capture the
Northwest intercollegiate hand
ball championship at Seattle Sat
urday.
Both the Husky and Duck
handballers whipped the Univer
sity of British Columbia and Ore
gon and Washington split, the
Huskies winning the first, 15-7
and the Webfoots tfiking the sec
ond, 15-13. The third match gave
Washington the championship.
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Ducks, Idaho
Divide Series
By Allen Johnson
Emerald Sports Writer
Coming back Saturday night to
take a 70-44 win after Idaho had
v/on a 65-50 Friday decision, Bill
Borcher’s Oregon Ducks hung
onto second place in the Northern
Division chase in a pair of games
at McArthur court.
Each team suffered from cold
shooting spells and profited from
field goal accuracy and the two
games were exact reversals. The
Vandals were sharp Friday and
won easily, and the Ducks came
back Saturday with a vengeance
to walk all over Harlan Hodges’
charges.
On Friday, Jay Buhler, Bill
Bauseher and Harlan Melton
couldn’t miss and paced Idaho to
its win, while the hapless Ducks
were missing shot after shot. Jim
Loscutoff managed 18 and Max
Anderson 10 but the Vandals!
were easy victors.
Idaho 65, Oregon 50
This game pointed out two vi-1
tal lessons to the Oregon basket- \
ball forces. First, no matter how I
little the opposition, they can still |
win with accurate clutch shoot
ing, and second, that on an off
shooting night there’s just noth-j
ing to be done about it.
Proving both these points were
the Vandals, who got better and
better as the game wore on. The
Ducks, in turn, became progres-1
sively worse and fell hopelessly
behind in the second half, after:
trailing 30-24 at the midway
mark.
Jay Buhler, a 5’ 11” jump
shot demon; Bill Baucher, a 6'
guard with a deadly foul shot,
and Harlan Melton, a 6' 2”
southpaw smoothie, led the
Idaho five to its win. These
three, along with Captain Bob
Falash, were especially effec
tive during the last seven min
utes of the game when the
\ andals user! a semi-stall of
fense and continued to score
regularly.
Oregon's big guns, Loscutoff |
and Anderson, had poor nights,
even though scoring 28 points
between them. Loscutoff got only
seven buckets in 32 tries while
Anderson connected on just four ;
of 21 attempts.
The game started at a snail’s
pace, with almost five minutes
elapsing before the Ducks hit
a fielder. Jerry Ross got in for
a tipin to break the iee. It
took two more minutes for Ida
ho to get a basket, with the
flashy Buhler leaping in for a
layup.
Late in the first half the game
began to get speedy and ragged,
with the Ducks missing six
straight shots in one onslaught
at the hoop. But Oregon held the
lead at 21-18 when the Vandals i
suddenly caught fire.
Bauscher dumped in a field
goal and two foul tosses, Buhl
er and Sather scored field
goals, Falash sank a long one
hander and Bauscher sank an
other field goal while Oregon
had only a tipin and a free
throw to match them. This
gave Idaho its halftime lead
and wrapped up the game.
Oregon was never able to
catch up after that, and managed
to bring the margin to as low as
six points only three times.
Bauscher, the conference’s top
foul shooter, got eight for nine
from the foul stripe and added
six buckets for a game-leading
Sports Staff
Desk Editor: Jerry Claussen.
Staff: A1 Johnson, Jack Wil
son, Chuck Mitchelmore, Don
Lovett and Jerry Olson.
total of 20. Buhler was right
behind with 19 and Melton fol
lowed with 16. Howard Page was
third man for Oregon with eight
points.
Idaho (65)
Buhler, f
Melton, f .
Sather, c
Bauftcher, k
Falash,
H oota
Totals
Oregon (50)
Ross, f ...
Loseutoff, < .....
M. Andrrv»n. c
Page. K
McHugh, g
Bell, f .
Bingham, f
McManus, f .
R. Anderson, g
Costi, g
Sherman. g
I.undell, g
Totals.
FG FT PF TP
- 8 3 2 19
7 2 3 16
1 1 3 3
6 8 3 20
2 3 5 7
.. 0 0 0 0
.24 17 16 65
FG FT PF TP
I 1 1 3
7 4 3 18
4 2 0 10
3 2 4 8
0 10 1
~ 0 0 1 0
12 2 4
1 I 2 3
.. 0 0 2 0
.. 0 0 1 0
0 1 0 1
1 0 2 2
18 14 18 50
Oregon 70, Idaho 44
Oregon switched roles on Ida
ho Saturday and enjoyed a hot
shooting night while the men
from Moscow were even less po
tent from the field than the
Ducks of Friday. The Webfoots
streaked into a 20-2 lead in the
first twelve minutes and were
never threatened.
Starting at a racehorse clip,
the game saw Oregon begin
hitting immediately as Los
cutoff canned a long pusher for
the first two-pointer. Idaho
was held to fewer shots than
usual by an adept Duck de
fense while Loscutoff and An
derson swept the boards clean.
Hodges pulled his first five in
an unusual move with ten min
utes to go in the half. The inex
perienced second platoon played
a zone defense and succeeded in
holding off the Duck attack
somewhat, but they had no scor
ing punch of their own.
The Vandals never recovered
from that early drought and fell
further behind in the second half.
Euhler, Bauscher and Melton—
highly effective on Friday—could
only get 4 of 33 shots in this
contest, a crippling blow to the
Vandal offense.
It was 6' 31/2 ” Center Jim
Sather who sparked the losers,
getting four quick baskets in
the second half and a total of
11 points. Little-used three
year letterman Don Monson
was runner-up with nine, and
Buhler had eight.
Following Loscutoff and An
derson for Oregon was sopho
more Guard LeRoy Nelson, who
repeated an earlier performance
against WSC by firing three bas
kets in three tries and adding a
foul shot for seven points.
Oregon (70)
FG FT PF TP
Ross, f . 110 3
Loscutoff, f .. 8 2 0 18
M. Anderson, c . 6 6 1 18
McHugh, g . 2 2 4 6
Page, g .... 10 3 2
Bingham, f ...... 12 14
McManus, f ... 12 2 4
Bell, f .... 0 0 3 0
Nelson, g .. 3 10 7
Sherman, g ... 0 0 3 0
Borrevik, t . 2 0 1 4
Werner, c.. 0 2 0 2
B. Anderson, g .. 0 0 0 0
Costi. g . 10 12
Lundell. g . 0 0 0 0
Totals
26 18 19 70
Idaho (44)
Melton, f .
Buhler. f .
Sather. c .
Bauscher, g .
Falash. g
Hoots, f .
Monson, f.
Swanstrom, c
Nelson, g .
Webb, g .
Totals
FG FT PF TP
. 1
. 1
. 0
. 0
13
18 14
3
8
11
2
5
9
2
44
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