By Jerry Claussen
Emerald Co-Sports Editor ■■
Although it may he a hit premature, it's interesting to
look ahead to the 1956 basketball season, when the Pacific
Coast Conference plays a full round-robin schedule, and see
what’s in store.
As in 1954, few players on the coast this season are seniors
and most of the clubs will have experienced and well-bal
anced lineups for the first full coast race. Oregon State,
1954-55 ND champions, will be most affected by senioritis,
but the other eight teams lose few performers by graduation.
Beginning with our own Oregon Ducks, the emphasis on
rebuilding this season will be continued in 1956 with only
two plavers out of 18 being seniors. Thdse two are the most
valuable, however—Co-Captains Jim Loscutoff and Howard
Page. Xext year’s lineup shapes up with Max Anderson at
center. Jerry Ross and Ed Bingham at forwards and Phil
McHugh plus Bill Moore, Rich Co.-ti or LeRoy Xelson at
guards.
Oregon State loses seven of its championship squad in
cluding Bill Toole. .Tqpv-Vlasteticg. ffex Whiteman. Ron
Robins. Reggie Halligan, Johnny Jarboe and Ron Fundings-"
land. But Swede Halbrook will be back to make the Beavers
tough again and will be backed up by Jay Dean. Larry Paulus.
Bob Allord and Jerry Crimmins. as well as Dave Gambee
and several others up from the strong Rook team.
Washington will suffer the least from graduation with
only Dean Parsons and Jerry Johnson not slated to return
in 1956. Gary Nelson will take Parsons’ place and a lineup
of Karl Voegtlin, Jim Coshow, Doyle Perkins and Don
Sunitsch will make the Huskies title contenders next season.
Idaho's spirited Vandals will lose Harlan Melton ami Bob
Falash from the first string plus sub Don Monson. They
have a good freshman team, however, and will field a well
balanced lineup again with Jay Buhler. Tom Hoots, Jim Sa
ther. Bill Bauscher and Jay Webb likely starters.
Washington State loses both of its top players, Ron Bennink
and Bill Rehder. as well as Bob Klock and Jack Carton. The
Cougars will need some help but have a big group of sopho
mores. Their 1956 five will probablv.be composed of A1 Perry.
Ron Foisy. Larry Beck, Doug King and A1 Kamps.
Perennial Southern Division champion UCLA loses three
starters, Johnny Moore, Ron Bane and Don Bragg, plus
Eddie White and Mark Costello. The Bruins will still be
tough, though, with Willie Naulls still at center and Morris
Taft, A1 Herring, Dave Hall and Lindy Kell filling the
lineup.
Stanford loses scoring stars Ron Tomsic and Russ Lawler
as well as veterans Jim Johnson and Leo Sclnvaiger from
its 1955 squad. The Indians will have a big squad of lettermen
back in 1956- however, including starters Bill Bond, Barry
Brown and George Selleck plus the Wagner brothers. Hap
and Ron, for a potent quintet.
California's disappointing Bears had as many troubles as
a team could have this year and were building as well, but will
be dangerous next year. The SD cellar-djvellers will lose
all-coast Bob McKeen from the center spot, but only two
other squad members with him. They had a big crop of
sophomores this year and will field an all-veteran five -of
Mike Diaz, Frank Hess, Larry Friend, Bob Blake and Ev
McKeen.
USC, 1954 coast champion, will be minus its top three
of the past two years when next season rolls around. Roy
Irvin, Dick Welch and Chet Carr as well as three more of
the 16-man squad will graduate, leaving the Trojans a
lineup of two-year veterans Tony Psaltis and Ralph Pausig
plus Jack Dunne, Jim Kaufman and Jack Lovrich.
That’s the way it shapes up for 1955. Washington, Idaho
and California figure to improve, Oregon and USC figure
about the same with OSC, UCLA, Stanford and WSC per
haps dropping slightly. The league as a whole won’t be too
strong. We, hope the Ducks can take advantage of it.
Scoring Race
Sees Wanaka
Snare Second
Dave Wanaka liajs moved back
into second place in latest Frosh
basketball statistics. Paul Tuch
ardt still leads the Ducklings
with 216 points, while Wanaka
hit for 43 last weekend to make
his totul 124.
Only other Duckling to get in
to the hundred-point column is
Guard W'endy Rasor, who has
105 for the 12 games.
The Frosh split a pulr on
their trip to Washington over
the weekend. They clobbered
Vancouver’s Moore’s Drive-in,
96-09, on Friday, and blew a
16-point lead on Saturday to
lose, 81-72, to Fernandez log
gers of I»ngview.
The Frosh close out their sea-;
son against Oregon State's unde
feated Rooks Friday and Satur
day as preliminaries to the var
sity Northern Division tussles.
Coached by Paul Valenti, the
Rooks have beaten everyone in
sight with a well-balanced,
fast-breaking attack. Dave
fiambee, 6'6” Corvallis slicker
paces the Staters with an 18.9
points-per-ganie average, (iam
bee also averages over 15 in
rebounds.
The Ducklings must Win both
games to even up their season’s
record. They currently own a 6-7
mark.
Frosh scoring
games:
Player F G
Tucharilt 9U
Wanaka 48
Rasor 47
Vyre
Duffv .54
Hastings ... 36
Faria 14
•>• ' I '>
'»an . . 12
slick . II
Williams .... . . 6
Dnlflotk ,. . 6
E.miilaml I
Phelp* 0
Totals 360
through 13
FT PF TP
36 38 216
28 38 124 !
II 21 105
20 27 96
11 39 87
13 30 85
4 13 32 i
5 14 31
3 1/ 27
5 8 27
8 12 201
4 9 16
1 0 0
o i o
149 266 869
Teams Eye
NIB Tourney
NEW YORK (AP)—The 12
team National Invitation Basket
ball tournament will be spread
over five days in the week of
March 12-19 with one day and
five night programs.
There will be no trfpleheaders
as in the past, NIT officials said
Tuesday.
The program will open Satur
day, March 12. with an after
noon and night doubleheader.
Then there will be two games
each night on the 14th, 15th 17th
and 19th.
Eight teams, including Holy
Cross' defending titleholders,
have accepted bids to date. Four
teams remain to be chosen.
Others already in the tourney
include Duquesne, beaten final
ist in 1954, Dayton, Cincinnati,
Louisville, Manhattan, Niagara
and St. Francis of Loretto, Pa.
Possibilities for the final four
berths include Alabama, Tennes
see, Kentucky, Texas Tech, West
Texas State, St. Louis, Tulsa,
Connecticut, Fordham, Lafay
ette, Williams, Depatd, Memphis
State, and Texas Christian.
Signatures Asked
Students attending school on
athletic grants-in-aid are asked
to sign for their grant-in-aid at
the athletic office immediately,
according to a Wednesday ath
letic department announcement.
Thirty-six persons were killed
when the Hindenburg zeppelin
burned at its mooring at Lake
hurst, N.J., on May G, 1937.
(JO Keglers
Face Staters
Oregon's varsity and coed
bowlers will take on Oregon State
in a home and home mutch this
weekend. The first three games
will be run off at Corvallis Fri
day afternoon, starting at 3, and
the series will finish up at the
Oregon Student Union on Satur
day, also at 3.
Coach Lou Bellislmo will send
Bob Boyce, Vern Jackson, Scott
Page, Bryce Reimer and Ray
Christensen into action for the
Duck varsity.
Bowling for the coeds will be
Mary Brooks. Robbie Mulkey, I
Pat Dieney, Nancy Relne and.
Sue Starnes.
_
Four Teams Get
Bowling Victories
Four teams picked up 4-0 vic
tories in intramural bowling ne
tion 'tuesday. Delta Upsilon
downed Kappa Sigma. Pi Kap
pa Alpha tripped Campbell club.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon bumped
Phi Kappa Psi, and Theta Chi
toppled Tau Kappa Epsilon.
Slides of Greece to Be
Shown to Cosmo Club
John Gaitanakis will speak
about Greece at the Cosmopolitan
Club meeting Friday at 8 p.m
He will accompany his talk with
colored slides. All persons inter
ested in a ski trip to Hoodoo with
the Cosmo Club Saturday are
urged to attend this meeting. Re
freshments will be served.
All Departments
Led by Bruins
In SD Scoring
UCLA’s champion Bruins lead
every team department of the
weekly statistics releaned today
by the Pacific Coast Conference
commissioner's office. The fig
ures also showed California's Bob
McKeen and Ron Tomsic of Stan
ford within easy range of smash
ing the division scoring record.
UCLA ranked atop every team
department as follows: most
points -75.6 per game; field
goals — 43.7'/} ; free throws—
75.0'/r I rebounds 430 to foes’
293; fewest opponents [mints -
64 per game; lowest opponent
field goals 37.7';.
McKeen wrested the individual
scoring lead from Tomsic last
weekend and now has 219 points
to Tomslc's 208. Field goal lead
er is Dick Welsh, Southern Cali
fornia. 55.8V, ; with Eddie White.
BCLA, leading In free throws.
83.3'!, and Willie Naulls, UCLA,
rebounds. 12.3 per game.
McKeen and Tomsic arc ex
pected to better the division sea
son record of 238 points i Bill
Sharman, USC. 1950) in their
final series this weekend. Mr
Keen already has broken the var
sity career record of 612 points
(Hank Luisetti, Stanford. 1936
38). Including games as a fresh
man (freshmen were eligible for
varsity during his first season i.
McKocn also has exceeded the
mark, ns may Moore and Tomsic
this weekend.
US Amateurs Field
Strong Track Squad
NEW YOUK (AP* A power
ful 33-man track and field team,
which one authority said "could
have won any Olympic Games,"
w-as picked Sunday to represent
the US in the Pan-American
Games in Mexico City, March
12-26.
Jim Kelly, University of Min
nesota coach and coach of Un
American forces in the first Pan
American Games in Buenos Aires:
four years ago. said “It's an out
standing squad. It could have
won any Olympic Games ever
held and will do great in Mexico j
City.
“Tills Is an Idea of what we'll
have in the 1956 Olympic
Games in Melbourne,” Kelly
added. “We’re not silting still
and waiting for the Itusslaii*.
The armed forces have done a
great job. Their cooperation 'j
has been terrific.”
The team, selected by an 18
man committee headed by Kelly
and representing the AAU, col
leges and armed forces, is well j
represented by 'servicemen.
Only two of the stars who won !
14 of the 22 track and field
Sports Staff
Desk Editor: Jack Wilson.
Staff: Jerry Claussen, Chuck:
Mitchelmore.
event* in Bueno* Aire* are bark
for another chance at the gold
medal*.
They are M-l Whitfield, the
Olwnplc grent and u Inner of
the 400 and K00 meter run* In
Argentina, and the Krv. Hub
ert Richards, Olympic and na
tinnai A A l' (Mile vault king
and A AC decathlon champ.
Whitfield, of the Los Angeles
A.C., will run In the goo meter*
and the 1000-meter relay. Rich
ard* 1* entered in hi* major spe
cialty, the vault, and will be hat
ed for the decathlon, although he
may not compete in the 10-event
grind.
The regular decathlon entry I*
young Rafer Johnson, a UCLA
freshman, who piled up an amaz
ing 7055 points in a meet .Satur
day.
The 30-year-old Whitfield,
two-time winner of the Olym
pic 800-meter run, wan present
ed with the Sullivan Trophy
Sunday for being the outstand
ing amateur athlete of 1951.
The presentation was made at
a luncheon at the New York A.C.
by Lou Wilke, of Bartlesville,
Okla., president of the AAU.
Whitfield was forced to default
from the 600-yard run in Satur
day night’s National AAU cham
pionships because of a heavy
cold.
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