Webfoot Gridders Set
Preview Clash Today
By Buzz Nelson
Emorild Attitfant Sports Editor
Oregon grid fans will see tt
"new" Oregon football team to
day when Coach I<en Casanova'#
forces wind up spring practice
with a full-game length acrlm
mage on Hayward field at 10:30
a.m.
The scrimmage is a feature at
traction of Spring Sporta day
and of Junior Weekend. Spec
tators are invited free of charge.
The Oregon coaching staff
Freshmen Meet
Rooks in Battles
Two of Oregon's topflight
Brush spring sports teams go
into action today along with var
sity team# as both the track and
tennis team# meet Oregon State
Kook squads.
Both teams already hold wins
over their freshman rivals from
the north and will be out gun
ning for repeat victories. Oregon
teams have yet to lose to any
Oregon State teams this spring.
Frosh Meet Slated
The Frosh track team, coached
by Bob McCollum, graduate in
physical education, will match
performance# with the Kook
>quad in conjunction with the
varsity meet today on Hayward
field. The two freshman teams
will run at the same time as the
Otegon-OSC track squads with
the meet slated to begin at 1:30.
Coach Hilbert Lee’a freshman
tenni s team will also go against
its Kook rival today with a
match scheduled for the OSC
courts at 10 a m. Both the Duek
and Beaver varsities will al io be
playing at the same time at
Corv&llis.
Morris Leads Trackster*
The Brush tracksters will be
led by sprinter-hurdler Jack Mor
i is, who is the leading fullback
candidate on the varsity foot
ball team. Morris is an air force
veteran who last week ran the
low hurdles in 23.3, a mark ex
ceeded by only one athlete in the
nation this year. The Rooks will
b>* led by high-jumper Wayne
Moss, who has topped the 6'4”
mark.
Lee will probably use his usual
lineup in the tennis match with
the Kooks. This would include
Stan Kalapus, Marv Woods,
Stewart Jone*^ Brian Booth. Don
Robinson and Phil Lowthian. The
Rooks' top man is Gary Boedig
heimer.
Southern California has won
the Pacific CfTast conference
track title 14 times in a row.
Oregon last won in 1924 its only
fust place finish.
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| faces n mighty rebuilding Job
: for 1 Ofifi, with eight regulars
gone from last. year’s team that
finished with a 6-4 record on the
season and 5-3 in the Pacific
Coast conference.
For today’s scrimmage the
60-odd men out for spring foot
ball, minus those on the In
jury list, will split Into two
teams. The first unit — the
protaihle starting eleven for
1955—will likely team with
the fourth unit and they will
faro another group made up
of the second and third
elevens.
Under PCC rulen, teamn are 1
: allowed only 20 days of practice
and the Ducks have benefttted i
from recent fine weather. Cas- :
Hrfiova has called thia springs'
practice the moat "enthusiastic” |
in yeara and ia expecting great i
things from the youngsters who
will step in for the departed
veterans.
I
The biggest hole in the lineup
was left by the departure of
quarterback George Shaw, a
four-year regular, and the Na
tional offense leader in 1951. At
present, Tom Crabtree, who play
er! halfback last season, is being
groomed for Shaw's spot. Back
ing up Crabtree are Wally Rus
sell anrl John Keller, who plays
shortstop for baseball Coach Don
Kirsch, which keeps him out of
spring football.
At fullback all three letterman
Jasper McGee. Larry Rose, an'!
Dean Van Leuven are gone, but
speedy Jack Morris, a four-year
air force veteran, is counted on
to carry Lhu load. *
The halfbacks size up as
Dick James, top PC< scorer in
1954, and either Jim Shanley
or l>-Itoy Phelps. James w ill
l>e unable to play in today's
game, due to an arm injury.
Chuck Osborn, another half
back, will miss the game be
cause of a bail foot, as will
Jack Pocock, Keanous Coch
rane, Dick Pavlat, and Steve
Danchoek, alt out with injuries.
In the line the Ducks will be
missing the services of such
stalwarts as Jack Patpra, Ron
Phiester, Hal Reeve, Keith Tuck
er and Dick Mobley.
Phil McHugh is back at end
after a brilliant sophomore year
and pairings with him will be
either Bruce Brenn, Bill Tarr,
J. C. Wheeler, or Mel Flohr.
Captain Lon Stiner and Harry
Johnson are back at tackle. John
son moving in for Tucker. Be
hind these two are Chuck Austin,
Hal Duffy, John Raventos and
Jerry Kerschner.
Cochrane returns at guard
but will miss today's scrim
mage. The other guard posi
tion is a battle, with Spike
ilillstrom Inning a slight edge.
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A gap was left at center with
the graduation of Phiester. Art
Weber, Nick Marculis, Norm
Chapman and Pocock are fight
ing for the Job, but Pocock will
miss the scrimmage because of
illness.
Assisting head coach Casano
va, who will start his fifth year
on the Oregon campus, will be
Jack Roche, assistant coach;
John McKay, backfield coach and
Bill Hammer, freshman coach.
Cine Coach Vern Sterling has ac
cepted another coaching position
and a replacement will be ob
tained for him during the sum
mer.
Oregon Netmen
Schedule OSC
Oregon's tennis team invades
Corvallis today for a final North
ern Division dual match with the
Oregon State Beaver squad.
The Webfoots, now holding
second spot in the division stand
ings behind perennial champion
Washington, posted two triumphs
last weekend when they trounced
both Idaho and Washington
State.
Losers only to the Washington
Huskies in match play, the Ducks
edged Coach Irwin Harris' OSC
performers in an earlier match
in Eugene. A doubles victory
by Dick Gray and Dick Hamil
ton provided the winning margin
for Lee's forces by a 6-3, 6-3
margin.
In other results in the first
match, Ron Carlson of the Ducks
defeated sophomore Norm Mer
rill of OSC. 7-4. 1-6, 7-5: Pete
Overton of the Staters took Bob
Baker, 3-6, 6-1, 7-5; Gray beat
another State sophomore, Bob
Jensen, 6-3. 6-3; Hamilton lost
to Emory Keolanui, 4-6, 6-4, 8-6
and Don Bonime of the Ducks
lost to Dick Jacobson, 6-3, 6-4.
Second-year men Merrill and
Jensen are expected to spark the
Beavers again, with Jacobson,
Overton and Keolanui in sup
porting roles. Merrill teams with
Jensen and Jacobson with Over
ton in usual doubles tandems.
The regular first five men are
looked for in the Oregon camp,
with Carlson and Baker in one
dobles team and Gray and Ham
ilton or Bonime in the other.
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