The fortunes of Oregon’s {jolt and tennis teams took re
verse direction during the rainy spring season of 1955, with
the divoters of Sid Milligan losing their hold on the Northern
Division title and the tennis squad of Hilbert Lee finishing
third in team standings.
In the net sport, a third-place finish is almost regarded
as highly as the top rank itself, as the Washington Hus
kies have been tennis champs for so long that they are
practically conceded the crown every year. The Seattle
school has captured the net title every year since 1937.
Lee’s semi-experienced squad finished the confernce dual
meet standings with a slate of 3-2. tying with Oregon State.
The Ducks defeated the Beavers once, while losing to them
also, and downed Washington State and Idaho. The Huskies,
of course, administered a 7-0 whitewashing to the UO net
men.
Netmen Depart
Both Ron Carlson and Bob Baker, who divided the top
singles work between them, will be lost by graduation. And
Dick Hamilton, the reliable sngles and doubles veteran, also
departs. A nucleus for 1956 will be formed by seniors-to-be
Don Bonime and Dick Gray, along with junior-to-be Jim
Larpenteur.
But the fershman team, also guided by Lee, offers a good
hope for the future. The Ducklings won the majority of
their matches, and were extremely well-balanced. Stan
Kalapus, Marv Woods, Stew Jones, Brian Booth and Don
Robinson all should help the varsity greatly in the next
campaign. *
Next year, the Washington Huskies lose four-time XD
singles winner Bill Quillian and should be somewhat weaker,
although runner-up Doyle Perkins returns for a final season.
Oregon State, though, will return their first four men and
will definitely be a threat for the XD title, along with the
probably-improved Ducks.
Golfers Finish Fifth
In golf this spring, the lack of veterans on the team hurt
the Ducks in the later stages of the season particularly. Only
Xeil Dwyer and Bob Takano were left as lettermen from the
championship season of 1954's Webfoots. And the Webfoots
finished fifth in the XD tournament at Moscow for the first
time in their history.
A record of six golf titles, seven runner-up finishes, and
two places of third and fourth each had been achieved since
the tournament’s inauguration since 1935. As in tennis, the
outlook should improve in ensuing years because of the
team and the outstanding freshman prospects led by 1954
Oregon prep star Bob Prall.
Four of the golfers are sophomores and the victory of
Chuck Huggins and Don Bick in last week’s Riverside best
ball invitational in Portland certainly showed some fine po
tential. Barry Ott and Bob Norquist, who shot consistently
low scores during the season, will also be back for their
junior seasons.
Golf and tennis should both l>e on the rise in the next
season, wth the Ducks most probably improving on this
year's record.
Frosh Face OSC Today
The well-balanced, undefeated
freshman track aquad qf Coach
Bob McCollum end their season
this afternoon as they meet
OSC’s improving Rooks at Cor
vallis.
Sprinter and hurdler Jack
Morris, distance star Don Mes
kimen and middle-distance ex
pert Bob Drynan paced the
Ducklings to a 75-48 win over .the
Rooks in their last meeting. Mor
ris took the 100-yard dash and
low hurdles, Meskimen scored in
the mile and two-mile and Dry
nan anchored the winning mile
relayers after copping the 880.
Bill Fredericks, state low
hurdle champ last year for Mil
waukie, and tall talented high
jumper and weight man Wayne
Moss have picked up most of the
points for the Rooks in past
meets.
The return of sprinter Sam
Wesley from spring football
drills should give the Baby Bea
vers more depth, but they are
still weak in the distances.
BRUINS FAVOREP
Lettermen Dominate
'55 Coast FootbalI
By Jerry Claussen
Emerald Co-Sport* Editor
Pacific Coast conference foot
bull coaches, happy over the de
! cision by officials which can
celled a previous plan to cut
| out spring practice, began look
ing at results of this spring’s
; sessions and evaluating PCC op
I ponents for next fall.
Every team with the exception
i of Oregon will have most of
1954’s lettermen back for the
1955 grid campaign and spent
20 hard sessions this spring pre
paring to end the dominance of
UCLA next fall. But the twice
champion Bruins will again be
favored when the football sea
son opens September 17.
Ducks Lose 16
Oregon, \yhich finished fourth
in the league with a 6-4 record,
will begin its fifth season under
Coach Len Casanova next fall.
The Ducks have 11 lettermen
back after losing 16 senior let
termen. Casanova will have a
problem at quarterback but im
proved runners headed by Dick
James plus several good ends
will again make the Webfoots
tough.
The big Bruins of UCLA had a
9-0 record in winning the coast
title last fall. Coach Henry (Red i
Sanders loses only 12 lettermen
out of 35 and will have a great
line returning to support the run
ning of Fullback Bob Davenport
and Halfback Ronnie Knox.
Southern California, loser to
Ohio State in the last Rose Bowl
game after finishing second in
the PCC. will begin Coach Jess
Hill's fifth year with 24 return
ing lettermen out of 37. Half
back Jon Arnett will be back to
plague opponents’ defenses but
tackles and wingbacks will lack
the depth of last season.
Cougars Rated High
Washington State is expected
to give their bigger opponents
plenty of trouble after a 4-6 rec
ord last season. Coach A1 Kirch
er’s fourth season will find 23
lett*rmen back with only six
losses. Tackle Tom Gunnari and
Quarterback Bob Iverson will be
all-star candidates on a team
Tickets on Sale
For PCC Track
Reserved seat and general ad
mission tickets for the Saturday
session of the Pacific Coast con
ference meet on Hayward field
are now on sale, according to
Ted Bouck, athletic business
manager.
Reserved seat tickets are avail
able in the areas near both fin
ish lines and may be purchased
for $1.50. Both hurdle races and
all sprints will end on the east
side of the field and all distance
runs will finish on the west side.
General admission tickets,
avalable elsewhere in both
stands, are on sale at $1 each.
Students will not be admitted
on student body cards for the
Saturday portion of the meet.
Charge for them is 50 cents. The
qualifying session on Friday will
be open to all fans free of charge.
Preliminaries Friday begin at
3:30 p.m. with all field events
except pole vault and high jump,
which require no qualifying. Run
ning events begin in trial heats
at 4 o’clock with the 440-yard
dash and continue in approxi
mately 20 minute intervals until
5:20.
The finals in all events will be
Saturday, beginning at 3 p.m.
with the pole vault and ending
at 5:35 with the mile relay.
which will have its line back In
tact with a good backfleld which
will lack only depth.
Washington figures to Improve
from a disastrous year that saw
the Huskies winding up with a
2-8 record after Quarterbacks
Sandy Lederman and Bobby Cox
were injured. Coach Johnny
Cherberg gets 23 lettermen back
out of 32. Cox transfered to Min
nesota but the return of Leder
man and Fullback Mike Monroe
will make the Husky attack dan
gerous.
Stanford will feature the pass
ing of Quarterback John Brodic
in Coach Chuck Taylor’s fifth
year as the Indian mentor. He
gets 22 lettermen from the sixth
place team that had a 4-6 record
last season. Barks Bill Tarr and
Ernie Dorn stack up well but a
lack of good reserves may hurt
the Indians again.
Who’ll Iteplucc I .arson?
California, a 5-5 finisher last
fall, gets only 14 lettermen back
with 13 gone. Coach Lynn (Pap
py» Waldorf’s ninth year at the
Bear helm could be u tough one,
however, as he faces the task
of replacing All-American Cen
ter Matt Hazeltine and Quarter
back Paul Larson. End Jim Car
michael will head a good Bear
line.
Oregon State, fresh with a new
coach and a new system, will at
tempt to get back on the win
trail after a 1954 season that
saw eight straight losses after an
opening victory over Idifho.
Coach Tommy Prothro gets 26
lettermen back for his new Bea
ver team, including top pros
pects in Tackle John Witte and
Tailback Ray Westfall. Learning
the new single wing may be a
problem for the Beavers, how
ever, and a shallow line could
hurt.
Idaho, the surprise of the con
ference last season when it won
four straight games with five
losses, figures to be even toucher
under second-year Coach Nell
(Skip) Stahley. Twenty letter
men are back Including scatback
Wilbur Gary and a big and fast
line plus some good running
backs should overcome a short
age of good ends and a top quar
terback.
Open at Halt Luke
All nine PCC members will be
in action on Uie opening day
of games next fall. Oregon opens
Its season at Salt Lake City In
a night game with Utah in u non
conference clash.
Two conference games are on
tap for the September 17 kick
off. Idaho plays Washington at
Seattle and Washington State
plays USC at I>os Angeles. Ore
gon State opens at home with
Brigham Young, UCLA playing
Texas A. & M. In a Friday night
game at Ixm Angel-*. California
plays Pittsburgh In the Smoky
City and Stanford plays College
of Pacific.
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