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day night In Portland* Multno
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powerful Washington Huskies
nu-el n speedy, ever-improving
Oregon Webfoot team in a Pa
cific Co a Hi conference game
scheduled for H pint.
Traditionally passing teams,
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both llic Ducld uml Huskies
h»Vf bcfn sticking rlosely to
the ground thus fur In tin- 1955
season. The Hi'attle bovi*. in
purtirulsry, nboui-d great
ground potential with a 30-0
victory over Minnesota. And
tin- Ducks' Jim Slum ley Is the
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Letterman Injured
In Husky Workout
SKATTI-K 'A* Injury con
scious Washington gridders went
through a light dummy drill
Thursday as they tapered off for
Saturday night's fracas with Ore
gon at Portland under the lights.
The drill produced one injury
which cost the Huskies the s -rv
ices of Frank Nelson, letterman
guard, who pulled a back muscle
A traveling squad of 37 was
named for the Oregon tilt. The
only man dropped from last
week's group which went to Min
nesota was Nat Davis, tackle,
who sprained an ankle against
the Gophers. He will he replaced
by Dick Day, a sophomore tackle.
The Huskies will hold another
drill Friday night to test their
reflexes under the arcs.
Scries Sidelights
BROOKLYN (*i Figuring the
series:
If you’ve pot any buttons wa
gered in an inning pool, the
fourth inning looks like a shoo
in. Not only have more runs (Gt
already been scored in this frame
it' the "55 classic, but in World
Series history the fourth inning
has been the biggest run-pro
ducer with 269.
Bob Turley, whose major
league background indicates lie
pitches well late in the season,
finished the regular campaign
with four straight victories. The
Yankee fireballer last lost to the
White Sox 3-2 on Aug. 28.
For the "He Shoulda Started
Someone Else” department:
-Brooklyn relief pitchers Don Bes
sent, Clem Labine and Karl
Spooner have given up only two
hits in 6s.■> innings while hurling
shutout ball, walking two and
striking out six.
lending rusher In the I»t’C with
a 18.5 hull-carrying average.
The graduat ion of G e o r g e
Shaw and the switch to Minne
sota by UW quarterback Bob
< 'ox left each coach, Ben Casa
nova of the Ducks and Johnny
Cherberg of Washington, with a
big gap to fill. Casanova, of
course, has converted Junior let
ter man Tom Crabtree into a sig
nal-caller, while Cherberg has
thrown former end Steve Koakc
Into the breach along with '53
regular Sandy I.ederrnan,
Washington boasts the tiet
ter record, having stumbled
past Idaho 14-7 in a narrow es
cujre before administering a
sound treating to the Big Ten
Gophers. Oregon opened with
Its tight 14-13 win over I'tah,
anil following ttp w itii a 12-15
loss to I SC, though plating
on even terms with the Tro
jans for u good portion of the
game.
The Pucks have one of their
fastest teams ever, with the two
halfbacks, Dick Janies and Shan
iey. taring 1-7 in PCC rushing
statistics Shan ley has netted 216
yards tn Just 16 carries, while
James has 100 yards in 24 tries.
•Bin Jones, the Huskies’
sophomore halfback flush, is
third la rushing with 133 yards
in 25 tries. Fullback Bob Me
N'amee of Washington is sixth
with 106 yards in 24 attempts
and halfback Credeil Green,
i* n o (her sophomore, has 03
yards in 14 thrusts.
With this good ground game,
the Huskies will be working on a
streak of six straight wins in
Multnomah stadium. The last
Oregon triumph came last year
n Seattle when George Shaw
and James led the Ducks to a
26-7 win. Before that, the lari
Duck win was in 1948 by a 13-7
count.
Alter their first game with
Idaho when the Huskies fum
bled II times, they were rele
gated to the underdog role
against Minnesota- But every
thing seemed to cliek at Min
neapolis, with scouts culling
♦ v ♦
Washington "their best block
ing and tackling team.” End
>lini Houston stood out in the
win, getting two touchdowns,
intercepting a pass, and play
ing an alert defensive game.
Standout* in the Husky line,
a very heavy one, include Im
pounders Houston and Corky
I.ewls (from Hood River, Ore.);
230-pounders George Strugar
and Fred Robinson at tackles,
with 245-lb. Dick Day in reserve;
215-pounders Karl Monlux and
Whitey Core at guards and 2,10
pounders Deli Jensen and Bert
JIM HOUSTON
. . . ami his best
Watson at the center spots. It
averages 207 pounds.
A ground battle should high
light the game, with the Husky
line weight trying to halt the
swift pony hacks of the Ducks.
If I<cdemmn sees action for
\\ ushington, the air may In
filled with passes. On the basis
of the two games thus far, the
Huskies should come out on
top, hut Oregon definitely has
the stuff to give It the win.
Washington End Lineman
SEATTLE .Pi An abashed but
happily surprised Jim Houston
acted as if he had been hit with
the whole Oregon line Thursday
when he was informed the Asso
ciated Press had named him
"Lineman of the Week.”
“I I'm sort of taken aback,”
the 185-pound senior end on the
j University of Washington foot
ball squad stammered. "Natural
ly it makes me feel very good
and I sure don't think it would
have been possible without the
help of all the rest of the team
and a lot of good breaks.”
Two TO ‘Breaks’
The "breaks" he referred to
were merely the scoring of two
touchdowns and the breaking up
of humbled Minnesota's initial
scoring threat.
The Gophers were on the Wash
ington 6-yard line early in the
first quarter and Don Swanson
was back to pass. Houston broke
through, blocked the attempted
toss, grabbed the ball in the air
and seampered 54 yards.
The play set up Washington's
first score a 27-yard field goal
by Dean Derby and apparently
broke the Gopher spirit as the
underdog Huskies went on to win
30-0.
Smothers Pitchout
Houston soon caught a 4-yard
pass for his own TD and scored
another later in the game when
he fell on an erratic Minnesota
pitchout in the end zone.
“The credit," he insisted, “is
due the line. That's where the
work was done. Those hoys stop
ped Minnesota cold and forced
the ball out where Corky Lewis,
the other end, and I could get
our hands on it."
"But I sure do thank you," he
told an Associated Press staff
member. "It's the biggest foot
ball honor I ever had."
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By Chuck Mitchelmore
Emerald Sports Editor ■*
I \u'y talk about upsets —the pros got upset, the college
powerhouses got upset, the coaches got upset and the experts
got upset. It happens every year, but it just doesn’t happen
this early in the year.
That s what we thought, too, and as a result the select
six Emerald experts were also upset—badly.
It just wasn t a very good week to predict football scores
especially not to start predicting football scores. As a result
our fir-t week s prognostication percentage (and our accu
mulative percentage; is a sparkling .381.
Ten Picks This Week
So this week we added enough games to bring the total
picks to an even ten and make the averages easier to figure,
even if we do miss more predictions.
We’ve added a mystery game this week, an innovation
of “Fearless Folly” Claussen, and it will probably be a
mystery what the final Otterbein-Oberlin score will be.
In addition, to take more attention away from the actual
results of the guessing, we’ve included predictions on two of
Oregon's intersectional opponents and also thrown in the
\\ orld Series, although this turned out to be just an expres
sion of the writers’ partiality.
No Guests, Thank You
Some people have wondered why we have no guest pre
dictions this season, as has been done before. Profiting from
past experience, we note that the guests always compiled a
percentage about twice as high as the so-called experts.
As far as the standard predictions this week, the pickers
agreed on most of the tilts, with the exception of optimis
tic Swami Wilson in the Portland fracas. Otherwise the
Idaho-Ariona game produced the only division in the
predictions.
Most unanimous pick was the UCLA-Washing-ton State
choice, where the hapless Cougars, victims of a high-scoring
USC eleven the first week and upset-minded Kansas the sec
ond. catch Red Sanders’ crew on the rebound following that
surprising Maryland victory la.'t Saturday.
Today's Choices
So from Otterbein to Brooklyn, here are the Emerald’s
picks for the first weekend in October:
\\ ash. vs. Orcg.
Wash.
13
Orcg.
6
Wash.
15
Wash.
7
Wash.
1
Wash.
3
Oh so State vs. Stan.
osu
21
osu
13
osu
14
osu
14
osu
14
osu
Arizona vs. Idaho
Aria.
10
Ariz.
21
Ariz.
6
Idaho
Idaho
7
USC vs. Texas
USC
13
USC
14
USC
14
USC
21
USC
20
Idaho
USC
18
UCLA vs. WSC .
UCLA
34
UCLA
UCLA
21
UCLA
27
UCLA
13
Cal. vs. Penn.
Cal.
8
Cal.
6
Cal.
13
Cal.
13
Cal.
14
Colorado vs. Kans.
Colo.
20
Colo.
Colo.
20
Colo.
20
Colo.
10
UCLA
28
Cal.
7
Colo.
14
Missouri vs. Utah
Mo.
20
Mo.
14
Mo.
Mo.
13
Mo.
Mo.
6
Oberlin Otterbein
Ober.
9
Otter.
Ober.
13
Ober.
6
Ober.
7
Ober.
14
Xew York vs. Brook!vn
6
6
b
Yanks
6
Burns
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