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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1956)
Greens'Wallop'Whites' In Final Spring Action Veteran footballers Chuck Os-| borne, Phil McHugh and Jim j Shanley led the “greens" to a' 30-0 triumph over the scrub “whites’* Saturday morning in the climax to a 20-day spring football practice. Osborne scored twice for the “greens" on tuns of nine and 17 yards, and return ed a pass 3G yards to set up ; tlie final touchdown, while Mc Hugh caught a pass for another TD. Shanley raced for several good gains, one for 24 yards. The “greens,” made up of last fall's lettermen were out played by the predominantly frosh-led “whites” in the first half and led i»-0. A strong de fensive showing from gradu ates of last year’s frosh team held the veteran team against the wall until the second half when Osborne and Shanley reeled off tiieir long runs. Missing from the scrimmage were a half dozen lettermen. in cluding both holdover quarter-, backs Tom ana Jack Crabtree, sidelined with injuries. Also mis sing from the scrimmage were tackle John Raventos and cen ter Nick Markulus, while full back Jack Morris and halfback Jack Brown were with the track team at Berkeley. Besides Osborne's touch downs, McHugh, Leroy Phelps, and Marian Howard scored for the “greens.” McHugh caught a pass from Compton JC trans fer Roger Daniels, Phelps scor ed on a seven yard run off right end, and Holland scored the only first half TD, a two yard plunge up the middle. Duck coach Len Casanova was not too impressed with the offen sive showing of either of the two clubs, but the strong defensive | playing of three 1955 freshmen caught his eye. Tackle Bob Grot-' tkau, fullback Will Reve and center Pete Welch were the thsee mentioned by Casanova. HEKB JL'KAV (IG) quarterback of the “Whites,’; knocks down a pass intended for hal.buck Hunk Lountenu (31) of the “Greens” with minutes to go in annual spring practice closing intra-squad game Saturday morning. Greens, stocked with \eteruns from 1955 Oregon grid machine, won, 33-0. (Fhoto by Brant Duceyi. OUTSTANDING RECOUP Stiner Awarded Emerald Trophy Lon Stiner, captain of the 1955 Oregon Duck football team was named winner of the Emerald Award Saturday night. The award, sponsored by the Oregon Join Smokeys Campaign! Daily Emerald and the athletic department, goes annually to the outstanding graduating senior among all sports and is based on outstanding achievement in scho larship, citizenship and athletics. Stiner completed his football career for the Ducks last fall i and then participated in the East-West Shrine game in San Francisco. The former Portland j and Oakridge star complied a j grade average of over a straight E for his four years of college, and was presented the Town Big Leagues By The Associated Press NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pet, GB Milwaukee .13 8 .619 Brooklyn .16 11 .593 St. Louis .17 12 .586 Cincinnati .16 12 .571 Ms Pittsburgh .15 12 .556 1 New York 13 15 .464 3Vi Philadelphia .... 9 18 .333 7 Chicago . '< 18 .280 8 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pet. GB New York .21 10 .677 Cleveland .18 11 .621 2 Boston .16 12 .571 3 Vi Chicago .12 13 .480 6 Baltimore .15 17 .469 6 Vi Detroit .12 17 .414 8 Washington ...12 18 .400 8 Vi Kansas City ...10 18 .357 9Vi Club scholarship two years ago for outstanding scholastic work The award was presented to Stiner by head football coach Len Casanova, at the All-Cam pus Sing, a closing feature of Junior Weekend. The Emerald athletic award to Stiner marked the sixth time a senior has been honored. Previous winners included Jack Keller (basketball), Jack Hutchins (track), Jim Livesay (baseball), Ron Lowell (tennis) and Pete Williams (baseball). The award was established in 1951. LON STINER Emerald Award Winner Ducks#Cougars Divide Games By Terry Sherwood im*r«ld St»H Writer Northern Division Standings W L. Pet. OB Idaho % 4 9 .308 •> Don Kitsch's University of Oregon baseball teum kept thetr Northern division pennant hopes alive Saturday afternoon when they- dumped the Washington State Cougars. 4-2, avenging an 8-6 defeat on Friday It was the third Oregon ND victory In four "Inland Empire" games and moved the Ducks with 113 games of the league-leading Cougats Washington State, who has but | two games left to play In confer ence competition is still a strong favorite to dethrone the Ducks as the ND champion Oregon, however, with two games left to play againsf Washington today and tomorrow and two games against Oregon Slate still has a chance to repeat as the ND ti llists. In order for the Ducks to. win, WSC must lose to least on* of the Idaho game-* Assuming •hat neither WSC or Oregon los es another game, the Cougar. will have won oae more game and "will have a percentage edg* on the Ducks. Oregon’s game today against the fourth place Huskies, marks the first time that these two squads have met this year. In their previously scheduled games they were stopped by rain aw* ND rules forbid make-up games WSC Oregon OSC Washington 10 3 769 7 3 .700 1 *-* 6 8 .429 4'a 4 8 338 5'j WSC 8-Oregon 6 WSC thwarted the Oregon Ducks' chance of taking over tht Northern dlvinion leadership when they climbed on Oregon pitcher Stan Dmocbowaky for five i’ins In tfie first inning with four singles and three walks and foi three runs in the third inning on a flurry of hits, including a double and a triple. Jack Henkel, who relieved Dmochowsky in the fourth in ning, held the Cougars worr ies* but the damage was done and Oregon hitters were un able to get more than si\ runs off Bolilt, the WSC ehlieker. Oregon got a run in each of th< first, third and eighth innings t They rallied, moreover, in the ninth for three more but John i Freeman, the Cougar relief pitch er put out the fire and the Duck1 fell shoit with an 8-6 score. John Keller lead the Oregon I hitting attack, garnering three of the Ducks' nine hits. He was followed by the Oregon first j baseman, Dick Schlosstein, who hit two for foar. Oregon 4-WSC 2 Although he needed the help I of two Oregon reliefers, lefty | sophomoie Don Lane pitched his fourth conference victory, his seconu in four days, to lead the Ducks to a 4-2 decision over Washington State college and j keep Oregon’s .title hopes burn ing. The three Oregon pitchers limited Washington State to only five hits. Oregon also got only five hits but bunched them when they needed them. The Ducks got off to a quick lead in the second inning, push ing across two runs. Dick Schlos stein singled and scored on Jim Pingree’o triple. Pingree scored on Jerry R033’ sacrifice f!y to right field. The Cougars bounced right successful WSC pickoff play and scoerd when Don Lane flied out to cAiter field. Terry Maddox tripled in the sack to get one run In their half jf the second to make the score 1-1. In the fifth Rosa walked, stole irconci, went to third on an un ilxth inning and ecored on Pm i{ree-s single. WSC got to Lane In the bo| t«m of the sixth. With two out, Joe Trembly doubled and scor ed on Bill Masbburn's single, tjine managed to retire the next < oagar hatter but then wulked Iton Aiken ur.d (iordon llershey, fllllug the bugs. t'oiih Iron Klrsrh quickly sub stituted reliefer Denny ONon who struck out pinch hitter llenry I.egge to retire the side and protect the all important Duck lead. WSC failed to get aity runs off •ither Olson or Jim Is?hl who nine oil in the bottom of the ninth toning to get the Cougar < >ut. Ptngree with two RBI s an ! two hits lead the Oregon hitting ilta"k Mash burn was the l<> •• WSC hitter to get more than o single. P.eugh&iRider SLACKS On the campus, In the class room, around the links — Rough Rider Slacks take top honors. They’re action-tai lored. Try on a pair today. n a t a , c a i i r o » n ' A
