There is an t>ld Chinese proverb — nightmares never strike twice in the same place. Last year the Oregon loot bail team's bad dream occurred at Hayward field in luigene when thev fumbled the ball away six times and blew one to Colorado 13-6. Friday night at Los Angeles, a recurrence of tlw Murphean hallucination obsessed the \\ ebfoots when thev fumbled seven times and lost tour dropping a 6-0 de cision to UCLA. What is it about fumbles that beats a ball club? The obvious answer is loss of the ball to the opposition, But even when a team recovers its Own bobble, the attack loses it> continuity and rhythm. A first down every three downs is the goal of a split-T team and a minimum of mistakes i.i a must if this goal i> to be consistently attained. But the nature of the split-T of fense. with it> quick-hitting handotts on the dive-bucks and it> blind pitchouts on the option play, makes mistakes tough to avoid especially in early season games. A split-T quarterback must be quick, sure, heady and above all. he has to have time to work that important option play. It's tough to pitch that ball out with a 200-pouml line man wrapped around you. Xow Oregon is not predominantly a split- 1 team but with its speed, the split-T is bread and butler to the Duck of fense. The Webfoots don't have the crushing runners to go inside for an entire game. Both Tom and lack Crabtree, the number one and two quarterbacks, are slick ball-handfers and have proved it un der tire. What causes these fumbles then? Those who ob served the Idaho game, a near-upset, might have noticed the defensive measure which, perfected by the Bruins, played hob with those pitchouts. When the guards pull out. the defense pours linemen through this hole to tackle the quarterback high, pinning his arms to his sides. Result: loose football with the off-half back to who mthe pitchout is aimed out of position to recov er. Also, the Bruin tackles were out-charging their Duck counterparts. You can't take credit away from the UCLA line, bolstered b\ four semi-eligible seniors back in action, but smart scout ing and defensive preparation by Red Sanders and his staff paved the way for this Bruin win. The Ducks clearly had the edge in talent over the punchless Bruins. It is becoming apparent that the split-T offense, without variations, can be stopped bv specific defenses. Witness thi> year’s,collapse of Maryland as an example. Without the use of the rynning pass, one of the most difficult plays in foot ball to stop, the out-and-out running game can be halted. It doesn’t matter if you have Mel Patton. Jesse Owen and Charley Paddock in the backfield. The most successful split-T team in the nation, Oklahoma, is also the only one that capitalizes on the running pass. Add this variation to the Sooner manpower advantage and the result is murdered opposition. Nevertheless, the pros, with the finest manpower available, stick to the flanker attack and pretty much avoid the split-T. Some of the defenses, aimed at stopping a split-T running attack are the “Oklahoma five,” the “gap eight." the “seven and a box” and the “man-on-man six.” Any of these can force a split-1' team into a flanker or aerial attack. The “Oklahoma-five,” a standard against split-T, can be varied any time on signal and when mixed in with an “um „ brella” is poison. The “gap eight” precludes blocking any two men at the point of attack and the “seven and a box,” an ancient defense, concentrates seven men on the ground attack with the ends “boxing” everything in. The man-on-man six, manufactured by Herman Hickman at West Point to stop the Oklahoma split-T, (which it did) finds the front six hitting but not penetrating and sliding with the play. It is susceptible to flanker and quick end run formations. However, all those X’s aftid O’s on the blackboard mean little if you don’t have the “bosses.” Yanks Win Two Games To Even World Series By TOM CHAPMAN Kiiieruld SporN Writer A former inflelder pitched the New York Yankees into a World Seiies tie Sunday, and set the stage for what could lie a spine tingling windup in the necessary two or three games remaining. Tom Sturdivant stopped the Brooklyn Dodgers on six hits to even the series at two games apiece while Mickey Mantle and Hank Bauer belted home runs to offer adequate Yank scoring pro tection. in a ti-2 contest at Yan kee stadium. It was a wild weekend of base I ball. The Yankee.^ won two of l the three tilts. After being drub | bed 13-8 Friday, they came back Saturday to win behind Whitey Ford 5-3 and then won on Stur divant's masterpiece, yesterday. Burns IS, Yanks 8 Whether this could be consid ered a bullgurpe between the top clubs of both leagues is to be de bated, but the Dodgers, flattened by Yogi Berra's grund slhm home run in the second inning and trailing by six, rose off the ground to tie it in the same sec ond grame, then proceed to pound seven assorted Yank hurle.s for seven more runs. Everyone hit in this one, but the Brooks' big highpoint was Duke Snider's tieing three run blast in the second. Gil Hodges, having his best Series in history, added insult to injury with three hits, two doubles, four runs-bat Itecl-in mid two wniks. Snider ! collected another hit to go with his homer and Jackie Robinson dulled two singles as the Bums used their 12 bits and 11 walks to good advantage. Casey Stengel threw every liudy In the hull|>cn but Gener al Manuger George Weiss. In order, they were: Ijtrsen. Rucks, Byrne. Sturdivant. Mor gun, Turley, and McDermott. Tom Morgan was the loser. On the Yankee behalf though, | it should be noted that they bat ' ted 27-game winner Don Ncw combe around like a Little Leaguer, climaxed by Berra's big blast, but left seven big baaerun ners stranded. It was a long at itemoon; in fact, the longest in ; World Series play. , Tanks 5, Bums S This one looked more like the script was written. The YunkeeH, with their backs to the wall, used | old Enos Slaughter's three run homer in the sixth inning, then beat off a late Biooklyn rally to win, behind Whitcy Ford's effec tive eight hit pitching I'ntil the 40-year-old Slaugh ter hit his home run, the youth ful Koger Craig had the t anks handcuffed and possessed a 2-1 lead. Singles hy Hank Bauer and Yogi Berra, spaced be tween two outs, set the scene for the ex-Cardlnal's lilg one, and pot the pre-Serles favorite Yankees Into h lead they never rclln<|ulshcd. Kurller, u nolo homer by Htvonil buscmun Killy Martin hud lied I he score. Ford, coming buck with two days rest after being knocked | around In the opener, spaced the i Dodger eight hits around ao he vva* never In too much trouble. Carl Kurlllo’a double and Pee Wee Keeue's triple were the only | extra base blown, and only one ' led to a run. Yank* fi. Hum* 2 Sturdivant looked like a mil lion dollar* on the mound yestei • ! day. After the Dodger* tied the score In the fourth on hit* by •Snider and" Hodge*, big Tom gave up only four other hit* and was not In trouble ugam until the final Innlr^ Mantle siakrd true out of the park In the sixth with none on, his second IH5U Series homer and Hrttjrr hit one wlth'nne on In the seventh off young Ihtn Drysdnle to provide the needed runs. Ua*eball fan* are now nsnured of two mote game*, and a pos sible three. Today-* game i* sla ted for Yankee Htadluui and the sixth and seventh. if necessary, will go at Kbbela field. 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