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By PHIL KNIGHT
^HEmerald As«i't Sports Editor
Last week in this column we talked about what fine
chances Oregon’s distance runners had to bring down the
Ducks’ second national championship by winning the NCAA
cross country meet, held in Hast Lansing, Michigan later
this month.
W hat a difference a week makes! Now the Ducks have
no chance to win this title for they will not even send a team
to the meet. This decision was reached after Mark Robbins
was declared ineligible, robbing Bowerman of one of his
top boys.
Robbins’ ineligibility, which puts him in a class with
Jon Arnett and other famous PCC problem boys, came
about in a strange way. The PCC recognizes no freshman
cross country, since most teams can only get together five
men by using their freshmen. Therefore Robbins had to
run varsity his first year at Oregon, and the NCAA al
lows only three varsity seasons, which, technically, senior
Robbins has had.
Bowerman and the team have not completely given up
hope of competing in the Last Lansing meet, and are ap
pealing the ineligibility decision to the NCAA rules com
mittee. but chances of a favorable ruling from this body
are very slim.
So it appears that a conflict in PCC and NCAA rules has
cost Oregon any chance it had for a national cross country
championship.
Ducks Bill NW Meet
However, Bowerman still plans to capitalize as much as
possible on his good team. This weekend he’ll send it to
Vancouver, B.C. to compete in one of the tougher test.-', the
Pacific Northwest cross country meet. Several other fine
teams will be there, including Idaho, Washington State, and
the mighty Vancouver Olympic club.
Three years ago Bowerman sent his freshmen, now
seniors, to this meet, and they walked off with top honors
in the junior (19 and under) division.
In thinking’back on that meet, it appears likely that this
gear's team will take plenty of warm clothing with them this
trip.
The temperature three years’ ago for the meet was a very
cold 12 degrees, and the Ducks competed in sweat shirts, long
underwear, ear muffs, and socks tied over their hands. The
ground was.all icy so all the runners wore flats instead of
spiked shoes.
One runner's long underwear was a little short for him, and
he became completely numb from his ankles on down. He
couldn’t tell when his feet were hitting the ground, and thus
didn’t know when to lift one leg and put the other one down.
His stride was very uncoordinated, until he finally was able
to smooth it out somewhat by watching his feet and listen
ing for the sound of them hitting on the ground.
Grelle, Kyle to Duel
All of the distance Ducks hope for warmer weather this
year, but hot or cold, they’ll be all business on this trip be
cause this will be the stiffest competition they have faced
this year, possibly even as tough as that they will meet in
the PCC meet.
However, it probably means just a little bit more to Jim
Grelle than any other members of the Webfoot squad,
for an outstanding performance in this meet and the PCC
may win Jim a trip to East Lansing to try for individual
honors in the NCAA cross country test.
Grelle’s arrival as a long distance runner occured only a
year ago. Always tough in the 880 and mile Jim finished
only sixth in the state high school meet four years ago and
was only the number three man on the h'rosh cc team.
But last year he became strong enough to compete ex
tremely well over three and four miles and became Oregon’s
number one long distance man, the third best on the coast.
He’ll have a lot of competition in Vancouver especially
from Doug Kyle, Canadian 5000-meter champ, but a vic
tory over Kyle will set the stage for what should be a great
duel between Oregon’s ace and defending champion Max
Truex of USC in the PCC meet.
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Indians seek victory
Benchless blit eager.
That’s the tag that could be
attached to the 1958 Stanford
University football team, which
meets the University of Oregon
at Hayward Field Saturday in
the Webfoots' final home en
counter of the season.
Cactus Jack Curtice, in his
initial year of coaching the In
dians, has a young, eager, and
potentially explosive outfit, but
with only four regulars from last
year's strong outfit stilt playing,
has not had too much success.
All told, the Cardinals have
won only two of their seven
games, and have suffered seve
ral lopsided defeats, something
that Palo Alto fans are not
used to. They have been sur
prisingly tough on occasion,
however, dumping Washing
ton 31-12, and UCLA 21-19.
The only holdover regulars
from the ’57 squad are ull in
the line. They include 185
pound center-turned-guard Kuss
pound center turned-guard
Kuss Steele, and a pair of the
roast’s outstanding tackles of
last season, Erie Protiva and
Troy Barbee. This looks real
good, hut elsewhere, things are
almost as bare as the Web
foots' side of the scoreboard
in recent games.
In the backfield, most of the
starters are lettennen. but very
few of the reserves have earned
a varsity monogram. Bob Nico
let and Sid Garber handle the
quarterbacking chores, splitting
much of the playing time. Half
back spots are held down by Rick
McMillen and Jim Bryer, with
Doug Dick at fullback.
McMillen, a two-year veteran,
ruined Washington with his shif
ty running and a repeat perfor
mance could cause Oregon a lot
of trouble. Dick, also a steady
performer, has shown well on
occasion, too.
At the end positions, Irv
Nikolai and Chris Burford are
a couple of good ours who
played second-string last year
and provide capable targets for
Nlcolet’s passes. A good, solid
first team, but tliut’s about us
fur as It goes.
There are only seven othor let
tormen on the second and third
teams, and none of them, with
the possible exception of ends
Joel Freis and Ben Robinson,
saw a great deal of front-line ac
tion last season.
But, regardless of their lack
of depth, Stanford always pro
vides the Ducks with a tough
contest, and this year will prob
ably be no exception.- Both teams
are definitely win-hungry and
■ will be shooting the works in an
| attempt to break losing streaks.
Stanford Is not used to hav
ing a losing season, as they are
experiencing this season, and
the Ducks, after dropping four
out of six, are sure to Is* after
this one.
Both nqimds look to bo In pret
ty good shape for the Hayward
encounter, although the playing
condition of Oregon end Ron Sto
ver, along with hack Charlie
Tourville and guard Joe Schaf
feld, la atill in doubt. Maybe
none, one,two, or all three will
be ready. It remains to be seen.
IM schedule
Wednesday, Nov. 5
Volleyball
3:50 Campbell B vs. Legal Eag
les B, Court 40; Fizzeds B
vs. Hale Kane B, Court 3b.
4:35 Alpha Tau Omega B vs.
Phi Delta Theta B, Court
40; Theta Chi B vs. Sig
ma Nu B. Court 3d.
5:15 Sigma Alpha Epsilon B vs
Sigma Phi Epsilon B,
Court 40; Delta Tau Delta
B vs. Phi Gamma Delta B,
Court 36.
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