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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1959)
Webfoots face Washington football'jinx' By LA llllY KtJRTZ Emerald Sport* Editor Oregon will run into more than n tough football team Saturday in Multnomah Stadium. They’ll be running once more into the Washington "Jinx,” which has seen the Ducks win only one game in the past ton years from the Huskies. A Washington fan could state with accuracy that the Seattleites can beat the Ducks 90 per cent of the time. Oregon, however, stands a good chance of breaking the hex, If the Webfoots can play as well as they did against Air Force. Injuries probably won't be a big factor in the contest, al though Duck tackle John Wil cox and fUley Mattson don’t appear to be In top shape after Injuries Saturday and Wash ington halfback Carver Day ton has been declared out for the season with a bad knee. Other than that, both squads are in good condition for what amounts to th$ "big one” for the Ducks, who will most certainly advance into high national promi nece If they stop the Huskies. A Duck victory would give coach Len Casanova hla second win over Washington in the time he’s coached at Eugene. He’s loat to the Huskies seven timea. In 1951. when Caa first took over with a group of green fresh men and sophomores, the Huskies roiled up a 63-6 margin In Port land and followed it up the next season with a 49-0 victory. Washington won again in 1953, 14-6, and then the Ducks, led by George 8haw, smashed the Hus kies in Seattle by a 26-7 count. Washington came back, how ever, and has won the last four games by margins of 19-7, 29-7, 13-6 and 6^0, the latter two coming over W'ebfoot squads which definitely rated the fa vorite’s tag. This year, the game will most likely be rated a tossup, although Oregon's 5-0 record may sway the odds-makers to pick the Ducks. The Ducks are rated 11th nationally and Washington 20th. It must be remembered, how ever. that Washington has lost only to the nation's fifth-ranking team. USC, and that in a tight struggle. 22-15. The Huskies boast three back field men who average nearly six yards per carry between them, and that doesn’t offer too much encouragement for the Ducks, Ex-Duck Phelps leads AFB win Former University of Oregon halfback Leroy Phelps switched to quarterback Saturday, and threw five touchdown passes in leading his Bolling Air Force Base (D.C.) team to a 78-8 win over Fort Gordon. Phelps shared honors with al ternate signal-caller Eddie West, who also passed for five touch downs as the Bolling squad broke a team record for points scored in a single game. The previous record of 60 was set In 1954 when such outstand ing gridders as Tommy O’Connell, Dan Shannon, Billy Reynolds, and Menil Mavraides were playing for the squad. Phelps' scoring tosses went for 21, 3, 1, 8, and 9 yards respec tively as Bolling completely over whelmed their opponents, hold ing a 28-0 lead at the end of the first quarter, and scoring 28 more in the final period. Phelps played for the Ducks in 1956 at halfback, and had a brief tryout with the San Francisco 49ers before being released. JIM OWENS Head football coach. University of Washington who have Hurrendered quite a bit of yardage to the opposition, al though getting a bit better de fensively with each effort. Ray Ja'-kson. Joe -lone*, and Don McKata have run for 202, 170 and 147 yard, respectively, for average gains of 5J1, 7.1 and 5.9. Quarterback Bob Schloredt has not done a bad Job passing, either, throwing 34 times and completing 18 for a 53 per cent average and 308 total yards. George Fleming, the do-every thing halfback, has scored three touchdowns and kicked three field goals in three attempts as well as eight extra points for a! total of 35 tallies, which makes him the top scorer on both teams. Oregon's twin fullback threats. Dave Powell and Harry Needham, have each racked up four touch downs; and flashy Willie West has accounted for three. 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When the second squad is in, sophomore Jim Everett replaces 8chloredt at quarterback, and halfbacks Don Millich and Sam Hurworth come in along with Jones, who combines with Jack son to give the Huskies almost as potent a fullback duo as Ore gon. McKeta has been the bread and-butter man with the ball so far, carrying 10 more times than Jackson over the first half of the season. Washington has been very adept at picking off the oppo sition’s passes, snagging 13 aerials and seeing only four of their own intercepted. Schloredt and Fleming have nabbed six between them, and the former returned one for a touch down against Utah in the Hus kies’ 51-6 victory. Washington ia essentially a bail-control team that makes few mistakes and doesn’t give the opposition much of a chance to get its own offense rolling. It’ll take a top-notch effort by Oregon to whip the Huskies, but this could be the year. At least the Ducks are off to a good start. 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