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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1959)
By TOM CHAPMAN Emerald Sports Writer Football meditation, near the climatic stage of this season, can go in either of two directions; your team can be not quite good enough in a section where everyone is bent on having a good year, and who, in the process, defeat you; or your team can be very, very excellent in a section where one or more teams are just as excellent. In the chagrined case of the Oregon Webfoots, 1959, the latter, although it hurts some to repeat it, is true. Every game has gone right except one. Thjft, you know, was \\ ash ington. It is now an ugly remembrance, and since it appears almost certain that the Huskies will beat Washington State on Saurday, it is even too late to ostracize the ugliness of the past. Washington beat Oregon 13-12. Too good for third Now, if we are both thinking the same thing, we are sorely convinced that this Oregon football team is much too good to be considered only the third best team bn the West Coast. But since there was only one game with Washington and none with Southern California, it is nothing more than fair to relegate the Ducks to third place in what, truly unfor tunate, too, has been a tremendously successful year of grid prowess on the Coast. Of course, this is all leading up to say that, unless there is a minor miracle in Seattle Saturday—a Cougar miracle— the Ducks will not play in the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day. Washington, instead, will represent the Coast, or what was the Pacific Coast Conference, by a vote of the nine athletic directors of the ex-conference members. And if they defeat Washington State, the Huskies deserve the coveted bowl spot. Washington beat Oregon 13-12. Ducks Will win Anyway, this is Homecoming. The Webfoots of coach Len Casanova will trot gingerly upon Hayward Field about 1 :30 p.m., and commence to beat Oregon State, and for once, nobody will think anything about it, at least nohing more than the usual frivolities which a victory o\ er Oregon State can bring to the Eugene campus. In other years, it would be different. But this is the differ ence which a year can bring. Because of this and because a victory on Homecoming Day will provide the Webfoots with a final record of 9-1, it is suitable, if we disregard the Washington mishap, to call this the YEAR. The year of what? Nothing in particular. Just the YEAR. It has been a grand football year. % For one, it has been the YEAR of Cleveland Jones. He came from San Diego and because of his size (officially 5 feet, 3j<j inches tall, 141 pounds, give or take one or two) he immediately became some kind of an institution. But could he play ? He played more in the fall than those early-spring doubters were willing to admit he would. He won a game by catch ing a phenomenal pass. You might as well give him credit for winning another (the Air Force game). The rumor, which circulated after the Ducks beat the Air Force, that one of ‘the athletic deparment secretaries offered to pack Cleveland to and from class in her purse, was true. Whether she did or not is not important. It is the feeling behind it all that is. It's been Grosz's year It has been the YEAR of Dave Grosz. He’s the quarter back. He is responsible. He ran. He passed. He blocked. He tackled. In general he made sure that there would be a 8-1 record or maybe 9-1, instead of 4-6 or 5-5 or 6-4, and any of the latter three marks were expected more than 9-1. And, glory be, Grosz, because he chose to lay out a season and retain one more year of eligibility, will be back next year, with an extra 10 games of poise, an extra 10 games of re markable leadership under his belt. The future, perhaps, lies ahead. It has been the YEAR of frantic, last-moment desire; essential, gutty pride. Casanova, who in nine years as the head football coach at Oregon, has had a goodly number of teams, who, personnel-wise, usually left something to be desired. Success strange Therefore, it sometimes was a quaint mystery just how the Ducks got so many things clone and so many things done right. The Rose Bowl team was a good example, although it seems certain tha those 1957 Webfoots had a bit more depth, an enormous : nount more experience than the team which winds things p Saturday. Casanova, two year ago, called his Rose Bowl team “the greatest team I’ve eve coached.” This is hard to argue with. However, there is a fa chance, that in his coaching supple ment or revision, call i what you’d like, this 1959 Webfoot squad would also recei e a very nice rating. What else are you going to say abou them? SENIORS Oregon State Dennis Brundage Jerry Doman George Enderle Bruce Hake Howard Hogan Ed Kaohelaulii Dainard Paulson Larry Sanchez Sonny Sanchez Jim Stinnette Deraid Swift Don Thiel Oregon Greg Altenhofen Roger Daniels Gerald Gibson Tom Keele Alden Kimbrough Don Laudenslager Harry Needham Bob Peterson Dave Powell Fred Siler Jack Stone Willie West John Wilcox. John Willener The Emerald nalutea these 26 players who will participate this afternoon in their final collegiate game. I/O Matmen prepare for season opener By WAYNE HOBSON Emerald Sport* Writer The University wrestling team, coached by Mike Reuter, has be gun working out in preparation for the 12-meet 1960 season. Two meets have been sched uled against defending PCI cham pion Oregon State. Home meets will be against OSC, Fort Lewis, San Jose, California, and Wash ington. Also scheduled for Eugene is an all-Oregon college meet on January 9. Only one member of last year's fourth place PCI team was lost by graduation, and prospects for this year look very good. The lone l«e*s a as Jim Beaton, 167-pound runner up. There are seven returning lettermon, including three who placed in the Pacific Coast tournament. Returning lettcrmen inc 1 u d e Ron Connor, 123; Jerry Mesecher, 130; Lanny Holmes, 147; Lynn Mathews, 137; Don Hoiness, 147; John Parker, 1D7; and Garry Stensland, heavyweight. Hoiness and Stensland were third on the coast last year, and Connor was second. Stensland is also a tackle on the Duck football team. Connor, however, who was selected team captain and is the squad’s only senior letter man, cracked a vertebrae in a mill accident three weeks ago, and may be lost for the season. Reuter said that Connor’s ac cident "puts us in serious trouble.” Reuter said that, besides the promising sophomores, he has two non-lettermen who will be r pressing veterans for squad posi tions. He gives George Handlery, 157 pound Hungarian, and 187 pounder Jim Musser, who missed most of last season because of a shoulder separation, good chances of winning places on the team. The sophomores include Joe McFarland and Dennis Wisby at 123 pounds, and Ken Thayer (130). a California junior college transfer. 137-pounder Pete Rich ardson, Gary Wilson at 147. and Larry Payne (157 i, are other var sity candidates from last year's Krosh. Heavier sophs showing prom ise are 167-pounder Hank Court ney, and Mike Stearns and Jerry Kenton at 177 pounds. Completing the list are two varsity football players. G a r y Farney and Sterling Wolfe, in the heavyweight division. About this season, Reuter said: ! "We have a good chance for a successful season, but we are not | up to Oregon State." The Beavers are favored to win | the PCI tit*e. Reuter feels that | the Ducks will be third. Also working out with the varsity are grapplers who will fcr member*; of the freshman and junior varsity teams. The Frosh have a full ten-meet schedule, and the JV, seven meets. This is the first year that the University has sponsored a JV team. Such a team will enable second-string wrestlers to keep in competitive sliape and provide a stronger team for next year. Purpose, merits of IM program told by director By BON BURL KmcmUl Sport* Writer Dr. Paul Washke chiwi to the University of Oregon In lf»3<>. Since that time the non-varsity sports program has become, un der his direction, one of the finest In the nation. This year, the intram’«ral pro gram includes over 40 living or ganizations anil covers a variety ; of 10 sports: basketball, touch ! football, volleyball, handball, : bowling, softball, track, tennis, I golf, and wrestling, which was j just added. The specific aims of this pro gram can is* expressed In four points: (I) Physical develop ment, (2) .Mental stimulation, (3) Social adjustment, and (4) Worthy use of lleMirr time. The program not only accom ' plishes the above goals, hut al ! lows the average student, who 1 does not participate In intercol legiate athletics, to partake in his 1 favorite sports. Finally, the IM : program builds inter-fraternity ■ relations. Michigan and Ohio State In augurated the intramural sys ■ trm In 1013 and it has grown along with this sports trend to Its widespread existence. At the University of Oregon, ! volleyball is presently underway with the season about half com pleted. Basketball follows next, starting January 11, 1JH50. These | are the only s|>orts which have both "A" and “B” divisions, thus I allowing more students to com ! pet*. Annually an over-all champion | is determined on the basis of ; points scored in each sport. ! Points are awarded for entrance, i victories scored, size of league, and playoff points. John Borchardt, former swim ming coach, nnd n o w Dr. Washke's assistant, has asked that all competing organizations turn in their winter term entry blanks soon. This ad worth 15% off on all • seat covers • rugs • repair work • convertible tops Al's Auto Upholstery 14th & Oak DI 4-2504 BILL BETCHER Bill, a 6' 1“ Oregon guard, hails from Wash ougal, Wash., and weighs 219 pounds. BEST OF LUCK to the University of Oregon FOOTBALL TEAM and HOMECOMING COMMITTEE on Homecoming Weekend TIFFANY DAVIS Your Home-Owned Super Drugstore SandH GREEN STAMPS 8th & Willamette 1950 Franklin 152 Coburg Road get MORE for LESS
