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.
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