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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1959)
• • • Prospects evaluated Tankmen await competition By ItANNY OttKKN Assistant .Sports Editor Swimming coach Don Van Ilos sen Is awaiting the start of a new season wltii a grout deal of opti mism. Van Rossen, now in his second year at Oregon, is beginning to mold together a squad which will give perennial Northern Division < hamplon Washington a battle for the crown within two years. "He lack depth Mils year. We are four men shy of Iraving a good dual meet traveling squad. We need 10 men to have a good traveling squad but we have only 12 at the present,” Van Itossen said. Although we nave this lack of depth, I am looking for the team to have a real terrific year,” Van Hos.-cn added. This is the first year of colleg iate competition in swimming since the sport was revived last year. Van Roseau lost no one from last year s fourth-place ND club via the graduation route. "Last year we had five out- ! standing swimmers and this year ! we have 1?," Van Rossen said. “This vear's freshmen are no slouches. I he varsity will have to Struggle for spots on next .vear’s team,” be said. Van Ros sen attributed this competition a« a means of developing a great deal of enthusiasm on the varsity and freshman squads tlds year. "'J he squad members are tntnk in-.' big this year because of the caliber of swimmers we have this j year,” Van Rossen said. ' The kills know t h o y h a v e swimmers of a national caliber and it is this type of incentive j that is making them work hard- j er.” h« added. After Thanksgiving and until Chrhtimni the squad will con centrate on water workouts. They will have water workout* at the '.ami' times as the j*r«*vl ous workout schedule. Theite workout* consist of swimming 240 lengths of the pool each , day, an equivalent of four, mile". AI Lephart, from Ohio Univer sity, i" aiding Van ltosflen in coaching thin year. Lephart is coaching the Webfoot diver". Van Rosncn has five returning lettermcn this year. They are the following: A1 Takaiihima, Ron Nakata, Bob Kawachika, Rick Krtberg, and Dick Moody. Takas-hima i« the defending ND champion in the r<0- and 100 yard "print". Nakata w.ss last year's team captain and competes in the Individual medley. Kawachika specializes In the butterfly event: Friberg, diving: and Moody, freestyle. Team captain Tom Herman, An open house will Is- held at the new Men's Pool from 0:30-11 a.ni. this morning. All \ islting a I u m ri *, guests and students are urged to come and view the facilities which swim ming coach Don Van Kossen terms ‘as among the best In the United Stales.” Members of the varsity and freshman swimming teams will conduct a tour of the building for all visitors. A special at traction of the tour win he the opportunity for all guests to view the pool from the under water windows. Beginning at 10:30 varsity and freshmen squad members will put on a special down and straight didng show. breaststroke; Tony Johnson, hackutrokft; Charles Vaughn, diving and Bob Watt**, diving urn other member* of the 1960-60 varsity squad. Additional members are: Fred McGinnis, distance freestyle; Carl Burnham, distance events; and Jerry Reece, freestyle. Besides the fine array of pre ceding talent Van Rossen has two Junior college All Americans on the varsity. Robbie Griesser was the 1958 junior college champion in the 1 OO-yarci breaststroke and placed second in the 200-yard breast stroke. Harry von Hemmert finished fourth m the 220-yard freestyle event and was fifth in the 440 yard freestyle. Van Rossen’s outstanding Frosh squad numbers J5 strong. Members of the squad include; Corky Kieael, Fred Graeber, Mike Hastings, Dave Boyd and Mike Meinhoff. Other members are: Lynn Rod ney. Steve Rothert, Dale Burge son. Chuck Gtt, and Pete Meule veld. Additional F^osh merrbers are:j Dick Hildebrand, Clint Compere, Bruce Thom, arid Gary Dahl. Oregon’s new Men's Pool will he dedicated between March S-L Van Itossen is presently making plans for the dedica tion ceremonies. He is trying to get Bob Kiphuth, former --vvim ming coach at Vale University to hi- the guest speaker. Kiphuth is one of the great names in swimming. He has coached Yale teams to several NC«VA swimming championships and finished his final year last year with a 13-0 win-lost mark. Plans are also being made to tele vise the dedication ceremonies. Staffers pick grid 'traditional^ The weeks have flown by, and here we (the Emerald ex perts) are, on the final Saturday of football season hereabouts, with nothing to do but take a last-ditch stab at a group of unpickable (not really a word) traditional battles—all of which will probably go the wrong way. Ad Manager Steve Millikin, who led the “sturdy sextet” in forecasting ability throughout most of the season, fell ino a first-place tie with Sports Assistant Ranny Green as a result of last week’s holocaust, while Sports Editor Larry Kurtz also slipped to a third-place deadlock with Assistant A1 Hynding. Writer Dick McKinney and luckless T. J. Williams are still battling for the cellar. In order that we might close out the season on a confused note, we have chosen a game between two teams that no body knows anyhing about as our tenth contest of the poll and the last one of the year. A happy Homecoming day to you all. Game Oregon State at Oregon WSI at Washington 1 SC at UCLA California at Northwestern at Illinois SMU at Baylor Harva at Vale Purdnr at Oh: . State at Michigan i'rstms at Dickinson TOP PICK OF Steve Millikin .667 r eg ,n \Va*h. 14 use Stanf. North. SMI; 13 Yale 21 Purdue Oh'o St. TIE Ranny Green 667 Oregon Si Wi.li. 8 use 7 Stanf. North. 2 SMU Y?re 12 Purdue Ohio St. 6 Dick. Larry Kurtz 602 Oregon 69 wsu 7 use Cal. Illinois SMU u Yale 13 Purdue 3 Ohio St. 9 ft" * AI Hynding 602 Oregon 96 Wa,h. 12 use 18 Cal. 7 , North. SMU 9 Yale 20 Indiana 6 Ohio St. 14 Dick 77 Dick McKinney .561 Oregon WSU 2 use 12 Stanf. North. 6 SMU 5 Yale 2 Purdue 6 Ohio St. 7 Vrstnis 205 T. J. Williams .551 Oregon 8 WSU 6 use 12 ‘ T ' Illinois 10 SMU 13 Harvard 8 Purdue 6 Ohio St. 8 Dick. LAST WEEK: Kurtz (Oregon by I over Washington State) Welcome Back Alums! For the Best in Shoe Service See Campus Shoe Shop Across From Sigma Chi Fight Fiercely U. of O. CO-OP
