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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1960)
REMEMBER WHEN By XL HYNDING Knu‘rald Sports Kilitor The time was autumn. Sept. 28. 1957 to be exact. It was a Rosx Bowl year for Oregon's grid Ducks, but you wouldn't have guessed it from the defeat the Ducks absorbed that balmy Saturday ev ening in Portland's Multnomah Stadium. PITTSBURGH’S mammoth Panthers had come to the Rose City to test an Oregon eleven that had managed only a shakey 9-0 victory over weak Idaho the week before. The Panthers of Johnny Michelosen boasted the largest line in college football that v ear. including two All-Americans, cen ter Charlie Brueckman. and 245 lb. tackle Jim McCusker. They weighed 22° lbs. on the av erage. But the heavy Pitt eleven had one weakness the Duck’s hoped to capitalize on . . . lack of speed. \\ ith a line hovering around the 200 lb. mark, the Web foots that Saturday evening were looking to their lightning backfield of Jack Morris. Jim Shanley, Charlie Tourville, and Jack Crabtree to carry the scoring and defensive load. Some thought the Ducks had. in that backfield, the fastest squad on the coast. Everybody knew, however, that the Pittsburgh Panthers were the biggest team in the nation. The oddsmakers made them a 6 point favorite. THE GAME got underway with both teams exchanging punts and containing each other within the thirty-yard lines. The first quarter ended. The second quarter opened vv ith the Panther's superior size apparently beginning to show. They drove twice inside the thirty and stopped the speedy Oregon offense cold at every turn. Still no serious scoring threat developed. Only once did the Ducks manage to get untracked and this time the drive only set a prophetic note for later happenings. Jim Shanley. running at his very best, carried the Duck at tack to the Pitt Id, an unlucky number to stop on. On the play after that, a Webfoot aerial from LeRoy Phelps to Shan ley was completed in the Pitt end zone but called back be cause of a penalty. AT THE END of the first half, the Panthers held the statistical edge, 10-4 in first downs, and 161-98 in yardage. The halftime intermission must have provided something special in Oregon quarters, whether just rest, or some inspir ational message, because the Ducks rolled onto the Multno mah turf for the second half with a fresh outlook on life. Cutting to the outside to use their vastly superior speed, the Ducks began to take the heavier Panthers apart. With Jim Shanley leading the way, and Marlon Holland and Jack Morris giving splendid support, the Ducks began to steam goalward. With Shanley taking the second half kickoff and return ing the ball 55 yards to the Pitt 45, the Ducks were in busi ness. CRABTREE’S SHORT look-in passes and runs by Tour ville, Morris and, of course, Shanley, moved the Ducks, bit by bit, to the Pitt five. Here the Panthers pulled their mas sive forces together on the goal and halted the determined W ebfoot dirve. It was time for a Jack Morris field goal. The reliable Oregon fullback obliged and with a 15 yard boot, the Ducks were staked to the first lead of the evening. More was to come. The impetus that carried Oregon goalward the first time sustained them time and again as they tore through and around the huge Panthers. THE DUCKS drove twice more inside the Pitt twenty, once moving to the Panther six on an interception and some sparkling runs. But time and again the Pitt line refused to buckle under the surprising Oregon offense and eventually took over, leaving the score unchanged. \\ hat happened next was something that all the 20,486 fans in attendance will never forget. 'I he.Panthers took over on the Duck 48 with less than two minutes to go and began to move, really move, for the first time in nearly two quarters. (Quarterback Bill Kaliden kept twice to the \\ ebfoot 28 then called his own number again on a fourth down situation and set the Panthers up on the Duck 21. The fans were panicky, but the clock was runing out . . . j only 50 seconds left. IN CAME ROOKIE signal caller Ivan Toncic, with word from the bench. It looked like a pass and the Duck secondare spread out in a desperate effort to create a “victory defense.” They weren’t looking for the right man on the right place. Art Cob, a rookie line man who hadn't been listed in the starting ranks found an open space in the far corner of the end zone and took an agonizingly easy toss from Toncic. Pitt 6, Oregon.!. With only 22 seconds left, the Ducks took the kickoff and ran two pathetic plays before the final gun sounded. THE LOSS HURT, but in the long run turned out to be an ironic beginning for one of the most successful seasons in Webfoot grid history. Fins, Campbell post IM cage wins Campbell club rolled to an easy | 30-13 victory over the Legal tin gles, while Phi Gamma Delta slipped by Delta Tata Delta in a low scoring 19-7 contest, as the first round of intramural ‘B’ bas ketball continued Wednesday, PACING the scoring for Camp bell club were Russell anil While with 10 counters each. Ted Mea gher and Phil Foster of Fiji led the point column in the second contest with six apiece. The Counselors recorded a for feit victory over Sederstrom, as the losers failed to show up. The Fijis proved themselves a team to watch in further hoop play, holding the Delta scoreless in the first half, and all the Delt’s individual scorers to two points or less, ON THE OTHER SIDE of the fence, Campbell club showed that they will be strong offensively, racking up 30 points in 20 min utes of action. Tomorrow's action pits Kappa Sigma ‘B’ against Chi Psi ‘B’;' Delta Upsilon ‘B’ against Phila delphia House ‘B-; and Lambda Chi Alpha ‘B’ against Sigma Al pha Mu ‘B\ Action in the 'B' division con Sports Briefs THE NEW YORK YANKEES have received their first signed contract for the 1960 season. Bill “Moose'' Skowron, who was out most of last season, agreed to just about the same salary he received in 1959 around $25,000. Skowron started last year at a fast pace but then ran into trouble. First, he re-injured a back muscle and then broke his left wrist in a collision with Coot Veal of the Tigers. His lifetime batting mark is .303. There are indications that Buf falo may become the eighth club in the new Continental Baseball League. Branch Rickey, president of the loop, and the league's founder, William Shea, talked over the possibility today with city offi cials. _ THE CLEVELAND INDIANS have dipped into a minor league to purchase a reserve first base man. Bob Hale, formerly of the Balti more Orioles, was picked up from the Miami Marlins of the Inter national League. Hale bats left and probably will be used as a pinch hitter. NATIONAL Football Leu mu owners appear to have delayed action on expansion until to morrow or Friday. The owners are meeting at Miami Beach. The matter was scheduled to come up today, but the owners voted to suspend the rules to push expansion farther down the agenda. Four cities have applied for franchises Minneapoli»-St. Paul, Dallas. St. Louis and Miami. tinuen until Monday w h e n the second round of 'A.' play begum. Campbell (HO) (1H) I.cgal F/lgles Moore (0) !■' (2) Fruebe White (10) F (0) .loncpa Car I noii (I) O. (2) Model Kiihhi'II (10) (• (2) (Jrovo Sackett <• (2) Kiirnniiiii Scoring Subs: I.cgal Kiigli'i - Coodwln (2), Ilit'U (H). Delta (1) Evan* (2) Reed Murphy (I ) Met omilck Witney <2) F F. V. (2) < i (i Scoring Subs: l*lil (ianmui I»i-l tn - Meagher (0). 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