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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.
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second round of 'A.' play begum.
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