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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1961)
Ducks Falter Twice In Weekend Contests By .JOE BERGER and CHRIS CHI BOH Emerald Sports Writers The University of Oregon Docks lost their dominating pos ition in the race to the regionals as they fell twice on their own floor, once to the Vandals from Idaho and then to Washington State University. These losses dropped them one-half game be hind the pace-setting Oregon State Beavers. The Beavers took the lead from the faltering Ducks by scoring narrow victories over the same two squads that proved so rough for the Webfoots . IDAHO, coming into McArthur Court with a lowly 5-13 record, seemed to have little trouble in ending the Oregon win streak at seven games by downing the rag ged Oregon cagers to the tune of 61 to 57 on Friday. Saturday night the Cougars from WSU took over where the Vandals left off and roared to a 77 to 73 victory ov®r the Ducks, having complete control of the situation throughout most of the game. Oregon vs. Idaho A little common sense will tell you that you can’t win ball games unless you - get the ball, and Coach Steve Belko's hoopsters found out just how true this is as they allowed Idaho's Vandals almost complete control of the backboards in dropping a four point decision Friday night. In the first half the spirited visitors cleared the boards 32 times, while the Ducks managed to pull down only 14. But in the closing period things evened out a little more and the contest end ed with the final rebound count standing at 53-35. THK 4423 avid Oregon support ers. who weathered the wind and rain to take in the battle, found out all too soon that Joe Cipri ano's boys weren't about to be defeated by their opponents’ press clippings. After six minutes of action Idaho, mainly through the efforts of Chuck White and Dale James, a sharpshooting Pendle tonian. had built up a startling 15-2 lead over the rattled Web foots. James awed the fans with his deadliness as he shouldered most of the Vandals’ early offensive duty with soft jump shots from the head of the key. But. as if to make up for Ida ho's unerring ability from the field, fate had the Ducks just as cold as their rivals were hot. And as the rebounding statistics show, if the home forces missed their first shot, they just didn't get an other one. AFTKR THIS faltering start, however, the tide began to turn in favor of the Oregon squad and the boys came stomping back to narrow the gap to 21-18 toward HOOK SHOT—Keg Carolan, Idaho’s 6-6 forward, tries a left handed hook in front of Oregon’s Glenn Moore and Denny Strick land. The fine all-around play of the rugged Carolan helped Idaho defeat the Ducks, 61-57, Friday night at McArthur Court. UO Swimmers Edge WSU, Arden Hills The University of Oregon swim mers scored two dual meet vic tories Friday, downing Washing ton State and Arden Hills Swim ming Club of Sacramento, Calif ornia. The Oregon-WSU meet was close all the way with the Web foots coming through in the 400 yard freestyle relay the final event of the day - to edge the Cougars 50-45. Oregon defeated Arden Hills by 58-34. Oregon edged WSU despite fine performances by Gary and Del Chase of the Cougars. Gary Chase won two events, the 220 individual medley and the 200 backstroke and his brother Del picked up a win in the 440 free style, edging out Dick Moody of Oregon. Dave Boyd, probably Oregon’s outstanding swimmer, turned in another impressive performance. Boyd won the 100 and 200 free style sprints and also was a member of Oregon’s winning re lay team. Oregon’s Rick Friberg took div ing honors with a total score of 255.05 points. In the Oregon-WSU meet, the Ducks broke three meet records and one varsity record while the Cougars bettered five meet and two pool records. When the Webfoots and Arden Hills met, six meet records were broken along with one pool rec ord as Boyd again was a double winner in record-breaking time in both of his races. the latter stages of the half. But then, still lacking that extra "something” they displayed against OSC last weekend, the Ducks committed a barrage of costly errors, and by halftime the eager invaders from the east had widened their margin to 30-22. On the prompting of the public address announcer, the Oregon rooting section sent their cage representatives a rousing wel come as they appeared on the floor for the second half, and this wild enthusiasm continued as the two quintets lined up for the sec ond half tip-off. And with the start of action, it looked like they were out to make sure they didn't let their noisy rooters down. Bill Simmons, Glenn Moore, and Denny Strick land contributed fielders as the Ducks came out to knot the score at 32-all with less than three min utes gone by. AFTER A SHORT scoring standoff, the Webfoots contin ued their blazing attack, and with eight minutes to go, they had their biggest lead of the encount er. 46-36. But at this point Chuck White again moved into the pic ture and helped his teammates come roaring back to tie the score at 52-52. And how long did it take for the Vandals to close this ten point gap? A little over a minute! At the five minute mark White dropped in a layup to give Idaho the lead, and from then on they were never behind. The Ducks fought gamely for the rest of the contest, but nothing seemed to go right for them. As they tried des perately to break up the Idaho stall, they were forced time and again to foul, and then had to watch helplessly as one of their deadeye opponents dumped in the free throws. White led the point parade in the contest with 21 counters, all of which seemed to Oregon fans to come at the most crucial mom ents. Warren had 20 for the Ducks. Oregon vs. WSU Some 6,055 fans, many of them visiting Dads on campus for the annual Dad’s Weekend, watched the slipping Ducks complete their weed-end downfall by taking a beating from the WSU Cougars. From the beginning to the end the-Ducks were not impressive in any respect, just the opposite of what they were just a week ago when they knocked off the OSC Beavers twice. CHARLIE WARREN, the man who has saved the W'ebfoots time and again from the flames of de feat, piled up 25 points, but at the same time missed shots he normally has no trouble with. WHITE OVER WARREN—Idaho’* Chuck White leap* In front of Wehfoot Charlie Warren to grab a rebound. The Vandal*’ con trol of the hoard* enabled them to heat Oregon, tfl-.11. The Oregon quint was not even in the game for more than hulf of it and Oregon fans will have to admit the contest was not as close as the score 77-73 would In dicate. Three Cougars. Charlie Sells. Terry Ball, and Nick August, proved to be the executioners for the Webfoots as they compiled 48 points in their combined efforts. KAI.L TOOK scoring honors for the victors with 21 points, most of them coming from the charity line where he hit 11 of 12 trie*. And unfortunately for the Duck*, many of them came in the closing minutes of the con test when the Oregon athletes were trying one last desperate drive to victory. Tile game was a see saw battle for the first 10 minutes with each team taking the lead again and again. Then, with 4:34 showing ! on the clock in the first half, the spirited WSU squad started a (Continued on Poge 7) Team Statistics IDAHO White Carolan Maren James Gwilliam Parks 61 fg ft pf tp 9 2 1 6 1 2 3 3 3 6 2 2 August Ball Woods Carlson Sells Damon McKenzie Dirom Lemery 5 5 1 0 7 2 0 2 3 3 11 1 1 0 6 4 0 1 4 3 5 4 1 1 WASH. STATE ig ft 21 7 5 18 4 6 77 Pf ll> 1 13 2 21 0 0 4 5 1 5 1 3 1 14 10 4 4 7 OREGON Warren Simmons Moore Strickland Hayes Kimpton OREGON / Kimpton Hayes Strickland Simmons Warren Moore Knecht Mack fg ft 7 6 6 1 5 2 0 3 3 3 9 8 0 0 1 2 1 5 0 57 pf tp 4 2 3 5 5 1 ig ft 0 0 0 7 1 7 6 0 0 20 13 4 11 9 0 73 pf tp 1 4 5 2 5 3 2 0 0 6 13 7 25 22 0 0 SHISLER'S FOOD MARKET OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK—9 A.M. to 11 P.M. BEVERAGES • MIXERS • ICE CUBES MAGAZINES • MEATS • FRESH PRODUCE 13th at High Street Dl 4*1342 cjCet 6 £at Out Oonialit! Have dinner at Seymour's Cafe— the student choice for 30 years. We serve a special steak dinner with tossed salad and baked potato at $2.25. Served tn main dining room and the glamorous Riviera Room. Minors served food in Riviera Room till 9:30 p.m.
