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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1965)
Emerald SPORTS Sporting i Spring Football Time By JOE HOFFMANN Emerald Sports Editor Oregon’s football team swings into spring practice next week when Len Casanova, et al. welcomes some 70 candidates, including 25 lettermen Of course Cas will be missing a number of top perform ers who have forsaken spring ball for the lures of other springtime varsity sports. Missing from the drills will be Steve Bunker, who's pitching and playing first base for Don Kirsch's baseball team. Bill O'Toole is also playing baseball and will miss Cas' workouts. The football team is also contributing a pair of hurdlers to Bill Bowerman's track squad John Buchanan and John Buller will re main with the track team In addition. Mike Brundage will undoubtedly miss a few practices, as he is one of the mainstays of the Oregon tennis team. Coach Dick Williams would undoubtedly miss his Roseburg star. Appar ently. Brundage has succeeded in working it so he can play tennis, and workout with the gridiron squad. Brundage is the apparent heir to Bob Berry's quarterback posi tion. Few will quickly forget his performance against Washington State, when he was called on to fill the Oregon All-American s shoes. Brundage’s chief competition will be from junior Tom Trovato. a transfer from Monterey JC. Travato was with the club last season, t ut spent most of the season learning the Casanova system. Additional competition for Brundage should come from Dick Jones and Mike Barnes Both are off last season s Frosh squad Jones, however, will be held out of spring drills as a result of a knee injury. A Letternian at Every Position . . . Casanova is fortunate this season in that he'll be able to mold a squad around a fine letternian nucleus. Cas will be able to fill each position with a Ietterman if he so desires Oregon's top candidates for regional and national grid honors appear to be senior end Ray Palm, and center Dave Tobey. Tobey was all PAC last fall. Did You Know That . . . Oregon Varsity football staff has a combined total of 65 years of service at Oregon. Casanova and assistant Jack Roche lead the total with 15 years each Line coach Jerry Frei follows with 11 years, while defensive back Phil McHugh has been here for eight seasons. Max Coley is in his seventh season, and John Robinson will begin tiis sixth campaign with the Webfoots. The "youngster'' of the staff Li Ed Johns, who will be in his third year as Frosh coach and scout Casanova is the dean of the Pacific Athletic Conference grid men tors. One of the league's head coaches, namely Johnny McKay of Southern California, spent eight seasons as Casanova’s backfield coach before moving to the Trojan campus. And Around The PAC . . . The various schools of the PAC open spring football practice either this week or next. Stanford got things underway, opening drills last Saturday. Oregon opens spring drills April 19 The climax of all this action takes place in May, when the Alumni games, or in some cases, the Intra-squad affairs take place. Stanford stages both events, holding an Alumni game on May 15, then hold ing an Intra-squad contest on May 22. Oregon concludes its spring practice with the Varsity-Alumni game May 22. According to the PAC press release, Washington drew 27,000 fans to its Alumni game at Seattle last spring That’s better than some of the schools draw during the regular gridiron campaign. Who Is Going To Be Right . . . You may remember in this column a couple of weeks ago. we published the pre-season analysis of the PAC race as interpreted by Stanford. Well, now we have in our hands a pre-season analysis from the Conference offices, and it certainly reads differently. ‘•This season. USC, Oregon, and Stanford appear to have a chance to be outstanding off pre-season forecasts, with the other clubs well-supplied with plavers good enough to offer them an opportunity to put together a good season.” That's how the PAC press release reads. Oh well, we're not going to try to predict the winner of the PAC football title at this early date. . The conference offices are obviously proud of its returning foot ball performers for next fall. The list reads like a "Who’s Who of West Coast Football." and includes names like Mike Garrett of USC. Dave Lewis and Ray Handley of Stanford, Jack O Billovich of Oregon State, Ray Palm and Dave Tobey of Oregon, and Ron Medved of Washington. Yes, it looks like an interesting PAC football cam paign in 1965. Power Remains Kirsch’s Major Asset ... Power at the plate remains the major asset of the Oregon base ball team this season. After 13 games, during which the Ducks have lost one and tied one while winning 11, Oregon has slammed 20 homeruns. , , .... , , , One must remember, however, that the competition has not been as tough as it will get. Except for occasional good afternoons, teams tike Lewis and Clark, Pacific, and Portland State are no match for the Webfoots. , ^ , , it_ . .. Of course Kirsch is readying the Ducks for the opening of North ern Division play this weekend against Oregon State. Look Who Lost To Pacific . . . We’re not trying to jibe OSU, but one of the biggest surprises of the spring campaign was Oregon State’s 14-4 loss to Pacific last weekend The Beavers, though not expected to be the best team in the ND certainly were not expected to be easily manhandled by the Badgers. Who’s Who in the Northern Division . . . Kirsch expects his club to be right in the thick of the Northern Division pennant race. The team to beat is undoubtedly Washington State. Apparently, the Cougars are a real good team. Washington should be tougher than in past seasons. It seems the acquisition of Ken Lehman as head baseball coach has lifted the Huskies from the diamond doldrums. Lehman is an ex-major leaguer, having played several seasons with the old Brooklyn Dodgers and their Triple-A farm clubs. Oregon State, a team badly hurt by graduation last year, should be fairly strong. But much of their expectations hinge on second baseman Jim Jarvis, who is currently nursing a broken bone in his foot. Reports indicate, however, that Jarvis will be ready for action this weekend. It figures, though. He’s always ready to play when he hears the call of the “wild duck.” In University Invitation1nl Oreaon Ski Tearn Second The first annual University of Oregon Alpine and Nordic Skiing Championship was held at Mt. Bachelor, April 10 and 11. Eleven schools participated in the two day meet, with Sierra ! College w inning the meet and ! Oregon finishing second. The meet consisted of slalom, jcross country and downhill events, and an awards presentation Sun day afternoon In the slalom event, Sierra took the first three individual places, and skied away with the top team honors in that event Clark Gruening, Hack Seeker, and Kip Kemple combined to take fourth, fifth and ninth places in the slalom to place Oregon second in the team competition in that event. Gruening combined times of 57 5, and 59 7 in the slalom to finish with a total of 117 2 sec onds in his fourth place effort Forty seven competitors en tered the slalom, and twenty - . three finished. In the cross country race, Mike Lampard Hitting .350 Keith Lampard, who pitches, plays outfield and first base, is also the leading hitter on the Oregon team. Lampard is pounding the ball at a 350 pace, including 14 hits and 13 runs batted in. Don Ban deras. the fleet senior center fielder is close behind Lampard with a 340 batting average Three other Ducks are hitting over .300. Dennis Baldridge is hitting 333. along with senior Bob Por ter, and Steve Bunker is hitting 318 Jerry Gjesvold and Ken Had den lead the pitching stall, with earned run averages of 0.90, and 0 99 respectively. UO Frosh Set Cinder Marks Oregon's future track hopes took a turn for the better Sat urday when two Frosh cinder records were broken at a develop mental meet at Hayward Field. Freshman John Pahlke tossed the javelin 226 8 to better by six inches the freshman mark set by Ron Gomez in 1962. Hurdler Bob Blum was timed is 38 8 for the 330 yard inter mediate hurdles to better by three tenths of a second the mark set by John Buchanan last ! ' year. Blum was also clocked in 14.5 for the 120-yard high hurdles Blum, who admitted he had hoped | he could do better in the event, has been clocked in 14.0 in prac | tice sessions. Frosh sprinter Mike Deibele took a double when he ran the | 100 in 9 7 and the 220 in 22.1. Oregon’s freshman took 12 of 21 first places in the meet which attracted performers from Ore gon State, Clark JC and the Oregon Track Club in addition to Oregon. Dave Wilborn ran the mile in 4:21.1 to win that event for the Ducklings. Oregon’s John Franz, best known for his varsity basketball prowess, captured the high jump at 6-5. That mark was better than Webfoot varsity competitors recorded against Washington State at Pullman, Saturday. Franz is eligible for varsity competi tion, but wasn’t able to work out until after basketball season. Alan Richards tossed the shot 51-6 to capture another first for the Duckling squad of coach Chuck Bowles. !M Schedule Golf Young vs. A.T O. Theta Chi vs. Burgess Tennis , Ganoe vs Delts Softball 3:50 North Field, Adams vs. Clark South Field, Douglas vs. DeCou Upper Field, DeBusk vs. Ganoe 4:55 North Field, Sigma Chi vs. Sigma Phi Epsilon South Field, Phi Kappa Psi vs. Phi Gamma Delta Upper Field, Phi Delta Theta vs. Alpha Tau Omega Wally Palmberg anil liaoaen, lead in the won-lost department, as both have unblemished 3-0 marks, ☆ ☆ Duck Diamond Data Hitting I. am pa id Banderas, of Baldridge, of Porter, ss Bunker, of p Moore, c Delplanche. of Armstrong, of Khler, c Smith, 3b Leimnger, if of Allen. 2b [Ogan, if 'O'Toole, of Bogner. of Nicholas, c lb Pitching Gjesvold Hadden Palmberg Bose i Conrad I.ampard Bunker Grief i Sovereign avg rbi 14 350 13 16 340 5 16 333 13 333 7 7 318 4 5 294 3 14 292 11 2 286 2 8 276 7 4 235 3 6 222 2 8 205 7 4 200 1 2 182 0 6 1 167 0 17 2 118 0 W I. IP ERA 0 0 10 0 90 3 0 19 0 99 3 0 25 1 44 1 1 18 153 2 0 12 153 1 0 13 2 07 1 0 13 279 0 0 526 03 0 0 2 2603 (13 Games) ab h p-of-lb 40 47 48 24 8 •>2 17 48 7 29 17 27 39 20 11 School/, of the Ducks turned in mi outstanding performance, as he was edged out by Knut 01 berg of Sierra by seven seconds pi berg is considered one of the top cross country men in the southern California circuit School/' time was 35 14 min utes. He was followed by Gruen mg who placed fifth. ClilT Jen nings finished eighth, and Steve Millet took twelfth place for the Ducks in that event Sierra took first place in the team results in the cross country, and Oregon again took second, with College of Siskiyou* third, and Oregon State fourth Sierra Places Top Three In the downhill event, power ful Sierra again took top honors as they placed individuals in the top three spots Gruening again placed fourth behind three Sierra men. ami Seeger and Jennings finished eighth and fourteenth for Ore gon. as the Ducks placed second in team totals in the downhill race. Sierra Wins Meet Sierra took top team honors in the meet with a total of 297 70 points, while Oregon placed sec ond with 20H03 College of Siskiyous placed third, followed by Kastern Ore gon, !a*wis and Clark, Oregon State and Linfteld Tore Steen, the Oregon skiing coach said that he was pleased with the results of the meet and was happy with his team's per formance. The meet was to be the first of what the Oregon ski team hopes to be an annual event Oregon's ski team has had a good season this year, high lighted by the men's team third place finish at the University of Nevada Winter Carnival. Oregon women's team placed first at the Nevada Winter Car nival • -« W '-I t»i* **■»•*• Girl talk. Boy talk. All taik goes better refreshed. Coca-Cola — with a lively lift and never too sweet — refreshes best. things PO better,! ^with Coke Bottled under the authority of The Coca-Cola Company by: Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Eugene
