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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,
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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
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