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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1966)
Huskies, WSU Invade Duck Court By PAUL POLSKY Associate Sports Editor The Oregon Ducks return to their home roost Friday night against the Washington Huskies and will try to use the home court advantage to get back on the winning trail. Washington State invades McArthur Court Saturday. Both games are slated for 8 p.m. Oregon coach Steve Belko re ports that the Ducks are ready for this weekend's action. In fact. Belko reports that the team is in its best condition and has the brightest mental attitude he has seen since just before the Far West Classic. The Ducks are near their prime One of these days everything is going to fall into place and then a big surprise will come. The Ducks are going to handle a couple of teams like they are capable of doing. Some of the reasons include Jim Barnett's quick recovery. A1 though he is by no means 100 per cent ready yet, he'll be play ing and helping to mold the team and bring it together as a unit. Secondly. Nick Jones is ready to come up with some tine per formances. Belko reported that Nick looked extremely good in practice this week and that he was encouraged. Team Ready Jones has been somewhat slower coming around this year but if one remembers correctly, it was just about this time last winter when Nick sprang his bag of tricks on the opposition The Ducks hope he will be able to put his tine shooting ability and EMERALD SPORTS Webfoot Swimmers Test USC, UCLA By GORDON' ROSENBERG Sports Writer Oregon swimming coach Don Van Rossen has every right to feel like David taking on Goliath, except for one thing—he has to do battle with two Goliaths. Van Rossen takes his youthful charges south to Los Angeles this weekend to challenge the Pacific Athletic Conefrence's top two teams—USC and UCLA. The Ducks meet PAC and NCAA champion Southern Cali fornia Friday afternoon, then travel across town to take on the Bruins Saturday at 2 p.m. In case you were thinking that USC may ’have been weakened through graduation of its top swimmers—forget it! The Trojans may be even stronger this season “USC is always strong," stated Van Rossen. “they've got to be the league favorite again.” Saari Leads USC There are plenty of facts to back up Van Rossen’s prediction. First. Roy Saari, one of the top swimmers in USC history, is still around. Saari, who holds the confer ence record in the 500-yard free stvle (4:53.3), led the Trojans to the league title with two firsts, a second, and a third in the finals. In addition, the Trojan star held the conference’s fastest times for 1965 in four events. Besides Saari, USC has a good deal of the rest of their veterans returning. All-around swimmers Rich McGeagh and Sandy Gil christ placed high in the free style events at the league finals. Charles Milam and Mike Car retto were the league’s second .and third fastest men, respective ly, in the 200-yard butterfly. In the 200-yard breaststroke, Bill Craig turned in the league’s second fastest time of the year, and teammate Paul Jeffers was one notch behind him. Also, USC has three-fourths of the league’s top 400-yard medley team returning—Saari, McGeagh, and Craig. As if this weren’t enough, there Strange Publishes Four poems by William Strange, assistant professor of English, have been accepted for publication by Verb magazine. Trojans Deep Shake or Malt for Only 1c With Purchase of Deluxe Burger FRIDAY ONLY DAIRY QUEEN is also a promising group of [ sophomores up from last season's i strong freshman team. All in all. i 1966’s team should be as good as. if not better than, the last Trojan edition. UCLA has all their top swim mers returning from a team that finished a close fourth in the league last season. UCLA Stronger “UCLA has improved quite a bit,” stated Van Rossen, “they will be USC’s toughest competi tion.” The Bruins are led by PAC ■ breaststroke champion Russ Webb, who captured two firsts j and a second in the league finals. Freestylers Dave Ashleigh and Terry Flanagan, and butterfly specialists Jim Monahan and Stan Cole placed high in their events last season. Cole nabbed first in the 100-yard butterfly finals. Also, UCLA has its entire 400 yard medley relay team return ing. “Both meets should be very tough,” stated Van Rossen. “I know w'e’re improving, but every body else in the league is, too.” IM Schedule Basketball 3:50—Court 40, Delta Chi A vs. Chi Phi A Court 43. Delta Tau Delta A vs. Accelerators A 4:35—Court 40, Alpha A vs. Adams A Court 43, Clark A vs. McAllister A 5:15—Court 40, Legal Eagles A vs. Hauna A Court 43, Hilyard Mets A vs. 69 A Handball 4:00—Busads vs. Campus Crusade 4:45—Dyment vs. Watson jitterbug moves on display and help balance the attack. The entire team is also about ready to jell and make life mis erable for some unsuspecting op ponent. This may be the weekend. Looking at the Huskies, Belko has a lot of praise for Mac Duck worth and his crew. 'That Bruce Brickner is al ways tough against us. He is an Oregon boy and just seems to play well every time Washing ton is in Eugene," related Belko. Another big thorn in the side of the Ducks will be t>-10 Gordy Harris. Harris is the leading Husky scorer with a 19.1 average and 93 rebounds in 11 games. Harris is very mobile for his size and has gained a lot of experi ence since last year. Husky Guards Praised Belko also praised the two Husky guards. Steve Olsen and Doug Westlake. "They are both very quick and have ability to shoot.” Olsen is the second lead ing scorer with 138 points for a 12 5 average. Westlake is right behind with just under 10 points u game average. The Huskies are a very scrappy team and will be very hungry, just like the Ducks. So far this year the Huskies are 5-0 overall and 1-1 in league play. In pre-conference action the Huskies took a whirlwind tour and played teams like Florida. Marquette. Tulsa. Wisconsin, Iowa and Hawaii. The Huskies also played the Ducks once be fore and were defeated at r.d munson Pavilion, 0.1-81, on a last | minute basket by Nick Jones. “Team Not I>own’' They have been involved in many close games this year and Belko said that they "won t fold under pressure." The two league games the Huskies have played this year bear this out as they defeated Cal. 80 79. and lost to Stanford, 83 79, both in over I time. doing back to the Ducks Belko iiimmhi iiimi irmu was not down "They definitely have a good attitude and are trying their best.” This is shown in the desire and determination of players like Harnett, Jones, John Pinkstalf and the team as a whole. Each of the three mentioned has played sometime during the past weeks with either an injury or some sort of problem which has kept him below par. The personable Duck mentor named Barnett and Bob Cravens to start at forwards PinkstafT at center, and Jones and Dave Ka foury in Friday night's game with the Huskies. Belko said, "On last week’s performance, these boys deserve to start, and that is what I'll go by ” So the Ducks will try to come hack, not only for their fans but also for their coach Their desire to win is so great it is almost frightening Oregon Sets Road Trip Art Keith’s Oregon wrestling team opens a three-meet series Thursday against Central Wash ington at Ellensburg with the hopes of improving its 1-1 rec ord. The Thursday meet will be followed by matches with Wash ington State Friday and Eastern Oregon Saturday. ‘ We're not real healthy for this long of a trip,” said Keith, the mentor who took over the head coaching chores just last week. ‘ But we’re down a weight from last weekend’s competition and this is going to help.” The Ducks opened the 1966 grappling season with a 15-12 loss to Western Washington, but rebounded the following night against Washington for a 41-0 vic tory. ‘ We were a lot better Sat urday," added Keith. ‘‘That first match under our belts sure help ed a lot.” Same Personnel Keith plans to start the same personnel—with a few exceptions —for the tri-meet swing. Injur ies might make the difference in the lineup as Bruce Glenn, a 177-pounder who nabbed a cou ple of victories over the weekend, including one by a fall, suffered a twisted knee. “We think it’s going to come around,” Keith said, “but we’re taking Doug Wilkinson along also just in case." Glenn’s a senior and a former AAU national champion, while Wilkinson, a sophomore, comes off the 1965 Frosh squad. Rick Marx, a 123-pounder, “had a few teeth jarred,” according to Keith, in his weekend matches and it was uncertain whether he would compete. If he isn’t ready, Keith said that Grant Henjyoji would fill Marx’ spot. Both Marx and Henjyoji lost a pair of decisions in the Ducks’ first two home meets. “But we’re stronger than we’ve been before,” continued Keith. “They’ve been really spirited in Volkswagen Specialists • Low Repair Charges • Workmanship Guaranteed • Factory Trained in Germany • Fully Equipped to Handle All German Makes GERMAN AUTO SERVICE 2045 FRANKLIN BLVD. 342-2912 practice this week " Other starters for the Oregon team wilt be Curt Scott at 130 pounds, with a 2 0 record; Dour Robertson at 137, 0 1-1; Steffen Criner at 145, 1-1; John Malpass at 152, 0 0; Craig Caster at 100. 20; Boh Mitchell at 167, 20; and Bob Lawrence at heavyweight, 1-1 "Real Tough” "Central Washington and East ern Oregon will be real tough,” Keith said. Three of the better Central grapplers were named by Keith and one is Dennis War ren, a 145 pounder. Warren was named the outstanding wrestler at the Washington Invitational in December as he picked up an in dividual championship Two brothers, Vrrnon and I .a Main Merkley, 160 and P>7 pounders, also bolstered the Cen tral squad. In matches last year, the Ducks dumped Eastern Oregon, 24-tJ, but finished on the losing side of both the WSU match, 15 9, and the Central Washington contest, 179 The Central bout Thursday and the Cougar match Friday are slat ed for 7 pm., while the East ern Oregon meet will begin at .1 p m. in l.a Grande. 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