AAWU Reps Lose In Decision
By LYNN MUOKEN
Spans Contributing Editor
Well, they did it again.
Only this time, unlike 1964, when they
picked Oregon State for the Pacific Ath
letic Conference’s Rose Bowl representa
tive instead of Southern California, the
athletics representatives haven’t a leg to
stand on.
It will have to go down as the biggest
mistake since the Aztecs figured Cortes
for some kind of white god. We all know
what happened then.
The 1964 vote was okay, despite the
fact that Southern Cal was obviously the
Better team, especially with a victory over
number one ranked Notre Dame. The
two schools were co-champs and OSU
did have a superior season's record.
But not in 1966.
Take a look at the season records.
UCLA has finished the season with a
rather impressive 9-1 record. Southern
Cal has a 7-3 record. True, they were
7-2 at voting time but with the Notre
Dame game ahead few could have ex
pected the Trojans would ever see vic
tory number eight.
Now look at the trouncing the Trojans
took at the hands of Notre Dame, 51 0.
So Notre Dame is the nation's best, but
they so outclassed USC that the entire
conference suffered, especially since the
Trojans are, according to the representa
tives. the PAC’s “most representative"
team. Maybe UCLA couldn't have done
any better against such a powerhouse as
the Fighting Irish, but then they cer
tainly couldn’t have done any worse.
Then, of course, there’s the small mat
ter of UCLA having defeated USC. 14-7.
Naturally this game shouldn't be con
sidered indicative of the teams' rela
tive strengths. After all. Southern Cal
only had a week to rest up for the con
test, while the lucky Bruins were out
getting the best player on the West
Coast, Gary Beban, injured in a little
friendly scrimmage with some fellows
from Palo Alto.
A Portland sportswriter has defended
Southern Cal's selection by noting that
USC's foes have a combined record of
58-36-2 while the Bruins enemies have
only run up a sickly 46-51-1 record.
Tliis is very convincing — until you
figure lip the combined records 01 scnoois
those two teams hold victories over.
The records come out something like
32-33-i for Southern Cal and 4046-1 for
UCLA. Not so impressive anymore.
In fact Southern Cal has lost to every
body they played that was anybody.
Notre Dame, 9-0-1, Miami, 8-2, and
UCLA, 9-1, while UCLA has beaten the
only class team they played, Southern
California.
But apparently the Trojans were se
lected on the basis of their league rec
ord, an amazing 4-1 where UCLA car
ried only a shabby 3-1. Therefore USC
was .800 in league play while UCLA was
a mere .750.
Pure and unadulterated rot. Everybody
is aware that football schedules are made
up at least seven or eight years in ad
vance. Thus UCLA is being punished for
failing to schedule Oregon State, Ore
gon and Washington State in 1959 or
I960, when reuniting of the old Pacific
Coast Conference seemed very unlikely,
especially in bitter Los Angeles.
Another point taken into consideration
is making the selection was the length
or lime away irom me now oowi 1'oor
Southern Cel, its been almost three
years since they last showed their in
numerable talents in Pasadena, while
teams like Oregon (1958), Stanford
(1951), California (1959) and Washing
ton State (B.C.?) seems to go every other
year
Our choice for the Rose Bowl is Wash
ington, and for good reason.
Since season records seem to mean
nothing, we can ignore the Huskies (14
record.
Now the record against the other con
tenders According to selection thinking,
the UW loss to Southern Cal is a point
in their favor.
The Huskies are also 1-1 against class
teams, being barely edged by USC and
holding a victory over UCLA. This is
much better than Southern Cal’s 0 3 rec
ord.
But to our thinking, the consideration
which cinches the bid for the Huskies is
the fact that the Washington Athletic
Director had the foresight to schedule
all conference teams for 1966.
Besides, those poor Seattle boys haven't
been to Pasadena since 1960
. Quack Cracks
Cagers
Winners?
By DAVE BARONTI
Emerald Sports Editor
SO WHAT'S SO unusual about a basketball team expecting to win its
weekend games?
Nothing, until you consider the position the Oregon squad is in at
the present moment.
• They've got to play Nebraska Friday night—a team expected
to win the Big Eight conference. Then the next morning. . .
• they’ve got to get on a bus and travel 150 miles to Manhatton,
Kansas where they get an hour to prepare for. . .
• a game with Kansas State and seven-foot center Nino Pino that
afternoon. Ordinarily, the team would get a day's rest in between
file contests, but—next week being finals week—the schedule was
•earranged to be shorter.
• On top of that, the Ducks themselves are picked to finish no
better than seventh (ahead of Washington) in the Pacific Athletic
Conference this year, according to a recent coach’s poll.
So if any team could be excused for throwing in the towel and
saying publicly that they expect defeat, you'd expect that to be
Oregon.
®UCK COACH STEVE BELKO has had a few words to say about
the issue, however—and mostly to his team.
His practices have been longer, harder, and more forceful than in
previous years, and he thinks it’s paying off. “I’ve never worked a
team so hard, and I’ve never had a team give me so much in return,”
%e says. “There are no superstars in this group—but they’re well
taut and want to win.”
Another factor in Belko’s favor unquestionably has been the
addition of assistant coach Frank Arnold.
Arnold’s appearance at Oregon ends this school’s dubious distinc
tion of being the only major basketball school in the western half
of the United States without at least one full-time basketball assist
ant. Most Pacific Athletic Conference schools—such as Oregon State
—have had two or more assistants for years.
Finally, Belko cites improvement as another plus factor.
“Niek Jones and Bill Thomas are turning into real leaders out
there,” he says—“and that’s essential to any good team.
“Besides that, players like Mike Nicksic and John Pinkstaff are
noticeably improved.
“I think they’ll give a lot of teams more than they can handle.”
He had the team scrimmaging during the Thanksgiving Holidays
and has spent this week running them through “situation drills.”
They are already, he says, “fairly well polished.”
1)0 Tops PAC
Pass Defense
Oregon's Ducks captured the
Pacific Athletic Conference pass
defense crown and placed five
players in the top ten in indivi
dual categories, according to the
final conference statistics.
The Ducks allowed 1070 yards
through the air for an average of
107 yards per game to win the
title over second place Washing
ton State, which allowed an aver
age of 111 yards. The Ducks also
gave up only four touchdowns via
passing for a conference low.
Oregon quarterback, Mike
Barnes finished seventh in total
offense and in passing offense.
Two of his receivers, Scott Cress
and Steve Bunker, made the top
ten. Cress was seventh with 28
receptions and Bunker, last year's
title holder, was tenth with 23.
In other individual categories,
Steve Jones, the Ducks’ all-pur- j
pose back placed fourth in total
rushing with 542 yards and Jack
Sovereign was eighth in punting
with a 34.6 yard average.
In team statistics Oregon also
placed third in passing offense
and in total defense. Duck quar-i
terbacks averaged 132 passing
yards per game, completing 92
passes for 1320 yards, seven touch
downs, and a .402 percentage.
The strong Oregon defense al
lowed 2670 yards for a 267 yard
per game average.
USC and UCLA dominated the
team statistics, the Trojans win
ning three titles and the Bruins
two.
Individual winners were Pete
Pifer (OSU), scoring and rush
ing; Gary Beban (UCLA), total
offense; Jerry Henderson (WSU),
passing; Doug Flansburg (WSU),
receiving; Gary Houser (OSU),
punting; Wayne Stewart (Cal),
interceptions.
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