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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1966)
. ..Quack Cracks Prove You're No. 1 By DAVE BARONTI Emerald Sports Editor IF ALABAMA'S PAUL (Bear) Bryant would stop crying tong enough, he might conclude that discrimination does not exist on his campus. . . . . . discrimination, that is, which is directed toward the Bear. But you can't convince Coach Bryant of that. “Why aren't we number one?" is his typical refrain these days. “We were the national collegiate football champions last year and the year before; we're undefeated this year. “We were picked to win all our games, and we won all our games. What more can you expect? If the voters want something besides winning, we'll try triple reverses, forward laterals, lateral forwards, dipsy-doodle, or even run a quarterback sneak on a third-and nine. . .” And on Bryant goes . . . mentioning anything and everything except Notre Dame and Michigan State. Okay, Bear. We'll forget about the Irish and the Spartans for a while, too. We'll look at YOUR accomplishments. Last Saturday, you won the Southeastern Conference’s unofficial small college championship by beating Southern Mississippi 34-0. That made you 2-0 in that league, your team having beaten Louisiana Tech a month earlier. Very good. And you’ve beaten seven “major” colleges, too— Tulane, Mississippi State . . . —whose combined season’s record is a heart-stopping 34 wins and 41 losses. Now. about Michigan State and Notre Dame. . . About the time you were blanking Louisiana Tech 33-0. the Spar tans were humbling Rose Bowl favorite Purdue 41-20. And last week w hen you were rolling over Southern Miss, Notre Dame was humiliat ing Purdue's Rose Bowl opponent—Southern Cal—51-0. Notre Dame’s other opponents were hardly of the Southern Missis sippi caliber, either. Playing the best of the Big 10 and the West Coast, they won more than 55 per cent of their games. And if teams such as Indiana and Wisconsin—both tougher than a number of teams Bama has played—could be subtracted from Notre Dame’s schedule as small colleges the way Southern Miss and Louisiana Tech were from Alabama’s, the ND opponent figure would stand at about 65 per cent wins. Michigan State isn’t much different. Coach Bryant should realize that the udn-loss record alone doesn’t qualify anyone for a national title. The era of the “sit back and watch everyone else knock each other off" method of winning a championship is still not at hand. SOME FOLKS SAID it was last year when Alabama won the championship by playing much the same regular season schedule as this year, and then ascending to the top when top-ranked Michigan State and second-ranked Arkansas were upset in the post-season Bowls. But the ’Banians did a creditable job in a bowl game themselves— heating Nebarska 38-25 in the Miami (Fla.) Orange Bowl Classic. That—not the others' losses—did the trick. Travel to Nebraska, Kansas State Caaers Face Rough Opening By D. L. SONNICHSEN Emerald SporU Writer The 1966 67 edition of Oregon's basketball team swings into action Friday night against the Univer sity of Nebraska in Lincoln, with the Webfoots moving to Manhat tan, Kansas Saturday to take on Kansas State University. More pleasant ways of initiating a sea son can easily be thought of. Duck coach Steve Belko—be ginning his eleventh season in Eugene—calls the two-game road voyage "the toughest opening we’ve ever faced," and there is no reason to disagree. Nebraska finished "only” sec ond in the rugged Big Eight last year, posting a 20-5 record of the season. However, this year the concentrate on containing any one j player. John Plnkstaff, Oregon's 6-7 cen ter faces the unusual prospect of not being at a height disadvantage against Nebraska. For one of the few times during the season Pink staff will probably be defensed by a shorter pivotman. 66 soph Roger Leitner. When the scene shifts to Kan sas State the following night, John will have some looking up to do, I howeve r. He'll be paired-off against the Jayhawks' akward giant, 7 1 27ffpound Nick "The Stick" Pino. Even hometown Man hattan fans have been known to laugh at Pino's antics in the past, for at times he had difficulty mov ing from the baseline to the top Optimism in a Different Sport Cornhuskers have a good chance to atone for their previous fail ure to win the league title—Coach Joe Cipriano has virtually his en tire starting fivje returning. Leading a Nebraska squad which features great speed, shoot ing, and tremendous rebounding, is forward Nate Branch, a 6-5 sen ior from East Palo Alto. Califor nia. Branch made several all America teams last year although he averaged just 13 points per game. All the Huskers can score in double figures, and all of them do, with the result being that opposing teams are unable to 13 ski* tested Wedd King. 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