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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1971)
Winter IM’s biggest; three sports contested By WES STINSON Of the Emerald The introduction of a new sport and a record number of teams in basketball have made this year’s winter intramural program the biggest in Oregon’s history. Weightlifting, gaining in popularity around the state, was voted into the program earlier and competition and weigh-ins are now set for February 24 and 25. The annual meet will be contested according to AAU rules and will feature the bench press, squat, • and dead lift, and an award for the athlete judged the best lifter. To gain team points a team must have two lifters but only one may score in each division. Being new to the program the sport will only carry 75 points for IM scoring this year. The ad dition now balances each term with five intramural sports to be contested. The phenomenal growth in popularity of basketball in recent years has made organization of this year’s record 125 teams unweildy. Competition began in the “A” division on Jan. 11 and will begin Feb. 24 for the “B” division Soccer team highlights club action The soccer club hosts three matches at Autzen Stadium to highlight the weekend Club Sports activities. The Oregon graduate soccer team, the Ducks host Airport Inn of Vancouver B. C. at 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon in the key soccer match. Sunday the Coots play OSU’s “C” team at 1 p.m. and the Amstels take on the Eugene Blitzers at 3 p.m. The Canvasbacks travel to Corvallis to meet the OSU “B” team. The rugby team also has a key match against Oregon State here Saturday. The bowling team, keying for the Region 14 Tour nament in Moscow, Idaho early next month, host Portland State in the EMU Tuesday. Oregon, Colorado set two game grid series Oregon and Colorado have announced a two-game grid series with games to be played in 1978 and 1979, according to Norv Ritchey, director of athletics at Oregon, and Eddie Crowder, head football coach and athletic director at the Colorado University. The first game of the two-game series is slated for Boulder, Colo., on September 8, 1978, and the second meeting, also slated for Boulder, will be played on Sep tember 9, 1979. Oregon has now completed its football scheduling for ll-game seasons from 1971 through 1980 with the exception of one year, 1976 Ritchey said he expects to fill the 1976 date in the near future. The Ducks and Buffaloes have played six times previously, with Colorado holding a 4-2 lead in the series The last meeting between the two clubs was in 1968 when the Buffaloes emerged with a 28-7 victory at Boulder players and will run right up to the last day of the term with games Monday through Friday. “No postponements can be permitted because of the tight schedule,” reported IM Director John Borchardt. Each team is required to furnish a score keeper for their games this year. Handball, growing in popularity and facing a shortage of courts like basketball, began Jan. 11 and will end with the championship game on March 2. “A team in handball is composed of two singles and one doubles and one player may not play both singles and doubles,” according to Borchardt. Rounding out winter sports is bowling which started Tuesday in the EMU and continues until the roll off in mid March. “There are 18 teams in intramural bowling this year,” stated Gary Bartlett, head of the IM bowling program, “but I would like to have about 20 more.” The bowlers compete on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Borchardt has taken great pains to insure competition is equal in all the sports. “Leagues are organized according to the number of residents living in the organization, as in the case of dorms or fraternities, and I go by what the Registrar’s Office furnishes me,” he reported. Independent teams are placed with other independents and usually only meet dormitory or fraternity teams in playoff games. Gym team opens Friday in Bay area Oregon’s gymnastics team opens its season the hard way this weekend—by travelling to the San Francisco Bay area to face two of the nation’s toughest teams. Coach Dick Smith’s Ducks, expected to battle for third place in the Pacific-8 this year, meets Stanford in Palo Alto Friday at 8 p.m. in what may be a very close competition. Saturday, they move to San Jose and a triple dual meet with California and San Jose State. Cal, one of the nation’s best, will be heavily favored, but the Ducks must be rated better than San Jose. A year ago, Oregon was vic torious over both Stanford (145.25-140.30) and San Jose State (147.30-145.45), but was walloped by Cal (158.45-143.55). The point score against San Jose is a school record. Three school record holders lead the Ducks. All-around senior Dean Hale (45.80) is the team’s most versatile performer, and he’ll get lots of help from floor exercise man George Shoemaker (9.20) and parallel bars per former Brad Hunter (9.15). Top man on still rings is Doug Church, seventh in the Pacific-8 last year. Also heavily counted upon are veterans Bruce Hovt (horizontal bar) and Kent Fredrickson (side horse), plus an outstanding freshman Mike Huddleston, who last year was the Oregon state high school champion in all around, horizontal bar and floor exercise, and second place finisher in parallel bars and long horse for South Eugene High. Baseballers open at home meet EOC March 20 For the first time in several years, Oregon will open its baseball season at home and the Ducks' 1971 opener will be on March 20, a doubleheader against Eastern Oregon, according to coach Mel Krause. Krause will be in his first year as Oregon’s baseball coach this spring after succeeding the late Don Kirseh. The new Duck mentor has the Webfoots booked for two pre-season tournaments. Oregon will play in the University of Washington Invitational, March 2S-27, and the first annual Don Kirseh Memorial Tour nament at Portland’s Civic Stadium on April 1-3. The Washington Invitational will have Oregon, Washington, Seattle, Willamette, Pacific, Montana, Lewis & Clark and IM Schedule Thursday, Jan. 21—6:45, Court 40. Phandango A vs. Sundowners A; 6:46, Court 43, Henry's Swine Club A vs. The Vikings A: 7:30. Court 40. The Yellow Jackets A vs Watson A 7:30, Court 43. Willeox A vs. Clark B; 8:15, Court 40, Watson B vs Burgess B , 8:15, Court 43, Collier B vs. Cloran B Portland included in the tour nament. The first-round pairings for the Don Kirsch Memorial Tour nament at Portland on April 1 will have Portland State meeting St. Mary's (Calif.) at 11:00 a m.; Oregon State vs. University of Puget Sound, 2:00 p.m.; Portland vs. Washington, 5:00 p.m. and Oregon meeting Seattle at 8:00 p.m. MACRAME CLASSES FIRST WEEK OF FEB. 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