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.
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