Ducks eliminated from Pac-8 title
And two more wins get away
Dick Harter walked out of the Oregon
dressing room, head lowered. When it
came up to meet reporters it showed the
expression of a coach who had just lost a
game he could have won.
After the initial questions he stood
around wait ig for any additional of
ferings, impatient when they didn’t come,
looking like he wanted to retreat back to
the solemn security of the locker room.
Reporters sensing he might leave put
forth several feeble inquiries, delaying his
departure a few more minutes.
By JIM HUNTER
Of the Emerald
But after those minutes, Harter didn’t
return to his players and assistant coaches
but sunk down on the long wooden bench
opposite the dressing room door and
looked at and pondered the totals of the
Oregon-Califomia game.
Stats show why
The stat sheet showed who won, Cal by a
71-67 score. The stats told why Cal won.
The Bears had connected on 21 of 25 from
the foul line, Oregon just seven of 13. The
stat sheet also showed 34 points next to the
name of Ansley Truitt, Cal’s 6-10 center.
Truitt had kept the Bears in the game
the first half, hitting on 10 of 14 from the
floor while his teammates managed six of
16. And the shots he was hitting -not tip
ins or second efforts but jumpers from the
15 to 20 foot range.
Truitt hot
During that half fans were convinced
Truitt was the best thing to hitMac Court in
two years That assumption, of course, fell
by the wayside Saturday night when the
Stanford Straw Hat Band put on its show,
the best thing to hit Mac since 1970 when
Oregon beat UCLA
The Ducks trailed 41-36 at half after the
lead had changed hands nine times and
been tied on six occassions With 5:35 left
in the half Oregon was down by one, 31-30.
But almost three scoreless minutes by
Oregon gave the Bears the opportunity to
up their advantage to 37-30.
The second half didn’t start any better,
Oregon going scoreless for the first two
minutes, 49 seconds. By then Cal had a
nine point edge, 45-36
Ducks rally
Hut when Oregon came alive they did a
job Paced by Kusty Blair's nine points,
the Ducks zoomed into a 54-50 lead with
11 48 left A little surprised, Cal regrouped
and came back While the Bears' offensive
procss over the last 10 minutes was
nothing great, accounting for only 13
points, the Ducks performance was even
less impressive, managing just 10 points.
There were two scoreless stretches that
did in the Ducks One from 6:22 to 3:52 and
the other over the last three minutes, one
second of the game Oregon had been
ahead 64 €2 at 6:22 and down by only one.
68 67. at 3:01.
After the contest the dejected Harter
said, "This is the poorest we've played
since the Washington State game. We
made* mental errors and showed lack of
intelligence in spots "
Despite Doug Little's 23 points. 12 of
them coming on six consecutive jumpers
in the first half. Harter said. "I don't think
anyone played well tonight ”
Those were Oregon players he was
talking about Harter called Truitt “a
great, great basketball player Certainly
Oregon had no one out there tonight that
could compare.”
California coach Jim Padgett suported
Harter’s view, saying. "There just wasn't
much you could do with Truitt.”
Pm* 10
If Stanford's Mike Mann (15) had any ideas of unloading the ball, Walt
Reynolds was ready. Action took place in the first half of Oregon's
eighth consecutive Pac-S loss. Photo by Matt McCormick
CALIFORNIA (71)
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.1-1 0-0 0 2 2
1-3 5-5 3 0 7
0-1 (W) 0 1 0
.1-1 1-2 0 0 3
Totals .25-52 21-25*49 10 71
•Includes 9 team rebounds
Shooting: Field goals, 40.1%.
OREGON (47)
FO FT RB FF TF
Little .10-22 3-4 4 2 23
Ingram . .. .4-13 1-3 0 3 9
Carlson .3-10 1-2 4 3 7
Halupa ..2-4 1-1 1 0 J
Strand . .1-4 04) 0 2 2
Sunderland . .4-4 04) 0 2 0
Blair .....4* 1-1 2 S 13
Totals ..20-40 7-13**17 67
•Includes 5 team rebounds.
Shooting: Field goals, 44.1%.
••Technical on Oregon bench.
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Oregon ...
Turnovers —Oregon 11, California 26.
Officials — Mai Rost and Charles Reed.
A - 6,200.
41 30-71
34 31-47
STANFORD
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. 5-9 4-6
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8 2 14
5 14
4 12
3 7
0 36
1 0
0 1
1 7
31-65 29-42 *49 16 91
•Includes 8 team rebounds.
Shotting: Field goals. 47.7+
OREGON (79)
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Ingram
Blair
Halupa
Strand
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Carlson .
Thompson
Reynolds
FG FT RB PF TP
9-19 2-2 10 4 20
. 7-18 5-6 11 119
. .8-15 2-4 13 5Jt 18
.2-4 1-1 0 4 5
.5-14 1-2 3 4 11
-0-2 2-3 4 2 2
. 0-1 0-0 0 10
0-1 0-0 0 0 0
1-1 0-0 0 12
.1-1 0-10 2 2
Totals . 33-76 13-9 *47 26t 79
tt Technical foul,
t Technical foul on Oregon bench.
•Includes 6 team rebounds.
Shooting: Field goals. 43.4%.
Stanford . 46 45—91
Oregon ... 43 36—79
Turnovers—Stanford 15. Oregon 12.
Officials—Don Sherwood and Jack Oitty.
A—7,500.
Can Ducks
catch WSU?
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By PAUL BUKER
Of the Emerald
The funny thing that happened to Oregon
Friday night on the way to conference win
number one popped up again Saturday.
One man went wild and beat the Ducks
himself.
But give referee Dan Sherwood an assist
for what went on in a 91-79 loss to the
Stanford Indians.
Momentum stopper
The guy’s so good at stopping momen
tum he would have been tremendous help
to the Germans when the allies were
storming those beaches on VE day.
As it was, he did a pretty good job put
ting the skids to Oregon.
Behind 79-69 with six minutes left in the
game, the Ducks had flurried within 79-73.
It looked like Dick Harter’s mob would
overtake Stanford-even if Claude Terry
did get 65 points.
Then Sherwood slapped Rusty Blair with
his fifth foul, said he was going over the
back of the Indians’ John Stratton un
derneath.
Blair was beside himself. And the
frustration of being 0-7 in the Pac-8 (for the
moment) prompted Harter to tell Sher
wood in 25 words or less what he thought of
the call.
Harter boils
It was about four of those words and a
wild rush to mid-court that brought two
technical fouls. Stratton dumped in four
free throws and before it was over Stan
ford was up by 10, 83-73.
Call off the dogs, Howie Dallmar, the
Ducks have lost conference game number
eight.
“The refs call was all part of the game,”
said a very quiet Harter afterwards.
And he’s right. But the call on Blair
didn’t jive with allowances made by the
officials in a very rough game.
While 7,500 fans were waiting for Oregon
to get that first Pac-8 victory, both teams
played it like football.
Doug Little was doing his usual thing.
Diving like a maniac for loose balls,
pumping in 20 points—and defensing
super-gunner Terry with a blackjack and
chains. No blood, no foul.
Little and Blair were rolling around like
tenpins themselves, it was so rough under
the backboards.
No wonder a hail of paper cups, ice, and
programs greeted Sherwood’s ouster of
Blair. All for going over John Stratton’s
back while both were going for a rebound.
It’s like kicking somebody out of a war
because his gun is loaded. Or calling off an
electrocution because the chair isn’t
padded.
Terry tough
In the end, however, it was the 6-5 Terry
who supervised the final execution. With
backcourt speed and the height of an inside
man, he was tough to handle. He had 23
points at halftime, finishing with 36.
The Indians, like Cal the night before,
needed just one man to do the job.
“He’s got super-balance—and one heck
of a touch,” admitted Ken Strand. “It’s
tough to fight it.”
Strand and Little took turns trying to
stop the Stanford star. Neither succeeded
completely, but Lnue got ms licks in.
And for the frustrated Ducks, now 6-14
on the year and staring at weekend games
with UCLA and USC in Los Angeles, that
consolation may have to do.
“That's just about as hard as we can
play," shrugged Harter. “Being an un
derdog in every game is a hell of a load for
these players to carry.”