Billy Ingram
Year one
•One defeat after another9
(Continued from Page 6)
.500 season, sprung eternal and fans were too
giddy to be indignant that Harter had been jiving
them all along
The Far West Classic, though, brought things into
a proper perspective and to a deadening reality.
The Ducks dropped contests to New Mexico,
Michigan and Dartmouth to finish eighth of eight.
Harter termed it one of the two critical turning
points in the season. “We were playing well coming
into the Classic but got there and then just played
bad and anything we had going slid away.”
The slide continued the next five games against
USC, UCLA, New Mexico State, Washington and
Washington State. And who was next in line to
stomp the Ducks but Oregon State. A fact of life
Oregon coaches must live with, as borne out by an
object lesson provided by a former football coach, is
that if you do nothing else you must beat the
Beavers. Harter, who has a four-year contract and
isn’t at all concerned about job security, treated
Oregon State like anybody else. But unlike most
everyone else the Ducks played they beat them—
and not once but twice.
More false hope, ballooning like a retired
lineman’s waist.
So what happened? Oregon’s rally against
Stanford fell short and the Ducks lost by four. The
next night Oregon lost by two in overtime to
California.
Harter considers this the second turning point of
the season. “We had the momentum coming off the
Oregon State games. We played well but just
couldn’t do it. Our momentum was gone for the
remainder of the year.”
The rest is dreary history. The Webfoots dropped
games to Cal, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington,
Washington State and Oregon State twice. The
Southern Cal contest, being played in Los Angeles,
was televised bringing snappy oneliners that for the
slumping Ducks to appear on TV against the
Trojans would be the biggest mismatch since a Billy
Graham crusade opposite anything.
Harter would rather leave last season buried. “It
doesn’t have any bearing. It’s not apropos to this
year.”
And it probably isn’t. Only three old faces, guard
Paul Halupa and forwards Billy Ingram and Doug
Little, figure prominently in Harter’s plans at the
present. The rest of the starters will battle from
among a fine crop of sophomores and some talented
freshmen.
With this as a base Harter is optimistic if not
ecstatic. “We’ll definitely be a better team, there’s;
no question. How good we are depends on wnetner
we get some early wins. If we do we can gain some
confidence. Either way we still have a long way to
go”
Along the way the Ducks will be playing the
tenacious man-to-man defense and fastbreak of
fense Harter brought with him from Pennsylvania
in 1971. “Though we tried,” said Harter, “we cer
tainly weren’t a fastbreak team last year.” Right
on, Dick, The Harter Era—Year I version of the
fastbreak better resembled a soccer game with the
ball being booted down the court.
Helping him put together his philosophy will be
veteran Halupa (5-10), Ingram (6-4) and Little (6
3'j) plus returners Bruce Posey (6-6), forward;
Walt Reynolds (6-14), guard; Kim Swaim (6-44),
forward; and Chris Thompson (6-2), guard. Junior
forward Paul Sunderland has transferred and
junior guard Clyde Crawford, who one coach said
had the potential to be another Oscar Robertson, is
a question mark after suffering broken bones each
of his last two seasons. Senior center A1 Carlson
achieved his best percentage spring term failing
five of five classes and flunking out. He is currently
playing in Europe.
Up from the Frosh team and expected to lead
Oregon out of the darkness is Gerald Willett (6-8),
forward; Ken Kincheloe (6-2), guard; and Burt
Fredrickson (6-1), guard.
Harter and his assistants gulped numerous
meals, charmed countless mothers and logged
450,000 miles in recruiting six freshmen to come to
Eugene. Though freshmen are eligible for varsity
competition for the first time this year, Harter is
opposed to the rule because it places too much
athletic and scholastic pressure on a first-year
student . Top Frosh prospects are Ronnie Lee from
Boston and Mark Barwig from South Chicago
Heights, 111.
Though not blessed with height, speed or a
great shooter, Harter does have some pluses going
for him. “This year the system won’t be all new to
them. Also with so many new people there’ll be
more competition for jobs which will make for
better workouts.”
But put that up against his deficits, or UCLA, and
you’ll probably walk away losers more times than
not.
Harter won’t make any predictions this early on
how the Ducks will rate in the pending Pac-8
struggle. Suffice to say, he isn’t counting on 14
losses. He must expect better things in store for
Oregon because he has eastern powers Villanova
and Providence scheduled for 1973-74. And the man
is no glutton for punishment.
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