Three freshmen to start for Ducks
The youngest team in the nation?
Most probably the youngest collegiate basketball
team in the country will take the flora* Friday night
when the Ducks seek their first Padflc-8 Con
ference victory ever under Coach Dick Harter.
MARK BARWIG
Three freshmen will most likely be in the starting
lineup when Oregon hosts Washington State and
Washington in Mac Court this Friday and Saturday
each at 8 p.m.
Entering the starting lineup for the first time will
be freshman Bruce Coldren, who has been seeing
considerable action throughout the season as a
reserve. Coldren, a 6-8 forward will add needed
height to the Oregon attack. Coldren replaces fresh
man Mark Barwig at the forward slot, who has been
moved to the guard position.
The other guard, Ron Lee, is the third freshman in
the Oregon lineup, joining sophomore center Gerald
Willett and senior forward Doug Little in the
starting lineup.
Barwig, who was recruited out of South Chicago
Heights as a guard, will finally get the chance at
playing there this weekend. He was forced into the
role of a forward before the season started when
Billy Ingram and Kim Swain both fell sidelined
with leg injuries.
Now both Ingram and Swain are back at full
strength, and Barwig will move bade to guard
where the once-talent-deep corp is dwindling.
Sharp-shooting sophomore Dean Roberts, who
had seen minimal action this year mostly in a
reserve role (he started against Colorado St. in the
Kentucky Invitational) quit the team this week,
becoming the second guard to quit the team in just
over a month (Ken Kincheloe dropped from the
squad just before the Duck’s season opener in
December).
Barwig may be the answer the Ducks need at the
second guard spot that has been vollied by Burt
Fredrickson, Paul Halupa, Walt Reynolds and
Roberts throughout the season. But the move won’t
come without it’s problems as Barwig adjusts to a
new position.
Harter explained the switch, “If Ingram and
Swain hadn’t gotten hurt so early in the year then
we would have had more time to work Barwig at
guard. When they came back we got the time to get
him ready.”
Harter acknowledged the problems created by
BRUCE COLDREN
switching positions, “I think it’s asking alot to ask a
freshman to play two positions. It will take some
time, but he did a great job against USC Saturday.”
The three-freshman lineup carried Oregon the
final 16 minutes against the Trojans Saturday as the
Ducks just missed in a 66-65 verdict.
Coldren had been back-up man for center Gerald
Willett thus far in the season. George Martin, tight
end on the varsity football team this fall appears to
have landed forward spot created by Barwig’s
switch.
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For Oilar,
half the battle
is making
his weight
DUCK WRESTLER MIKE OILAR
By MERLIN MANN
Of the Emerald
For Oregon wrestler Mike Oilar, the
season begins anew every Monday. That’s
when he starts cutting weight for the next
wrestling match.
Oilar, who wrestled last season at 142
pounds, this year has the unenviable job of
cutting to 126 pounds for Oregon’s
wrestling matches.
So far it has worked. Oilar is undefeated
on the season, and has three pins in his
four dual match victories. Although Oilar
has been very successful on the mat, his
biggest battle is getting down to the
weight.
“I eat just one meal a day,” Oilar said.
“Sometimes I eat a little something for
breakfast, like a piece of toast or hot
V.
chocolate, but otherwise I just eat at
dinner.”
Along with the rigid dieting, Oilar goes
through vigorous workouts to trim excess
weight. “I usually run a couple miles a
day. And this week I’ll start twice-a-day
workouts with the team. That will help
keep my weight down.”
Head Coach Ron Finley admires the
junior standout, “It takes a lot of discipline
to cut weight like that. When the stomach
starts hurting, it is easy to go into the
kitchen and get something to eat or drink.
The hardest part after getting down like
that is he has to go through practice with
guys who have better nourishment.”
“A lot of people don’t realize,” Finley
went on, "that when you get down to losing
those last few ounces, a glass of water
weighs half-a-pound.”
The most remarkable thing of Oilar’s
dreadful task is his unwillingness to
exhibit any signs of the agony he suffers
through in cutting weight the body would
rather keep.
“Oilar has turned into a team leader,
this year,” Finley said, “his spirit is so
high. Other guys who are also trying to cut
weight can look at him and it’ll help them
too. It all helps keep team spirits high.”
All this makes Oilar an awesome
grappleronthemat. His record can attest
'to that.
“I feel a little weaker down at 126,” Oilar
said, “but I do a better job. I would
probably feel better at 134, maybe, but 126
is a challenge. I don’t think I lost that
much in strength, but the guys down there
are smaller.”
On the mat Oilar has found he can
handle his opponents much more easily
than at 142 where he took third in the Pac-8
last year. He hasn’t even been close to
losing a match this year.
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TOMORROW
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the Annex
740 Willamette
ASUO Cultural Forum
presents
Rita Moran
Weds.,
January 10
EMU
Dads Room
8 pm
Ms. Moran, an Irish
American feminist, will
speak on “Ireland In
Revolt”
No admission charge