Bruins roll into town with energy problem
By BOB WELCH
Of the Emerald
In a time when conserving energy in the state is
important, ninth-ranked UCLA is not the team to have
around. The way the Bruins score points, the electrical
system in the Autzen Stadium scoreboard could be in for
a long, busy afternoon when UCLA and Oregon tangle
Saturday.
And so could the Ducks.
Running from the wishbone-T offense, the Bruins
have slapped enough points on the board enroute to a 7-1
season to make them the nation’s leading team in
scoring with a 46.7 average.
But don’t fret. UCLA sports information director Vic
Kelley informs us that the Bruins are “averaging ‘only’
32.5 markers in their four away games.”
The rest of the UCLA statistics aren’t so kind.
Swallow this: UCLA averages 419 yards per game on
the ground, 6.7 yards per individual carry and only two
out of eleven Bruin runners average less than 5.8 per
carry (all but one ha ve broken runs of 25 yards or more).
Now take a deep breath. Point-wise, the Bruins have
had games of 66, 62, 61, 59 and 55 and already have
broken the UCLA single-season scoring record with
three games to go.
It all adds up to disaster for anything in their way.
And everybody’s gasping except the thing in their way—
the Ducks.
“They’re the best,” says linebacker Bobby Green,
“but they can be stopped. And I figure we’re the team to
do it.”
Oregon does have the best defense in the conference
against the rush.
“They’re very effective the way they run that of
fense,” adds defensive end George Martin, “but we
pride ourselves in stopping the run. If we stop their
running game, we’ll stop everything.”
But the Bruin’s wishbone-T offense is a lot to stop
They run it with precision and when you stop one option,
there’s two more to go. The quarterback may either
designate a ball carrier in the huddle before the play, or
call an audible at the line of scrimmage, or once the play
is in progress decide whether he should give to his
fullback up the middle, pitch to his tailback for a sweep,
or keep the ball himself.
“The wishbone’s advantage,” explains Duck coach
Dick Enright, “is that there’s an alternative plan if one
of the runners is cut off. If the quarterback sees that his
fullback is going to be cut off he says to himself, ‘you’ve
got my fullback, now what about me?’ If the defensive
end cuts off the quarterback, he says, ‘Aha, I’ll pitch to
my tailback.’ We’ve just got to shut ’em down.
Everybody’s got to do their job.”
Defensive ends Don Johnson and George Martin and
linebackers Mike Jodoin, Bobby Green and Bill Meyer
are of particular importance in containing the Bruin
ground attack.
“There’s been a lot of pressure on us in practice,”
James McAlister may be back
explains Johnson. “Sometimes UCLA will triple team us
ends with a fullback, a tailback and a guard. It’ll be
rough but we’ve just got to stop that pitchout. ”
Says Jodoin, “They’ll be tough to cover because they
do have so many options. That wishbone is everything
it’s supposed to be.”
“Everybody’s just got to do their job,” says Meyer.
“We’ve just got to get to the ball quickly.”
According to Enright, Oregon won’t try anything
new to try and stop the Bruins.
“We’ll just defend them the way everybody else has
defended them,” he says. “It’s just a matter of in
dividual efforts by all our guys.”
It would be simpler, Enright notes, if the Bruins had
a weak spot in their backfield. But they don’t.
“They’ve got a good quarterback, a good fullback
and a good halfback,” he says. “I don’t like any of them
to carry the ball.”
Halfback Kermit Johnson overcame Oregon’s
Donnie Reynolds last Saturday and now leads the Pac-8
in rushing with 827 yards, a healthy 8.2 yards per carry
average. The other halfback, Russell Charles has
carried for 246 yards and a 7.7 average.
Injured James McAlister (479 yards, 5.9 per carry)
may return to the UCLA lineup after missing three
games with a knee injury. But even if McAlister still is
not ready, the Bruins will have a more-than-adequate
replacement in Charlie Schuhmann (360 yards, 5.8 per
carry).
UCLA uses two quarterbacks—Mark Harmon (422
yards, 7.7 per carry) and John Sciarra (395 yards, 7.7 per
carry)—and according to Oregon scout Harvey Winn,
Sciarra is the better runner but Harmon is the better all
around quarterback.
Neither are impressive in the passing department
(Harmon is 10-26 for 173 yards and Sciarra is 20-49 for 331
yards) but, then, who needs to pass when you’ve got a
running attack like the Bruins?
Besides trying to down a cast of excellent runners,
the Ducks will first have to decide who-in-the-heck has
| the ball.
“Their fakes are very deceptive and very well
executed,” says Martin.
“It’ll take awhile to adjust to their hand-offs,” says
Johnson, “but we’re no. 1 because we adjust to things
quickly. Where the ball is, our eyes will be.”
It’s important, according to these five defenders,
I that Oregon gets some points on the scoreboard quickly
and not let UCLA’s ground game gain momentum
“I think the offense is going to have to have the ball
40 percent of the time in order for us to win,” says Green.
“You can’t play catch-up ball with the wishbone,”
| says Jodoin. “They’ll take up seven minutes in a drive.
We’ve just got to get after them from the start.”
The general consenus among the five is that the
Ducks need—and hope—to hold UCLA to three touch
downs in order to win.
“It’s really going to be a challenge for everybody,”
says Meyer. “We’re disappointed about last week but
we’re not about to give up. This could be a real feather in
our cap if we beat UCLA.”
Last year’s embarrassing 65-20 loss to the Bruins
has definitely added incentive, according to the five.
“We had a bad experience down there last year and
we’re looking forward to playing them again,” says
Jodoin.
Does playing the nation’s most powerful ground
team have any psychological disadvantages?
“No, not at all,” claims Martin. “It’s a home game
and we’re fired up. We want this one and we don’t want
to let the fans down.”
Martin, like the others, respects the Bruins highly.
But he believes strongly in the Duck defense, too.
“We go into every game trying to shut out our op
ponents,” says Martin. “If you reach for the sky, even if
you fall short you’re not doing bad.”
Pre: still running strong
By DON CHAPMAN
Of the Emerald
If you’ve traveled around the
world, performed before heads of
state and a world-wide television
audience, won honors and awards
in national and international
competition, why would you want
to spend autumn mornings and
afternoons running Stevensen
track and through Eugene neigh
borhoods?
If you’re Steve Prefontaine,
you do it because it’s fun.
Although Pre completed his
track eligibility last spring he is
eligible to compete for Oregon's
cross country team because he
did not run last autumn
Pre says he planned in the
spring of 1972 not to run cross
country following the ’72 Olympic
Games in Munich. After more
than five months of competitive
running he says he needed a
break. Understandably.
His presence has already
helped the Oregon team. Two
weeks ago Pre won the Northern
Division cross country meet. This
weekend he is the favorite to win
the Pac-8 meet at Stanford.
Although he expects a big
challenge from Washington
State’s John Ngeno and Dan
Murphy, Pre holds the record
over the Stanford course. Coming
off a strong performance against
Ngeno and Murphy two weeks
ago, Pre appears to be the man to
beat Saturday.
Pre is careful, however, not to
understimate the strong Cougar
team.
“Washington State is the team to
beat. I know they’re planning
something special to use against
Oregon. I know Ngeno and
Murphy have something up their
sleeves to use against me. But I’ll
have something up my sleeve for
them, too.”
Pre says he is running strong at
the present time. The Northern
Division meet was his first
competitive race since July. On
doctors orders he stayed out of
competition to heal a pinched
nerve in his back. The injury
continues to cause some pain, but
not enough to deter Pre from
running in the Pac-8 and NCAA
meets.
Pre runs because running is
fun. He also runs because pride
and self-expression are involved.
“It’s all a matter of pride and
wanting to win,” says Pre.
“Every time you run in a meet,
you put yourself on the line. You
put your physical and mental
powers, your tact, your
philosophy on the line against
everybody else.”
You need to watch Pre run only
once to see that he is very
competitive. His distaste for
losing is obvious.
“It’s a matter of who works the
hardest. I work as hard as
anybody I know,” says Pre,
explaining his success.
Pre is more than an athletic
competitor. He does more on the
track and the cross country
course than running. He per
forms his special art. When Steve
Prefontaine runs, he is an artist.
Running is his means of artistic
expression.
“I’ve developed this philosophy
in the four years I’ve been here,”
he says. “Running is not just
competition. When I run it is a
performance, like a singer or an
actor. I don’t express myself with
a brush or a musical instrument.
I express myself with my body.
That philosophy makes it more
meaningful to myself and to the
people who watch me.”
With the Pac-8 and NCAA cross
country meets, the exciting era of
Prefontaine at Oregon comes to
an end. Pre will be missed partly
because of his many first place
finishes, but mostly because of
the way he earned those first
places.
MEETINGS
The Christian Science College
Organization will hold its weekly service at 6
p.m tonight in the Wesley Chapel, 1236
Kmcaid St All are welcome
D.R Hamann will hold a colloquium on
"Self consistent Surface Studies Electronic
Spectra and Chemical Bonds" at 3:30 p.m
today in Rm 16 Science I Coffee will be
served at 3 15 in the John Binney Lounge
The University's local OSPIRG Board will
meet at 4 p.m today in M 111 EMU
Discussion will include project reports and
local board election administration
Philip Vera Cruz, vice president of the
United Farmworkers Union, will attend an
informal meeting of the Eugene Friends of
the Farmworkers from 3 p.m to 5 p.m Nov
10, at the Newman Center, 1850 Emerald
Anyone interested in meeting Mr Vera Cruz
and learning more about the activities of the
Union is invited to attend
Dr Elizabeth Hay, Prof of Anatomy,
Harvard University, will speak on "Control
of Corneal Differentiation by Extracellular
Matrix," at 4 30 p.m Friday, in 123 Science
There will be an international Education
Center meeting at 7 p.m tonight in Rm. 202
EMU Interested newcomers are welcome
Mr Colin Wilkinson will speak on "Ex
ploration. Geology, and Potential of the
North Sea" at 4:30 p.m Friday in Rm. 307
Volcanology.
A Sociology Student Union meeting will be
field at 3:30 p.m. today in 714 PLC
MISC.
The "Over 30 Group:" Renew and restore
your life philosophies, shop for new roles,
build a new life, solve your personal
problems through empathetic listening, and
exploring and assessing your skills and
attitudes tor new occupations. If interested,
call Counseling Center, Ext. 3227, or contact
Vernetta Caldwell.
Mia Hall, soprano, will have a recital at 8
p.m September 11, in the Gerlinger Lounge
Hall studied in Germany.
The Voluntary Action Center. 673 W 10th
(phone 342 4451), needs volunteers in the
following areas woodworking supervisor,
library aides in the Coburg area, PE aides,
teacher aides, tutors, group leaders and
listeners in the Pleasant Hill area, big
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Tutors are needed for Bio 101, 102, Chem
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Hall tor information
A slide presentation on the "Treasures of
Mount Sinai" will be held today at 8 p.m in
107 Lawrence Dr A.D McKenzie visited
Mt Smai and has many slides of its
treasures, including the most important icon
collection in the world Coffee will be served
after the lecture
KWAX
Noon Chopin, Three pieces for piano
Stravinsky, Firebird Suite Beethoven,
Sonata No 5 in C Minor
1:00. Gore Vidal on Ford Hall Forum
3:300 Star Spangled Rhythm by Art Van
Damme Ensemble and Quintet
4 00 Chicago Blues
6 30 Liszt, Todtentanz Famous Oboe
Concertos Schubert, Sonatas in A and D
Grief, Piano Concerto in A Minor
8:30 World Music Survey
9:30 Brahms, Violin Sonatas Nos. 2 and 3
Bartok, Piano Concerto No 3. Mendelssohn,
Quartet No 3 in B Minor
PL-3
6 30 p.m.—Computer Tutorial no 4
7 30—David Lean Self Portrait Lean
discusses his working methods; examples
from his films are included
8:30—International Perspectives