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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1933)
h er on Cause or Low Scores: Rules viewe OQLCuieS DM I FAVDft CHANCES Others Lay Full Blame on -t e . i rs In College Skeds - xrrrr ttiu Trrvcwa CHICAGO, Not. 14. () The public's demand- for Its money's worth, with games between even ly matched teams, is chiefly re sponsible for the lack of scoring in football this season. That appears to be the general opinion of coaches In the western conference, which has been pro ducing sensational gridiron bat tles, the coaches, with three ex ceptions, are not in favor of alter ing the rales. - 1 The exceptions were Dick Han ley of Northwestern, who has campaigned for changes calculat ed to improve offensive football, Sam Willaman of Ohio State, and Dr. Clarence Spears, head coach at Wisconsin. The others favored leaving the rules as they are. All agreed the practice of meeting "set-up" teams is disappearing be cause high class games must be presented to keep the turnstiles busy. "The defense has all the bet ter of it In the rules." said Han ley. "I have campaigned to change the rules to permit forward pass- X m VnVi I. J 4 V. i linn of scrimmage. This would not only improve the overhead game, but would improve the running game which the spectators come to see. I also favor going back to the old rule which permits running with a recovered fumble or block ed kick, and moving the goal posts back up to the goal line." "The rules are man-made and therefore not perfect," Bob Zupp ke, of Illinois, said. . "I .hope the committee will not tinker with the rules. All low scoring means is more equal teams. Low score games are interesting. Michigan beat Illinois by only 7 to 6 but nobody went home." "The elimination of the dead ball rule might add some thrills.' Harry Kipke, coach of Michigan's BU Ten leader, said,- "but it has mcle coaches willing to open up with lateral and double lateral passes. I am afraid return to the old fumble rale would cause these spectacular plays to be discarded and a more conservative game would result." Linemen Join Bearcat List Of Cripples Strict impartiality in his deal ing with various members of his squad is one of the things Coach "Spec" Keene of the Willamette Bearcats is noted for and he doesn't delight to see any of them Injured; nevertheless he declared Tuesday that he was glad the sev eral new casualties resulting from the hard game with Southern Ore gon Normal last Friday were not backfleld men. The backfield has had its share of injuries and fur thermore, one -or two enforced changes in the forward wall will not cripple' the squad completely. The men" carrying new hurts which may prevent them from vlayinr against Albany college rrlday afternoon or at least ham per their performance are Con-n-.sT Weisser and Versteeg. , ' Keene nevertheless was 5 not feeling overly pleased -aftle Al bany game prospect. He fears his men are looking ahead too assidu ously to Whitr an and not taking Albany seriously enough. The Pi rates, Keene declared, are practi ' cally as big as his own team and exceedingly hard to make head way against, though they have ex hibited no outstanding threats on offense this season. SLRTE 2 OPEIRS STATTON, Not. 14. Stay ton high' school will open its basket ball season Friday, when it meets Aumsrille there- in an afternoon 1 game and Turner that night on the Turner floor.' Stayton has 22 candidates for the' teams. - ' The first half of the. fnterdass -fasketball series, . has been"; com- pleted, with the seniors and Jun ' iors tied for first place with a win each, the freshmen in third place ' with one and one and the sopho mores last with two losses. - The Junior girls are" leading in the girls games, with no defeats DALLAS B TO PLAY T DALLAS, Nov. 14. Robert Kutch will take his Dallas high B squad to Salem. Thursday after noon to play a return engagement . with. the football team of Parrlsh Junior high. Dallas won the game between these schools which was played here a few weeks ago. .The local B squad repeated the. jjauas high victory onArmlsuce day when it defeated the. Inde pendence ' B squad here Monday by a to 0 score. The game was an exact duplicate of the first team game at Independence, with ; Pilas scoring her touchdown in nuns PUSH State Office Building and ' . Industrial Golfers at Top Of League in First Round INDUSTRIAL GOLF W. L. Pet. 1.000 1.000 .500 .500 .250 .250 .000 .000 State Office 4 Industrial .- 4 Gasoline 2 EdLega! J. 2 0 0 2 2 3 3 4 4 Ins.-Realty 1 Engineers 1 Utilities -.0 Business Men 4..0 The teams which turned out the greatest number; of players fared best in the first round of matches the first quarter on the same play that won for the high school. Hunter carried the ball through the line for the score. The game was c 1 o s e throughout the last three periods and Independence made a big threat in the final per iod w h e n it completed several passearut failed to score. Hunter was injured in the game and will not be able to play again for about three weeks. So far this year the B squad has won three games and lost only one. They have beaten Doth Leslie and Parrlsh Junior high schools from Salem, and the Independence B squad. They lost a game earlier in the season p the Sheridan high first string. The starting lineup for the Dal las second string against Parrlsh will be as follows: ends. Schier man and Woodman; tackles, Mc Donald and Joslin; guards, Har ris and Conweli; center. Star buck- quarter, Wenger; halfbacks. Kil- ander and Stiles; fullback, Mc- Kern. For several weeks football fans have been mumblinR to themselves or murmuring to each other that there doesn't seem to be much scoring this fall, and bow comes the alert Associated Press, which keeps tab on a lot of things, with fig ures to prove it. Average total scores in college games this fall have been 12.00 points a game. o Spec Keene will agree with the fans and with the AP. Back in 1929, for instance, his Bearcats averaged a little over 29 points per game; this year they have averaged a little more than 7. That, speaking seriously, is an example of one of the answers. Willamette in 1929 had a team that was too good for its confer ence; it has a better team this year but the conference has bunt up to meet it. lint, riti Knee, it's true that defensive play has in recent years progressed faster than of fensive play. Nearly all the practicable of rensive piays were Immm vearn mro bnt coaches like Warner, Rockne and Jones built new systems of attack, based on shifts and formations rather than any new intrica cies. For a time tliey were hard to ston: dow the de fense has canght op with all of them. A few years ago most any college team would have only one plan of defense; now it will change its defense lour op . five times in a same, de pending on the situation. Snec ouzht to know about de fense too. for his low scoring team has held opponents to an aferage of less than three first dwns per game exclusive of the Ofegon State contest, ana mere rallv were not manv in that one. Opponents, including the Staters, have averaged less than seven points per game against Willam ette. University of Oregon In 1929 scored over 27 points per game; this yer it has averag ed 'ess than 22, but one rea son is that one of its nsual two breather games dlin't pan oat according to program; another is that Callison has kept the brakes on, saving his regulars as much as possible in every contest. Well, take Michigan; back in 1329 that outfit scored only 11.5 points per game,. this year it's. 18 to date. But in 1929 Michigan was the Big Ten doormat; and you know what It is now. Or take Dartmouth; it scored near ly 34 points per-game in 1929, when it lost only to Yale as usu al and to Navy; its record is about 18 points this year and while there were not so many known setups, it has also scored lower In its important games. Taking e very thin r into con sideration, we agree with those who claim something - besides schedules' is holding dawn the scoring, and also that if the rule makers .want the game to con tain more thrills, they'll have to provide tor more touchdowns, ridn't an enthusiastic neighbor almost toss us down Into row Q wnen uregon scorea the second time last Saturday? . it we think tho situation calls for something more ravolutlonarv than restor ing the old fumble and blocked kick rules. New encouragement to the forward pass would help; so would moving the goal - posts up io l-ic double strine train Maybe they should move the goal COMMENTS une up io .mm li-yard 4lnel in the Industrial golf league Sun day, it was shown when team scores were totaled up Tuesday, the outcome serving as a hint to team captains that the way to win is to get aU the players onto the course. State Office Building and In dustrial had a perfect day 'with Gasoline League and Educational Legal breaking even on their ini tial matches. Evidence that many of the teams are evenly matched was seen in the scores, particularly in the Engineers vs. Educational-Legal contest which the latter won by a single stroke, and the State Office Building vs. Gasoline League, won by the former by the same margin. Engineers and Educational - Legal also crowded Industrial closely. Some of the low individual scores were Frank Shafer's eren par for Industrial. Don Hendrie's 81 fer Educational-Legal, W. C. Crews' 82 for the Engineers and Fred Anunsen's S3 for Industrial. This week, ending Sunday, the eight teams which did not play last Sunday will swing into ac tion. Four-way matches are divid ed as follows: Medical-Dental, Bankers, State Capitol, Packers. Printers, Automotive, States man, Bonus-National Guard. POLLY AND HER PALS IVwSTELUtf HOW J (DEAR ME.' HE & - J WM. 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HOOFERS ARRIVE 4 HOLUYWrXQ TOOTS, AA41CH 13 ATOlUH DREAK FOR THAT TCVVrJ VVEOUHTTOBE HEAR1K1A FROM ' IV FIVE OF SALEM PLAYERS FINISH Knight, Wintermute, Yada, Halvorsen, Engle Face Last Game at Home Five of the first string players who have helped to make this year's Salem high school eleven one of the strongest produced by the local school in modern his tory, will perform for the edifica tion of a home crowd Friday night for the last time when the red and black, still undefeated, meets the likewise unbeaten Tilla mook squad. Knight and Wintermute will be lost from the Salem high back field at the end of the current season and Halvorsen, Engle and Tada from the line, as well as Saunders, Burrell and one or two others who are not regulars. - Coach Hollis Huntington re fuses to talk about any prospect of his team playing in the Port land Shrine game, pointing out that probably the two hardest games of the season remain to be played before the red and black will merit any such consideration. Tillamook is undefeated and Cor vallis which lost to Tillamook early in the season, defeated Eu gene fully as decisively as did Sa lem. Corvallis, which Salem must face on the enemy gridiron next DEAR OL MOTHER t BfcEN MICjHTY X U5NES0ME U)rm VPUTCHA: Int, GfCM BMHI tl)ttOT WfrWll MINUTE HE ,-XZr A -i W ruie -muAi vjitli SI I I U. 1 ' ---w.-.u.,. .. , ,- . l !' J l-H- II II ... l lKNOWI I II A465 lV-itTW l'r DOwrr 6EE WMy f"5T BECAUSE; THE RO881MS) SEE..XSOTTHE. W!M-WAAS Awpul, 1 r-r " - - - - v - r I .'r.. o . .i . tvji . . i -ir - - - - week, is said to be an unusually heavy team. Nevertheless many Salem fans are discussing the local gridstera' chances of being chosen for the big .Thanksgiving day contest Cancellation of the Chemawa game made this ' possible for the first time in several years. .If Sa lem should get past Tillamook and Corvallis it woul4 have the advantage of sufficient proximity to Portland that many local fans would swell the crowd and the Shrine hospital's receipts; but there i appears to be a tendency in Portland to pick a team from farther upstate. Huntington found all of his regulars on hand and In reason ably good condition for early prac tices this week, and unless scrim mage takes a new toll of.casaul ties, Salem high will be at full strength for the Tillamook clash. Jaques is Again Chosen to Head Golf Association NEW PORK, ....ov. 14. (ff) Herbert Jaques of Boston, who was elected president of. the United States Golf association last year after the original nom inee, Robert M. Cutting of Chi cago, had died, today was renom inated for a second term. The renomination followed a seldom broken precedent ,which haB seen nearly every president, since the formation of the associa tion In 1894, renamed for a sec ond term. His father held the of fice in 1909 and 1910. .Nomination A Bird in His Teeth Never Get Tangled Now Showing f VA'AUL THE TIME I I I FOR MERC jOS' LErAMEN 1 1 TH0U6HT IDA'S f SAWElWHO ) TAKl A 8Kb ,2J ...Lh ARE VOoA H.L TCLL VA s i 1 J V, S Q r X ALU ABOUT a li An Anemic BIneblood "Egging" AH-M I HERE'S A TELEGRAM FROM THE COLONEL I BUSSS H13 HEART HE WRED ME. THE A ARRIVED J AT FAVORITES IN ARMORY BOUTS Sugar an Exception as He Loses for First Time; Marvel Defeated The roar of the crowd resound ed as popular favorites won in three of the four wrestling matches at the armory last night. Only In the preliminary bout did Jesse McCann subdue the crowd's favorite, Don Sugai. Nor was it without a brilliant struggle. McCann weathered Sugai's fly ing tackles long enough to land what was variously interpreted as an uppercnt or an elbow Jab. Su gai, daxed, was "taken for a ride" via a crude but effective airplane spin, and lost the one-fall match. Otis Clingman disposed of the so-called "Masked Marvel from nowhere" in short order, taking two out of three falls. He then offered to risk his recently ac quired Pacific coast .middleweight championship belt against Wildcat McCann, provided the Wildcat won from the Masked Marvel or soma other worthy opponent. ; Clingman secured Boston crab holds in 11:50 and 3:30 to take falls from his obscure opponent. always has been tantamount to election. the Hand "Second Wind" Casper On LISTEN TO HIS TE LEAR'AM , TOOTS I rDEAR CASPER, OUST ARRWED FHSc OUT MUCH THINNER.- HAVE AI53CvmAEHT TO MEET hACAE rFT)TlAL. - STUDIO THIS AFTERMOCN CONTRACT-THEY PUT SWELL LIMOUSINE AT MY DISPOSAL? LOOKS' LIKE BiA DOUH FOR ME - WILL' WlRE TOU AZA!Nt TONlHT- DAN The Masked Marvel won the sec ond fall with a body slam in 2; 40 after dating Clingman with a chir opractic headlock which many In terpreted as an eye-gouge. Clingman'a other opponent was his tour and one-half year old son, Bobo Clingman. Bobo did every thing a veteran wrestler does ex cept cry to the referee. It was one of the best exhibitions seen here In a long while. ; . Lightning' Rod Fenton. a new comer last week, was cast in the villain's role against another new comer, Rob , Roy, clean-limbed youth from Jackson, Mich. Fen ton, with a Gus Kallio physique, was too strong to be annoyed by Boston crab holds, but he fell prey to a leg split and an airplane spin. PreTiously Fenton threw Roy with a body slam. Mickey McGuife clamped one ef his punishing Boston crab holds on Tugboat Van Lelt of Denver to win a one-fall -match. 1 - It was in the McGuire-Tan Leit bout that Art O'Reilly established himself as master of the situation in his new role of referee. O'Reilly Insisted on clean breaking on the ropes and bloodied Van Leit's mouth with a kick when the Den ver grappler deviated from the ac cepted tactics. - . .- It was announced that Harry Elliott was ill and unable to officiate. WEST SALEM WINS WEST SALEM, Nov. 14. The football game here last weekend between the local team and Brush College was a thriller in spite of the 14-0 score for West Salem. HE AND 1 HAVALVtf&:) - FEEUN ROTTEN ALON4 SO. WELL BECAUSE NEITHER OF LTS HAD AMYTH1MA- DO YCU SUPPOSE HEtL TRY AND SiZrN TO HltH-HAT ME SgZsss I DALLAS, Not. 14. After win ning over Independence tor the second straight - year and taking the county football championship again, the Dallas "high football team will have a two weeks' rest before their next game. A game with the alumni for this Friday has "been called off and the team wiU begin getting ready to tackle Woodburn here on November 24. The locals clearly showed their superiority over their old rivals on Armistice day although they only won by one touchdown." Tiis was the first time in the last 11 years that Dallas has won two consecutive games from Indepen dence. Dallas won last year by a 25 to 0 score. So far this year the locals have played six high school games and have won five of them. They still have to -play Woodburn and Am ity. The scores in the games to date are as follows: Dallas 0, Alumni 6. - Dallas 12. Dayton 0. Dallas IS, Philomath 0. Dallas 35, Newport 0. .Dallas 7, Molalla 6. Dallas 6, Gervais 7. Dallas 6, Independence 0. Hugh Rogers Indisposed City Engineer Hugh Rogers hopes to be able to return to his office to day after a two days' absence oc casioned by a mild indisposure. By CLIFF STERRETT By WALT DISNEY WHY, I DON'T EVEn KMOW WHAT A N TOOTH-COMB IS! I ONLY USE A rush! By SEGAR I A i. ii t av m r A a i a. a 1 1 ,0 TTT" By DARREL McCLURE 6y JIMMY MURPHY THE BEST WAY TO KEEP EVEN WnH HMiSTD ACCOMPUSH SOMETHING YOUR SELF. SOOUIT IF HE . MAKES ACwf SCOvVUr4A AND CTAKW-iTMIMK. SALARY.