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e of the Gallant Orangemen 7ho Toppled -Stanford's Famous T-Formatiom r ' .... . 3 :-;:-A-.-Ki-.'id1 Wane Slam, aearter Oregon Stale College . Ntrmu Pe ten, left end Oregon SUte Collere . Uoorge Bain, left tackla , -: . Oregon state CoOego ' ucotv xmuck, left end i' - Oregon SUte College - ' Bob Detiuaaa, left half . ; Oregon State College j Lewis gbettea, fallback Oregoai SUte College '.' Gears Peters, " rter v Oregon SUte College Qwntte Greraovrli center Sport Sparks Ct KON GEMMELL Sure it's true "Precipitation Pete" and a second division team combined to curtail attendance to a measley 33,000 for our Salem Senators' home season finished with money in the bank ivory, as saleable players are known to the trade. . . The house that Geo. E. Waters built won't . . AL WALDEN. f f f k i cording showed less rain to have fallen during the specific hours of 'insurance than the policy called for. . .That's how close it was. . . But the checkls in the bank, there's no red ink, and, should a ball player, or two or three be peddled, the books' may sHbw a slight profit. . . This from Happy Howard Maple, the business boss, who kept the cookie barrel from running dry by the simple expedient of whacking expenses $5000 nearer the bone. . . "If we get some, good breaks next season instead of all bad, as this year," said .Maple, "and play to 50,000 or more, there's no reason why. we can't make a little money." . , . "Especially is this true In that Salem merchants have been' and are behind us like I've never seen them "for-anything else. They've really been fine about t baseball contributing $2000 in advertising and going out " of their way to help us at every. turn." , . . !-':' , A ; . . . ' O-i",:.'- ,. ,-. ,. M Deals Brewing for Dierickx, llelser And what of the Senator season of 1942? . . Well, the club owns 1 3 players some " of proved ability and. others of alleged ability. . . Among them are five pitchers, including Frankie-the-flipper Dierickx, Rojr Helser,5 Chet Simpson, RonJ Smith and Bill Kelly.' . '. San Diego has evinced interest in Dierickx and may take the sturdy little righthander in an outright deal or in a trade, jvhile Dallas of the class A-l Texas wheel is currently dickering.for Helser. . . Neither Simpson, Smith nor Kelly has yet proved himself ready for class B baseball. I: Infielders in the" fold number two, First Baseman Charley Shoemaker and Third Baseman Eddie George-neither one of whom appears quite rady. . . Outfielders include Charles Baldy Petersen, who most certainly deserves a chance in higher com pany and who may get it, andClint Cameron and Claude O'Con nell. . . Cameron began to hit as was expected of him late in the season and may come along this year. . . O'Connell is yet to be tested.. - - ' ' -. -i-1 . ;; The catching department, generally the hardest to fill, is the5 brightest. . , Here there is Eddie Adams, for whom Seattle con tinues to profess an interest; Cliff Barker, who had a whale of year in the Pioneer circuit and should be ready to step in as number one receiver; Jack Warren, the rookie who possesses tremendous power with the bat; and, probably, Jimmy Robert son, who first has a season of, basketball eligibility to complete at Willamette before he signs, t " Unless Little Skipper Griffiths returns at shortstop, it now appears the Senators will certainly have a complete new in field, probably at least two new outfielders and practically a, new pitching staff. . . And, if Griffiths doesn't return, a new manager. But, with the probable exception of Wenatchee, it'll probably be the same old league. .o . How About Bearcat-Lutheran Doicl Game? This corner's" recent assertion Willamette and Pacific Lu theran should come to football grips this season was taken up en toto by the Tacoma-News-Tribune's Dan Walton and in part by an AP sportster in Seattle. . Spec Keene, the 'Cat coach, in dicates he'd lend a receptive ear to any such proposal either for the open Oct. 31 date or for a January 1 bowl game in Tacoma. Still two undefeated, unscored upon football teams in our -town the. Willamettes having waltzed over four opponents 140-0 and the Viks having victimized three adersaries 81-0. . . Well, all right, make it four unscored upon teams for Paurish and Leslie both have virgitggoal lines in the City Intramural loop also. - ' ' ; v Nothing noteworthy in the Bearcats four-touchdowns-in-the-first-quarter, 43-0 scamper over Linfield. for it was entirely expected. , . That is, nothing except the continued waltzin' of Al Walden, whom Keene says he wouldn't trade for" any Coast con- ference halfback he's yet seen. . . Walden humped his stumpy frame to a personal gain of .174 yards in 15 carries, an average of 11.6 yards per pack. . . Furthermore, the 'Cats' other confer ence games--with Pacific, CPS and Whitmart-undoubtedly will be the same free-scoring,' one-sided affairs. . , : -; Not so the Viks, who looked surprisingly good in defeating Albany 0-0. . Their competition gets tougher as they go along, with the. possible exception -of , this week's encounter with Cor allis. . After that, it's Astoria, Bend and Medford on successive weekends with Astoria,' Eugene and Medford looming especial ly tough. ''.".'-'--'. r The work of Salem's line, after it got over its first quarter fright, was particularly heartening in the Albany mix. . . The backfield was a known quantity with speed, power and versa- , tility aplenty-but not even Coach Hauk knew whether his in experienced forwards could stand the gaff against good competi tion. . They did, and looKed better as they went along. ' ' Qciiison Cleaves. BC Eagles' Hopes : EOSTON; Oct lHThe ed ucated toe c Clemson's Walter Tayne gave tlie comeback hopes cf Ecstcn coHege a resounding J 'ck in the seat of the trousers Caturday. I . - The undefeated Tigers, spark cl ty this IS 5-pound tailback frci Greenville, EC, snarled and this year, but they nevertheless and a small batch of marketable have to pay any exhorbitant in- come tax rno dux ai least Mrs. Waters, who admits she is deriving a satisfying kick out of owning and operating a pro fessional baseball club, won't have to delve into the comfort ably long sock also' left by the man who thought enough -of Salem to "do something for her" in order to keep the club on an even keel in Financial Straights. . Actually, the Solons books might have shown a wee bit of a loss had not Jimmy Nichol- son's insurance firm come through" with a $500 rairi check on' the Al Schacht-Salem-Spo.- kane ' finale here, despite 'the' fact the weather bureau's re LSU in Upset . BATON ROUGE, La Oct 11- (J-Louisiana State : upset ; the dope bucket by outplaying Mis sissippi. State's great football ma chine and holding it to a'scoreless tie . here Saturday night-before 30,000 spectators. battled their way to a-26-13 tri umph over Boston's talented Ea gles in a spine-tingling battle be fore ,25,0 00 fans at windswept Fenway park mm PuckS:Tip Siiice ?15 ; (Continued from Page 1) ' : Curtis -Mecliam : Stars in Great Win, 20 to 6 ; COAST CONFERENCE STANDINGS f . - W t ' Pet. PI P Ore. SUU 2 1 . .CC7 2 . jj Stanf or4 2 . 1 .667 " 52 ' ' 25 Orefoa . . 1 1 M '35 25 WuhiBfton ; -; 1 , 1 , - .5W 29 r UCLA , i I 1 Mt 1 39 USC ,,, ',, .. a 1.- 1 - .500 - 19 27 WSC 1 2 J31 . 32 39 California 1 .M " 13 line smash, and then passed for 23 to Tony Crish, left end. Me- cham completed the job with a left handed 1 throw diagonally into a corner 'ot the end zone, where . Tommy R o b 1 i n 1 was waiting. Newquist kicked his second conversion. . - Mecham set the stage for the - . A". third touchdown with a . sensa- tional 53-yard runback after in tercepting a pass. He went to the Oreton CSC Ydi. (alned, rushiag 2 51 11 71 23 I 1M . 9 1 19 34 79 rxsset aocmpiea Passes completed Yds, Babied, passes Yds. lost attempted passes Passes intercepted by Yds. gained runback int. . J5 1 (4 passes 1M . 37 55 Punting average '.. Total yds, kic.es retwrnea Opponents fumbles recovered Yds. lost, penalties IS 13 Includes pants and kickoffs. Trojan seven, made two through me middle and then passed to Russell Nowling, a sub. A moment later Robertson's pass to Jones sent him off . on his long journey to end the day's scoring , for the crowd of 45,000 Pacific coast conference fans. ' Southern California made more first downs, 11 to seven, and gained more yards by land and air than the Webfoots, but they don't pay off on the sta tistic sheet and Oregon was the master throughout. Oliver's crew boasted a solid line and a set of good backs. Trojan supporters cheered the beaten team, however, for a gal lant stand against a superior in vader. It was a personal triumph -for Coach Oliver. His 1939 team held USC to a tie, and that was the closest any Oregon outfit had done since defeating USC, then a uura rate gridiron adversary, in 1813. . : . , OREGON ; tJSC ,'. Heywood . Wilier . Thomas Green Verry Crowther Jones Robertson Crish 4.1. Moshofsky Wilsons. -XG- Segal Aahcom.. Regner L Iverson RT -RE.. -QB, LH.. Roblin Mecham Bleeker pwnlap F R. Musick preton. ;, 0 I 13 9-29 I'SC ; 99 Oregon scoring: Touchdowns Reg ner. Roblin, Nowling for . Regner). Point after touchdowns Newquist (for Dunlap) two. placeJticks. : , VSG scoring: Touchdown-4or.es.' Jefferson Bills 2 Turner on (Grid - JEFFERSOJJ CoarH 7at Too1 sends his Jefferson Jii'gh six-man fooball team Into its 'first aetinn next Friday against Turner high, wmcn. nas aiso adopted six-man football,' .. "- Jefferson's team at cresent in cludes Royal Hart and Frank Gilmomv ends; Clifford Bowcn, center; Gary Barna, and Jimmie Henderson, halfbacks, and Don Gilmour, quarterback. - . Other: boyf battling for posi tions include Jack and Jim Cos- telow, i Bob Sherwood, Stanley Miller, Thomas Gee, Clifford Evans. Richard VanWinkle. Eobbv Bruce, B21 Henderson. Dale Fish and Robert Helms.. Grid They Ramble for. Oregon Webfeet V.;--. 4 . i f - ma Tin mil in mmosmJii.it. CURTIS MECHAAJ- i -' . Salem, Oregozu Sunday Manilng. October 12. 1941 Bodacious With Upset of Stanford Skein ' By HERB BARKER NEW YORK, Oct H--S tan- ford's Indians, Rose Bowl cham pions and ':. heavy favorites to snare their second successive Pa cific Coast conference crown, came to the end of football's un defeated trail Saturday along with Tulane's mighty green wave and a host of other major . pow ers in a series of spectacular up sets all along The wey. Stanford fell ; before Oregon State's hardy eleven In a tight battle at Corvallis, 10-0, breaking the Indians' winning streak of 12 successive victories nine dur ing the regular season a year ago, a Rose Bowl conquest of Nebras ka, and triiimphs In - their first two ' engagements this season. Oregon State fairly earned iits victory, gained by a first period field goal 'by Warren Simas and a third period touchdown by Bob Dethman. : Tnlane, lulled as the Soatbv e as tern conference's greatest power arte its victories aver Boston college and Auburn, came a cropper at Houston at the hands of Rice's Owls, 10-9, In a sensational . doeL Bob Bromley scored all of Bice's points In' this major upset. -These . were the main ' victims or the day but the list of schools suffering their, first defeats, was along one Colgate, Princeton, sHo Says Headman Spec Keene f the AVUlametle Kearcats, left, to Co-Captains Slartin Earstad and CuUJy Heycoiis, as he outlines stratery the unaefeated, unscored upon Salem collegians will employ this Fri day nislit aralnst Whitller college of California here. The 'Cats have amassed "149 points to none scored against them in four games thus far, . EDmyfar Oteg T UO Mem r ? If JIMMY NEWQUIST Beavers Stir Nation Holy Cross, Yale, Illinois,' Mar quette, Oklahoma, Georgia Tech,' Kentucky, to mention a few. , Ther e was no stopping such powerful arrays as Minnesota, Navy, Fordham, Penn, Duke, Michigan Texas, Northwestern and Notre Dame. Minnesota, paced by Bill Da ley and Brace Smith, hammer ed Illinois into submission, 34 C, while Michigan's Wolverines, again led by Sophomore Tom Kuxma, troanced Pitt, 40-9. j Held to a 14-14 draw in the first period, Northwestern" turned loose . its I immense power and crushed Wisconsin, 41-14. Steve Juzwik and Angelo Bertelli led Notre Dame to a 20-0 triumph over Georgia Tech's Engineers at Atlanta. i Texas' Longhorns, touted as al most certain winner of the South west ". conference race,"; brushed Oklahoma aside without trouble, 40-7, : with Jack Crain scoring twice. This set the pace for a sen sational day; for . the Southwest conference as a whole for Rice whipped Tulane, Texas A. and M. ran wild In the second half to rout New .York university, 49-7; Texas Christian outscored Indi ana,' 20-14, and Southern Metho dist spilled Amos Alonzo Stagg's College of Pacific eleven, 34-0. In the lone conference test of the day, Baylor's Bears stopped Ar in Historic Win 4 '5 - V- - Paga 8 kansas, 20-7. Fordham had. to come from' behind to halt North Carolina, 27-14, with Steve Filipowies the mainspring of the Ranis at tack. Fullback Bert Stiff paced Penn's Quakers to a 28-13 con uest of Yale whose second half rally .made tie score re spectable but left ne doubt as to which was the superior team. Navy used reserves mainly la routing Lafayette, 41-2. a kick oiocaed late in the fourth Quarter cost Holy Cross its 5S theV, unbeaten record as Syracuse won out, 6-0, but Colgate was soundly outplayed in the late stages by Dartmouth s . surprisingly strong Indians, 18-6. Nor did Princeton have any chance with Columbia's Lions who won. 21-0. ' as Paul Governali picked up . nearly 200 yards on his own. A pass, Ken Stozer to Lou Bufahno, carried Cornell to . a 7-0 victory over Harvard. Boston college's Eagles, victors over Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl a year ago, but beaten by Tulane this season, once . again, found southern competition too strong and succumbed to Clemson's Ti gers, Southern conference cham pions, 26-13. Army had its hands full in handling Virginia Military, 27-20, and , it was VMI's Nelson CaUett who carried off the main individual honors. . I - Orangemen Plaster Cards rWith First : Eoss in 13 Contests Stop Rose! Bowl Champs in Rainy Fracas as 22,000 Jam Stands; ? , Simas; Dethman Bag All Points ';'. (Continued from Page 1) the final seconds,but it had a major part of its stingy taken away when Pete Kmetovic; the speed merchant left halfback, had to . retire from the game early in the second quarter because of a: back injury.- ' . ''"''.' ."',.".' Above aH,'theT couldn't do what it has ia: many times'" prior to this gamer It couldn't come from behind, ': although" it ' tried; nonchalantly first, and then desperately. -. - But the fine Beaver defense, operating a majority of the time in a five-man line, with three' backers 11TV turn TialfVt9lra wu Mievi was just 100 lou en. Twice it stopped on downs, - thrice the Stanfords it - intercented passes just when the Indians were menacing the hardest - and five times it forced the 1940 Coast and Rose Bowl champs to punt. It took these Beavers . lust -14 plays to march 57 yards into po sition for Simas' calmly. confi dently executed Yield goal. Which in itself was enough to win the game right there In 1 that first eight minutes Of play. CORVALLIS, Ore.! Oct U.-(JPl -Oregon State college's team phy sician. Dr. Waldo Ball, said Sat urday night that Center Ouentin ureenough, who suffered a dis located knee, will be lost to the team about a month. In two plays after receivinc the, opening , kickoff, Stanford gained two yards and lost two and and was forced to punt r Al- bert's kick wa Prmin bert's kick was grounded on the OSC 34. - and from there the Bevos began to boom. Bob Dethman in : two tackle plunges got seven yards and a Stanford offside gave the Bea vers a first down an their 46. Don Durdan and Choc Shelton powered for 11 yards between them , and another first down on the Stanford 43. A pass, . Durdan to Zellkk. was Incom plete, but Shelton: slammed guard for two and then Durdan reversed around right end for IS and a first down en the 23. ' Shelton and r Dethman. alter nated In three packs for a fourth first down to the 13. An aerial attempt Dethman to Durdan, was incomplete," Durdan got but one at tackle and Shelton but four at guard to the Stanford eizht. and that; was the signal for Stiner to send Simas into the game for his 'CT . . ' ane dwij sopnomore oropcd back to the 17-yard line, where Dethman pinned the 'ball for ' him, : and eooly - thumped ft straight through the uprights for., three points that loomed more and more important as the game progressed. . . Stanford staged a brilliant 61- yard march, thatrstarted late in the first period .and carried , well mto me second, and that included two beautifully" executed passes by Albert that' were good' for a total of ,22 yards, but the attack Dogged down when the Indians were penalized 15 -yards for clip ping f after reaching the Oregon State 21-yard line. Oregon State slammed as deen as the Stanford 14 with less than five minutes to play in the -first half, getting the ball on then own 44 on a punt exchange and im mediately picking up 28 yards to the - Stanford 28 on ; Dethman. pass to Durdan, but like Stanford ost their scoring opportunity on a cupping penalty. The , penalty came as they made what Would have been a first down on the Stanford 14.-. . ' ' . Wiih but a minute to play in the half. Albert uncorked an of his daring I'ef thanded passes" that sailed far down the field', to End Fred Merer, .who ; took it on the dead run on the Ore gon State 39 and ran seven more to the 23. The play was good for 42 yards but was nulli- on Us; USE Greeiioughls Given Ball ' By Teammates . CORVALLIS, Ore., OcL.lI.-( -Mud-spattered Stanford . footbaU players .filed into the dressing room, Soddenly they plopped onto benches. Scarcely : a word was spoken. Not since 1339 had a RttA locker room been so quiet It was the end of the victory trail for the crew that leaped to national prominence last year with a spec- mvuxclt x-iormauon attack. t " An Oregon State team wh.vv. only- two weeks ago had been rated as : Coast confprn. n enders, had upset the unbeaten. lZ,"1 011 a tain-soaked field, 10 to 0. - - ? , "The better ball club said Stanford Coach won.' Clark Muugnnessy. -Don't think those Oregon SUte boys aren't tough. You cant lose one of your stars; like we lost Kmetovic, early In the game, and beat a club as good as Oregon State was here," he added.. '::,::t:.;-.. 'S-r Across the l- hall . rw ' Staters, too tired even to cheer r sank wearflviontn hn. 1 asked, "How Ouentin?" " Greenouah. the hlt OSC center who iir i,r77 tensive clay that tjia vi nn-mcibility of the T-formation . and All-Ameriran . i . nadbeen carried off the field on v - ew:neT in the fourth quarter. . N,a r v o u s Ltm st;n. e coach, told them Greenough had a dislocated knee and was in a hospitaL ' . .. Seniors of the siruad dressed hurriedly, picked up a rain soaked football used in the rune aad sUrted for the bos- 1 pltal. ;; did 7a lot to help win this game and the least we can da far bin. i. i ... ... - - - m wau, - iney said.- fied a moment later when Shel ton Intercepted Alberta pass on the OSC 19. n . These surDrLsin a the break that led ' lorw touchdowns-midway of the third quarter. Durdan dug his toe W. the ball for a SSd that was grounded m o : there Eric Arhistrrin , Ti-i land boy, fumbled the ball as he -came chareine ovr .i. j - - - quick opening play. , wuenun Greenough, the Beaver" center and cantain -i insive game' ?f ttw eTnd had lo be n-ied ' off the field, recovered the LaU on the Stanford 13 pu on It took the Beavers eight jPlays to make their touchdown from there, with the Lilians giving ground grodsrinrly - , each, but they mart. t. DeihijiAn hurtled himif the two charging lines on fourth down; to make It by scant Inches from one foot away. Again Si- . (Continued on Page. 7, Col 3)