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By RON GEM3IELL
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-1 It is to be wondered, even aft
er they've won the Rose. Bowl
game' and how ihey did!);
if our Oregon State Beavers
' will get the credit due them .
-They, didn't; get it before the
I game, when eastern ."experts"
f rated them as much as a 4-1
underdog, and they certainly
, didn't get it during the game . . .
It has been seldom your corre
spondent, in the four plus years
i he has operated this corner, stopp
ed to criticize another sportswnt
er. van official, or a broadcaster,
btfif ybull forgive me this once,
I want to go on record as not in
the least liking the inflections of
Bill Stern's voice m his Rose uo.wi
fame , broadcast from Durham
Jhursday.
While I, personally, rate Stern-1
the second best football an-
- nouncer in the world, I was
- sorely pat oat at those voice in
flections of his which, to this
listener at least, conveyed the
impression that Duke was trim- -mlng
dor Beavers something
awful, when the stout team that
Stlnet built actually never was
behind, j ;
What I mean is this: When
Steve Lach of the Duke's got
away for nice yardage, or when
the Dukes scored, you'd have
thought, from Stern's staccato de
scription, that Superman was sav
ing Manila ... But when our
Beavers were going to town, he
announced It as. matter-of-factly
as though it were a knitting bee
In which Mrs. Smith was out
heedling Mrs. Jones by knitting
three and purling one.
CanHCoolVsl ,
Not even Stern's vocal vicissi
tudes can dull the pride and joy
all of us Oregonians, in particu
lar, take in the victory our gallant
Beavers bagged in the transplant
ed Rose Bowl, however ., , . Coach
Lon Stiner, especially, deserves
unbounding credit for not1 only
bringing Oregon State its first
Rose Bowl victory in history, but
for accomplishing that task with a
team for which no one predicted
better than a fifth place finish in
its own league.
In fact, all the Pacific coast
should be -proud of the Bevos,
for their accomplishment' in a
large measure wipes out the
chagrin felt by all the inter
sectional losses our west coast
- elevens took this season ...
They've recaptured the respect
for Pacific Coast conference
football that' was, until this sea
son, universal. !
This corner is especially grate
ful to Stiner's company of Dur
dan, D e t h m a n, Day, Peters,
Chaves, Halvorsen, Zellick, Wick
ett, Greenough, Saunders, etc., in
that they justified the faith your
correspondent had in them, . . .
"Within a few minutes after the
close of the game, five Salem citi
zens telephoned ' congratulatory
messages to this department for
its correct prediction on the game's
outcome one of the very few to
back Oregon State . . . Incidental
ly, I backed them with a small
batch of cash, also, and was most
happy to collect, i -O
Hoop in Horseshoic?
Postcript on that announcement
ihat the state high school basket
ball tournament! would be held at
Willamette university: Maybe it
won't . j. . But, whoa! Calm your
self, for it WILL be in Salem . . .
There is a distinct possibility that
the state fairgrounds' horseshow
building will be renovized and
made available; for the, affair,
"however, instead of staging it' in
the W i 1 1 a m e 1 t's inadequate
court
Moreover, the tournament is
, almost certain to start a day
i , earlier, as per Manager Les
Sparks suggestion, so that there
; will be no more than four games
i per day . . . Four games on
1 Tuesday, March 10, and four on
, Wednesday (two afternoon- and
i two day) will complete the first
f round, and then the meet can
; go Into its regular schedule as
I heretofore played.
Sparks, for one, thinks no(heat
I ing plant will be necessary at the
I ;horseshbw building, thus pre
cluding one terrific expense . .
He gives an offhand estimate of
$2500 for the removable floor that
would be necessary, plus another
$1000 for basket stands. . i . The
-horseshow building, Sparks says,
could seat as many as 16,000 if
i all available space was used, or
around 9000 as la . .. Certainly it
is that the seating is adequate.
Snavely Denies
.Rumors of Coast
Conference. Job ;
I MIAMI,' Flavian. l-i$-Carl
' Suavely," Cornell football coach, '
; said Thursday he hadn't heard '
. ' rumors that he was slated for a
Facifie Coast," conference ' job,
yj possibly at Southern California
' r Washington. . , -
Of the report, he said:
; ; It's news to me. .
Tm not looking-for a Job..
" ,.I think I have a pretty good;
; position where I am."
' . The grapevine report origi
i j rated at- Durham, NC while
,EnarcIy was attending, the
-Oracle Cowl game in Miami, .
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Durdan, Dethman, Gray Stars
Of Brilliant State Grid Machine
DUKE STADIUM, Durham, NC,
of the tallitimher" the bunch of kids
through the mud and murk
A 70-yard aerial bolt
and mighty Blue Devils for a 20 to 16 triumph for the three to one underdogs, af
ter 56,000 gridiron bugs, sardined in this big sunken concrete coffee cud. watched
the Dukes come from behind
But that was only the payoff pitch. Before that, during
it and afterward, the busy Beavers from the northwest
pushed Duke's hitherto unbeaten powerhouse all over the
lot, except for a comparatively few minutes when the Blue
Devils' reveres were reversing and theii passes weren't
sliding off receivers' fingertips. j
The Oregons were never
opening kickoff, which Tom
George Peters picked up for
29, to the final gun, which sound
ed just after Bob Dethman went
into the air for the fourth inter
ception of a Duke pass, the South
ern conference champions had to
fight up-hill all the way. And this
Oregon hill was just too steep
for the Dixie machine.
Twice Jthe Dukes drove, down
on long marches to tie the score
--once going 71 yards on nine
plays, with Tossing Tom Davis as
the spearhead, and again parading
64 yards oh four play's, with the
help of a critical roughing penalty
that put the ball on Oregon's one
yard line.
But except for those two tours,
and a bad pass from Oregon's cen
ter that resulted in Duke's other
two points, this show was strictly
Oregon.
Don Durdan, the slim speedster
who pitches 'em lefthanded but
runs 'em with both feet, and Deth
man, who was just that "death
man" to Duke on passes, led the
Oregon chorus all afternoon. But
in the end, the payoff was put
on by a little heralded reserve
back, Gene Gray, who caught
Dethman's heave on the 70-yard
clincher play and turned in a bit
of swivel-hipping that would have
dpne credit to a Red Grange.
He took tbe ions pitch it
sailed 42 yards through the
air on Duke's 28 as sub safety
man Moffatt Storer came charg
ing up.
For what seemed ike minutes
he stood in one spot, pirouetting
like- Nijinsky and faking a dive
out of Byrd. Then he tossed his
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Jan. 1 (AP)
who didn't have
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Thursday to win the orphaned Rose Bowl game.
in the third quarter put the
twice to tie the score.
behind at any I point. From the
Davis fumbled for Duke and
the Beavers on the Blue Devil
Congrats Sent
By Governor
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;Gov. Charles A. Sprague, who
was forced to j forego a jaunt to
the transplanted Rose. Bowl game
by press of duties pertinent to
the war, was quick to wire
Coach Lon Stiner and his Beavers
congratulations'; Thursday".
, Telegraphed the governor:
; "Heartiest congratulations to
the Oregon State team and coach
ing staff. Glorious victory. All
Oregon and Pacific coast are
tremendously proud. Hope you
have a pleasant journey home,"
hips one way in a feint and finally
set out down the side lines, leav
ing the Duke defender flat on his
very red face, j There wasn't an
other man near him and he cake
kaiked home. ' ,
That was the end for the Dukes,
although three times in the fourth
quarter they ot inside Oregon
State's 35, oncjs going to the 20
before George Peters intercepted
a pass to end the threat.
Thus, the rambler Rose Bowl
game, the tussle that the war can
celled once and then moved east
where Tobacco! Town gave it a
h?me, marked the fourth straight
year that the Pacific Coast con
ference champion picked up the
marbles. It was the second time
in three years Wallace Wade and
his Dukes wefe knocked off dur
ing that period; ;
l But probably never in the
quarter-century history of the
Tournament of Roses had such
a completely overlooked betting
underdog jumped up to bite the
big fellows. Beaten twice in
their trail to the Pacific crown
and supposed to have no de-
f ense against the Duke dyna
mite, Oregon State came east
to the wonderment of most of
Dixie as to why the westerners
were going to! show up at auV
One wag insisted all Duke had
Anal
Georjre Bain
OSCUft tacklt
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Bill Halvorsen
OSC Left Guard
Oregon State's "Orphans
a chance- threw lightning
crusher on Duke's high
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Bob Dethman
OSC Left Halfback
to do was throw 11 head-guards
on the field. .
-The Beavers went 51 yards in 11
scrimmages for their first touch
down, with Durdan cutting inside
right end on an explosion play
for the last 15 yards in the first
quarter. They drove 55 yards in
three tries early in the third per
iod, with Dethman pitching to
Zellick for 32 yards and the first
of the two scores to which these
two flying young Vnien sailed
through the air in that quarter.
Then came the one that topped
it off.
Duke countered these fire
works with an explosion of its
own late in the first chapter. Da
vis did most of the heavy duty
work on this jaunt, before Lach
piled through the second period
from the four on onelbf the deep
reverses for which he's famous.
In the third period, Lach went
39 yards on one reverse and
eight more, to the Oregon 16, on
another. On this latter play,
roughing was called, and the
Oregons were set back right on
their own goal line. ; It was no
trick then for Winston Siegfried
to bust through from there.
The Dukes might have come
through if the Blue Devil re
ceivers had Just a ? bit more
stretch In the second quarter.
Bobby Rate had come in from
the hull pen to take over the
pitching chores, and : the Dixie
terrors worked the ball down
to the Oregon State 26. Bobby
threw three long ones In a row,
two to speed-back Moffat Stor
er, when that sprinting young
ster was In the clear and by
himself on the goal line.
But these two just dribbled off
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CORVALLIS, Orel Jan. l-(yF)-
Oregon State college boomed its
football stalwarts, who defeated
Duke 20-16 in the transplanted
Rose Bowl game, for the world
championship Thursday. .
Their hometown , backers, who
never doubted that the Beavers
would win the game, sent con
gratulatory telegrams to Coach
Lon Stiner and the players. Head
ing the list was acting President
F. A. GHfallan, who acclaimed
another triumph for tbe Oregon
State spirit of team play "A
whole squad of stars instead of
one or two ail-Americans."
Storer's1 stretching finger-tips,
and by the time big Bob Gantt
did connect with one on the five,
there; wasn't time to cash in be
fore the intermission.
Statistically, there wasn't much
more than a whisker between the
two. Duke rolled up 15 first
downs to 14. dregon State push
ed along for a total net advance
of 302 yards passing and rush
ing to 295 for the Dukes.;
But Coach Lon Stiner, who's
been shouting . from the rooftops
that Ihis team had been under
rated all along, had his kids on
their toes for 60 minutes, and that
was the answer. They recovered
three Duke fumbles and Inter
cepted four Duke passes.- When
they got into hot water they
didn't let it stew them before
they fought back out
Even In the third period
when one oK Lach's needle
threading punts went out of
bounds on the Oregon State
three, forcing Durdan to try to
kkk from deep In his own end
tone, the Beavers were hi there
. banging with the chips down.
Durdan had to lean over to
pick the poor pass from center
off jthe ground.- He had no
chance to get the boot off yet,
with five husky Dukes pour
ing down on him he fought to f
get out of his ' end xone. Be
couldn't make it by two feet,
as Tom Burns and Jim Lip
scomb caught him and ' slam
med him down. )
This punt of Lach's was only
fere in
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Stanley Czech
OSC Right Ttckl
Martin Chaves
OSC Riiht Guard
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Beavers 20
First downs ....
Yards gained rushing (net).
Forward passes attempted...
Forward passes completed...
Yards gained forward passes.
Yards lost attempted forward
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Yards gained, run-back intercepted passes.,
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(x) Total yards kicks returned.:
Opponents' fumbles recovered
Yards lost by penalties....
(x) Includes punts and
OREGON STATE
George Zellick .. LE...
George Bain LT...-
Bill Halverson JXZ
Quentin Greenough. C
Martin Chaves .IG-
Bob Saunders...
Norm Peters
George Peters ...
Bob Dethman
Don Durdan
Joe Day4
Oregon State...
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Oregon State scoring: Touchdowns Durdan, Zellick,
Gray (sub for Durdan) ; points after touchdown. Simas (sub
for "G. Peters), 2, (place kicks).
Duke scoring! Touchdowns Lach, Siegfried; points aft
er touchdown Gantt (sub for Piasecks), Prothro (place
kicks) ; safety Durdan (tackled in end zone by Burns and
Lipscomb, sub for Goddard). . I. " : '
Oregon State substitutions: Ends Perryman, Gustaf
son; tackles Bain, Czech; guards Parker, Zielaskowski;
center Clement; backs Simas, Gray, Smith, Libbee, Shel
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Duke substitutions: Ends Dcmpsey, Gantt; tackles
Nannt, Redding; guards Poole, Lipscomb, Fawcett; center
Beatty; backs Long, Bokinsky, Rute, Storer.
one of a series of beauty boots
he and Durdan turned in
throughout the afternoon. Neither
got off a bad kick at any time,
and countering Steve's out-of-bounder
on the three which led
to the Duke safety, Durdan dot
ted an eye with one on the Blue
Devil three In the fading minutes
that ended all hope the Dixie de
fenders had of fighting back to
win. '
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OSC Quartersaek
Robert Saunders
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Don Durdan :
OSC- Right Halfback
Morning, January 2, 1942 ' 12
Devils 16
Duke
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Mike Karmazin
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.'Bob Barnett:
Pete Goddard
Bob McDonough
IA1 Piasecks
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2--16
Bowl Scores
Rose Bowl: t
Oregon Statl 20, Duke 1.
Cotton Bowl: i
Alabama 29, Texas Aggies 21.
Sugar Bowk
Fordham 2, Missouri O.
Orange Bowl:
Georgia 40, Texas Christian 26.
Sun Bowl: J . - -.'f..; 'r: a
7 Tulsa 6, Texas Tech 0.
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They've Played
By FRANK B. GILBRETH
DURHAM, NC, Jan. 1
(AP) Lon Stiner, a rags-to-rkhes
coach who started his
1941 season by loslog to
Southern California 1 and
closed, it by. beating Duke in
the j transplanted Rote Bowl,
thinks his Oregon State boys
played "pretty good ball" Ttturs-
dayi v I
"1 wouldn't say that it was the
best; we've played this seaSon,,,
said youthful Lon as he stood on
guard outside the Beavers' dress
ing sroom. It was one of our
best, but we played just as well
in a; couple of other contests.'
Stiner, who had maintained all
along that his underdog Beavers
$ere underrated, was neverthe
less ; so pleased with the victory
that- he had trouble talking in
complete sentences.
"Awful close," he said. "Cuke
has i good, fine boys. Proud of
mine." - - . J
Stiner declined to single j out
any particular player for praise.
"You know how it Is." he
said between nervous puffs on
a long stogie. "The boys la the
line. They dont get the head
lines. But they try Just as hard
and work just as hard. BXajbe
some back looks better. Sure.
See?"
The play which resulted in the
first? Oregon State touchdown
wasn't planned, Lon said, but Was
just;an example of how Durdan
never overlooks an opportunity."
Ort that play, witlj the Beav
ers on Duke's 15, Durdan drop
ped back to pass. However, Just
as he was "about to throw, ho
noticed aninviting hole in Ithe
Duk lineDon neaded for the
hole,; and stored almost un
touched. I -Coach
Wallace Wade, possibly
remembering the stir which Was
raised after the Rose Bowl game
of 1939, when, he failed to con
gratulate a Southern California
backi who threw a pass which tfe
feated his Blue Devils, paid a
brief visit to the Beavers' dress
ing rpom. , ; . ? ,
"Ton played a nice game,
boys," he said. "A mighty nice
rame. Congratulations te you
alL"!
The Duke and Oregon State
players had dinner together
Thursday night. The Beavers
planned to leave at midnight for
Newi Orleans, where they Will
see the East-West game Satur
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