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ugars Crush Ducks Beat California 33 - 27 SC34to7 PCC Contest ; ; o i.ooo 0 l.uuu " ,IHHJ lO ,noo 21 2d ,667 87 45 ,50(1 37 211 ,500 34 45 ,333 2S SI .1 1 .000 27 33 J .000 0 54 LAtfi Wash. (tir-Wash-Kit College combined a t wining attack wun Lng Psi"S Salurday P00 ,tnuh Oregon game nciuie ring tans. Cougars collected their Since victory on he 0 n..lfP Wash- L a 46-yard touchdown Lhdown, passed to Pete P . ond kinked a lor a ""lu , ":,i to score m "i a Ion llr0llcd the game If Plasters iford 25-0 FORD, Calif., M-Navy's Middies, with fullback Lo and quarterback Dick doing the stoking, storm- rousing 25 0 victory over Ld Stanford Saturday be- coually dazed crowa oi 1.000. Ids touchdown targets im Owen, who cumaxca ifrivp hv snaring a six- ss deep in the Stanford and Dick Guest, wlio vards on a screen pass. Mans, apparently a little over too much pipe-smok- r last week's 12-2 con Illinois, never were able I'o the game. first touchdown was led with six minutes to go lirst period when Leonard 183-pound guard, ripped the Indians' forward block a coal line mint bv poung. End Ron Beagle, Iv a pass receiver, fcrrct- the ball and fell on it in lone for the tally. liddics launched their 92- ve after Stanford mi.nter- K pi Brodie, who spent most Ely bucking Navy defend d to connect on a fourth ss. Id. who broke up the pass the goal line, then set loose for gains nf 29, 9, bid 6 yards. Most of the fn reeled off through an torward wall suddenly kit. the ball on the six. Ec fa flipped a pass to Owen tipper. Set UD the flparlomv NMown in the third by interceotincf a nass hv lathe Navy 22. A clipping niovea tne Middies back wen from where they N, after smashing for pra oowns during the lined through the center iinaian- line tor 37 yards Qin, then Stanford's Rill Ta n th p. Five minutes later and pra plays Echard passed ft. who took the ball be- Feenonthe 14 and went i me way. throughout except for a brief Oregon Mate spurt in the second period wmch netted the Beavers their only score. They never mus tered another threat and came into Washington State tcrritorv oniy once in me second, half. Washington State scored thn first time it had the ball. Half back Dennis Rath, the mainstay ot wsu's running game, returned the OSC kickoff to his own 33. then sparked a drive which car ried to Oregon Stale's 15. Then quarterback Frank Sarno whip ped a pass to end Russ Quacken- bush, who was alone in the end zone. Sarno converted with less than nine minutes played. WSC scored again with less than two minutes played in the second period after Oregon State quarterback Jim Withrow punted dead on his own 46. Washington picked up four yards, then cut through tackle and sprinted 60 yards lor the touchdown. Purnell converted. Iverson's scoring dash came the next time WSC had the ball After an Oregon State punt, Ivcr son led a drive which appeared to have been stopped when WSC was faced with a fourth and 25 situation on OSCs 46. But Iver- son stepped into the cup and fak ed a pass and then sprinted straignt up tne middle to score Oregon State cut the margin moments later. After taking the kickoff on the Oregon State 49, quarterback Ray Westfall threw 30 yards to halfback Jack Peter son, who outran the WSC defense for a touchdown. Neither team could move dur ing the third period, but Wash ington Slate came back strong in the fourth. After recovering a fumble on OSCs 44. the Cougars marched to OSCs 21. Iverson pitched to Washington for nine yards and then moments later plunged across for the score, Keith converted. The final tally came when Iver son intercepted an OSC pass on his own 16. He took to the air to lead another drive to the Ore gon State end zone. The score came when he passed 27 yards to halfback Pete Toomcy and then converted lor the extra point. LINEUPS: Oregon State LE Van horn, Hlttner, Brattain LT Buettgenbach, Skier LG Snlffcn, Ellison, Roberts, Rlggert C Cubbage, Stevens RG Johnson,Daniels RT Meyers, Aschbacher, Williams RE Samples, Edigcr, Harlraba Q Withrow, Clark, Wcstfall LH -Laird, Wenstrand, Kealoha, Mason RH Daggettzn, Berry, Swahlen, Peterson F Steward, Marsh, Naranche, Sutton. Washington State LE Quackenbush LT Gunnari, Inions, Brose LG Hitchcock, Mock C Pixley, Nevitt, Hutsell, Scanlon RG Watkins, Welch RT Verhey, Grlnols, Brockley, Polowskl RE Perlnger, Rlggs, Pelluor, Jacobson, Kindsvater. Q St. Genie, Iverson, Sarno LH Punrell, Hagerty, Kramer, Miller RH Rath, Toomey F Washington, Beckel STATISTICS WSC OSC First downs 20 Rushing yardage 28fi Passing yardage 164 Passes attempted 25 Passes completed 12 Passes Intercepted by 3 Punts ' Punting average 34 Fumbles lost 4 Yards penalized 10 Si.nr hv Periods! 7 13 0 1434 0 6 0 06 WSC OSC Touchdowns: Washington State Quackenbush, Washington, Iverson 2, Tnnmnv: Dretfnn State Peterson. Points after touchdown: Washington State Sarno, Purnell, Keltn, iverson GHCLIMBER By Dick Strife Jill practice is usually dull duty at best, so, last i u " of ,he corner of our eye, we saw a flash of red ted tu n ""yone over the half century mark should be . .'! llle female if normal especially when you find eld fn So we divorced the football prac (biifli.niinute or twn ,0 challenge a young lady an at ibltm ho was wearing a red sweat suit with a clover m 011 shirt. ... In more than 20 vears of covering . University of Oregon athletics we had never seen a female athlete in training within the Hayward Field-McArthur Court area. ... Alice Whitty, a 20-year-old SV I r i sophomore from Vancouver, m vjl B. C, holds the Canadian record I J 1 for the high jump. A freshman i. I at University of British Colum bia last year, she placed tniro in the recent British Empire Games and was 10th in the last Olympics. ... She has come here for two years of schooling in physical education and to work under Bill Bowerman, University of Oregon track coach. She will work under an accelerated program that will give her an Oregon degree in two more years. Following two years here, she will return to UBC for a year -of teacher training and will then become a coach other sports as wejl as track-and-field. . . . f-t 01 1 -...tnUe 19.9 ' lopes to wi u ' 2 lncnes 1311 al,u - H . . n the OlvmDics in Australia a vear from next last w record o 5 feet 3& inches, which she -1,. ason broke a mark that had stood for some i-ajnia ' s th!t w-Ung thal he had never coached a woman i:i to ir! s Whitty is he mostly to seek an educa- folk. . 'ain under him -tr. h L , minor th l c "au oalxA f kt did artlv , is Panning a woman's track team at rN iton.?11 that another Vancouver girl will likely ' wnen she can complete foreign language (Continued on Page 10C) 1 tr ' l s r 't-E WHlTmr Mmm "A A" "Jc "A" "A" A- A' f fiiiiiii ' - ' Webf oots Erase Early 13-0 Lead In Torrid Rally By DICK STRITE Heglster-Guard Spurts Editor MEMORIAL STADIUM, Berkeley Casanova's Kids became men Saturday. Spotting a two-touchdown favored California football team those two touchdowns in the first seven minutes of play, the Oregon gridmen lifted themselves up by their bootstraps to hand the Golden Bears a 33-27 Pacific Coast Conference setback. In a high-scoring skirmish that had the 32,000 sun drenched spectators weary, worn and wilted at the end, the Bears staged a comeback of their own by scoring twice in the fourth quarter to make the final five minutes the most dramatic m Oregon's long years of football history. The Saturday afternoon will lone be remembered bv a gang of gridiron fans from Eugene who wouldn't believe, that Oregon's football team was as inept as the Webfoots 01 last weeK. AN UNIDENTIFIED OREGON BLOCKER pushes Cali fornia's center Matt Hazeltine (54) aside as halfback Dick James (24), extreme right, drives over from the five-yard (AP Wirephoto) line to score a touchdown during the second period of a conference game at Berkeley Saturday. No. 66 is Reanous Cochrane, Oregon guard. Oregon won, 33 to 27. SPORTS CLASSIFIED LANE COUNTY'S HOMC NEWSPAPER, SECTION C EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1954 COP Rambles Over Vandals STOCKTON. Calif. Wl The College of The Pacific Tigers completely bottled up the Uni versity of Idaho passing attack Saturday night and scored a 13-0 victory before 9,500 fans in Pac ific Memorial Stadium. Both Tiger scores came within the space of six minutes in the second quarter, and each follow ed a pass interception. Halfback Ken Swearingen went 18 yards around end for the first score, which climaxed a 35-yard drive in seven plays. Swearingen missed the conversion. Halfback Don Cornell powered over guard from the one to cli max a 49-yard drive in 12 plays for the second COP touchdown. Fourth-string fullback Dutch Grose became the first Tiger to make a conversion this year when he kicked the extra point. Oklahoma Beats Longhorns 14-7 s DALLAS, Tex. on Oklahoma's powerful Sooners fumbled and rumbled Saturday against traditional rival Texas, but the nation's No. 1 team whipped up a blend of passes and ground power to grab a 14-7 victory before 76,204 fans. Oklahoma lost five of its six fumbles to an alert Texas defense. But that was the only place a laggard Texas eleven was superior in the muggy confines of the Cotton Bowl as the teams packed all three touchdowns into the first half. Jimmy Harris, the sophomore quarterback storting his first game for Oklahoma in the ab sence of injury-saddled Gene Calamc, kept Texas off balance with their best passing attack Oklahoma has brought into this 54-year-old rivalry in more than a decade. He engineered a 15-play, 73 yard first period scoring drive that was climaxed by a one foot plunge by Buddy Leake to match a touchdown Texas scored in the verted after both drives. opening minutes on a three yard spin through tackle by Quarter back Charley Brewer. Pat O'Neal, another reserve signal caller, kicked in with a 30- yard pass play to End John Benn to further the second period Ok lahoma scoring; drive. But it was Harris, a snaggled-tooth 'teen aged Texan, who came in to gain eight of the last nine yards of the 58-yard drive and scored the clinching touchdown. Leake con- ft 'ni' V" fis '' V IV1' . --I : " fV',' 4 ', (AP Wirephoto) WASHINGTON STATE QUARTERBACK Frank Sarno is shown as he intercepted an Orccnn State pass in the first quarter of Saturday's game at Pullman, won by WSC 34 to 6 On the left is WSC halfback Mert Purnell; Vern Sampcls of OSC (80) Is in the background. UCLA Nudges Washington SEATTLE, Wash. (IP) UCLA, the nation's second-ranked col lege football team, eked out a 21-20 victory over amazing Wash ington Saturday, but in so doing, had to fight off the terrifying passing of Husky sophomore quarterback Bobby Cox to keep its season's record clean. Approximately 35,000 scream ing fans watched untried quarter- back Cox befuddle UCLA throughout the second half. Cox played every second of the game and tossed all three of Washing ton's touchdown passes. Only Bob Dunn's wide try for point kept the score from being tied. UCLA took the opening kick off and six minutes, 61 yards and 10 plays later Davenport was in the end zone. He bulled over right tackle from six yards out. John Hermann kicked the extra point. But for the rest of the half, the mighty Bruin touchdown efforts crumpled before Washington's stonewall defense. Three, times the Huskies staged a goal-line stand and three times they held. But defense was about all the Huskies had in the first half. Not once did they get into UCLA ter ritory. A fumble set up UCLA's sec ond score. Fullback Stew Crook bobbled the second half kickoff return when he was tackled vic iously on his own 29, and Bob Bergdahl pounced on the ball. Five plays later, Davenport bowl ed over center and went 16 yards to tally. Hermann converted. Washington hardly had time to get the feel of the ball before UCLA's quarterback, Bergdahl, intercepted Cox's pass and ran to Washington's eight. Villan ueva took charge, passing to end Bob Lone on the five, banked for three himself and then swept right end to score. Halfback Doug Bradley kicked what prov ed to be the winning point. Cox opened Washington's aer ial barrage in the third quarter, as first string quarterback Sandy Lederman watched from the side lines with a broken leg. UCLA knew it had a rocket projector on its hands when Cox heaved a tre mendous 51-yard pass to halfback Dean Derby in the end zone. In this drive, Washington crossed into UCLA territory for the first lime. In the fourth period, the Husk-1 ics got a break when center Del Jensen flopped on Sam Browns fumble on the 25. Five plays later, Derby snared another Cox pass in the end zone. Dunns vital try for point was wide. With less than three minutes to go, Cox passed to end Bud Green, again in the end zone, Dunn booted the extra point. Billed months ago as a game that would be the Rose Bowl de cider, some of the luster of such a game had been tarnished But the Oregon football team couldn't be contained by the California giants. It was certainly an unimpres sive 1954 Pacific Coast Confer ence debut for the Bears, who are more out of the Pasadena pic ture than are the Webfoots, who could conceivably go all the way the remainder of the season with play ot this kind. TWO QUICK TALLIES Oregon's boys apparently didn't realize that the California Duck season opened Saturday, although it looked like it as California scored twice in the opening min utes as the result of two costly fumbles on the first and third Webfoot offensive plays. Oregon then started its come back in the opening four minutes of the second quarter and before halftime had another score for a 13-13 deadlock. Three quick touchdowns on two passes and a recovered fumble, threatened to send the game into a rout as the score mounted to 33-13. After Paul Larson's 56-yard touchdown return of a fine George Shaw punt, to pull the Bears within six points of tie and with five minutes of playing remaining, it looked like Oregon might fold. But the Web foots battled back with great defensive play and had posses sion of the ball after a fumble that Lon Stiner recovered on the Cal 27. The Bears, gaining pos session on their 21-yard line with 2 minutes and 30 stiionds remain- nig, had a chance and just before Larson's fumble he passed to Johnny Wilson for a first down on the 39. Oregon s charging line and two fine stops by Phil Mc Hugh, sophomore end, helped in those fleeting seconds. Shaw, despite a crippled leg, was never more an All-American. Although his passing, 12 out of 19, was sensational, his main forte was superb signal-calling. r- 1 r linn rnres FAR WEST Oregon 33, California 27 WSC 34, OSC 6 Navy 25, Stanford 0 UCLA 21, Washington 20 L&C 44, Portland St. 19 Cal Ancles 14. Sacramento St. 0 Montana State 34, Colo. College 6 Eastern N. M. 37, Adams (Colo) St. San Jose 19, Arizona State 12 Wyoming 34, Colorado A&M 0 Utah 12, Brigham Young 7 Pacific Lutheran 26, Pacific 16 Humboldt State 34, SOCE 0 Colorado 40, Arizona 18 EAST Boston 44, VMI 0 Brown 35, Rhode Island 0 N. Hampshire 21, Maine II) Massachusetts 20, Connecticut 13 Trinity 27, Tufts 6 Mlddlebury 19, Williams 13 W. Virginia 13, G. Wash. 7 Notre Dame 33, Pittsburgh 0 Brandels 20, Bates 0 Knrlncrriolri 2K. Colbv 1R New Haven Tchrs. 32, Norwich 14 Yale 13, Columbia 7 Swarthmorc 27, Susquehanna 0 Princeton 13, Pennsylvania 7 Pcnn State 34, Virginia 7 Army 60, Dartmouth 6 Carnegie Tech 25, Johns Hopkins Gettysburg 28, Albright 0 Colgate 26, Rutgers 14 Harvard 13, Cornell 12 W. Maryland 32, Lebanon Valley Bucknell 48, Lehigh 46 Rochester 26, Union 0 Coast Guard 6, Weslcyan 0 Delaware 51, Temple 13 Amherst 25, Bowdoin 19 Hamilton 25, Wagner 6 Kings Point 25, RPI 20 Mulhcnburg 27, Lafayette 6. Boston U. 55, Fordham 20 Geneva 21, Wash, & Jefferson 0. MIDWEST Michigan 14, Iowa 13 Purdue 13, Duke 13 Michigan St. 21, Indiana 14 Ohio State 40, 'Illinois 7 Minnesota 26, Northwestern 7 Wisconsin 13, Rice 7 Ohio 37, West. Reserve 0 SMU 25, Missouri 6 Capital 28, Marietta 0 Ohio Weslcyan 28, Wabash 14 Kansas St. 7, Nebraska 3 Omaha 39, Bradley 0 N. Dakota 27, S. Dakota 21 Illinois Normal 14, ileloit 7 Ball State 26, Butler 13 Wayne 27, Washington (Mo.) 0 Lincoln (Mo.) 19, Kentucky St. 13 Iowa St. 33, Kansas 6 Dayton 27, Louisville 7 Western Mich. 20, Bowling Green 15. Cincinnati 30, Marquette 13 Wichita 22, Oklahoma A&M 13 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 21, Baylor 20 Oklahoma 14, Texas 7 Houston 10, Texas A&M 7 Mississippi 22, Vandcrbllt 7 Florldu Slate 52, Vlllanova 13 Texas Tech 55, Tex. West. 28 SOUTH Georgia 21, N. Carolina 7 wuku r'oresl 13, Maryland 13 Tennessee 20, Chattanooga 14 Georgia Tech 30, La. State 20 Richmond 26, The Citadel 0 S. Carolina St. 31, Claflin 6 S. Carolina 27, Kurman 7 Virginia 35, Howard 0 Miss. State 14, Tulane 0 Alabama 40. Tulsa 0 Mississippi 22, Vandcrbllt 7 Pla. State 52, Vlllanova 13 N. Carolina St. 26, William & Mary 0, Kentucky 21, Auburn 14, Clemson 14, Florida 7, He never made a mistake as ha called his plays like one of the old wise men. Shaw, himself, will tell you that his passing came as the result of great pass protection. "Only once did a man' lay a hand on me," he said in ths dressing room as the top of the nation's total-offense backs. Another NCAA leader. Dick James, kept his record at least among the leaders, with two pass receptions. Oregon's breaks were hard to come by all season, but alert pass defense and ball-hawking made em full of breaks in that import ant third quarter. Casanova said he could not answer the question as to why Oregon staged its terrific come back, except for a determination on the offense, using the flanker consistently for the first time this year made the yardage roll. GOOD SHAPE Now comes USC in Portland next Saturday and the players should be in fine condition, al though Stiner, James and Ron Pheister had slight injuries. Trainer Bob Officer said he be lieved all would be able to play next week. Shaw, who ran infre quently, came- through in better shape than he has been in two weeks. Although Larson's touchdown run with a punt return was the most spectacular play, one ot the most thrilling was Shaw's end run on fourth down with a half toot to go in the third quarter to break the turning point. It was a masterpiece of deception. The victory was the ninth for Oregon against 17 for Cal, with two tied (including the score less deadlock here of last year) and the first Waldorf has lost to an Oregon or any Northwest team here in Strawberry Canyon. Waldorf said: "I can't recall a game in which two teams switched around, and bounced back and forth like this one. For the first 7 minutes we played very well, and then in the first half of the fourth quar ter. In between, especially dur ing the third period, we were lousy. As I have said many times in the past, Oregon has a fine team, though possibly not as strong either Ohio State or Okla homa. "Shaw passed very well. Keith Tucker was very fast, Ron Pheis ter was very good. However, I would prefer not singling out any one man or men on Oregon. The whole team did very well. (CALIFORNIA 6, OREGON 0; 2:48 GONE IN FIRST QUARTER.) Ted Granger, Cal's leading scorer, went three yards off his right tackle to score. Dick James, after Walt Gaffney had fumbled the kickoff and re turned 6 yards to the Oregon 35, fumbled on an attempted wide play to his left, the ball being lost behind his back, and Jim Hanifan, Cal end, recovered on the Oregon 31 and four plays later the Bears had scored. On third down Paul Larson passed to Hanifan on the 23 and he went for a first down on the three from where Granger scored. Lap son's placement was wide. ir (CALIFORNIA 13, OREGON 0; 4:10 GONE IN FIRST QUAR TER.) Larson, on a quick count, went through center for two yard3 and his placement made the score 13-0. Guard Charley Martucci, on Oregon's second scrimmage play, recovered Johnny Keller's fum ble and recovered on the Oregon 30 and seven plays later the Bears had scored again. Larson passed to end Jim Kidder, who fumbled, and Hanifan recovered on the 16 for a first down. Lar son went to the 5, but an off sides penalty put the Bears back to the 21, from where Larson hit a cross-fire pitch to Hanifan for 12 yards to the nine and Fullback Tom Kramer made 3 at left guard for a first down on the 6. Granger went off right tackle to the 2, from where Larson scored. With Granger holding, Larson's place ment was good. (California 13, Oregon 0; opening play of second quarter.) Oregon, after an 18-yard cal penalty and 10 more yards on losses by Reanous Cochrane, Jack Patera and Keith Tucker line play, forced the Bears back to their 13, from where Larson's 53 yard kick was taken by Tom Crabtrce, who returned 14 yards to the Oregon 48. Crabtree made 6, Shaw 1 and Gaffney 3 for first down on the (Continued on Pagt tdi
