Beavers arid Bears Picked
To Take Traditional Games
By HAL WOOD
(Unuto Prru Sporu Writer)
' San Francisco, Not. 17 un
'The final week of the major
1949 pigskin battles foes on the
gridirons Saturday in a rash of
traditional tilts that in past sea
sons have resulted In an attitude
of "anybody can win."
With that in mind, we ll offer
these predictions in a topsy
turvy football season that has
resulted in 161 wins and 46 ties
for an over-all mark of .789.
California over Stanford
the old saying is ride with a
champion until he falls, and we
haven't seen anyone knocking
those big bad Bears around
any this season. However, even
when Stanford has a weak
team it usually gives gives
Cal a bad time in the "big"
game. We'll string along with
California on the strength of
experience by a aingle point
USC over UCLA been pick
ing those pesky Bruins to lose
all season and they've been win
ning. But just on the hunch that
' usual Trojan power will assert
itself for this one big game, we'll
go with Coach Jeff Cravath. By
13.
Oregon State over Oregon
our upset special of the
kfU -cratcheJ
By FRED ZIMMERMAN, Capital Journal Sports Editor
CONDITIONS CHANGE
One does not have to have a memory like that credited to the
the elephant to recall the time when the athletic department of
Oregon State discouraged attendance at its basketball games.
It was a downright painful procedure but one that was necessary
due to the limited accommodations. Now, all that has changed
and Spec Keene, Irvin Harris and company are scurrying around
in their efforts to locate all the welcome mats that can be found.
In other words the huge new $1,300,000 "Gill Court" can ac
commodate at least 10,000 fans. The joint should be jammed
for the opening session December 16 when Slats Gill's Beavers
will meet the University of Utah in the first of a two game series.
PROPERLY NAMED
A leaflet containing information concerning the new basket
ball plant such as the schedule, prices of admission, etc.
bears the legend "Gill Pavilion" at the bottom. Such a desig
nation may not meet with the rpproval of the board of
higher education, but it certainly Is appropriate. The pre
conference season will include two game series with Utah
and Indiana and single sessions against Minnesota and Stew
art Chevrolet of San Francisco. The conference season opens
January 3 and 4 against the University of Washington and
closes February 24 with the University of Oregon providing
the competition. While here on a tour of duty, Irvin Harris,
O. S. C. publicity director, confided that the athletic depart
ment hopes to sell at least 500 season tickets in Salem for
the conference season. Such tickets will be sold at $12 each,
a sum that includes Uncle Sam's cut
HOBSON IN PRINT
After an extended discourse on the zone defense, Howard
Hobson. basketball coach at Yale, in a recent edition of "Con
verse year book" suggests "perhaps we need a rule in basket
ball that would make it mandatory for the offensive team to
shoot at the basket within 10 seconds or lose the game." At least
this would give the game action and scoring which have been
the factors that have popularized basketball and would elimin
at stalling problems. Football requires the ball be put in play
within 30 seconds. If It were not for this rule, the team ahead
would stall indefinitely. Even in baseball, the pitcher must
make his delivery within 20 seconds or an automatic "ball"
may be called.
BADGERS LOOK GOOD
Coach Chester Stackhouse of Willamette has scouted the '
Pacific Badgers in two games and reached the conclusion
that Paul Stagg has probably the best balanced organization
in the Northwest conference. However, "Stack" gave no
evidence of being downhearted over the Willamette-Pacific
game of Friday night on Sweetland field. Even though
comparisons In every department of the game favor Pacific
by a considerable margin the contest could develop into an
Interesting affair, particularly so if the Bearcats made up
their minds to make the most of their skills. The Badgers
have an excellent offense, having mastered Stagg's brand of
football, and are strong on defense. As for the Bearcats the
game will be the last for 10 of them; Charles Patterson, Al
bert Blade, Cere Conner, Roy Harrington, Pete Hoar, John
Slanchik, Bob Warren, Al Fedje ar-d Bob White. Howard
Lorenz, the hard luck kid of the past few years, has had to
sit out his entire senior season due to injuries.
WEBFOOTS MISFORTUNES
v "Fumbles, intercepted passes and failure to cash in on scoring
opportunities have been costly," comments Dick Strite of the
Eugene Register-Guard as he mulls over the Webfoot season to
date. "Defensive mental lapses by the Webfoots would cause
most coaches to become hermits. Where will it all end? It will
end in a completely disastrous season if the Webfoots fail to
beat Oregon State despite the fact that the Beavers are riding
the crest of Saturday's 25-20 upset over Michigan State. There
is no room for alibis. A team that has so much and has done
, so little can hardly be patted on the back and be told that they
are great fellows who could have won if the breaks had gone
the other way. A good football team cannot have that many bad
breaks, and its only reasonable to believe that the opposition
has made those breaks which spelled defeat for Oregon. The
great front runners must be charged with carelessness; with
lack of poise; with the absence of a fighting spirit that is so
necessary to make a comeback instead of bowing so graciously
to the opposition. There is no such thing as a good loser."
No 7cfcets Left
For Duck-Bevo
Annual Civil War
Eugene, Nov. 17 P) The
Oregon-Oregon State football
game here Saturday It as
expected a sell-out. No tick
ets are left for sale.
Oregon Coach Jim Aiken
had few lineup shifts In yes
terday' scrimmage. Hale Pax
ton was at defensive left end,
replacing Chuck Missfelt, tide
lined with Jaw fracture, and
Bob Anderson was at the of
fensive left end position, giv
ing Dan-ell Robinson a rest
Bob Sanders, however, showed
no trace of the leg Injury that
had slowed up his fullback
work.
Over at Corvallis, the Stat
ers had only light drills on
tap today and tomorrow. Fit
teen of the orange will be
playing their final game.
week. The Beavers have been
coming along fast as their
Michigan State victory proved.
On the other hand, Oregon is
in the midst of a four-game
losing streak. Beavers by
seven with Ken Carpenter
the margin.
' Washington over Washington
State the Huskies Sophomores
aren't going to get pushed
around much any more during
the next two years of competi
tion. By 14.
Montana over Brigham Young
Grizzlies aren't much in the
PCC, but they are better than
the second division Rocky
mountain teams. By 9.
Also: Portland over Lewis &
Clark: College of Puget Sound
over Pacific Lutheran: Eastern
Washington over St. Martin's;
Willamette over Pacific; East
ern Oregon over Whitman: Ore
gon College over Humboldt
State.
LIONS TO TOUR
New York, (IP) Columbia Uni
versity's basketball team will
make its first cross - country
tour this season, playing six
games during the Christmas re
cess.
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'Cats Cast as Underdogs
For Pacific College Game
Less than a decade ago, Wil
lamette university's Bearcats
had few worries concerning
their annual engagement with
the Pacific Badgers. They usu
ally won by a comfortable mar
gin. Since the arrival of Coach
Paul Stagg on the Forest Grove
campus this situation has been
changed to a considerable de
gree. Friday night Stagg and
company are scheduled to show
their strength on Sweetland
field and this time it is the vis
iting squad that is pretty sure
of the outcome. They have a
feeling that this one can be
taken in stride.
Well spiked with veterans,
the Badgers constitute one of
the best clubs in the North
LOCAL UNITED PRESS
Capital Journal,
Sets New Record
Flying
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world record at Jamaica race track, N. Y., in winning the
$20,000 added Daingerfield handicap, sixth race feature on
final program of 196-day New York season. Running second
Is First Nighter (2), Conn McCreary riding. Natural (right)
ridden by Billy Boland crossed the line third but was dis
qualified for interference. Blue Hills (second from right),
Ovie Scurlock up, running fourth, was given show money.
Winner was timed at 3:32.4 for the two-mile and one-sixteentb
run. (AP Wirephoto)
See Your Congressman for
Ducats to Army-Navy Game
Annapolis, Md., Nov. 17 W
More people can't get tickets for
the Army-Navy football game
this year than couldn't get them
ever before.
You may have the $6 asking
price, but you nave w Know
more than a friend of a friend
to lay hands on a ticket.
The "demand Is greater
than I ever recall it," a navy
spokesman said today.
Annapolis officers said they
understood West Point is un
dergoing the same deluge.
The game will be played No
vember 26 in Philadelphia's
cavernous Municipal stadium,
which holds 102,000 fans. Thej
"ticket capacity," after deduct-
inff concessionaires. fiuards.lvl ', wsvs unci a
ushers, sports writers and pho
tographers, is about 99.000.
President Truman and
members of congress are in
Buckcroos Meet
Banks in Playoff
St. Paul The St. Paul fool
ball team, winners of district 2,
will meet the Banks high school
Braves, district one champions,
at Pacific university field in For
est Grove Friday night at 8
o'clock. Both teams are in B
leagues.
Ntw tctodifta ond Trailwayt' exdutiv direct rout
East now tavM you atony hovri on trips to BEND,
BOISE, TWIN FALLS, OSDEN, SALT LAKE and
oft pomtt South ond Eott.
DEPARTURES: 9:05 A.M. - 2:43 P.M. - 4:05 P.M.
west conference. Their over
whelming defeat of College of
Idaho last Saturday night ver
ifies that statement.
The Pacific offense has been
termed the "Winged T" by
Coach Stagg. combining the best !
of the popular "T" formation
with those of the single wing.
During the week Coach Ches
ter Stackhouse, while not ne
glecting offensive maneuvers
has stressed defense in the hope
of checking Pacific running at
tack and gumming up the Badg
ers' well known alternate run
or pass performance. This is
engineered by Stan Russell, 190
pound halfback from Aumsville,
now serving his senior year.
Game time will be 8 o'clock
and a win for Pacific would split
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS AND FEATURES
Salem, Ore., Thursday, Nov.
Missel (left) with Eddie Ar-
the happiest spot of all. Every
year the president has an al
lotment "which he purchases,"
the naval academy explained
in a notiqc to disappointed
thousands. Both West Point
and Annapolis also provide
each senator and representa
tive with eipht pasteboards, as
long as he fills out a form and
encloses the money.
Midshipmen and cadets are
entitled to four. So are alumni
members of the respective ath
letic associations.
Chemawa Faculty
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Breakfast will be served at
7:30 Friday morning at Nohl
gren's when a number of faculty
members and boys from the Che-
mawa Indian school will be
guests of the Salem Breakfast
club.
A few members of this year's
Chemawa football squad will be
present as well as Superintend
ent Russell Kelly, Coach Bill
Patterson, Rube Saunders and
others.
This will mark the first time
the Indian school has been given
recognition
by the Breakfast
I club. Cliff Parker will preside.
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Northwest championship hon
ors between the Badgers, Lewis
& Clark and College of Idaho.
Webfoot Frosh
Ace Returns to
Deny Pilot Deal
Eugene, Ore., Nov. 17 U.P
Jake Williams, University of
Oregon's star freshman foot
ball end, was back on the
campus today with a denial
that he had enrolled at Port
land university.
He said he decided "a long
time ago" that he wanted to be
a Webfoot and that he had vis
ited Portland only to see a
former schoolmate, Len Kroll,
from Boys Town, Neb.
17, 194917
NEW CAGE LOOP
Hempstead, N.Y. VP) The re
cently formed Greater New
York Collegiate Conference in
cludes eight basketball teams.
They are Hofstra, Cooper Union,
Wagner, Adelphi, Kings Point,
Brooklyn Poly, Pratt and
Queens.
A 28-game schedule has been
announced by John B. MacDon
ald, president of the conference
and athletic director at Hofstra
college. Each team plays each
other once. The campaign opens
December 3 ancf ends March 4.
Wolves
On Road
Monmouth OCE's Little Ail-
American candidate Robin Lee
will lead the Wolves into their
final football test of the season
Saturday afternoon when the
Wolves trade blows with Hum
boldt State.
Game time is set for 2 p.m.
Both teams will engage in
their final game of the season
and the Monmouth crew will
be out to keep their unblemished
slate clean.
The Wolves, are the only
collegiate team in the north
west with an unbeaten and
untied record, and they'll be
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Comeback
Nick Wall, 41
winner of two
Santa Anita handicaps, is back
at Tanforan track, Calif. He
suffered twelve broken ribs
and punctured lungs in a 1946
spill.
Maple Purchase
Plan for Solons
Ends Sans Sale
Nego 1 1 a 1 1 o n s between a
group of Salem business men
headed by Howard Maple and
Bill Mulligan have been con
cluded and the Portland Beav
ers still own the Salem Sena
tors and Geo. E. Waters base
ball park.
Maple and Mulligan broke
off conversations in Portland
Wednesday with the best of
feelings on both sides. The
local group expressed the
opinion that the venture would
not be a profitable one from
a financial standpoint.
While Mulligan has made
no public statement concern
ing Portland's plans for Salem
Senators operations, it is an
ticipated the Beavers will take
part In WIL competition in
1950.
Independence to
End M-P Season
With Dallas Team
Independence Plav in the
Marion-Polk league for the sea
son will end for the Indepen
dence high school Friday night
when the Hopsters meet the Dal
las Dragons in the hop bowl at
7:30 o clock. Independence plac
ed second in the Willamette val
ley circuit this year. Coach John
Matins has been drilling the Hop
siers to stop the tossing com
bination of Ron Griffin to Wes
Ediger of the Dragons.
Face Last
to Perfect Year
gunning for number 9 opposite
Humboldt's Lumerjacks.
Robin Lee, currently pacing
Pacific Coast scorers with his
84 points, is expected to carry
much of the educators' running
attack on his potent frame. Lee
has exploded for a total of 14
touchdowns this season.
Coach Bill McArlhur is very
pleased with the play of sen
ior Marv Heibert in the last
two contests. Heibert scored
twice in the Chico go last week
on laterals from Hank Decker.
"Heib" has played 50 minutes
each in the Wolves' last two en
VlllSKEY PROOF 6 GRAIN
Bevo End 'Overwhelmed'
By Lineman Honor Vote
Corvallis, Ore.. Nov. 17 )
Curley-haired Stan McGuire
said, "I'm overwhelmed."
Told that he
had been named
lineman of the
week in the As-
t: artaftfcJ'i
M sociated Press
poll today for '
his spark ling
work Saturday J
in Oregon State's
25-20 upset foot- f
ball win over I
Michigan State,
uie -year-old sua Mtcmr.
right end said,
"I just did what the coaches
taught me."
What they taught him, ap
parently, was how to kick field
goals (one), how to convert
(two), how tp block kicks (one
for a safety), how to snag passes
(one paved the way for a touch
down) and assorted other infor
mation to the discomfiture of
Michigan State.
A full-time five foot 11 inch,
192-pound player who backs up
the line on defense, McGuire
was the spark in OSC's surpris
ing win. But Head Coach Kip
Taylor said he wasn't particul-
Bowl Selection
System for PCC
Told by Schmidt
Los Angeles, Nov. 17 U.R)
Pacific Coast Conference Com
missioner Victor O. Schmidt to
day clarified the method of pick
ing the PCC representative in
the New Year's day Rose Bowl
football game.
The team is selected by vote
of "All 10 member schools at
the end of the conference sea
son, he said. The balloting alone
determines the bowl contender
with no regard to statistics, be
cause there is no official PCC
champion.
"In the case of a tie vole,"
Schmidt said, "the team or teams
most recently i n the Rose Bowl
. . . are excluded, and the other
team is automatically elected."
Girls Show Boys
How to Wn Touch
Football Contest
Seattle, Nov. 17 (P) A dim
inutive coed with experience
at breaking up huddles wrig
gled through a flying wedge at
the University of Washington
campus yesterday.
When she touched the run
ner, the game was over. Delta
Gamma sorority claimed a 14
7 touch football win over the
Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.
It was a clean game. The
lone penalties were called
against the boys. One was for
Illegal use of the hands, the
second for offensive holding.
Hurdle
counters. He is the Wolves' top
pass defender and is no "ringer"
on offense. Six other seniors
will be playing their final game
of the season Saturday:
Cole Davis, first string
guard for four years; Bruce
Hamilton, a top-notch de
fensive end: Bob McKeever, a
tackle of the better quality;
Bob Ncilsen, defensive guard
who played a whale of a game
at Chico; Abe Johnson, reg
ular quarterback; and "Corky"
Van I. oo. Lee's touchdown
twin.
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larly surprised.
"McGuire hasn't turned in a
bad game all year. He does a
workmanlike Job on both of
fense and defense," Taylor said.
"He's good at everything he does.
He isn't the country's greatest
pass receiver and he isn't the
greatest defensive player but
for all-around work, on both of
fense and defense, he's one of
the best there is."
McGuire sandwiched in his
military service after a year's
194S football as a freshman. He
played last year and has another
season of eligibility. He has been
playing 55 to 60 minutes a game
a rarity in platoon football.
A business administration ma
jor who has a 2.8 grade average
(B minus), he speaks softly and
says being lineman of the week
"is the greatest thing that ever
happened to me."
"It couldn't have happened to
a nicer guy," said Taylor.
Grid Broadcasts
FRIDAY
8 p.m. Willamette vs. Paci
fic, KOCO.
SATURDAY
1:45 p.m. Oregon vs. O.S.C.,
KSLM.
1:45 p.m. California vs.
Stanford, KOIN.
1:45 p.m. Portland vs.
Lewis & Clark, KUJJ.
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