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Sport
Graphs
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Billy Hulen Says:
DeCourcy Better
Than Byers, Is
Coach's Opinion
Keith DeCourcy. the 180
pound blaster who riddled Med
ford'i forward wall for four
touchdown! In The Dallei' 28
to 0 conquest of the loci It last
Friday night ii better fullback
than Bend's great Jim Byers was
last season. In the opinion of
Bill Bowerman.
"DeCourcy Is quite a bit
faster than Byers was," the
Tornado mentor said, "and a
much shiftier runner and quick
er starter. While he might not
have the pure straight-ahead
power that Byers had. he hits
hard enough and I really believe
he is a better fullback."
BUI had no excuses nor
alibis to offer for that lots
to the Indians. He admitted
that Medford was simply out
played and lost to the better
team. He had only the high
est praise for DeCourcy and
his running mate. Benny Hoi
comb, left halfback, and for
that "big. smart" Indian line,
especially Scholtes. left end)
May. left tacklei Berwick,
right guard and Dick, right
end.
Outstanding for the Tigers,
Bowerman recalled, was Cato
Wray, left halfback. "He played
a whale of a game, and time
after time came clear up from
his safety position to make
tackles five and six yards be
hind his own line. Several of
his passes should have been
caught, but the ball slipped
through the fingers of the re
ceivers. A couple of those
aerials. If they had been held,
would probably have gone for
touchdowns."
Assistant Coach Russ Ache
ton, who turned In another
capable announcing Job, was
impressed with the defense
thrown up by The Dalles. They
played a five, six and seven
man line against us," Russ ex
plained, "and it appeared the
Tigers never knew what sort
of a defensive setup they would
face on any certain play. One
time the ends would charge,
the next time they would lay
back, and the same with the
tackles. It was really a tough
defense."
Incidentally, Coach Chuck Mc
Gulnness of the Indians pulled
plenty smart maneuver at one
stage of the contest. Medford
had run a wide sweep across
the field and Bill Wall, the left
end, had remained In his orig
inal position for one of those
"sleeper" plays. Quickly the
Tornado lined up, Wray re
ceived the ball from center and
prepared to fire a forward pass
to Wall.
In the meantime, however,
McGuinness had seen Wall
across the field, and Immedi
ately ordered a substitute off
the bench to cover the Med
ford end. Wray, seeing Wall
covered, didn't throw the
pats. The Dalles was penal
ised five yards for having 12
men on the field. The Mc
Guinness strategy, of courts,
was to sacriilce those five
yards to save a touchdown
being scored against his team.
Saw Bob Newland In Eugene
Saturday and he Informed us
that he had made the 11 -man
traveling squad of the Univer
sity of Oregon varsity cagers.
and would be among those taken
on the transcontinental trip to
New York City and back . . .
Bob Is playing guard for How
ard Hobson's caabaites . . . also
ran across Bill Morgan and
Dutch Shields at the Order of
the O luncheon, and Bill told
us an Oregon State victory
wouldn't be too tough to take,
what with the Rose Bowl and
11 . . .
Will the general public get
a chance to purchase tickets
for the Rote BowlT ... the
entwer Is yes. according to
Athletic Director Percy Locey
of OSC . . . Locey has an
nounced that Oregon State
alumni will be given first
preference for choice ducats,
with other dtisens of the state
In the second clattlfication . . .
applications should be mailed
to him either at Corvallls or
In care of the Rote Bowl
ticket office in Patadena . . .
tickets range from IS. SO for
box teats and 14.40 for grand
stand teats, to 13.30 for
bleachers ... OSC students
will pay f 1.50 ...
Klamath Bowler Tops
All-Events Division
Klamath Falls, Dec. 2 AP)
Eddie Wakeman of Klamath
Tails replaced Carl Hammer of
Grants Pas as leader of the
Booster all-events division In the
Oregon bowling tournament yes
terday. Wakeman scored 924 in
singles and 1143 with his part
ner, Buxkland, in doubles.
Minnesota Again Voted
NAMED FIRST BY
84 0F96V0TERS
Blue Devils Placed Second
In Final Poll of Season
Oregon State Twelfth.
By Bill Bonl
New York, Dec. 2. VP) To
the Minnesota football team and
lo sports editor Ray Kelly of
the New York Times go top
honors today in the final Asso
ciated Press football ranking
poll of the regular 1941 season.
The Golden Gophers, as had
appeared likely since the sec
ond week in November, finish
ed in first place to retain the
No. 1 position accorded them a
year ago, Just as they retained
the western conference champ
ionship they won in 1940. Of
the 96 sports experts through
out the country who took part
In this week's balloting, 84
plunked for Minnesota and one
other split his vote between the
Gophers and Duke.
As a result the Gophers, with
nine second-place votes, another
for third and one for fourth,
polled a total of 945V4 points
out of a perfect 960. Duke's
Blue Devils, Rose-bowl bound
to meet Oregon State, got 9V4
for first and 72514 points, and
Duquesne, only other big-time
unbeaten and untied team in the
land, 309 2-3 points for eighth.
Points were awarded on a basis
of 10 for first, nine for second,
eight for third, etc.
Irish Third
In the two biggest bowl
games, the voters make Duke
a heavy favorite over Oregon
State, given only enough points
for 12th place while rating the
Fordham-Missouri Sugar bowl
clash virtually a toss-up. Ford
ham got 329 2-3 points in sixth
place, Missouri 328 in a seventh
Notre Dame, Texas and Mich
igan, in third, fourth and fifth,
and Texas A. and M. and Navy,
in ninth and tenth( completed
the first 10.
Gone from the 1940 honor
roll are Stanford, Boston col
lege, Tennessee, Nebraska, Mis
sissippi State, Northwestern and
Washington. Holdovers, besides
Minnesota, are Michigan and
Texas A. and M.
Kelly, in his ballot, came
closest to the week's ranking.
He named the f'xst three teams
in order, then followed with
Missouri, F o r d h a m, Texas,
Texas A. and M., Duquesne,
Navy and Michigan.
PLAY FOR SHRINE
Berkeley, Calif., Dec. 2 (AP)
Bob Reinhard, California's
great senior tackle, said today he
had accepted a bid to play for
the west in the annual Shrine
all-star football game at San
Francisco New Year's day, even
though his own team meets
Georgia Tech here five days be
fore. Reinhard was among the first
to receive an Invitation from the
western coaches, Babe Holllng
bery of Washington State and
MaJ. Biff Jones of Nebraska, who
said they had delayed making
their choices until the decision
on a Rose Bowl team Indicated
what players would be available.
The eastern squad, under the
direction of Andy Kerr of Col
gate, Bernle Blerman of Minne
sota and Dude De Groot of
Rochester, Is already complete
except for one back, a center and
a guard.
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Ashland. Dec. 2. Spl
Coach Jean Kberhart's South
ern Oregon College of Educa
tion basketball quintet will open
Its 1941-42 season here this
week-end, meeting Rubensteln's
Oregonlans of Eugene Friday
right and tangling with the
Klamath Falls All-Stars Satur
day evening. The Friday gam
will start at 7 30, that on Sat
urday at 8 00.
Probable starting lineup, ac
cording to Eoerhart, will find
Wes Peters and Joe Spayde at
the forwards. Bob Mulder at
center and Bobby Hoefs and
either Joe Ba.-ry or Bruce Wall
at the guards. Others who may
see action are Chuck DeAutre
mont. Darrell Copeland, Dutch
Scheldereiter, Jim Smith, Harry
Stallard, Harold Brown, Ted
Jantzrr, Dean Jones, Ray Har-
tig. Eugene Hayes and Ivan
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CALM-After years as
football coach at the University
of Illinois, Bob Zuppke is re Ur
ine, and he finds the messa.es
from friends a good antidote for
the last tame he watched at
coach Illinois vs. Northwestern,
won by Northwestern. 27-t.
4DUKE PLAYERS
VOTED POSTS ON
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By Barton Pittie
Richmond, Va., Dec. 2. (P)
Duke university's Rose bowl
bound football squad carried off
top honors In the 1941 all-Southern
conference team poll con
ducted by the Associated Press,
the participating sports writers
and coaches placing a quartet
of Blue Devils on the first team
and two more In reserve on the
second eleven.
Twice-beaten Clemson, 1940
leader which yielded the loop
championship this season to
Duke, was awarded three first
team berths; William and Mary
wo, and South Carolina and
Wake Forest one each.
. Heading the all-star lineup Is
repeater Steve Lach, Duke's sen
ior wingback from Altoona, Pa.
Only one of the 81 ballots re
ceived from the Carollnas, Vir
ginia, Maryland and the District
of Columbia failed to list the
190-pound Lach, regarded as
one of the best backs ever pro
duced at a school which has
turned out such players as Ace
Parker, George McAfee and
Eric Tipton.
The heaviest vote among the
linesmen went to Joe Blalock,
180-pound Clemson end from
Charleston, S. C, who has held
the all-star post for three seas
ons. Lining up with Lach In the
backfield are Stan Stasica,
South Carolina, one of the loop's
brightest rookie players; Harvey
Johnson, William and Mary's
210-pound Junior from Bridge
tun, N. 'J., and Charlie Tim-
inons, Clemson 200, from Abbe
ville, S. C, who was a member
of the 1940 team.
Working opposite the six-foot
two Blalock on the mythical
squad Is Bob Gannt, 210-pound
Puke sophomore from Durham,
N. C, who stands an inch taller
than Blalock.
Mike Ikarmazin. Duke, of Er
win. Pa., and George Frltts,
Clemson, of Lenoir City, Tenn.,
both seniors weighing around
190, won tackle honors.
There was little dispute also
over the first guard berts, Gar
rard Ramsey, W. it M. of Wal
land, Tenn., and Carl Glvler,
Wake Forest, of Allentown, Fa .
being the popular choices.
Bob Garnett, Duke senior
from Albany, Ga., was returned
to the center position for the
second consecutive year.
Celebration Still
Goes On for Beavers
Corvallls, Dec. 2 (APV Cel
ebrations for the Rose Bowl
bound Oregon State college foot
ball team continued here today.
Faculty members and Corval
lls merchants feted the team and
the coaching staff at a break
fast. Portland will honor the team
at a stag banquet Wednesday
night there
If you plan to buy er sell
let us finance the transaction.
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JACKSON COUNTY FEDERAL
AVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION
RELATES HOW HE
ill JOB
Huey Long Tossed Out Of
Oregon Dressing Room,
Ex-Local Coach Recalls.
By Dean Collins
In Oregon Journal
At the Multnomah hotel, list
ening to the returns on the
Army and Navy football game
with a post mortem by Prink
Calllson, I also heard for the
first time from that coach's own
lips how he missed becoming
football coach for the University
of Louisiana.
The second time he took Ore
gon down to play Louisiana,
some six years or so ago, was
the time when Huey Long, then
at the peak of his career, fired
the Louisiana roach. Biff Jones,
between halves. After he had
finished kicking Biff out of the
Louisiana team's dressing room,
Huey barged across into the
dressing room of the Oregon
team. Calllson was giving his
between-halved talk to his team,
when he looked up and saw a
ctranger in the offing. He had
never met Huey and didn't rec
ognize him at the moment.
I thought it was some drunk
who had stumbled In, so I yelled
at him to get the heck out," says
Calllson. He bristled and said.
I'm Huey Longl' I hollered
right back, 'I don't care If you're
the president of the United
States! Get out of this dressing
room, or I'll throw you out.'
Well, he got out, and I went
on talking strategy to my team.
Later on I met him at the re
ception, and as he shook hands
with me, he said, 'You know,
when I came Into your dressing
room and you threw me out
I was coming in to hire you to
coach Louisiana, in place of Biff
Jones'."
That shows how close Prink
Callison came to being on the
faculty of the University of
Louisiana. If he had been as
lucky as the rest of Huey's ap
pointees he might have stayed
in Louisiana's university long
enough to get Indicted along
with the rest of the boys.
Incidentally, he told the army
and navy men, at the lunch
eon, where they gathered to
listen to the radio game, that
when anyone who played foot
ball 20 years ago starts brag
ging about what a tough time
his old team would have made
for a modern football team,
don't believe him.
'I've played football later
than that," he says, "and when
! see the tough games they put
up now, I'm glad I'm in the
grandstand Instead of in the
field."
Fans Pay to Watch
Winning Grid Teams;
Losers Suffer Drop
New York, Dec. 2. VP) All
the world loves a lover or a
winning football team.
The Associated Press' annual
survey of football attendance
discloses that 'hose teams which
had the ability to gather In
more touchdowns and victories
Also reaped more dollars at the
box officers.
Unbeaten Duquesne played to
70,788 fans this year In five
home games as contrasted with
44.322 a year ago In four con
tests; Duke hiked Its total from
37,000 In five games last year
to 117.000 in four tilts this fall,
and Missouri's aggregate hop
ped from 60,383 a year ago to
73,548, with four home games
each season.
The reverse also was true lr.
most cases. Nebraska, good
enough to be chosen for the
Rose bowl a vear ago but de
feated five times In a row this
fall, dropped from 144.000 to
126,000; Boston college skidded
from 193,000 to 171.000 and
Tennessee came down from
112,000 to 80.000.
WEATHER
Northern California: Occas
ional rain tonight; Wednesday
showers and cooler, with snow
over high mountains; fresh
southerly wtnd off coast, strong
today north of Monterey,
Loans
V Homes J
126 LAST maim:
Number
BOWLING
Cliff froetor, rolllac for H-wmn-ton
Tire Tread In a Cl 1c league
amine last sight, turned tn a 308 to
top any previous 1041 tingle game
score. Pluhrer's Bakery had a single
game score of 1,031 for the beet team
aoora of the year. Bulck n re belli beat
Pluhrer's, 9 to 1; Hawklnson Tire beat
Murraj'i Hald-RIt. a to 1 and Do
mestic Laundry beat Foster and Klels.
r, 8 to 0. Bcoree follow:
F1-hrert Bakery
Porterfltld 114 193 let 4B6
Peak 143 1SS 181 611
Campagnooi ISO lot 1ST SS0
Barr l- -31 184 833
Reltama . 193 318 181 883
Totals
808 1031 8833883
Bnlrk fire Balls
18 IS IB 48
178 138 118 433
188 184 184 881
183 170 147 800
. 170 188 178 817
188 188 308 880
Iteed
Oreal
Sanderson
Long
Adair
Totals
888 841 8883588
ffawkinson Tire
Jim Moon 188 178 334 681
D. Maradden 181 188 310 637
S. Btark . ISO 168 188 487
Ron DeVora 170 166 303 828
Cliff Proctor 168 388 141 687
Totals
. 81T 816 866 3701
Murrays Maid Rite
17 17 IT 61
W. Prultt 183 161 170 486
Bill Haven 171 183 168 633
Landers 148 176 183 806
M. Bell , 164 147 183 804
Earl Sims 301 173 313 687
Total! 856 887 8333656
Foster r Klelarr
18 18 IB 84
Klcholaon 138 188 173 800
Witter 183 148 151 459
Boone 184 lit 168 480
Corley , 168 181 165 444
Newland 140 168 196 491
To tale 800 750 8483398
Domestic Laundry
Oreen 178 303 153 534
Gardner ... , 171 147 175 498
Saylor 303 171 183 836
Runts 169 159 149 477
Eada 333 188 314 825
, 843 869 8843665
BIG ENTRY LIST
Los Angeles, Dec. 2. (APV
The horse of the year ... the
horse of a day . . . the horse of
1939-40 . . . nearly 100 horses
looking for gold at the end of
the hundred grand gallop have
been nominated for the Santa
Anita handicap
Nominations closed last mid
night for the mile and a quarter
handicap to be run March 7.
The complete list won't be an
nounced until Friday morning to
allow time for mailed entries to
arrive.
However, there's no need to
wait to assure racing fans that
Whirlaway, Bay View, Challe
don, Meissen, Mioland and Por
ter's Cap, for Instance, were
nominated.
Whilaway, Warren C. Wright's
great winner of nearly every
thing offered a 3-year-old, is
horse of the year.
Bay View, the $118.40 to $2
winner of the $100,000 Anita
'cap last March, is the horse of
a day. Owner Tony Pelleted
wants to make it two days both
hundred granders.
HOT 8 EAT
Portland. Dee. 2. (Ph-A
prisoner at a Multnomah coun
ty Jail quarry shoved a quarter
of a stick of dynamite In a hole
in a rock yesterday, lighted the
fuse and sat down on the rock.
The blast scattered the rock in
all directions, but the prisoner,
Ray Kennedy. 17, was unin
jured. Deputy Sheriff Oswald
Day reported.
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Duke Boasts Best Five-Year
Football Record in Nation
By Orlo Robertson
New York, Dec. 2.W) The story why Duke, Fordham and
the Texas Asgles have dominated the bowl picture the last
two years is reflected in their football records for the last
half decade.
Duke, which made an unsuc
cessful visit to the Rose bowl
in January, 1939, and has been
Invited back again to meet Ore
gon State next month, tops the
country's major colleges in won
and lost records over this stretch
with a percentage of .870. The
Blue Devils have won 40 games
while dropping only six and ty
ing one in that period.
Minnesota, unbeaten since
1939 but out of the bowl pic
ture because of a Big Ten rul
ing, is ninth tn the list with
eight defeats, one tie and 31
triumphs the last 17 in a row.
Fordham, loser to the Texas
Aggies in the Cotton bowl last
New Year's day and Missouri's
opponent in the Sugar bowl this
coming January 1, is third with
a record of .842, compiled by
winning 32, losing six and tying
three. The Aggies, headed back
to the Cotton bowl for the sec
ond straight year, stand fifth
with a percentage of .822.
Thanks to their unbeaten
record In nine games, the Blue
Devils vaulted over Tennessee's
Vols, who desoite an Indifferent
year for them with a record of
eight and two, closed out the
five-year period with a mark of
865, good for runner-up hon
ors. Notre Dame, on the up
grade under the direction of
Frank Leahy, jumped from
eighth with a percentage of
.791, to fourth with .833 on the
strength of eight victories and
a tie In nine games. Santa Clara,
winning only six of its nine con
tests, dropped from second to
sixth.
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herder.
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Team of
Fights Last Night
(By the Associated Press)
New Orleans Leo Rodak.
134, Chicago, outpointed Joe
Peralta, 133, Tamaqua, Pa.,
flO).
Chicago Eddie Lander, 134,
Chicago, outpointed Vic Trolse,
140V. New York (10).
Pittsburgh M alio Bettlna,
183, New York, outpointed
Harry Bobo, 204V4, Pittsburgh
(10).
Baltimore G us Dorazlo,
191V4, Philadelphia, outpointed
Buddy Walker, 200V-, Colum
bus, Ohio (10).
Bridgeport, Conn. Al (Red)
Mofett, 147, Devon, Conn., out
pointed Frankie Velez, 148,
Porto Rico (8).
Newark, N. J Johnny Flynn,
194, Rochester. N. Y., won by
technical knockout over Wal
lace Cross, 203, East Orange,
N J. (3).
Cleveland Anton Chrlstofor-
idls, 163, Cleveland, outpointed
Ceferino Garcia, 158, Los Ang
eles (10); Joe Maxin, 178,
Cleveland, outpointed Clarence,
(Red) Burman. 188, Baltimore
(10); Fritzie Zlvlc, 143, Pitts
burgh, won by technical knock
out over Harry Weekly, 142,
Alliance, Ohio (8); Joey Pirrone,
143, Cleveland, outpointed Mar
cellina Borrado, 133, Mexico
City (6).
New York Charles (Lulu)
Costantino, 127ye, New York,
outpointed Joey Fontana, 132,
New York (8).
Washington, Dec. 2
The senate has confirmed Henry
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