Fanfare
ly DICK JtWETT
Mail Tribune Sports Hit or
Ballots have bcerw placed in
the mail for tfc? annual selection
9k the Medford Mail Tri'oune's
All-Southern Oregon conference
football team. It hoped to have
the ballM in and the r55ults
tabulated in aoout 10 days. Mcd
forff, Ashland, fjrants Par',
fclamath Fam and Crater made
up the circuit this year, the lat
ter 0rin9 a participant in the
big Sthool football loop and Dis
trict 6 for the. first time.
Sportscastrs, s p o r tswriters
and coaches in the cities of the
member sctvmls 3 participate in
the poll. Since there is no radio
station nor daily paper at Cen
tral Point where Crater is lo
cated, two residents of the com
munity, 'who have "seen ..the
Comets in action agamst confer
ence ims,( have been chosen
to east ballots.
cause his coolness under fire
and his long eet shot ability.
But he's facing stiff competi
tion on the squad this season.
IPdDMTTS
SPECIAL OFFENSE
Coach Al N'egratti of Port
lands Pilots reportedly has
sought to mold his club around
special offense he devised dur
ing the summer. He has begun
scrimmage sessions behind
locked doors and has been un
communicative about the exact
nature of the new patterns. He
has said that the new scoring
thrust of the Pilots would be as
modern on the basketball floor
as "rork and roll' is on the
dance floor.
MASTERPIECE
Following is the Comment ef
Gege tis. sportswriter of
the Grants Pass Daily Courier,
concerning the 1956 Medford
HighSschool football team.
"Coach Fred Sptcgelberg
and his assistants. Paul (Tiay)
Erensen, coaching the line
andS Bob Newland coaching
the backs, hare turned out
consistently good teams since
Spiegelberg became head
coach in 1952, but this one is
ir masterpiece."
PFAISE FROM MEL
We've also heard rounc?abu4
that Ch Mel Ingram of the
Grants Pass Cavemen voiced
praise of the Medford high line
for its terrific game against the
Cavemen ls t Fndav, stating
that the Tornado wall km one
of the best he'd seen and that
his club had no alibis for losing.
AT U OF P
Laral Meunier and John
Walsh. 1956 graduates of St.
Mary's "high of Medford are
en the University of Portland's
junfr rars it y basketball
squad. Frank Rector. ex-Med-ford
high (1953) is a member
the IS man U of P squad.
A sophomore, he cracked the
Pilot varsity as a, freshman
last year, breaking into the
starting line-up. He was
brought up to the varsity be-
CRATER IN JAMBOREE
At a league meeting last
Saturday at Grants Pass.
Crater was included in the
Southern Oregon conference
basketball jamboree, expand
ing it possibly into a five
learn event. The Crater floor
at Central Point could be the
scene of the Dec- 1 jamboree.
Medford's Hedrick Junior
high court is the scheduled site
but. if Medford's football team
is in the slate finals that same
week end, the jam will shift
to Central Point.
Reason is obvious. Medford
in the grid finals will mean
that Tornado fans will be in
Portland for the game or will
have their ears glued to their
radios. Jamboree attendance
would suffer.
In past seasons with four
teams, in the jamboree, each club
played each other one an eight
minute quarter, the equivalent
of three quarters of a game.
Five sthool participation would
complicate the plan 'of play.
If each other team would play
each other a full eight-minute
period, it would be the same as
a full game and likely would
count as one of the 22 allotted
to each school for the season by
the Oregon School Activities as
sociation. For the jam the per
iods then, may be shortened or
two or thre; of the schools could
see less action than the others.
Personally, we hope that
Black Tornado football success
will uncomplicate the jamboree.
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1957 MODEL University of San Francisco's owo-time na
tional championship basketball team has lost some stars
but have acquired new and promising material. Left to
right: Art Day, Hal Payne, AJ Dunbar, Bill Mallen and
Charles Russell. Dav and Dunbai transferred from Hanni
bal, Mo. Junior College. Russell, brother of USF's Ail
American Bill Russell, is ust out of the armed services.
Payne was reserve last year and Mal'en withdrew from
the squad early last season The Don's are riding a 55 con
secutive game victory string. i
Wednesday, November 7, 1958
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN
Tom Prothro Chosen
Coach of the Week
By HOWARD APPLEGATE
Corvallis, Ore. vU.R) He
played in the Rose Bowl game
once but the Rose Bowl itself
was more than 3,000 miles
away.
This time he'd like to get his
boys at least close enough to
smell the flowers, and the way
they axe going that fragrance
could be theirs to enjoy on New
Year's day.
He's the United Press coach of
the week, Tommy Prothro of
those rising, surprising Oregon
State Beavers.
Just a year ago when Prothro
took over as head coach, he in
herited the remnants of the
worst football team in Oregon
State history. He guided the
Beavers to a 6-3 won and lost
record and this season he has
Italian Archeologists Map
Life of Pre-Historic Man
Rome lu.R) Italian archae
ologists are pushing back the
frontiers of the- pre-historic era
and gradually rounding out a
remarkably detailed picture of
what human life and culture in
Europe was like tens of thous
ands of years before Christ. -
Recent findings by leading
scientists such as Profs. A. C.
Blanc and A. M. Radmilli of
Rome University's Institute of
Geology and Paleontology indi
cate a relatively well-developed
culture on the Italian peninsula
dating back approximately - to
20.000. B.C.
It is speculated in these scien
tific circles that Neanderthal
man a pre-modern species of
man, now extinct may have
roamed the area that is now
Italy as far back as 100.000 B.C.
Blanc is carrying out excava
tions at Tor in Pielra on the
outskirts of Rome. Here he un
earthed tools and bones show
ing that early man was a skilled
and resourceful hunter who man
aged to survive under conditions
that would have wiped out pres
ent day humans. Radmilli has
made many important discov
eries, especially in southern
Italy.
Dfgging and finds at the Grim
aldi caves, near Ventimiglia, on
the French border, on the island
of Palisiiria, Po.: La Spezia, at
Monte Circeo. Gaeta. Positano.
Ansedonia, Cape Palinurus and
elsewhere hae helped r,ound
out the picture for scientists.
Colder Climate
This is what Cro-Magnon man
(of the same species homo
sapiens as modern man) and
his environment probably were
like, according to the evidence
found:
He first appeared in the Ital
ian area about 20.000 B.C., or
roughly about the time the
Fourth Ice Age began to recede
northward. The weather was
considerably colder then than it
is now.
Cro-Magnon man was a hunt
er with spears tipped with flints
he had chiseled himself with
tools of quarzite and volcanic
rock.
He lived a, tribal life, settling
throughout most of what is now
western Europe. He organized
great roundups of wild horses,
driving herds of them with bon
fires and blazing torches along
carefully laki-out routes to a
precipice, where the terrified
animals leaped to their death.
At the bottom of the cliff,
other members of the tribe skin
ned the animals and cut them
up for food.
Cro-Magnon man may have
been a cannibal. At least he sac-
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Washington U.R Special
classes have been organized in
District of Columbia schools to
help the slow-learning student
who has been unable to keep
pace with his classmates.
Some 450 students from 11
years of age and the third grade
on up are enrolled in 18 of these
classes. Their objective is "edu
cational rehabilitation," or a re
turn to classes on their own ma
turity level.
They are, for the most part,
children of average or above
average intelligence who have
lagged in their classwork be
cause of physical disabilities,
emotional disturbances and other
reasons.
Mrs. Rosa H. Jones, director
of special education, said the
teachers working in this special
area are ''dedicated" people hav
ing a "firm belief" that success
can be attained.
The slow learner, she said, can
best be "rehabilitated" by:
1. Givin? him motivation, per
mitting him a measure of suc
cess in his work since he prob
ably feels he has never suc
ceeded in anything.-
2. Finding the reason for his
slowness and doing what is pos
sible to correct it.
3. Finding the child's interests.
4. Raising the child's reading
and speech levels by bringing
them in line with his interests.
5. Increasing the child's vo
cabulary and word-building abil-ility.
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rificed human victims as part of
his religious rites.
He also had a highly develop
ed artistic sense and left beauti
ful drawings of animals and
hunts scratched on the walls of
the caves where he dwelled.
Mammoth Hunted
Cro-Magnon man. the greatest
hunter the world has even
known, dominated the Old Stone
Age in Europe and Italy, which
lasted until about the beginning
of recorded history, or roughly
about the time when nomadic
man began to settle down and
learned the basis of agriculture.
He hunted the now extinct
mammoth, which wandered over
the continent, and other animals
equipped with thick hides and
skin coverings out of which he
made clothing adapted to the
icy climate.
How he managed to kill such
a ponderous monster as the
mamoth remains a mystery. But
it is believed that teams of
hunters may have ambushed the
slow-moving, small - brained
beasts as they fed and rushed in
individually to plungs spears
into their sides, then darted
away again.
Then, as is done by some
primitive hunters to this day,
they stalked their game, some
times for days, until the striken
animal died of infection or ex
haustion or both.
The temperature of "sunny
Italy" was nothing like what it
is today an added factor in the
remarkable accomplishment of
prehistoric man in surviving at
all. The weather, judging from
geological studies of the extent
and duration of the Ice Age, was
about that of the present Arctic
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Houghton Lake and caught a
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gull swooped in and grabbed it.
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husband released it.
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steered them to the top in the
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Desire To Win
If they can get by Stanford
Saturday, they should make it
to Pasadena, because only Idaho
and Oregon, both comparative
weaklings remain after that.
State's 28-20 victory over
Washington's Huskies last week
wasn't a surprise. In fact the
Beavers had been favored to
win. But it was just another
workmanlike demonstration of
Prothro's single wing efficiency.
"This team goes places be
cause it has a great desire to
win," declared Prothro, who was
a standout football player him
self at Duke. He played in the
1942 Rose Bowl game against
Oregon State and the Beavers
won that thriller, 20-16, in Dur
ham, N.C. It was transplanted
from Pasadena because it was
only a few weeks after the
bombing of Pearl Harbor and
there was fear of bombing at
tacks on the Pacific coast.
Prothro grew up in an atmos
phere of defeat. His dad was Doc
Prothro, the frustrated dentist
who managed the Philadelphia
Phillies to three eighth place
finishes in a row from 1939
through 1941. Early in his life,
young Tommy got the idea that
life could be happier in a house
hold where the team involved
was a winner. Prothro, senior,
has become his son's most ar
dent rooter, following the Bea
vers week after week.
"It is good to have a winner
in the family at last," he quips.
Spirit High
The campus spirit right now is
higher than at any time since the
1941 championship campaign.
Prothro is a little concerned
about it.
"This team is much better
than last year s but maybe peo
ple are getting too high on us
too quickly," he said. "The spirit
may be a little ahead of the
team. Don't forget we have a lot
of sophomores."
Prothro learned his single
wing magic when he was an as
sistant to Rqd Sanders at UCLA.
He still thinks Sanders is "the
greatest."
"I'm pleased to be honored as
coach of the week," he said.
"But I thought Sanders would
get it for beating Stanford. I
hope we'll do as well Saturday."
There was one election note
on the campus after last week's
victory over Washington and it
didn't involve Ike or Adlai.
There was a bold poster which
said:
"Prothro for president."
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