Herald and news., October 11, 1963, Page 9, Image 9

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By BILL COULD
Herald and News Sports Editor
If Southern Conference coach
es are correct, the Medford Black
Tornado will repeat as champions
of the loop.
This is the concensus of the
men who coach the teams as
the conference prepares to move
into 1963 counting action tonight.
The general feeling is the
Grants Pass Cavemen have the
better overall team speed, bow
ever, that the Tornado will again
SET FOR CAVEMEN Mike McKibbon, 183 -pound
senior guard for the KU Pelicans, will be facing the Grants
Pass Cavemen for the second time this season tonight as
counting play starts for the Pels. McKibbon has been one
of the top players for the Pelicans on both offense and
defense.
capitalize on all breaks sent its
way plus the fact the two teams
will meet head-on at Medford
Stadium in the final contest of
the season.
Thus, the edge is given the
Tornado.
The conference coaches also see
the Klamath Falls Pelicans as a
third .place team, with Ashland
and Crater battling for the honor
of avoiding the basement.
This is the picture as the con
ference prepares to open count
ing play tonight and it's the Pel
icans receiving the dubious hon
or of facing the fourth-ranked
team in the state, Grants Pass,
Ducks, OSU Try Northwest Teams
Klamath Falls Runners
Decision Crater Comets
Klamath Falls collected a 20-35
cross-country victory over t h e
Crater Comets Thursday, taking
all but two of the first 10 places.
The Comets' Dave Skellon
Baskefball
Brings Hope
FLORENCE, S.D. (UPI)
The Florence High School had
hopes today of better luck In
basketball.
Bryant, S.D., High School de
feated Florence 97-0 in football
this week.
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Moanwmie. tne Tornado nosts
an always dangerous Crater Com
et eleven tonight and attempts
to protect its No. 1 ranking in
the state and the lofty perch ac
corded it by conference coaches.
The team thumbnails:
KLAMATH FALLS
Coach Bob Williams' Pelicans
have met with disaster in the
four outings thus far, with a 53-0
lacing given them by the South
Salem Saxons in their second
contest of the year.
Losses have come at the hand
of the Grants Pass Cavemen
tonight's conference opener op
ponent Corvallis and North Sa
lem to put the Pel record at a
very unimpressive 0-4. as the
counting action starts.
However, in defense of this
mark, it should be indicated that
the Pels have met four uf the
stronger clubs in the state prep
ranks in opening the 1963 cam
paign. A 12-0 loss was sustained at
the hands of the Grants Pass
Cavemen in the initial contest ol
the season. Still, this defeat has
paced the field to the wire with
a time of 10:15, while the Peli
cans' Davo Vaagen ran second.
The Pels were without the serv
ices of Ihoir No. 1 man. Bob
School, who was forced to miss
the meet because of illness.
The Pelicans return to dual
action Thursday when they travel
to Ashland.
Results: Klamath Falls 20, Cra
ter 35.
Dave Skelton. C, 10:15; Dave
Vaagen, KF; Mike Sweck, KF:
Merkel Britt. KF: Gary Maw,
KF; Ralph Totten, KF; Steve
Moore, KF; Terry Metier, KF;
Don Mainwaring, C; Bob Rob
ins, KF.
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prompted Caveman veteran
mentor Mel Ingram to say, ".
we were lucky to escape with our
lives.
The Pel defense has been much
better than scores posted thus
far would indicate. And the Pet
ican offense has been one to fear
by all opponents between the five
yard lines of the gridiron.
Against all opponents thus far,
the Pelicans have threatened on
numerous Occasions only to see
their drives run out of gas.
The Pels have two of the better
backs in the league in fullback
Chuck Mills and halfback Mike
Hitching. Added to their hard
running is the work of Vera Pet
rick at halfback.
In addition to this backfield trio
the Pels have linemen who have
thus far brought complementary
comments from opposing coach
es and players.
In John Jendrzejewski and Les
Thurman, the Pels have two of
the better ends in the conference.
The guards are sound in 183-pound
Mike McKibbon and 180-pound
Steve Campbell, with tackles
Lyle Haney (1741 and 212-pound
John Enright lending additional
support.
Defensively the Pels have been
led by Linebacker Ben Kern, a
152-pound junior, with 34 tackles
in four contests. Others show
ing well on defense have been
Terry Christianson, Don Plow
man, Glenn Miller and Tom Day.
Injuries have hindered the Pels
some, with Kitching missing the
North Salem contest due to a leg
injury and Rick Gustafson miss
ing this game also with a leg in
jury suffered in the Corvallis tilt.
Day is now not expected to see
action against Cavemen tonight
because of a "hip pointer" col
lected in the North Salem game.
The Pels have started slowly,
but as the team, the staff, the
fans and the opposing coaches
know, tlis potential is readily
visible.
The coaching staff has said
when the club finally jells, it could
be torrid.
This observation is not shared
only by the KU staff.
Medford mentor Fred Spiegel
berg agrees as he states. "The
potential is there. It's been my
experience that a team that
keeps taking its lumps at Klam
ath Falls has thus tar, linally
finds itself and explodes.
"And pity the poor ball club
it explodes against.
GRANTS PASS
The dean of Southern Confer
PORTLAND ( UPI ) Oregon and
Oregon State confine their football
activities to the Pacific Northwest
Saturday, with the Beavers meet
ing Washington in Seattle while
the Ducks entertain Idaho in Eu
gene. Atlhough the Beavers arc un
defeated this season while Wash
ington has lost three in a row,
oddsmakers still rate that game
a toss-up.
The Beavers have a potent
passing combination in quarter
back Gordon Queen to end Vern
Bowl Test
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The women's All-Star B.P.A.A.
elimination bowling tournament
will be held this weekend at
Lucky Lanes with women bowl
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gon competing. The elimination
matches will start at 4 p.m. Sat
urday afternoon, with the final
elimination matches Sunday at
1 p.m. Winners here will go to
Portland for the finals on Oct.
19-20.
Last year three Klamath bowl
ers went to the finals, Vita Sam
ples, Eldina Greenwood and Mar
ilyn Kcmpf.
Local bowling fans arc invited
to come out to Lucky Lanes and
see the elimination matches.
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outstanding football team.
Mel Ingram, heading into his
16th year at the helm of the
Grants Pass Cavemen, again
has come up with one of the top
teams in the state prep ranks.
Speed, quickness and the right
amount of weight again give the
Cavemen a deadly formula for a
winning club.
The Caveman backfield must
be considered one of the best
in the state, with the most speed
of any prep club.
Terry Isabel!, Gary VanKoten,
Dick Ireland and Tom Sparlin
give Grants Pass a deadly four
some. Isabell has been No. 1 since a
sophomore playing the Roseburg
Indians in t h e state quarter
finals of 1961 when the Indians
went on to their first state title.
The Caveman senior fullback
runs the century in 9.9 and weighs
173 pounds.
Ireland at 170 pounds and Van
Koten at 160 pounds give the
Cavemen more speed at the half
backs. And at the quarterback
post is Sparlin, considered to
be as good a passer as any in
the state.
An outstanding lineman for the
THE FORECAST
1. Medford -
2. Grants Pass
3. Klamath Falls
4. Crater
5. Ashland
Cavemen is tackle Bob Lindcr-
man, weighing 185 pounds.
The Cavemen will field an of
fensive team with a line average
of approximately 182 pounds and
a backfield average of 165
pounds.
How would Ingram rate this
year's Caveman club with some
of those in the past years?
'It's even with some of the
better teams we've had. Right
now the experience of the club
is the key which I feel will be
gained as we move along in the
season, is the answer.
' The Cavemen opened the cam
paign with a 12-0 win over the
Pelicans and followed with a 19-
19 standoff with North Salem t;i
the Viking field. Then came a 19-7
triumph over South Salem and
last weekend the Albany Bull
dogs fell by a 35-0 count.
At this stage, the Cavemen ap
pear to be the only club capable
of replacing the Medford Black
Burke. And, after last Saturday's
22-15 victory over Baylor, Coach
Tommy Prolhro can count on the
proven talents of fullback Charlie
Shaw, and halfbacks Danny Es-
palin and Leroy Whittle.
Washington, which has seen its
starting ranks depleted via in
juries and illness, can still boast
a rugged ground defense. Full
back Junior Coppey, who broke a
foot five weeks ago, got in some
contact work for the first time
Thursday and looked good.
Oregon will go against one of
the best Idaho teams in years,
but still figures to be too much
for the Vandals.
Oregon lost four guards in tthe
West Virginia game last weekend
but two of them, sophomores Dale
Wilson and Mark Richards, arc
expected to be ready for Idaho.
Linebacker Oliver McKinney is
nursing a bad shoulder and hasn't
had the pads on all week, coach
Len Casanova reported.
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Tornado as conference champs.
Barring any large upsets suf
fered by either team en route,
this will be determined in the
final league contest of the season
at Medford.
MEDFORD
It's a story 40 years old for
the Black Tornado as they head
into the first conference contest of
the season tonight.
Again favored for the league!
crown and rated first in the state!
is coach Fred Speigelberg's elev
en. This year the Tornado returns
to a large club, with a line aver
aging about 190 pounds on offense
and a defensive line at approxi
mately 180 pounds.
Since the Medford club has in
creased this year in size over last
year's state finals team, it has
also sacrificed speed.
Still the Tornado backfield is one
figured to give opposing teams
problems with such people as 215-
pound fullback Bill Enyart, a jun
ior; 186-pound left halfback Tim
Murray; Greg Gandec, a 165-1
pound right halfback with good
speed and quarterback Mike
Barnes (165) a converted half
back from last year's club.
Speigelberg feels he has a real
fine lineman with much college
potential in 225-pound Jeff Hard
rath at tackle. The Medford
coach puts Hardrath in the same
class as the outstanding tackle
from a few years back, Neil
Plumley, who went on to a top
position at Oregon State.
The Tornado opened the sea
son with a 21-0 win over the Cor
vallis Spartans and then fol
lowed with a surprising loss in
most quarters to Boise, Idaho, by
a 25-0 count.
Bouncing back, the Tornado
rolled over North Salem by a
32-13 score and South Salem, 19-7.
In summing up the outlook for
the Medford club, Speigelberg
states, "Our speed is not as good
as it was and this might make
a difference. Our ends are much
weaker, very young with little
experience, so we will probably
stay on the ground more than with
last year's club.
Also we will return to a
platoon system for our changes
on offense and defense as we did
a few years ago."
The latter is in reference to
the change on defense in which
the group tagged with the title of
Rogue River Bandits handled
the defensive work for the Tor
nado.
And this group came to be well-
known by opposing teams,
ASHLAND
Coach John Gray took over the
reins of the Ashland wizzlics
this year and if the Grizzlies don't
win another contest tins season
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Klamath Falls
No. -Player
Wl. Poi.
110 LB
J1J LT
183 LO
U0 C
110 RO
174 RT
153 RR
15S OB
1(5 LH
1 RH
160 FB
10 John Jentlrielawikl
77 John Enriqhl
67 Mlkt McKibbon
51 Jay Paxton
as Slav. Campbell
70 Lyle Haney
64 Lei Thurman
10 John Parisolto
40 Mike Kitching
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at least a 13-game losing skein
has been ended.
The Grizzlies posted a 0-9 rec
ord last year and had lost the
two final games of the 1961 sea
son.
Opening the 1963 campaign, the
Grizzlies lost games to Shasta
High School of Redding, Calif.,
39-0, and to Lebanon, 13-7, be
fore ending the losing streak with
a victory over Sweet Home, 21-7.
This weekend, the Grizzlies
draw the first bye as conference
play begins and host Yrcka in
another non-counter.
Gray will bank on the perform
ances of junior left tackle Jack
Gruber (190) and senior right
guard John Yaple K165) to an
chor the Ashland forward wall.
Of Gruber, Gray comments,
'He's unquestionably the top
lineman we have and does a great
job. Yaple and junior center
Jim Conklin (175) also draw
words of praise from the Ashland
mentor.
In the backfield the Grizzlies
will look to a pair of top quar
terbacks in 165-pound Dave Bar-
ger and 165-pound Dave Lohman.
At halfbacks will be Roger Ath-
erton (170) and Mike Tornson
(155), while at fullback will be
160-pound junior Don Scholer.
These are the top players lor
the Grizzlies, with a lineup boast
ing only two seniors and the bal
ance juniors.
Gray, in his 14th year in the
Ashland system but his first as
head football coach, will send his
Grizzlies out in an unbalanced
line with T formation. Both a run
ning and passing game will be
utilized, with split ends and
flankers.
The Grizzlies' passing attack
is expected to be one of the keys
to any amount of success they
might achieve, with Gray s of
fense to include at least 12 to 15
aerials per game.
As has been the case at Ashland
for many years, the Grizzlies
have just one way to go in the
conference race.
CRATER
Coach Keith Johnson's Comets
have rolled to a 3-0 record in
non-counting play, however, the
caliber of the opposition faced its
believed to have a large bearing
on the Comets chances in the
conference this year.
The Crater eleven opened the
campaign with a 7-0 decision over
Lebanon and followed with a 26-2
win over Sweet Home. Two weeks
ago a 48-13 triumph was recorded
over the Coquille Red Devils as
58 Comet players saw action
Leading the offensive show for
the Comets is senior fullback
Vern Swanson, a 165-pounder who
has averaged over 100 yards per
game and has scored seven touch
downs. Against Coquille, Swanson
Oranti Past
wt. Player
10 Jerrv Mccormick
173 Lee Sanders
147 Jim Cornell
157 Bill Stanley
173 Chuck Fuller
lis Bob Llnderman
17a Marty Bauer
143 Tom Sparlin
160 Gary VanKoten
170 Richard Ireland ,
173 Terry Isabell
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racked up 208 yards in 13 car
ries and scored three times.
Also impressive in pre-league
action has been senior halfback
Darrcll Summerfield, who weighs
18o pounds. And another top half
back has been Sherman Kiger at
160 pounds.
Leading the Comet forward wall
is tackle Denny Ryerson, a 170
pounder who was converted
to halfback last year.
The Comets have been plagued
by early injuries this year, with
six starters currently out of ac
tion. The results is the depth of
8Nb J
DEFENSIVE TROUBLE Glen Miller, 173-pound de
fensive end, sett his sights on the speed owned by the
Grants Pass Cavemen tonight as the KU club travels to
the Rogue Valley city for the conference opener for both
teams.
Duck Prexy
EUGENE (UPI) - A foolbllibccause Havward Field holds onlv
ana iracK staaium sealing uz.ouu
to 35,000 persons should bo con
structed on the site of the Univer
sity of Oregon's Hayward Field
President Arthur S. Flcmming1
said Thursday.
Flcmming said the present sys
tem of playing many of Oregon's
home football games in Portland
is Indefensible. ,
Students should not have to
travel 106 miles to attend home
games," Flcmming said at
meeting of the Eugene Chamber,
of Commerce's University liela
lions Committee.
Auto accidents and time away
from classes are invited by the
Portland trips, he said.
Oregon plays many of lis
"homo" games at 36,000 seat
Multnomah Stadium in Portland
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the Crater club, small at the start,
is reduced even further as they
head into conference action to
night against Medford.
Johnson feels the Comets will
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club, but will perhaps be some-!
what quicker.
"Kiger, Swanson and Summer
field are all fast and if we can
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