East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-11-19
LUCKY SIDE OF FIELD
IS ASSIGNED TO SHY'S
MEN FOR u. S. c. GAME
Oregon Believes That Bench on
West Side of Pasadena Grid
iron Insures Victory and
Team Will Sit There Again.

The, University of oregon football
team has been granted a concession
for the Thanksgiving Day game
against the University of Southern
California. 1t is in keeping with SUI
perstition of Huntington's men that
the west side Of the field at Pasadena
is the lucky" side and oregon has
been gwen that side for the forthccm-
ing contest.
According TO the dope. oregon kept
its wonder team Of 1915 on the west
side OF the Tournament OF Roses
lark and trimmed the University Of
Pennsylvania eleven. Last year when
1 Harvard barely won over the Pio-
neers, the eastern eleven had the place
OF honor. Marion McClain. graduate
manager at Oregon, recently wired
Henry Bruce graduate manager at L.
s. c., to be allowed TO hold forth in
the charmed spot Bruce has ac-
Quiesced
VIII Settle Aspirations.
The battle between the Los Angeles
institution and oregon next Thursday
will be more than a mere Thanksgiv-
ing day contest Although the L. s.
&c. is not member of the Pacific
Coast conference it has put out strong
American style football teams for the
past several seasons and this year the
Angelinos have well grounded idea
that they should be considered when
the Pasadena folk pick a western
eleven to meet the best OF the east.
U. S. c. handed trimming to the
strong Stanford team early in the sea-
son and otherwise has gone through a ]
fairly heavy schedule without much /
difficulty, The southern boys are
aC hing to get whack at Andy Smith . |
University of California team, espe- I
cially II the Fears win from Stanford /
tomorrow in their game for the coast .
conference championship. From I
present indications the honor of rep |
resenting the west is certain to lie del
egated to Smiths team.
But oregon comes in there. Stan
ford defeated shys boys 10 TO when
they met few weeks back at Palo
Alto. --0veros%fidence was, one Of tire
big reasons for the defeat. Since that
trimming the Eugene lads have come
to the fore with rush and scored
II points ag- inst a much stronger
Washington team than was defeated I
by Stanford by the bare margin Of I
TO 0. So, figuring ii Ht as one pleas |
cs. oregon is due to come pretty near
taking the Los Angeles boys down the |
line TO a trimming Thursday. jinx or |
no jinx.
Show Best at Pasadena.
on no field up and down the coast /
hnve Oregon teams played better I,
lrand of football than on the Pasade- /
ma gridiron. Thursday VIII mark their I
third important appearance there since |
1916 and they win go into the game 1
with wonderful lot of support owing |
to their showing last New Years day 4
against Harvard The popularity OIL
Huntington and his men in Southern |
California was evidenced by large |
influx Of freshmen this fall from San
Diego, Pasadena and other Southern
California cities when the doors swung
open at Eugene.
An Oregon victory Thursday would
eliminate the t. S C.'s talk of a
right to be the chosen team for the
cast VS.. west battle. If oregon does
not conquer and California takes
Stanford tomorrow, it is highly prob
able that long wall will go up from
the southern city until post season
game with the Bears is decided.
Except for the one defeat at the
hands of Stanford the University ,of