The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-02
California Pinned for Comeback in Football
Oregon State
Hasn't Quit on
Rose Bowl Idea
BY RED GRANGE
The Original Man in Motion

California, which has been
cuffed around the Pacic Coast
Conference since 1887 when the
Golden Bears won in the Rose
Bow, looms as the club To bring
order out of confusion in the Far
West this season.
In 1941, the Far West failed
TO produce a team which stood
head and shoulders above the
rest of the league, although Ore
gon State was capable enough to
take Duke in the tranSplanted
Tournament of Roses.
But there was no team like the
Southern California varsities of
the early 30s. the Stanford
teams of '33-34-35 or Clark
Shaughnessy's T-toers of 40.
Each team last season lost two
games or more. Oregon State
nosed out Washington and Wash
ington State for titular honors.
Stanford was fourth as the north
ern group, for once, dominated
the league.
California is the choice over
Oregon State by a shade.
Lon Sinners Beavers lost Is
lettermen, eight of them regu-
lars, and three assistant coaches.
Bob Dethman nd Don Durdan
leave backfield gap and Martin
Chaves will be missed in the
line. George Balm, a 207-pound
veteran, is a whale of a tackle
and there are few better wing
men than George Zellick. Joe
Day and Choc Shelton are more
than adequate at fullback.
THIRTEEN SOPHOMORES
California has ID sophomores
on the first two teams, and that
is the tipoff. If they can play
major league ball in their first
year, the club will be hard to
beat.
Jack Herrero, 185-pound SEN
Tor, is one of the best guards in
the country. John Ferguson at
end and backs Bill Reinhard,
Gene Pickett and Frank Porto
provide the punch. Reinhard,
brother of the Bears All-Amer-
lea Bob, is a bright prospect.
Southern California has a sea-
soned squad of % veterans, some
outstanding personnel and new
coach in Jeff Cravath, who
moved down from San Fran
cisco when Sam Barry was COM
missioned lieutenant-comma
der in the Navy.
The backfield will be built
around the talented and left
handed passing Paul Taylor,
shifty Mickey McArdle and Bob
Musick, brother of the Trojans'
famous Jim of a decade ago. A
rock-ribbed line, bolstered by
235-pound Earl Audet, the
Georgetown kle transfer,
should give the Los Angeles ar
ray plenty of power.
SCHWARTZ AT STANFORD
Marchy Schwartz, who starred
in the backfield for Notre Dame,
is the new Stanford coach.
He inherits a good line, back
field that carries a real star in
Randall FaWcett and thin re-
serves. The center of the forward
wall, with such stalwarts as Ed
Stamm, Bruno Banducci, Chuck
Taylor, Loren LaPrade and Milt
Vuchinich, is just about the
toughest in the west.
Pest WEIGH has a Washington
squad streamlined by war and
graduation.
He has bright items in center
Walt Harrison and halfback Bob
Erickson, who are likely to be
the coasts outstanding perform
ers at their positions. Dmitri
Tadich is rugged guard. WEIGH
will blend the r into the Notre
Dame box, but his backs will not
shift.
Washington State has the best
end on the coast in Nick Susoeff,
a 6-foot 4-inch, 206-pound Rus
sian who ripped the Stanford T
to shreds last season. Eligibility
losses hurt.
COACHING CHANGES
Oregon finished the 1941 cam
paign by dropping III affair
to Texas, but the Webfeet start
off undaunted under Vaughan
Corley.
Bob Koch, who was shifted
from Stanford under a ruling by
Commissioner Atherton, is n
fine fullback prospect.
U. c. L. A. has AL Solari and
a lot of question marks. Francis
Schmidt is on the upgrade at
Idaho. Santa Clara and San
Francisco are the best of the in
dependents. j mmy Phelan
faces a bleak outlook at St.
Maru'p