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Last week, Oregon State's Coach Lon Stiner confessed that his real field general is a salaried alumnus, who sits high above the playing field in the press box. Ex-Halfback Bob Dethman of O.S.C.'s 1942 Rose Bowl team keeps a close eye on the opponents' weaknesses. When he decides what play to call, he telephones to the bench and a substitute relays it to the Oregon State huddle. Says Stiner, who is a member of the rules committee: "All coaches are doing some signal calling. . . . That substitution rule has to be changed...
...Coach Alonzo Stiner and his Northwest farmers were not the least bit awed by Wallace Wade's Blue Devils. With Don Durdan, a left-handed right halfback, and Bob Dethman, a right-handed left halfback, carrying out clever hocus-pocus despite a drizzling rain, they fooled the Devils, scored the biggest upset since Columbia tripped Stanford in 1934. Score...
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