1938–39 Oregon Webfoots men's basketball team
1938–39 NCAA tournament National champions PCC champions | |
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Conference | Pacific Coast Conference |
North | |
Record | 29–5 (14–2 PCC) |
Head coach |
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Home arena | McArthur Court |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
North | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oregon † | 14 | – | 2 | .875 | 29 | – | 5 | .853 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Washington | 11 | – | 5 | .688 | 20 | – | 5 | .800 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Washington State | 8 | – | 8 | .500 | 23 | – | 10 | .697 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oregon State | 6 | – | 10 | .375 | 13 | – | 11 | .542 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Idaho | 1 | – | 15 | .063 | 12 | – | 19 | .387 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
South | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
California | 9 | – | 3 | .750 | 24 | – | 8 | .750 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
USC | 9 | – | 3 | .750 | 20 | – | 5 | .800 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stanford |
6 | – | 6 | .500 | 16 | – | 9 | .640 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UCLA | 0 | – | 12 | .000 | 7 | – | 20 | .259 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† Conference playoff series winner As of 1939[1] Rankings from AP Poll |
The 1938–39 Oregon Webfoots men's basketball team was a college basketball team that represented the University of Oregon. The Webfoots,[n 1] coached by Howard Hobson, played in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) and compiled a 29–5 win–loss record in regular and postseason competition. After winning the PCC title, they became the champions of the inaugural NCAA basketball tournament.
Coming off a season in which the Webfoots were defeated in the PCC championship series by Stanford, the team returned all five of their starters. Known for their fast break offense, Oregon's players were nicknamed the "Tall Firs" and held a height advantage over most teams. After several early-season wins, the Webfoots went on an extended road trip to the East Coast, becoming the first West Coast team to do so. The team suffered two losses on the trip, to City College of New York (CCNY) and Bradley, but posted seven victories as well. Oregon won 10 consecutive games at one point in PCC competition, and clinched a Northern Division championship with a win in the next-to-last contest of the regular season. In the best-of-three PCC championship series, against California, the Webfoots won in two games to earn the team's first conference championship since 1919.
Oregon was invited to compete in the West Regional of the NCAA tournament, and beat
Background
The 1937–38 Webfoots posted a win–loss record of 14–6 in Pacific Coast Conference play. In the conference's North division, the Webfoots won the title by a one-game margin over Washington. The Webfoots were led by Lauren Gale, who was the PCC North division's leader in scoring with 12.5 points per game in conference play; his overall average was 12.4. Oregon advanced to the best-of-three PCC championship series, but lost two consecutive games to Stanford by margins of 52–39 and 59–51. That ended the team's hopes of being crowned PCC champions. Following the decisive game of the series, player Bobby Anet said at a team meeting, "Next year, we're going to win everything."[3]
Roster and schedule
Oregon's entire starting lineup returned from the 1937–38 team that had lost in the conference championship playoff;
Oregon's preferred offensive game plan was to play an attacking fast break style of basketball. In response, opposing teams with shorter players often played a slower-paced offense.[4] Oregon's fast break was unique among West Coast basketball teams, who were not accustomed to facing such an offensive style.[11] Dick said of the team's attack that "We wanted to keep the pressure on (the opponent) mentally – more so than physically. Never give them a moment's rest."[5] When inbounding the ball, the Webfoots often restarted play quickly to maintain their fast pace.[12] Hobson frequently tracked Oregon's attempted shots in both competition and practice sessions, and built the offense around his players' strengths.[4] On defense, the team switched between zone and man-to-man styles depending on how its opponent played.[4]
Name | # | Position | Height | Year | Home town |
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Bobby Anet | 20 | Guard | 5–8 | Senior | Astoria, Oregon |
John Dick | 18 | Forward | 6–4 | Junior | The Dalles, Oregon |
Lauren Gale | 28 | Forward | 6–4 | Senior | Oakridge, Oregon |
Bob Hardy | 40 | Forward | 6–3 | Senior | Ashland, Oregon |
Wally Johansen | 32 | Guard | 5–11 | Senior | Astoria, Oregon |
Red McNeely | 15 | Guard | 6–2 | Sophomore | Portland, Oregon |
Ford Mullen | 13 | Guard | 5–8 | Junior | Olympia, Washington |
Matt Pavalunas | 11 | Guard | 6–0 | Junior | Raymond, Washington |
Earl Sandness | 36 | Center | 6–4 | Sophomore | Astoria, Oregon |
Ted Sarpola | 25 | Forward | 6–2 | Junior | Astoria, Oregon |
Slim Wintermute | 22 | Center | 6–8 | Senior | Longview, Washington |
Date time, TV |
Opponent | Result | Record | Site city, state | |||||||
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Regular season[14] | |||||||||||
11/29/1938* |
Portland | W 51–24 | 1–0 |
McArthur Court Eugene, Oregon | |||||||
12/02/1938* |
Multnomah AC | W 83–25 | 2–0 |
McArthur Court Eugene, Oregon | |||||||
12/03/1938* |
Signal Oil | W 46–34 | 3–0 |
McArthur Court Eugene, Oregon | |||||||
12/12/1938* |
at Pacific Packards | W 54–39 | 4–0 |
Benson Polytechnic High School Portland, Oregon[15] | |||||||
12/17/1938* |
at CCNY
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L 36–38 | 4–1 |
Madison Square Garden New York City, New York[4] | |||||||
12/19/1938* |
at Saint Joseph's | W 54–44 | 5–1 |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[16]
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12/20/1938* |
vs. Miami (OH)
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W 74–38 | 6–1 |
Cleveland, Ohio[16]
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12/22/1938* |
at Canisius | W 53–41 | 7–1 |
Broadway Auditorium Buffalo, New York[17] | |||||||
12/23/1938* |
at Wayne State | W 52–41 | 8–1 |
Detroit Naval Armory Detroit, Michigan[17] | |||||||
12/26/1938* |
at Bradley | L 39–52 | 8–2 |
City Armory Peoria, Illinois[18] | |||||||
12/27/1938* |
vs. Western Illinois | W 60–45 | 9–2 |
Chicago Coliseum Chicago, Illinois[19] | |||||||
12/29/1938* |
at Drake | W 42–31 | 10–2 |
Drake Fieldhouse Des Moines, Iowa[20] | |||||||
12/31/1939* |
vs. Stanford | L 46–50 | 10–3 |
San Francisco Civic Auditorium
San Francisco, California[21] | |||||||
01/06/1939 |
Washington State | W 46–35 | 11–3 (1–0) |
McArthur Court Eugene, Oregon | |||||||
01/07/1939 |
Washington State | L 34–39 | 11–4 (1–1) |
McArthur Court Eugene, Oregon | |||||||
01/13/1939 |
at Oregon State | W 31–26 | 12–4 (2–1) |
— Corvallis, Oregon[22] | |||||||
01/17/1939 |
at Washington State | W 56–44 | 13–4 (3–1) |
— Pullman, Washington[23] | |||||||
01/18/1939 |
at Washington State | W 57–31 | 14–4 (4–1) |
— Pullman, Washington[23] | |||||||
01/20/1939 |
at Idaho | W 38–30 | 15–4 (5–1) |
Memorial Gymnasium Moscow, Idaho[24] | |||||||
01/21/1939 |
at Idaho | W 35–31 | 16–4 (6–1) |
Memorial Gymnasium Moscow, Idaho[24] | |||||||
01/27/1939 |
Oregon State | W 46–39 | 17–4 (7–1) |
McArthur Court Eugene, Oregon | |||||||
01/31/1939 |
Washington | W 57–49 | 18–4 (8–1) |
McArthur Court Eugene, Oregon | |||||||
02/01/1939 |
Washington | W 58–42 | 19–4 (9–1) |
McArthur Court Eugene, Oregon | |||||||
02/10/1939 |
Idaho | W 45–28 | 20–4 (10–1) |
McArthur Court Eugene, Oregon | |||||||
02/11/1939 |
Idaho | W 53–36 | 21–4 (11–1) |
McArthur Court Eugene, Oregon | |||||||
02/18/1939 |
at Oregon State | L 31–50 | 21–5 (11–2) |
— Corvallis, Oregon[22] | |||||||
02/24/1939 |
Oregon State | W 48–37 | 22–5 (12–2) |
McArthur Court Eugene, Oregon | |||||||
03/03/1939 |
at Washington | W 39–26 | 23–5 (13–2) |
Seattle, Washington[25]
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03/04/1939 |
at Washington | W 54–52 | 24–5 (14–2) |
UW Pavilion Seattle, Washington[25] | |||||||
PCC championship[14] | |||||||||||
03/16/1939 |
California | W 54–49 | 25–5 |
McArthur Court Eugene, Oregon | |||||||
03/17/1939 |
California | W 53–47 | 26–5 |
McArthur Court Eugene, Oregon | |||||||
NCAA tournament[14]
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03/20/1939* |
vs. Texas | W 56–41 | 27–5 |
Golden Gate International Exposition Coliseum San Francisco, California[26] | |||||||
03/21/1939* |
vs. Oklahoma | W 55–37 | 28–5 |
Golden Gate International Exposition Coliseum San Francisco, California[26] | |||||||
03/27/1939* |
vs. Ohio State | W 46–33
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29–5 |
Patten Gymnasium Evanston, Illinois[5] | |||||||
*Non-conference game. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.
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Regular season
The Webfoots began the 1938–39 season by defeating Portland 51–24 on November 29, 1938.[27] Oregon's second game was also against a team based in Portland, which represented the Multnomah Athletic Club. The Webfoots won by an 83–25 final score. In a closer game with a team representing Signal Oil, Oregon stretched its winning streak to three games with a 46–34 triumph.[15] The team then recorded a victory over Pacific Packards, by a 54–39 final score.[14]
Following those games, the Webfoots embarked on a long trip through the Eastern United States; they were the first college basketball team from the West Coast to do so.
Future stops included Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit, among other locations.[29] Starting with the St. Joseph's game, the Webfoots had a streak in which they played four games in five days before Christmas Eve.[14] On December 20, Oregon routed Miami (Ohio) 74–38, as Sarpola led the team with 20 points. Wintermute suffered an ankle injury during the game.[30] The Webfoots then defeated Canisius by a 12-point margin.[14] In the next game, against an undefeated Wayne State team, the Webfoots entered halftime tied at 22–22 and needed a late burst of scoring, led by Gale and Johansen, to clinch an 11-point victory.[31] After the Miami (Ohio) game, Wintermute missed three of the team's following four games. The Webfoots won without him in their next two games, but not in the game in which he returned to action against Bradley. In Peoria, Illinois, Oregon fell behind by 17 points at halftime and lost 52–39, as Bradley center Dar Hutchins tallied 17 points while defended by Wintermute, who was playing through his ankle injury.[32] Following their loss to Bradley, Oregon traveled to the Chicago Coliseum for a game against Western Illinois State Teachers College. Despite being without the services of Wintermute again, the Webfoots posted a 60–45 victory.[19] Drake, the Webfoots' opponent on December 29 in Chicago, was defeated by 11 points.[14] The final game of the road trip, held in San Francisco on New Year's Eve, saw the Webfoots lose to Stanford.[4] The stretch proved profitable for the school, which made $4,400 off of the East Coast games,[8] and Dick credited the trip for giving the Webfoots exposure to different styles of play than they had been accustomed to.[21]
Conference play
The Webfoots then entered play in the PCC, with four games scheduled against each of the four other teams in the conference's Northern Division; Oregon hosted each club twice and played two games at all opposing teams' arenas.[22] At the beginning of 1939, the Webfoots began its PCC schedule with consecutive home games against Washington State on January 6 and 7.[14] In the first, Oregon entered halftime with a nine-point advantage and prevailed by a 46–35 margin.[33] They lost the second, 39–34, for their only home defeat of the season; the loss broke a 23-game winning streak at McArthur Court, the Webfoots' arena.[34]
Oregon then began a 10-game winning streak, their longest since the start of the 1937–38 season. Oregon State was the Webfoots' first opponent during the streak, on January 13; Oregon prevailed 31–26. In two higher-scoring contests at Washington State on January 17 and 18, the Webfoots claimed 56–44 and 57–31 victories, respectively. A five-game road trip concluded with games in Idaho on January 20 and 21. The contests were closer than those against Washington State, but the Webfoots won 38–30 in the first game and 35–31 in the second to improve to 6–1 in conference play.[14] Oregon's next five games were at home, beginning with a second encounter against Oregon State, on January 27 that they won by a seven-point margin. Washington traveled to Oregon for games on January 31 and February 1, and 57–49 and 58–42 victories moved the Webfoots' winning streak to eight. They then concluded their four-game season series with Idaho, winning by 17 points in each game.[14] On February 18, the Webfoots' streak ended with a 50–31 upset loss to Oregon State,[35] which would be their last of the season. Six days later, Oregon posted a 48–37 win over the Beavers at home.[14] That game was the Webfoots' last appearance for the 1938–39 regular season at McArthur Court; it was the school's 100th win at the arena since it was opened in 1927.[34]
With two games left in the regular season, the Webfoots held a one-game lead over Washington, with a pair of contests scheduled in Seattle against the Huskies. Oregon required one victory to clinch the Northern Division championship.[22] On March 3, the Webfoots defeated Washington in the first game of the series 39–26; Gale led the team in scoring with 11 points, as the team won despite missing 53 of their 67 field goal attempts. Anet suffered a dislocated finger and was held out of the second game against Washington, which took place the following day. The Webfoots claimed a two-point win, their fourth of the season over Washington.[36] Of the Huskies' five losses in 1938–39, all but one was against the Webfoots.[4] By the end of the regular season, Oregon had won the PCC North Division with a 14–2 conference record, and had a 24–5 record overall.[37]
Postseason
PCC championship series
By winning the PCC Northern Division, Oregon earned the right to play the winner of the Southern Division in a best-of-three playoff series, with the games held at McArthur Court.
In front of a crowd that included members of the Webfoots' 1919 conference championship team, which had won the title over California, Oregon took a one-point halftime lead on a late 30-foot shot by Johansen.[42] The team switched its defense from zone to man-to-man for the second half and went on an early second half run to open up a 14-point lead with 12 minutes left. The Golden Bears made multiple comeback bids as the half progressed, but the Webfoots held on to win 54–49 and move ahead in the series.[43] More than half of Oregon's points were scored by Gale and Wintermute, who had 18 and 11 respectively.[37] The second game of the series was closely contested in the first half, but Oregon opened a 25–23 lead at halftime and extended their advantage to eight points before a run of three baskets by California. A stretch featuring three scores by Dick helped the Webfoots rebuild their lead later in the second half, and they clinched a two-game sweep with a 53–47 victory. Dick and Wintermute contributed 16 points apiece. It was Oregon's first PCC championship in 20 seasons.[44]
NCAA tournament
Oregon received an invitation to the NCAA tournament's West Regional, which was held on March 20 and 21 in San Francisco.
The title game was held on March 27 in
Aftermath and legacy
At the end of the season, Anet, Gale, and Wintermute were selected as All-Americans.[53] In the 1939–40 season, the Webfoots were unable to defend their PCC championship, finishing second behind Oregon State in the division; the following season, all but one of the players from the championship team had graduated, and the Webfoots ended tied for third. The team did not win the Northern Division again until 1944–45. Hobson left the program before the 1947–48 season to become Yale's men's basketball head coach.[54] Gale and Wintermute later played professional basketball in the National Basketball League; both were members of the same team, the Detroit Eagles, and Anet declined an offer to join them. Dick briefly played Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball before embarking on a military career of over 30 years after the U.S. entered World War II. Anet and Johansen joined a Eugene, Oregon-based AAU team, the Rubenstein's Oregonians, and helped the club win a state title and reach the quarterfinals of the AAU's national basketball tournament in 1940. Bob Hardy and Mullen both played minor league baseball, and Mullen reached the major leagues with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1944.[55]
Hobson was inducted into the
Notes
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- Blakely, Joe (2004). The Tall Firs: The story of the University of Oregon & the first NCAA basketball championship. Bear Creek Press. ISBN 1-930111-40-1.