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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1969)
Spartans pull off shocker v Football bounce upsets Webfoots By STAN HORTON Emerald Sports Editor Oregon was battling two oppo nents Saturday—San Jose State and the quirks which often plague college football. The Spartans, underdogs by as much as 30 points, scored 19 on their own and received 17 from “the roll of the football” to stun heavily-favored Oregon 36-34. To say it was not Oregon’s aft ernoon would be an understate ment. Two fumbled kickoffs and a blocked punt eventually netted two touchdowns and a field goal for the Spartans, and if that wasn’t enough, the SJS pass of fense — completely shackled in their three previous losses — clicked with cold efficiency, set: ting up the other two San Jose State touchdowns. The quirks of the game can sometimes make a so-so team look invincible, which is what seemed to happen Saturday. Ivan Lippi—the tall, rangy San Jose State quarterback who was named back-of-the-game, had pass ed SJS to the Duck 17-yard line with about 13 minutes left in the second quarter. On the next play Lippi rolled back to pass as he had done on the last five plays. He spied an open receiver on the goal line and fired the ball. Duck safe ty Bill Drake made what look ed like a great play when he deflected the toss at about the one-yard line—but the batted ball landed right in the hands of Butch Ellis for a touchdown. Oregon got the ball back a few minutes later after a missed field goal and again the unexpected happened. INI wrestling tourney slated The deadline for entries in the 1969 Intramural Wrestling Tour nament is today. The weigh-in is set for Tues day or Wednesday from 3:40 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the PE locker room. Competitions will be under way Oct. 22. The weight classes include 123 pounds and under; 130 and un der; 137 and under; 145 and un der; 152 and under; 160 and un der; 167 and under; 177 and un d t; 191 and under, and heavy ' eight. Competition will be divided in to two divisions. The A group is high school wrestling letter - winners and the B division con sists of non-letter winners. Matches will consist of three 1V4-minute rounds with one min ute rest between rounds. IM schedule TOUCH FOOTBALL 3:35—Im Field—Stafford vs. Bean East Field 1—Cloran vs. Parsons (I rads Field 2—Willcox vs. Sherry Ross Field 3—Watson vs. Carson Grads 4:30—IM Field—Beta Theta Pi vs. Theta Chi Field 1—Phi Kappa Psi vs. Pi Kappa Alpha Field 2—Delta Upsilon vs. Kappa Sigma Field 3—Alpha Tau Omega vs. Tau Kappa Epsilon MEN S HAIR PIECES Sold — Fitted — Serviced ADAM'S BARBER PARLOR 561 E. 13th Oregon was on its own 23 and Tom Blanchard was forced to punt—a usually routine task which had been completed 27 times without a hitch this sea son—but on this occasion Jim Grosso stormed through from his left end spot to block the kick and send the ball into the end zone where it was recovered by Bob Hughes for the Spartan’s third score. These quirks were nothing com pared to what took place in the second half as the 20,000-plus fans at Autzen Stadium can testify. In the span of just 35 third quarter seconds, San Jose State tallied 17 points—a scoring ex plosion which knocked the Ducks out of contention. The Webfoot offense cannot be blamed for what happened, as Duck Coach Jerry Frei later ad mitted in the locker room. Oregon took the second half kickoff and marched 75 yards in 14 plays for a TD, taking a slim 22-19 lead. However, San Jose State roar ed back on the passing arm of Lippi to score the go - ahead touchdown. And then disaster struck. On the ensuing kickoff, Bob Green fumbled (only the second dropped ball for the Ducks’ this season), San Jose recovered and three plays later they had a touchdown. The Spartans kicked off again and this time the Webfoots’ lead ing kickoff returner, Lionel Cole man, also fumbled. Again San Jose State recovered and—after three incomplete passes — Larry Barnes booted a 28-yard field goal. Frei inserted Moore and Alan Pitcaithley as the deep backs on the next kickoff but the dam age was done. Rocky Pamplin cracked over from the three on that drive to cut the margin to 36-28 but Blanchard’s two-point conversion pass—which proved to be a key play—sailed off the finger tips of Bom Newland, leaving the Ducks still eight points behind. The one bright spot in an oth erwise dismal day for Oregon had to be the running and pass catching efforts of sophomore slotback Moore. In fact, it was his great ef forts in the final period that al most gave the Webfoots a vic tory. Moore, who crossed the goal line in the first half on a 19 yard run and a four-yard pass from Blanchard, was on the re ceiving end of another Blanchard scoring toss—this one good for 38 yards with 2:28 left in the game. An overthrown pass on the con version attempt left the Ducks still two points behind, but they got another chance. Oregon got the ball back when SJS was forced to punt. Blanchard hit Moore on a 19-yard play, tak ing Oregon into San Jose terri tory at the 48. But Moore, being only human and prone to mistakes like any one else, took a Blanchard pass on the next play but fumbled the ball while trying to make a turn up the sidelines for extra yard age. San Jose made the recovery and that was it for Oregon. One of the most amazing as pects of the game had to be San Jose’s performance in the pass ing department. In the first three games Lippi had completed only 26 of 80 passes for 370 yards. But in Saturday’s contest, the junior college transfer connect ed on 17 of 32 throws for 214 yards and two touchdowns — one of the many surprises the Ducks hadn’t counted on. 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