Spartans pull off shocker
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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
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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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