What if they gave a Civil War. . .
. . .and nobody came
It is Civil War time, again.
It is a time in the football season when
Oregon and Oregon State annually wind up
a long, sometimes very long, gridiron
season.
Almost always it’s a time when either
the Beavers or the Ducks can salvage their
losing seasons and pacify demanding
alumni with a victory over their rival.
This year is no different—or is it?
The Ducks, promising much more
before the season began, are 2-8. The
Beavers are 1-9.
Photo by Geoff Parks
It’s Duck QB Herb Singleton against. . .
Photo by Wes Loder
. . .Beaver quarterback A1 White
Can you really salvage a 3-8 football
season with a victory over a team 1-10?
(That’s if the Ducks win.)
The Beavers, on the other hand, might—
if they try very hard—salvage the season
by finishing a strong 2<0 over the 2-9 Ducks.
In short, this year’s Civil War might be
more aptly termed a Turkey Bowl, Lemon
Bowl, or Game of the Weak, as termed in a
Eugene Register-Guard headline last
week.
The prospects of viewing the game are
“I realize he’s in great pain,” said
Enright. “But he’ll come charging out onto
the field leading them out and getting them
fired up.” It will definitely be a
psychological ploy to fire his Beavers.
He’s tried it before during the season,
although the pain usually forces him to
forego the charge that was tiis trademark
throughout much of his coaching career at
OSU.
“I’ve been trying to sprain an ankle or
something,” replied Enright, chuckling.
By MERLIN MANN
Of the Emerald
not that tantalizing. Never before have the
two teams met with worse combined
records. What’s more—it just might rain.
And USC goes against UCLA on the toob in
the nice warm living room.
Students apparently have sensed this. As
of Monday, approximately 1800 tickets
remained to be sold in the student section.
Nevertheless, a Civil War battle—tinged
as it is this year by losing records—has an
unusual capacity of producing good
football games. There’s the old adage:
You throw out the records for this one.
Coaches Dee Andros of the Beavers and
Dick Enright of the Ducks will gladly do
that.
The Ducks have been disappointing
following the tremendous pre-season
build-up and it is quite possible the Ducks
themselves might have trouble peaking for
a game with the Beavers.
“This is a survival thing,” said Enright.
“They might be down now, but what will it
feel like afterwards if we lose this game.”
The Beavers, however, should easily get
sky-high for the game.
You can build a lot of frustration going 1
9—and the Beavers have something to
fight for: staying out of double figures in
the loss column.
“It’s big to me,” Enright said, “and it’s
big to the football team. It sure makes
living a lot easier when you beat the
Beavers.”
Enright has a one-game winning string
going for him against the Beavers—and
that isn’t bad considering its the only
victory Oregon has registered over OSU in
the last nine years.
Last year Oregon jumped to the lead on
its first offensive play from scrimmage on
a Donnie Reynolds 60-yard TD sprint
through the heart of the Beaver defense
and the Ducks won 30-3. This year the
Beavers have a little more going for them.
“Looking at the films,” Enright said,
“they’re not bad. Some people may laugh
at that, but they are better than they were
last year. They’re quick and they hit
better.” i
They also have another intangible factor
going for them—Andros’ ailing hip. In
tremendous pain, Andros expects to un
dergo surgery in the offseason.
“One of the assistant coaches offered I
should have a vasectomy. But that won’t
work. They’re too smart,” he said, in
dicating he couldn’t use that to fire up his
Ducks.
“The Beavers will be out to win one for
the Hipper, instead of the Gipper,”
quipped the Duck coach.
But the traditional battle is important to
Enright.
“I’ll tell ya, I’ve got a couple of neigh
bors who are Beavers. Now they’re a
different* breed. They can really get on
you. And I don’t want to move out of the
house.”
“Besides, we owe them about seven
more, don’t we?”
Standing in Enright’s way is a Beaver
defense that has looked impressive at
times during the season. A defense that
held Southern Cal to 21 points, and WSU to
13.
The Beavers biggest problem, however,
has been not unlike the Ducks—
inconsistency, mental and physical break
downs at the wrong times.
The Beaver offense has only twice
scored more than 20 points--once clob
bering Washington (for their only win) 31-7
and another time in losing to Stanford 24
23.
When penalties and fumbles weren’t
getting the way, then it was quarterback,
Alvin White, throwing interceptions. And
he has thrown 23 this season.
The Ducks have been plagued the same
way.
Against the Bruins of UCLA, fumbles
were the order of the day and it turned a
close first half into an easy Bruin victory.
Last week the Ducks held onto the ball
running, but quarterback Herb Singleton
threw four interceptions and after a 7-7
first half, the Ducks eventually lost, 24-7.
And so what usually has been a match
up of better teams, the Civil War this year
has turned into a Turkey Bowl featuring
two of the more disappointing teams in the
Pacific-8 Conference. On one side will be
the Oregon Ducks who fumbled, bumbled
and stumbled to a 2-8 record, while on the
other side is the Oregon State Beavers who
streaked to a 1-9 mark.
What channel is the USC-UCLA game
on?
Bowlers club Oregon State 4-0
The Oregon bowling team enjoyed an
early Thanksgiving feast as they gobbled
up the Oregon State Beavers four straight
games last Thursday in Corvallis.
The victory vaulted Oregon into the top
spot of the Oregon Collegiate Bowling
League’s Southern Division with a nine
win, three loss record. Oregon State
dropped two games behind the Ducks as
their record fell to 7-5.
Once again the match was a case of
Oregon totally dominating the opposition.
Mike La Lumiere led the team for the
second straight match as he rolled games
of 233 and 209 for a 620 series. Veryl
Brovald chipped in with a 600 including
games of 200 and 215. It was Brovald’s
third career 600 series in varsity com
petition, two of which have been against
Oregon State.
As a team, Oregon put together their
high game of the season, a 1019 which is an
average of 203 a man.
In a league with no clear-cut favorite,
Oregon has now assumed the leadership
role at this stage of the season. They have
won eight straight games, possess the
high-average bowler in the league, have
shot two games over 1000, and have
defeated one of the better teams in Oregon
State.