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Badger quickness douses Duck fireworks
By MIKE MARINO
Of the Emerald
Oregon answered a brilliant
halftime fireworks display with
some fireworks of its own Satur
day night, but the occasional
flashes weren't enough to match
Wisconsin's talent as the Ducks
suffered their second loss, 22-10,
at Autzen Stadium.
"We got it all in bunches." said
Oregon Head Coach Rich Brooks.
There were no sustained drives.
We had a chance; we just didn’t
get it done.”
It was a dismal third period that
eventually did in the Ducks, as the
offense managed but one net yard
and one first down. Wisconsin,
meanwhile, capitalized on a
safety and a field goal on the ensu
ing drive to build a 15-7 lead.
On a fourth-and-five at the
Oregon 25, Duck center Fred Quil
lan snapped the baX over punter
Roy Geiger’s head into the end
zone, where Geiger smartly
kicked it out the back for a safety.
“It was a helluva of a play,” said
Brooks. “He kicked it out instead
of trying to be a hero.”
The Ducks had one last chance
for heroics in the fourth quarter.
After comerback David Haynes in
tercepted a Wisconsin pass on his
own five, the Ducks drove deep in
Badger territory. With third-and
four and the Wisconsin 10, Ed
R add iff took a pitch but was nailed
for a two-yard loss by safety Dan
Schiebte. Trailing by eight, Brooks
chose to go for the field goal on
fourth down, and Geiger con
nected on a 29-yarder for a 15-10
score.
In choosing the three-pointer
Bottom line shows just another
defeat for disappointed Ducks
By DAN UNDAHL
Emerald Sports Editor
Somewhere down there below
Ken Page's 60-yard touchdown
reception, below the ability of the
Oregon defense to continually
fight back when Wisconsin moved
deep into Duck territory, below the
feeling that Oregon had again
nearly" beaten a very good foot
ball team, came the bottom line.
Oregon’s 22-10 loss to Wiscon
sin in its home opener Saturday
night was yet another loss. And in
the final analysis that was all that
really mattered to first year Coach
Rich Brooks and his players.
Although Oregon played com
petitively all night, and until the
final minute had a chance to win,
there was no joy in the Duck locker
room. There was no mistaking
that Oregon wasn’t satisfied with
just coming dose, again.
“Satisfied? If we're satisfied
with this there is no reason to even
come back,” said quarterback
Jack Henderson, who battled rain
and some slippery-fingered re
ceivers enroute to a 9 for 24 night.
You can just look around this
•ocker room and see no one is
satisfied. We're real disappointed
— it hurts."
Indeed the dressing quarters
was dearly somber. Making the
defeat — Oregon's second in
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three games — most difficult to
swallow was the knowledge that
with the game on the line,
Oregon’s defense was not able to
put the clamps on Wisconsin.
“We had the chance," stated
Brooks simply, “we just didn’t get
it done.”
When Brooks elected to have
Roy Geiger smack a 29 yard field
goal with 6:25 to play instead of
going for a first down on fourth and
six at the Badger 12, he was bank
ing on the trust he has in his de
fense.
Brooks had reason to believe in
his defense. Although the speedy
Badgers were able to roll up 409
yards total offense, including a kil
ling 255 on the ground, the Duck
defense had kept Oregon in the
game by turning in big plays, such
as David Haynes’ interception at
the Oregon five and Reggie
Grant's fumble recovery at the
Duck 14.
Brooks was counting on it hap
pening again. It didn’t.
Instead, Wisconsin ran out the
dock by grinding upfiekl using no
thing but running plays. Starting at
their own 20 following Geiger’s
field goal, the Badgers ran the ban
16 times, with fullback Mike Mor
gan carrying seven times.
Morgan’s last cany, with one sec
ond left, put the ball in the end
zone.
While Wisconsin was able to
secure the game using the run
ning attack, Oregon was never
able to mount any kind of rushing
threat. The Ducks totaled just 63
net yards rushing and again there
were no answers for Oregon’s
lack of a ground game.
Fortunately Henderson's pas
sing, particularly to Ken Page,
was sharp enough to keep
Oregon in the thick of the battle,
thick of the battle.
Trailing 10-0 with 12 minutes
gone in the second quarter, Hen
derson found the lightning Page
with a strike down the right
sideline. Page, who is beginning
to look like Oregon’s most exciting
player since Bobby Moore, caught
the ball in stride and went in for a
60 yard score.
“It was just a footrace, me
against him, and Jack laid it right
in there," recalled the fleet junior.
Following the score, Page
spent some time bowing to the
fans in the east end zone seats
while they in turn expressed their
delight. Following the game some
of the pleasure had worn off for
Page.
“My TD doesn't mean anything,
there is no personal satisfaction
when we lose," explained Page.
“I’m never happy with a loss.”
With that, Page seemed to
speak for the entire team.
over the gamble, Brooks rose to
his own defense.
“We couldn’t win the game
without two scores, and it wasn’t a
good chance on fourth-and-six,”
he said. “We figured to go for the
field goal, and get the ball back
and score again."
ft wasn’t to happen, however,
as Wisconsin took the kickoff and
rushed 16 straight times to wind
out the clock. Mike Morgan’s
one-yard score with :01 left iced
the cake.
“We needed the score as a
morale booster,” said halfback Ira
Mathews, who led all rushers with
95 yards on 11 carries. “We’d
been down there before and didn’t
get it. This time we had to.”
What it finally came down to,
though, was the fact that the
Ducks gained 63 yards rushing to
the Badgers 255, that their spunk
couldn’t match the Badgers’ tal
ent, and most importantly, Oregon
didn’t score as many points.
“They didn’t do anything differ
ently than we expected,” Brooks
said. “They just did it better.”
Which was a situation that
fireworks just couldn’t beat.
TEAM STATISTICS
WISCONSIN 0 10 5 7—22
OREGON 0 7 0 3—10
Wis-Matthews 25 pass from
Dudley (Veith kick)
Wis-Veith 39 Field Goal
Ore-Page 60 pass from Hen
derson
Wis-Safety (Quillan hike over
Geiger in end zone)
Wis-Veith 32 Field Goal
Ore-Gieger 29 Field Goal
Wis-Morgan 1 run (Veith kick)
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING - Wisconsin, Matth
ews 11-95; Morgan 23-93
Breuscher 7-35; Halleran 8-34
Dudley 10-1; Cohee 2-5. Oregon,
Henderson 13-34; Nutting 12-26
Radcliff 5-18; Page 2-18; Davis
3-2; Williams 1-3.
PASSING - Wisconsin, Dudley
10-18-1 154. Oregon, Henderson
9-24-0 184.
RECEIVING - Wisconsin,
Charles 3-59; Breuscher 2-16
Matthews 3-59; Halleran 1-9;
Morgan 1-11. Oregon, Page 0-80
Cafferty 4-81; Radcliff 1-21; Vin
cent 1-2.
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Women kickers set tryouts
The Oregon women s soccer team will hold tryouts for the fall
season Monday from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and Wednesday Thurs
day and Friday from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the athletic field
located at 18th and Agate streets.
For more information, contact the dub sports office or call
Becky at 686-4125.
Crew meeting plans announced
The University men's crew team will have a meeting Monday
at 6:30 in the EMU. The room will be posted on the EMU daily
calendar. Freshmen heavyweights, (over 6’ and 175 lbs.), light
weights (under 165 lbs.) and coxswain candidates (under 120
lbs.) are urged to attend.
Emerald seeks sportswriters
The Emerald sports department is seeking qualified appli
cants for sports writing positions. Interested parties should attend
a meeting being held for applicants Monday night at 7 p.m. in the
Emerald office, located in Room 300 in the EMU.