Defense reigns supreme
Split offense plays scoreless game
By TAMARA SWENSON
Of the Emerald
To say defense dominated
Oregon’s spring football scrim
mage Saturday would be an
understatement. The defense
owned the field.
With 2,280 fans watching at
Autzen Stadium, the defense
kept the score at 0-0, allowed
only one yard rushing to the two
squads and limited the White
and Green offensive units to 133
yards passing.
Aside from a top punting job
by walk-on Tim O'Brien (19
punts for both teams) and
a series of well placed long
snaps by center Monte Olson, it
was strictly defense. Fourteen
times the defensive line got to
quartebacks Kevin Lusk,
Edmund Rivera and Dave O’Neil
to sack them for big losses.
In 102 plays, the offense lost
yardage on 19 of them. The
Green team put together 95
yards total offense, one yard
rushing, for 1.6 yards a play.
The White team managed 39
yards, all passing, for .9 per
play.
“It’s pretty obvious the depth
on our defense is definitely a lot
better than the depth on our
offense,” said Oregon coach
Rich Brooks in a hallway by the
Duck locker room. “We showed
we’re a very good defensive
football team.
“But at this point I can’t say
the same thing about the
offense.”
A lot of the offensive
problems were due to a split
Photo by Steve Dykes
Daniell Webster and Chris Cosgrove take down Reggie Brown in
Oregon’s defense-dominated intrasquad game.
squad, Brooks said. "At any
given time we didn’t have our
top 11 people out there on
offense.”
However, the defense is at
least 22 people deep, said
Brooks.
The discrepancy between the
two gave the defense a field day.
Chris Cogrove, Dwight Ford,
Steve Baack. Terry Young -
blood, Cliff Gibson, Ed Rhone,
Devall Webster and Gordon
Bledsoe spent their afternoon
chasing quarterbacks.
‘‘We are a much improved
defensive team," Brooks said.
"There is still a lot of questions
that need to be answered by the
offense, though."
One question that may not
need to be answered in the fall is
the punting spot. “It’s a spot I
was worried about," Brooks
said. ‘‘I feel a lot better about it
right now. Tim O’Brien had a
pretty stiff test.”
But Brooks is looking toward
the fall. “I don’t think we scared
Fresno State (Oregon's fall
opener Sept 5),” he said. "But
at least we had a spring game.”
Tennis team ends year
with record 20 wins
uregon s men s Tennis team
finished the year with a record
20 wins, but failed to hold off the
University of Washington in its
final match of the season, an 8-1
loss, at the Northern Division
tennis championships.
The Ducks finished the sea
son with a 20-9 mark, bettering
its previous season win mark of
18, but only claimed one in
dividual win Saturday. Mark
Lvans defeated tnrique Valdez
of Washinton, 7-6, 6-4, in the
number-six singles match.
In the top doubles match
Oregon’s team of Evans and
Steward Bartlett jumped to an
early lead over their Washington
foes, taking the first set, 6-0. But
the Washington pair of Scott
Pearson and Dan Zeratsky
came back to down the Ducks
6-1,6-2.
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