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Are the surprising Cougars for real? Gridders travel to Pullman to find the answer By DONALD COULTER Ot #*• Emerald Who are the Washington State Cougars and what are they doing near the top of the Pac-10 standings7 That's the question being asked by all of college football about the surprising Cougars (6-1-1), who have jumped off to their best start since 1942 Saturday, Rich Brooks and his Oregon football 9quad travel to Pullman, Wash to find out for themselves Picked to finish near the basement of the conference, it took eight weeks for the 19th-ranked Cougars to be upended — finally losing to USC last week, 41-17 But while most observers were surprised by WSU's fast start. Brooks says he wasn't "The only thing that surprised me was that they beat Arizona State (24-21 at Pullman)," Brooks says "Arizona State is just a superb team It is indicative of Washington State's character that they could beat a team of that stature " Despite the lopsided score of the USC game, WSU rolled up 383 total yards against a Trojan defense that had been allowing only 310 per game The Cougar's balanced offense, which leads the Pac-10 in total yardage, has been the key to their success this year Tailback Tim Harris (the league's 5th leading rusher) and fullback Robert Williams pace the rushing attack, while Clete Casper and "supersub" Ricky Harris share the quarterbacking duties The Cougar s high powered offense is in sharp contrast to the Ducks, who are at the bottom of the Pac-10 offensive statistics Oregon has scored only three touchdowns in their last five games And unfor tunately for the Ducks, it looks like things may get worse before they get better Once again, Brooks will be forced to play musical chairs with his quarterbacks, as freshman Mike Owens won't be making the trip Owens, who started Oregon’s last two games, injured his shoulder early in the first quarter last week against UCLA and was forced to leave the game He did not practice with the team this week Brooks says he will start a “semi-healthy" Mike Jorgensen at QB Against UCLA, Jorgensen came into the game in place of Owens and completed 14 of 22 passes for 201 yards and a touchdown pass Prior to last week. Jorensen had seen limited action, and had been nursing a bad knee recently In addition. Brooks says that junior Kevin Lusk will be available if needed Lusk, the Ducks’ starting quarterback early in the season, suffered a shoulder seperation four weeks ago against Arizona State He has not played since, but Brooks says his shoulder is now about 80 percent healed Elsewhere in the injury department. Brooks announced Swimmers host All-Around meet University of Oregon head swimming coach Dan Cole is gearing up for this this weekend's Oregon All-Around Championships, calling the event an excellent early season barometer of how our training has been progressing " The Championships, to be held at Leighton Pool today and Saturday is the first Oregon All-Around meet to be co-ed The men will swim the same order of events as the women The meet begins with one-meter diving at 3:30 p m today followed by swimming events at 7 p m Two sessions on Saturday will close the event with the first session at 10 a m and the second at 6 p m Linfield is expected to compete as well as Oregon State, which returns the top two women finishers of last year's meet, Kristy Siegrist and Holy Andrus The Ducks expect strong performances from Sue Borchardt, who finished third last year, Tama Cuddeback and Tina Helm Oregon's men's team will look to Jeff Morgan, Mark Bernett and Eric Hughes to finish high in the overall standings I Classifieds WIN A TRIP FOR TWO lo you' choice at Reno. 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Earlier this week, the playing status of both looked doubtful Johnson is coming off his finest game of the season, as he was in on 16 tackles (12 of them unassisted) against UCLA The presence of Cosgrove and Johnson doesn’t do much to ease the fears of WSU head coach Jim Walden It is the Duck defense — number one in the Pac-10 — that has Walden concerned "Oregon has a better overall defense than USC,” Walden said over the phone yesterday "USC may have better athletes, but Oregon's entire defensive scheme is sounder. And their secondary is much better than USC "It may take us all afternoon to get into the endzone." And how does he feel about Oregon’soffense? "Right now, they don’t have any They have some excellent running backs, but they are hurting at quarterback” Though the setback to USC last week makes it difficult for the Cougars to go to the Rose Bowl — WSU needs to win its remaining three games and hope that USC stumbles somewhere — Walden remains optimistic about landing a bowl bid somewhere else. “Our objective is to stay with USC (in the standings),” he said. "The longer we stay alive for the Rose Bowl, the better our chances. The rest of things will probably take care of themselves." DUCK NOTES - Flanker Osborne Thomas, third on the team in receptions, probably won't make the trip to WSU. He flew to Los Angeles this week to be with his mother, who recently suffered a heart attack Here's an unusual statistic for a 1-7 team: the Ducks have gained 17 more first downs than their opponents this year The last time WSU defeated Oregon was in 1977, Brooks' first year as head coach, by a 56-20 score in Pullman. 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