SKASON RECAP
Ducks overcome injuries
to get Freedom Bowl bid
By Ashley Conklin
Emerald Sports Editor
For tin' first time in school history.
Oregon will he going to back-to-back
howl games
After the Ducks had to virtually hog
and plead their way into the Indepen
dence Howl last season. Oregon was the
first choic e of the Freedom Howl Com
mittee to play in the Dei 2tt game in
Anaheim. ( alii
I lore is a look hack at Oregon's H I
season, which included a 4 .1 l’ai ifu It)
Conference record and an undefeated
7-0 mark at Aut/en Stadium.
OREGON 42 SAN DIEGO STATE 21:
Senior quarterbac k Mill Musgrave Inis a
field dav against the Aztec defense .is he
completes :t 1 of 4I> passes for 44! yards
and three touchdowns Musgrave sets
Aut/en records for passing yardage and
total offense |4t>H yards) in a game the
Ducks never trailed in
Senior wide receiver Tony llargain is
just as brilliant, catching It) passes for
20li yards (another stadium record) and
scores three touchdown, one rushing,
on the day.
OREGON 55 IDAHO 23: The promise
of a great season by llargain. who was
leading the nation in receiving follow
ing the A/tec game, disappears in the
first quarter when he leaps for a pass
and breaks a kneecap in the process,
ending his season.
In the second quarter, starting full
back Brandon lumper is lost for the sea
son when he injures a knee on a late-hit
out-of-bounds.
Tailbacks Ngalu kelemeni and Sean
Hurwell combine for 275 yards and five
touchdowns in the rout, hut the loss of
li.irg.un and jumper leave no cause for
celebration
OREGON 17 ARIZONA 22: The
Ducks fall behind 10-u o,irl\ on in the
Pat-10 opener for both teams and oniv
miss trailing 17-0 when a clipping pen
alty wipes out a punt return for a touch
down.
Oregon takes a 14 10 lead at halftime
but Musgrave throws four second-half
interi options and Darryl l.ewis picks off
two, including one for a torn luiovs n
Still, the Ducks have a chance to pull
the game out at the end but can't score
on three plays inside the one-yard line
OREGON 32 BRIGHAM YOUNG IK:
Oregon ri’turns It) Aut/en to fat e I tit' na
lion's fourth-ranked team with explo
sive quarterback l v Detrner. .1 Utiisnitm
Trophy 1 andidate, running the show
In front of a split national AIM !-IV au
dience and an Aut/.en crowd ot 4ri.022.
the game never materializes into the
45-41 shoot out it was hist year when
the two teams met
Instead, the Dm k defense sacks
Detmer five times and intercepts him
another five times - including three by
cornerbach Daryle Smith and holds
HYIJ to minus 47 yards rushing, a stadi
um and school record
Oregon jumps out to a 12-0 lead and
after the Cougars pull within 12-10.
Musgrave leads the Ducks on three
straight touchdown drives, throwing
scoring passes to Michael McClellan
and Jeff Thomason, and running in for .1
score himself as the Ducks go up 32-10
For Brooks, there is no question who
the best quarterbac k on tin1 field was
“You saw supposedly the front run
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Quarterback Hill Musfirave threw fur 1102 yards against \\ ashin^ton, but took
a constant pounding from the Husky defense all day in a AH-17 loss.
ner for tfit* tleisnum Trophy out there to
day in Detmer." Brooks said "Maybe
Musgrave ought to lie the front runner
OREGON S2 UTAH 7: The Ducks
don't get < aught looking ahead to the
big I’at It) showdown with Washington
the following week as Oregon takes t are
of the Aggies swiftly and tpiic kly
Hurwell rushes for 120 yards on 20
carries in mostly three cpiarters of ac
lion, and Thomason calc lies two more
tout hdown (lasses from Musgrave
OREGON 17 WASHINGTON «H At
ter taring dominated fur most of the first
half, the Ducks < ome alive late in the
second quarter to pull within 14 10 at
halftime
Then the roof ( aves in for the Dm ks
Musgrave is sacked and fumbles, the
Huskies recover, and three plays later
Washington takes a 21-10 advantage.
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