O’Neil shows running talent in debut QB performs well with help of line By Jake Berg Emerald Sports Editor Oregon's Dunny O'Neil looked down the Held, spotted receiver Ronnie Harris sprint ing along the sideline and loft ed the ball to his target Finally, after four very in complete passes and two series of downs that led nowhere, O'Neil's 10-yard pass landed in Harris' arms for the redshirt freshman quarterback's first completion ever in a college football game Relief O'Neil got that king Kong of a monkey off of his ail ing hack, and instead of worry ing about living up to the loom ing ghost of Bill Musgrave, the 20-ycar-old O’Neil could now concentrate on catching up to Washington State, which then led 7-0 near the end of the opening quarter. Forgot it, the referees said, we're going to throw our yel low hankies in the air and put you hack to the Cougars' 2B yard line for a clipping infrac tion Officially, you still have no completions. Forgotten, said O'Neil, who responded by throwing a touchdown strike to flanker Anthony Jones, the first com pletion of the quarterback's very-green career at Oregon "That's a good feeling to go hack 10 yards and then come back and score," an elated O’Neil said after winning in his first game as a Duck "I'm pret ty happy with my performance, but I've got a lot of room for im provement.” Oregon coach Rich Brooks wasn't arguing with the 40-1*1 win on Sop. 7, but improve ment is definitely on his mind, too. "More complete passes," Brixiks said. No argument there, either Oregon's air attack took second bill on offense to a career day by sophomore tailback Sean Burwell but was no less effec tive. The (i-foot-2, 175-pound O'Neil connected on 10 of 2it passes for 12<t yards and a pair PtWtO by J#tT Patiay Redshirt Ireshman Danny O'Neil, who passed lor two touchdowns and ran lor another in Oregon s 40-14 rout ol Washington State Sept 7, impressed head coach Rich Brooks of touchdowns. Tho Cougars did not take advantage of his one interception, a throwaway to avoid being sucked. "By his own admission. Dan ny feels somewhat unfulfilled because he wants to play bettor than that," offensive coordina tor Mike Bollolti said "And I think that’s good. 1 want to keep him a little hungry that way "I think early on he looked a little nervous and a little antsy on some of ins throws He made the one interception throw he would like to have back, but he didn't see the de fonder." Brooks was wincing at O'Neil's only major error hut was happy his team could get away with it "I'm glad we cun still do those things, make those mis takes, and still win a football game.'' Brooks said "Danny O'Neil had a pretty good first game, but 1 think he needs to settle down a little more "He had a lot of fine plays in there " And many of those fine ploys came on the Ducks' 95-yard toui hdown drive in the third quarter An interception by the Ducks' Daryle Smith on the Or egon five-yard line may have been spectacular, hut it is hard ly where any sane offense wants to begin a drive Sane or not, O'Neil bid I.ire well to his opening half butter flies by rapping off a <15-yard romp down the field with his sei ond touchdow n pass of the day, a three yard pass to a wide open Jones O'Neil's longest puss of the game, a I t yarder to Jones, also came on the drive " 1'hat just gives you so much confidence, starting on your five and being aide to come buck and score," O'Neil said Sound like somebody else oi re< out memory7 Kememtier Hill Musgrave. that guv who led Or egon to two straight bowl ap pearances and broke nearly ev ery school passing record? "I'm sure I'll always lie the guy that followed Hill," O'Neil said "Bill was a great quarter back Undoubtedly, Musgrave was great, but rarely did he run the ball like O'Neil did 111 the Washington State game O'Neil showed olf his scrambling abil ity to the Aut/.en Stadium crowd by rushing seven times for 50 yards and a touchdown "Danny did a great job," Harwell said "He ran hard and took a lot of hits Not a bad compliment from a guy who had just gained 1 HU yards rushing, and both O'Neil and Bel lot ti were equally im pressed bv the quarterback's Turn to O NE IL. 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