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Oregon West fitness 1475 Franklin Blvd. /|QC.1C^/i across from campus 403 1044 ■ SPORTS EXTRA FOOTBALL _ MCHAU 9HM0UR/ Eiwm Quarterback Danny O'Nail is back at the helm ot tha Oregon offense that looks to gat back on track and make amends for last year's devastating loss to California Ducks haven’t forgotten Cal loss Chri# Metz Oegon a»V fm&tum Every loss is damaging to a i«i lege football coach and his team, but perhaps no single game in recent memory has been more devastating to the Oregon Ducks than Inst season's 42 41 shocking loss to the California Golden Hears. In what turned out to bo the largest comeback in I'aciftC-10 history and the third-greatest comeback in NCAA history, the Bears rallied back from a :t0-0 first-half deficit to down the stunned Ducks and set the tone for the rest of their season - a sea son that would ms* them only win two of their last seven games "AfterCal's game last sear, we lust weren't the same team," sophomore tight end josh Wilcox said, "so it kind of fires me up to trv to go out and do the same thing to them." The Ducks entered last year's contest with ( id alter winning all three of their non-conference games, and a win over the heav ily-favored Hears would have made the Ducks 4-0 with a pos sible national ranking in the works. The loss not only gave the Ducks their first Pac-10 loss, but it also set the tone for the remain der of a season that, at halftime in Berkeley, looked to lie right on track. The Ducks never managed to regroup after the Cal loss and finished with a 5-6 record, a sta tistical marker of a game, and a season, that quite possibly slipped away with Dave Barr's two-point conversion toss to Mike Caldwell. "It. in a sense, was the key to our unsuccessful year last year," senior quarterback Danny O’Neil said "After that we never bounced back." "Certainly in the off season it was a reminder to us. as it has been this week, about how we had a huge lead . . and lost the game,” Brooks said. The bowl talk was that was so prevalent liefore and during the game, took a nose dive with the worst vet to come in a season that had so much potential. Everybody knows who we're playing and w hat happened last year. — Danny OftoH Quarterback -ff After Cal's game last year, we just weren't the same team, so it kind of fires me up to try to go out and do the same thing to them - JoshWilCOI Tight end --- ## Tins year's slakes are just as high as (he Ducks and Bears are truly at turning points in their sometimes confusing seasons. California dropped its first two games in 1994 before coining up with three-straight wins, includ ing a 2-0 Pac-10 mark. And with conference powers Washington and Arizona remaining on the slate for the Ducks, revenge or no revenge, the players know i»'s time to win if the Ducks have any aspirations of making it to a bowl game in 1994. “It's a big game for this year alone," O'Neil said. “We're at a pivotal point of our season." No one needs to remind Brooks about last year's loss at the hands of the Bears. The Ducks amassed an amazing 614 yards in total offense, including scores on their first five [vossessions — one of die finest offensive days in Duck his tory The rigorous Pac-10 sched ule rarely allows a team that squanders such an opportunity the chance to recover and remain at the top of conference, some thing that Brooks is well aware of this season also. "If we want to stay in the race r r and be a factor in the upper-divi sion of tlie Pac-10." Brooks said, "then this is « very important game." The game has taken on an interesting flair after the injury to Cal quarterback Dave Barr and several key injuries to the Dudes, who have yet to successfully field an injury-free team. It's hard to gauge how much the absence of Barr will affect the Bears as back up Kerry McGonigal played well in relief of Barr last week, but a lack of experience will definite ly put McConigal to the test. O'Neil returns as Oregon's starter after missing the USC game two weeks ago, and not operating at 100 percent in a relief appearance for sophomore Tony Graziani. who went down with an ankle injury early in last week's game with Washington State. O'Neil still finds the frustration of last year's contest that saw the quarterback throw for 333 yards and three touchdowns, all for naught. “Everybody knows who we're playing and what happened last year," O'Neil said
