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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
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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
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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