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■ SPORTS EXTRA FOOTBALL 1905 (left): Oregon 6, Oregon Agri cultural Col lege 0 1984 (below): Oregon 31, Oregon Stale 6 Civil War f J—r I fl i jnj vf «$i t v Aftc wrv f <; I —I..-. fhI phot QT5 Trevor Kearney Ihr annual Oregon/Oregon Stale {'ml VV ir football game is not something that is taken lightly h\ avid fans Rii h in his lory. the games have given each year's vu tor Oregon football bragging rights and therefore fans and players alike go into the game with an intense desire to win I -list year's high snap to kit ker Tommy Thompson, resulting m a sank deep in Oregon territory, hat! to l»* spoon-fed to the city of Kugene, and will forever he a ret orrtng nightmare lor the seri ous Dm k fan And in the bigger picture, losing two of the last three Cavil War games has been tough for any Dm k supporter to swallow It wouldn't, however, have i ome as a stun k to the 1804 Oregon Agricultural College football team. You see, the team, which has sini e been renamed the Oregon State Heavers, start ed things off by spanking the Oregon Ducks 16-0. thus start ing the most talked about annu al s|M>rtmg event in the statu In 1805. the Ducks came back from the previous year's blank ing to do n little shutting out of their own to the tune of a 44-0 victory. That set the tone for the Out ks to lake and keep hold of the series lead for the next 72 years, in which time the Ducks would dominate the Heavers, shutting them out 21 times, and go to six IkhvI games, including three Rose How Is Hut then.in 1068.the Ducks ran into disaster — a natural disaster, to he e\ac I Fullback Hill "Knrthquake" Kmart led the Heavers into Kugene in the hunt for the series lead On the first play, Clavton Welch fumbled the ku koff, and the Ducks never ns oven'll Kmart racked up lt>8 yards as Oregon State handed ....., inn wu« ks a •* i-ih inrasning 10 lake the serif' lead. The win i am# amidst an eight-year win streak for the Heavers and an 11 \ear span in which the Beavers didn't relinquish the series lead. In 1H77, the “Dawning of a new day came to Oregon loot hall, or so said several bill boards around town. The slogan, which, along with a clean-cut picture of a young Rich Brooks, was put up on sev eral locations around town and Oregon State students (above) ride through campus waving cornstalks on Monday after Ore gon State won the 1837 Civil War. Students rioted on 13th Avenue (left) In a battle known as Seymour Siege.' served as the team's new motto, marking — at least in terms of Oregon football — the coming of a new. unorthodox and risque style of play Brooks, who had not lost a Civil War game while playing and serving as an assistant < oath at Oregon State, got off to a rough start, winning only one of his first 10 games But Brooks, labeled a "let it all hang out coach” and "less conservative than any of us" by offensive coordinator John Becker in the Nov 19, 1977 edi tion of the Emerald, rode the success of several trick plays to a 2B-Jfi win over the Beavers The trick plays, including mi option pass by freshman half back l»arv Heck, two lake punts and a fake field goal, helped the Ducks extend their two-year Civil War winning streak It also set up a 13-year stint in which the Ducks did not drop a game to their intrastate rivals In 1980, the Ducks, coming off of a five-game winning streak against Oregon State, took beck the lead with a con vincing 40-21 win at Parker Sta dium in Corvallis Eugene Young chalked up 121 yards on five kick returns and quarter back Reggie Ogburn rushed for 173 yards as the Ducks com piled 415 total yards, only 76 of which were a result of passing. The Dm ks then went on to win six of their next seven games against Oregon State, one of which was a hard-fought 7-6 win in 19H2 when, with 2:32 left at Parker Stadium. Mike Jor gensen hit Osborne Thomas with the game-winning touch down The low scoring theme carried over to the next year, when the two teams played to a sloppy, lackluster 0-0 tie, com mitting 11 turnovers, missing four field goals and forcing 16 punts. Then in 1988. with a 6-1 start to the season, the Ducks looked to be bowl hound for the first time since 1963. but lost their last three games before the Civil War and didn't stop there. The Ducks lost, and lost big. as quar terbacks Pete Nelson and Hob brothers threw' only seven com pletions in 26 tries, picking up just 79 yards The Beavers took the game by a final score of 21 10. handing Brooks his first Civil War loss ever and making his lifetime record in the rivalry 18-1-2. After going to the Indepen dence Bowl in 1989 and the Turn to TRADITION PAGE 10B
