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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
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