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The Bellotti era beains at Oreaon Kris Henry (*9QOr> D«Wy ErntviM With Monday's announce*, men!, the Mike Bellotii era has ■ itty begin tOngns, Bel lot I i takes over a program !ha! hasn't hat) to accept a new head football coach in 1H years and hasn't had to face the pos sibility of making a return trip to the Rose Bowl in it7 years So how does Hellotti feel about being a part of this ground-breaking unduevor? "I think we have a tremen dous challenge ahead of us," Boilotti said, "(jetting to the top is hard, but staying on top is harder I think we've set a very positive expet tation in terms of Oregon football that we will work very hard to uphold "It's nice to know that you're going to charter the ship. That, in itself, is a factor that fills me with a certain sense of accom plishment and satisfaction and then in the other, a certain amount of awe and fear." However, the former offensive Turn to BELLOTTI, Page 12 CUflY OfUSSrtilMnM Mike Bellottl was given the head coaching position at Oregon on Monday and laces the challenge ot taking the Ducks to a second straight Rose Bowl. Decision OK with pair of recruits Trevor Kearney Otsjon Daily F kwj'J While the departure of Rich Brooks und the hiring of Mike Bellotti as head coach of the Ore gon football team promises to bring some changes to Oregon football, none are expected to iw drastic enough to alter any of the Ducks' new recruits' der isions to corns to Eugene T he recruits are hound to come to Oregon hv the letters of intent that they signed on Feb. 1, so if they choose not to follow through on that promise, they would lose a year of eligibility If any of the recruits decided to go to another Divi sion 1 school, they would have to sit the football season out They could, however, go to a junior college or a lower division school, and they would be able to play football, but they would still lose one season of Division 1 eligibility. "Em going to talk to all of the rts nuts person ally,’' Bellotti said at Monday's conference "They can chose not to come to Oregon, but 1 don’t think they will Most of them feel fairly comfortable." Bellotti said because of the other factors that went into the recruits' decisions, the Ducks will probably not lose any of their incoming fresh men “The reason they chose Eugene was a combi nation of tl»' coat hing staff, the academic tmvi ronment and Eugene itself, I think that hasn't ( hanged that much," Bellotti said "Obviously we are losing a great coach in coach Brooks, but the people that recruited them and the people that will coach them will still be here, and to my knowledge everybody is fine with that.'' Brooks' decision came as a surprise to Bran don Me i.emore, the incoming high si hool defensive ha( k from Torrance, Calif and the brother of Oregon flanker Cristm Mil.emoro But it did not change his dm ision to go to Ore go" "It was a shock !>« mise (Brooks) told us that fie would be here,'' the younger Mi l emon* said "But I'm happy for him ftgeause he gets to coach at the highest level “ And. Mt Lem ore said, the promotion of an Oregon coach was the thing to do. "1 tn glad they kept it internal. The overall strategy will probably stay the same las auso the team was so successful last season." he said Turn to RECRUITS, Pays 12 ■ CLUB NOTES Joel Hood f o> the Oregon O&fy tmmtkj After a brief intermission, the University rugby teani began the second half of its season in omi nous fashion, losing all four of its first round matches at a stormy tournament in Portland last weekend. "It was a disappointing way to start our season." said team president Chris Lampe. "i thought we should have beaten a couple of teams." Injuries plagued Oregon throughout the fall season and continue to play a major role as several key backs were unavail able for this tournament ">Y« ttt-wtftv.tml pyrvdyes/: Lampe said. “We were missing a couple of starters on defense and that really hurl us We didn't have many players with competition experience." Oregon lost in each of its four first round matchups The Uni versity of British (kilumbia. Cen tral Washington University, Reed College and nationally ranked BYU were able to lake advantage of Oregon mistakes and missed tackles. The Rugby team's next match will be this Saturday at the South Bank Bold against Port land St. Last weekend's "Ero-O Mania" rowing machine compe tition in Seattle played host to some of the Northwest's top rowing tennis, including both lhe men's and women's team from the University. The women's novice open weight team rai ed to a second place finish on Saturday, loos mg by only three tenths of a sec ond to Pacific Lutheran Univer sity. In the men's light-weight divi sion Oregon took home another second place despite the ibsence of one of their rowers. i\my Piasek-Kluge. a member of [he women's light-weight team, filled in and helped muscle the learn to second pace. In the women's light-weight division. Oregon raced strong and captured a third place over ill ranking. Top trio earn recognition at third-annual ESPY awards new YORK. (Al’) |»ff Bag wot! of the Houston Astros. M.trk Messier of the Now York Rangers ami Charlotte Smith of the North Carolina women's tws ketbal! team each won two ESPY Awards Monday night on ESPN Th« two top ESPY Awards went to Son Francisco -Piers quarterback Steve Young as male athlete of the year and Olympic gold-medal winning speed skater iionme Blair as female athlete of the -yew The KSPY's were given out for the third year Part of the pro ceeds goes to The V Foundation for cam er research, established in memory of the late |im Valvano, Bagwell an opted his awards for hasohall player of the year and breakthrough athlete of the year Messier won NHl. player of the year, Iwst performance under pressure and was on the outstanding team of the year Smith was named women's college basketball player of the year and was awarded the play of the year as well for her buz/er (water against Louisiana Tech in the women's final. Repeat winners from 1*194 were Nick Prii e. golfer of the year, and Pete Sampras, tennis player of the year. In an award announced earli er. ailing broadcaster Howard ( osel! ret eived the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage. Bill Cosby accepted the award oti his behalf! February 14, l‘W5 Volume 96, U\uf 'is The Top Twenty Five By The Associated Press baskotbaii noli, with ftrsi Record Ptt Prv I Gr*>w:frCi^50f 19 * 1 626 3 ? tom ('^(iirr^hj 19? i y/ t :lK'V vW.i__ *83 t 4*4 ? 4 »-.»■•/ ,<•>;!>)>_ l' 3 1 441 $ ;= 162 1431 4 6UCXA..tfr ,? 1 ;tS4 6 ■•’ U4>yaffil) 19 4 1 r H 8McT«>r M 3 JJMO 7 QMasfltfi_ 163 971 13 10 Ai^rsm 13 $ 966 12 II S^apjso_1? 4 966 10 12 186 JM1 9 lj ^ 18 6 B&9 14 14 A4#piim! 16S 8t9 11 16 VflanoM 1? 5 806 16 16 vtyya __ 16 6 7Q6 17 1? Swionl_ IS S 377 IS id 17$ 360 23 19. Oregon 14 5 344 22 ?! tewra$1 is6 289 19 72 OWiJtiw 61 16 / 266 24 2.1 y _ JS6 __ 218 24 M • rmm _ 1 6 8^ 163 25 f^du? 166 161 2$ Other receiving voles O'njh.i'ti Young t,!4 George lown 130 Xavier, Ohio 6? Utah 5?, W Kentucky 4? Utah St 32, Oklahoma 31, i lornt.j 29 Penn 23, Mem !>' s 21. St Lotus 21. N C Charlotte 17. Virginia Tech is, :>.mta C ara 14, Texas 14 New Mexico St 11, Tulane 11 Auburn 10, George Washington 9, Illinois 9 Man hattan 8. Florida 5, Texas-El f’.r •• M !>- Or o 3 Tulsa 3. Nebraska 2, Indiana 1. Ohio U 1 Bennett grabs player of the week in Pac-10 WAl NUT CP! EK.Ci I (AP) Arizona Stale forward Mario Bennett is the Pacific 10 conference’s player of the week for Feb 6-13, lire con lerence announced Monday Bennett totaled 44 points and nine rebounds in trie Sun Devils’ sweep of visiting Cali fornia and Stanford He scored a season high 3! points ayamst the Boars on Thursday, then recorded his seventh double double’’ of the season with 13 points and 10 rebounds against the Cardinal on Saturday It was the second time Bennett, a luntor, has earned the award He won ii prove ously m February 1992 as a freshman
