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Emerald TUESDAY October 10. 1995 Oregon suspends fullback Malepeai Oregon will 1h> without tin* experience of junior full hai k Pulou M tlcpiMi tins Saturday at California Malepeai has In-en nus|xiihI ed by coat h Mike Bellntli for disciplinary reasons Keeping accordance with team polii y. lit* 1 lot11 would not disclose the details of the suspension. Ac cording to Jan Power, spokeswoman fur the Kugone polit e department Malepeai was arrested on charges of third degree asso alt and was out on hail Mon day Malepeai, who is from Iionolulu, Hawaii, is the brother of former Oregon nose guard Si 11 la Malepeai and current starting guard Tasi Malepeai Malepeai t ame ill to the season as the most experi enced fullback with nine earner starts He ran for HH yards on 20 attempts last season while splitting time with the departed Dwayne (ones. Pulou started last Satur day's game against Pacific in place of the injured A | Jelks. and would have likely started again this week One Cougar and two Cardinal tabbed with Pac-10 honors VVAI.NUT CRKKK, Calil (Al1) — Washington Statu quarterback Chad Davis and two Stanford players, line backer Chris Draft and phw i-kn'kcr Eri( Abrams, were named Pacific-10 foot ball players of the week Monday Das i-, named the top offensive player, completed 21 of 28 passes for 274 yards and three touchdowns in less than throe quarters, leading Washington State to a 40-14 win over Oregon State Draft won defensive hon ors for Ins 1H tackles, two of them for losses, in Stanford’s 30-28 victory at Arizona State, Abrams, chosen for special teams play, made ail three of his field goal tries, and three conversion kicks Washington’s Weber signs six-year pact l.ANDOVEK. Md (AIM — ( hris Webber could have gotten more money to play elsewhere, and he could have picked a team with u more illustrious tradition. Yet, when Webber put his name on a six-year contract with the Washington Bullets on Monday, he finally got what he had been striving for since becoming the NBA s top draft choice In 1993. UAM» M The Oregon defense collapsed two years ago at Berkeley against California, bul the Ducks have different plans for this year s contest In north ern California Cal game holds too many similarities to overlook Thu Oregon football loam and its fans hav« covered much ground over the past couple of years During some of that time, the road that was traveled was filled with humps and potholes — returning from the Rose Howl in January empty handed, losing the last Civil War game that was played at Autzen Sta dium anu falling prey to two Western Athletic Conferent e teams last season Although those losses held their own respective implica tions — mainly bragging rights — the last loss that held the for tunes of a whole season within it was the humiliating, demor alizing and upsetting blunder versus the California Golden Hears at Berkeley on Oc t 2, 1993. Two years later, the same holds true entering this week end's contest In 1993, the Duc ks shocked everyone with a 3-0 start head ing into its next game versus then-15th-ranked California, buiiding the hopes of Oregon fans for a bow) berth and a national ranking With n 30-0 lead in the first half, the dreams seemed to l>e solidified. Then, lieing the tiegmning of my first year at Oregon as a transfer student from Seattle. I instantly jumped on the band' wagon and Ixigan draping the walls and windows of my dorm room with Dock paraphernalia “Go Dm ks" posters and han kies, and anything green and yellow cov ered my wall before the sec fond half began. Throughout the dorm ntu dents wort* yelling and IICTvn chanting “Go F Ducks'* and "Oh my god, the Ducks are going to win " Hut then the sei ond half began — aka "The Death Half " Oregon's unbeaten fooltmll world came crashing down when the Hears engineered a 35-point second-half counterat*. tack to nullify one of the Ducks' top offensive performances in the school's history. California struck with light ning quickness three times in the second half and won vsith an 85-yard drive in the final three minutes. California quar terliack Dave Barr completed the comeback when he found receiver Iheanyl Uwaezucke for a 20-yard scoring pass with 1:17 left in the game before Mike Caldwell (aught u (joss for tfit* two-point conversion The Bears gobbled Oregon's lead with one play drives of til and 7'2 yards and a bio* ked punt for a score The Ducks were nearly unstoppable on offense in the first .10 minutes Quarterbac k Danny O'Neil fired three touchdown passes in the first quarter while Ricky Whit tie racked up 113 yards for the game Oregon finished with fill total yards, the No I mark ever by the Ducks' offense After the loss. Oregon dropped five of its next seven games finishing the season in a downward spiral with a 5-6 record With the Ducks' first return to Berkeley since the disaster just five days away, anti the team posting a similar record to I*)'!! the memories have been unearthed again for the Oregon players to face Although many of the starters from the come back game are gone, including O'Neil and head coach Rich Brooks, some slill remain ready to finally wipe the slate clean. "We have to get out there and reestablish where we re at and step up." tight end Josh Wilcox said, “because we've got a big one next week They've got a great defensive line and a great ff He went down there two years a no hetnn ahead and we turned into crap 99 offense. so if wo don't i.nnu to play thou were going to be coming hut k with our heads lie! WOOIl our logs "It's (the 1903 loss) frosh in rny mind tmcause that was a learn with a lot of potential and we didn't do too much with it. VV« went down there two years ago lining ahead and we turned into i.rap A lot of us were there and we know how it fools and wo want to go down there and play hard." Other players hold another view to their upcoming game — it's a different team on Ixith fronts so the 1993 contest doesn't matter "I'm going to play (ail in '95 and beat Oil in '95.'' flanker Cristm Mi Lomore said ”1 didn't play against them last year and rny last game against them was that comebai k There won't l*> any come Ink k this year at all. Bottom line is we're Turn to MCTYRE. Page 14
