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
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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
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