Oregon daily emerald., October 20, 1995, SPORTS EXTRA, Page 11B, Image 10

OREGON VS WASHINGTON STATE
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Former tailback Dino Phllyaw helped the Ducks conquer the Cougars In 1993 when they visited Aut*en Su*
dium, but couldn't stop Washington State last year in Pullman
WSU loss only blemish in 1994
■ RECAP: The Cougars
were the only Pacific-10
Conference team to beat
the Ducks last season
By Andrea DeYoung
SpcvfS Rwxvf&r
t.iisi season may seem like a
blur of unexpected wins and
massive celebration of « Rose
Howl bid, but things did not
always seem quite so rosy.
Turn bin k the clock to Oct, H.
l‘Pt4. The Ducks, having just
come off a surprising win at l ISC:,
traveled north to Pullman to face
Washington State Quarterbai k
Tony Graziani had started his
first game for Oregon down in
I.os Angeles and had posted his
first collegiate win.
Despite a less thnn-brilliiint
non-conference schedule, the
Ducks looked gooil in their first
Pacific-10 Conference game
down south and were ready to
face another conference foe
Washington State was picked
to finish last in the Pat-10 last
season, hut Oregon head coach
Rich brooks wasn't fooled by
this He knew that the Cougars
would !h* tough to beat.
"There is a lot of talk about the
Desert Swarm at Arizona,"
brooks said in the Oct 7 edition
of the Emerald, “but Washington
State is better statistically,"
These words proved to ring
true as the Cougars easily lieat the
Ducks, hut Arizona could not do
the same.
Martin Stadium in Pullman
was packed with U7.6tK) people,
eager to see the Cougars and the
Ducks battle it out.
The hero from the week
before, Graziani. was to start
again, but Oregon was to play
without tailback Ricky Whittle.
offensive* tackle Steve Hardin and
comerback Herman O’Berry
Despite the injuries to these
key players. Oregon looked good
coming out in the first quarter
Graziani passed to Cristin
Mcl-emore for what proved to be
an important 11 -yard gain.
Although this play gave the
Ducks a first down, it took away
their star receiver when
M( l.emore went down at the end
of the play.
On one of Oregon's few sue
cessful plays. Gra/.intu handed
the hali off to tailback Dina
Philyaw, who ran up the middle
for 27 yards.
Hut two plays later, Gui/cuti
was s,» kcd. turned the Isa 11 over,
sprained his ankle and was
forced to leave the game.
While Gra/iam lay on the
ground with a throbbing ankle,
he had to watch his fumble be
returned 2t> yards fur the (iougars
first score
Washington State 7, Oregon t).
Welcome bar k, Danny O’Neil
O'Neil, who had been .» starter
all four years at Oregon, had been
cleared to play only two days
before the Washington State
game, but fie had barely pmctic ed
in the previous two weeks When
O’Neil went to Pullman, it was as
the emergency back-up. But he
was forced to step in and assume
the duties of the hero — an
injured one. hut a hero nonethe
less.
In his first series. O'Neil stood
behind an offensive line minus
Hardin, throwing to a receiving
unit without Mcl-emore and with
Philyaw the only one to hand off
to Tile bruised and battered uuar
terbat k called four running plays,
completed one pass to Philyaw
and was finally sacked, forcing
kicker Matt Heiden to punt
In the course of tin1 next three
quarters. Washington Slain pro
entitled to rack up 270 vartfs of
total offense At halftime, Oregon
had 4<i yards offensively and end
ed the game with only 07 yards
in total
In the third quarter, the Due ks
were able to tie the score at set
en on a 42-yard touchdown pass
to tight end Josh Wilcox. But after
that, the Cougars took hold of the
game and ran away with it.
At the end of the game, the
scoreboard read Washington
State 21, Oregon 7
The Ducks had just traveled to
t-os Angeles and Iwstt a team that
they weren’t supposed to Now
they had lost to the Cougars
a team they were picked to beat
by to points
The injured O’Neil hod only
four completions out of 20
attempts, passing for St yards
lfnfortunately, the player who
had the best game was Balden
lb' had to punt 12 tunes, but he
did well lie averaged 44 2 yards
On 19 i arms, Philyaw had 01
yards Wilcox i aught two passes
and gamed SO yards. They w ere
the only two players who put up
significant numbers
Sii the Ducks left Pullman with
their first conference loss Their
record stood at i-l overall and
things did not look very good. In
the next three weeks, Oregon was
to face Washington and Arizona,
both of which were 5-1 ut that
point in the season.
The Ducks, of course, rebound
ed from this loss and proceeded
to win six games in a row and to
go on to the Rose Bowl. The
Cougars, despite their win against
Oregon, had to go to San Antonio
ill order to play in a bowl game,
where they faced Baylor in the
Builders Square Alamo Bowl.
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