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■ PRACTICE: Membe".
of the scout team are
considered to be the
Duck s unsung heroes
By Mark McTyre
SfjQftt (iMOf
Kvery Saturday in fall there are
football team* scrota the nation
doing battle on the gridiron to
earn honor and pride for their
school Thousand* of fan* attend
these games to watch the pla\ers
exec nte designed offensive and
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every week
day, but who they practice
against is unknown This is
where the unsung heroes of a
team come into play
For the Oregon football team,
a group of approximately SO play
ers makes up the scout team —
the heroes missing in action.
These athletes range from incom
ing freshmen who are getting pre
pared for their first season to
players who have been in the pro
gram for a year or more, trying to
fight their way lo the second or
first team No matter what their
background is, each player has
one thing in common — the love
of the game
While the athletes on Satur
days have the mission of winning
their games, the scout team has
the assignment of making sure
that its starting colleagues are pre
pared for the opponents' game
plan Kach week the scout team
must exist ute the plus s its coach
es Mark Johnson and Collin
Hall — think the upcoming oppo
nent will trv to use against the
Ducks on Saturday The* teem
must look, ni t and play as if it
was the foe
"W# are very businesslike and
very workmanlike In the way we
go about things." Johnson said
"Wo want to grab our lunch pail
and hnrdhat and we’ve got a job
to do Nolxxiv wants to do it, but
wo have to do it Because all
those guys in front of them had
to do it. so it’s now thoir time
After the regular squad has had
time to heel its wounds. Wodnes
day and Thursday becomes the
scout team's game days The
players try their hardest to win,
hut first and foremost they must
make the starters realize what
ai tion they’ll lx- seeing come Sat
urdny.
"The main purpose of the scout
team is to prepare the team for
the next opponent." Johnson said
"We simulate the next opponent
the hest we i an We have a day
or two to prepare our guys for the
job they have."
At the beginning of the season,
it look some time for the scout
players to get into the pattern of
their job because of its nature
to beat their own teammates
"It look us (i few weeks to get
to know each other and what was
expected," Johnson said. "Early
in the season we had some times
when* we lollygagged but it final
ly came together The players
didn't want to upset the starters
because of seniority, but finally
we'd execute a play and build
from that
As the season continued and
the scout team gained more con
fidence. its importance to the
overall program grew When it
came tune for the Ducks to pre
pare for the annual Civil War
game, the coaching staff found
out just how helpful these unrec
ognized players wen* to the team
"They've been great all year,"
defensive coordinator Charlie
Waters said after the Ducks 12
10 victory over the Heavers on
Nov 1H “They helped us against
Washington Those unsung
heroes have kicked our ass on
several occasions and made us
plus I letter in practu .<
Waters had never coached
against an option style offense
before the triumphant Civil War,
and he welcomed any help that
was offered to him
"It was gu*-wrenching." Waters
said. "The attack is so uncon
ventional. You don't tram your
playors nil year to defend things
like that. You train them to
defend against the California*
and UCLA* and its very chal
lenging It's <1 credit to our pins
ers for being able to change gears
after 10 games and go into this
mode of stopping the option I
was impressed with them."
The Ducks were able to change
gears on both sides of the hall
because of the performance bv
their scouts during mid-week
They not only learned how to
look and act like an option
offense m less than a week but
also how to give the resemblance
of a nationally ranked defense to
the starting squad.
"It was pretty tough especially
the way the cone lies asked us to
do things, " lohnson said “We
had to have one of our corner
hacks come over and play quar
terback for us he did a fantastic
job. There are so many things a
team can run from the option. It
took us two or three days just to
figure it out."
After the players and conches
were able to define the option
they had to find a way to run it
at full speed without injuring
anyone from the starting defense.
"It was hard to do because we
had to go ns fast as we could
without cutting the players, oth
erwise they wouldn't get a took,"
Johnson said of the preparation
for the game. "If we didn't go full
speed they would've made every
single play but it wouldn't have
been realistic."
The effort the scouts put in that
week obviously paid its divi
dends. as it has ali season long.
The players have stuck with the
program, improving themselves
and their teammates toward one
of the team's major goals — a Jan.
1 how! appearance. Johnson is
proud of his squad and believes
that each of them will be a top
athlete at Oregon in the years to
come.
"I was blessed this year
because i had great kids to work
with." Johnson said. "They're all
super people and competitors
Watch out in the years to come
because these guvs are all going
to be fine, fine players and fine
people to bo around "
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