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‘The Pick’ made Wheaton a hero
■ WHEATON: The
cornerback’s last-minute
interception has earned its
place in history
By Chris Hansen
Sports Reporter
It can be described as the most
important play for Oregon football
in the past three seasons. It is the
play that is the most enduring to
Duck fans young and old. It is the
play that served as the catalyst for
the Ducks in their 1994 Rose Bowl
season.
And it was the play that cata
pulted a shy, redshirt freshman
cornerback into Oregon football
super stardom.
The play, of course, was ‘The
Pick.’
The player, equally as obvious,
was Kenny Wheaton.
The fact that it came against the
most-hated Washington Huskies
was only icing on the cake.
On Oct. 22, 1994, Wheaton
stepped in front of Washington
quarterback Damon Huard’s pass
at the Oregon 3-yard line and took
off 97 yards down the Oregon
sideline and into the end zone,
ending the game and sealing the
Ducks’ 31-20 victory.
“I still think about,” said
Wheaton, now in his junior year.
"I will always think about it. It was
a great play. A big play. It made
great things happen.”
He couldn’t be more right. Not
only did great things happen for
the Ducks, but great things hap
pened for Wheaton, who is now
recognized as the premiere cor
nerback in the Pacific-10 Confer
ence.
“I think most of the media hype
that I received was because the
play came against Washington,”
Wheaton said. “I would have been
just as happy if the play came
against another team. But the fans
around Eugene made such a big
deal because it came against the
Huskies.”
Wheaton was back home in
Phoenix last weekend using Ore
gon’s bye week to get some much
needed rest. He spent Saturday af
ternoon in front of the television
watching college football and do
ing a little self-reflection.
“It hurt me to sit there and
watch Pac-10 games and college
games,” he said. “I was thinking to
myself ‘Is this what I want to be
doing come bowl time?’ If there is
a way for us to redeem our bowl
chances it is to win the last four
games. And you can bet that I’m
going to put it all out. ”
There is no better place for
Wheaton to attempt to redeem the
season them at the site of his great
est glory: A late October game, at
home against the Huskies. That
Wheaton is threatening to “put it
all out” is something that Wash
ington should be taking very seri
ously.
“For the fans, it’s a big game,”
Wheaton said. “And that helps us.
It would be hard to act as if we did
n’t notice or listen to the hype be
cause we do.”
And what Wheaton also noticed
was Husky head coach Jim Lam
bright’s biting comments about the
Ducks as he tried to jockey his
team into position for a Cotton
Bowl berth last season even
though Oregon was the victor in
Seattle in last season’s match-up.
“Comments like that show peo
ple up in Seattle don’t respect us,”
Wheaton said. “That is something
we can take as a team and use to
motivate us.”
As if Wheaton and the Ducks
need any more motivation when
it comes to facing the Huskies.
Figueras: Junior frustrated by coaches
■ Continued from page 2B
But Figueras claims he is ready to play and is baf
fled when younger guys are continually getting the
starting nod ahead of him. Redshirt freshmen such
as Brandon McLemore, Michael Fletcher, Chris
Young and even Justin Wilcox — who was converted
from quarterback to safety during fall two-a-days —
have all started ahead of the junior.
“It’s frustrating. They obviously feel that every
body on the team is better than me at the position,”
Figueras said. "The other guys have done great jobs.
I’m not going to take anything away from what they
have done. I just feel I should be playing,”^ie added.
Even if Figueras was healthy enough to play, de
fensive coordinator and secondary coach Rich
Stubler isn’t exactly disappointed with the perfor
mance of the other safeties. McLemore and Wilcox
were both having a good season until they went
down with injuries. Both are expected to play this
weekend. Young has started the last two games and
has been a stand-out performer.
“Young is playing very well,” Stubler said. “He is
doing a lot of good things for us. ”
But Stubler said although Figueras hasn’t been
healthy enough to play, he is making progress.
“You can’t play defensive back if you can’t turn
and do things fluidly,” Stubler said. "He understands
that. But the last two or three weeks he has really
turned a corner.”
Bellotti has also noticed glimpses of Figueras re
turning to his past form.
“He made a play in practice on Tuesday that made
me think of the Jaiya of last year — when he would
be aggressive and make plays,” Bellotti said. “It got
me excited.”
What would make Figueras excited is just being
given a.sjipt to play.
“It’s hard to stand around and watch because I
know I can play, and I know I can do the job,” he
said. “I guess all I can do is try to improve until I get
my time to play.”
That time is one that Bellotti is just as anxious for.
“Given our [injury] situation at safety,” Bellotti
said, “I am hopeful that Jaiya can regain the same
form he had last year.”
It was a form prone to making big plays, one that
the Ducks have sorely missed this season, for whatev
er the reason.
Huard: Brock responds to added pressure
■ Continued from page 2B
be a mediator between the
Huskies and the Seattle Seahawks
for Football Northwest. The two
talk almost every night, Huard
said, and that allows Damon to
give his younger brother and re
placement a little friendly advice
from time to time.
“Brock is a great player,” Damon
said. “Obviously he has made his
own name this year and it is defi
nitely fun watching him. I would
like to think that in starting for
three years I showed him some
things.”
Huard witnessed both the posi
tive and negative side of seeing his
older brother play while he
watched from the sidelines, and in
the past two seasons there weren’t
a lot of positive things to see when
Damon went up against the Ducks.
Two years ago Damon threw the
historic pass that Kenny Wheaton
returned for a touchdown, cata
pulting the Ducks into the Rose
Bowl and dumping the Huskies
out of the race. He put on a such a
lack-luster performance in Seattle
last season that he received a cho
rus of boos from his own fans for it.
“That was really tough,” Brock
said. “It was one of the hardest
years emotionally on me. It was
tough having to stand out there
and listen to [Damon] get booed.”
Even though he’s only a fresh
man, Brock has stepped up under
pressure situations this year and
showed that he can be a team
leader. He has turned 55 percent
of third downs into first downs
and is two-for-two on fourth
down attempts.
“[Huard] is a pretty good foot
ball player,” said Oregon defen
sive coordinator Rich Stubler. “He
has a tremendous arm and has
great poise for a freshman. ”
Huard is also well aware of that
one guy who made his brother
look bad two seasons ago, and will
keep an eye out for him at all
times.
“Kenny Wheaton is very talent
ed,” Brock said. “He is a guy that
can really take your receivers
away. He’s the heart and soul of
the team.”
Huard definitely doesn’t want
to repeat the past, but instead
hopes to turn the Huard name
into a name that can break the
Oregon winning streak against
Washington.
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