MONDAY
Oct. 26,1998
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TRIVA QUESTION
How many current Pac-10
head footballcoaches have
been Oregon assistants in
their career?
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NFL: Week 8
Atlanta 3
N.Y.Jets 28
Baltimore 10
Green Bay 28
Minnesota 34
Detroit 13
New England 9
Miami 12
San Francisco 28
St. Louis 10
Tampa Bay 3
New Orleans 9
Chicago 23
Tennessee 20
Cincinnati 10
Oakland 27
Jacksonville 24
Denver 37
Seattle 27
San Diego 20
Buffalo 30
Carolina 14
Associated
Press top 25
I. Ohio St. 7-0
2. UCLA 6-0
3. Tennessee 6-0
4. Kansas St. 7-0
5. Florida St. 7-1
6. Florida 6-1
7. Nebraska 7-1
8. Texas AM 7-1
9. Wisconsin 7-1
10. Penn St. 5-1
II. Georgia 6-1
12. Oregon 6-1
13. Arizona 7-1
14. Arkansas 6-0
15. Virginia 6-1
16. N. Dame 5-1
17. Syracuse 4-2
18. Missouri 5-2
19. Tulane 6-0
20. Virginia T. 6-1
21. W. Virginia 4-2
22. Michigan 5-2
23. Georgia T. 5-2
24. Colorado 6-2
25. Miami 4-2
Trivia answer
Three—Arizona
State's Bruce Sny
der coached the
Ducks from 1967 to
71. UCLA's Bob
Toledo coached
Oregon from 1983
to ‘88 and current
Oregon head coach
Mike Bellotti.
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Oregon 17, Southern Califonia 13
Oregon defense stymies potent Trojan attack
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Oregon worked hard to limit the number of yards the Trojans gained on the ground.
Ducks keep focus, shut down Soward
by um Pyle
f Oregon Daily Emerald
Mike Bellotti said before Satur
day’s game against Southern Cali
fornia that he hoped the Trojans’
explosive R. Jay Soward missed
the team’s flight to Eugene.
Although Soward did make it to
Autzen Stadium, he was still con
| spicuously absent in Oregon’s 17
13 win against USC.
j Heading into the game, the Tro
j jans’ touchdown-maker scored
I nine times and had been averag
ing 165.3 all-purpose yards per
outing.
On Saturday, he never reached
the end zone and was held to a
microscopic 19 yards of produc
tion on three receptions and one
kickoff return.
“I didn’t do anything today,”
Soward said. “That was a piss
poor performance by R. Jay
Soward.”
The Ducks limited Soward’s
kick- and punt-return opportuni
ties by lofting high, directional
kicks. Defensively, cornerbacks
Erie: Edwards and Rashad Bau
man rose to the challenge of cov
ering a man who had been averag
ing a touchdown for every 5.8
times he had touched the ball en
tering the game.
“You don’t do it with one per
son,” Bellotti said of shutting
down Soward. “You have to have
11 people who are committed to
not letting him break a touch
down. It’s keeping leverage, it’s
keeping focus, and it’s just great
Turn to SOWARD, Page 13A
Oregon remained strong and
earned a close win over USC
last Saturday
By Rob Moseley
Oregon Daily Emerald
For six weeks this season, Oregon j
quarterback Akili Smith has been prov
ing, with his arm, that he deserves men
tion among the candidates for the illus
trious Heisman Trophy.
On Saturday, he did it with his legs. \
Smith’s 62-yard touchdown run with
10 minutes, 50 seconds remaining in the
fourth quarter broke a 10-10 tie and pro
pelled the No. 12 Ducks to a 17-13 vic
tory over Southern California in front of
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Stadium.
With Oregon fac
ing third-and-two at
its own 38-yard line,
Smith slipped past
blitzing lineman Sul
tan Abdul-Malik and
safety Ifeanyi Ohalete
and outran safety
Rashard Cook to give
the Ducks the late
lead.
“We were just try
ing to get the first
down,” Smith said.
“Once I took a drop
step and got my eyes
up field, I happened
to see a little hole
open up and I cut it
Breakdown
USC offense
1st Downs: 13
Net Yanis
Rushing: 109
Passing:295
Total Yards: 404
# of Punts: 6
Possession
Time: 29:05
Third Down Con
versions: 4-15
Interceptions: 1
Information from Ore
gon vs. USC game stats
book
up and the next thing I know I was just j
running.”
The Trojans (5-3 overall, 3-2 Pacific
10 Conference) had a chance to retie the
game in the waning moments when
freshman quarterback Carson Palmer, in
for ailing starter Mike Van Raaphorst,
drove them deep into Oregon territory.
Completions of 21 and 34 yards, j
along with a 15-yard pass interference
penalty on Eric Edwards, put (JSC at the
Ducks’ seven-yard line with six minutes
left. However, two short runs and an in- 1
completion couldn’t get the Trojans into
the endzone. (JSC settled for Adam
Turn to FOOTBALL, Page 13A
Oregon can’t hold it together in loss to UCLA
UO manages to win game 1, but
folds under the relentless offense
of the Bruin women
By Allison Ross
Oregon Daily Emerald
McArthur Court finally got a dose of Pa
cific-10 Conference volleyball on Sunday.
Although the Oregon volleyball team
dropped its 10th straight conference match,
the Ducks took No. 25 UCLA to five games
and were just three points shy of what
would have been a huge upset and a turn
around to a lackluster season.
The Bruins (9-9 overall, 8-3 Pac-10), came
into the match on a five-game win streak,
and narrowly improved it to six in the 12
15, 15-12, 12-15, 15-4, 15-12 victory over
Oregon in front of 775 fans.
The Ducks (6-16,1-10) served themselves
to a victory in Game 1 by tallying six aces,
including three in a row by senior Alii
White. With Oregon down 3-1, White’s aces
gave the Ducks a 4-3 lead, and UCLA never
took the lead again.
VOLLEYBALL
Oregon recorded 18
kills and eight errors in
the game for an overall at
tack percentage of .233.
The Bruins also tallied
eight errors, but recorded
20 kills for an overall at
tack percentage of .279.
But the sweetness of the Game 1 victory
did not last long, as UCLA stormed out to a
12-4 lead in Game 2 before Oregon scored
five straight points to narrow the gap to 12
9. The Bruins’ lead was too much, however,
and Oregon couldn’t complete the come
back.
“I think had we started playing at the be
ginning of Game 2 it would have been dif
ferent,” Oregon head coach Cathy Nelson
said. “We had a great comeback in that
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Oregon recorded 18 kills in a concerted effort to beat the Bruins in the first game.