Less Is Moore
Oregon junior
linebacker Diet
rich Moore is
overcoming
his small
stature to be
come a big
contributor on
the Oregon
defense/
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Friday, November 20,19%
Oregon Ducks vs.
Oregon State Beavers
3:30p.m. at Parker Stadium
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Volume 100, Issue 59
INSIDE:
Oregon Feature 2B
Joel Hood’s Column 2B
Oregon State Feature 3B
UO-OSU Rivalry 4B
Pac-10 Picks 8B
Pac-10 Leaders 9B
Pac-10 Preview 10B
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Scoring
Offense
Oregon 2nd
Oregon St. 8th
Total
Offense
Oregon 1st
Oregon St. 8th
Rushing
Defense
Oregon 8th
Oregon St. 7th
Total
Defense
Oregon 4th
Oregon St. 5th
Turnover
Margin
Oregon 7th
Oregon St. 8th
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Quotable
“We want to be
the No. 1
football program
in the
Northwest, and
this is the next
step to acheiving
that.”
— Mike Bellotli.
UO head coach
“The Civil War
speaks for itself,
it’s going to be
an ail-out battle
They're going to
play us probably
tougher than
they play
anybody this
year.”
— Dietrich
Moore,
UO linebacker
Key
Player
Donald
Haynes
With defenses
keying on both
Tony Hartley and
Damon Griffin,
Oregon’s
secondary
receivers could
play a big part on
Saturday.
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In the spirit of the Oregon football
team's motto, “We Believe, ” the Emer
ald presents the Top 10proposed mottos
for the Oregon State Beavers.
4 HOregon State — 100 years late on
I Uthis kooky forward pass thing
9 Thank God for Stanford and Wash
ington State
B Dominating the Corvallis football
scene for a century
y OSU football — still an oxymoron
B Leave it to us
5Junction City football’s stiffest compe
tition north of Eugene
^Seven-time Pac-10 leaders in tackled
WCorvallis: Home of the Close Shave
I Uncle!
We haven’t believed since
1971
Ducks and Beavers may not be so civil
Nick Medley / V.memkl
Oregon tight end Jed Weaver drags Arizona State’s Mitchell Freedman and Willie Daniel tor a first down in the Ducks’ 51 -19 win last week.
Oregon and Oregon State meet
for the 102nd time this Saturday
at Corvallis ’ Parker Stadium
By Rob Moseley
Oregon Daily Emerald
Throw aside the records from this season
and those past. Forget about statistical analy
sis or numeric comparisons. Consider
matchup problems, but know it will be more
a question of desire.
It’s Civil Wartime.
The No. 15 Oregon Ducks (8-2 overall, 5-2
racmc-iu L,onrerencej
take the field Saturday at
3:30 at Corvallis' Parker
Stadium to face their in
state-rivals, the Oregon
State Beavers (4-6,1-6).
"The Civil War speaks
for itself,” Oregon line
backer Dietrich Moore
■M>
FOOTBALL
said. It s going to be an all-out battle.
They’re going to play us probably tougher
than they play anybody this year, and we’re
going to try and go in and do the same.”
Oregon comes into the game riding a two
game winning streak with wins over Wash
ington and Arizona State at home. The
Beavers, on the other hand, took last week
off after losing four straight conference
games to Arizona, Washington, California
Turn to DUCKS, Page 11B
Oregon State seeks first five-win season since 71
l be Beavers bave not beaten
Oregon since 1993, but that
could change this weekend
By Allison Ross
Oregon Daily Emerald
Oregon State is basically nine points away
from a 4-3 record in the Pacific-10 Confer
ence this season.
But almost doesn’t count in football.
It’s been a season of oh-so-close losses for
the Beavers, who have a chance to win their
fifth game in a season for the first time since
1971. A victory this weekend would also
mean two conference wins for Oregon State,
which has not done that since 1993, when it
beat Arizona State, then beat Oregon at
Autzen Stadium in the final game of the sea
son.
Oregon State (4-6 overall, 1-6 Pac-10) has
posted some impressive numbers this sea
son, but it has lost its last three games by a
total of nine points. The Beavers almost sin
gle handedly ruined No. 2 UCLA’s undefeat
ed record when they tied the game at 34 with
just 31 seconds remaining two weeks ago.
The Beavers couldn’t
hold on, however,
falling prey to Cade
McNown and his
late-game heroics.
At the helm of the
Beaver offense are
redshirt freshman
quarterback
Jonathan Smith and
tailback Ken Simon
ton, who have compiled some pretty impres
sive numbers of their own.
The Beavers had 582 yards of total offense
against Washington and 491 yards against
the Bruins. Simonton needs just 129 yards
against the Ducks to become the fourth play
er in Oregon State history to rush for 1,000
yards in a season.
“[Simonton) is a darter and a dasher,” Ore
gon head coach Mike Bellotti said. “He’s not
very big, he sort of hides behind the lineman,
then all of a sudden he’s hitting the hole full
speed and you don’t know where he is.
“They do a great job with him on screens
and he’s a very deceptive runner. He runs
with great power because he runs with great
speed and momentum.”
For Oregon, stopping the run has always
been a concern. But last week the Ducks held
Arizona State to 117 yards rushing after the
Sun Devils rushed for more than 400 yards
against Oregon last season. Oregon’s defense
will need to contain the run again this week,
as the Beavers’ are proving week-in and
week-out that they are capable of moving the
ball.
Turn to BEAVERS, Page 11B
On tap
WHO: No. 15 Ore
gon (8-2,5-2) vs.
Oregon State (4-6,
1-6)
WHERE: Parker
Stadium
WHEN: 3:30 p.m.
TV: Live, FOX
Sports Network
(TCI 23)
RADIO: KUGN 590
AM