UO defense plots revenge
■ Arizona’s Trung Canidate
attempts to burn Oregon
again after an 180-yard
performance last season
By Brett Williams
Oregon Daily Emerald
Dangerous doesn’t even de
scribe Arizona running back
Trung Canidate.
Lethal is a more accurate de
scription.
Canidate left wounded Ducks
in his path in Arizona’s 38-3 win
in Tucson, Ariz., last season. A re
Eeat performance by Canidate —
e rushed for 180 yards and a
touchdown — could put Oregon
out of bowl contention.
The Ducks need a better effort
in order to slow Canidate and
leave the desert with a win, ac
cording to Oregon safety Brandon
McLemore.
“I felt like last year we played a
half of football, and this year we
plan to play a whole game,”
McLemore said. “He’s a solid
back, he runs hard and he’s a good
cut-back runner.”
Oregon defensive tackle Caleb
Smith respects Canidate’s run
ning skills.
“He’s a hard runner and he’s
fast, so that combination can be
deadly if you can’t contain it,”
Smith said.
Texas-El Paso found out about
Canidate’s skills the hard way.
Canidate — who is just that for
the Heisman Trophy and Doak
Walker Award—burned the Min
ers for 202 yards on 22 carries, sev
enth on Arizona’s all-time single
game rushing list. Canidate had
the best performance by a running
back in Wildcats’ history last sea
son when he abused Arizona State
for 288 yards rushing.
Oregon linebacker Peter Sir
mon, who’s among the Pacific-10
Conference leaders in tackles, un
derstands the threat Canidate pre
sents to opposing defenses.
“He’s fast, he breaks tackles and
he cuts back against the grain and
against the pursuit,” Sirmon said.
“He can go anywhere on the field
when the ball is in his hands.”
Arizona head coach Dick
Tomey said his offensive line has
vastly improved since its opener
against Penn State, when the
Wildcat line had difficulty open
ing holes for Canidate.
“We’ve made some progress,
and I think its attributable to the
fact that we’ve had the same six
guys doing most of the playing for
seven games,” Tomey said in a re
leased statement. “We are much
different than we were seven
games ago.”
Tomey admires his running
back’s play.
“His standards are real high,”
Tomey said. “He’s done a phe
nomenal job, and he’s made some
tough runs.”
Last season’s Pac-10 rushing
champion with an average of al
most 111 yards per game,
Canidate has some stiff competi
tion in Corvallis this season. The
Beavers’ Ken Simonton is averag
ing nearly 151 yards per game
compared with Canidate’s 124,
despite the fact that Canidate is
averaging a yard more per carry
than Simonton.
Anyway you slice it, Canidate
and Simonton are the two premier
running backs in the Pac-10.
“Him and Simonton, those are
some real good backs,” McLemore
said. “Canidate is one of the best
running backs we’ll face this year.
We just know we have to focus on
what we want to do.”
Duck rover Michael Fletcher
agreed that Canidate is one of the
best running backs in the confer
ence.
“He’s a great football player,
probably the best in the Pac-10,”
Fletcher said. “He’s been picking
it up the last four games for them.
“We’ve got to be able to stop
him and hold up the point of at
tack on the defensive line and get
the ‘backers and the safeties scrap
ping.”
Oregon defensive coordinator
Nick Aliotti confronts the prob
lem of stopping Canidate by using
the same philosophy his defense
uses every game.
“We have to stop the run, which
is always our goal,” Aliotti said.
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