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Ducks buck history in USC road victory
Courtesy of The Daily Trojan
Junior offensive guard Jim Adams (71), senior center Jeff Austin (62) and the rest of the seventh-ranked Oregon Ducks can stare down USC’s Lonnie
Ford (25) and the Trojans in the Pacific-10 Conference standings. Oregon won at USC for the first time since 1994 — its Rose Bowl season.
A walk with the winning team
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LOS ANGELES — Come with
me, folks.
Let’s walk down the steps of
legendary Los Angeles Memor
ial Coliseum and step onto the side
lines.
Look up at the scoreboard. There’s
only 2:14 to play in the fourth quarter
and Oregon is hanging onto its precar
ious 21-17 lead. The Ducks did have a
somewhat commanding 21-7 lead at
the beginning of the third quarter, but
the USC Trojans have battled back and
made it a ballgame that the Ducks are
going to have to earn.
So in these closing moments, Ore
gon has to step it up and make a stop
to prevent a potential blow to its Rose
Bowl hopes.
There’s Trojan quarterback Carson
Palmer faced with a daunting fourth
and-13 from the USC 25-yard line.
The look on his face shows a young
man who knows that for his team to
have any hope at all to salvage this
season, he is going to have to some
how complete this first down.
Now, look right there on the Oregon
sideline. It’s Duck quarterback Joey
Harrington, who can’t stand not hav
ing control of what is about to happen
next. He’s nervously pacing the side
lines behind most of his teammates
who are watching the play.
Harrington’s pants are covered in
red from the Trojans logo on the 50
yard line, but it may as well be blood
after the beautiful battle he has waged
throughout the game. Didn’t he re
mind you of Mel Gibson’s character in
the movie, “Braveheart?” The way he
sliced through defenders with ease
and how he always found his target.
Back on the field, there’s Palmer
dropping back, finding a receiver 20
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■Oregon quarterback Joey Harrington blasts the
Trojans for 386 yards en route to another Pac-10
victory and another step toward the Rose Bowl
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
LOS ANGELES — Steve Greatwood
smiled, mused on the question for a bit
and said: “The tide has been reversed.”
The Oregon defensive line coach, who
coached the offensive line at USC in
1998-99, has been on both sidelines of
historic Los Angeles Memorial Colise-.
um.
“This win is very satisfying,” said
Greatwood, who began his coaching
career as Oregon’s offensive line coach
from 1982-94. “The Ducks used to
have to beat the Trojans to salvage their
season, and then today, it was the other
way around. Today put us in a great
position.”
It certainly did, as Saturday’s 28-17
victory over the battered and belea
guered Trojans kept the Ducks perched
atop the Pacific-10 Conference with a
perfect league record of 3-0 (5-1 over
all). The win moved the Ducks up to
the No. 7 spot in the Associated Press
poll and the No. 11 spot in the
ESPN/USA Today Coaches poll.
The victory also marks the first time
since 1970 that Oregon has swept the
L.A. schools and its first win in the
Coliseum since its Rose Bowl year of
1994.
Meanwhile, USC (3-3, 0-3) lost to
both Oregon schools for the first time
since 1957. The team, which was
picked by many to be Rose Bowl
bound, finds itself in dead last after
losing three straight games to Oregon
State, Arizona and Oregon.
Three teams that, it turns out, are
much more dangerous to play consecu
tively than say, UCLA, Washington and
USC.
“This was a terribly disappointing
loss,” said Trojan head coach Paul
Hackett, whose job is in serious jeop
ardy. “I think the whole team feels aw
ful.'”
The Trojans started the game well af
ter tailback Sultan McCullough —
brother of former Duck, Saladin —
took off on a 59-yard touchdown sprint
to give USC the early 7-0 lead just two
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ii The
Ducks used
to have to
beat the
Trojans to
salvage
their
season, and
then today,
it was the
other way
around.
Today put
us in a great
position.
Steve
Greatwood
Oregon
defensive line
coach
Ducks come away from Iowa with mixed results
■The Oregon men put
forth a solid effort at Iowa
State while the women’s
postseason future is
uncertain
By Robbie McCallum
Oregon Daily Emerald
In a sneak preview of things to
come, the Oregon cross country
teams achieved mixed results.
The Ducks traveled to Iowa
State for the pre-NCAA meet
Saturday to look at the NCAA
championship course, to scout
out the competition and, more
importantly, to have a chance to
beat top-25 ranked teams.
The men did just that, and in
the process have almost assured
themselves of an NCAA at-large
bid, should they not automati
cally qualify.
Martin Smith’s squad finished
eighth out of 53 teams at Iowa
State with 382 points. The No.
18 Ducks beat seven other top
25 teams and should climb in
the national polls, which are re
leased every Tuesday.
The Ducks were also third
among Pacific-10 conference
schools, behind top-ranked
Stanford and No. 9 Arizona.
Sophomore Jason Hartmann
led the Ducks with a 30th-place
finish, seven places better than
his NCAA meet finish a year
ago. His time was 31 minutes, 35
seconds over the 10,000-meter
course.
Senior Michael Kasahun was
not far behind, finishing 36th in
31:41 seconds. The time equals
Kasahun’s 10,000-meter person
al best in cross country, which
he also ran at the Western Re
gional last season.
Junior Adam Bergquist put in
another solid performance at
Oregon’s No. 3 spot. Bergquist,
who is coming off of a redshirt
season, placed 80th in a time of
32:14.
Redshirt freshman John Lucas
led a pack of the next three
Ducks. Lucas placed 122nd in
32:33. Freshmen Brett Holts
(32:36) and Noel Paulson (32:41)
followed in 133rd and 145th, re
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Emerald
Sophomore Jason Hartmann finishes 30th out of 360 participants at the Pre NCAA meet.