The history of the rivalry game between Oregon and Oregon State goes all the way back to 1894, the date of the first Civil War.
Teams look to War’s history
■ uregon win seeK revenge
for last year’s loss and hopes
to add win No. 53 to the 104
year rivalry with Oregon State
By Chris Cabot
Oregon Daily Emerald
The 105th Civil War holds sig
nificant implications, but think
back to previous years, and you
may recall similar situations.
With an Oregon loss last year,
the Ducks dropped into a three
way tie for the Pacific-10 Confer
ence title, and if Oregon State wins
this year, the Ducks would be part
of a four-way tie for first.
If the Ducks had won last year,
they would have gone to the Rose
Bowl. And this year? It may take
some help from Virginia Tech, Col
orado and Tennessee, among oth
ers, for Oregon to go to Pasadena
for the national championship
game — but it could happen.
Last year, the Beavers entered
tne annual rivalry ranked No. 8
and came out with a bang. Oregon
State had posted 17 points before
No. 5 Oregon could tack on a score
of its own with a Joey Harrington
six-yard run midway through the
second quarter. Each team would
add another touchdown (Oregon
State missed the extra point and
Oregon failed in its attempt for a
two-point conversion) as the
Ducks fell, 23-13.
In the game, Harrington threw
five interceptions and lost a key
fumble on the Beavers’ 10-yard
line with six minutes to play. The
contest would fail to be another in
credible comeback for head coach
Mike Bellotti’s squad. It also gave
Oregon State a first-ever 10-win
season (the Beavers, of course,
went on to win the Fiesta Bowl
over Notre Dame.)
“When you go 10-1 at a school
that has never been 10-1 and was
at rock-bottom a few years ago, it
doesn’t get any better than that,”
Oregon State head coach Dennis
Erickson said after that game.
Two years before, in the 1998
game in Corvallis, the Beavers won
an overtime thriller 44-41 — a
thriller which practically turned
into a nightmare for Oregon’s play
ers when a riot broke out in then
Parker Stadium, with Beaver fans
spitting and cursing at the Oregon
players.
There have also been other
games of great significance, excit
ing finishes and interesting out
comes throughout the 104 previ
ous Civil War games, in which
Oregon has a record of 52-42-10.
In 1964, a Rose Bowl berth was
decided by a 7-6 win by Oregon
State, and the 1983 game, which
held little significance, ended in
a 0-0 tie. The Ducks and the
Beavers also played to scoreless
ties in 1902, 1906, 1920, 1921
and 1931.
More recently, a win in the 1994
contest assured the Ducks of a
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