Portland Observer, November 24, 1962 Page 13
Sport Talk
by Ron Sykes. Sports Editor
Oh whal a day! No! since the year
1972 could the State o f Oregon
boast that both the U niversity o f
Oregon and Oregon State won foot
ball games on (he same afternoon.
It was a cold wet afternoon in Eu
gene. And just p rio r to opening
k ic k o ff the field and fans were
drenched w ith a hard, cold rain.
One could hardly blame anyone but
the most loyal Duck fans fo r not
showing up for this one.
Yet 16,728 braved the weather to
see Oregon win their first game since
November 21, 1982, when the
Ducks destroyed Oregon State 47-
17.
Even more remarkable is that this
was also another firs t fo r Coach
Rich Brooks and his gutsy team ...
this was the first time he (Brooks)
was able to use one quarterback for
the entire game. Sophomore Mike
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Jorgenson directed a sturdy, if not
spectacular, offensive show that
created no big plays and very few er
rors.
You would have to expect that
Oregon would win a game sooner or
later. They’ve got one heck o f a de
fense that always seemed to stay on
the field too long due to the inept
ness o f the offense.
So with Jorgenson at the helm the
Oregon ship ran a straight course
and never once deviated from their
plan.
Maybe once in the second quarter
when the second year man threw an
interruption after the Ducks’ Chris
Cosgrove had given him good field
position by picking o ff an errant
Tunnicliffe aerial.
Oregon’s All-America cornerback
Steve Brown deserved what he got.
What Steve got was his first inter
ception o f the year, and along with
that he was credited with 10 tackles.
Brown, a senior, has supplied the
Autzen Stadium fans with many a
thrill during his stay in Eugene. The
flashy defenseman long w ill be re
membered around the U o f O for his
excellent co ntribu tio n to the pro
gram.
“ When I first came here I thought
I was going to be a running back,”
Brown chortled. “ But I ’ve really en
joyed playing on the defense unit,”
he said.
With Jorgenson directing the Ore
gon defense so well, one has to won
der what the future holds for Frosh
quarterback Dana Hill.
H ill has indicated to friends that
the U o f O is not in his future plans.
Remember USC and UCLA wanted
H ill as a flanker and defensive back
respectively.
" I wanted to see if I could play
quarterback at this level,” H ill said,
’ ’ but now I'm not sure i f I really
want to. I ’ ll have to talk to a few
people, then I ’ ll decide what’ s best
for Dana H ill.”
Dana H ill could be the quarter
back o f the future for Rich Brooks.
I t ’ s too bad that the young man
was thrown in so early.
I f the coaches had been a little
more patient the belief here is that
H ill could very well have been as
good or better than Reggie Ogburn.
Quarterback is the skill position
on any fo o tb a ll team, and to ac
quire and have (hose skills takes
time. H ill needed, but d id n ’ t re
ceive, that time.
And how about C alifornia’ s Joe
Kapp fo r PAC-10 coach o f the
year? All Kapp did was turn around
a dismal Bear program and them in
stant winners. That year Cal was 3-8
and struggling. This year they are 7-
4 and perhaps in line for a Bowl bid.
And who but someone with the ima
gination of Kapp would ever have de
vised such a razzle-dazzle play as
that fine lateral touchdown job that
the Bears pulled on Stanford last
Saturday. Cal not only got through
the C ardinal defense, but ran
through the band as well.
And Hector “ Macho” Camacho
is certainly the brightest star on the
boxing horizon at the present.
Camacho made a believer o f this
writer with his easy victory over the
previously unbeaten Greg Cover
son. Both fighters entered the ring
w ith unblemished records, Cama
cho’s 18-0 against Coverson's 30-0.
It was no contest from the beginning
to the end. The quick hands o f Ca
macho had Coverson down in round
one and again in round two. The
speed o f the New Yorker, Camacho,
kept Coverson o ff balance through
out the fight. Camacho, from Span
ish Harlem, appears ready to take
on either Alexis Arguello of ‘ ‘ Boom
Boom” Mancini.
WBC heavyweight champion Lar
ry Holmes w ill take on lig h tly re
garded Tex Cobb in a televised fight
this Friday on network T.V. Holmes
should destroy the Texan some
where between rounds one and
eight. There's no one in the heavy
weight ranks (hat stands any kind of
chance against Holmes.
Gerry Cooney stood the test and
we all know what happened to him.
On December 3rd Tommy ‘ ‘ H it
“ Man” Hearns will attempt to lift the
Super Welterweight crown from the
head o f Wilfred Benitez.
Hearns w ill not win this one.
Benitez is too slick and too exper
ienced to be taken out by a Hearns
left hook. W ith the retirement o f
Sugar Ray Leonard, Benitez is un
doubtedly the best boxer in the
game pound for pound.
Most boxing experts agree that
anyone that Leonard can whip Be
nitez also can defeat.
The match w ill go the fu ll 15
rounds with Benitez the winner.
Hearns, known for his devastat
ing punch, w ill never have Wilfred
in trouble. Benitez all the way.
Who won?
by A i McCHberry
The N.F.L. players’ strike is now
over. The strike, the longest in the
history o f sport, to me was totally
unnecessary. Who won? Why did it
take so long? Who really benefited
from this session o f foolishness?
The owners knew that they had
signed a new T.V . agreement with
the networks. The also knew that
in the American tradition the union
would be coming for their share o f
the new wealth. Oh! but they didn’t
want to share any o f thie piece o f
pic. Wrong.
The owners miscalculated the
strength and resilience of the players
union. They thought that business
could be operated the same as usual.
A nalysis
Tima out for
unnecessary roughness
I cannot put a ll the blame on
management
fo r
the union
•’ fum bled” the ball, too. They
wanted their piece o f the pie, calcu
lated through a 55 percent of profit
wage scale which was so c o m p li
cated neither the players nor owners
really understood how it was going
to w ork. They said it was etched in
stone. Fools, no negotiations are
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Ball put over the net by St. Marys' Nellie Gant
114) evades Wilson blocker while Molly Faherty
(13) and Beth Anderson (11, wait for the return that
never was.
St. Marys Academy defeated a strong Marshall
team (16-14, 15-10 and 15-11). St. Marys put down
Wilson in the quarterfinals in two straight while
Marshall slipped by defending champion Corvallis.
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solid; every issue must be bargained.
So at times neither bargained in
good faith to end the strike.
Five yards penalty
The fans also are to blame. They,
the fans, only look at football play
ers as Roman gladiators, not realiz
ing how many never last longer than
two or three years, never caring
about the pain they carry at youth
and in old age. They see these play
ers with their helmets on and only
recognized by the numbers on their
backs as entertainers o f brutality.
Football fans, like fight fans, are
looking for the kill.
Remember Pryor and Arguello.
No one was saying stop the fight as
Arguello was getting beat severely.
They spent their money for the thrill
o f death and that’s whal they want
to see. So the average fan is not con
cerned about the players in the
game, only the game itself.
I f the fans would have taken to
time to analyze (he total situation of
player and management the strike
would have lasted only one week.
What did the strike settlement give
to the rank and file? No fan pro
tested.
I. The agreement w ill be for five
years giving players u wage package
of 1.3 billion dollars—(he first wage
scale in the history o f sport.
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2. Rosters will be frozen to a max
imum o f 45 players per team until
1986.
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3. Agents: Rookies can bring their
agents along in itia lly ; later agents
must sign on with the union.
4. Super Bowl payments for each
player on the winning team w ill be
$64 .(XX).
5. Free agency like baseball is still
on the list for next negotiating ses
sion.
Did they gel a piece o f the rock? I
guess the tans who are having prob
lems paying rent, eating and finding
employment could not relate to the
players asking for more money, but
could understand owners taking and
making “ grand theft dough.” Many
who booed the players Sunday do
not understand collective bargaining
in sport or in their own union.
I'm sure many locker rooms will
be hot with the union players trying
to understand the strike breakers.
This fight for equality in the N.F.L.
is not over. The players showed they
could stick together and realize the
games that management can play to
divide the troops.
In 1986 the T.V. contract w ill ex-
pre and pay T.V. will be on the hori
zon. I hope they have learned from
this that no one wins in a strike and
the money from now on must be
shared.
W ill the fans boycott the games?
No way. Most have bought season
tickets and seats in all stadiums are
hard to get. So the owners will still
make interest on ticket money and
the game not being played. No one
as yet has been sent a refund for un
played games. “ Them th a t’ s got
shall get," so let’s hope that the next
time the negotiating parties w ill re
spect each other and do their work
in private so the fans can just enjoy
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