WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015
Bulldogs end 62-year
football drought
against Bucks in 1984
By SAM BARBEE
Staff Writer
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In October 1984, the
Hermiston Bulldogs foot-
ball team ended its 62-year
long losing streak of futility
to the Pendleton Buckaroos
with a 27-14 road win.
As the Herald wrote,
Hermiston’s success in the
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series had been as barren as
Siberia.
After the Bulldogs scored
with 4:22 on the clock,
then-head coach Reid Segal
was imploring his players,
“Don’t celebrate yet, don’t
celebrate yet.” But, as the
article in the Oct. 4 issue,
stated, no one was listening.
The winless streak last-
ed since 1922, a 19-18
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game played between the
two schools in the start of a
90-plus-year rivalry. Herm-
iston managed to tie Pend-
leton once, in 1941. But the
winless streak continued.
World War II, Korean and
Vietnam would come and
go, plus another decade for
good measure before the
Bulldogs’ winless streak
was broken with no doubt.
The Oct. 4 issue of the
Herald said Hermiston was
obviously the better team,
using a strong rushing attack
and “some serious hitting”
on defense to take control.
Longtime
Pendleton
coach Don Requa, who
coached the Bucks to 33
straight wins in the series
dating to 1951, said, “Even
as bad as we got beat,” it
was fun to be “in the mid-
dle of something like this”
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Oregon all-time career wins
list with 273 wins, 153 loss-
es and 5 ties in 36 seasons at
Pendleton High School. He
also coached a few years in
Idaho, taking his career re-
cord to 301wins.
Current Hermiston base-
ball coach Lance Hawkins
scored two touchdowns on
the ground, one in the sec-
ond quarter and one in the
fourth, to pace the Bulldogs
offensively.
Pendleton took a 7-0 lead
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quarterback Rick Thomp-
son raced 82 yards follow-
ing a Hermiston fumble.
The Bulldogs equalized
soon after when a Hermis-
ton defensive end leveled
Thompson, popping the ball
into the air and into the arms
of senior Dan Walchli, who
scampered 34 yards for the
tying score.
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pivotal play,” Segal said.
“We needed to get back in
the ballgame.”
Hermiston scored three
more times, runs by Sam
Carpenter and Hawkins, and
the Bucks added a 1-yard
scoring plunge that proved
to be inconsequential.
After the game, with
fans and students mingling
on the Round-up Grounds
turf, long-suffering Hermis-
ton alums ‘Rod’ Rodriguez,
Frank Harkenrider and Joe
Burns popped a bottle of
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“I hope they enjoyed it,”
Requa said. “They’ve been
waiting a long time for it.”
Requa retired two years
later after the 1986 season.
When he died in August
1987 at 68 he was the win-
ningest coach in state prep
football history, but never
won a state title.
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