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November 9, 1935 -- OSC at Oregon
Click here for the latest entry in the Program Project, the 1935 Civil War. And if Luckies weren’t your style…
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November 15, 1947: Oregon at Stanford
Click here for the current entry in the Program Project, Oregon’s post-war storming of Stanford.
View Article1972: How to hire the wrong coach, by committee
On February 3, 1972, the sporting world learned that Dick Enright, 37, an Oregon assistant coach with just two years of college experience under the recently departed Jerry Frei, had been named head...
View ArticleOctober 17, 1931 – USC 53, Oregon 0: The Joe Lillard Story
Look. See that mirage? There he is, on page three of the 1931 USC program. “Happy” Joe Lillard, he’s tagged. He’s on the roster, there’s a posed action shot, but when game time rolled around he wasn’t...
View ArticleThe "first" Oregon football game?
This post is about Game Zero. The first official Oregon football game is documented as having played out on a muddy field during a drizzly day in March of 1894. But the first game played involving...
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November 9, 1940 – Oregon 18, UCLA 0
We’re back! Miss us? We missed you too. Click here for a new entry in The Program Project: the 1940 UCLA game at Hayward Field.
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Where it all went wrong: 1971, the sacking of Jerry Frei, and why gutless...
November, 1971: Two games determine the fate of a program for decades. In the autumn of 1971, green fees at Pebble Beach were $20, gas to get there was 50 cents a gallon, and a fifth of Seagrams VO...
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What if The Pick had never happened?
What if Kenny Wheaton had guessed wrong on that sunny October afternoon in 1994? How different would things be at Oregon if #20 hadn’t had the chance to cut back to greatness? Considering the...
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1894: Where it all began (and almost ended)
Game #1: Albany College visits Oregon, loses 1894We can infer from this photograph, the only known image of the first Oregon football contest against Albany College in March of 1894, that the first...
View ArticleFor Washington Week, a book review: Scoreboard, Baby
The phrase “Scoreboard, Baby” means a lot to Duck fans. To authors Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry, it has broader meaning — enough that they made it the name of their brutal assessment of Rick Neuheisel...
View ArticleHow Bill Byrne tried to cover Oregon's asset
Bill Byrne had a dream. He wanted to cover Autzen Stadium with the world’s largest A-cup. The big-idea Oregon athletic director (1984-1992), who took Oregon football from also-ran to bowl status during...
View Article1993: The Last Year Of the Suffering
Before the first game of 1993, Rich Brooks was touting his team as a Rose Bowl contender. Which it probably could have been, considering the talent returning from the ‘92 team that finished 8-4. And,...
View Article1994: The Play That Ended The Suffering
If you’re wondering why I picked 1994 as the ending of Oregon’s football “prehistory”, this should explain it. Until recently, there was another video on youTube that showed The Drive — the 98 yard, 10...
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Why I Hate the Huskies: 1974
Jim Owens, Washington HC 1974 (AP) 66-0. Did you enjoy that, Coach Owens? Had you felt humiliated, after being pummeled the previous year by a team you thought you had no business losing to.. and even...
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Sept 18, 1982: Fresno State 10, Oregon 4
Significant Event: Sept 15 — A federal judge rules in favor of a lawsuit brought by the universities of Georgia and Oklahoma, effectively nullifying the NCAA’s stranglehold on college football...
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The Kevin Willhite Story: The last time Oregon recruited the #1 player in...
The last time Oregon signed the highest-rated recruit out of California, the circumstances were eerily similar to the De’Anthony Thomas coup this year. Like Thomas, this athlete wanted to attend a...
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