Stormy weather: excerpts from Wars past.Byline: The Register-Guard 1915: Oregon 9, OAC OAC On Approved Credit OAC Online Archive of California (California Digital Library) OAC Ohio Athletic Conference OAC Ontario Arts Council (Canada) OAC Ontario Agricultural College 0 "The field was a sea of mud, not deep, but wet and slippery. Rain fell throughout every minute of the game, and time and again every player was standing to his ankles in water." - The Eugene Daily Guard The field was "a cross between a duck pond A duck pond is a pond for ducks and other water birds. Often such ponds are artificial and ornamental in nature, in public parks for example. Sometimes they may be less ornamental, in a farmyard for example. Some duck ponds are purposefully built for the shooting of duck. and a hog wallow wallow mud bath frequented by pigs, elephants, red deer, hippopotami as a cooling aid. rather than a grid iron." - The Daily Barometer, OAC student newspaper. 1921: Oregon 0, OAC 0 "Twenty-two plunging mud-covered huskies wallowed on a sodden sod·den adj. 1. Thoroughly soaked; saturated. 2. Soggy and heavy from improper cooking; doughy. 3. Expressionless, stupid, or dull, especially from drink. 4. Unimaginative; torpid. v. gridiron for 60 minutes yesterday in a downpour that transformed the Oregon mud at Hayward Field into a soup-like lubricant, and yet the settlement must go over for a third year." - The Eugene Register "The wet and slippery ball and the rain soaked and muddy gridiron made scrimmaging a dangerous thing, and the game ended in a punting duel ..." - George Bertz, The Oregon Journal, 1921 1930: OSU (Open Source UNIX) Refers to the Unix variants that are maintained as open source, which were primarily BSD Unix and Linux until Sun made its Solaris operating system open source in 2005. 15, Oregon 0 "It was a hard game, mates, and a clean one despite the water and muck that gummed up the ball, the officials and the players and turned the annual Oregon-Oregon State football classic into a sort of glorified glo·ri·fy tr.v. glo·ri·fied, glo·ri·fy·ing, glo·ri·fies 1. To give glory, honor, or high praise to; exalt. 2. mud bath, with cheer leaders. "It was a slick game, if you'll pardon the pun. Once when a pair of Oregon's big tackles hit a State back who was running with the ball, the whole works piled up and slid on top of the ground for 10 feet, leaving a big rut in their wake." - Roy Craft, The Register-Guard 1932: Oregon 12, OSU 6 "Everybody was sober as far as the eye could reach, but everybody was wet just the same. Wind carried the rain into nearly all parts of the grandstands." - The Register-Guard 1946: OSU 13, Oregon 0 "BELL FIELD, Corvallis - A powerful Oregon State College football team sounded the end of another University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. football era 13-0 here Saturday afternoon in a quagmire of mud and grass and before 20,000 rain-drenched cash customers." - Dick Strite, The Register-Guard It was the kind of day "you wouldn't have turned a cow out to grass or a dog out to die on." Bell Field was a "muddy morass," and the game "a squishing bee." - L.H. Gregory, The Oregonian 1961: OSU 6, Oregon 2 "Hayward Field was Mudsville Saturday, and there was no joy there. ... The blame lay not with student or alum, but with the Oregon weather, which was cold, damp and miserable." - Don Bishoff, The Register-Guard 1966: OSU 20, Oregon 15 `The game in Parker Stadium could have been called the `Bog Bowl.' Although rain stopped falling soon after the opening kickoff and the rest of the game was played under semi-sunshiny conditions, the field itself remained a virtual quagmire. In this mushy mush·y adj. mush·i·er, mush·i·est 1. Resembling mush in consistency; soft. 2. Informal a. Excessively sentimental. See Synonyms at sentimental. b. footing, the Ducks gave it all they had - which wasn't enough.' - Jerry Uhrhammer, The Register-Guard 1983: Oregon 0, OSU 0 "They say if you live long enough, you'll see it all. I'm not that old, but after watching the Ducks and the Beavers grovel 1. grovel - To work interminably and without apparent progress. Often used transitively with "over" or "through". "The file scavenger has been groveling through the /usr directories for 10 minutes now." Compare grind and crunch. Emphatic form: "grovel obscenely". 2. to a scoreless tie Saturday afternoon at Autzen Stadium, I think I've seen it all. ... I guess you could say the game set the Civil War back 52 years. The last time they had a scoreless tie, it was in 1931." - Bud Withers withers the region over the backline where the neck joins the thorax and where the dorsal margins of the scapulae lie just below the skin. fistulous withers see fistulous withers. , The Register-Guard 1992: Oregon 7, OSU 0 "CORVALLIS - Remember the infamous scoreless tie in the 1983 Civil War football game? The makings for a repeat were all in place here Saturday. The rain came down sideways with wind gusts in the 20- to 30-mph range and neither team could sustain an offensive drive.." - John Conrad, The Register-Guard |
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