1968 Oregon Ducks football team

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1968 Oregon Ducks football
Conference Pacific-8 Conference
Record4–6 (2–4 Pac-8)
Head coach
CaptainGeorge Dames, Omri Hildreth
Home stadium Autzen Stadium (natural grass)
Seasons
←  1967
1969  →
1968 Pacific-8 Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 4 USC $ 6 –0 –09 –1 –1
No. 15 Oregon State 5 –1 –07 –3 –0
Stanford 3 –3 –16 –3 –1
California 2 –2 –17 –3 –1
Oregon 2 –4 –04 –6 –0
UCLA 2 –4 –03 –7 –0
Washington State 1 –3 –13 –6 –1
Washington 1 –5 –13 –5 –2
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1968 Oregon Ducks football team represented the University of Oregon during the 1968 NCAA University Division football season. All five home games were played on campus in Eugene at Autzen Stadium, which opened the previous year.

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Under second-year head coach Jerry Frei, the Ducks were 4–6 overall and 2–4 in the Pacific-8 Conference. [1] Oregon did not play UCLA for the tenth consecutive season, but tormented top-ranked USC deep into the fourth quarter; a late touchdown broke a tie and the Trojans escaped with a 20–13 win at Autzen in early November. [2] [3] [4]

It was USC's first-ever trip to Eugene; previous games had been at Multnomah Stadium in Portland, last in 1958. Senior running back O. J. Simpson rushed for 980 yards in the Trojans' first five games (196 avg.), [5] but the Ducks held him to just 67 yards on 25 carries. [2] [3] He had been similarly contained by Oregon the previous year in Los Angeles. [5] [6] Simpson won the Heisman Trophy later in the month and was the first overall pick in the 1969 NFL/AFL Draft in late January.

Oregon opened with three losses, evened up at .500 after six, but lost three of the last four. They defeated both Washington schools, but in the season-ending Civil War at Parker Stadium in Corvallis, #16 Oregon State won their fifth straight in the rivalry. [7] [8] It was the last in the series played on natural grass, as both schools installed AstroTurf before the next season. [9] [10] [11]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 21at Colorado *
L 7–2844,723 [12] [13]
September 28 Stanford
L 12–2825,000 [14] [15]
October 5at No. 6 Ohio State *
L 6–2170,191 [16] [17] [18]
October 12at Washington
W 3–052,500 [19] [20]
October 19 Idaho *
  • Autzen Stadium
  • Eugene, OR
W 23–817,250 [21] [22] [23]
October 26 Utah *
  • Autzen Stadium
  • Eugene, OR
W 14–617,000 [24] [25] [26]
November 2No. 1 USC
  • Autzen Stadium
  • Eugene, OR
L 13–2033,500 [2] [3] [4]
November 9 Washington State Dagger-14-plain.png
  • Autzen Stadium
  • Eugene, OR
W 27–1323,000 [27] [28] [29]
November 16at No. 18 California
L 8–3628,000 [30] [31]
November 23at No. 16 Oregon State
L 19–4140,141 [7] [8]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Dagger-14-plain.pngHomecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

[32] [33] [34]

Roster

1968 Oregon Ducks football team roster
PlayersCoaches
Offense
Pos.#NameClass
QB 17 Tom Blanchard So
RB/G 44 Andy Maurer
WR 81 Bob Newland So
RB 22 Claxton Welch
Defense
Pos.#NameClass
Special teams
Pos.#NameClass
Head coach
Coordinators/assistant coaches
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (S) Suspended
  • (I) Ineligible
  • Cruz Roja.svg Injured
  • Redshirt.svg Redshirt

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  2. 1 2 3 Uhrhammer, Jerry (November 3, 1968). "Magnificent Oregon gives Trojans scare". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 1B.
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  31. ↑ "Cal dumps Ducks". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). Associated Press. November 17, 1968. p. 11.
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