{"id":13646,"date":"2012-11-21T11:13:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T19:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/osu_archives\/?p=13646"},"modified":"2012-11-21T11:13:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T19:13:44","slug":"osu-v-university-of-oregon-civil-war-football-facts-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/2012\/11\/21\/osu-v-university-of-oregon-civil-war-football-facts-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"OSU v. University of Oregon Civil War Football Facts &amp; Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13651\" style=\"width: 429px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/files\/2012\/11\/Civil-War-1908.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13651\" class=\" wp-image-13651 \" src=\"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/osu_archives\/files\/2012\/11\/Civil-War-1908.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3292\/files\/2012\/11\/Civil-War-1908.png 598w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3292\/files\/2012\/11\/Civil-War-1908-300x173.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OAC v. Oregon, 1908<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Oh how I love a bullet point list&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first Civil War game was played on November 3, 1894 in Corvallis, and won by Oregon Agricultural College (OAC), 16-0.\u00a0 The teams ate a post-game meal together at Alpha Hall, the women\u2019s dormitory.<\/li>\n<li>After that 1894 victory, OAC Regent John R. N. Bell started a ritual of throwing his top hat into the Marys River after each football victory over the University of Oregon.\u00a0 Bell Field, the home of Oregon State football from 1913-1953, was named in his honor.<\/li>\n<li>The teams played each other twice in one season during two seasons, 1896 and 1945.\u00a0 No games were played in 1900, 1901, 1943 and 1944.<\/li>\n<li>A riot broke out after the 1910 game, resulting in no athletic competition between the two schools in 1911.<\/li>\n<li>In order to avoid a repeat of the 1910 riot, Civil War games in 1912 and 1913 were played in Albany, which was considered a \u201cneutral\u201d site.<\/li>\n<li>The 1915 game included 47 punts.<\/li>\n<li>The OSU-U of O game was not called the Civil War until about 1929, when the term appeared in a few newspaper stories prior to that year\u2019s contest.\u00a0 The term was first used in the yearbook in the 1938 volume (1937 football season).<\/li>\n<li>Seven Civil War games were played in Portland at Multnomah Stadium (now Jeld-Wen Field), the first in 1908.<\/li>\n<li>The Civil War game was Oregon State\u2019s homecoming game from the 1910s until the late 1930s.<\/li>\n<li>Ten Civil War games have ended in a tie; in six of them the score was 0-0.<\/li>\n<li>The most recent 0-0 tie was in 1983 at Autzen Stadium.\u00a0 This game was dubbed the \u201cToilet Bowl\u201d as the two teams combined for 11 fumbles, 5 interceptions and 4 missed field goals.<\/li>\n<li>The 1937 game, won by Oregon State 14-0 in Eugene, resulted in a riot between about 500 fans from both schools, two days after the game.<\/li>\n<li>In 1941, Oregon State beat the Ducks 12-7 to secure its first Rose Bowl berth.\u00a0 The game, against Duke, was relocated to Durham, NC, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.\u00a0 Oregon State upset the favored Duke Blue Devils, 20-16.<\/li>\n<li>In 1946, Oregon State students kidnapped Puddles, the U of O\u2019s live mascot.\u00a0 In 1960, a U of O student kidnapped Oregon State\u2019s homecoming queen.<\/li>\n<li>The last game played in Bell Field was the 1953 freshman Civil War game.\u00a0 Unfortunately the Beavers lost.<\/li>\n<li>Starting in 1959, the winner of the Civil War game was awarded the Platypus Trophy, created that year by U of O art student Warren Spady.\u00a0 After being stolen and lost, as well as disinterest in the trophy, the schools are trying to revive the award and make it part of the schools\u2019 Civil War tradition.<\/li>\n<li>Rich Brooks, who played with Terry Baker on OSU\u2019s 1962 team which beat the Ducks 20-17, became Oregon\u2019s head football coach in 1977.<\/li>\n<li>The 1998 game, won by Oregon State in double overtime 44-41, was considered by Oregon Stater editor emeritus George Edmonston, Jr., to be the greatest Civil War game of all time.\u00a0 The Beavs scored on running back Ken Simonton\u2019s thrilling run in the second overtime period to upset the 15<sup>th<\/sup> ranked Ducks.\u00a0 Many consider this game to be the turning point in OSU\u2019s football fortunes after 28 consecutive losing seasons.<\/li>\n<li>In 2000, both teams were ranked in the top 10 coming into the Civil War game, the first time that had ever happened.<\/li>\n<li>The 2009 game was the first to guarantee the winner the Pac-10 berth in the Rose Bowl.<\/li>\n<li>The OSU-U of O Civil War game is the 7<sup>th<\/sup> most played rivalry football game in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>The U of O holds the series lead, with 59 wins, 46 losses and 10 ties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Information compiled from the <\/em>Oregonian<em>, <\/em>Oregon Stater<em>, Wikipedia and other sources.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh how I love a bullet point list&#8230; The first Civil War game was played on November 3, 1894 in Corvallis, and won by Oregon Agricultural College (OAC), 16-0.\u00a0 The teams ate a post-game meal together at Alpha Hall, the women\u2019s dormitory. 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