Football rebuilds en route to Oregon
By Brian Hansen Argonaut Staff Writer
Photo by Nic Tucker
The Vandals prepare to bounce back from last weekend's 45-38 loss to Montana.
The Vandal football team has their work cut out for them. Almost everything went wrong for the Vandals when they played University of Montana and accumulated 89 yards in penalties and three interceptions.
"We're just rebuilding our guns - make this thing right
and go to Oregon and try to get a win," Head Coach Tom Cable
said.
The rebuilding will attempt to bring life back to a Vandal defense
that struggled to stop Montana last Saturday.
Some of the rebuilding will focus on putting more pressure on
the quarterback and better coverage by the defensive secondary.
"We're a team that, right now, didn't get any pressure on
the quarterback and a good player beat us. Just flat out beat
us," Cable said. "There are some issues in the secondary
that we've got to deal with personnel wise and we'll do that."
Dealing with the issues, that have undermined Vandal football
this season, will be the key to a victory at Oregon this weekend.
Vandal football has not started the season with back-to-back
losses since 1996 the first year the Vandals competed at
the Div. 1-A level.
The first time the Vandals matched up with Oregon was in 1901
- a 0-0 tie.
Since then Oregon has dominated the series by a mark of 48-3-4,
and 11 games have been decided by seven points or less. The last
time the two teams met was in 1990 - a 55-23 domination by Oregon.
The last time the Vandals claimed a victory was in 1950 when
UI shutout Oregon by a score of 14-0.
Kickoff is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept 16 at Autzen
Stadium in Eugene.
The Vandal Boosters will televise the game at the University
Inn on a closed-circuit system.
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