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OREGON OREGON OFFENSE PLAYER # Penei Sewell No. 58 Shane Lemieux No. 68 Jake Hanson No. 55 Dallas Warmack No. 75 Calvin Throckmorton No. 54 Cam McCormick No. 84 Dillon Mitchell No. 13 Johnny Johnson III No. 3 Jaylon Redd No. 30 Tony Brooks-James No. 20 Justin Herbert No. 10

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Team Thunder kicker Adam Stack (96) kicks a field goal with the assist from punter Blake Maimone (42) during the 2018 spring game.

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BOWLING GREEN Quarterback: Jarret Doege

Defensive Back: Marcus Milton

In seven games, Doege started five and threw for 1,381 yards, 12 touchdowns and only three interceptions. He missed some time due to injury but led Bowling Green to its second victory of the season, defeating Kent State 44-16. That game, which saw Doege throw for two touchdowns and run for one, produced the highest offensive output for the Falcons all season. Other members of the Doege family have the quarterback gene as well. Jarret’s older brother Seth threw for 8,636 yards and 69 touchdowns at Texas Tech, which earned a preseason tryout with the Atlanta Falcons.

Milton started 10 games last season at safety after switching from cornerback. He tied the team lead in interceptions with three. Milton forced and recovered a fumble against Buffalo last season and finished fourth on the team with 60 tackles. The redshirt senior will most likely be the team’s punt returner as well. Milton averaged 8 yards per return.

OREGON Tackle: Penei Sewell

Safety: Jevon Holland

Early in fall camp, head coach Mario Cristobal named Sewell as someone he has noticed making a large impact. The 6-foot-6, 364-pound freshman works along the line, but has recently been with the first team at left tackle. Whether he gets the start or rotates later in the game remains to be seen, but Oregon has found its left tackle of the future.

Holland will most likely come off the bench against Bowling Green, and he should see plenty of action given the talent discrepancies between teams. Holland has been making plays all fall camp and is garnering a lot of deserved attention and some comparisons to recent Oregon standouts.

“He kind of reminds me of Reggie Daniels athleticism-wise,” senior safety Ugochukwu Amadi said. “He’s very athletic. … He’s one of those guys that wants to learn more. He pushes the freshmen in his class.”

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CANCER SURVIVORS TO BE RECOGNIZED DURING FOOTBALL GAMES BY: Emily Matlock @emilyd_matlock | PHOTOS: Sarah Northrop

The selected “Cancer Heroes of the Game” pose for a photo during a tour of Autzen Stadium on Aug. 27, 2018.

As thousands of Oregon football fans fill the stadium this weekend, Geni White, 82, will be preparing to walk onto the field during a timeout to be recognized as a Cancer Hero of the Game.

Cancer runs in White’s family, she said, and she’s the first of three generations to survive the disease, a hereditary type of colon cancer called Lynch Syndrome. Though she’s been cancer-free for about 10 years, she said she’s routinely tested and must have procedures done to remove any polyps that might become cancerous.

UO’s new campaign, named Fight like a Duck, will recognize 10 local cancer survivors, one at each of the home football games, in addition to other sporting events throughout the year.

University of Oregon Athletics partnered with Willamette Valley Cancer Institute to bring awareness to the fight against cancer and highlight the care that WVCI provides in the community, said Dr. Chris Yasenchak, a medical oncologist and campaign organizer.

White said she is excited to take the field on Saturday to represent the WVCI. “It’s delightful,” she said with a smile. “It’s really fun.”

Yasenchak said the campaign aims to highlight the stories of survivors. “I think it’s just a great way for us to be able to acknowledge the

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Janis Ross, head of the sports commission for Lane County, lives with Hodgkin lymphoma, an incurable cancer that makes her feel fatigued.

hard work our patients put in every day in their fight against cancer and provide a little bit of support and encouragement,” he said.

Janis Ross is the head of the sports commission for Lane County and works closely with UO Track and Field. She’s also a cancer survivor living with Hodgkin lymphoma, an incurable cancer. Ross said she’s honored to represent the patients at WVCI. “I think what the Ducks are doing is amazing, and Willamette Valley Cancer, they’re awesome,” said Ross, who will be recognized on September 15 at the game against San Jose State.

The campaign kicked off on Monday when all the cancer survivors and their families were invited to Autzen. After introductions, the group toured the Moshofsky Center and Autzen Stadium. They took photos on the field as they tried to imagine it filled with over 50,000 people on game day.

“When you know so many people in Eugene, it’s kind of frightening,” said Michelle McCoy, a cancer survivor who was diagnosed with stage four metastatic breast cancer two and a half years ago. She graduated from the UO Lundquist College of Business in 2002 and will be recognized at the game against Washington on October 13.

As the tour continued, cancer survivors were shown around the Hatfield-Dowlin Complex, Oregon’s Football Operations Center. Typically, only the lobby of the building is open to the public, where they can see the Marcus Mariota’s Heisman trophy.

But the cancer survivors got an insider’s look at the building, from players’ lounges and meeting rooms, to the weight room and locker room, the dining hall, press conference room and a theater.

This isn’t the first time Oregon Athletics has supported the fight for cancer. Last year, the football team partnered with Nike and OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. Three children affected by cancer designed the players’ uniforms and apparel, with all proceeds from apparel sales going toward Doernbecher’s pediatric cancer fund. The Ducks also recognize active duty and retired military veterans during games.

Tate Kelly, a senior account executive with International Management Group for Oregon who spearheaded the campaign, said he wanted to work on the campaign after seeing something similar at Ohio State University.

“This is something powerful, to use our platform to do this,” he said.

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BOWLING GREEN BY: Jack Butler @Butler917 Bowling Green and Oregon football will meet for the first time to open the 2018 season.

The programs have no history against each, but some of the coaches do.

Oregon head football coach Mario Cristobal and new Bowling Green defensive coordinator Carl Pelini battled when the two were head coaches in the Mid-American Conference. Cristobal and Florida International crushed Pelini’s Florida Atlantic University 41-7.

This time, the field is stacked even stronger in Cristobal’s favor. The Ducks are heavy favorites to defeat the Falcons, and Cristobal knows what to expect from the Bowling Green defense.

“They’re going to bring all kinds of pressure,” Cristobal said. “They have a very unique and exotic third down package that’s going to test your protections and test your quarterbacks. They want you to get rid of the ball quick.”

The Bowling Green defense has entirely new coaches for a reason. They allowed 38 points per game in the MAC last season and ranked last in rushing yards allowed.

Outside linebacker and senior Brandon Harris will lead the new era of Bowling Green’s 4-3 scheme.

Bowling Green is much better on the offensive side of the ball. Quarterback Jarret Doege won the starting job after nonconference play last season but suffered an injury shortly after. He returned for the final four games of the season, and the Falcon offense immediately improved.

Doege completed 64 percent of his passes while tallying 13 touchdowns and two interceptions in the final four games of the season. During that stretch, the Falcons averaged 35 points per game and 412.8 yards of total offense per game.

“You know they have a little bit of the air raid mentality, and their receivers can stretch the field,” Cristobal said. “They’re big, they’re tall, they’re athletic, they’ve got good balance and body control and they’ve shown that they can make big plays.”

Bowling Green has a weapon at running back too. Last season, as a freshman, running back Andrew Clair averaged a school record 6.7 yards per touch. This season, he will run behind four upperclassmen along the offensive line.

“They’re really, really big guys,” Cristobal said. “I think they average about 315-320, so our defensive line is used to our offensive line pushing and whatnot, being big and physical.”

DUCKS NOT TAKING FALCONS’ DEFENSE LIGHTLY BY: Shawn Medow @ShawnMedow PHOTO: Benjamin Green With Oregon heavy favorites against Bowling Green on Saturday, the Ducks refuse to take their opponents lightly.

“They’ve got a lot of guys on the defensive side who can play football,” quarterback Justin Herbert said. “They’re gonna be well coached and they’re gonna be a good team and they deserve a lot of our attention.”

Bowling Green has a new defensive coordinator, Carl Pelini, which has left Oregon’s offense somewhat in the dark in how the Falcons’ defense will line up on Saturday.

“We just have to be ready for everything they can do,” Herbert said. “Just trying to maximize what we can see from them and what we can expect.”

Herbert and the Ducks offense are expected to face little to no trouble from Bowling Green’s defense but Oregon might have been dealt a set back on Tuesday when Dillon Mitchell left practice with an injury. On Wednesday,

head coach Mario Cristobal said the injury was not serious but did confirm that Mitchell did not face any contact during Wednesday’s practice.

Regardless, the rest of Oregon’s wide receivers are still ready to go.

“Focus is more intense,” Brenden Schooler said. “The practices are more scripted. You know what it’s going to look like in the game, what looks they’re going to give and where to be in certain formations. It feels like game week.”

Oregon has spent all summer preparing for this game. Schooler says he’s had his eyes set on Saturday since Oregon’s loss to Boise State in the Las Vegas Bowl, and most Ducks would agree.

“I’m really excited to see what we can do,” Herbert said.

“Offensively I think we’ve done a really good job and it’s been nice to go against the defense because they’ve done a great job to make us a better team.”

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CHAMPIONSHIP PEDIGREE BY: Maverick Pallack @Mavpallack

Oregon Ducks running back Tony Brooks-James (20) gets past Utah Utes defensive back Chase Hansen (22) to score a touchdown. (Emerald Archives)

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Heavy expectations were placed upon the 2017 Oregon Ducks football team after missing a bowl game for the first time in over 10 seasons. The team’s coaches and Twitter account preached “Do Something,” as a way to win some fans back in the offseason. Once the season started, it was time to either do it or continue the bad taste that was left in everyone’s mouth after Oregon lost the 2016 Civil War in Corvallis.

On the opening kickoff of the first game of the 2017 season against Southern Utah, Oregon running back Tony Brooks-James did something.

Brooks-James caught the opening kickoff one yard deep in the end zone and took the ball back for a touchdown with blocks from Troy Dye, Hunter Kampmoyer, Jonah Moi and Kaulana Apelu. It was possibly the most exciting play by Oregon all season and it was not a pick six or a 60-yard pass. It was a kickoff return, and Brooks-James was the very first Duck to touch the ball. One play, 101 yards, six points. Although the play brought so much excitement, it was the lone special teams touchdown by Oregon all season.

Now “Do Something,” and the coach who coined the phrase are gone. Mario Cristobal and new special teams coach Bobby Williams are here and ready to bring the Ducks back to their 2014 glory where touchdowns came in all forms.

Often unnoticed by fans until a problem arises, Williams sees special teams as the third side of the game, making or breaking a team. Oregon experienced both sides last season.

The Brooks-James touchdown put them up 6-0, but Washington’s Dante Pettis’ go-ahead punt return touchdown broke a 3-3 tie over the Ducks in November.

Williams is the newest Oregon special teams coach and the 30-year coaching veteran boasts quite the résumé. He has spent his last 10 years

coaching Alabama where he contributed to five national championships.

The 2015-2016 National Championship in particular had his special teams unit on full display. The Crimson Tide blocked a field goal, returned a kickoff for a touchdown and recovered two onside kicks (one attempted by Alabama and one

by Clemson) en route to the championship.

“His schemes are just off the charts,” wide receiver Brenden Schooler said. “He knows what the heck he’s doing. I don’t think I’ve been around a smarter special teams coach since I’ve been in college. …

He’s showed us [Kenyan Drake’s kickoff return in the National Championship] a few times, saying “If we catch you slipping, we’re gonna take advantage of it.”

Schooler is returning for his third year on special teams. The former safety had seven tackles during special teams last season and learned to love it.

“You’ve got offense, defense and special teams, and if you win two out of the three, you’re most likely going to win the game,” Schooler said. “I didn’t realize how important special teams was until I came to college and saw that special teams can really change the tide of the game.”

Schooler has been a special teams contributor for two seasons and will most likely continue to be one. But with his role as a wide receiver expected to increase, Oregon will need more dynamic playmakers to step up on special teams.

Wide receivers Johnny Johnson III and Jaylon Redd are teammates Schooler says will help take the load off.

“It’s gonna be hard going every rep on special teams and also playing a lot on offense,” Schooler said. “Having those young [guys] get in there and get reps in practice and in fall ball — it’s only going to help them get to the next level.”

Oregon will face a decision at two major special teams positions for the first time in four seasons. Two four year starters, long snapper Tanner Carew (now with the Chicago Bears) and kicker Aidan Schneider, have graduated, forcing the Ducks to hold a competition at those spots.

Senior Devin Melendez and freshmen Karsten Battles and Peyton Yanagi are

TO BOOST SPECIAL TEAMS competing to start at long snapper. Although it’s not the flashiest position, any mistake would be a disastrous result for the Ducks.

“We’ve got a pretty good competition going on there, too,” Williams said. “You never notice that position until the ball goes over somebody’s head.”

Schneider will be a tough Duck to replace at placekicking and on kickoff. He hit 80 percent of his field goals last season and forced a touchback on 50 percent of his kickoffs.

Last year’s punter, Adam Stack, is the favorite to replace him in both duties. The sophomore will look to build off his first season in which he saw the field exclusively as a punter. Stack averaged 38.37 yards on 62 punts his freshman season, landing five inside the 20-yard line. This year he has added another duty: placekicking.

“The hardest part is just it’s literally two different motions,” Stack said. “Kicking, you’re coming more across your body and punting is more of a linear motion, so it’s difficult just because it’s two different muscle memories.

Your body has to be able to cancel one out when you’re doing the other.”

The added responsibility could add conflict for some, but Stack believes he has found the proper training for both, alternating practice days to better separate the muscle memories.

“I try to be pretty even with them,” Stack said.

“One thing I learned from one of my kicking coaches was to practice kicking one day and punting another day just so you develop that muscle memory. Of course I have days where I do both, which compares more to gameday.”

Punting does not always get the best reaction from the home crowd. Some fans in the Autzen crowd still long for the gutsy Chip Kelly “Go for it” attitude, booing when the punter enters the field, thinking it’s admitting defeat. Stack does not see it that way.

“I try not to look at it as a bad thing, but more as a not the last play for the offense, but the first play for the defense,” Stack said. “I’m helping them pin the opponent deep and hopefully if I pin them deep, [I] help the offense get the ball back and get some points on the board.”

Although Stack is the favorite for kicking duties, the punting job is up for grabs just like every other group. Junior Blake Maimone and Australian freshman Tom Snee are also competing for the punting job. Sophomore Zach Emerson and freshman Taylor Koth are the other kickers on the roster.

“We’ve got a lot of guys back there,” Williams

said. “Stack’s doing a good job. Maimone is doing a great job. Our new signee, Snee, has done a great job. He’s added a different dimension for us. Emerson’s doing a great job. They’ve all raised their level of performance.”

The one who sticks out from the bunch is Snee. Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, the freshman specializes in a different style kick.

“Most of those guys over there play Australian rules football,” Williams said. “It’s really similar to rugby, but it’s very physical. They run around and can tackle. They specialize in kicking the football in a certain way.”

By moving across the world to play a different sport, Snee has learned an entirely new sport on the fly.

“Prior to actually being here, he’s had to learn about American rules football,” Williams said. “Anything about fourth down, what’s allowed and he also works as a holder. It’s been a learning process for him.”

The last competition probably brings the most excitement to Ducks fans. With Charles Nelson graduated and Brooks-James seeing more action at running back, both punt and kick return duties are available.

Dillon Mitchell returns as the favorite for the punt return spot. The receiver had 11 returns, averaging just over eight yards. Redd, Travis Dye, Daewood Davis and safety Ugochukwu Amadi are others who have received reps.

Williams’ top priority when choosing a returner is reliability with big plays being an added bonus.

“We chart these guys every day on being efficient on catching the football,” Williams said. “We’ve got a camera on them all the time.

We’ve got a lot of guys to look at back there.”

With Williams at the lead, Oregon expects to own the third side of the game with a dynamic, do-everything unit.

“Last year we felt like everything was the same and teams were able to scheme against us much better,” Schooler said.

“After this year, it’s gonna be a lot different.”

Wide receiver Brenden Schooler (9) warms up during the stretch period. (Sarah Northrop)

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THE STORY OF CALVIN THROCKMORTON’S FALL CAMP BY: Jack Butler @Butler917 | PHOTO: Emerald Archives

Offensive linemen have to be big and brutal, and they smash other big, brutal guys over and over. Aches and bruises come with the job, and days off are few and far between during fall training camp and the season.

Junior offensive lineman Calvin Throckmorton would agree. Last season, Throckmorton played in 97 percent of the team’s snaps, an extraordinary number. Head coach Mario Cristobal wants that number lowered this year, but Throckmorton is too good to rest too often.

On a rare day off, junior Calvin Throckmorton works out in a different way. He tweeted: “A ‘off day’ should never be just a ‘off day.’ Give time each day to bettering oneself in one form or another. Today it is important to rest and recover the body, but twice as important to train and improve the mind. This has been an awesome read so far during camp #GoDucks.”

The book is about how to build skills and leadership. One of the chapters is called “prioritize and execute,” in reference to how the former Navy SEALs say it is more beneficial to focus on a select few tasks than try and juggle many at once.

The lesson stood out to Throckmorton, and it makes sense.

During fall camp, he played four positions along the offensive line. He has already played right guard and tackle in his career, and now in the depth chart against Bowling Green, Throckmorton is listed at left tackle and right tackle. All of the above works out his body and mind.

“It’s been great,” Throckmorton said.

“I like being able to see the defenses

from different perspectives and it just helps me that much more. I’m able to that much better understand the actual defensive looks that we’re going against, so it’s been helping me a lot.”

Throckmorton, center Jake Hanson and left guard Shane Lemieux are the iron men of the offensive line. All three have 25 consecutive starts, and all three have performed well. But Throckmorton’s versatility sets him apart, and only the players and coaches will know which tackle position he’ll play until kickoff. “[It’s] just a tremendous credit to him,” offensive line coach Alex Mirabal said.

“It’s ability, durability, flexibility — those are important things for playing along the offensive line.”

Throckmorton finds playing multiple positions fun, and Mirabal knows he’s got the brain for it as well.

“You’re talking about a kid who has got a 4.2 (GPA) in school,” Mirabal said.

“This is easy ... He knows it just helps him become a better player because now he knows everything that is going on around, not just his spot. So he’s able to play without blinders and see the entire field, and it’s been nothing but beneficial to him.”

Will Throckmorton play 97 percent of the snaps at multiple positions this season? Maybe he’ll be flanked by an offensive line that has more depth than it did a season ago.

He’ll also be on the line with the guy who gave him the book to read.

Hanson read it before him and passed it along. Throckmorton hopes he can do the same.

“I’m trying,” he said. “I think it’d be great if some other guys picked it up.”

Oregon Ducks offensive linemen Calvin Throckmorton (54) pushes a blocking dummy.

Offensive lineman Calvin Throckmorton enjoys reading on his days off.

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CRUCIAL FOR OFFENSIVE SUCCESS BY: Shawn Medow @ShawnMedow PHOTOS: Emerald Archives Dillon Mitchell (13) runs with the ball.

Brenden Schooler carries the ball during the warm up.

Jaylon Redd (30) catches a pass mid-air.

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Oregon quarterback Justin Herbert has earned Heisman Trophy hype ahead of this season, but the junior won’t live up to the reputation alone. He’ll need support from his wide receivers, a group filled with young talent looking to be on the end of Herbert’s throws this season.

“He’s throwing balls the way NFL quarterbacks throw balls,” wide receivers coach Michael Johnson said. “He’s putting them in places that you don’t normally get them. I’d like to see [the receivers] be more consistent in catching the ball, but they’re doing a good job.”

Oregon’s most notable returners at receiver are sophomore Johnny Johnson III and juniors Dillon Mitchell and Brenden Schooler. The trio of receivers are Herbert’s main targets — they combined for 1,090 of Oregon’s 2,469 receiving yards last year — and much of that is thanks to some extra practice.

“They haven’t missed one workout. They’ve been out there every day,” Herbert said at Pac-12 media day in July. “It’s always great to work with them.”

Michael Johnson said a goal in fall camp was to develop depth behind the receiver core.

“We gotta make sure we get more consistency there,” he said. “They’re trying, they’re working hard, their focus needs to be heightened, but overall they’re doing a good job.”

Sophomore Jaylon Redd, who had five receptions for 59 yards and one touchdown in 2017, should see an

increase in snaps this season. Redd said he took lessons last season from former wide receiver Charles Nelson and defensive back Tyree Robinson.

Nelson taught him about patience, decision making and body movements, while Robinson gave Redd a different perspective from the defensive mindset.

“He used to speak to me all the time, ‘Ain’t nobody touch you,’” Redd said of Robinson. “He would tell me what a DB was looking for because he wanted to better me as well.”

Like Mitchell, Johnson III and Schooler, Redd spent some time outside of practice working with Herbert. For the wide receivers, their relationships with Herbert will be vital to the team’s success this year.

“Herbert’s an NFL-type quarterback,” Johnson III said.

“You’ve got to catch it every time.”

Schooler describes catching passes from Herbert like “catching it from a jug machine. It’s perfect every time.”

Of the three core receivers, Johnson III is the youngest, but says he feels like a veteran already on the team after having to step up last year as a true freshman. This year, the depth added by several true freshmen and redshirt freshmen will relieve some pressure from Johnson III and co.

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