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Steve Prefontaine debuts at Hayward Field, Eugene, Oregon, as an Oregon runner, winning the two mile (and the mile) event of the UCLA – Oregon dual meet, April 18, 1970


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Steve Prefontaine debuts at Hayward Field, Eugene, Oregon, as an Oregon runner, winning the two mile (and the mile) event of the UCLA – Oregon dual meet, April 18, 1970. To Pre’s right is Hartzell Alpizar, to Pre’s left is Jim Mosher. Oregon’s Rick Ritchie is the blurred figure in the right rear of the image.

The information detailed in this description was quoted and derived from three articles by Jerry Uhrhammer, the venerable Sports Editor for the Eugene Register-Guard, in the April 17 and 19, 1970 issues of that newspaper. The photographer of the photo is unknown–please leave a comment if you know the proper credit for this photo.

The clash between Oregon and UCLA drew 10,200 track fans to see the two undefeated PAC-8 track teams duke it out for top honors. UCLA remained undefeated after it was all over, 81-73, but the final outcome wasn’t decided until the very last event, the mile relay.

The weather was patented Oregon miserable for a sunny California team–temp in the chilly 50s, rainy, a knifing south wind that blew into the faces of the sprinters and hurdlers.

Responding to a Los Angeles track writer’s question, UCLA coach Jim Bush said, "It’s rough to go up there, but I’d give anything to have that crowd on our side. You don’t know what noise is until you’ve been in Eugene. They go wild when one of their guys bends over to tie his shoe laces." He predicted the home crowd advantage would boost Oregon’s point total by at least 15 points.

Oregon head coach Bill Bowerman knew the Ducks would be the underdogs in the meet. "Jim Bush has got about as good a track team as this country has seen since the 1962 Oregon team–and I haven’t seen a better one than that yet."

The meet would the the first one on Hayward Field’s new Stevenson Track, an all-weather surface of urethane (The same surface that would be installed in Munich for the 1972 Olympics).

This meet also marked freshman Steve Prefontaine’s first appearance at Hayward Field in front of Eugene fans since he enrolled in Oregon the fall of 1969. The love affair between Oregon’s second-largest city and Steve Prefontaine began at this dual meet between Oregon and UCLA. The knowledgeable Hayward Field crowd took note of the precocious freshman who won both the mile and two-mile runs, even though the home team lost.

UCLA coach Bush called Pre "the greatest young distance runner in America . . . and he’s probably going to be the greatest one we’ve ever had."

"Prefontaine and I are pretty good friends," said Bush, "and he was kidding me at the dinner following the L.A. Times Indoor meet. ‘Coach,’ he said, ‘I’m probably going to enter three or four events against you and any event that I enter I’m going to win. We’ll probably sweep it.’ I said, ‘That’s good . . . . we may do that too in a couple of them.’ And Pre said, ‘Tell me which ones and I’ll enter those.’"

"I love his attitude," said Bush, "and I think this could be the key. In three or four events, they (Oregon) could sweep. We’ve got to break into Oregon’s strengths somewhere, and I’m sure they feel the same way about us. We’re very strong in some of our events. And there are so many events it’s going to be nick and tuck all the way. I know Bill and I will probably both age three or four years in two hours and a half."

Pre would run doubles that day, both the mile and the two-mile, winning both in respectable times of 4:05.3 and 8:46.3 respectively.

The big story in the mile event wasn’t the fact of Pre’s win in a dead heat with his teammate Roscoe Divine, but the battle for 3rd between Oregon’s Rick Ritchie and UCLA’s Mike Mullins that had the crowd riveted. Mullins lead Ritchie by 30-35 yards on the back stretch of the final lap, but sophomore Ritchie began a big sprint that overhauled Mullins just before the tape–Ritchie won by a foot for third place and an Oregon 1-2-3 sweep in the mile event.

Mile event top finishes:

1. Pre (OR) 4:05.3
2. Roscoe Divine (OR) 4:05.3
3. Rick Ritchie (OR) 4:08.6
4. Mike Mullins (UCLA) 4:08.7

By the time for the start of the two-mile event, UCLA only needed 3 points from a second place finish to clinch a victory. But UCLA fell victim to a deliberate Duck play that led to Pre’s expected win and his teammate Mike Lyons placing second in 9:01.1.

Figuring the UCLA runners Hartzell Alpizar and Jim Mosher would follow Pre’s pace (see photo as they follow his pace), the idea was for Pre to run the first lap in 63 seconds. Oregon running coach Bill Dellinger knew Pre was strong enough to handle such a fast opening lap and that few others are–Alpizar and Mosher weren’t. Oxygen debt caught up with them after the first mile. Mike Lyons, meanwhile, ran his own pace and "reeled in" the two Bruins, passing Mosher with a half-mile to go, and sprinting by Alpizar on the final turn to a thunderous roar from the track-crazed Oregon crowd.

2-mile top finishers:

1. Pre (OR) 8:46.4
2. Mike Lyons (OR) 9:01.1
3. Hartzell Alpizar (UCLA) 9:06.8

After the 2-mile event, UCLA had one more event, the mile relay, to secure their thin 76-73 point team lead. In a tough fought close race, UCLA prevailed and finished the meet 81-73. Oregon never beat UCLA in a dual meet until 1978.

Afterwards, Oregon coach Bowerman remarked to UCLA coach Bush: "Jim, you must have the best dual meet team."

"No," replied Bush, "we’ve both got the best dual meet teams."

"A hell of a meet," said Oregon head track and field coach Bill Bowerman. "We kept losing it and then getting it back into it, and we finally ended up getting just about what I figured we would . . . 73 points." Bowerman called it a "maximum effort," but noted that even a maximum effort against a team of UCLA’s caliber may not yield the desired results.

How I spent my weekend – Minecraft


Image by Rev Dan Catt
Thought I’d throw up a screenshot from this Sunday’s Minecrafting.

"Day" 1 involved digging up loads of earth to build the security tower to protect me at nights, the steps up feature a gap preventing zombies from getting to me.

Day 2 was spent strip-mining the large rectangle down 6 levels. And chopping down trees for torches to keep the baddies away from my mine at night.

Day 3, turning the island into a nice neat rectangle because I’m like that, also involved lots of swimming.

Day 4, building the bridge over to "Tree island" (for more wood) and all the excess blocks where used to build a wall around my island.

Day 5 Digging two pathways down each edge of the mine to get down to the caves and coal underneath.

Day 6+ Getting lost in caves.