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Article: Special in so many ways.(Sports)(Oregon's 1994 Rose Bowl team ushered in a new era of excellence)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- October 15, 2005
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Byline: Bob Clark The Register-Guard
They reminisced and remembered. They joked and jostled for position on a stage that wasn't big enough to hold them all in the numbers that came back.
And mostly, at a reunion prompted by their induction as a unit into the University of Oregon Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday night, they received tributes for what that 1994 Oregon football team accomplished, and what it meant for so many beyond themselves in winning a Pac-10 title and playing in the Rose Bowl.
`You lifted the spirits of an entire university, and look where it's at now,' said Rich Brooks, the coach of that team that was saluted during a ...