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Article: UO-OSU seats go for big bucks.(Sports)(Tickets: The sold-out Civil War football rivalry holds a special appeal - and commands a special price to scalpers.)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- November 25, 2001
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Byline: TRICIA SCHWENNESEN The Register-Guard
Yes, it's going to be televised. And no, the stakes aren't quite as high as last year, when both teams were ranked among the nation's top 10.
But that doesn't mean it's going to be easy - or cheap - to find a ticket for Saturday's 105th Civil War game between the University of Oregon Ducks and the Oregon State University Beavers.
"I don't think the Civil War is measured by the season; the Civil War is the Civil War," said Mark Higgins, a 1981 graduate of the UO who now lives in Anchorage.
"When I was there it was the toilet bowl every year, and it was still the game people wanted to see."
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