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FOOTBALL POST-GAME NOTES
Oregon 55, at Stanford 31 (Stanford, CA - Stanford Stadium)
September 22, 2007
STANFORD
Anthony Kimble recorded a career-high 119 rushing yards, including a 60-yarder in the second quarter that was the longest of his career and the longest run by a Stanford player since J.R. Lemon broke off an 82-yard TD run against USC on September 25, 2004. Kimble also had two rushing TDs for the first time in his career and became the first Stanford player to rush for two or more touchdowns in a contest since Lemon had three against Washington on October 2, 2004. Kimble also finished the game with a career-high 331 all-purpose yards by adding a career-high 170 kick return yards (7 returns) and 42 receiving yards on a career-high six receptions.
Derek Belch has now made four consecutive field goals and five of his six attempts this season after connecting on his only FG chance of the night from 39 yards out with 6:28 to go in the first quarter. Belch also made all of his four PAT attempts and is a perfect 10-for-10 on those in 2007.
T.C. Ostrander tied a career-best with his two touchdown passes, throwing a pair of scoring strikes for the fourth straight game dating back to last year's season finale against California and for the fifth time in his career. He also had the seventh 200-yard game of his career and now has 3189 in his career.
Mark Bradford had season-highs of six receptions and 72 receiving yards, and had his first career TD reception of the 2007 campaign when he was on the receiving end of a 12-yard scoring strike from T.C. Ostrander with 00:48 seconds remaining in the first half. Bradford finished his career versus Oregon with 34 receptions for 492 receiving yards and three TD catches in five games against the Ducks.
Richard Sherman equaled a career-best with six receptions (fourth time in his career) for 63 receiving yards but had his run of leading the Cardinal in receiving yards end at seven consecutive games.
Ben Ladner scored his first career TD when he caught a 31-yard pass from T.C. Ostrander with 4:09 to go in the first half to give the Cardinal its first lead in the game at 24-21.
Jeremy Stewart had career-highs with 10 rushes and 37 rushing yards. Stewart also brought back his first career kick return for 62 yards which is the longest by a Stanford player this season and also caught the first pass of his collegiate career.
Pat Maynor had a career and game-high 12 tackles, as well as a career-high 1.5 tackles-for-loss and half a sack that was the first sack of his career.
Clinton Snyder had a season-high 10 tackles, while also forcing a fumble for the fourth time in his career and recovering one for the first time.
Taylor Skaufel had a career-high nine tackles.
Tim Sims had a season-high seven tackles.
Chike Amajoyi had the first tackle-for-loss and fumble recovery of his career.
Levirt Griffin forced the first fumble of his career and recorded a half sack that was the first of his career.
Nick Macaluso made his first career start (at MLB) and recorded half a sack that was the first of his career.
Emmanuel Awofadeju record half a sack that was the first of his career.
Jay Ottovegio punted nine times for 377 yards (41.9 avg.) and has updated career totals of 215 punts for 8755 yards. Ottovegio is within reach of both school records currently held by Kevin Miller (1995-98) with 248 punts for 9973 yards. Ottovegio has now averaged 40.0 or more yards in 26 of his 37 career games and all three contests this season.
Stanford led Oregon at halftime for the first time since September 27, 1998, when the Cardinal led Oregon, 35-28, at the half in a game played at Stanford Stadium. That contest was also the last game in which the Cardinal scored 31 or more points in the first half in a Pac-10 game. Stanford went on to win that game, 58-49, in the highest scoring game in school history with the teams combining to score 107 points. Stanford last scored 30 points in the first half in a Pac-10 game when the Cardinal had 30 in an eventual 51-28 victory over Arizona State on September 22, 2001.
Stanford has now scored 30 or more points in back-to-back games (San Jose State, 9/15; Oregon, 9/22) for the first time since beating San Jose State (43-3, 9/4/04) and Brigham Young (37-10, 9/11/04) in the first two contests of the 2004 campaign.
Stanford forced three Oregon turnovers (all fumbles) and won the turnover battle, 3-2, to mark the first time Stanford has had fewer turnovers than its opponents since holding a +3 advantage in turnovers in a 20-3 win at Washington (11/11/06).
Stanford lost for the sixth straight time to Oregon but still leads the all-time series between the clubs, 43-27-1.
Allen Smith (23), Chris Horn (15), Ekom Udofia (15), Jim Dray (14), Clinton Snyder (14) and Anthony Kimble (10) all have double-digit starting streaks.
The 55 points allowed by Stanford were the most the Cardinal has given up since a 57-7 loss to Notre Dame (11/29/03) that concluded the 2003 campaign.
OREGON
The 71-yard TD catch by SR WR Cameron Colvin was a career long and his first receiving TD since Oct. 22, 2005, at Arizona.
JR RB Jonathan Stewart scored a rushing TD for the third straight game and now has six career TDs (5 rush, 1 rec.) against Stanford. His first quarter TD was the 20th rushing score of his career.
SR WR Cameron Colvin became the first Duck with 100-plus receiving yards in a game this season, setting career highs for catches (8) and yards (136).
JR WR Jaison Williams tied his career mark with two TDs and surpassed 100 yards for the first time in 2007 and sixth time in his career.
JR RB Jonathan Stewart rushed for 100-plus yards for the third straight week and eighth time in his career - all UO victories. Stewart's 160 yards were eight off his career high of 168 vs. Stanford (Sept. 2, 2006).
The four passing TDs by SR QB Dennis Dixon were a career-high as were his five total TDs, 367 passing yards and 27 completions.
JR RB Jeremiah Johnson surpassed 1,000 rushing yards for his career and now has 1,032.
Oregon had a TD play of 70 yards or more for a fourth straight game.
SR QB Dennis Dixon now has seven passing TDs of 30 yards or more (85, 61, 46, 35, 71, 33, 50).
FR WR Aaron Pflugrad became the 10th true freshman to play this season for the Ducks, adding to an already record number in the Mike Bellotti era.
SR QB Dennis Dixon has at least one passing AND rushing touchdown in every game in 2007.
The two field goals by JR PK Matt Evensen were his fourth and fifth of the season, breaking his career high of four (2005).
SR QB Dennis Dixon began the second half by completing 12 straight passes.
Oregon has scored 11 or more points in the 1st quarter of every game this season.
SR WR Cameron Colvin's 16th career start was his first start of 2007.
The Ducks surpassed their season total in turnovers (2) with three in the first half.
Three of Stanford's four first-half TDs came on drives following UO turnovers.
Oregon had an interception for the fourth consecutive game.
The game featured stretches of 28 unanswered points by Stanford followed by 34 unanswered by Oregon.
Trailing 24-21 marked the second time this season Oregon has trailed in a game (7-3 at Michigan, Sept. 8).