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Brian M's avatar

Great story on "Civic Stadium" as I remember it (its been decades since I have lived in Oregon). I did see a Beavers game there once. It was in 1975. This was the beginning of 20 years of miserable Beavers football and Dee Andros was in his last year as head coach (in his full Great Pumpkin glory on the sidelines). The game was against Grambling, an all-black college at that time and that fact got all the attention in the lead up. I hope that would not matter today. Of course, the Beavs got beat by a faster, more athletic team, even though smaller and not Div 1 at that time, I do not believe. But it was a fun place for a game. Old school.

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ChrisTom's avatar

Some of Portland sports' biggest blunders happened at 18th and Morrison. Baseball running Jack Cain and the Rockies out of town so they could bring in Scott Thomason, Marshall Glickman, and the Beavers. Running PIL football out of downtown and Central Catholic all the way to Hillsboro(!).

The biggest might be Portland State deciding to make the jump from Division II, which they dominated, to I-AA, where they've never competed. That place used to ROCK on Saturday nights. I wonder who would have won out between a dominant and relevant PSU football program and the Timbers.

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