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Post by beaverchew on Jan 18, 2018 18:07:37 GMT -8
Camping out on the ramps at Gill to watch UCLA? I remember getting up at 5AM to get in line for a game in 1983 and was near the bottom of the ramp at 6 for a 1PM game. We won of course!
Or double overtime win I think it was 1992?
Any other UCLA memories?
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Post by greshambeaver on Jan 18, 2018 18:33:01 GMT -8
Yes, I think it was 1976. UCLA at Gill. My daughter was just one year old. We were in the upper deck as OSU beat UCLA in a runaway, part of UCLA's "lost weekend". Lonnie Shelton slammed a dunk through with a few seconds left to finish the contest, he was called for a technical as if you remember dunking was illegal then under the Alcindor rule. Lonnie looked at the ref as if to say "NO s%#t SHERLOCK"... game ended a few seconds later with a huge win for the Beavs. Lonnie was huge in this game as was George Tucker. Rocky Smith and Paul Miller were others I remember on the team that year. Now those were the days. The place was rocking and my 1 year old daughter was stomping her feet with every scream. She could barely walk, but she loved to stomp her feet. Great game, great times, great team.
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Post by Werebeaver on Jan 18, 2018 19:31:26 GMT -8
Darrel Aune interviewing Teo Alibegovic after a win in Gill vs the Bruins and Don MacLean.
Aune. “You got the best of MacLean tonight and it looked like he didn’t like it”. Alibegovic. “MacLean, he a....beeg baby”.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Jan 18, 2018 19:32:56 GMT -8
Teo elbowed McLean in the face in a game at Pauley and was ejected. Afterward McLean called him "a communist."
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Post by Tigardbeav on Jan 18, 2018 19:58:28 GMT -8
greshambeaverThe Lost weekend was the '74 game. George Tucker hits 2 FTs to seal it. Of course tsdtr gets the cover because it was ho hum until the Beavs knock out the Bruins and Saint John. Then SI has to hustle a tsdtr alum to write a front page story and the '76 game was LOUD! start to finish I think my fav game from that era was a Civil War. The Communist Kids were known for lining up at the half court line and staring down the opposition. This had been going on all season. So they start that crap in Gill and the cheerleaders pull a big ol roll of paper from sideline to sideline blocking their view. LOL That might have been the game that Beavs are down 1 with the ball and time running out. Ball is way out by the hash mark. Ricky Lee calls bank to win at the buzzer
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Post by baseba1111 on Jan 18, 2018 20:21:27 GMT -8
greshambeaverThe Lost weekend was the '74 game. George Tucker hits 2 FTs to seal it. Of course tsdtr gets the cover because it was ho hum until the Beavs knock out the Bruins and Saint John. Then SI has to hustle a tsdtr alum to write a front page story and the '76 game was LOUD! start to finish I think my fav game from that era was a Civil War. The Communist Kids were known for lining up at the half court line and staring down the opposition. This had been going on all season. So they start that crap in Gill and the cheerleaders pull a big ol roll of paper from sideline to sideline blocking their view. LOL That might have been the game that Beavs are down 1 with the ball and time running out. Ball is way out by the hash mark. Ricky Lee calls bank to win at the buzzer Kamikaze Kids? Of Dick Harter... '71-78
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Post by osuft3 on Jan 18, 2018 20:29:07 GMT -8
Freshman year 65-66. Beavers were small and played tenacious defense. Led by Fredenberg, Eaton, Whelan, White, and newcomers Peterson and Gunner, they held UCLA and won. Both teams lost the following night, but the Beavs held to win the conference title.
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Post by spudbeaver on Jan 18, 2018 20:33:14 GMT -8
Beating the heralded Kenny Fields team in 82-83? Too many bota bags!
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Post by Werebeaver on Jan 18, 2018 20:42:14 GMT -8
One of the classiest things I ever saw from an opposing player at Gill.
OSU vs UCLA some time in the late 90’s. Tight game late. Gill getting loud with fans stomping and Earl Watson at the foul line. Ref thinks young boy on the mop crew is shaking the basket stanchion (he’s not) and yells at the poor kid who is clearly humiliated by it.
Ucla pulls out a close win and immediately after the buzzer Earl chases down the kid, appears to tell him he didn’t do anything wrong, and handed him his blue UCLA jersey.
Made me an Earl Watson fan forever.
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Post by steinlager on Jan 18, 2018 21:36:28 GMT -8
Reggie Miller vs. Gary Payton in 1987 or 1988. Late in the season between two teams at the top of the league. Miller went nuts at the end of the game draining some tough shots to pull out the win.
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Post by greshambeaver on Jan 18, 2018 22:22:03 GMT -8
Yeah, I was off a couple of years on the lost weekend as my daughter was only a glimmer in my eye in "74", but I will never forget the Shelton dunk and the roar of the crowd. My little girl was delirious with joy, although she didn't know why...
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Post by Tigardbeav on Jan 18, 2018 22:34:53 GMT -8
Kamikaze Kids? Of Dick Harter... '71-78 Kommunist...Kamikaze both start with a K whatever
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Post by bennyorange on Jan 19, 2018 7:55:54 GMT -8
Yeah, I was off a couple of years on the lost weekend as my daughter was only a glimmer in my eye in "74", but I will never forget the Shelton dunk and the roar of the crowd. My little girl was delirious with joy, although she didn't know why... The Shelton post game quote as I remember was something along the lines of "I wanted to excite the crowd". Uttered between three or four healthy sniffs to clear his nose
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Post by bennyorange on Jan 19, 2018 8:10:00 GMT -8
1978 or 1979 - I think it was 79. I wasn't one of those guys who camped on the ramp for days/hours to go to games but I did go to a few during my time at OSU. I was more of a, and still am, football follower even though we STUNK back then. Football games were an excuse to party and get hammered lamenting how crappy we were.
But I digress, we we're playing UCLA at Gill and a bunch of us decided late, after some extensive partying, to see if we could get into the game. As we approached Gill I noticed a stream of coaches and personnel entering one of the lower doors so we tried to see if we could sneak in. We managed to get inside unnoticed and hid out in a bathroom until we heard the doors open and the crowd start to stream in.
We got seats right above the railing at mid court and I believe we had some "travelers" with us so the liquidation process continued. GREAT game that went back and forth but the refs were horrible. There was an absolutely horses%#t call in the closing minutes that kind of screwed our chance to win the game. At that point I was drunk enough and pissed enough that I decided I was going to go down to the end of the court and cold cock the ref as he came off the floor.
So I manage to position myself perfectly and as the horn sounds the refs head out the tunnel at the opposite end of the court. Probably saved me from jail time and a life of shame and poverty.
I'm sure my details above are sketchy but it was a sketchy episode fueled by alcohol.....
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Post by bill82 on Jan 19, 2018 10:36:44 GMT -8
Somewhere in the 79-81 time frame. Student section is packed. It was half of the coliseum back then. Must have been an our or so before the game. The other half of the coliseum is empty. UCLA cheerleaders come on the floor and a thunderous cheer of F-U-C-L-A. Seemed having an empty side made it louder. They turned around.
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