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Oregon State and the Dating Game

By Chris Dufresne
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Oregon State can clinch its first Rose Bowl berth since the 1964 season with a win today at Arizona and a victory at home next week against Oregon.

If you believe in karma, this could be the Beavers’ year.

Chris Foster’s excellent story on Saturday about Jack Yoshihara, a member of the 1941 Oregon State team who was not allowed to play in the Rose Bowl because of his Japanese-American heritage, mentions the Beavers clinched their bid that year with a Nov. 29 win against Oregon.

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What do you know? Oregon State and Oregon play next Saturday, Nov. 29.

There’s another quirky coincidence. The last time Oregon State played in the Rose Bowl, Jan. 1, 1965, the GOP nominee from Arizona, Barry Goldwater, had just failed in his run for president.

This year, the GOP nominee from Arizona, John McCain, lost in his bid for election. McCain lost to a guy named Barry ... Barack Obama.

-- Chris Dufresne

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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