COLLEGE FOOTBALL REPORT / WEEKDAY UPDATE : UCLA : Bruins Will Try to Give Oregon the Slip

UCLA Coach Terry Donahue said his team will face several challenges when it plays Oregon Saturday at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Ore.

He cited the weather, the noisy partisan crowd, and the field along with Oregon’s football team.

“The turf is a factor,” Donahue said of the OmniTurf field. “If you watched Oregon’s game with BYU, the television commentators commented several times about BYU players slipping and falling. Because of the kind of turf they have it’s watered down before a game (unless it rains).”

Oregon Coach Rich Brooks said that complaints about the field are “much to do about nothing.”

“Nobody ever complained about (the field) when they beat us,” Brooks said. “We slip on it sometimes and we also slip on grass.”

UCLA quarterback Tommy Maddox’s 53-yard run against Oregon State last Saturday night at the Rose Bowl was the longest run by a Bruin quarterback since John Sciarra ran 71 yards against Tennessee in 1974.

Sciarra was an option quarterback. Maddox runs the option occasionally but doesn’t particularly care for it.