Hackett Is Talking, but Toledo Makes Statement

It is hard to understand that an innocuous remark made by Paul Hackett to motivate the team for its game with Oregon would create a furor among The Times’ sportswriters. What will happen when he really says something nasty about UCLA? The reaction will probably rock the Richter scale.

MORRIS ELKIND, La Crescenta

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If, when Bob Toledo became head football coach, someone would have predicted that 2 1/2 years later, a UCLA-Oregon game would attract 70,000-plus to the Rose Bowl, I would have said that was about as likely as Terry Donahue calling a pass play on first down.

WESLEY WELLMAN, Santa Monica