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The Record - 50 Years Later

It was the afternoon of September 28, 1968 and Oregon State's Steve Preece was in the wrong stadium.

The Beaver quarterback had been injured the week before and thus wasn't in Salt Lake City where his teammates were taking on Utah. Rather, he was in Eugene with several fraternity brothers, watching Oregon lose to Stanford from good seats on a sunny afternoon.

The group had the OSU game on the radio, and they kept hearing broadcaster Bob Blackburn call the name "Enyart."

"The entire game they were talking about it," Preece recalled. "I remember when he got to like 100 (yards) in the first quarter – Geez Louise.