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Week No. 2 for Oregon State’s football team as it prepares for its opener at Colorado State August 26. The Beavers are back in Central Oregon at Bend this week for preparations at Summit High School. Oregon just started its Fall Camp Monday in Eugene. The Ducks open Sept. 2 at home to Southern Utah. Both teams are trying to work their practices around the heat wave that has swept into the state of Oregon this week.
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Due to the anticipated excessive heat this week, the Oregon State football scrimmage and Fan Fest scheduled for Friday afternoon at Summit High School in Bend has been adjusted to an evening event. The Fan Fest will begin at 6:30 p.m. with the scrimmage, originally scheduled for 4:30 p.m., moved to approximately 7:30 p.m. The Fan Fest autograph session will be held inside the Summit High School gymnasium. Admission is free to the Fan Fest and the scrimmage. The Oregon State football team will return to Corvallis over the weekend to continue preparations for the season opener Aug. 26 at Colorado State. The second scrimmage of fall camp is Saturday, August 12 at Reser Stadium, starting at Noon. Following the scrimmage at approximately 1:30 p.m. Family Fun Day will commence featuring autographs, inflatables and at 3 p.m., a movie on the videoboard at Reser Stadium, sponsored by Paventy and Brown Orthodontics. The entire event is free of charge. Season tickets and mini plans are available at BeaverTickets.com for the six-game home schedule that includes visits from Portland State, Minnesota, Washington, Colorado, Stanford, and Arizona State.
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The Ducks began their first preseason camp under Willie Taggart with a split-squad workout featuring freshmen to start with and then vets later in the morning. The first preseason camp for the Oregon football team under first-year head coach Willie Taggart began Monday, on a brilliant summer morning in Eugene. Taggart said Sunday that Monday would be like “Christmas in July,” and your reporter, for one, was guilty of waking up at 5 a.m. and being unable to get back to sleep. The opening workout was a nearly five-hour extravaganza for the coaches and staff, owing to a format Taggart prefers when opening camp. The newcomers and some veteran scout-teamers comprised the bulk of the team for the opening two hours, and the “varsity” followed during a window from about 10:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in which fans were invited to watch. Afterward, Taggart called the workout a “damn good day,” and challenged the Ducks to follow it up with another Tuesday: “Now let’s stack ’em.” The split-squad format allowed coaches to devote time to the incoming freshmen and other squad players, without having them overshadowed or intimidated by the presence of the vets.