FB: Northwest Conference

[wildcat11]

I don't believe we will have any trouble w/ Willamette, esp at home. I we do, I will hit the ultra panic button.

100% agree with this, Foss.

[MonroviaCat]

After the first three games I'm a little sensitive about Bluenote's "barn burner" quote. It reminds me of a Frosty Westering quote back when Don Rutschman was our QB and we played a see-saw scoring game against PLU in Tacoma. Trailing late in the game, a winning drive on the arm of Donnie Rutschman brought us a last-second victory, Frosty had this memorable after-game quote. "

"These close games with Linfield are always barnburners. Unfortunately, today it was our barn that got burned."

I don't want to be on the dark-side of a barn-burner this weekend.

Not sure Old Cat Prof.... but I'm pretty sure it was Donnie Rutchman that was catching the passes down the sideline.... there was another guy that was qb.... not sure of his name? Maybe someone can help me out?

Rod Thompson or Marco Lind?  I'm basing this on the years Don Rutchman was at Linfield and which QBs show up in the record book those years....

Bluenote and MonroviaCat could be correct. The old memory bank does let me down from time to time. The second possibility that "MC" mentions for our QB that year was named Marco Min (probably still is  ).

Yes--"Min"  somehow my iphone autocorrected it to "Lind".   

[MonroviaCat]

I don't believe we will have any trouble w/ Willamette, esp at home. I we do, I will hit the ultra panic button.

100% agree with this, Foss.

Do we even have an unltra panic button?

[CalCat]

I don't believe we will have any trouble w/ Willamette, esp at home. I we do, I will hit the ultra panic button.

100% agree with this, Foss.

Do we even have an unltra panic button?

I think we do for basketball....maybe we could borrow if need be.

[MUC57]

Linfield fans

Wish you a good luck tomorrow against Williamette. Want to see you get back on the winning track. Some of us in the East and the Midwest are well aware of teams west of Texas, especially Linfield. So, from an old Purple Raider - Go 'Cats! ☠🏈

[D O.C.]

MCat... Maybe you should switch to the new Unltra phone.

[MonroviaCat]

MCat... Maybe you should switch to the new Unltra phone.

I'm such a looser 

[catjumper]

With the wind largely taken out of the Wildcats' sails so far this fall, gearing up for Homecoming and rekindling a lot of old Linfield memories means breaking out the annual review of what gets my gumption up for any game against Willamette - some tidbits from the rivalry:

November 1, 1902: McMinnville College and Willamette University meet for the first time in football, a 6-6 tie in McMinnville.

October 17, 1903: Willamette wins 27-0 in the first game of the series played in Salem.

November 24, 1922: Willamette wins 36-0 in McMinnville in Linfield’s first season of football since 1905; the Board of Trustees had banned football from 1906-1921. It’s also the first football game since the school’s name was changed and the Wildcats’ first-ever Homecoming game.

November 7, 1925: Linfield gets its first win in the series, a 3-0 victory in Salem.

1928-1932: Linfield scores just six points in five games against Willamette; among scores of the losses were 36-0, 47-0 and 48-0.

October 20, 1934: Willamette again spoils Linfield’s Homecoming with a 32-7 win. In the aftermath of the game, a Willamette student or students paint “WU” on the doors of Melrose Hall and saw off the goalposts at Maxwell Field.

Linfield President Elam Anderson suspends participation in all athletics with Willamette until the culprit or culprits of the vandalism confess. It takes over a year of negotiation before the Wildcats and Bearcats compete again.

1935: Without Willamette on the schedule, Linfield wins a share of its first Northwest Conference football championship.

November 5, 1949: Linfield beats Willamette 20-0 in McMinnville, ending a 17-game losing streak against the Bearcats dating back to 1927. Earlier in the fall, Linfield President Harry Dillin – responding to claims by his football team that it would beat WU that year – said if the Wildcats ever beat the Bearcats in football while he was still around the College, he’d stand on his head on the 50-yard line. After the game, Dillin keeps his promise.

1969 – 1982: Linfield runs off a streak of its own in the series, beating Willamette 14 straight times, including five shutouts.

November 5, 1983: Linfield, having already won at Pacific Lutheran and seemingly headed to the NAIA Division II playoffs to defend its national title, is upset 26-21 in Salem by a Willamette team that had lost 15 straight games.

November 10, 1984: In the regular season finale in McMinnville, Linfield beats Willamette 55-0; late in the first half, the Wildcats call a timeout to be sure they can punch in one more touchdown to make it 49-0 at the break.

The day before, Linfield’s student newspaper, The Linews, had published a prank version of the Willamette Collegian - dubbed The Cullegian - and distributed it on the WU campus.

October 12, 1985: Trailing 33-7 late in the third quarter, Linfield rallies for a 36-33 Homecoming win over Willamette.

October 18, 1997: Willamette’s Liz Heaton kicks a pair of extra points, becoming the first woman to play and score in a college football game as the Bearcats beat Linfield 27-0 in Salem.

October 17, 1998: Linfield scores in the final minute to beat Willamette 20-19 in McMinnville, clinching the Wildcats’ 43rd consecutive winning season. That gives Linfield the record for most consecutive winning seasons in college football at any level, surpassing the 42 of Harvard and Notre Dame in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

November 1, 2014: Willamette knocks off highly favored Linfield 31-28 in McMinnville, ending the Wildcats' 36-game Northwest Conference win streak.

October 17, 2015: Linfield beats Willamette 49-7 in Salem, assuring that the Wildcats will have a winning season for the 60th straight autumn.

Okay, some good memories and some really bad memories. Ready now. C'mon, real 'Cats.

[CamCat]

Catjumper,

Thanks for your great effort and +k for you.

[catjumper]

CamCat -

My pleasure, and thank you.

[CamCat]

What a wonderful Homecoming victory for the Cats today.  It's nice to see the Offense tear off the lid and My goodness what more can you say for our awesome Defense?.  Go Wildcats.  The roar of the sleeping Wildcat was music to my ears. 

[MonroviaCat]

What a wonderful Homecoming victory for the Cats today.  It's nice to see the Offense tear off the lid and My goodness what more can you say for our awesome Defense?.  Go Wildcats.  I think the Streak may be extended for yet another year.

It was only Willamette--one game at a time....

[(509)Rat]

Yeah this is a Willamette team that lost to Lewis and Clark by 18...

You might not look as good offensively in the coming weeks. But I'm not sure anyone else in the league will score more than 7-10 points against the Linfield defense.

[wildcat11]

Yeah this is a Willamette team that lost to Lewis and Clark by 18...

You might not look as good offensively in the coming weeks. But I'm not sure anyone else in the league will score more than 7-10 points against the Linfield defense.

Agreed that it was just Willamette and they're terrible.  However, I really like Linfield's young offensive linemen and the more they play the more effective the offense will become. 

Congrats to Whitworth once again.  The Rats are in the driver's seat, with windows down, listening to their favorite radio station on full blast at this point.

[George Thompson]

WC11, most of the starters are seniors and started last year.    Whitworth just manhandled our line last week.

What am I missing?


GT