FB: Northwest Conference

[D O.C.]

What? We'll use short passes instead of improving our running game? We'll have to run if we get to the playoffs so might as well do it last game and the next 3.

[DuffMan]

Did the Cats get any of those good personal fouls this weekend?

[D O.C.]

Coach's son came the closest.

[wildcat11]

Linfield highlights vs George Fox: https://youtu.be/wgRC9JgibnM

[desertcat1]

Another good job big boy, 

Go Cats
Go Big D

[George Thompson]

Andy, agreed.   Those will hurt us  in the playoffs.

George

Hats off to the Fox defense! Linfield started on Fox's side of the field many, many, many times and came away empty handed too many times to count.  We kept wanting to run the ball when it wasn't going anywhere and they were giving us short passes.... definitely not our game callers best game... take what the d is giving and quit trying to force the run...

Good to see us have to deal with adversity and take care of business in a hostile environment. 

I guess I am wrong, but the continued penalties for unsportsmanlike behavior is beyond old.   I'd like to see guys lose playing time when they get an unsportsmanlike penalty NO MATTER the provocation.  Make them sit for a quarter or half or in one guy's case, an entire game. 

We have two games where we are going to have to stay sharp as they can be look ahead games... I'm not worried about winning but rather not being mentally sharp as well as having needless injuries.  I want McNabb to be held out of practice for the next two weeks to try and get him healthy as he is banged up.  Morton's hamstring injury looked pretty serious.  We have great depth at RB which is going to be needed.

[catjumper]

If it's Linfield vs. Willamette week, it seems obligatory to deliver the annual rehash of the rivalry - along with a hearty Go Wildcats:

November 1, 1902: McMinnville College and Willamette University meet for the first time, 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. It's also 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.

1967: Willamette turns in Linfield for a financial aid discrepancy involving athlete healthcare, leading to the Northwest Conference sanctioning the Wildcats with a ban on team and individual conference championships for a year. Linfield had won four of the last six NWC football titles, four of the last seven men's basketball titles and eight of the last nine baseball titles.

November 8, 1968: Willamette beats Linfield 6-0 in Salem, earning a spot in the NAIA national playoffs and knocking Linfield out of the postseason.

1969 – 1982: Linfield runs off a winning 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.

[desertcat1]

Nice job jumper ,

What about the famous " fire drills".  Coco , ghc and the crew. ?

Go cats
Go Big D

[wildcat11]

Coach Smith interview: https://youtu.be/LBTipeEKe4k

[gren]

Job well done RC. GO CATS!!

[bluenote]

Looks like if we get a home playoff game (HaHa) we'll be playing someone other than Redlands for change.... Good!

[MonroviaCat]

Looks like if we get a home playoff game (HaHa) we'll be playing someone other than Redlands for change.... Good!

Seeing Redlands in the play-offs twice in the last 20-years was too much for you, eh Blue?   

[bluenote]

Seeing Redlands in the play-offs twice in the last 20-years was too much for you, eh Blue?   

WE've played them like 5-6 times in the last several years (regular season and playoffs).... almost as many times as we've played NWC opponents. 

Ya.... I'd say I'm ready for some new meat. 

[MonroviaCat]

Seeing Redlands in the play-offs twice in the last 20-years was too much for you, eh Blue?   

WE've played them like 5-6 times in the last several years (regular season and playoffs).... almost as many times as we've played NWC opponents. 

Ya.... I'd say I'm ready for some new meat. 

Yes--5 times starting in 2018 including one play-off rematch (last year).  I'm all for a new SCIAC champ I just thought your original post implied that we've been playing Redlands in the playoffs every year or something (like we seem to have done for most years against MHB!).

[D O.C.]

Don't you miss Occidental, Bluenote?