"Rough Stuff"

University of Oregon, in Eugene, and Oregon State College (formerly Oregon State Agricultural College) in Corvallis, are one--but only legally. Their mutual antipathy has led to a bitter series of football games of which the Oregon State "farmers" have lost more than they have won. Early last week, wild with joy over their second football victory over Oregon in two years, Oregon Staters danced in Corvallis streets all Sunday night. After dawn, 1,500 of them cut classes in a body, piled onto the running boards, fenders, hoods and roofs of automobiles, set out for a crowing carnival in Eugene, 40 miles away. At that town's portals, State and city police halted the cavalcade and warned it against "rough stuff." Nevertheless, within 30 minutes as fine a roughhouse was in progress as had taken place on sobering U. S. campuses in a decade.

With three police cars as escort, the "farmers" rolled into Eugene. Up Skinner's Butte charged a squad with pails of paint, daubing the University of Oregon's yellow cement ''O'' on the hillside with Oregon State's vivid orange. The procession tooted on to University of Oregon's campus. With the exception of a stubborn professor who continued to lecture to his class on the French Revolution, most Oregonian faculty and students had rushed pell-mell from their classes to repulse the invaders. At the law school an Oregonian turned a fire hose on the Staters. In Eleventh Street, a State car stalled. One of its occupants began to throw ears of corn at the Oregonians. In a flash the Oregonians hauled him and his three companions out of the car and tossed them into the chilly millrace running by the campus. The Oregonians then started roaring through the town to do the same to the rest of the Staters.

The Oregonians soon cornered 50 Staters in a restaurant. When the management locked the doors, they picketed the establishment as ''unfair to Oregon." After an hour's siege proprietors and police prevailed upon the Staters to come out. Oregon huskies dumped them off a bridge into the icy brook to join some 150 of their fellows. But the insult to Oregon had not yet been washed off. Up Skinner's Butte the dripping invaders were driven to be set to painting the "O" yellow again. "Slide them down!" yelled an Oregon girl. Dipped in yellow paint, the Staters were sent scooting down the steep 50-ft. sides of the "O" to paint it with the seats of their pants. By nightfall the streets of Eugene were strewn with strips of clothing, eleven motorists had been arrested for driving "with obscured vision.'' bruised, bleeding and half-naked Staters were on the road to Corvallis. Crowed President C. Valentine Boyer of the University of Oregon: "Today's outcome is what our visitors could expect after coming over here to crow over us."

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