Beaver sports a way of life for auction winner Al Nyman

Al Nyman and Oregon State athletics go way back.

“My dad (Karl) was a coach who got a masters degree from Oregon State,” says Nyman, whose $250 bid earned him a copy of “Civil War Rivalry: Oregon vs. Oregon State” autographed by 20 former Beaver and Duck football greats. (One hundred percent of proceeds go to the Willamette Humane Society of Salem.) “My mom got her masters degree there, too. A lot of my family went to OSU.”

Al Nyman, 80, graduated from OSU in 1964.