How does ‘The Jackhammer’ do it? ‘I have no idea’ says the Beavers’ Colletto
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How does ‘The Jackhammer’ do it? ‘I have no idea’ says the Beavers’ Colletto

There is no spot for Jack Colletto on Oregon State’s football Mount Rushmore. They likely won’t put his likeness in bronze on campus. He won’t make any All-America teams or cause NFL scouts to swoon.

But it’s safe to say that in 125 years of football in Corvallis — from the Farmers to the Hayseeds to the Aggies to the Orangemen to the Beavers — there has never been a player quite like “The Jackhammer.”

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On Beaver and Duck football, reffing in the NBA this season, Keanon Lowe’s movie, Terry Baker and the Heisman and death of a champion …
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On Beaver and Duck football, reffing in the NBA this season, Keanon Lowe’s movie, Terry Baker and the Heisman and death of a champion …

Knocking it around on a variety of subjects on a drizzly Sunday in the Willamette Valley …

• I can’t imagine Jonathan Smith got much sleep Saturday night.

Oregon State’s 27-24 loss to Stanford couldn’t have been much more painful for the third-year Beaver coach.

Losses like that are daggers to the heart a coach trying to build a program.

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