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Cal QB's pitching a fit return with style.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 29-SEP-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Cal QB's pitching a fit return with style.(Sports)(Nate Longshore, twice the Pac-10 offensive player of the week, takes on OSU)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Bob Rodman The Register-Guard

First, he had to overcome California football coach Jeff Tedford's highly involved playbook.

Then it was overcoming phenom junior college transfer Joe Ayoob for the starting quarterback job.

But less than 30 minutes into Cal's 41-3 win over Sacramento State to start his redshirt freshman season in 2005, Nate Longshore broke his leg and tore an ankle ligament.

The season was gone and there were two more hurdles for him to overcome.

"It was tough," understated Longshore, who leads the 20th-ranked Bears (3-1) into Saturday's 1 p.m. Pac-10 Conference game against Oregon State (2-1) at Reser Stadium.

It wasn't exactly back to square one for Longshore, a 6-foot-5, 233-pound sophomore with a powerful arm and an ever-increasing flair for running the Cal offense. But...

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