The 1968 All-Pacific-8 Conference football team consists of

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players chosen by the

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(AP), the

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(UPI), and the

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(Pac-8) coaches (Coaches) as the best

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players by position in the Pac-8 during the

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. The

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won the Pac-8 championship, were ranked No. 2 in the final Coaches Poll, and placed eight players on the first team: quarterback Steve Sogge (AP-1, UPI-1, Coaches-1); running back

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(AP-1, UPI-1, Coaches-1); end

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(AP-1, UPI-1, Coaches-1); offensive tackle Sid Smith (AP-1, Coaches-1); offensive guards Fred Khasigian (AP-1, Coaches-1) and Steve Lehmer (UPI-1); defensive end

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(AP-1, UPI-1, Coaches-1); and defensive back

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(UPI-1).

Offensive selections

Quarterbacks

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(AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) * Jim Plunkett, Stanford (UPI-2)

Running backs

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, Oregon State (AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) *

, USC (AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) * Gene Washington,

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(AP-1; UPI-1) * Billy Main, Oregon State (UPI-2) * Greg Jones, UCLA (UPI-2) * Carl Wojciechowski, Washington (UPI-2)

Ends

, USC (AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) * Wayne Stewart,

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(AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) * Ron Souza, Washington State (AP-2; UPI-2) * Roger Cantlon, Oregon State (AP-2) * Ron Copeland, UCLA (UPI-2)

Tackles

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, Stanford (AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) * Sid Smith, USC (AP-1; Coaches-1) * Roger Stalick, Oregon State (AP-2; UPI-1) * Dave Golinsky, Washington State (AP-2) * Jack O'Malley, USC (UPI-2) *

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, Stanford (UPI-2)

Guards

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, USC (AP-1; UPI-2; Coaches-1) * Clyde Smith, Oregon State (AP-2; Coaches-1) * Steve Lehmer, USC (AP-2; UPI-1) * Nick Shur, Oregon (AP-1) * Rocky Rasley, Oregon State (UPI-1) * Jim Harris, Washington (UPI-2)

Centers

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, Oregon State (AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) * Dick Allmon, USC (AP-2; UPI-2)

Defensive selections

Defensive ends

, USC (AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) *

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, California (AP-1; UPI-2; Coaches-1) * Irby Augustine, California (AP-2; UPI-1) * Otis Washington, Washington (AP-2; UPI-2)

Defensive tackles

* Larry Agajanian,

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(AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) * Jon Sandstrom, Oregon State (AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) * Ron Boley, Oregon State (AP-2; UPI-2) * Tony Terry, USC (AP-2) * Al Cowlings, USC (UPI-2)

Middle guard

* Ed White, California (AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) * George Dames, Oregon (AP-1; Coaches-1; UPI-2) * George Buehler, Stanford (AP-2) * Steve Bartelie, Washington State (AP-2)

Linebackers

* George Jugum, Washington (AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) * Don Parish, Stanford (AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) *

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, UCLA (AP-2; UPI-2) * Dennis Pitta, California (AP-2)

Defensive backs

* Ken Wiedemann, California (AP-1; UPI-1 Coaches-1) *

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(AP-1; UPI-1; Coaches-1) * Omri Hildreth, Oregon (AP-2 efensive back Coaches-1 efensive back UPI-2 inebacker * Mark Gustafson, UCLA (AP-2; UPI-1) *

, USC (UPI-1) * Mike Williams, Washington State (AP-1) * Charlie Olds, Oregon State (AP-2) *

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, Pacific (UPI-2) * Rick Reed, Washington State (UPI-2) * Steve Hilbert, Oregon (UPI-2)

Key

AP =

UPI =

Coaches = selected by the eight head coaches of the Pacific-8 Conference

References

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