Stanford loses star defensive end Ben Gardner to season-ending injury

By Chris Dufresne

Oct. 29, 2013 12:37 PM PT

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Stanford doesn’t host No. 2 Oregon for more than a week but has already been thrown for a huge loss.

The school announced Tuesday that star defensive end Ben Gardner is out for the season with a left pectoral injury suffered in Saturday’s win over Oregon State.

Gardner, a fifth-year senior, had 4.5 sacks and 7.5 tackles for loss this season and is the heart of Stanford’s stalwart 3-4 defensive front line.

The line is already without defensive end Henry Anderson, who suffered a knee injury against Army on Sept. 14. Coach David Shaw said Tuesday it is not known if Anderson will be available against Oregon.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).