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| University | University of Oregon |
| Conference | Pacific-10 Conference |
| Division | Division I |
| Athletic director | Mike Bellotti |
| Location | Eugene, Oregon |
| Varsity teams | 15 |
| Football stadium | Autzen Stadium |
| Arena | McArthur Court |
| Baseball stadium | PK Park |
| Mascot | The Oregon Duck |
| Nickname | Ducks |
| Fight song | "Mighty Oregon" |
| Colors | Green and Yellow |
| Website | www |
The Oregon Ducks refers to the sports teams of the University of Oregon, located in Eugene, Oregon. The Oregon Ducks are part of the Pacific-10 Conference in the Division 1-A of the NCAA. With fifteen varsity teams, the Oregon Ducks are best known for their football team and Track and Field program, which has helped to make Eugene be known as "Track Town, USA". Oregon's main rivalries are with the Oregon State Beavers (the Civil War) and the Washington Huskies.
Oregon Ducks suck!
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Venues
The Oregon Ducks football complex is located north of the main campus. The complex includes Autzen Stadium where the games are played, the Len Casanova Center where the locker rooms and training facilities are located, the indoor practice field called the Moshofsky Center, and the outdoor training field named Kilkenny Field. These facilities are said to be among the best in the nation, much of the price tag paid for by the prominent university boosters Phil Knight, Ed Moshofsky, and Patrick Kilkenny.
Also in the football complex is PK Park, the University of Oregon baseball stadium, completed in 2009 for the reemergence of the baseball program, located in the northeast corner of the parking lot.
The basketball teams along with other court-based sports play at McArthur Court, built in 1926. The construction of a new arena called Matt Court has begun on the northeast corner of campus to replace McArthur Court.
Hayward Field was originally constructed for the football team in 1919 and in 1921, a track was installed to accommodate the track team. Today, it is the home of the Oregon Ducks track and field team. This storied venue has been the host of the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships nine times and will host it again in 2010. The Olympic Trials have been hosted at this venue four times.
Rivalries
The Oregon Ducks have an in-state rivalry with the Oregon State Beavers in which they play for the Platypus Trophy. The rivalry has been dubbed the Civil War and for the past nine years has been scored across nine different sports that the two universities share (baseball will be added when Oregon begins play during the 2008-2009 academic year). The series is currently tied 4-4-1.
The Oregon Ducks and the Washington Huskies have enjoyed a border rivalry that some consider to be even more fierce than the respective teams’ in-state rivalries. The rivalry began to build steam in 1948, when the Ducks and the California Golden Bears tied for the conference win and the Huskies’ vote went to Cal which inked them in for a trip to the Rose Bowl. A few years later, there was a move to remove Oregon, Oregon State, and Washington State from the Pacific-10 Conference and the Huskies did not object.
Relationship with Nike
Nike co-founder Phil Knight ran in the University of Oregon Track & Field program under the other Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman. Knight graduated from the University of Oregon in 1959 with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and went on to earn an M.B.A. at Stanford University. Knight returned to Oregon and with Bowerman, also a University of Oregon alumnus, later founded Blue Ribbon Sports in 1964 which officially became Nike in 1978. In 1970, Bill Bowerman revolutionized the athletic shoe by pouring molten rubber into a waffle iron, creating a prototype rubber sole. University of Oregon distance runner Steve Prefontaine became the first major track athlete to wear Nike shoes and converted many of his peers to the Nike brand.
Nike has maintained a close relationship with UO ever since, manufacturing all university logo clothing and uniforms for the football team, including research prototypes for high-tech "smart clothes", such as jerseys with cooling systems. Numerous University of Oregon graduates have also gone on to become executives, designers, and business partners of Nike such as Tinker Hatfield and Dan Wieden.
Phil Knight has personally donated significant amounts to the University for both academic and athletic aspirations, including significant amounts toward the Knight Library, the Knight Law Center, numerous endowed chairs, support for the track & field program, the Autzen Stadium expansion, and a $100 million donation to create the Oregon Athletics Legacy Fund.
Controversy surrounding Nike's labor practices precipitated protests in 2000 led by a group of students calling themselves the Human Rights Alliance. Protests included a 10 day tent city occupation of the lawns in front of Johnson Hall, the main administration building, demanding the university join the Worker Rights Consortium.
University President Dave Frohnmayer signed a one year contract with the WRC, causing Phil Knight to withdraw a previous $30 million commitment toward the Autzen Stadium expansion project and no further donations toward the University. Nike, since 1998, had actively improved worker conditions abroad and strongly endorsed the Fair Labor Association, an association with similar aspirations of the WRC. In a public statement, Phil Knight criticized the WRC for having unrealistic provisions and called it misguided while praising the FLA for being balanced in its approach. The students disagreed, saying the FLA has conflicting interests, but President Dave Frohnmayer along with several others agreed with Knight in that the WRC provides unbalanced representation.
Citing a legal opinion from the University Counsel, President Frohnmayer in October 2000, released a statement saying that the University could not pay its membership dues for the WRC since the WRC was neither an incorporated entity nor had tax-exempt status and to do so was a violation of state law. The Oregon University System on February 16, 2001 enacted a mandate that all institutions within the OUS choose business partners from a politically neutral standpoint, barring all universities in Oregon from membership in the WRC and the FLA. Following the dissolved relationship between the university and the WRC, Phil Knight reinstated the donation and increased the amount to over $50 million dollars. Since then, activity on the subject died down and Frohnmayer believed that the leaders of the protest lost their foothold since they did not represent the majority of students on campus.
See also
References
- "Track Town, USA". GoDucks.com. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
- "ESPN College Football Nation". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2008-09-07. "Washington gets drubbed on the road by its arch-rival and then falls an extra point short against 15th-ranked BYU in front of frustrated Huskies fans."
- Oregon Gridiron
- ^ Fish, Mike (2006-01-13). "Just Do It!". ESPN. Retrieved March 19 2009.
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- "Northwest Dodge Dealers Civil War Series". Civil War Series. Retrieved 2008-07-13.
- Raley, Dan (2004-10-29). "Nothing neighborly about Huskies vs. Ducks". Seattle Post Intelligencer. Retrieved March 23 2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|dateformat=ignored (help) - Oregon Blue Book: Phil Knight
- ^ Nike Timeline
- Knight contributions fact sheet
- "Knight's $100 million gift to bankroll Oregon athletics fund". ESPN. 2007-08-21. Retrieved March 24 2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|dateformat=ignored (help) - Ripke, Simone (2000-04-05). "We're not going to leave". Oregon Daily Emerald. Retrieved March 24 2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|dateformat=ignored (help) - Lang, Jeremy (2001-04-04). "Old issues, new strategies". Oregon Daily Emerald. Retrieved March 24 2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|dateformat=ignored (help) - Romano, Ben (2000-04-24). "Knight pulls all money". Oregon Daily Emerald. Retrieved March 24 2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|dateformat=ignored (help) - Romano, Ben (2000-04-25). "Nike backs worker rights through FLA, but not WRC". Oregon Daily Emerald. Retrieved March 24 2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|dateformat=ignored (help) - "Statement from Nike founder and CEO Philip H. Knight regarding the University of Oregon". Oregon Daily Emerald. 2000-04-24. Retrieved March 24 2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|dateformat=ignored (help) - Romano, Ben (2000-09-25). "Great debate: WRC vs. FLA". Oregon Daily Emerald. Retrieved March 24 2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|dateformat=ignored (help) - Friedman, Thomas (2000-06-20). "Foreign Affairs; Knight Is Right". New York Times. Retrieved March 24 2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|dateformat=ignored (help) - Adams, Andrew (2001-03-05). "OUS policy won't stop labor debate". Oregon Daily Emerald. Retrieved March 24 2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|dateformat=ignored (help) - Peterson, Anne (2004-11-19). "Nike's Phil Knight resigns as CEO". The Seattle Times. Retrieved March 24 2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|dateformat=ignored (help) - Lang, Jeremy (2001-09-17). "WRC vanishes on campus, but still keeps growing". Oregon Daily Emerald. Retrieved March 24 2009.
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External links
- University of Oregon homepage
- Oregon Athletics
- Leadership and Legacy: Athletics and the University of Oregon
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