University of Oregon

Athletics

The mascot of the University of Oregon is the duck. UO is a member of the Pacific Ten Conference conference and Division I-A for athletics. Home football games are played in Autzen Stadium. The university intends to build a larger arena to replace McArthur Court, where basketball games are played.

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Duck - Pacific Ten Conference - Division I-A - Autzen Stadium - McArthur Court

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The University of Oregon has produced many world-class track and field and cross country athletes, including Steve Prefontaine. The Ducks have won five men's NCAA outdoor track and field championships, four men's cross country championships, and one women's outdoor track and field championship and two women's cross country championships. The university also maintains a relationship with shoe manufacturer Nike, who also provides uniforms and logo merchandise for the Ducks.

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Track and field - Cross country - Steve Prefontaine - NCAA - Nike

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The football team has enjoyed strong success over the past twenty years though the major turning point of the football program was a game in 1994 at Autzen Stadium against the perennial football power and border rival, the University of Washington Huskies. In that game, Oregon held on to a slim lead but the favored Huskies looked to score late in the game resulting in yet another disappointing loss (Oregon had lost 17 of 20 and five straight to the Huskies prior to this game). Miraculously, freshman defensive back Kenny Wheaton, intercepted the football and ran the ball back 97 yards for a touchdown to secure the upset victory. This play became affectionately known as "the Pick" among Duck fans. With this momentum, the team proceeded to win the rest of their conference games, won the Pac-10 title and played in the Rose Bowl. In 1995, Mike Bellotti became the head football coach and took the football program to the next level. In 2001, under the leadership of Joey Harrington at Quarterback, the team finished 12-1 including a dominant 38-16 win over the University of Colorado in the Fiesta Bowl. The team finished #2 in the college rankings that year after the University of Miami.

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Football - 1994 - University of Washington - Huskies - Freshman - Defensive back - Pac-10 - Rose Bowl - 1995 - Mike Bellotti - Coach - 2001 - Joey Harrington - Quarterback - University of Colorado - Fiesta Bowl - University of Miami

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With the support of its boosters (most notably, Phil Knight), the Oregon football program has among the best facilities in the United States including a newly remodeled Autzen Stadium and a state of the art locker room replete with luxuries such as plasma displays and video game consoles in individual lockers. The team has also benefited from the creative work of the University of Oregon's sports marketing department and Nike, with billboards promoting individual athletes, personalized comic books for prospective recruits, and high tech uniforms, logos and mascot.

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Phil Knight - United States - State of the art - Locker room - Plasma display - Video game - Nike - Billboards - High tech

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