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Oregon Ducks : ウィキペディア英語版 | Oregon Ducks
The Oregon Ducks refers to the sports teams of the University of Oregon, located in Eugene, Oregon, United States. The Oregon Ducks are part of the Pacific-12 Conference in the Division 1 of the NCAA. With eighteen 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ESPN College Football Nation ) "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."〕 ==Nicknames and mascot history== Oregon teams were originally known as Webfoots, possibly as early as the 1890s. The Webfoots name originally applied to a group of fishermen from the coast of Massachusetts who had been heroes during the American Revolutionary War; their descendants had settled in Oregon's Willamette Valley in the 19th century and the name stayed with them.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 The Ducks )〕 A naming contest in 1926 won by ''Oregonian'' sports editor L. H. Gregory made the Webfoots name official, and a subsequent student vote in 1932 affirmed the nickname, chosen over other suggested nicknames such as Pioneers, Trappers, Lumberjacks, Wolves, and Yellow Jackets.〔 Ducks, with their webbed feet, began to be associated with the team in the 1920s, and live duck mascots were adopted to represent the team.〔 Journalists, especially headline writers, also adopted the shorter Duck nickname,〔 but it wasn't until the 1940s that the image of Donald Duck, permitted via a handshake deal between Walt Disney and Oregon athletic director Leo Harris, cemented the image of the Duck as the school's mascot.〔〔〔 Both nicknames were still in use well into the 1970s.〔〔〔〔 In 1978, a student cartoonist came up with a new duck image, but students rejected the alternative by a 2-to-1 margin. Although Donald wasn't on that ballot, the University Archivist declared that the election made Ducks the school's official mascot, replacing Webfoots.〔〔〔
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