The O logo that represents Hayward field and Autzen Stadium was the brainchild of the creative tippity top of Nike. Getting to use Donald was a privilege afforded by a napkin contract from Walt Disney himself, seen here in a UO letterman jacket with Oregon’s athletic director. I’ll add that you have a point that paying fewer royalties to Disney was a factor. The extra meaning of the O is well explained by /u/dr_funk_13 in another reply. Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Oregon Duck.TLDR: The O was the very successful product of a lot of effort from the people who create cool. ↑ "'I Love My Ducks' going viral, but UO officials still don't like it.".↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Team mascot never ducked controversy, historical record shows".Other mascotsĪ Nike-designed futuristic Spandex-costume-wearing duck called Mandrake (and nicknamed "Duck Vader" and "RoboDuck" by the student body), began appearing at athletic events in 2002, but had disappeared by 2003. However, by that time, the video had " gone viral" and coach Chip Kelly requested the video be played at the Ducks' final game of that season, the Civil War. Due to the agreement with Disney in place at the time, the creators had to remove the video from YouTube. Late in the 2009 season, students of the university created a video, I Love My Ducks, in which The Duck made an appearance. The Duck was suspended for a game and the student inside the costume received an unspecified punishment. Footage of the attack became very popular on YouTube for several weeks. The Oregon Duck during a California–Oregon game on Novemat Autzen Stadium.ĭuring the 2007 season opener, The Duck got into a fistfight with Shasta, the mascot for the Houston Cougars, for seemingly mimicking the Duck's routine of doing push-ups after the mascot's team scores. The mascot in graphic art, which is more similar to Donald Duck than the rounder head and body of the costume, is still covered by the trademark agreement. In 2010, Disney and the university reached an agreement that removed the costumed Oregon Duck mascot from its association with the Donald trademark, and allowed The Duck to make more public appearances, such as at college mascot competitions. The agreement gave Disney control over where the mascot could perform and ensured that the performer inside the costume would "properly represent the Donald Duck character." Relying on the photo as evidence of Disney's wishes, in 1973, both parties signed a formal agreement granting the university the right to use Donald's likeness as a symbol for (and restricted to) Oregon sports. When Disney lawyers later questioned the agreement in the 1970s, the university produced a photo showing Harris and Disney wearing matching jackets with an Oregon Donald logo. Capitalizing on his friendship with Disney cartoonist Mike Royer, Oregon athletic director Leo Harris met Disney and reached an informal handshake agreement that granted the University of Oregon permission to use Donald as its sports mascot, naming him Donald Duck. Relationship with Disneyīeginning in 1940, cartoon drawings of Puddles in student publications began to resemble Donald Duck, and by 1947, Walt Disney was aware of the issue. In 1978, a student cartoonist came up with a new duck image called Mallard Drake, but students chose Donald as the official mascot by a 2–to–1 margin.
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Journalists, especially headline writers, also adopted the shorter Duck nickname. ĭucks, with their webbed feet, began to be associated with the team in the 1920s, and a live white duck named " Puddles" began to appear at sports events. 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. A naming contest in 1926 won by Oregonian sports editor L.
When their descendants settled in Oregon's Willamette Valley in the 19th century, the name stayed with them. The Webfoots name originally applied to a group of fishermen from the coast of Massachusetts who had been heroes during the American Revolutionary War. Oregon teams were originally known as Webfoots, possibly as early as the 1890s.
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