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First season | 1894 | ||
Athletic director | Rob Mullens | ||
Head coach |
Willie Taggart 1st year, 0–0 (–) |
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Stadium | Autzen Stadium | ||
Year built | 1967 | ||
Seating capacity | 54,000 | ||
Field surface | FieldTurf | ||
Location | Eugene, Oregon | ||
NCAA division | Division I FBS | ||
Conference | Pac-12 (1964–Present) | ||
Division | North (2011–Present) | ||
Past conferences | Independent (1894–1915) PCC (1916–1958) Independent (1959–1963) AAWU (1964–1967) Pacific-8 (1968–1977) Pacific-10 (1978–2010) |
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All-time record | 641–486–46 (.566) | ||
Bowl record | 13–17 (.433) | ||
Playoff appearances | 1 (2014) | ||
Playoff record | 1–1 (.500) | ||
National finalist | 2 (2010, 2014) | ||
Conference titles | 12 (1916, 1919, 1933, 1948, 1957, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014) | ||
Division titles | 4 (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) | ||
Heisman winners | 1 Marcus Mariota | ||
Consensus All-Americans | 8 | ||
Colors | Green and Gold |
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Fight song | Mighty Oregon | ||
Mascot | The Duck | ||
Marching band | Oregon Marching Band | ||
Outfitter | Nike | ||
Rivals |
Oregon State Beavers Washington Huskies |
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Website | GoDucks.com |
The Oregon Ducks football program is a college football team for the University of Oregon, located in the U.S. state of Oregon. The team competes at the NCAA Division I level in the FBS and is a member of the Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12). Known as the Ducks, the team was commonly called the Webfoots until the mid-1960s. The first football team was fielded in 1894. Oregon plays its home games at the 54,000 seat Autzen Stadium in Eugene; its main rivals are the Oregon State Beavers and the Washington Huskies. The Ducks and Beavers historically end each regular season with the Civil War rivalry game in late November.
The football program began in 1894 and played its first game on March 24, 1894, defeating Albany College 44–3 under head coach Cal Young. Cal Young left after that first game and J.A. Church took over the coaching position in the fall for the rest of the season. Oregon finished the season with two additional losses and a tie, but went undefeated the following season, winning all four of its games under head coach Percy Benson. In 1899, the football team left the state for the first time, playing the California Golden Bears in Berkeley, California. Oregon's largest margin of victory came in 1910 when they defeated the University of Puget Sound 115–0.
Oregon changed coaches frequently during this era, going through sixteen different head coaches in nineteen seasons, until Hugo Bezdek, who had coached the Webfoots to a 5–0–1 record in 1906, returned to Oregon from the University of Arkansas in 1913. Bezdek, Oregon's first truly professional coach, led the team from 1913 through 1917. A versatile motivator of athletes, during his tenure Bezdek was also the West Coast scout for the Pittsburgh Pirates.