The Oregon Duck is the mascot of the University of Oregon Ducks athletic program, based on Disney’s Donald Duck character through a special license agreement. The mascot wears a green and yellow costume and a green and yellow beanie cap with the word “Oregon” written on it. The University of Oregon made a short-lived attempt to replace the cartoon mascot with Mandrake at the Homecoming game in 2002, but by the following season, the “RoboDuck” was adopted.
The Oregon Duck has a rich history, with its origins dating back to the early 1920s when Puddles was the original Ducks mascot. In 2014, the University of Oregon released a poster announcing that “The Duck” was the correct name for the mascot. The Ducks compete at the National Collegiate Athletic.
The Humane Society eventually put the kibosh on using live animals as a mascot, and the Duck was embroiled in a humorous yet memorable altercation with the Houston Cougars’ mascot, Shasta, following a routine of push-ups. The University of Oregon used to use a live duck named “Puddles” as its mascot until the Humane Society complained in the early 1940s.
The Oregon Duck is officially known as “Puddles”, but the university has used Mickey’s spittle-spewing BFF for years after a dispute with the Houston Cougars’ mascot, Shasta. The Duck has been used as a standard symbol across the campus, including homecoming floats and football games.
The University of Oregon is organized into nine colleges and schools and offers 420 undergraduate and graduate programs. Before Donald Duck came to Eugene, no duck seemed destined to represent the school as its mascot. The Duck had a feathered friend in the student section of Autzen Stadium for Oregon’s game against Colorado last month.
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I was the Food & Beverage Manager of the Eugene Hotel when Animal House was filmed. During the filming many members of the cast & crew came to the hotel for “Blue Monday.” We would have northwest blues bands play. Curtis Salgado, who was the front man for The Robert Cray Band taught John Belushi to play the harmonica. Belushi came up with the idea for The Blues Brothers from perusal Curtis h the rest of the band. Fun times & lots of drugs too!
It’s been an assumption around Eugene that the old house used as the “Delta House” was ruined by the production of the movie. I just want to state that assumption is not true. That house was in pretty sad shape when the production started and wouldn’t have been habitable in a few years from the time of the movie, and the property owners were going to remove it anyway. There was a thought that it could have been moved to another location, however, it was originally so poorly built it wouldn’t have survived even being lifted off the foundation. It was sad to see the old house get torn down, but it was inevitable anyway.
I grew up in Eugene and was driving down E. 18th and saw them filming the ROTC scene by Hayward Field where Niedermeyer yells his infamous, “drop and give me 20!” line. Also, my high school marching band was the band in the parade at the end of the movie that gets led down a dead-end alley. I missed being in that marching band by one year. And the Dexter Lake Club was definitely not a “soul” bar.
Our DKE house at Miami University in 1965-67 was just like Delta house. Anyone could pledge. We had guys drive their motorcycles into our house. We were almost the anti-fraternity. Our antics in Southwest Ohio were legendary. Sadly two brothers died while serving in the military during the Vietnam war.
A lot of people don’t know but one night after filming in Eugene John Belushi was out walking around and walked in to a blue bar where he met the blues singer Curtis Salgado and they sat down and talk music and movies and after a few drinks they came up with an idea about a movie about the blues and they called it The Blues Brothers.
Right up there with Airplane, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles and Monty Python and the Holy Grail on the list of funniest movies ever made. For a while, in the early 80’s, when the Pittsburgh Pirates played at Three Rivers Stadium and were losing going to the bottom of the 9th inning, they would play Belushi’s “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor” on the scoreboard. It always went over well.
Here’s my Animal House bucket list road trip: The Delta House plaque in Eugene, Oregon The Kent “Flounder” Dorfman statue in Harrisburg, PA The Fawn Liebowitz Memorial in Fort Wayne, Indiana Fawn Liebowitz 1944 – 1963 “She was going to make a pot for me” Unfortunately, the Senator Blutarsky bust in the Capital was destroyed on Jan. 6
I was there as a student at the time. They were always looking for extras with the requirement that you have short hair and no beards. I refused to apply because I wasn’t about to to cut my hair! 🙂 BTW, this is where the Blues Brothers was formed…at the Eugene Hotel. Belushi would perform just for fun, and one of his bits was as a ‘Blues Brother’. If anyone has an original LP of the Blues Bros first album, on the back the cover it says, “Special thanks to the Eugene Hotel.”
Dan Aykroyd was offered the part of the handlebar mustache guy on the motorcycle, but he stayed with SNL full-time out of loyalty, while Belushi split time between SNL and the movie. The initial cast was also to feature Chevy Chase as Otter, Bill Murray as Boon and Brian Doyle-Murray as Hoover, but they didn’t do it for various reasons.
It is my understanding that Faber College, and thereby, the town of Faber, were located in Pennsylvania – and for the Delta House expulsion trial, the producer needed a Pennsylvania state flag – because having the Oregon state flag in this scene would have been a dead giveaway, as the Oregon flag has the state name on it. When a Pennsylvania state flag couldn’t be found, the producers decided to obtain, and the crew followed the order to obtain, the “most generic looking” state flag they could find. As fate would have it, the “most generic looking” state flag found – and used – was the Tennessee state flag. The rest, as they say, is history.
I always thought one line in the movie should have been different. In the scene where “Otter” (Tim Matheson) is making out in the back seat of the car with the girl from Dickinson College, he says, “I used to touch Fawn (Liebowitz) this way” and the girl says “I know, she told me”. I think a better response would have been “I know, so did I”.
Faber College is supposed to be in Pennsylvania. Faber is a brand of pencil, ergo, Faber, Pennsylvania. The most famous Faber pencil is a yellow painted pencil called the Mongol. The football team of Faber is called the Mongols. Although Faber is supposed to be in Pennsylvania, the flag seen in the trial is the Tennessee state flag. For some reason, that was the only one they could get.
The two colleges where I was a student did not have fraternities at that time in the early to mid-70s. Too small, Catholic. However, one of them had a rugby team, three sides, and we were fairly rowdy. My freshman year we had an end of season banquet at a restaurant about a mile south of campus. It was a King’s Table, which had a buffet. They gave us a private dining room off the street. Things got ugly when the food started to be used as ammo between tables. Ditto a year later, but on campus at one of the faculty dining rooms.