Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/Sports

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Welcome to the Sports Page.

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[edit] Purpose

Expand the coverage of sports, players, coaches, and the venues in the state of Oregon.

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See Category:Sports venues in Oregon and Category:Sports in Oregon for what exists.

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  • Notable golf items:
    • Fred Meyer Challenge - former Peter Jacobsen event, lots of links to it.
    • Columbia Edgewater Country Club - Course that hosts the LPGA Safeway Classic
    • The Club At Pronghorn - Bend, (2004) #2 on Golf Digest's top new private courses list and top 10 of Travel & Leisure Golf new private.
    • Portland Golf Club
    • Eastmoreland Golf Course
    • Langdon Farms Golf Club [1], [2]
  • Kamikaze Kids - nickname for notable mid-1970s Oregon Ducks basketball teams, coached by Dick Harter and including Ron Lee, Stu Jackson, Greg Ballard and Ernie Kent
  • Tall Firs (sports) - nickname for the 1939 national champion Oregon Ducks team -- see 1939 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
  • Portland Eagles - another minor league hockey team from the PCHL. Also called the Portland Penguins for a year.
  • Portland Power (Australian rules football) - current team in the United States Australian Football League
  • Portland Power (roller hockey) - a roller hockey team c. 2001, originally the Washington DC Power ??
  • 1969 Contractor's, Inc. American Legion Baseball National Champions--Oregon team in the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame
  • Erv Lind -- in Oregon Sports Hall of Fame, coach of several softball championship teams from Portland
  • Nike Tennis Championships of Oregon, formerly the Oregon State Tennis Championships. Now played at Tualatin Hills. Played since 1899 at various venues. Lots of famous Oregon players especially in the 1920s and 30s Good info and links
  • Golden Rose Ski Classic, the oldest ski race in the United States, held at Timberline Lodge ski area, mentioned on that page, but could be expanded into its own article
  • National Academy of Artistic Gymnastics, in Eugene, run by Olympian Linda Metheny-Mulvihill and noted coach Dick Mulvihill, trained Olympians including Julianne McNamara and Tracee Talavera (who lived and went to high school in Eugene at the time, so might be counted as notable residents)

[edit] Football Hall of Famers

The following football players are members of the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame but do not yet have Wikipedia articles. Some of them are even quite nationally notable. I have divided them up into UO/OSU/other for those of you who like to honor their alumni heroes and provided some notes and links.

Name Years Position Notes Links
Oregon
Del Bjork 1934-1936 T Pro: Bears databaseFootball
Jake Leicht 1945-47 DB UOHoF, databaseFootball
Mike Mikulak 1931-1933 RB Pro: Cardinals UOHoF, databaseFootball
Bill Morgan (football) 1929-32 T Pro: NYG databaseFootball
Jim Shanley 1955-1957 HB Pro: Packers UOHoF, databaseFootball
Bill Steers 1917-1920 QB, G, K UOHoF
Oregon State
James V. Dixon (Jim Dixon) 1924-26 T Dixon Athletic Center named for him OSUHoF
Pete Pifer 1964-66 RB OSUHoF
Gap Powell 1918-1921 OSUHoF
John Witte 1954-57 OSUHoF
Other
Reuben Sanders 1900 Capital Amateur Athletic Club, Chemawa: American Indian player Marion County Historical Society, American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame, Oregon Sports HOF bio

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  • Bev Smith, Women's basketball Ducks player and coach, Olympian for Canada, in the Basketball Hall of Fame, etc., etc...
  • Rose City Rollers, recently created article on roller derby team
  • Cross Crusade, Portland cyclo-cross event
  • Portland Mavericks, colorful 1970s minor league baseball team

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