Oregon Unveils New Navy-Colored 'Webfoots’ Throwback Uniforms

When Oregon takes on Washington this weekend, they'll be rocking these new “Webfoots” uniforms, which honor the 1916 Oregon Webfoots football team, which won the 1917 Rose Bowl over Penn 14-0...

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The nickname, however, was not a synonym for a duck. It was rather a term that had originated in Massachusetts during the 1700s to describe locals who lived in wet conditions. The term was proliferated by miners coming northward from California as a pejorative descriptor of the locals of the waterlogged Willamette Valley and had grown in popular usage by the 1860s. By the time the University of Oregon began forming sports teams for intercollegiate play in the last decade of the 19th century, the term Webfoot had become synonymous with Oregonians.

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(CollegeSpun)