Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/Sports
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Purpose
Expand the coverage of sports, players, coaches, and the venues in the state of Oregon.
Members
- Aboutmovies 01:30, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
- Esprqii 17:09, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
- Bryan the Magnificent 18:59, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
- Aplaceicallhome 21:35, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
- Athies22 (talk) 22:54, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
Priorities
See Category:Sports venues in Oregon and Category:Sports in Oregon for what exists.
Create
- Notable golf items:
- 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.
- Eastmoreland Golf Course
- Langdon Farms Golf Club ,
- 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)
- Far West Classic - should be plenty of existing mentions in current articles for a bevy of incoming links
- Les Schwab Bowl - formerly the Shrine Game.
- Oregon Pit Crew - UO Student Section
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 | ||||
| Bill Steers | 1917-1920 | QB, G, K | Later coached football and basketball at California University of Pennsylvania | UOHoF |
| Oregon State | ||||
| James V. Dixon (Jim Dixon) | 1924-26 | T | Dixon Athletic Center named for him | OSUHoF |
| Pete Pifer | 1964-66 | RB | 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
- Portland Golf Club
- Fred Meyer Challenge
Other WikiProject tags
- For people just add the WP:WPBIO template with yes next to |sports-work-group = then maybe one for their sport.
- {{Wikiproject Golf}} - for golf articles
- {{WikiProject Baseball}} - for baseball items
- {{Football}} - for soccer
- {{NFLproject}} - for NFL items
- {{Basketball-WikiProject}} - basketball, mainly pro
- {{WikiProject College football}} - college football
- {{WikiProject College basketball}} - college basketball
- {{Lacrosse}} - lacrosse
- {{Ice hockey}} - ice hockey