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Every loss is an ugly one with this `award'.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 29-NOV-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Every loss is an ugly one with this `award'.(Sports)(An unusual trophy bounces back and forth in a friendly rivalry)

Article Excerpt
Byline: CIVIL WAR By Mark Baker The Register-Guard

This bucktoothed beaver needs a dentist - badly.

Doug Waters is just hoping he doesn't have to take it today.

The annual Civil War football game between the University of Oregon and Oregon State University has seen OSU students descend upon Skinner Butte to paint the Ducks' `O' orange. It's seen the winner go - as will happen today if the Beavers win - to the Rose Bowl five times in 111 previous matchups, and even sent the loser (UO) once in 1957. And it's seen the resurrection of the Platypus Trophy presented to the winning school's students last year.

But this might be the first you've heard of the Dead Beaver Duck Award.

The what?

"I wrapped it up in...



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