page_title: Oregon Ducks football venues
section_title: Kincaid Field (1895–1918)
hierarchical_section_title: Oregon Ducks football venues / Kincaid Field (1895–1918)
caption_attribution_description: English: Black and white photo of action during a 1907 University of Oregon football game played at Kincaid Field.
context_page_description: Football teams at the University of Oregon have played home games at six sites since the team was founded in 1894, five in Eugene and one in Portland. Oregon has not had an on-campus football stadium since 1966.
context_section_description: Record: 47 wins, 9 losses, 4 ties
  Kincaid Field was constructed for the 1895 season on a former wheat field bordering 13th Avenue, just east of the old Athletic Field on what is now the Memorial Quadrangle. The University had leased the rights to use the field and make necessary improvements from Harrison Kincaid, a local pioneer and newspaper publisher, who spent two terms as Oregon's Secretary of State.
  Unlike the wide-open Athletic Field, Kincaid Field was eventually fully fenced, allowing something resembling controlled access at a campus site for the first time. An alumni fundraising campaign was organized, and $1000 was spent to construct grandstands at Kincaid.
  As had its predecessor, Kincaid Field suffered from chronically poor drainage. Workers constantly battled the elements to provide a field suitable for play; at least one football was lost in the mud during a game. Oregon Agricultural College's student news reporter described Kincaid during the 1915 game as "a cross between a duck pond and a hog wallow"; the Eugene Guard's correspondent said "The field was a sea of mud, not deep, but wet and slippery. Rain fell throughout every minute of the game, and time and again every player was standing to his ankles in water."
  In a classic 1916 game against Washington, a scoreless tie resulted from the ball being so slick with mud that it was impossible to hold; Oregon fumbled 11 times and Washington fumbled 12.
  Kincaid Field was used for Oregon home games until 1919, when the bleachers at Hayward Field were completed.
caption: A typically muddy 1907 game at Kincaid Field.
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