The design process for the uniforms Oregon will wear when the Ducks host Nebraska on Sept. 9 had its genesis during a meeting more than a year before, on a sunny summer afternoon in an annex to the Hatfield-Dowlin Complex dining hall.
There, on July 13, 2016, gathered designers from Nike; UO football players Khalil Oliver, Tyrell Crosby and Justin Hollins; and three vivacious young kids eager to put their own personal touches on an Oregon football uniform. The kids – Ethan Frank, Sophia Malinoski and Joe Macdonald – also were patients at Portland's Doernbecher Children's Hospital, receiving treatment for brain tumors.