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The Multnomah Athletic Club (MAC) is a private social and athletic club in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was founded in 1891 as the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, a coordinating body for team and individual sports such as track and field, football, and basketball and fielded its own competitive teams against collegiate competition. It ...
The Multnomah athletic teams were called the Lions. The university was a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Cascade Collegiate Conference (CCC) from the 2015–16 academic year until its closing. [20] Multnomah competed in 12 intercollegiate varsity sports.
The 1907 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon in the 1907 college football season.It was the Webfoots' 14th season; they competed as an independent and were led by head coach Gordon B. Frost.
Since 1893, the site had been home to Multnomah Field, which consisted of sports fields with various grandstands. [12] [13] Before the MAC developed the site as an athletic field, it was a large Chinese vegetable garden, supplying produce to much of Portland. [14]
The 1908 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon as a member of the Northwest Conference during the 1908 college football season.Led by Robert Forbes in his second and final season as head coach, the Webfoots compiled an overall record of 3–2 with a mark of 2–1 in conference play, placing third in the Northwest Conference.
The Multnomah Athletic Club arrived at 1 pm on game day aboard a special Oregon Pacific Railroad train sent down from Portland. [9] The team was received at the station and taken to a dormitory where they were served lunch. [9] Both teams entered the muddy field at 2:45 pm to begin the contest, which ultimately kicked off at 2:52 pm. [9]
Suzanne Winona Zimmerman (July 13, 1925 – March 14, 2021), also known by her married name Suzanne Edwards, was an American competition swimmer for the Multnomah Athletic Club under Hall of Fame Coach Jack Cody, and a 1948 Olympic silver medalist in the 100 meter backstroke.
Payne first joined the swimming and diving team at the Multnomah Athletic Club in 1915. [3] In 1916, The Oregonian wrote that Payne was "one of the Multnomah Athletic Club's best swimmers and divers". [11] Around that time, Payne broke her nose and jaw while diving at the Multnomah Athletic Club.