21 banquet in Matthew Knight Arena, before being introduced at halftime of the Ducks' Pac12 conferenceopening football game the next day against the Wildcats.Oregon Hall of FameSelected to the university's 2012 Athletics Hall of Fame are 1994 football MVP Chad Cota, quarterback and Heisman Trophy finalist Joey Harrington, creative innovator and university benefactor Philip Knight, men's basketball AllAmerican Hugh Latham, softball AllAmerican Kim Manning Strahm, and a trio of men's cross country teams that helped solidify Oregon's foundation as the nation's collegiate distance running mecca.Cota paced a "Gang Green" defense which led Oregon to a Rose Bowl appearance against Penn State; Harrington led the Ducks to their highest seasonending national finish (2nd) in school history at the conclusion of the 2001 season; Knight not only cofounded the world's leading athletic shoe and apparel manufacturer Nke but whose creative ingenuity has made an impact at every level of s