Eddie Durno (January 26, 1899 – November 20, 1976) helped establish the University of Oregon’s basketball legacy and later developed a political career that reached the United States Congress. 
Durno grew up outside Albany, graduated from Silverton High School and served as an infantry sergeant during World War I. He then played football, baseball and basketball at the U of O and coached the freshman basketball team. On the hardwood, he helped the Ducks win the Pacific Coast Conference title in 1919 and in 1919, 20 and 21, he was voted All-Pacific Coast, All-Northwest, team captain and All-American in 1921.
Following graduation, Durno was a high school coach and then moved to Boston and earned a medical degree from Harvard. He became a physician in Boston until World War II. Durno served in the medical corps during the war where he was awarded the Purple Heart. Eddie then returned to Oregon to establish a practice in Medford. He coached successful football and basketball teams at Medford High School and served on the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners.
In 1958, Durno won election to the state senate and two years later was voted into the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served just one term. He ran for the U.S. Senate in 1962 but lost and returned to Medford.
Durno was inducted into the University of Oregon Athletics Hall of Fame in 1992.