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From left: Chris Denison, Jack Leonard, Patrick Leonard, Dan Gillespie and Mitch Tankersley at last year's Ducks game against UCLA. Denison, the Leonards and Tankersley will be attending the college football championship game Monday in Arlington, Texas. (Photo courtesy of Patrick Leonard)

Patrick Leonard, whose StubHub ticket order to the national college football championship was canceled, will attend the game after all.

A University of Oregon official contacted Leonard on Wednesday and offered him four end-zone tickets in the AT&T Stadium that, with fees, cost about $500 each. He accepted.

Previously, Leonard battled ticket reseller StubHub after his apparent purchase of four seats for $1,659.36 was nixed by the company.

StubHub said the prices that Leonard had seen on his smartphone to purchase were erroneous. While admitting error, StubHub gave Leonard a $1,656 credit for future ticket purchases on the site.

Leonard, while grateful for the opportunity to purchase tickets at face value, continued to assert Wednesday that StubHub should have allowed him to make the original purchase.

Leonard also repeated his intention to not use the StubHub credit nor use the ticket reseller services again.

He credited Carlyn Schreck, UO's assistant vice president, Donor Stewardship and Office of Public Events, with making the ticket offer.

After the Ducks beat Florida State on New Year's Day and Leonard began his search for tickets, he assumed he would not be able to obtain any through the university because he was not a donor.

"I've been kind of inactive since I've lived on the East Coast," the past 10 years, said Leonard, an Arlington, Va., resident who is a 1990 UO graduate. "But I'm going to definitely re-up now."

Leonard's 12-year-old son Jack will attend along with college friends Mitch Tankersley and Chris Denison.

Leonard said his 9-year-old daughter Grace told him she would attend the next time the Ducks are in the college football championship.

Even so, brother Jack, who switches the daily task with his sister of cleaning up dog poop in the family's yard, will assume sole responsibility for the remainder of 2015, Leonard said.

Leonard also said he is going to donate the StubHub ticket credit to "Bridges to Independence," a Virginia non-profit organization that recently changed its name from Arlington-Alexandria Coalition for the Homeless. Leonard, who is a board member of the organization, said the credit might be used for as a fund-raiser item.

--Allan Brettman

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