1971 Oregon State Beavers football team

The 1971 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University in the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their seventh season under head coach Dee Andros, the Beavers compiled an overall record of 5–6 record with a mark of 3–3 conference play, placing fifth in the Pac-8, and were outscored 295 to 131.^[1] Oregon State played three home games on campus at Parker Stadium in Corvallis and one at Civic Stadium in Portland.

1971 Oregon State Beavers football
Conference	Pacific-8 Conference
Record	5–6 (3–3 Pac-8)
Head coach	Dee Andros (7th season)
Home stadium	Parker Stadium Civic Stadium
Seasons ← 1970 1972 →

1971 Pacific-8 Conference football standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 10 Stanford $	6	–	1	–	0			9	–	3	–	0
No. 20 USC	3	–	2	–	1			6	–	4	–	1
No. 19 Washington	4	–	3	–	0			8	–	3	–	0
California	4	–	3	–	0			6	–	5	–	0
Oregon State	3	–	3	–	0			5	–	6	–	0
Oregon	2	–	4	–	0			5	–	6	–	0
Washington State	2	–	5	–	0			4	–	7	–	0
UCLA	1	–	4	–	1			2	–	7	–	1
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

Oregon State defeated rival Oregon in the Civil War game for the eighth consecutive year.^[2][3]

This was the first of 28 consecutive losing seasons for the Beavers, and Oregon State did not win five games in a season again until 1998.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 11	at No. 18 Georgia*	Sanford Stadium Athens, GA	L 25–56	50,709	[4]
September 18	Iowa*	Parker Stadium Corvallis, OR	W 33–19	24,092
September 25	at Michigan State*	Spartan Stadium East Lansing, MI	L 14–31	62,184
October 2	at UCLA	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	W 34–17	33,345
October 9	at California	California Memorial Stadium Berkeley, CA	L 27–30	33,000
October 16	No. 11 Arizona State*	Civic Stadium Portland, OR	W 24–18	30,233
October 23	at Washington	Husky Stadium Seattle, WA	L 14–38	57,900
October 30	No. 17 Stanford	Parker Stadium Corvallis, OR	L 24–31	29,230
November 6	at Arizona*	Arizona Stadium Tucson, AZ	L 22–34	31,000	[5]
November 13	Washington State	Parker Stadium Corvallis, OR	W 21–14	20,385
November 20	at Oregon	Autzen Stadium Eugene, OR (Civil War)	W 30–29	43,000
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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Roster

• Steve Brown Jr. (defense)
• Erin Haynes (center)

Game summaries

Oregon

1 2 3 4 Total • Oregon St 3 7 7 13 30 Oregon 7 7 0 15 29 Date: November 20 Location: Autzen Stadium, Eugene, OR Game attendance: 43,000

Scoring summary 1 6:20 OSU Boston 41-yard field goal OSU 3-0 1 0:02 ORE Herd 9-yard run (Buettner kick) ORE 7-3 2 12:50 ORE Drake 42-yard punt return (Buettner kick) ORE 14-3 2 7:59 OSU Schilling 3-yard run (Boston kick) ORE 14-10 3 10:53 OSU Schilling 3-yard run (Boston kick) OSU 17-14 4 11:41 ORE Glass 7-yard pass from Fouts (Buettner kick) ORE 21-17 4 9:51 OSU Schilling 6-yard run (Boston kick) OSU 24-21 4 7:16 ORE Bradley 28-yard pass from Fouts (Winn to Specht pass) ORE 29-24 4 1:40 OSU Carlquist 6-yard run (pass failed) OSU 30-29

Source:^[2][3]