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]

References

1. "1971 Oregon State Beavers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
2. Cawood, Neil (November 21, 1971). "Beavers pull it off again, 30-29". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 1B.
3. "Beavers: only fumble away from roses". The Bulletin. (Bend, Oregon). UPI. November 22, 1971. p. 7.
4. "OSU falls to Georgia by 56–25". The Oregon Statesman. September 12, 1971. Retrieved October 22, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "UA offense outdistances Beavers, 34–22". The Arizona Daily Star. November 7, 1971. Retrieved September 17, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "2016 Football media guide" (PDF). Oregon State University Athletics. 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2020.