1954 Oregon State Beavers football team

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1954 Oregon State Beavers football
Head coach Kip Taylor
ConferencePacific Coast Conference
Record1–8 (1–6 PCC)
Head coach
Home stadiumParker Stadium
Multnomah Stadium
Seasons
← 1953
1955 →
1954 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 2 UCLA $ 6 – 0 – 0 9 – 0 – 0
No. 17 USC ^ 6 – 1 – 0 8 – 4 – 0
Oregon
 5 – 3 – 0 6 – 4 – 0
California 4 – 3 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
Washington State 3 – 4 – 0 4 – 6 – 0
Stanford 2 – 4 – 0 4 – 6 – 0
Idaho 1 – 2 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
Washington 1 – 6 – 0 2 – 8 – 0
Oregon State 1 – 6 – 0 1 – 8 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – Selected as Rose Bowl representative
    UCLA won rivalry game over USC,
    but no-repeat rule was in effect
Rankings from AP Poll

The Pacific Coast Conference Oregon State Beavers football team represented

Parker Stadium in Corvallis, with one at Multnomah Stadium in Portland
.

The loss to

Oregon in the Civil War was Taylor's first to the rival Ducks; he resigned two days later, as did his three assistants (Len Younce (line), Ward Cuff (backs), and Hal Moe (ends)).[1] In six years, Taylor had an overall record of 20–36–0 (.357), 15–30 in PCC.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25Idaho
W 13–0  9,000[3][4]
October 2Washington
L 7–1719,667
October 9at Washington State
L 6–3418,000
October 16at Nebraska*
L 7–2739,000
October 23No. 3 UCLA
  • Parker Stadium
  • Corvallis, OR
L 0–61  8,500
October 30at No. 13 USC
L 0–3430,065
November 6at No. 14 Minnesota*
L 6–4449,000
November 13at California
L 7–4625,000
November 20
Oregon
L 14–3321,200[5]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
Source:[6][7]

Conference opponent not played this season: Stanford

Coaching staff

References

  1. ^ "Kip Taylor resigns OSC football post". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). Associated Press. November 23, 1954. p. 19.
  2. ^ "Kip Taylor and Three Assistants Resign at O.S.C." The Capital Journal (Salem, Oregon). November 23, 1954. p. Sec. II, p. 2.
  3. ^ Cornacchia, Pete (September 26, 1954). "Beavers bound Vandals 13-0 in PCC opener". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 1B.
  4. ^ "Costly fumbles defeat Idaho". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. September 26, 1954. p. 1, sports.
  5. ^ "Oregon's Shaw leads 33-14 win over Beavers". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. November 21, 1954. p. 4, sports.
  6. ^ "1954 Oregon State Beavers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
  7. ^ "2016 Football media guide" (PDF). Oregon State University Athletics. 2016. p. 153. Retrieved October 24, 2020.

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