1955 Oregon State Beavers football team

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1955 Oregon State Beavers football
ConferencePacific Coast Conference
Record6–3 (5–2 PCC)
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
Home stadiumParker Stadium
Multnomah Stadium
Seasons
← 1954
1956 →
1955 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 4 UCLA $ 6 – 0 – 0 9 – 2 – 0
Oregon State 5 – 2 – 0 6 – 3 – 0
No. 16 Stanford 3 – 2 – 1 6 – 3 – 1
Oregon
 4 – 3 – 0 6 – 4 – 0
Washington 4 – 3 – 1 5 – 4 – 1
No. 13 USC 3 – 3 – 0 6 – 4 – 0
California 1 – 5 – 1 2 – 7 – 1
Washington State 1 – 5 – 1 1 – 7 – 2
Idaho 0 – 4 – 0 2 – 7 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1955 Oregon State Beavers football team represented

Parker Stadium in Corvallis and one at Multnomah Stadium in Portland
.

Hired in February at age 34, Prothro had been an assistant under Red Sanders for nine seasons; at UCLA (1949–54) and Vanderbilt (1946–48).[2][3][4] He led OSU for ten seasons, compiling an overall record of 63–37–2 (.627), and was 25–9–1 (.729) against PCC opponents.

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 17BYU*
W 33–08,000
September 24Stanford
W 10–024,748
October 7at No. 7 UCLA
L 0–3857,664
October 15at Pacific (CA)*
L 7–1322,500
October 22Washington State
  • Parker Stadium
  • Corvallis, OR
W 14–617,000
October 29at No. 19 Washington
W 13–728,204
November 5Idaho
  • Parker Stadium
  • Corvallis, OR
W 33–149,000[5]
November 12at California
W 16–1435,000
November 19at
Oregon
No. 19
L 0–2822,000[6][7]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Conference opponent not played this season: USC

References

  1. ^ "1955 Oregon State Beavers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
  2. ^ "OSC picks Prothro head football coach". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. February 2, 1955. p. 2B.
  3. ^ "Tommy Prothro new football coach at OSC". Bend Bulletin. (Oregon). United Press. February 2, 1955. p. 2.
  4. ^ "Prothro Returns Single Wing to Oregon State: 34 Year Old Prothro Gets 3-Year Term". Corvallis Gazette-Times. February 2, 1955. p. 9.
  5. ^ "Idaho's Vandals swamped 33-14 by late Beaver scores". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. November 6, 1955. p. 1B.
  6. ^ Strite, Dick (November 20, 1955). "A muddy delight! Oregon 28, Oregon State 0". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 1B.
  7. ^ "Webfoots steamroller OSC 28 to 0 in muddy classic". Bend Bulletin. (Oregon). United Press. November 21, 1955. p. 3.


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