1965 Oregon State Beavers football team

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1965 Oregon State Beavers football
ConferenceAthletic Association of Western Universities
Record5–5 (1–3 AAWU)
Head coach
Home stadiumParker Stadium
Multnomah Stadium
Seasons
← 1964
1966 →
1965 Athletic Association of Western Universities football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 4 UCLA $ 4 0 0 8 2 1
No. 10 USC 4 1 0 7 2 1
Washington State 2 1 0 7 3 0
Washington 4 3 0 5 5 0
Stanford 2 3 0 6 3 1
California 2 3 0 5 5 0
Oregon State 1 3 0 5 5 0
Oregon
0 5 0 4 5 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1965 Oregon State Beavers football team represented

Multnomah Stadium in Portland
.

After ten seasons and a recent Rose Bowl appearance, head coach Tommy Prothro departed for UCLA in January 1965, and forty-year-old Andros was hired in early February.[2][3][4] A Marine in World War II, he was the head coach at Idaho (19621964), and had played college football as a guard at Oklahoma in the late 1940s under head coach Bud Wilkinson. Andros led OSU for eleven years, through 1975, compiling a 51–64–1 (.444) record, (30–37–1 (.449) in AAWU/Pac-8), then was the athletic director until 1985.

The Beavers defeated rival

Oregon for a second consecutive year, this time on the road.[5] It was the first of seven straight wins for Andros in the Civil War
 game.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 18at Illinois*W 12–1034,149
September 25Iowa*L 7–2724,778
October 1at USCL 12–2652,100
October 9at Northwestern*L 7–1534,575
October 16at Idaho*W 16–1413,000[6]
October 23Utah*W 10–615,304
October 30Washington State
  • Parker Stadium
  • Corvallis, OR
L 8–1020,079
November 6at Syracuse*W 13–1233,000
November 13at WashingtonL 21–2853,500
November 20at
Oregon
)W 19–1421,000
  • *Non-conference game

[7]

Roster

Source:[8]

References

  1. ^ "1965 Oregon State Beavers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
  2. ^ Johnson, Bob (February 1, 1965). "Dee Andros named Oregon State grid coach". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). p. 15.
  3. ^ "Andros begins new job as OSU coach". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). AP, UPI reports. February 2, 1965. p. 2B.
  4. ^ "Andros Gets Beaver Job". Statesman (Salem, Oregon). February 2, 1965. p. 9.
  5. ^ Uhrhammer, Jerry (November 21, 1965). "Oregon State wins the 'Civil War' on strength of one little finger". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 1B.
  6. ^ "Field goal difference in OSU win". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. October 17, 1965. p. 2B.
  7. ^ "2016 Football media guide" (PDF). Oregon State University Athletics. 2016. p. 155. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  8. ^ Uhrhammer, Jerry (November 19, 1965). "Beavers given slight edge". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 2B.

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