1941 Oregon State Beavers football team

1941 Oregon State Beavers football
PCC champion
Rose Bowl champion
Rose Bowl, W 20–16 vs. Duke
ConferencePacific Coast Conference
Ranking
APNo. 12
Record8–2 (7–2 PCC)
Head coach
CaptainMartin Chaves, Stan Czech, Bob Dethman, Quentin Greenough, Lew Hammers, George Peters, Norm Peter
Home stadiumBell Field
Seasons
← 1940
1942 →
1941 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 12 Oregon State $ 7 2 0 8 2 0
Washington 5 3 0 5 4 0
No. 19 Washington State 5 3 0 6 4 0
Stanford 4 3 0 6 3 0
Oregon 4 4 0 5 5 0
UCLA 3 4 1 5 5 1
California 3 4 0 4 5 0
USC 2 4 1 2 6 1
Montana 1 3 0 6 3 0
Idaho 0 4 0 4 5 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1941 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State College in the 1941 college football season. The team was led by head coach Lon Stiner.

Home games were played at Bell Field in Corvallis, Oregon and Multnomah Stadium in Portland.

The Beavers ended this season with eight wins and two losses. They were the Pacific Coast Conference champions and won the 1942 Rose Bowl over Duke. Because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Rose Bowl was held in Durham, North Carolina. Oregon State thus became the only team to win a Rose Bowl outside Pasadena, California.

The team captains were Martin Chaves, Stan Czech, Bob Dethman, Quentin Greenough, Lew Hammers, George Peters, and Norm Peters.

The Beavers scored 143 points and allowed 49 points.

Oregon State was ranked at No. 25 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941[1] and No. 16 according to the Azziratem System favored by Illustrated Football Annual magazine.[2]

  1. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 26, 1941). "Gophers Grid Kings Over 6-Year Span: Tennessee 2d, Pitt 3d Over Period Litkenhous Ratins Are Published". The Courier-Journal. p. Sports 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ William F. Boand (ed.), "Official 1942 Schedules," Illustrated Football Annual, 1942. New York: Fiction House, 1942; p. 91.