1951 Oregon State Beavers football team

1951 Oregon State Beavers football
Head coach Kip Taylor
ConferencePacific Coast Conference
Record4–6 (3–5 PCC)
Head coach
Home stadiumBell Field
Multnomah Stadium
Seasons
← 1950
1952 →
1951 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 7 Stanford $ 6 1 0 9 2 0
No. 17 UCLA 4 1 1 5 3 1
No. 12 California 5 2 0 8 2 0
USC 4 2 0 7 3 0
No. 18 Washington State 4 3 0 7 3 0
Oregon State 3 5 0 4 6 0
Washington 1 5 1 3 6 1
Oregon 1 6 0 2 8 0
Idaho 0 3 0 2 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1951 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State College as a member of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1951 college football season. Led by third-year head coach Kip Taylor, the Beavers compiled an overall record of 4–6 with a mark of 3–5 in conference play, placing sixth in the PCC. The Beavers scored 204 points and allowed 180 points on the season.[1] The team finished the season ranked at No. 25 in the 1951 Litkenhous Ratings.

The season was played under the NCAA's unlimited substitution rules, which made the two-platoon system practicable.[2]

  1. ^ Homer F. Cooke Jr. (ed.), The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide, 1952. New York: National Collegiate Athletic Bureau, 1952; p. 140.
  2. ^ "Official NCAA Football Rules," in H.D. Thoreau (ed.), 1951 Official NCAA Football Guide. New York: National Collegiate Athletic Bureau, 1951; rule section p. 21, rule 3, section 11.