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
CaptainJohn Thomas
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.