1971 Oregon State Beavers football team

1971 Oregon State Beavers football
ConferencePacific-8 Conference
Record5–6 (3–3 Pac-8)
Head coach
Home stadiumParker Stadium
Civic Stadium
Seasons
← 1970
1972 →
1971 Pacific-8 Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 10 Stanford $ 6 1 0 9 3 0
No. 20 USC 3 2 1 6 4 1
No. 19 Washington 4 3 0 8 3 0
California 4 3 0 6 5 0
Oregon State 3 3 0 5 6 0
Oregon 2 4 0 5 6 0
Washington State 2 5 0 4 7 0
UCLA 1 4 1 2 7 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1971 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University in the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their seventh season under head coach Dee Andros, the Beavers compiled an overall record of 5–6 record with a mark of 3–3 conference play, placing fifth in the Pac-8, and were outscored 295 to 131.[1] Oregon State played three home games on campus at Parker Stadium in Corvallis and one at Civic Stadium in Portland.

Oregon State defeated rival Oregon in the Civil War game for the eighth consecutive year.[2][3]

This was the first of 28 consecutive losing seasons for the Beavers, and Oregon State did not win five games in a season again until 1998.

  1. ^ "1971 Oregon State Beavers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
  2. ^ Cawood, Neil (November 21, 1971). "Beavers pull it off again, 30-29". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 1B.
  3. ^ "Beavers: only fumble away from roses". The Bulletin. (Bend, Oregon). UPI. November 22, 1971. p. 7.