1957 Oregon State Beavers football team

The 1957 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State College in the 1957 college football season. Led by third-year head coach Tommy Prothro, the Beavers went 8–2, and outscored their opponents 203 to 129. Oregon State won their second consecutive Pacific Coast Conference championship, the only time the Beavers have won consecutive conference championships. The team captain was Ted Searle.

1957 Oregon State Beavers football
PCC co-champion
ConferencePacific Coast Conference
Record8–2 (6–2 PCC)
Head coach
CaptainTed Searle
Home stadiumParker Stadium
Multnomah Stadium
Seasons
← 1956
1958 →
1957 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Oregon State + 6 2 0 8 2 0
No. 17 Oregon ^ + 6 2 0 7 4 0
No. 19 UCLA 5 2 0 8 2 0
Washington State 5 3 0 6 4 0
Stanford 4 3 0 6 4 0
Washington 3 4 0 3 6 1
California 1 6 0 1 9 0
USC 1 6 0 1 9 0
Idaho 0 3 0 4 4 1
  • + – Conference co-champions
  • ^ – Selected as Rose Bowl representative
    Oregon State won the rivalry game over Oregon,
    but no-repeat rule was in effect
Rankings from Coaches Poll

Oregon State became the second and last PCC team to be adversely affected by the "no-repeat" rule for the Rose Bowl. Unranked rival Oregon, which had lost to the Beavers, went instead. Three years earlier, undefeated UCLA had to stay home, too. Implemented after California lost a third straight Rose Bowl in January 1951, the rule was thrown out for West Coast teams when the PCC disbanded in 1959, but the Big Ten retained theirs from the late 1940s until the early 1970s.

Schedule

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DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 21No. 19 USCNo. 13W 20–036,855
September 28at Kansas*No. 9W 34–628,000
October 5at Northwestern*No. 9W 22–1334,500
October 12IdahoNo. 7W 20–014,600[1]
October 19at UCLANo. 7L 7–2646,120
October 26at WashingtonL 6–1931,500
November 2Washington State
  • Parker Stadium
  • Corvallis, OR
W 39–2520,200
November 9at CaliforniaW 21–1950,000
November 16Stanford
  • Parker Stadium
  • Corvallis, OR
W 24–1420,000
November 23at No. 15 OregonW 10–723,150[2][3]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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NFL Draft

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Player Position Round Pick NFL club
Joe Francis Quarterback 5 51 Green Bay Packers

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References

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  1. ^ "OSC captures hard-fought 20-0 victory". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. October 13, 1957. p. 1B.
  2. ^ "OSC gets title share; beats Oregon, 10 to 7". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. November 24, 1957. p. 2, sports.
  3. ^ Strite, Dick (November 24, 1957). "OSC force UO to share PCC title". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 1B.
  4. ^ "Oregon State University Official Athletic Site". Archived from the original on February 17, 2012. Retrieved July 8, 2009.
  5. ^ "Packers lose flip, take Joe Francis". Milwaukee Journal. Associated Press. January 28, 1958. p. 13, part 2.
  6. ^ Lea, Bud (January 29, 1958). "Packers get Jarock, two 'tossing' QBs". Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 4, part 2.
  7. ^ "NFL drafts 4 Oregonians". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. January 29, 1958. p. 3B.
  8. ^ "1958 NFL Draft Listing - Pro-Football-Reference.com". Archived from the original on July 20, 2009. Retrieved July 8, 2009.