1940 Oregon State Beavers football team
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| 1940 Oregon State Beavers football | |
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| Conference | Pacific Coast Conference |
| Record | 5–3–1 (4–3–1 PCC) |
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| Home stadium | Bell Field |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 2 Stanford $ | 7 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 10 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 10 Washington | 7 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oregon State | 4 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 5 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Washington State | 3 | – | 4 | – | 2 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oregon | 3 | – | 4 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| California | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| USC | 2 | – | 3 | – | 2 | 3 | – | 4 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Montana | 1 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UCLA | 1 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Idaho | 0 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 7 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1940 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State College in the 1940 college football season. The team was led by head coach Lon Stiner.
The Beavers ended this season with five wins, three losses, and one tie. The Beavers scored 128 points and allowed 80 points. Home games were played at Bell Field in Corvallis, Oregon and Multnomah Stadium in Portland.
The 1940 Oregon State squad finished the season ranked at No. 36 (out of 697 college football teams) under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940[1] and at No. 51 according to the Azziratem System favored by Illustrated Football Annual magazine.[2]
Background
The 1940 college football season marked the 46th year of competition for Oregon State College (OSC) — formerly known as Oregon Agricultural College (OAC) and known today as Oregon State University (OSU). The season was the eighth led by head coach Lon Stiner (1903–1985). It was also the final year of limited substitution in the NCAA, under which a player removed from the game for a replacement was lost to his team for the duration of the quarter by rule.[3]
The Beavers were coming off a highly successful 1939 season, crowned by a resounding 39–6 victory over the University of Hawaii in the Pineapple Bowl on New Years Day, with the team making its triumphant return to the port of San Francisco aboard ship on January 12, 1940.[4]
Head coach Stiner announced a full slate of 30 spring practices, as permitted under Pacific Coast Conference rules, in preparation for the fall 1940 campaign.[5] The six weeks of spring practices were to be culminated with a full intersquad game, Stirner announced.[5]
Preparation for the 1940 season began in earnest on September 12, with just 39 players showing up for two-a-day practices in an attempt to make the team.[6] In addition to having to face a small number of participants,[7] Stiner expressed misgivings about having too many "green" players to justify the top ranking ventured by some preseason analysts, but hoped that with further development the team would eventually merit such consideration.[6]
Season highlights
The 1940 Oregon State Beavers were regarded as a well-coached and well-disciplined team, judged by the American Football Statistical Bureau as one of the "cleanest" in the country — along with Princeton and Brigham Young — for averaging fewer than 18 yards per game in penalties.[8]
Four seniors who played on the 1940 Beaver team were drafted into the National Football League in the 1941 NFL draft with an additional three juniors on the 1940 team drafted into the NFL the following year.
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| September 28 | Idaho | W 41–0 | 6,500–7,000 | [9][10] | ||||
| October 5 | at USC | T 0–0 | 50,000 | |||||
| October 11 | Portland |
| W 26–0 | 6,000 | [11] | |||
| October 19 | at No. 16 Washington | No. 18 | L 0–19 | 36,000 | [12] | |||
| October 26 | at UCLA |
| W 7–0 | 25,000 | ||||
| November 2 | at California | W 19–13 | 20,000 | |||||
| November 9 | Washington State |
| W 21–0 | 8,000 | ||||
| November 16 | at No. 4 Stanford | No. 19 | L 14–28 | 35,000 | ||||
| November 30 | Oregon |
| L 0–20 | 20,000 | ||||
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Roster
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Quarterbacks
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Ends
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Guards
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- Projected opening day starters marked with * Eventual NFL draft pick marked with †
- Source: Oregon State vs. Idaho, Bell Field, Corvallis, Sept. 28, 1940; p. 17, 19, 21, 23, 25.
Seniors drafted into the NFL
| Player | Position | Round | Pick | NFL club |
| Vic Sears | Tackle | 5 | 33 | Pittsburgh Steelers |
| Jim Kisselburgh | Back | 6 | 44 | Cleveland Rams |
| Len Younce | Guard | 8 | 67 | New York Giants |
| Ken Dow | Fullback | 16 | 150 | Washington Redskins |
References
- ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 19, 1940). "Final 1940 Litkenhous Ratings". The Boston Globe. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ William F. Boand (ed.), "Official 1941 Schedules," Illustrated Football Annual, 1941. New York: Fiction House, 1941; p. 90.
- ^ Walter R. Okeson (ed.), The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide, 1941: With the Official Rules. New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1941; p. 226. N.B. This fundamental change would be briefly reversed for economic reasons by the NCAA in 1953.
- ^ "Beaver Football Team Now in San Francisco," Corvallis Gazette-Times, Jan. 12, 1940, p. 7.
- ^ a b "College Gridders Open Spring Drills," Eugene Guard, March 28, 1940, p. 14.
- ^ a b "39 Beavers Out for Fall Season: Heavy Work at Once is Dished Up by Coach Lon Stiner," Corvallis Gazette-Times, Sept. 12, 1940, p. 7.
- ^ United Press, "Football Tabs," Klamath Falls Evening Herald, Sept. 14, 1940, p. 10.
- ^ American Sports Statistical Bureau, "The Nation's Leaders," reprinted in Walter R. Okeson (ed.), The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide, 1941. New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1941; p. 49.
- ^ Strite, Dick (September 29, 1940). "OSC romps over hapless Vandals". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 15.
- ^ "OSC wallops Idaho, 41 to 0". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. September 29, 1940. p. 1, sports.
- ^ "Oregon State's Machine Rolls Over Portland". The Oregon Statesman. October 12, 1940. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Gail Fowler (October 20, 1940). "Huskies Shatter Oregon State Rose Bowl Hopes". The Register-Guard. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "1941 NFL Draft Listing | Pro-Football-Reference.com". Archived from the original on October 25, 2009. Retrieved October 1, 2009.