1965 Oregon State Beavers football team

1965 Oregon State Beavers football
Conference	Athletic Association of Western Universities
Record	5–5 (1–3 AAWU)
Head coach	Dee Andros (1st season)
Home stadium	Parker Stadium Multnomah Stadium (Portland)

1965 Athletic Association of Western Universities football standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 4 UCLA $	4	–	0	–	0			8	–	2	–	1
No. 10 USC	4	–	1	–	0			7	–	2	–	1
Washington State	2	–	1	–	0			7	–	3	–	0
Washington	4	–	3	–	0			5	–	5	–	0
Stanford	2	–	3	–	0			6	–	3	–	1
California	2	–	3	–	0			5	–	5	–	0
Oregon State	1	–	3	–	0			5	–	5	–	0
Oregon	0	–	5	–	0			4	–	5	–	1
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1965 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University in the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) during the 1965 NCAA University Division football season. In their first season under head coach Dee Andros, the Beavers compiled a 5–5 record (1–3 in AAWU, seventh place), and were outscored by their opponents, 125 to 162. They had only three home games, two on campus at Parker Stadium in Corvallis and one at Multnomah Stadium in Portland.

After ten seasons and a recent Rose Bowl appearance, head coach Tommy Prothro departed for UCLA in January 1965, and forty-year-old Andros was hired in early February. A Marine in World War II, he was the head coach at Idaho (1962–1964), and had played college football as a guard at Oklahoma in the late 1940s under head coach Bud Wilkinson. Andros led OSU for eleven years, through 1975, compiling a 51–64–1 (.444) record, (30–37–1 (.449) in AAWU/Pac-8), then was the athletic director until 1985.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 18	at Illinois*	Memorial Stadium Champaign, IL	W 12–10
September 25	Iowa*	Multnomah Stadium Portland, OR	L 7–27
October 1	at USC	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	L 12–26
October 9	at Northwestern*	Dyche Stadium Evanston, IL	L 7–15
October 16	at Idaho*	old Bronco Stadium Boise, ID	W 16–14
October 23	Utah*	Parker Stadium Corvallis, OR	W 10–6
October 30	Washington State	Parker Stadium Corvallis, OR	L 8–10
November 6	at Syracuse*	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 13–12
November 13	at Washington	Husky Stadium Seattle, WA	L 21–28
November 20	at Oregon	Hayward Field Eugene, OR (Civil War)	W 19–14
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Roster

• QB Paul Brothers, Jr.
• RB Bob Grim, Jr.
• RB Pete Pifer, Jr.
• Skip Vanderbrundt, So. (defense)