1971 Oregon State Beavers football team

1971 Oregon State Beavers football
Conference	Pacific-8
Record	5–6 (3–3 Pac-8)
Head coach	Dee Andros
Home stadium	Parker Stadium

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 during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season.

This was the first of 28 consecutive losing seasons for the Beavers. Also, OSU would not win five games in a season again until 1998.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 11	at No. 18 Georgia*	Sanford Stadium Athens, GA	L 25–56	50,709
September 18	Iowa*	Parker Stadium Corvallis, OR	W 33–19	24,092
September 25	at Michigan State*	Spartan Stadium East Lansing, MI	L 14–31	62,184
October 2	at UCLA	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	W 34–17	33,345
October 9	at California	California Memorial Stadium Berkeley, CA	L 27–30	33,000
October 16	No. 11 Arizona State*	Civic Stadium Portland, OR	W 24–18	30,233
October 23	at Washington	Husky Stadium Seattle, WA	L 14–38	57,900
October 30	No. 17 Stanford	Parker Stadium Corvallis, OR	L 24–31	29,230
November 6	at Arizona*	Arizona Stadium Tucson, AZ	L 22–34	31,000
November 13	Washington State	Parker Stadium Corvallis, OR	W 21–14	20,385
November 20	at Oregon	Autzen Stadium Eugene, OR (Civil War)	W 30–29	43,000
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Roster

• Steve Brown, Jr. (defense)

Game summaries

Oregon

1 2 3 4 Total • Oregon St 3 7 7 13 30 Oregon 7 7 0 15 29 Date: November 20 Location: Autzen Stadium, Eugene, OR Game attendance: 43,000

Scoring summary 1 6:20 OSU Boston 41-yard field goal OSU 3-0 1 0:02 ORE Herd 9-yard run (Buettner kick) ORE 7-3 2 12:50 ORE Drake 42-yard punt return (Buettner kick) ORE 14-3 2 7:59 OSU Schilling 3-yard run (Boston kick) ORE 14-10 3 10:53 OSU Schilling 3-yard run (Boston kick) OSU 17-14 4 11:41 ORE Glass 7-yard pass from Fouts (Buettner kick) ORE 21-17 4 9:51 OSU Schilling 6-yard run (Boston kick) OSU 24-21 4 7:16 ORE Bradley 28-yard pass from Fouts (Winn to Specht pass) ORE 29-24 4 1:40 OSU Carlquist 6-yard run (pass failed) OSU 30-29