1949 Oregon State Beavers football team

1949 Oregon State Beavers football
Conference	Pacific Coast Conference
Record	7–3 (5–3 PCC)
Head coach	Kip Taylor (1st season)
Home stadium	Bell Field

1949 Pacific Coast Conference football standings

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

The 1949 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1949 college football season. In their first season under head coach Kip Taylor, the Beavers compiled a 7–3 record (5–3 against PCC opponents), finished in fifth place in the PCC, and outscored their opponents, 232 to 188. The team played its home games at Bell Field in Corvallis, Oregon.

In April 1949, Kip Taylor was hired as Oregon's State's head football coach, following the resignation earlier in the year of longtime coach Lon Stiner. Taylor was a native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, who played football for Michigan in the 1920s. At the time of his hiring, Taylor told the press: "I'm a Michigan man and I like the Michigan system. We'll have the single wingback, in all probability, with my own variations."

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 16	at UCLA		L 13–35
September 24	Utah	Portland, OR	W 27–7
October 1	California	Portland, OR	L 0–41
October 8	at Washington		W 7–3
October 15	Montana		W 63–14
October 22	at Stanford		L 7–27
October 29	Washington State		W 35–6
November 5	at Idaho		W 35–25
November 12	Michigan State	Portland, OR	W 25–20
November 19	at Oregon		W 20–10

Roster

• HB Ken Carpenter, Sr.