1957 Oregon State Beavers football team
American college football season
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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.
- Tommy Prothro (2nd season)
| 1957 Oregon State Beavers football | |
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PCC co-champion | |
| Conference | Pacific Coast Conference |
| Record | 8–2 (6–2 PCC) |
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| Captain | Ted Searle |
| Home stadium | Parker Stadium Multnomah Stadium |
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
| Date | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 21 | No. 19 USC | No. 13 | W 20–0 | 36,885 | [1] | |
| September 28 | at Kansas* | No. 9 | W 34–6 | 28,000 | [2] | |
| October 5 | at Northwestern* | No. 9 | W 22–13 | 34,500 | [3] | |
| October 12 | Idaho | No. 7 | W 20–0 | 14,600 | [4] | |
| October 19 | at UCLA | No. 7 | L 7–26 | 46,102 | [5] | |
| October 26 | at Washington | L 6–19 | 29,000 | [6] | ||
| November 2 | Washington State |
| W 39–25 | 20,200 | [7] | |
| November 9 | at California | W 21–19 | 50,000 | [8] | ||
| November 16 | Stanford |
| W 24–14 | 20,000 | [9] | |
| November 23 | at No. 15 Oregon | W 10–7 | 23,150 | [10][11] | ||
NFL draft
| Player | Position | Round | Pick | NFL club |
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| Joe Francis | Quarterback | 5 | 51 | Green Bay Packers |
