1959 Oregon State Beavers football team
American college football season
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The 1959 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State College as an independent during the 1959 college football season. In their fifth season under head coach Tommy Prothro, the Beavers compiled a 3–7 record and were outscored 178 to 166.[1] Oregon State played three home games on campus at Parker Stadium in Corvallis and one at Multnomah Stadium in Portland.
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–7
Headcoach
- Tommy Prothro (5th season)
HomestadiumParker Stadium
Multnomah Stadium
Multnomah Stadium
| 1959 Oregon State Beavers football | |
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| Conference | Independent |
| Record | 3–7 |
| Head coach |
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| Home stadium | Parker Stadium Multnomah Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oregon | – | 8 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Washington State | – | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pacific (CA) | – | 5 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Air Force | – | 5 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| San Jose State | – | 4 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oregon State | – | 3 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Idaho | – | 1 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Earlier in the year, the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) disbanded; this was the first of five years that Oregon State and Oregon competed as independents.
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 19 | USC | L 6–27 | 23,895 | [2] | |
| September 26 | at Texas Tech | L 14–15 | 20,000 | [3] | |
| October 3 | at Nebraska | L 6–7 | 28,000 | [4] | |
| October 10 | at Michigan | L 7–18 | 74,693 | [5] | |
| October 17 | Idaho | W 66–18 | 10,628 | [6][7] | |
| October 24 | at California | W 24–20 | 41,000 | [8] | |
| October 31 | Washington State |
| L 0–14 | 17,601 | [9][10] |
| November 7 | at No. 12 Washington | L 6–13 | 45,317 | [11][12] | |
| November 14 | Stanford |
| L 22–39 | 10,900 | [13] |
| November 21 | at No. 15 Oregon | W 15–7 | 22,500 | [14] | |
