1940 Oregon State Beavers football team

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Program for the season opener against the Idaho Vandals, held in Corvallis at Bell Field.
1940 Oregon State Beavers football
Conference Pacific Coast Conference
Record5–3–1 (4–3–1 PCC)
Head coach
Home stadium Bell Field
Seasons
←  1939
1941  →
1940 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 2 Stanford $ 7 –0 –010 –0 –0
No. 10 Washington 7 –1 –07 –2 –0
Oregon State 4 –3 –15 –3 –1
Washington State 3 –4 –24 –4 –2
Oregon 3 –4 –14 –4 –1
California 3 –4 –04 –6 –0
USC 2 –3 –23 –4 –2
Montana 1 –2 –04 –4 –1
UCLA 1 –6 –01 –9 –0
Idaho 0 –4 –01 –7 –1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1940 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State College in the 1940 college football season. The team was led by head coach Lon Stiner.

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The Beavers ended this season with five wins, three losses, and one tie. The Beavers scored 128 points and allowed 80 points. Home games were played at Bell Field in Corvallis, Oregon and Multnomah Stadium in Portland.

The 1940 Oregon State squad finished the season ranked at No. 36 (out of 697 college football teams) under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940 [1] and at No. 51 according to the Azziratem System favored by Illustrated Football Annual magazine. [2]

Background

The 1940 college football season marked the 46th year of competition for Oregon State College (OSC) — formerly known as Oregon Agricultural College (OAC) and known today as Oregon State University (OSU). The season was the eighth led by head coach Lon Stiner (1903–1985). It was also the final year of limited substitution in the NCAA, under which a player removed from the game for a replacement was lost to his team for the duration of the quarter by rule. [3]

The Beavers were coming off a highly successful 1939 season, crowned by a resounding 39–6 victory over the University of Hawaii in the Pineapple Bowl on New Years Day, with the team making its triumphant return to the port of San Francisco aboard ship on January 12, 1940. [4]

Head coach Stiner announced a full slate of 30 spring practices, as permitted under Pacific Coast Conference rules, in preparation for the fall 1940 campaign. [5] The six weeks of spring practices were to be culminated with a full intersquad game, Stirner announced. [5]

Preparation for the 1940 season began in earnest on September 12, with just 39 players showing up for two-a-day practices in an attempt to make the team. [6] In addition to having to face a small number of participants, [7] Stiner expressed misgivings about having too many "green" players to justify the top ranking ventured by some preseason analysts, but hoped that with further development the team would eventually merit such consideration. [6]

Season highlights


Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28 Idaho
W 41–06,500–7,000 [8] [9]
October 5at USC
T 0–050,000
October 11 Portland
  • Bell Field
  • Corvallis, OR
W 26–06,000 [10]
October 19at No. 16 Washington No. 18
L 0–1936,000 [11]
October 26at UCLA
  • Los Angeles Coliseum
  • Los Angeles, CA
W 7–025,000
November 2at California
W 19–1320,000
November 9 Washington State
  • Bell Field
  • Corvallis, OR
W 21–08,000
November 16at No. 4 Stanford No. 19
L 14–2835,000
November 30 Oregon
L 0–2020,000
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Roster

Projected opening day starters marked with *
Source:Oregon State vs. Idaho, Bell Field, Corvallis, Sept. 28, 1940; p. 17, 19, 21, 23, 25.

Seniors drafted into the NFL

PlayerPositionRoundPickNFL club
Vic Sears Tackle533 Pittsburgh Steelers
Jim Kisselburgh Back644 Cleveland Rams
Len Younce Guard867 New York Giants
Ken Dow Fullback16150 Washington Redskins

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References

  1. ↑ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 19, 1940). "Final 1940 Litkenhous Ratings". The Boston Globe. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ William F. Boand (ed.), "Official 1941 Schedules," Illustrated Football Annual, 1941. New York: Fiction House, 1941; p. 90.
  3. ↑ Walter R. Okeson (ed.), The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide, 1941: With the Official Rules. New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1941; p. 226. N.B. This fundamental change would be briefly reversed for economic reasons by the NCAA in 1953.
  4. ↑ "Beaver Football Team Now in San Francisco," Corvallis Gazette-Times, Jan. 12, 1940, p. 7.
  5. 1 2 "College Gridders Open Spring Drills," Eugene Guard, March 28, 1940, p. 14.
  6. 1 2 "39 Beavers Out for Fall Season: Heavy Work at Once is Dished Up by Coach Lon Stiner," Corvallis Gazette-Times, Sept. 12, 1940, p. 7.
  7. ↑ United Press, "Football Tabs," Klamath Falls Evening Herald, Sept. 14, 1940, p. 10.
  8. ↑ Strite, Dick (September 29, 1940). "OSC romps over hapless Vandals". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 15.
  9. ↑ "OSC wallops Idaho, 41 to 0". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. September 29, 1940. p. 1, sports.
  10. ↑ "Oregon State's Machine Rolls Over Portland". The Oregon Statesman. October 12, 1940. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ Gail Fowler (October 20, 1940). "Huskies Shatter Oregon State Rose Bowl Hopes". The Register-Guard. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "1941 NFL Draft Listing | Pro-Football-Reference.com". Archived from the original on October 25, 2009. Retrieved October 1, 2009.
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