1940 Oregon State Beavers football team

The 1940 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State College in the 1940 college football season. The Beavers ended this season with five wins, three losses, and one tie. The Beavers scored 128 points and allowed 80 points. The team was led by head coach Lon Stiner.

1940 Oregon State Beavers football
ConferencePacific Coast Conference
1940 record5–3–1 (4–3–1 PCC)
Head coach
Home stadiumBell Field
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

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28IdahoW 41–06,500–7,000[1][2]
October 5at USCT 0–050,000
October 11Portland
  • Bell Field
  • Corvallis, OR
W 26–06,000[3]
October 19at No. 16 WashingtonNo. 18L 0–1933,000
October 26at UCLA
  • Los Angeles Coliseum
  • Los Angeles, CA
W 7–025,000
November 2at CaliforniaW 19–1320,000
November 9Washington State
  • Bell Field
  • Corvallis, OR
W 21–08,000
November 16at No. 4 StanfordNo. 19L 14–2835,000
November 30Oregon
L 0–2020,000
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Roster

  • OL Vic Sears

Team players drafted into the NFL

PlayerPositionRoundPickNFL Club
Vic SearsTackle533Pittsburgh Steelers
Jim KisselburghBack644Cleveland Rams
Len YounceGuard867New York Giants
Ken DowFullback16150Washington Redskins

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References

  1. Strite, Dick (September 29, 1940). "OSC romps over hapless Vandals". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 15.
  2. "OSC wallops Idaho, 41 to 0". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. September 29, 1940. p. 1, sports.
  3. "Oregon State's Machine Rolls Over Portland". The Oregon Statesman. October 12, 1940. p. 1 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "1941 NFL Draft Listing | Pro-Football-Reference.com". Archived from the original on 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
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