The 1954 Oregon State Beavers football team represented
Oregon State College
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in the
Pacific Coast Conference
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(PCC) during the
1954 college football season
The 1954 college football season saw three teams finish unbeaten and untied, with Ohio State Buckeyes and the UCLA Bruins sharing the national championship as the No. 1 picks of the AP Poll and the UPI Poll, respectively. Although the winners o ...
. In their sixth and final season under head coach
Kip Taylor, the Beavers compiled a 1–8 record (1–6 in PCC, last), and were outscored 296 to 60. The team won the opener at home against
Idaho
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,
but then had eight consecutive losses. The Beavers played three home games on campus at
Parker Stadium
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in
Corvallis, with one at
Multnomah Stadium Multnomah may refer to:
*The Multnomah people, a Chinookan people who lived in the area of modern Portland, Oregon, United States
**''Multnomah'', the middle Chinookan dialect of the Multnomah people
;Places, vessels, and institutions whose name ...
in
Portland
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* Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States
* Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas ...
.
The loss to
Oregon
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in the
Civil War
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was Taylor's first to the rival Ducks;
he resigned two days later, as did his three assistants (
Len Younce (line),
Ward Cuff (backs), and
Hal Moe
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(ends)).
In six years, Taylor had an overall record of , 15–30 in PCC.
Schedule
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References
External links
Game program: Oregon State at Washington State– October 9, 1954
Oregon State
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Oregon State Beavers football seasons
Oregon State Beavers football
The Oregon State Beavers football team represents Oregon State University in NCAA Division I FBS college football. The team first fielded an organized football team in 1893 and is a member of the Pac-12 Conference. Jonathan Smith has been the he ...
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