| 1952 Oregon State Beavers football | |
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| Conference | Pacific Coast Conference |
| Record | 2–7 (1–6 PCC) |
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| Home stadium | Bell Field Multnomah Stadium |
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| No. 5 USC $ | 6 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 10 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 6 UCLA | 5 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Washington | 6 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| California | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Washington State | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stanford | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oregon | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 7 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Idaho | 1 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oregon State | 1 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1952 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State College as a member of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1952 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Kip Taylor, the Beavers compiled an overall record of 2–7 with a mark of 1–6 in conference play, placing last out of nine teams in the PCC, and were outscored 267 to 123.[1]
The team played four home games at Multnomah Stadium in Portland and one on campus at Bell Field in Corvallis, a 27–6 homecoming loss to Idaho in the last varsity game at the venue.
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Alumni Stories: Ken Austin, The First Benny Beaver
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I'm Ken Austin, Oregon State's first Benny Beaver back in 1952 and I just had a wonderful time learning how to act in front of crowds and entertain the crowds and I'm just proud the history still goes on. In the Spring of 1952 right over here in Gill Coliseum, we met at the athletic director's office, a bunch of us turned out for the rally squad. My fraternity brother's going to do it and I thought it would be fun to do it with him. He won the selection and on the way back to the fraternity house said "you know why I won?" And I said "No". He said "Because I proposed that we have a student mascot and I'd like for you to be a student mascot" and I said "What the heck is a student mascot?" And that picture that we held up this afternoon, that's Bill Sundstrom standing in the background and he was the one who had the proposal for a student mascot. I bought a costume head at a costume shop, decorated it with shag rug, made the tail out of a big piece of sponge rubber, wore a football pants and a football jersey, I think it was a football jersey. In high school, I was Kenny Austin and I think after a few beers with BIll, I might have said "you know, why don't we call him Benny because I was called Kenny?" But, who knows? The school's done wonderful things for me, I have no idea what my life would be like if I hadn't been Benny Beaver. It gave me self confidence, but I'm awfully proud of my school. I love you Benny.}
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 20 | at Utah* | W 14–7 | 15,000 | ||
| October 4 | No. 1 Michigan State* | L 14–17 | 22,595 | [2] | |
| October 11 | at Stanford | L 28–41 | 28,000 | ||
| October 18 | No. 7 USC |
| L 6–28 | 17,438 | |
| October 25 | at Washington State | L 20–33 | 15,000 | ||
| November 1 | Washington |
| L 13–38 | 19,243 | |
| November 8 | at No. 5 UCLA | L 0–57 | 22,585 | ||
| November 15 | Idaho | L 6–27 | 8,000 | [3][4] | |
| November 22 | vs. Oregon |
| W 22–19 | 21,333 | |
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Coaching staff
- Len Younce, line
- Ward Cuff, backs
- Butch Morse, ends
- Fred Sutherland
- Hal Moe, freshmen
References
- ^ "1952 Oregon State Beavers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
- ^ George S. Alderton (October 5, 1952). "Gene Lekenta's Last-Play Field Goal Earns 'S' 17 to 14 Hair-Raiser Over Oregon State". Lansing State Journal. p. 53 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Idaho cracks OSC defense for 27-6 win". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. November 16, 1952. p. 1, sports.
- ^ "Brilliant Idaho second half routs Oregon State 27-6". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). Associated Press. November 16, 1952. p. 10.
- ^ "2016 Football media guide" (PDF). Oregon State University Athletics. 2016. p. 153. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
External links
- Game program: Oregon State at Washington State – October 25, 1952
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