1971 Oregon State Beavers football team

1971 Oregon State Beavers football
1971 Oregon State Beavers football
Conference	Pacific-8 Conference
Record	5–6 (3–3 Pac-8)
Head coach	Dee Andros (7th season);
Home stadium	Parker Stadium; Civic Stadium
	Seasons ← 1970 1972 →

The 1971 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University in the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their seventh season under head coach Dee Andros, the Beavers compiled an overall record of 5–6 record with a mark of 3–3 conference play, placing fifth in the Pac-8, and were outscored 295 to 131.^[1] Oregon State played three home games on campus at Parker Stadium in Corvallis and one at Civic Stadium in Portland.

1971 Pacific-8 Conference football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 10 Stanford $	6	–	1	–	0	9	–	3	–	0
No. 20 USC	3	–	2	–	1	6	–	4	–	1
No. 19 Washington	4	–	3	–	0	8	–	3	–	0
California	4	–	3	–	0	6	–	5	–	0
Oregon State	3	–	3	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Oregon	2	–	4	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Washington State	2	–	5	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
UCLA	1	–	4	–	1	2	–	7	–	1

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

Oregon State defeated rival Oregon in the Civil War game for the eighth consecutive year.^[2]^[3]

This was the first of 28 consecutive losing seasons for the Beavers, and Oregon State did not win five games in a season again until 1998.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 11	at No. 18 Georgia*	Sanford Stadium Athens, GA	L 25–56	50,709	^[4]
September 18	Iowa*	Parker Stadium Corvallis, OR	W 33–19	24,092
September 25	at Michigan State*	Spartan Stadium East Lansing, MI	L 14–31	62,184
October 2	at UCLA	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	W 34–17	33,345
October 9	at California	California Memorial Stadium Berkeley, CA	L 27–30	33,000
October 16	No. 11 Arizona State*	Civic Stadium Portland, OR	W 24–18	30,233
October 23	at Washington	Husky Stadium Seattle, WA	L 14–38	57,900
October 30	No. 17 Stanford	Parker Stadium Corvallis, OR	L 24–31	29,230
November 6	at Arizona*	Arizona Stadium Tucson, AZ	L 22–34	31,000
November 13	Washington State	Parker Stadium Corvallis, OR	W 21–14	20,385
November 20	at Oregon	Autzen Stadium Eugene, OR (Civil War)	W 30–29	43,000
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

	1	2	3	4	Total
• Oregon St	3	7	7	13	30
Oregon	7	7	0	15	29

Source:^[2]^[3]