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unusual facts about Oregon State



Art Heyman

In the National third-place game, Heyman completed his college career when Duke defeated Oregon State (who had Heisman Trophy winner Terry Baker) 85-63.

Bob Gottlieb

He coached under Jack Hartman at Kansas State, Eddie Sutton at Creighton, Tex Winter at Long Beach State, as well as Ralph Miller at Oregon State.

Bottom 10

This spot is reserved for "the top BCS blunder of the week" – a normally strong football team which found itself on the wrong end of an upset the prior week; an example would be the September 7, 2011 Bottom 10, which featured Oregon State at the #5 ranking after its upset loss to Sacramento State, a Division I FCS program that had previously never beaten an FBS team in its history.

Bradie James

He was the sixth middle/inside linebacker taken, behind Nick Barnett of Oregon State, Kawika Mitchell of South Florida, Gerald Hayes of Pittsburgh, Cie Grant of Ohio State, and Angelo Crowell of Virginia.

Davone Bess

Bess lost his scholarship to Oregon State when he was sentenced to about 21 months in Byron boys ranch juvenile facility after allowing a friend to put stolen items in his car.

International Public Debate Association

More recently, IPDA has spread to the Pacific Northwest, and many tournaments in the Northwest Forensics Conference now sponsor IPDA divisions, including Linfield College, Oregon State, Mt. Hood Community College and Clark College.

Mike Stoops

After a loss on the road to previously-winless Oregon State, Stoops was relieved of his duties on October 10, 2011 with the announcement made by athletic director Gregory Byrne.

Rick Volk

Volk played college football for the University of Michigan from 1964 to 1966 and was a member of the 1964 team that won the Big Ten Conference championship and defeated Oregon State in the 1965 Rose Bowl.

Steve Coury

The son of college and professional football coach Dick Coury, Steve Coury attended Lakeridge High School in Lake Oswego, Oregon where he played wide receiver, before moving on to Oregon State in 1976.


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1983 Oregon State vs. Oregon football game

Following the game, Oregon State's board of intercollegiate athletics voted to fire Avezzano; however, with urging from athletic director Dee Andros, school president Robert MacVicar chose to give him another chance.

2004 Insight Bowl

Notre Dame running back Darius Walker scored on a 5-yard touchdown run to make it 24–14 Oregon State.

Notre Dame got on the board with a 13-yard touchdown pass from Brady Quinn to Anthony Fasano, making the halftime score 21–7 Oregon State.

2006 Oregon State Beavers baseball team

The following members of the Oregon State Beavers baseball program were drafted in the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft.

2007 California Golden Bears football team

Cal's defense could not stop Oregon State running back Yvenson Bernard during the second half when he ran for 82 yards including a crucial 4th and goal score.

2007 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament

Oregon State freshman pitcher Jorge Reyes (of Warden, Washington) was named the Most Outstanding Player of the 2007 CWS.

2013 Pacific-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

Induction for the Hall of Honor on March 16, 2013 were: Jason Gardner (Arizona), Dennis Hamilton (Arizona State), Shareef Abdur-Rahim (California), Cliff Meely (Colorado), Chuck Rask (Oregon), Charlie Sitton (Oregon State), Ron Tomsic (Stanford), Lucius Allen (UCLA), Forrest Twogood (USC), Keith Van Horn (Utah), Nate Robinson (Washington) and Jim Keen (Washington State).

Ben Norris

Among public collections holding works by Ben Norris are the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Isaacs Art Center in Waimea, Hawaii, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D.C.) and the Oregon State University Memorial Union (Corvallis, Oregon)

Bill Bloss

Bloss was the son of John McKnight Bloss, a Civil War veteran and president of State Agricultural College (now Oregon State University) from 1892 to 1896.

Bob De Carolis

He was credited with leading the largest fundraising campaign in the history of the Oregon State athletic department, raising funds for a project to expand Reser Stadium.

Bob Glenn

In 1919, after graduating from Michigan, Glenn was hired as an instructor in civil engineering at the Engineering School of the Oregon State Agricultural College (now known as Oregon State University) in Corvallis, Oregon.

Borah High School

Steve Preece, NFL defensive back - 1969-77 - Oregon State broadcaster, class of 1965

Dallas Ward

After graduation from Oregon State, Ward taught in Minneapolis and became head coach at Marshall High in 1928, helped with a letter of recommendation written by Knute Rockne.

Eric Sapp

Sapp was a senior partner at Common Good Strategies (CGS), a firm that managed the faith outreach and messaging for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, US Senators Bob Casey, Jr., Sherrod Brown, Governors Ted Strickland, Jennifer Granholm, and Kathleen Sebelius, Representative Heath Shuler, and the Michigan, Kansas, and Oregon state Democratic Parties.

George Powell

Gap Powell (George A. Powell, 1898–1989), American football player for Oregon State University

George Woods

George Lemuel Woods (1832–1890), USA Oregon State and Utah Territory governor

Gill Coliseum

Inside, on the south wall of Gill Coliseum is a painted mural of many former Oregon State men's basketball players including Gary Payton, Brent Barry, AC Green, and Steve Johnson.

H. Orton Wiley

In his last year of high school, Wiley was employed at a local drugstore and began the study of Pharmacy and was awarded his certificate of Pharmacy by the Oregon State Board of Pharmaceutics on March 9, 1897.

Jack Crabtree

Since Oregon State had gone to the Rose Bowl the previous year, the unranked Ducks earned a berth in the 1958 Rose Bowl against heavily favored and top-ranked Ohio State.

Karly's Law

It passed the Oregon House of Representatives unanimously on 30 April 2007, where it went on to the Oregon state Senate Human Services Committee.

Oregon University System

The Oregon University System (OUS) consists of seven public four-year universities and one branch campus in the State of Oregon administered by the Oregon State Board of Higher Education (the "Board") and the Chancellor of the OUS, who is appointed by the Board, which is currently Melody Rose serving in interim capacity.

Peter Buckley

Peter J. Buckley, Oregon State Representative, District 5 (2004–present)

Pyramid Play

Oregon State also successfully used the play again to help defeat the Fordham Rams 9-6 on November 18, 1933 at the Polo Grounds.

Rob McVicar

: For the Oregon State University President, see Robert W. MacVicar.

Stanford Mendicants

Founding Mendicant John Frohnmayer, Politician and Oregon State University Professor

Steens

Steens Mountain, a fault-block mountain in southeast Oregon state

Thomas Gatch

Thomas Milton Gatch (1833–1913), president of Willamette University, Oregon State University, and the University of Washington

USC Trojans men's basketball

The 1940 Men of Troy also reached the heights of the PCC championship after bulldozing the Oregon State in two games at the Shrine Auditorium.

Walter Lafferty

Lafferty spent the majority of his career both as a legislator and as an attorney attempting to have millions of acres of land previously owned by the Oregon and California Railroad come under Oregon state control, rather than the control of the U.S. federal government.

Washington Huskies football, 1950–59

With Oregon State's defeat of Oregon, Washington secured their trip to the Rose Bowl behind quarterback Bob Schloredt.