Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Aug 3, 2018 15:10:41 GMT -8
Here's the way I look at this game-
If we lose, no matter by how much, there's going to be 5-10 guys on this board a few years from now pointing to this game and saying it could have been a winnable game if we had played a nobody at home.
If we win, this game would be considered legendary by most of the posters on this board current and future.
If we played a nobody at home and lost, there'd be a lot of posters pointing to the loss and saying we might as well have lost to Ohio State for a 1.8 million payday.
If we played a nobody at home and won, there'd be a small number of posters happy with that a few years from now, and an at least even number of posters countering with "but the win really didn't mean anything".
Seems to me that looking at the future there's a lot more to gain by playing this game than not.
#1 November 29, 1928 Oregon State 25 - New York 13 @ Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY. Oregon State was the first team from the West Coast to travel across the country to play a team from the East Coast. The game was the first NCAA Thanksgiving Day football game at Yankee Stadium. Oregon State went off as 3:1 dogs. New York scored first and last, but Oregon State scored the 25 points between.
#2 November 18, 1933 Oregon State 9 - Fordham 6 @ Polo Grounds, New York, NY. Oregon State used the Pyramid Play for the final time to preserve a 6-6 tie. Adolphe Swhammel's 46-yard field goal was the difference. Several papers remarked on the quality of the kick for several days after the game ended. The game was the final win for the 1933 Iron Men. Lon Stiner was goaded into playing Nebraska on the train ride back and lost 22-0 on Thanksgiving Day.
#3 December 15, 1962 Oregon State 6 - Villanova 0 @ Philadelphia Municipal Stadium. In a game watched by 27 million on television, Heisman Trophy winner Terry Baker ran 99 yards around left end for a 6-0 lead. The lead held up. Oregon State' Liberty Bowl win was its last for more than 38 years. The 1962 Liberty Bowl was the second-to-last Liberty Bowl in Philadelphia. The Liberty Bowl was moved to Atlantic City in 1964 and Memphis in 1965, where it has remained ever since.
#4 September 5, 2002 Oregon State 35 - Temple 3 @ Franklin Field, Philadelphia, PA. Derek Anderson threw 33/51 for 286 yards and four touchdowns. Steven Jackson carried 25 times for 117 yards. Nine Oregon State receivers caught passes. James Newson caught two touchdown passes, Cole Clasen caught one, and Shawn Kitner caught the fourth. Ryan Kanekeberg scored the fifth and final touchdown on a fumble recovery in the end zone seven seconds after the Kitner touchdown.
#5 November 6, 1965 Oregon State 13 - Syracuse 12 @ Archbold Stadium, Syracuse, NY. Oregon State won on an eight-yard fourth quarter touchdown pass from Paul Brothers to Fred Schweer. Syracuse's backfield included both Larry Csonka and Floyd Little.
#6 January 1, 1942 Oregon State 20 - Duke 16 @ Duke Stadium, Durham, NC. The 1 in 100 transplanted Rose Bowl. Oregon State traveled across the country to play Duke in Durham rather than Duke travelling across the country to play Oregon State in Pasadena. Duke came back from 7-0 and 14-7 deficits to tie, but Bob Dethman's 68-yard touchdown pass to Gene Gray in the third quarter was the clincher.
#7 November 23, 1929 Oregon State 14 - Detroit 7 @ University of Detroit Stadium, Detroit, MI. Detroit was the defending national champions and unbeaten over the previous 22 games. In the two previous weekends, the Titans had defeated Michigan State and West Virginia a combined 61-0 with both games on the road.
#8 October 30, 1915 Oregon State 20 - Michigan State 0 @ Old College Field, East Lansing, MI. Michigan State defeated Michigan 24-0 the week before and was ranked #1. Roscoe Fawcett of the Oregonian wrote before the game that "One this is very certain and that is the Corvallis boys are due for a trimming...and a bad one!" After the game, famed sportswriter Grantland Rice of the New York Tribune wrote a poem in honor of Oregon State.
#9 October 8, 1960 Oregon State 20 - Indiana 6 @ Seventeeth Street Stadium, Bloomington, IN. First game ever in Seventeeth Street Stadium. The stadium was renamed Memorial Stadium in 1972 and still serves as the home for the Indiana Hoosiers.
#10 October 21, 1967 Oregon State 22 - Purdue 14 @ Ross-Ade Stadium, West Lafayette, IN. Purdue was ranked #2 between #3 UCLA and #1 USC. Oregon State would play UCLA and USC over the next three weeks. Bill Enyart put Oregon State in front 19-14 with 3:54 left in the game. After Mel Easley recovered the following kickoff for the Beavers, Haggard tacked on a third field goal to seal Oregon State's 22-14 win. The game remains the Beavers' last in Indiana.
#11 November 27, 1930 Oregon State 12 - West Virginia 0 @ Soldier Field, Chicago, IL. The game was played in snow and ice on Thanksgiving Day with the benefits going to the Shriners. After the first half ended scoreless, "Wild Bill" McKalip scored two second half Oregon State touchdowns for a 12-0 Beaver win. The Shriners sold 57,000 tickets, but the media guide incorrectly (inconsistently?) uses 18,000 as the attendance number, which is an estimate of actual attendance by one newspaper.
#12 October 5, 1957 Oregon State 22 - Northwestern 13 @ Dyche Stadium, Evanston, IL.
#13 November 26, 1926 Oregon State 29 - Marquette 0 @ Marquette Stadium, Milwaukee, WI. Marquette had played both Kansas State and Auburn in Birmingham, Alabama and had provided both teams with their biggest losses of the year. The game was scheduled for six days after the Civil War on Black Friday. The Beavers finished 7-1 and outscored their eight opponents by a combined 221-30. 1926 was Oregon State's best record between 1914 and 2000.
#14 September 18, 1965 Oregon State 12 - Illinois 10 @ Memorial Stadium, Champaign, IL. With less than three minutes left in the game, Paul Brothers threw to a triple-covered Clayton Calhoun. The Illini defenders tipped the pass, but Calhoun came up with the ball for the touchdown and a 12-10 win.
#15-#17 are the three wins over Iowa at Iowa Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa from 1966-1969. (1968 was a 21-20 loss because of a cowardly missed extra point. The football gods punished the Beavers 30 years as a result.)
When Oregon State wins against Ohio State, the game will rank seventh on this list.