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1955 Oregon State Beavers football team

1955 Oregon State Beavers football
Conference Pacific Coast Conference
1955 record 6–3 (5–2 PCC)
Head coach Tommy Prothro (1st year)
Home stadium Parker Stadium
Seasons
← 1954
1956 →
1955 PCC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
#4 UCLA $ 6 0 0     9 2 0
Oregon State 5 2 0     6 3 0
#16 Stanford 3 2 1     6 3 1
Oregon 4 3 0     6 4 0
Washington 4 3 1     5 4 1
#13 USC 3 3 0     6 4 0
California 1 5 1     2 7 1
Washington State 1 5 1     1 7 2
Idaho 0 4 0     2 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1955 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1955 college football season. In their first season under head coach Tommy Prothro, the Beavers compiled a 6–3 record (5–2 against PCC opponents), finished in second place in the PCC, and outscored their opponents, 126 to 120. The team played its home games at Parker Stadium in Corvallis, Oregon.

On February 1, 1955, Tommy Prothro was hired as Oregon State's head football coach. Prothro had been an assistant coach under Red Sanders at UCLA from 1949 to 1954 and at Vanderbilt from 1946 to 1948. Prothro remained at Oregon State for 10 seasons, compiling a record of 63–37–2 (25–9–1 against PCC opponents).


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