Seven-and-a-half decades later, Landforce has no trouble identifying what made those Beavers successful.
This is the seventh installment of a seven-part series written by Kip Carlson about the 1941 Oregon State football team that played in the 1942 Rose Bowl. The '42 Rose Bowl is the only one in the history of the storied game that was played outside of Southern California due to fears of an attack on the U.S. West Coast following Pearl Harbor. During a break in the first half of Oregon State's game against Washington State on October 29, Reser Stadium's north end zone was filled with dozens of people celebrating the 75th anniversary season of the 1941 Beavers earning the school's first-ever Rose Bowl berth: sons and daughters, grandchildren and other family members of players from that long-ago squad.
This story also appeared in the football game-day program Saturday, Nov. 26 vs. Oregon.