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The Oregon State Beavers football team's first season was in 1893. ==1893–1905: The early years== In 1893, Oregon State was known as State Agricultural College, or SAC. William H. Bloss, son of SAC's school president, was the school's first coach, as well as the quarterback of the 1893 team. Bloss moved to Corvallis, Oregon in June 1892. He had previously played football in the Midwest, therefore was considered very knowledgeable of the game of football. Bloss scheduled tryouts in the fall of 1893 in an attempt to assemble a football team. By mid-October, he had found 17 players that would make up the first football team in Oregon State's history. The team was a hodgepodge of young men in Corvallis. Four players were not even students, including Coach Bloss. One was a high school junior and another was a faculty member.〔 The original "stadium" that SAC played its first games on was an open grass lot with a fence around its perimeter. The field ran east and west. In 1896 or 1897, bleachers were constructed for the south side, which was designated the home team's side, and then sometime around 1899–1901, bleachers were built for the visitors on the north side of the field. It was known as College Field on Lower Campus. The first game was played on November 11, 1893 at College Field on Lower Campus against Albany College. Over 500 spectators who paid a dime admission cheered on SAC to 62-0 win, a blowout by today's standards but even worse considering touchdowns were only worth four points at the time. Brady F. Burnett scored Oregon State's first touchdown in school history on a fumble return.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of Oregon State Beavers football」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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