OSU
Sports History Minute - December 1, 2000
Part
9 of 10: A Year for Firsts
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In
his second season with the Beavers, Dennis Erickson
coached OSU to its first 10 win year |
1. Oregon State had its
first 10-win season, going 10-1 in the regular season.
2. Oregon State earned a share of its first conference
championship since 1964.
3. Oregon State qualified for bowl games in back-to-back
seasons for the first time ever.
4. Oregon State and Oregon played the first Civil
War game ever in which both teams were ranked in the
top 10 in the national polls.
5. Oregon State broke into the top five in the national
polls for the first time ever, and broke into the
top 10 in the national polls for the first time since
the 1969 preseason poll.
6. Oregon State had a six-game winning streak for
the first time since winning the last six games of
the 1966 season and the first three games of the 1967
season.
7. Oregon State had a six-win season at Reser Stadium
for the first time since the facility opened in 1953,
going 6-0. That was the first time the Beavers had
gone unbeaten in games in Corvallis since a 3-0 mark
in 1968.
Above:
No more showing up on game day expecting to get
a good seat (or any seat at all, for that matter).
OSU's success has filled Reser Stadium like never
before.
8. Oregon State drew
at least 30,000 fans to every home game for the first
time ever, and OSU's average home attendance of 33,649
per game was a school record.
9. Oregon State sold out the final four games of the
season at Reser Stadium, marking the first time the
Beavers had ever sold out four games in a season and
the first time they had ever sold out four straight
home games since attendance figures began being kept
in 1946.
10. Oregon State won a game at Arizona for the first
time ever, taking a 33-9 victory.
11. Oregon State beat Southern California for the
first time since 1967, ending a string of 26 straight
losses to the Trojans.
12. Oregon State running back Ken Simonton became
the first player in Pacific-10 Conference history
to rush for at least 1,000 yards in each of his freshman,
sophomore and junior seasons.
Written by Kip
Carlson and George
Edmonston, Jr.
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