The two male students, marching in Bell Field, are wearing "rook lids" and sandwich boards reading: "This stadium unfair to students, alumni, visiting teams, fans and prospective athletes. Your contribution will help build the new stadium. Ask me for a pledge card." Construction on Parker Stadium was completed in 1953.
The O.A.C. football team were the Intercollegiate Champions of the State. The team won 4 games and scored 148 points with only 8 points scored against them. The team was coached by William H. Bloss (son of President). Pictured: Front Row: Buxton, Holmes, Scott, Pendleton, Scroggins, Kruse, Gault, Holgate. Middle row: McBride, Galligher, Noel, Stimpson, Cree. Back row: Manager Edwards, Walters, Elgin, McAllister, Bodine (Captain), Thurston and Coach Bloss.
Halftime stunt during 1939 Homecoming football game against California. Doug Chambers is in the beaver suit, commissioned by the Rally Squad for $10. The suit was used for at least three games in 1939 and 1940 and had a four-foot tail that was "stiff as a board." The costume is the earliest known beaver costumed used at Oregon State, though it is not considered part of Benny Beaver's lineage.
Raised in Salem, Oregon, Coons studied agriculture at Oregon State College and graduated in 1939. In addition to playing for the football team, Coons was a member of the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity and involved in the Thanes and Blue Key service groups.
The Serpentine Dance makes a brief comeback after OSC won the Civil War football game, clinching the 1942 Rose Bowl berth. Another view is shown on the cover of the January, 1942 issue of The Oregon Stater (Vol II, No 4). The photograph is taken from the Memorial Union balcony. Milam Hall sits on the left, with a view of Gilkey and Strand Agricultural Halls to its right.
Top row: Gordon Rowe, Stan Czech, Bill Halvorson, Orville Zielaskowski, Boyd Clement, Lloyd Wickett, Joe Day, Frank Parker, Bill McInnis, Richard McReynolds, Marvin Markman. Second row: Don Durdan, Bud Forrester, Lee Gustafson, Lewis Shelton, Martin Chaves, Quentin Greenough, Norm Newman, Jim Busch. Front Row: Bob Saunders, Hal Moe, Dr. Waldo Ball, Jim Dixon, Lon Stiner, Percy Locey, D. I. Allman, Bill Robertson, C. V. Ruzek.
