USC won this game by a score of 31-7. Visible in the background at right is head football coach Dee Andros. The 1969 season marked the one-hundredth anniversary of college football, and many teams across the country marked the occasion by wearing helmets with a special decal - the numeral "100" inside a football-shaped outline.
Tommy Prothro coached football at Oregon State from 1955 through the 1965 Rose Bowl game. The Beavers lost the New Years Day bowl game to Michigan by a score of 34-7.
OSU’s 3-0 win in this game against the No. 1 Trojans, along with a previous win over then No. 2 Purdue and a tie against No. 2 UCLA a week earlier, earned the 1967 Beaver football team the moniker “Giant Killers.” Oregon State finished the season with a record of 7-2-1 and ranked no. 7 in the Associated Press poll.
